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Senior College announces course plans, anniversary celebration
LEWISTON — Board members for USM LAC Senior College met recently to finalize plans for course offerings in the fall, plus the celebration of the 20th anniversary of its founding and to discuss their visions for the future. The board announced that more than 20 courses will be offered beginning in September, including a course […]
Not too late to join USM LAC Senior College for spring semester
LEWISTON — USM LAC Senior College members attended many one-day short winter classes on a variety of subjects, from travelogues to painting, issues of health to historical insights, and three days of playing games both old and new. Meanwhile, other members were out and about with club activities. Cross-country ski club members visited Pinelands and […]
Food for Thought: Welcome bees to the neighborhood
LEWISTON — USM LAC Senior College will host a luncheon featuring Master Gardener Jean Vose during the Food for Thought presentation on Friday, March 9. She will speak about bees and other insect pollinators crucial to the food supply. Doors will open at 11:30 a.m. and the talk will begin at noon. Honeybees from across […]
LAC Senior College offering classes to fight cabin fever
LEWISTON — USM LAC Senior College is offering 27 classes to beat the winter blues. The one-day, two-hour classes will run Jan. 22 to March 2. Love to travel? Students can visit exotic lands with people who have been there: Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Turkey, sub-Saharan Africa, China, Scotland, Prince Edward Island and New Zealand. Is […]
Author to speak on Halifax explosion of 1917 at Food for Thought luncheon
LEWISTON — Historian and author Steven B. Rogers will present a program on Friday, Sept. 8, at the University of Southern Maine’s Lewiston-Auburn College regarding the December 1917 munitions explosion in Halifax, Nova Scotia, that killed thousands. The luncheon lecture — it’s the first of six this year — will begin at 11:30 a.m. in room 170 […]
Senior College places wreaths on vets’ graves with Wreaths Across America
TOGUS — The Outdoor Adventure Club at the University of Southern Maine’s Lewiston-Auburn Senior College, led by co-chairs Patricia Vampatella and Cindy Boyd, joined 90 volunteers participating in the National Wreaths Across America Day at The Togus National Cemetery on Dec. 17. Two trucks rolled into Togus National Cemetery with 2,000 wreaths. LAC Senior College […]
Senior College places wreaths on vets’ graves with Wreaths Across America
TOGUS — The Outdoor Adventure Club at the University of Southern Maine’s Lewiston-Auburn Senior College, led by co-chairs Patricia Vampatella and Cindy Boyd, joined 90 volunteers participating in the National Wreaths Across America Day at The Togus National Cemetery on Dec. 17. Two trucks rolled into Togus National Cemetery with 2,000 wreaths. LAC Senior College […]