Despite the fact that most of us are happy with Bayville the way it is, some folks will never stop trying to improve it. The annual meeting of the Bayville Improvement Association will start promptly at 9 a.m. Saturday, July 7, in the clubhouse.

"Starting with my neighbors, there's a lot of things Bayville could do better," said BIA president Diane Davis ominously. Davis wrested the gavel from Lou Mucci at last year's meeting in a near bloodless coup.

As Oliver Goldsmith put it, Bayville is usually a "sweet, smiling village, loveliest of the lawn," but next Wednesday it will be a deserted village when the "tyrant's hand is seen." In other words, make plans now to leave town! July 11 is work day, otherwise known as "Cleanup and Community Service Day" or "Watch the Merrill Boys Make Stuff Day." Anyone with a shovel, Weed-eater, bulldozer, or trowel should report for duty at the Post Office at 9 a.m. Anyone with a lick of sense should start dreaming up excuses.

While you're marking your calendar, put a big circle around the first weekend of August, when the annual meeting of the Bayville Village Corporation is scheduled for Saturday morning at 9 a.m., the annual dock-side lobster fry and pig roast at 5:30 p.m., and - for those heathens who are still floating - the Eight Annual Waterfront Festival at 9 a.m. Sunday morning.

We're expecting Bayville's matriarch, "Aunt Jane" Stover, to be a fully engaged participant July 11. Much to the delight of all of us, she turned up on the Rock Cottage porch Friday and immediately shed at least a decade when she took her first breath of Maine air - nothing more restorative than pine pollen!

Speaking of restoratives, what's with all these Bayville weddings? Mary Laurel Scannon and Darren Wilson are scheduled to become Mr. and Mrs. Darren Wilson August 11 with a ceremony and reception at Spruce Point Inn.