Barbara Scully of Glidden Point Oysters has some sumptuous bycatch, 100-300 pounds per week of chowder clams, quahogs.

“Do you know of anyone personally in need or an organization in the community that would like some?” she asked me. “I would be pleased to donate them to someone in need. I have donated to several area church groups, who are turning them into chowder as (a) fundraising or to feed their seniors. Please spread the word and have those interested email me here, barb@oysterfarm.com, to arrange the details.”

Alleluia Alley: Hey, Brandon Sprague, whose Maine Elite Basketball Club of Saco has just won the 2014 American Athletic Union (AAU) Boys Basketball Super Showcase's championship in the division for 16-year-olds from all around the U.S., at Orlando, Fla., July 20.

The Elites won, 64-49, over the Boston Warriors. Brandon is the son of Anita and Gregory Sprague of Four Seasons Automotive in Edgecomb. Ho! For Samantha Hersom, now a B.A. in applied arts from the Massachusetts College of Art and Design. Huzzah! For Gretchen Elder who will be filling in for Barb House, community outreach officer at the Boothbay Harbor Memorial Library, for the month of August.

If you have any questions, please direct them to Gretchen, 207-633-3112, or contact the library's front desk manager, Lisa Arsenault as well: larsenault@bmpl.lib.me.us. Hooroars for Aaron Densmore, grade 8, Highest Honors, and Morgan Elkins, grade 10, Honors, in their second semester at North Yarmouth Academy.

Nice write-up of Patty's Seafood Take-out in the Coastal Journal last Thursday.

On Monday, Aug. 4, at 3 p.m., Jack and Carol Dexter's backyard model railroad will strut its stuff, vintage engines from the early 1950s, both steam and diesel, for railroad enthusiasts and any others There is an admission fee of $5, reserved in advance, to benefit the event sponsor, Spectrum Generations Coastal Community Center of Damariscotta. Call 207-563-1363 by 4 p.m. on Friday, Aug. 1. Directions to the Dexters' home will be provided when you reserve. Rain date August 5, 3 p.m.

Last summer we had hardly any fruit flies at all, while the summer before that, they almost drove us out of the house. This year looks to be a normal distribution of the little monsters, but it means, we'll have to eat any ripe fruit fast, cover everything up, or else refrigerate it, which means we'll forget about it. It's a downside of compost buckets and fruit fermentations, which of course is what they live on. On the other hand, maybe we can supply local laboratories with Edgecomb's finest Drosophila melanogaster, from 234 River Road, 207-633-2978, and jocam@tidewater.net.