February 2025

We hope you’re staying warm and enjoying the snow!  The days are notably longer already, and it’s a good time to bring you up to date on all that Our Town Leeds has been working on.


First, February 16 is the deadline for submitting our FEDCO group order. A group order total of $1,200 or more will garner us a 10% discount, so now’s the time to dream about your summer garden. See below for instructions.


Next, we’re planning another fun Open Mic Night March 21 in conjunction with the Leeds Community Church, and we need your talents! Whether you play music, sing, have comedy chops, can share a reading, tap dance or juggle, we can’t wait to see it! Sign up by emailing hello@ourtownleeds.org or revallman@gmail.com.


During the school year the Story Hour has evolved into a Story Hour & Play Group for younger kids. It happens twice a month at 10:00 a.m. at the Leeds Community Church and all are welcome. 


While we dream of and work toward a local library, we’re taking steps to make books and materials available to some Leeds residents already. Our Town Leeds is collecting and distributing books for adults, youth, and children along with CDs & DVDs, magazines, puzzles, games, and craft kits. Consider us as you clean your closets. We’re delivering materials twice monthly to local facilities whose residents have very little. 


We’re also planning to distribute age-appropriate children’s books to Leeds child care providers, rotating the stock monthly to promote early literacy. 


We met with staff at the Kennebec Land Trust who are excited to host a Story Walk at Curtis Homestead. A Story Walk promotes early literacy, physical activity and family time in nature. If you’d like to check out an example visit their Ezra Smith Wildlife Conservation Area in Mt. Vernon. We’re pursuing grants to make this idea a reality.


This month we met with staff from Congressman Golden’s office, gaining valuable guidance on an approach to working with the U.S. Postal Service as well as insight into additional funding sources.


Speaking of funding, we’re pleased to report that Our Town Leeds raised over $57,000 in our first year of fundraising. If you would like to support the vision of retaining our post office and creating a library for Leeds, know that your donation of up to $1,000 will be matched dollar for dollar. 


Join us, won’t you? There are so many ways you can help. Please consider:


Thank you for joining Our Town Leeds as a member.  We can’t fix all of the world’s troubles, but working together, we can make life in our wonderful small town a little better.



Instructions for placing a FEDCO order at www.fedcoseeds.com:

1. Please note that there are THREE group order numbers - one for each FEDCO division:

Seeds - 990004

Potatoes, onions, and exotics - 690002

Organic growers supply - 390001

2. Go to the division in which you are building an order, using the links in the page header. Log in using your email address. 

3. When you review your order prior to checking out, click the “Part of a Group” checkbox. Then go to the “Checkout” and type in the group order number where indicated.

4. You will receive a confirmation email at the address you used to log in. Until your coordinator finalizes the group’s order, however, FEDCO cannot confirm receipt of your order.