2024 Events
Overview of We Know Ticks – Mainely Ticks’ Community Based Educational Sessions.
2023 was a record year for confirmed cases of Lyme diseases in the State of Maine. Did you know that senior citizens ages 65+ and children ages 5-14 have the highest incidence of Lyme disease?
Join Bob & Barb Maurais from Mainely Ticks to learn strategies to better protect your family from the ever-increasing threat of ticks and tick-borne diseases. Topics discussed will include personal protection strategies, landscape modifications, and the life cycle of the deer tick. One-hour presentation followed by Q&A session. All attendees will receive a complimentary tick identification guide, educational bookmark, and pair of fine pointed magnified tweezers.
March 20, 2024 – 6:00 pm – Kittery Library
Rice Public Library
8 Wentworth Street
Kittery, ME 03904
207.439.1553
Rice.lib.me.us
May 1, 2024 – 11:00 am – East Waterboro Library
Waterboro Public Library
187 Main St.
East Waterboro, ME.04030
207.247.3363
https://www.waterboro-me.net/departments/waterboro_public_library/index.php
May 7, 2024 – 11:00 am – York Public Library
15 Long Sands Rd.
York, ME 03909
207.363-2818
yorkpubliclibrary.org
May 13, 2024 – 12:00 noon – Falmouth Library
Falmouth Memorial Library
5 Lunt Road
Falmouth, ME 04105
207.781.2351
Falmouthmemoriallibrary.org
May 18, 2024 – 9:00 – 12 noon – Windham Mall, Windham, Maine
The Windham Lions Club is sponsoring their 3rd Touch-a-Truck event. Come out and see a Mainely Ticks spray truck along with other local business trucks up close. See what’s it like to sit in a big rig and ask questions of various local business operators. The event will set up in the Windham Mall, in close proximity to the Reny’s Department Store, either directly behind or on the side.
May 20, 2024 – 3:00-5:30 – Gardiner – In-person education event for 250+ families.
Boys & Girls Clubs of Kennebec Valley
Sandra M. Prescott Clubhouse
14 Pray Street
Gardiner, Maine 04345
207.582.8458
