Get away from the stove for your Sunday supper, January 20, 2007! The kids in the Soup Group will provide all you need! You can choose either hamburg or ground turkey 'stoup' (a cross between soup and stew). Each serving comes complete with an individual serving of porridge bread and chocolate chip cookies. Please place your order by Tuesday, January 15th. You can pick it up at the Edgecomb Congregational Church on Cross Point Road between 4:30 and 5 p.m. on Jan. 20; delivery can be arranged, if needed.

The cost will be $6 per serving. A family portion, enough for a family of four will be $20. Additional servings for the family portion are $4. To reserve a take-out supper, call Debbie Boucher at 882-8402 or call the Edgecomb Congregational Church at 882-4060 and leave a message. Your reservation will be confirmed. You can also e-mail your order to ECC @gwi.net.

The Soup Group is a venture sponsored by area Sunday school children and supportive adults who are raising money for Heifer International. On a regular basis the group representing the Sheepscot Community Church, the Midcoast Friend's Meeting in Damariscotta, the Edgecomb Congregational Church, UCC, and the Unitarian-Universalist Fellowship in Edgecomb prepare these take out Sunday suppers. As much as possible, local foods will be used to prepare take out dinners. Prepare to enjoy a 'cook's night off' and help end hunger throughout the world. If you have any questions please contact Deb Boucher 882-4060.

New Hope for Women invites you to 'Dining for Hope' to end domestic violence. Join your friends and neighbors for either brunch or dinner at the Historic Russell House in Boothbay Harbor on Sunday, January 20, from 10 a.m. through 8:30 p.m. Twenty percent of all proceeds including gift certificates, meals or beverages purchased at the Russell House that day will go to benefit New Hope for Women in the Boothbay Region. Reservations are suggested: Call 633-2722 or visit www.his toricrussellhouse.com. This event is sponsored by the Boothbay Region

Domestic Violence Abuse Prevention Council.

Edgecombites among those who got their deer this season: Dylan and Matt Tedford, David Clifford, Dennis Hill, David Chubbuck, Jim Beam, Beth Smith-Pinkham, Kristy Barter. Congratulations! Any other successful Edgecomb nimrods I've missed, be sure to let me know!

I did miss a Wiscasset Middle School Math Team member from Edgecomb last week, Anders Benton, son of Chuck and Becky!

Our hearts go out to the Perkins brothers, Douglas of Boothbay Harbor, Steve and Frank, Jr., both of Edgecomb, and their father, Frank Perkins, Sr., for the loss of their mother and wife Helena. Contributions may be made in Mrs. Perkins' memory to the Alzheimer's Disease and Related Disorders Association, Maine Chapter, 163 Lancaster Street, Suite 160B, Portland ME 04101-2406.

And we should salute the passing of Dr. Herbert Wolff, a medic veteran of World War II, then an obstetrician/gynecologist who retired to Edgecomb. Memorial contributions may be made to the Anti-Defamation League, Southwest Region, 4635 Southwest Freeway, Houston, TX 88027 (southwest @adl.org) or to a charity of one's choice.

The Town Hall is now open its usual hours: Mondays, 7 to 9 p.m.; Tuesdays and Thursdays, 1 to 5 p.m. Call 882-7018 during these hours. The Selectmen resumed meetings this past Monday, Jan. 7, 6 p.m. These and all committee meetings are open to the public. Your comments are always welcome.

It being winter, and so generous with snow already, our current snowplowing arrangement is with Scott Griffin, re-constituting a town-run snow removal service. He's new at it, so please be patient with him, and know, too, that December was so very generous with snow that our sand and salt reserves, like every other town's in New England, have decreased more rapidly than expected. Sand will be a high demand item. So, let us all hang in there. If you are in real trouble, you can best reach Scott at 350-3001.

In the meantime, those who plow their own driveways, or have them privately plowed, remember not to heap your discarded snow on the public roadway. If it freezes, it will seriously bung up snowplow blades and cause other damage, and besides, there's a State law against it.

Losing weight by the snow shovel program (patent pending) at 234 River Road, 633-2978, jocam @midcoast.com.

This column appears in the Boothbay Register, The Lincoln County News, the Wiscasset News-paper, and at www.Edgecomb.org.