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Volume 19 • Issue No. 15
Earth Day Celebrations at Center for Wildlife CAPE NEDDICK Join Center for Wildlife (CFW) for a special Earth Day Celebration on Saturday, April 22, 1-3 p.m. CFW is excited to invite the community to gather, celebrate the changing of the seasons, and to get involved with wildlife conservation work happening here in the region. “Our annual Earth Day Celebration is a great way to connect with our local community and this year’s celebration will be larger than ever! To give thanks to
all of our supporters who helped our ambassador animals make their move to their new enclosures, we will be conducting a ribbon-cutting ceremony as well as open public registration for CCW memberships. We hope you are able to join us for an afternoon of fun!” said CFW Marketing and Outreach Coordinator Bob Dale. During the Earth Day Celebration, CFW will have meetand-greets with its ambassador animals, celebrate the opening of their outdoor ambassador en-
closures with a ribbon cutting ceremony, have fundraising raffle baskets available and have a variety of nature-based crafts and activities available. The timeline of events is as follows: 1-1:30 p.m.: Check in, ambassador animal meet and greets, nature-based crafts and activities; 1:30-2 p.m.: Outdoor animal enclosure ribbon cutting ceremony; 2-2:30 p.m.: Raffles, refreshments, new membership sales; 2:30-3 p.m.: Closing educational program in the outdoor
amphitheater. As the largest and only wildlife center of its kind in the Seacoast region, CFW admits more than 2,000 injured wild animals annually, fields 15,000 phone calls on its Wildlife Assistance Hotline, and presents more than 400 environmental education programs to 10,000 community members. All of this work is accomplished with no state or federal funding. For more information visit www.thecenterforwildlife.org.
Patriots’ Day Concert by Junior Fife & Drum Corps BERWICK The Piscataqua Rangers Junior Fife & Drum Corps will present a Patriots’ Day concert at the Berwick Public Library on Tuesday, April 18, at 6 p.m. The Rangers attend performances across New England in parades, colonial period events, reenactments, memorials, and veteran events. Fife and drum music has ancient roots. The fife is an ancient wind instrument that has evolved over the centuries, changing in size and number of holes according to need. Fifes eventually became an integral
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part of military music tradition, first in Europe and later in the New World. The shrill tone could pierce through the din of battle, giving commands to the troops. Fifes also provided entertainment for soldiers on the march, breaking the monotony with song. The snare drum descended from the tabor, and dates back to the medieval period. A tabor has a cylindrical wood shell, two skin heads tightened by rope tension, a leather strap, and an adjustable snare. Each tabor has a pitch range of about an octave: the larger the tabor, the lower the pitch. During the Revolu-
tionary War, young soldiers were usually selected to learn to play both instruments. After a brief training, one fifer and one
drummer would be assigned to a troop. When a larger group of soldiers marched together, their fifers and drummers would join
together to form a corps. The Piscataqua Rangers Jr. Fife & Drum Corps provides heritage music instruction, and exposes students to American history and culture. Instruments are made available on loan for those who cannot purchase them, and uniforms are provided to students who reach performance level. The corps performs for parades, and patriotic and historical events. The Berwick Public Library is located at 103 Old Pine Hill Road in Berwick. For more information, visit www.berwick. lib.me.us.
New England Cottontails Released at the Refuge KITTERY The Rachel Carson National Wildlife Refuge has partnered with the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife (MDIFW) to augment the population of the New England cottontail in Kittery. New England cottontail are a globally rare species whose population has declined dramatically over the last 50 years. Ten New England cottontail were recently translocated to the Rachel Carson National Wildlife Refuge in Kittery, marking the first rabbits to be released onto Refuge property. The ten rabbits are a mix of individuals captured from a wild population from Maine and from an island breeding colony in Rhode Island as part of Maine’s conservation efforts to restore
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the population of this imperiled species. Ref uge Wildlife Biologist Kate O’Brien said, “We’re thrilled to be able to augment the New England Cottontail population in Maine with this first ever release of rabbits onto the refuge. We thank our partners for making this possible and the many volunteers who helped us restore this habitat here in Kittery.” The New England cottontail is Maine’s only native rabbit, and is listed as state endangered in Maine, with an estimated state-wide population of about 320 individuals within only six Maine towns. The population has declined dramatically over the past fifty years. The cottontail See COTTONTAIL on page 10 . . .
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