LIVERMORE FALLS — A reception and presentation of awards for businesses and organizations that have had new construction and building improvements in recent years will be held Wednesday at the Livermore Falls Androscoggin Bank building.

The reception is sponsored by the Jay-Livermore Falls Lions Club and will be held from 4:30 to 7:30 p.m. July 11. Thirty-eight businesses and organizations whose contributions have changed and updated the “look” in the three-town area will be recognized. Music will be by guitarist Chip Palmer of Turner.

Coordinator of the event is Dennis Stires.

The reception is also supported by the Jay-Livermore-Livermore Falls Chamber of Commerce, Livermore Falls Downtown Betterment Group and Maine’s Paper and Heritage Museum.

Foss Jewelry is making 38 brass plates to attach to bricks removed and replaced last year from the bank building. These bricks survived the 1910 fire and are believed to have been made about 1900 at the Haskell family brickyard across the road from the New Norland Grange Hall in East Livermore and brought to the bank building by train, historian Stires said.

He said both large and small projects have made a difference in the three towns and mentioned the new Androscoggin Valley Medical Arts Center as perhaps the largest. Smaller projects were completed over the last few years as part of the $125,000 facade grant obtained by the Livermore Falls Downtown Betterment Group.

“Maine Department of Transportation will be thanked for tackling Route 4 in Livermore Falls and Jay,” he said.

One project under way is the plan to add the names of World War II soldiers to the World War II monument in Union Park. Don Simoneau has the task of trying to include all Livermore and Livermore Falls men who served in the U.S. military during the early 1940s, he said.

Stires, who has kept track of the improvements over the last couple years, said some are near completion, so it seemed like a good time to say thanks. He took the idea to the sponsoring groups and they agreed.