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Sewing for Advanced Beginners 12.4.24
with Sandy Clement, Five Town CSD Adult & Community Education
This course is a good refresher for those who haven't sewn for years or for those new at sewing with some basic experience. We will start out with a zippered pouch, a simple tote, and finish with a project of your choice from a pattern. Sandy will provide materials to complete the zippered pouch so there is no need to bring fabric to the first class. You may bring your sewing machine and favorite sewing notions, if you wish. There are machines in the sewing room that may be used as well. A $10 materials fee is included. Class skips 10/24.
American Heart Association CPR
with Charissa Kerr, Gray-New Gloucester Adult Education
This course covers adult, child and infant CPR. Use of an AED. Adult, child and infant choking. How and when to call emergency services. A certification from the American Heart Association will be presented at course completion. Workbooks are not included with this class but can be purchased in advance for $10. This workbook covers CPR and First Aid. Please indicate on registration form if you want to purchase.
This class is offered on three separate dates.
Christmas Bouquet
with Amy McLellan, MSAD#1 Adult & Community Education
Join Amy for a hands on floral design class. You will be provided all materials to create your own holiday display. Long lasting flowers, Maine greens and festive accents are all included.
Payments must be made in advanced due to having to order enough flowers for everyone. Please bring flower clippers and anything else you may need to cut small wood and soft stems.
Refunds will not be issued but if you can't make the date you can pick up materials at Amy's Flowers, after the class has been held.
Feeding & Identifying Winter Birds
with Linda Woodard, Old Orchard Beach/Saco Adult Education
Discover how birds overcome the various difficulties that winter weather can present to our feathered companions, like locating shelter, food, and water. We will also look at the different kinds of birds that come to Maine, such as ducks and raptors.
Linda Woodard, an avid bird watcher, has been Director of the Scarborough Marsh Audubon Center for 18+ years. She has taught high school biology, bird watching, marsh ecology and a wide variety of environmental topics.
Holiday Wreath
with Jessi Chmielewski, Massabesic Adult and Community Education
Join Jessi for a festive evening of wreath making, just in time for the holidays! Bring: clippers Materials fee $15
Please note that this class is $24, not $29 as listed in the print brochure.
Introduction to Bird Watching
with Loring Danforth, Lewiston Adult Education
Students will learn the basics of bird watching which includes useful equipment (binoculars, guidebooks, cell phone apps), desirable skills (identification by visual field marks or by songs and calls), accounts of some of the common birds in the area, major categories of birds, and discussion of some productive locations and seasons for birding in Maine.
Introduction to Wood Carving
with Ken Wise, Merrymeeting Community & Adult Education
In this class you will learn to create beautiful and useful objects thru the process of carving safely with traditional tools such as knives, gouges, and spokeshaves. We will explore design, materials, techniques, and finishes to make a spoon, spatula, decorative carving, wildlife art, or something you design. No experience necessary, and tools and materials are included. Materials fee of $20 must be paid to the instrcutor on first night of class.
IMPORTANT NOTE Session 1: NO CLASS ON WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 18TH. Final class will meet on Wednesday, September 25th
Just Once Piano for Busy People
with Don Pride, Biddeford Adult Education
DATE OF CLASS HAS CHANGED TO DECEMBER 4TH
Some music teachers may not want you to know this, but you don’t need years of weekly lessons to learn piano. In just a few hours, you can learn enough secrets of the trade to give you years of musical enjoyment. How do we do it? While regular piano teachers teach note reading, piano professionals use chords. And you can learn all the chords you’ll need to play any song in this one session. Any song. Any style. Any key. If you can find middle C and know the meaning of Every Good Boy Does Fine, you already know enough to enroll in this workshop.
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