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

Secretary of State Dunlap discusses impact of REAL ID implementation on Maine travelers

01/11/2016 03:57 PM EST

AUGUSTA - Travelers can continue to use their Maine driver's licenses as identification to board airplanes through the next two years, Secretary of State Matthew Dunlap announced Monday, following a recent statement by the federal Department of Homeland Security.

The DHS is entering the final phase of the REAL ID Act, a federal law passed in 2005 that seeks to improve the security standards for state-issued identification. Beginning on Jan. 22, 2018, a REAL ID-compliant form of identification will be required for air travelers to board a commercial domestic flight. Those with drivers licenses issued from a state that is not REAL ID-compliant and has not received a deadline extension from DHS will have to provide an acceptable alternative form of identification, as listed on the DHS website at https://www.tsa.gov/travel/security-screening/identification .

Currently, the State of Maine is not REAL ID-compliant, but has received multiple annual extensions to fully comply with the Act, the most recent of which will expire in October 2016. Thus, Maine driver's licenses will continue to serve as acceptable identification for air travel until the Jan. 22, 2018 deadline - and possibly beyond that time, should Maine receive additional extensions.

According to the DHS, 23 states are now fully compliant with the REAL ID Act. Maine is one of 27 states that have received extensions for demonstrating steps toward compliance. Six states and territories - Illinois, Minnesota, Missouri, New Mexico, Washington, and American Samoa - are noncompliant and do not currently have extensions.

The DHS is encouraging states to become compliant with REAL ID in the next few years, since extensions will no longer be granted as of Oct. 1, 2020.

The State of Maine Legislature has voted against several provisions of the REAL ID Act, so a law change would be necessary to reach full compliance. Travelers are encouraged to check the REAL ID compliance status of the State of Maine on the DHS website at http://www.dhs.gov/real-id-enforcement-brief .

Registration Period Open for National Toboggan Championship at Camden Snow Bowl.

There’s less than a month left until Mainer's gather in Camden for a Midcoast winter classic!!

The registration period for the

The 26th National Toboggan Championships

at the

Camden Snow Bowl

 

 

 

Registration Limited to 425 Teams

 

 

The 2016 event will be held

February 5th-7th.

 

Visit: https://www.camdensnowbowl.com/toboggan-championships/ for more information.

Obituary: Edna M. Wood

 

 

 

Edna M. Wood
January 10, 2016
East Lebanon

Edna M. Wood, 94, a lifelong resident of East Lebanon, passed away in Rochester, NH, on Sunday January 10, 2016. She was born in Lebanon on January 26, 1921, a daughter of the late Elmer and Lula (Roberts) Junkins.

She was employed by Hubbard and Encore Shoe in Rochester for 40 years.

She is predeceased by her husband, Carl Wood who passed away in 1999.

She is survived by one son, Blaine Wood and his wife, Carol of East Lebanon, three grandchildren, Debra Wagner, Christine Burke, Rodney Wood and 8 great grandchildren.

A graveside service will be held in the spring at Evergreen Cemetery in Berwick.

Arrangements are under the direction of the Carll-Heald & Black Funeral Home, 580 Main Street, Springvale.

Condolences may be expressed at www.blackfuneralhomes.com

Inspection to Begin on the Casco Bay Bridge January 12th and Be Ongoing for Three Days.

 

 

01/11/2016 02:42 PM EST

Portland - Crews will be performing an in-depth inspection of the Casco Bay Bridge, which spans the Fore River connecting Portland and South Portland, beginning on Tuesday, January 12th.

As part of the federally mandated inspection program, the Casco Bay Bridge will undergo an inspection on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday that may include up to three additional openings lasting no longer than five minutes per opening per day. These additional openings will occur between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. only. There will be no impact to marine traffic.

Motorists should be aware of the potential for the additional openings for this three day period.

It is anticipated all inspection work will be completed by the end of the day on Thursday, January 14th.