During the past month, many hands have shaped bark, bent ribs, split and lashed spruce roots, laid in planks, wedged ribs into place, and sealed seams. Master canoe-builder Steve Cayard, interns Dan Asher and Tobias Francis, and students from Lincoln Academy are putting the finishing touches on a traditional 14-foot Wabanaki birch-bark canoe at Lincoln Academy’s Applied Technology and Engineering Center, where the construction is taking place.

Medomak Valley Land Trust is continuing its successful new program of public trail-building days and invites everyone out to participate in maintaining the land trust’s wonderful trail system.

The Knox-Lincoln Soil & Water Conservation District spring plant-sale catalog is now available. This year’s sale will be held at the Union Fairgrounds on the weekend before Mother’s Day, on Saturday, May 6, from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m., and on Sunday, May 7, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Sheepscot Valley Health Center has partnered with Maine SNAP-Ed to offer a Teaching 10 Tips nutrition course, which is free to anyone in the public and will take place at the Whitefield Lions Club starting Friday, May 5.

The Knox-Lincoln Soil & Water Conservation District spring plant-sale catalog is now available. This year’s sale will be held at the Union Fairgrounds on the weekend before Mother’s Day, on Saturday, May 6, from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m., and on Sunday, May 7, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.

With the coming of spring, Bremen Union Church will hold the last of its four free community meals of the season on Tuesday, April 25 from 5:30-6:30 p.m. in the church fellowship hall. Donna Finneran, the host for this Simply Supper event, has planned a meal of favorite hot casseroles, salads, and homemade breads.

There will be a contra dance at the Damariscotta Baptist Church on Friday, April 14 featuring The Oystermen — Carter Newell on fiddle, Smokey McKeen on accordion and guitar, and Eric Rolfson on bass and mandolin – with Maggie Robinson calling at 8 p.m. There will also be a potluck and an all-ages family dance starting at 6:30 p.m. featuring the Oyster Creek Fiddlers, with Kaity Newell calling.

Artist Libbie Winslow will lead Paint Night on Thursday, April 27 starting at 6:30 p.m.

The Barber’s Bunnies angora barn is changing the date of its usual Easter open house and hosting a pre-Easter open house instead on Sunday, April 9 from 1-3 p.m. at 844 Waldoboro Road in Bremen. Visitors will get a peek at Anna Barber’s huge, fuzzy angora rabbits and the items she makes from their fiber. Only adult rabbits are on the premises and one rabbit will get a much-needed haircut in a shearing demonstration.