FoodShift needs your support To the Editor:    As you may be aware, our daughter Dana has founded a non-profit organization called FoodShift, headquartered in Oakland, Calif.

Editor’s note: As readers may have noticed by the special logo on Page One of this newspaper, The Piscataquis Observer is marking 175 years in business in 2013.

By Meg Callaway     How can you enjoy working out, eating local produce, and enhancing your total wellbeing affordably all summer? Garden! Gardening builds and strengthens muscles, providing full body exercise for people of all ages.

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By Walter Whitcomb     Maine’s image is built around our natural resources.

Modern phone companies lack customer service To the Editor:    From what I read on the Internet the Maine Public Utilities Commission is powerless to deal with irregularities perpetrated by out of state communications businesses, even though their business activities might verge on fraudulent and/or life threatening to Maine citizens?     Verizon Wireless anxiously collects its fees with a robotic system, which, without warning, will interrupt both incoming and outgoing home and family communications with a voice message declaring “Don’t hang up! You are being transferred to financial services.

Chained CPI a terrible idea To the Editor:    Are you a retired woman who has worked most of your life while raising children and keeping up with house work? Do you count on the Social Security that you paid into as you worked for your retirement income? Have you appreciated the Cost of Living Adjustments (COLA) that have been made to keep up with the ever-increasing costs of living? Then you should be aware that some folks in Washington are pushing a proposal that would reduce COLAs over the next 10 years.

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    Editor’s note: As readers may have noticed by the special logo on Page One of this newspaper, The Piscataquis Observer is marking 175 years in business in 2013.

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Maine group honoring victims’ rights To the Editor:    The Maine Chapter of Parents Of Murdered Children will be hosting a National Crime Victims’ Rights Week celebration on Sunday, April 21 at the Calumet Club, on West River Road in Augusta.

Family Searcherby Nina Brawn     The latest issue of “Family Tree Magazine” had an article on family scrapbook preservation.

Senior Mattersby Lesley Fernow     I often hear people joking about middle age “senior moments,” as though this is something to be expected as we age.

Stand-in Chairman appreciated To the Editor:    Hats off to Dover-Foxcroft’s Scott Taylor for his exemplary job as the stand-in chairman at the recent Wednesday evening joint Select Board/Budget Advisory Committee meeting.

    Editor’s note: As readers may have noticed by the special logo on Page One of this newspaper, The Piscataquis Observer is marking 175 years in business in 2013.

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By Tom Vilsack     On March 19, USDA joined millions of Americans in celebrating National Agriculture Day.