This course is being taught by a trained, certified volunteer instructor according to statewide standards. This course combines 7.5 hours of classroom instruction with some required independent study at home between the first and second class.

Student must demonstrate to the instructor that they can safely handle a firearm, participate in activities, bring in a survival kit with appropriate contents, and pass a 50-question test with a grade of 70% or higher.

Note: While on the school campus, class participants must wear a two-layer mask that covers the mouth and nose at all times and six-foot social distancing must be maintained.

This class will be an open-question format class. Any topics relating to health and wellness will be on the table, so come with your questions! We will go over the basics of how to eat to feel better and the strategies to promote real behavior change, and from there we will see where our conversations take us!

In this online class, learn easy makeup tips that give you an enhanced, natural appearance! By providing a close-up photo of your face, we’ll identify your face, eye and lip shapes so you can learn makeup application techniques for your features.

Bring your makeup to apply what you learn as we go!

Foundations of investing is an educational program for people who want an overview of investing, including key terms and types of investments. Foundations of investing covers the basic features of bonds, stocks and packaged investments, and the importance of asset allocation.

*Please provide a current working email address when registering for this course. This class will occur via ZOOM, Google Meets, or WebEx and you will be sent a link prior to the first night of class. The technology requirements for this class are a good internet connection and a tablet, a smartphone, a laptop, or a desktop computer with a microphone and camera.

Teens and young adults (ages 13 - 25) are invited to join Hannah and her special guests to learn skills in topics that include automotive maintenance and repair (oil change, tire change, topping off fluids), home management (financial literacy, basic first aid, sewing), cooking (basic recipes, staples, healthy eating), gardening (flowers, veggies, fruit trees), and politics (local, state, federal, how they work, how to participate).

Adulting: Life Skills Seminars are FREE of charge and held monthly on a Saturday, from 10 - 11:30 AM, at the Acton Public Library (35 H Rd, Acton, ME) and virtually (via Zoom).

May 8: Beginning Gardening

The Acton Public Library in partnership with York Adult Education presents “Adulting: Life Skills Seminars,” a program for teens and young adults in our community being offered regularly throughout the year. The topic of this seminar is Beginner Gardening and will be taught by Joan Nass, who has been gardening since she was a young girl and has 44 years of experience. The topics covered will be:Seed Choice, Seed Starting, Soil Preparation, Planting. The Beginner Gardening Seminar will be held on Saturday, May 8th from 10-11:30 AM at the Acton Public Library free of charge, both virtually and in person. In-person participants will be asked to wear a mask and will be social distanced.  Space is limited.

Find a sense of calmness as you create a unique work of art in a dot mandala. Using special tools and acrylic paints, mandalas are created by painting dots with a precise technique to form beautiful patterns. No artistic experience required. It’s fun and easy. Joyce will show you how it’s done! All materials needed to complete the projects will be provided. The defining criterion for a dot painting is the technique used - that it is produced by repeated imprints of a paint covered dotting stick or other implement onto the surface of the painting. In doing so, recognizable ‘dot’ marks create desired patterns. The first class will focus on using the tools to create dot mandalas and will result in dotting a beautiful mandala on a rock that may be used for ornamentation or as a paperweight. Class 2 will introduce the use of templates in creating mandalas and will result in painting a beautiful mandala on a small artist’s canvas. Class 3 will be a unique and special project that will culminate with the use many of the dotting skills learned in the previous classes.

Mondays, 6 - 7:30 PM, May 10 - May 24, $69

Brief Bio: Joyce Amend is an artist/instructor residing on the Maine seacoast in York County. She studied art at Wesleyan University, CT, earning her Master’s Degree in Visual Art. She is the recipient of various grants awarded by the Connecticut Commission on the Arts, the State of Connecticut and the Hartford Education Foundation. She is a Maine certified art instructor and is currently instructing Mandala Dot Painting, Acrylic Fluid Painting and Zentangle Meditative Drawing at various health and community organizations in York County. She is also known for creating fine-craft works exhibited throughout the seacoast.

Dining in again? Let’s dress up dinner with some drinks everyone can enjoy. Here’s your chance to take your favorite juices and turn them into extraordinary mocktails. We’ll make poinsettias, bellinis, and good ‘ol fashioned lime rickeys as well as the best lemonade and iced tea you’ve ever had!!

Monday, 6 - 8 PM, May 10, $19

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Register for a course designed to certify or re-certify in this approved course from the Amercian Safety & Health Institute.

Please wear a mask as CDC Covid guidelines will be followed.