Bridgton Rec Youth Soccer athletes ending the

season with soccer games, cake, popcorn, and lots

of fun! Thank you to Leslie Hayes and Kat Harju for

all their help during the soccer season and

organizing this event. Thank you to all the coaches

and volunteers that created an incredible season!

We would like to thank all of the people who made the Bridgton Recreation Halloween Party a success! Thank you to the Bridgton

Recycling Committee, Bridgton Academy Basketball Team, Bridgton Public Works, My Three Owls Photography, Deb Ripley, Maddie

Rock, Han Mei, Lucien Wallace, Mark Mayo, Olivia Thompson, Veronica Messina, Kaitlyn Plummer, Julia Murch, Ellery Hunt, Delaney

Meserve, Dawson Smith, and anyone else that helped create a great spooktacular time for the community. It take a lot of effort to

prepare for a community party like this and it could not have been done without the help of all of these people!

Is it really November? I can not believe another year is about to come to a close. We have a great event

planned for the annual Festival of Lights on December 1st! I hope that you could join us for all the wonderful

events and shows going on in downtown Bridgton this year.

Basketball season has arrived and starting the first week of December the 3rd through 6th grade athletes will

start practicing for their season opener scheduled for the first week of January. Kindergarten basketball will

start on November 27th at 5:15 at the Bridgton Town Hall and the 1st and 2nd grade basketball athletes will

kick off their season at the Lake Region Middle School on December 1st.

Many people are curious why we did not have our annual Thanksgiving Day fitness classes this year at the

Town Hall. It really is a fun event and a great way to start the day however this year the annual floor cleaning

and resurfacing was scheduled later than usual and therefor we were unable to open the gym on Thanksgiving

Day. Do not worry though, SWEAT will return this January!

Believe it or not you are now able to register for Spring Sports at www.bridgtonmaine.org. Signing up early

will make our program run smoother and will help us in the organization of our leagues, which in turn will

help get practice and game schedules out to families earlier and our kids on the court/field sooner. Bridgton

has baseball and softball available for residents, and lacrosse for all Lake Region district youth from K-6.

Karate will be starting its winter session after the holidays so please contact me if you would like to join the

program. Mad Science will not have a winter session, however it will return in the spring on Monday’s after

school. Run Club after its first session finished up just after Halloween and looks to return in the spring as

well.

Thank you to all the volunteers that make all of these programs happen because without you it would not be

possible! Happy Holidays and enjoy your friends and family!!

Respectfully,

Gary Colello

Recreation Director

gcolello@bridgtonmaine.org 207-647-1126