Wondering how to get free tickets to see a Red Sox baseball game at Fenway Park?

Bet you never thought you could get them by volunteering, but you can!

The Jimmy Fund is seeking people to serve as volunteer captains during its Jimmy Fund/Variety Club Theatre Collections Programs, which will run June 21-July 28 in American Movie Cinemas, Hoyts Cinemas, Loew’s Cineplex Theatres and National Amusements Theatres.

Volunteer captains recruit and coordinate the efforts of other volunteers who collect contributions from movie theatre patrons.

Volunteer captains schedule other volunteers’ shifts, track their hours, and work with theater managers to ensure that the collections program runs smoothly.

The volunteer captain’s commitment is about six to eight hours per week during the six-week period of the program.

The Jimmy Fund’s longest-running fund-raiser thanks its volunteer captains by presenting them with a T-shirt, movie passes, and those hard-to-get Red Sox tickets.

And, also, the volunteer captain who covers the most volunteer shifts during the program receives two round-trip American Airlines tickets to anywhere in the continental United States, or the Caribbean, Bermuda or Mexico.

Last year, moviegoers contributed more than $1.3 million to the Jimmy Fund through this program.

This year’s goal is $1.75 million.

For more information about how to become a Jimmy Fund Volunteer Captain, call Jennifer O’Hare at 617-632-3861, or e-mail her at jenniferohare@dfci.harvard.edu.

The program does include theaters in Bangor, O’Hare told me, so whomever steps forward and offers to become a Jimmy Fund volunteer captain will get those precious Red Sox tickets!

Another fund-raiser is coming up for the Sherman Area VFW and Ladies Auxiliary, which is planning Veterans’ Week 2002 July 20-26 at Katahdin Elementary School in Sherman Station.

Committee member Janice Charette reports that the VFW and Auxiliary is holding an adult dance from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. Saturday, April 13, at the Sherman Gym on School Street in Sherman Mills.

“The dance is BYOB, and you must be 21 to attend,” Charette wrote of the event that is $15 per couple.

Those who attend will be dancing to the music of George Gallagher of Aces Entertainment.

Proceeds from the event benefit the Veterans’ Week 2002 project, which features the Vietnam veterans moving wall and the POW hot air balloon.

If you are unable to attend the dance, but want to help support this project financially, send a check or money to The Wall Fund, c/o Janice Charette, P.O. Box 87, Sherman Station 04777, or to Legion Post Cmdr. Wayne Guiggey, Sherman VFW Post, 68 North St., Sherman Mills 04776.

If you or your organization can volunteer to help with the project, or can participate in any way, call Charette at 365-4858 or Guiggey at 365-4832.

Martha Newman of Bangor called to tell me that two Bangor High School classes are planning a joint reunion this summer, but that they’re having difficulty locating many of their classmates.

The BHS Classes of 1962 and 1963 will share their respective reunions Saturday, July 27, and they hope lots of old friends will be there.

“The interesting thing is that Deane Stern, Class of 1962, is doing all the party planning, and planning all the entertainment,” Newman said.

Stern is a magician, entertainer and toy maker who has performed throughout the country and recently resettled in his hometown.

Newman said committees for both classes hope that their classmates will make contact and plan to attend the joint reunion.

Dan Libby is the contact person for members of the BHS Class of 1962.

You can call him at 843-5916 or e-mail him at danlibby@acadia.net.

Jon Ford is the contact person for members of the BHS Class of 1963.

His telephone number is 843-6411, or you can e-mail him at trafho@aol.com.

Newman said she hopes fellow BHS alumni will respond to this request “as soon as possible.”

Betty Shibles of Orrington is in the midst of her spring cleaning, but stopped long enough to write that she has “a bushel-basketful of cotton cloth scraps that some group might like to have to do a quilt or some such thing.”

Shibles would be glad to donate the cloth scraps to your organization because she “will not use them anymore,” and she hates to throw them out!

You can call Shibles at 825-3781 or e-mail her at mame@gwi.net.

Jan Currier of Prudential Singleton-Rollerson Real Estate in Bangor is a happy lady after having obtained seven $1,000 grant awards from the Prudential Helping Hearts Program.

Those grants went toward the purchase of portable heart defibrillators for seven Maine volunteer EMS rescue squads and fire departments, she wrote.

Among the organizations helped by the program were volunteer rescue squads and fire departments in Hermon, Holden, Orono, Veazie and Milford.

From 1994 to 2002, the Prudential Helping Hearts program committed more than $4.75 million to more than 2,600 EMS squads throughout the country and, this year, Prudential is pledging an additional $150,000 in grants to help 150 more EMS squads purchase cardiac defibrillators.

If your department or organization is interested in participating in this program, you must do so by the application deadline, which is Tuesday, April 30.

For application information, call Currier at 942-8261.

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