Adoption &
Foster Care
through DHHS
Instructor: Paula Rytky. This session will provide an overview of foster care and adoption through Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS). Bring a pen, paper, and lots of questions!
Adoption 101
Instructor: Melissa Huston. If you have been contemplating adoption, but still have lots of questions - this is your opportunity to get some answers. Join staff from MAPS Adoption and Humanitarian Aid for an informational evening to learn more about the options that are available to make your parenting dreams a reality. MAPS’ guiding principal is that “all children deserve and need a family of their own”. Your desire to parent is the first step toward becoming the family that a child is waiting for right now. This evening will provide an overview of the adoption process including family requirements and the costs involved. We will explore current trends in MAPS extensive domestic networking and international adoption programs. Please register in advance to ensure adequate space and materials are available. For more information visit www.mapadopt.org or e-mail Melissa Huston @ melissah@mapsadopt.org.
Bridge for Beginners
Instructor: Sally Morrison. This class is your chance to learn a great card game in a no pressure, comfortable atmosphere with other pleasant, like minded people. The instructor’s goal is to increase your confidence with knowledge of the game.
Bridge for Ongoing Learning
Instructor: Sally Morrison. This course if for those that want to learn more about the great game of Bridge. If you took a Bridge course last year, come play some more with the people you had so much fun with last year! No class November 21st.
Campfire & Dutch Oven Cooking
In this class, you will learn to cook outdoors with only primitive cookware. This is a great class for parents and kids who like to camp or spend summer evenings under the stars! Leave your kitchen behind and join us in making the following dishes out-of-doors: pepper chicken, chuck wagon beans, dump cake, baggie cooking, and much more! These are only some of the dishes we will prepare and each class will create and share a complete meal with dessert. While dinner cooks we will teach you ways to build primitive fires for cooking outdoors. Bring your family and your appetite! Materials fee payable to instructor: $30
Car Care Seminar for Women
Instructor: Lynn Taylor. If you ever feel overwhelmed when getting your car repaired or serviced, then this is the course for you! Learn how to check your oil level and what your vehicle needs for preventive maintenance. Know when it is right to have your vehicle serviced. Take control of your maintenance needs and don’t be bullied!
Dancing: Beginning Salsa & Merengue
Instructor: Nohora Luz-Estes. Have you admired Latin American dancing from afar but never tried it yourself? Come and have fun while learning the basics of Salsa and Merengue, two very popular dance styles that originated in the Caribbean Islands. Bring a partner and prepare yourself for the southern dance floors you will encounter during your winter vacation!
Drama: Poets & Black
Mountain College
Instructor: Joel Dempsey. The course will introduce poets of the modern age: Charles Olsen, Robert C. Reeley, and Wallace Stevens. Two of the writers were a driving force at one of America’s creative and artistic colleges, Black Mountain. Participants will produce a presentation of Charles Olsen’s script: The Nineteenth of April, or Wallace Stevens’ A Ceremony. Materials to bring: pencil and notebook.
Gardening Basics
~ Autumn ~
Instructor: Kate Jackson. This is a basic gardening course-from the heart! You'll learn how to identify and amend soil, and how to plant a sun and shade garden. Also learn about Maine favorite perennials, annuals, shrubs, trees and roses. Common gardening mistakes, helpful hints and practical solutions will be discussed. Bring your questions, comments, enthusiasm and "green" and "not-so green thumbs" to class. One ideal Saturday in October, the class will go on a field trip to a local greenhouse and other places of interest.
Geology ~ It’s About
Our Planet at Work
Instructor: Tom Filip. While earthquakes and volcanoes always get the attention in the news and in disaster movies, they are actually essential to the life of our planet. During this short course we will examine rocks and minerals, landforms, how they took shape and why they look like they do today. To guide our investigation we will use rock and mineral samples, handouts, many 35mm slides, computer animations and a very good collection of 3D aerial photography.
Greenland-style Sea Kayak Making
Enjoy the “lumber to launch” experience of building your personalized, custom-fit sea kayak at Atlantic Challenge with expert, Andrew Malcolmb. See the Creative Economy page for more information.
Fixed Income Investment Strategies
Instructor: Reed Lowden Increase your understanding of the basic features of bonds and CDs and explain how these features can help you meet your financial goals.
French for Beginners
Instructor: Ibrahim Boukary French is the language of love: l’amour. Have you ever wanted to learn how to speak this romantic and pristine language? The teacher is a native French speaker and will model a superb French accent. The class will learn where French is spoken around the world and the cultural traditions of these unique French-speaking countries. To help build your vocabulary, learn how to receive a mot de jour (word of the day) when you are not in class. Je t’aime Francais (I love French) and you will, too!
Fly Fishing Basics
Instructor: Mike Gundel. Registered Maine Guide Mike Gundel will teach the basics of fly fishing from equipment, gear, and flies to casting and one on-the water lesson. If you don’t have any equipment, don’t go out and buy it until after you have had this course.
Italian Cuisine from the Region of Calabria
Instructor: Frank Joseph Basta, Jr. Each part of the menu for this course expresses an authentic approach to cooking meals and entertaining from the region of Calabria, Italy. You will become a part of centuries-old cooking traditions; concocting tantalizing appetizers, wonderful main-course dishes, and delectable desserts. After learning cooking tips and techniques from a former New York Italian chef, you will bring a recipe home to practice. You may bring it to class for others to try, and share moments of success or challenges in cooking with your classmates. An excellent perk, of course, is the sampling of such delizioso food!
Literacy Volunteer
Tutor Training
Instructor: Beth Gifford. LVMCM is a non-profit organization that strives to assist the adults in the mid-coast area to improve their reading, writing and related literacy skills. We will be gathering at the Mid-Coast Adult Learning Center in Rockland. The training itself is FREE but we do ask for a donation of $35.00 to help defray the cost of texts and materials. Scholarships are available upon request. Please call us at 594-5154 to register and receive your information packet. You can start making a positive difference in the lives of your friends and neighbors today!
Maine History via Rockland Harbor
Instructor: Muriel Curtis Students will row Station Maine’s 6-oared gig to different locations around the harbor and beyond. POSSIBLE excursions include the Apprenticeshop to view boatbuilding, voyages on other vessels, Beaches to gather Irish moss and other interesting flotsom, Lighthouses, and Vinalhaven's Granite Quarry (via ferry). The instructor is a native Mainer, director of Station Maine (www.stationmaine.org). Extra fees will apply to certain excursions.
Registrations for individual days will be placed on a waiting list. Course itinerary updates will be found at www.msad5.org/adulteducation
Outdoor Survival Series
Instructors: Maynard & Norma Stanley. If you would like to learn survival skills for the Great Outdoors, consider taking one or more of these courses...Campfire & Dutch Oven Cooking; To Build a Fire; Tomahawk & Knife Throwing I; Tomahawk & Knife Throwing II.
Spanish for Beginners
Instructor: Paul Garcia. You know a few words like adios, hola, amigos, but you have always wanted to learn more about the Spanish language and the people who speak it. Take the first step and join us! This beginning level language class will emphasize common phrases, salutations and basic grammar. This is a great class if you want to travel to a Spanish-speaking country!
Spanish for Conversation
Instructor: Paul Garcia. Paul Garcia You have learned basic grammar and a strong foundation vocabulary, but you still feel uncomfortable speaking in Spanish conversations. That will all change with this course. This class will concentrate on speaking Spanish to review and enhance previous Spanish-speaking skills. Develop ease with spoken Spanish & converse with the locals on your next exotic vacation!
Stage Combat
Local actor Sebastian Fox is offering a course on the fundamentals required of all staged combat for film and theater: see Creative Economy page for more details!
Stock Strategies
Instructor: Reed Lowden Is your portfolio keeping pace? Stock investments have the ability to outpace inflation and generate superior returns over the long term. With hundreds of listed companies on Wall Street, choosing the stocks that are right for your portfolio may seem like a daunting task. Our seminar will teach you how to build a balanced portfolio, evaluate companies, follow time-tested strategies, reduce the risks of investing in stocks, and much more!
Swing/Waltz Dance: The Next Step!
This course is designed as the next step of the beginner Swing/Waltz class. After reviewing the moves of the beginner class, we will learn new, more challenging moves. Previous beginner classes or understanding of the basic moves of swing and waltz are prerequisites. For couples only.
To Build a Fire
Learn how to build a fire without matches! Maynard and Norma will show you how to start with the most basic and successful fire building requirements: how to make primitive "Char" with cloth, wood and leather, and what kind of tinder works best. Then, you will learn how to make fire with flint & steel, fire pistons, a magnifying glass, fire bow, and fire plow. You will see how to start a fire even in the rain! Equipment will be available to use. Optional materials cost payable to instructor is $25, which includes Flint & Steel Kit, tinder box & leather bag.
Tomahawk & Knife Throwing I
Learn how to throw a tomahawk or knife with precision and craft. This class will focus a lot on safety and the art of blade throwing. This is a VERY safe class and is great for any recreation or sport enthusiast. No equipment is necessary as several tomahawks and knives will be available for you to use. You can even get expert advice on what to buy if you want to continue throwing on your own. Minimum age: 10 years old.
Tomahawk & Knife Throwing II
For those who have taken the beginner course, this is an opportunity to gain more experience and learn advanced techniques with the ‘hawk and knife.
Writing to Publish
Instructor: Wanda Curtis The purpose of this course is to prepare the student to publish articles in newspapers, magazines, or other publications. The student will receive instruction in how to generate ideas for articles, how to do research for an article, how to prepare a manuscript, how to copyright a manuscript, and how to market their work. The main focus will be on nonfiction articles. However, other types of writing such as poetry will also be addressed. There will also be some instruction regarding book publishing.