Join us for dinner, stories, and fun family activities! In addition, each child will be able to take home a book each week! This free Parent and Child Together (PACT) activity meets at the Riverside United Methodist Church on Thursday evenings as designated. If you have questions regarding this FREE program or want to register, please call Renee at 625-3092 or email rpayeur@sad55.org. Bring the family and join us! Please note that this is the winter session. We continue on for a spring session as well. Pre-registration is required due to space issues and to keep everyone updated on any changes.

     Thu. Jan. 23-Mar. 20, 5:30-7 p.m.

     No Meeting Feb. 20

Winters in Maine are long, and there's nothing like settling in after the holidays with something hot, delicious, and comforting. Join Chef Mary and learn how to make savory chicken & dumplings and bread pudding and a hard sauce from scratch, then take the recipes home and share some comfort food with your loved ones! We will put our aprons on and make this meal together, then gather around the table to enjoy dinner and dessert on a cold and blustery winter's evening. Recipes provided. Bring an apron, baggies for leftovers, and your appetite!

Mary Bailey, pastry chef and past owner/chef of Thyme and Honey Bakery in Biddeford, is passionate about baking bread and teaching people how to incorporate homemade bread into their daily lives.

Struggling to make ends meet or carrying debt? Do you want to take control of your money? Join us to learn how to budget effectively. identify different types of debt, and how to eliminate it, prioritize saving, and become financially independent.

Sarah Blondin discovered her love of assisting others through training in the financial services sector. Her main priorities are developing relationships with individuals and helping them understand how money works and how to make it work best for them.

Learn what's it like to go on a paranormal investigation with professionals.  This talk includes some of the cases like the Dismembered Ghost, the Alleyway Ghost, the House of Darkness, and the Burned Ghost.  Experiences also appear in Rob Gutro's best-selling book "Case Files of the Inspired Ghost Tracking" with full reports and photographs.

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 not familiar with Maine's Death with Dignity Act. Since September 2019, the law permits physicians to practice medical aid-in-dying under specific circumstances. Learn the facts and, if qualified, the right to access medical aid in dying if they choose. Join this class to get fact-based information and the details you need to know about Maine's law, how to have the conversation with your physician, how to qualify for the law and support your loved one who may be qualify.

The day before the Zoom meeting an email will be sent out to all who register with the Zoom meeting ID and passcode.

Pumped Up Strength is a new approach to resistance training. Utilizing combination movement patterns in a targeted, rhythmic progression, its superpower is the dynamic integration of upper and lower body movements set to fun music.

Each class is taught "live" Fridays from 6:15-7:00am and you will have access to the recordings for a duration of 6 weeks

No class 2/21/25

Losing a loved one over the holidays can be devastating emotionally. So can getting through that first year after loss with all the "anniversaries" of time spent together. Winter doldrums set in and we've got a "recipe" for darkness and depression. Come join a compassionate and uplifting chat with steps for helping you to process grief and to get you seeing the positives again.

Participants learn about the mostprevalent online scams (investment, tech support, romance, impersonation,and lottery) and what all scams have in common. Participants learn how tostop a scam before it starts and where to report a scam. The perfect starter training!