Dance lessons pave way for annual church affair

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Many people find the annual Fall Greek Community Dance sponsored by St. George Greek Orthodox Church of Bangor an absolute delight.

And for those who want to be at their dancing best for this event, the sponsors go out of their way to prepare you by providing Greek dance lessons.

This year, for example, St. George members have been teaching not only adults, but children as well and, while the series of children’s lessons have been completed, adults have one more opportunity to learn what you need to know to not miss a step.

The final adult lesson will be 7 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 9, at St. George Church, 70 Sanford St. in Bangor.

The lessons will help prepare you for the dance, which takes place from 8 a.m. to midnight Saturday, Oct. 13, at Peabody Campus Center at Husson College in Bangor.

Dance committee spokeswoman Claudia Loud reports this event is a “family affair,” and that children are most welcome to attend, hence the special lessons for them.

The admission cost, $10 for children under age 18 and $20 for adults, includes the music of The Hellenic Stars Orchestra of Boston, directed by Kostas Haloulakos.

And who could forget that part of the fun of this event is having the opportunity to enjoy all those fabulous, traditional, homemade Greek and American hors d’oeuvres this group is so famous for?

The event is also an opportunity for the public to meet and welcome to the community the new priest at St. George, Father Adam Metropoulas, a former Millinocket teacher who recently left that profession to answer the call to serve his community through the priesthood.

Loud said the evening promises to be an excellent one, and everyone is invited to attend and enjoy the festivities.

For more information, call Loud at 827-4579.

Mike Cornett of Orono called to say that the regular monthly meeting of the Maine Aviation Historical Society at 10 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 13, will now be held at the Maine Air Museum, 98 Maine Ave. in Bangor.

The meeting was originally scheduled to be held at the Bethel Airport in Bethel.

Cornett said Saturday’s meeting is “open to anyone who is interested,” and that it offers members of the public “a chance to view the facilities” of Maine’s only air museum.

Dennis Smith of Mount Desert, a member of the Penobscot Valley Ski Club, hopes skiers and snowboarders are preparing for the club’s annual ski and snowboard equipment sale from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 13, at the Bangor Armory on Main Street.

To register to sell your used ski equipment, you must be at the Armory between 5 p.m. and 9 p.m. Friday, Oct. 13. The registration fee is $1 per item.

The club asks you to set your price, or it will set it for you, and the club asks a 15 percent commission on sales.

Unsold items must be reclaimed following the sale and items not claimed by 7 p.m. will be donated to charity.

You can bring in helmets, skis, boots, bindings, poles, snowboards, and skiwear for downhill, Nordic, alpine and cross-country use.

The sale offers new equipment at low prices, and used equipment at even lower prices. Mounting services will also be available.

And, Smith reminds you, the sale not only helps support the club but “any leftover downhill skis will be donated to the Maine Handicapped Blind Skiing Program.”

If you have questions, call Smith at 288-5457.

As one of the approximately 40,000 students who enjoyed the classes of the late Dr. Richard Emerick of Orono, I extend my sympathies to his family and friends following his death at the age of 75 on Sunday, Sept. 30, at his Orono home.

The first professor of anthropology at the University of Maine, Dick Emerick always amazed me for his ability to pick up exactly where he left off with his lectures, whether it was from one class to the next, one semester to the next, or one year to the next.

He obviously enjoyed his work, and we enjoyed him.

We are grateful not only for the entertaining and enduring education he provided, but for his lasting contributions to the university’s Hudson Museum.

We remember him, too, as an involved community member who could be counted on to appear, always delightfully, in amateur theater productions and, at this particular time, we remember him as a veteran who honorably and willingly served his country in World War II and the Korean conflict.

He was a special man, and I am proud to be one of the thousands who know that.

Today our thoughts and prayers are with members of the military, who are putting their own lives at risk, in memory and honor of the thousands of innocent people who lost their lives in the recent terrorist attacks on U.S. soil.

Members of the military are also working to protect the lives of their own family members and all Americans by eliminating terrorism and the terrorists who threaten the peace and security of the whole world.

We pray for the safety of those in service to our country, for the success of this most difficult mission, for the safety of the free world and for the liberation of those under terrorist rule.

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