Country View Golf Club owner Carl Brown suggests that anyone who wants to enter the eighth annual Arthur Jewell Community Ambulance Benefit Golf Tournament register right away.

Brown advises that golfers enter early since “both the morning and afternoon flights were full last year,” and he is expecting the field will be full this year as well.

Brown said the 18-hole, four-person scramble “will feature two flights with shotgun starts.”

The first flight tees off at 7:45 a.m. Saturday, Sept. 29, at CVGC in Brooks.

The second flight tees off at 1:15 that afternoon.

Each four-person team will have a 50 or greater handicap, Brown said.

Golfers will compete for $500 in merchandise prizes, with a total of $1,500 in prizes going to the first five teams.

Golfers can compete for closest to the pin, longest drive, straightest drive and nearest to the line.

Dutch Chevrolet Olds and Buick is offering a new Buick for the first golfer to make a hole in one on the treacherous 18th hole, and other prizes will be offered for holes in one.

The registration fee is $40 per person, with all proceeds benefiting the Arthur Jewell Ambulance Equipment Fund.

Business owners who wish to support this fund-raiser can do so by becoming a hole sponsor for $150 or a hole and team sponsor for $250.

Brown said the tournament has raised several thousand dollars over the years for community needs, and he expects this tournament will do the same for the community ambulance service.

Individuals interested in registering for the tournament, or being a tournament sponsor, should call Brown at CVGC, 722-3161.

The surging sounds of more than 300 motorcycles, including Harleys, Hondas and Beemers, will be heard along a 60-mile route in southern Maine this weekend as motorcyclists throughout the state raise funds to help the March of Dimes fight birth defects and infant mortality.

The ride begins at 10 a.m. Sunday, Sept. 16, at the March of Dimes office in the Portland North Business Park on Grey Road in West Falmouth, and concludes with a barbecue at Winslow Park in South Freeport.

Riders and passengers are asked to raise at least $25 to participate in the event, which features prizes and incentives for those who raise the most money.

If you have not already registered for this fund-raiser, but would like to do so, call Jere Hoover, state director of the March of Dimes, at (800)-668-5678.

What may be the last opportunity for Hampden residents to preserve its traditional Children’s Day will be the subject of a Special Community Meeting at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 18, at the Whitcomb-Baker VFW Hall on Canoe Club Rod in Hampden.

Lack of volunteers and construction at the event site caused the cancellation of what would have been the 23rd Children’s Day this year.

Committee members in Hampden and surrounding communities hope this meeting will warrant enough interest to reinstate the event next summer.

The event is open to the public and your participation is welcome.

If you would like more information about this meeting, or want to know how to become a member of the committee, call the Hampden Children’s Day Information Line at 862-3333, choose option No. 1 and leave a message; contact HCD chairman Carl Pease at cpease61@adelphia.net, or call Susan Starbird at 862-6262.

You can celebrate National Rehabilitation Week by participating in a Celebrity Car Wash from 8 a.m. to noon Saturday, Sept. 15, at HEALTHSOUTH Sports Medicine and Rehabilitation Center, 12 Stillwater Ave. in Bangor.

The event benefits United Cerebral Palsy of Northeastern Maine, which serves more than 2,000 people, of all ages, with disabilities of all kinds.

Celebrities participating in the event will include alumni from UCP Telethons broadcast on WVII-TV, Channel 7; Bangor city councilors; and UCP staff.

Radio station New Country 104.7 The Bear will broadcast live from the site, and a raffle will feature prizes donated by local businesses.

During its Patient Recognition Day set for noon-1 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 20, at HEALTHSOUTH, the organization will honor Bobbie Yeager, UCP executive director, for her leadership in advancing the independence, individuality and full citizenship of people with disabilities.

Carla Fearon, fitness director for the Penobscot Nation, Indian Island, will be honored for her work in promoting health and fitness for individuals challenged by diabetes, cardiovascular disease and musculoskeletal problems.

The public is invited to take advantage of free blood pressure and flexibility screenings from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 20, at HEALTHSOUTH’s Stillwater Ave. facility where the Fibromyalgia Support Group, which meets the fourth Wednesday of each month at HEALTHSOUTH, will share information about that disease throughout the day.

On such a day, when terrorist attacks have killed thousands in our country, it is difficult to go about our daily business with a clear mind.

But do so we must, while praying for those who were killed, those who survived, and those who are left behind.

Perhaps not since Dec. 7, 1941, at Pearl Harbor, have so many American lives been lost in a surprise attack on U.S. soil.

As I write this Tuesday morning, I realize any one of us can so easily say, “There, but for the grace of God, go I.”

We pray for the safety of our country, and for all who live under its protection.

Joni Averill, Bangor Daily News, P.O. Box 1329, Bangor 04402; 990-8288.