By Beth Ranagan     DOVER-FOXCROFT — Living successfully with bipolar disorder is a challenge, but a challenge that Maine author Christina Solak-Goodwin meets with determination and grace.

    ABBOT — The annual picnic and meeting of the Swedish descendants will be held on Sunday, July 20 at noon beginning with a pot luck picnic.

    Mayo Regional Hospital’s Seniority Program will offer a summer outing to the Rockland Lobster Fest on Thursday, July 31.

    DOVER-FOXCROFT — A free six-session workshop, Living Well for Better Health, to learn to deal with issues such as pain, being tired, stress, eating well, sadness, medications and setting healthy goals will be held at Mayo Regional Hospital Resource Center.

    Wednesday, July 16 — Pulled pork, mashed sweet potato, confetti corn, wheat roll and dessert.

    Wednesday, July 9 — Meatloaf with creamy onion, gravy, spinach mashed potato, wheat roll and dessert.

    Wednesday, July 2 — Chicken Florentine, orange rice, Caribbean vegetable blend, wheat roll and dessert.

    Wednesday, June 25 — Pasta primavera, green beans, wheat roll and dessert.

    Wednesday, June 18 — Pulled pork, mashed sweet potato, confetti corn, wheat roll and dessert.

By Stuart Hedstrom  Staff Writer     DOVER-FOXCROFT — In recognition of being the eldest resident of Dover-Foxcroft, soon to be 102-year-old Madelyn Betts was presented with the Boston Post Cane by town officials and the Dover-Foxcroft Historical Society during a ceremony on June 9 in the solarium at the Hibbard Skilled Nursing and Rehabilitation Center.

By Walter Boomsma     Several years ago, the Mrs.

    DOVER-FOXCROFT — Leslie Lizotte LSW, community service specialist from the Eastern Area Agency on Aging, will be holding a Medicare 101 presentation in the Borestone Room at Mayo Regional Hospital on Thursday, June 19 at 6 p.

    FORT KENT — Thirty eight University of Maine-Fort Kent nursing students were honored at the Nurse Pinning Ceremony on May 9.

    Wednesday, June 11 — Pineapple chicken, white rice, broccoli cuts, wheat roll and dessert.

    Wednesday, June 4 — Sweet and sour meatballs, white rice, oriental vegetables, wheat roll and dessert.

    Wednesday, May 28 — Beef and cabbage casserole, red skinned potato, carrots, wheat roll and dessert.

By Carol Higgins Taylor     It is spring.

The Hibbard Skilled Nursing Center resident volunteer group finished the latest project of no-sew doll blankets with yarn dolls.