Designed for students of all ages, this class provides a thorough understanding of how to effectively plan for the future, ensuring peace of mind and financial security. Discussion will include the key elements of estate planning, retirement planning, advance directives, various options and strategies to pay for long-term care, and how to pass your assets outside of the probate process.

Attorney Mark Nale and Attorney Matthew Nale will be available after class to answer any questions as well.

Learn how to navigate multiple worksheets, save your workbook, create formulas, use functions, change the layout of your worksheet, and create practical worksheets. 1040 Income Tax – Maintain tax information that is very useful when preparing your annual tax return. The design of this course includes 2-3 hours of work with the software between sessions to gain maximum benefit from the sessions.

Some examples of using Microsoft Excel as a Practical Tool:

• Grocery Shopping List – Quickly create a weekly grocery shopping list. What a time saver!
• Contractor Estimate Calculator - Great tool for any contractor who has to provide estimates for customers.
• Household Budget – Create a monthly budget of your household expenditures.

This is a live online class using ZOOM. Please take a few minutes to complete the survey included in your automated receipt so the instructor can tailor the course to meet your needs. You will want to have Microsoft Excel on your computer for this workshop and many people find it helpful to have two monitors though it is certainly not necessary to benefit from the sessions. There are two ways to accomplish this: 1) attach an external screen to your computer (contact our program if you need technical assistance with that); 2) use two computers (one for Excel and the other for the ZOOM meeting.

If you already understand the basics of crochet, but want to bring your skills to the next level, or just never learned how to decipher a pattern independently, then this is the course for you!  Learn to read more complex patterns, get tips and tricks to work smarter, not harder, and finish your project with help and support along the way.  This course is taught in the old "working bee" style, with the instructor demonstrating a technique, and plenty of workshop time to practice and hone your new skills.  Students will work together to assemble friendship afghans using advanced patterns and stitches.  Choose from one of the provided patterns, or bring your own, and learn how to sift through pattern notes and shorthand, choosing or substituting materials, and finishing your project with blocking and borders.

During these three sessions you will learn basic accounting principles and how to apply them to setting up QuickBooks online for a small business or organization.  The design of the course is that you'll attend the class and also do 2-3 hours of work between sessions which greatly enhances your learning. For this workshop, you have the option to receive a yearlong subscription to QB online. Upon registration, the survey provided will provide information about this opportunity. This is a live online class using ZOOM.

As we age, our cognitive abilities get less sharp to where walking with a cup of coffee could lead to loss of balance, injury, and even death. Join Kate Kelly, trained in balance education and exercises, to learn helpful exercises and tips to help prevent falls, and ways to make your path through life more "balanced."

Grow Your Own Organic Garden covers all the basics of organic gardening -- such as supporting soil and plant health, starting seeds indoors and outdoors, interplanting, pest management, watering, and harvesting. Participants will have plenty of time to ask questions and connect with one another about shared experiences in their gardening journeys so far. By the end of this class, you should feel equipped with knowledge and connected to resources and community members that will help them grow an organic garden, and feel satisfied with the process of doing so. We’ll even send you home with some seeds to start in your own garden! This class is for beginner and seasoned gardeners alike.

During this session, you will learn how to hide data, split and freeze a window, create ranges, understand the name manager, learn additional functions, copy and paste special, sort data, and learn the power of filters. Some examples of using Microsoft Excel as practical tools including the amortization table, 20 top functions companies want their employees to know, and pivot tables. The design of this course includes 2-3 hours of work with the software between sessions to gain maximum benefit from the sessions. This is a live online class using ZOOM.

Please take a few minutes to complete the survey included in your automated receipt so the instructor can tailor the course to meet your needs.

You will want to have Microsoft Excel on your computer for this workshop and many people find it helpful to have two monitors though it is certainly not necessary to benefit from the sessions.

There are two ways to accomplish this: 1) attach an external screen to your computer (contact our program if you need technical assistance with that); 2) use two computers (one for Excel and the other for the ZOOM meeting.

In just a few hours, you can learn enough secrets of the trade togive you years of musical enjoyment. Learn to play piano the way professionals do-using chords. The chord method is LOTS of fun and dramatically easier to learn than reading notes. Fee includes the online book, online follow up lessons, a recording of the class and also an optional periodic question and answer session. Class is held online using zoom and is partly hands on instruction and partly lecture demonstration. Ages 13+

Craig Coffman is an experienced piano and guitar instructor, professional pianist and music director. He has over 30 years experience teaching piano privately. His piano and guitar seminars, offered through community colleges and community education programs have been attended by over 30,000 students throughout Arizona, Minnesota, and various other states, including Maine for over the last 27 years. He has a degree in Sociology from Illinois Wesleyan University (where he also studied piano) and a Master of Divinity degree from Western Seminary in Portland, Oregon.