The Kiwanis Club of Rockland heard from the Jingle Bell EXPRESS

committee in the final days of preparation for the popular train ride

that goes from Rockland to the North Pole.  Co-chairs Marjorie Kinney of

Thomaston, [left], and Katie Tarbox of Spruce Head, discussed the plans

and volunteer assignments during the weekly Kiwanis meeting on the 3rd

of December.  More than 150 volunteers were involved in the weeks

leading up to the two-night event that brought riders from three states

and more than 40 separate Maine towns and cities.  Several of the

volunteers were non-members of the Kiwanis Club, including Barry Norris

of Union, pictured with the co-chairs.  Planning for the 2013 Kiwanis

Jingle Bell EXPRESS aboard Maine Eastern Railroad is already under way.