Tai Chi is a form of gentle exercise and moving meditation, with many benefits to mental and physical health. In this 45 minute weekly class, you will be led through a Tai Chi Flow and learn The 8 Form for Beginners, a practice you can take with you to improve balance, strength, and a sense of calmness and well-being.  Instructor: Barbara Anne Cookson is a Health and Wellness Coach, Licensed Massage Therapist, Motivational Speaker, and Certified Begin With BreathTai Chi Instructor

Pollinators have suffered greatly from habitat loss, pesticide use, and the spread of invasive plant species. As a result, planting a pollinator garden is more important now than ever. Even a small garden can make a huge difference. Learn how to create a landscape that supports pollinators including butterflies, bees, moths, and hummingbirds with plants that serve as host plants and provide nectar and pollen throughout the growing season.

For anyone who ever lost someone and wants to understand what happens after death and how to recognize communications from spirits of loved ones. Learn what blocks messages and hear true encounters from others. By the end of the talk, you'll know what to look for. 

From the author’s book: "Lessons Learned from Talking to the Dead." 

Books are available on Amazon, but Rob will be bringing his books to each lecture for purchase. Each book cost is $10. 

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Meet Author and Medium, Rob Gutro! 

Rob Gutro is an author, paranormal investigator and medium with Inspired Ghost Tracking of Maryland. Since he was a teen, he could receive messages from ghosts or spirits (who have crossed over). As a scientist, he also provides some scientific explanations about how energy is the baseline for the afterlife and the medium that entities use to communicate. In 2005, Rob's late puppy passed and inspired Rob to write his first book and enabled him to communicate with pets. Rob participates in private paranormal investigations, helps ghosts cross over, and has provided countless messages from people or pets as ghosts or spirits. He lived in a haunted house, too! 

In September 2019, the Maine Death with Dignity law permits physicians to practice medical aid-in-dying under specific circumstances. However, over four years later, there is still a lot of misunderstanding and misinformation about Maine's compassionate end-of-life care option. Many providers and patients in Maine are still not familiar with Maine's Death with Dignity Act. Join Valerie Lovelace to get fact-based information and all the details you need to know about Maine's law, how to have the conversation with your physician, and how to qualify for the law or support your loved one who maybe qualifying. This is an online class that will meet via Zoom. Students will receive the meeting link to their email following registration.

This online course introduces learners to Agile methods of project management. Beginning with an introduction to the core philosophy of Agile and the basic structure of an Agile project, the following modules address specific challenges that may be encountered by teams using Agile, best practices for integrating Agile methods into Waterfall environments, and the principles of Scrum, one of several specialized Agile methods. The self-paced course offers an assortment of interactive exercises, videos, selected readings, case studies, and self-assessments that engage students and provide opportunities to practice their project management skills in an Agile context.

To register go to:https://catalog.mindedge.com/rsu19/suites/26580/agile-project-management-ace-credit-reg?mode=purchase

Join us for a free zoom information session on Wedensday, May 1st at 12 noon regarding Gray-New Gloucester Adult Education and Northern Light Health Eastern Maine Medical Center's Medical Assistant training course. This earn-while-you-learn opportunity includes full-time pay, with benefits and free training. Please register for this information session to learn more. 

This ongoing workshop offers participants an opportunity to get the creative juices flowing, overcome the internal critic, and let heart and soul flow out onto the page! Just as importantly, it also provides a tight knit, supportive community of fellow writers. The instructorn will present proven writing prompts and techniques to tickle your muse and coax even the most hesitant voice onto the page.

Elizabeth Potter is a teacher and poet residing in Midcoast Maine. Her poems have been widely published in literary journals both locally and nationally. Elizabeth has been leading creative writing workshops for all ages for the past twenty-one years.

New to the idea of DNA testing for genealogy research? Learn about the three major test types, Y-DNA, mtDNA, and atDNA. Find out what each test offers and which might be the best tool to help with your research. Genetic DNA testing can give clues to the origins of your paternal and maternal lines. It can prove or disprove a genealogical problem. This testing can help find unknown family lines in cases of adoption or other separations from biological lines. It will find relatives with whom you share a common ancestor. DNA is a wonderful tool to be used with traditional genealogical research.

Nancy Milliken Mason is a genetic genealogist who has been doing traditional genealogy research for over 35 years. She was born in Portland, Maine and grew up in Cumberland.