April 1, 2012 Saturday the Destination Imagination teams from Harrington and Addison traveled to Orono for the State Competition. Harrington’s team came in first place by default as they were the only one that competed in their division. Even so they all did a great job on their division anyway. Saturday the band members of SAD #37 were in Woodland for their spring concert. This was an all day of practice with other schools in Washington County ending with the concert in the evening. Congratulations to the winners of Downeast Idol that took place Saturday evening at Narraguagus High School. I was unable to attend but heard that all of the performers did a great job. The following are the winners in the Younger Division: 1st--Will Somes, 2nd--Elexis Dubose, and 3rd--Mystie McManus. In the Adult Division they were: 1st--Kyle Stanley, 2nd--Alora Felix, and 3rd--Dayna Smith. Peter Sawyer and Judy Sprague were our dinner guests Sunday evening. Judy has been here visiting Peter for a few weeks and will be returning to her home in Texas on Friday. All genealogists are looking forward to getting into the 1940 U.S. Federal Census that will be open to the public as of April 2, 2012. This will give genealogist a chance to find out more information on their families they are researching. The programs Who Do You Think You Are and Finding Your Roots seem to be a hit with most folks. I myself enjoy watching them. It looks so easy the way these famous folks get to find out about their ancestors, but us down to earth folks know that it is not quite that easy. We do our own research the hard way. Good news that Jack Barquinha of Plano, Texas formerly of Columbia has returned to his home following a stay in the hospital and rehab center. Get well cards would be welcome; his address is 7100 Chase Oaks Blvd, Apt 4204, Plano, Texas 75025. Maple syrup season is now over for the year, it was not a good year due to the weather but I have all that I need put away in my cellar for my use. Now I must wait for dandelion season to come, which could be early this year if we can get some more warm weather. We have turned our coal stove off for the winter hoping the weather will continue to warm up. I have started in on my spring cleaning and getting rid of all of that winter dust is a chore. I am plugging along one day at a time in hopes that it will soon be done before I need to be outside cleaning up from the winter season. Get well wishes go out to Al Moore of Columbia Falls, hopefully he will be on the mend and back to driving the bus soon.