ANNOUNCING Lebanon Maine Truth Seekers 2016 Valentine's Day Flowers and Treats Opportunity!!!

 

VALENTINE'S DAY FUNDRAISER

Buy Flowers and Treats

for your Sweetheart

and help us purchase

02 FUR LIFE

Animal Resuscitation Kits

for the

Lebanon Fire and EMS Vehicles

 

Taking Orders through 2/10/16 at 5 pm

by calling or messaging Deborah
at Lebanon Maine Truth Seekers

at 207-608-7715

 

1 Dozen Valentines Day Carnations
professionally arranged in a vase
$40.00

 1/2 Dozen Long Stem Red Roses
professionally arranged in a vase
$50.00

1 Valentine's Day Mixed Floral Arrangement
Mixed Flowers in a Valentine's Day Container
$60.00

 

 

1 Dozen Long Stem Red Roses

professionally arranged in a vase

$80.00

 

 

You can add homemade treats to your order!!

 

Chocolate Covered Gummy Bears

in Valentine's colored milk chocolate

$8.00

 

Chocolate Covered Bacon

6 pieces in milk chocolate or dark chocolate

$15.00

 

Whoopie Pies 

Coffee, Rasperry, Peanut Butter or Classic Vanilla

1 for $3.00

6 for $15.00

 

All prices include delivery within Lebanon, Maine on Valentine's Day, February 14, 2016.
Pick up can also be arranged

Your personal message on a floral card.

All orders must be prepaid using PayPal, using the e mail
lebanontruthseekers@hotmail.com
Cash (just call or text in your order and make arrangements)
Special Requests Can Also Be Quoted Separately

 

~~THANKS TO OUR SPONSORS~~

 

~~Lee's Floral Garden of Lebanon, Maine~~

 

AND

 

~~Happy Pappy's Country Store, Rochester~~

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

All For the Love of History ...... Interesting Paper Tag on an Old Bookcase Reveals Some Really COOL Historical Information!!

On a recent visit at the Lebanon Town Office, I spied a small bookcase that has always been back to the wall in the Selectmen's Office.

Now that the wall is gone, I had the opportunity to see the BACK of the bookcase, and LOOK what I found!! A small, very old, paper tag still affixed to the back of the bookcase.

Someone has painted it a horrific cross between bright pink and brick red (yes, it's that ugly), but with the right restoration, this piece could be a showpiece for the Town of Lebanon!!!

Read on to see WHY.....

 

 

Tag on the back of an open front bookcase located at the Lebanon Town Office

January 12, 2016

 

Woodward & Lothrop was a department store chain headquartered in Washington, D.C.

Woodward & Lothrop was Washington, D.C.'s first department store, opening in 1887. Woodies, as it was often nicknamed, maintained stores in the Mid-Atlantic United States. Its flagship store was a fixture of the shopping district in downtown Washington, and in the late 1990s the center of controversy over competing visions for DC's urban renewal.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodward_%26_Lothrop

 

The Grand Rapids Fancy Furniture Company in 1908. The company went out of business in 1938.

 

 

Pacific Galleries in Seattle, Washington sold a Grand Rapids Fancy Furniture Company open bookcase with the original affixed paper label, and the top shelf carrying a book stop around three sides at each end (circa late 19th century to early 20th century; 43" in width, 13" in diameter and 54.75" in height) for $675 in November of 2008. 

 

I'm sure that the example above was not painted an obnoxious color, but it's very interesting that a little bookcase sitting in the Board of Selectmen's Office and unprotected during construction could hold so much history and potential value.

Of course Lebanon Maine Truth Seekers has alerted several people in the Town Office to it's worth and hopefully they will move it somewhere a bit more protected and ensure the integrity of that original paper tag on it's backside!!!

 

 

Attention Artists: Deadline Approaching for the 2016 Maine Migratory Waterfowl Stamp Contest

The Blue-Winged Teal Duck is the chosen species for the 2016

Migratory Waterfowl Stamp Contest.

Each year, the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife conducts a contest to select artwork for the Maine Migratory Waterfowl Hunting Stamp. The contest, which first bega in 1984, is open to Maine residents who are 18 years of age or older.
The species chosen for the 2016 contest is the Blue-winged Teal.  All artwork entries must be submitted by 4pm on Friday, March 25, 2016. 
Complete contest rules and the offical entry form can be found by visisting: http://www.maine.gov/ifw/wildlife/pdfs/2016DuckStampRules.pdf
Judging for the 2016 contest will take place on Friday, April 1, 2016 at 5pm at the Augusta Civic Center, during the annual State of Maine Sportsman Show. The winning piece will be reproduced for the 2016 migratory waterfowl duck stamp and the winning artist will receive an award of $1000.oo and a sheet of 10 stamps. Second place will recieve an award of $300, and third place an award of $100.
Although in 2002, MDIFW discontinued the duck stamp requirement of hunters, (and instead now require the purchase of a waterfowl hunting permit on the hunting license), migratory waterfowl stamps are still available for purchase by collectors. Revenues from the sales of both the stamp and the waterfowl hunting authority are dedicated to waterfowl conservation programs in Maine.
Stamps from previous years can be viewed and ordered by visiting http://www.maine.gov/ifw/wildlife/support/duckstamp_program.html