Still several ways you can help Graves Foundation

Although all the golfing spaces are filled for the third annual Logan Graves Golf Classic on Sunday, June 18, at Presque Isle Country Club, there are still many ways in which people can help raise funds for this event, which benefits the Logan Graves Foundation for the Maine Children’s Cancer Program.

Bob and Lynne Graves of Presque Isle established the event in memory of their 6-year-old son, who died in 1998 of a rare form of children’s cancer.

Help for this event can come in a variety of ways, large and small.

For example, the entire event is underwritten by a $7,500 contribution from lead sponsor KeyBank.

Lynne Graves explained that donation “pays for everything, including the shirts and prizes, so that everything we take in goes right to the Maine Children’s Cancer Program.”

“We’ve had a lot of people and businesses give $1,500 and a lot that have given $500,” she said.

There is no limit on the number of businesses or individuals that can sponsor a hole for $250, with all that money going right to the MCCP.

For a $100 donation, people can become a Friend of the Logan Graves Foundation, but there are even easier ways to contribute.

At all Graves stores – in Presque Isle, Dover-Foxcroft, Hampden, Bar Harbor and Camden – you can enter a raffle to win a $500 worth of groceries.

Tickets are just $1 each, six for $5 or 14 for $10. To make a direct donation to this event, you may send a check to the Logan Graves Foundation, P.O. Box 429, Presque Isle 04769.

This has been a successful fund-raiser, and the Graveses are very appreciative of all the support it has received. The first event raised $40,000 and last year’s total was $45,000.

The organizers are hoping to equal or better those amounts this year, all to benefit the Maine Children’s Cancer Program.

The Togus VA Center will be receiving a new tram from the American Legion, District 3, during ceremonies at 9 a.m. today at the gazebo adjacent to Building 207 at the VA Center. The 12-passenger vehicle will be presented to recreation therapy for use in the activity programs on the Togus grounds for patients in the Nursing Home Care and Dementia units.

The American Legion Posts, American Legion Auxiliary Units, and Sons of American Legion Detachments in District 3, which includes posts in Knox, Lincoln and Sagadahoc counties, raised $11,000 to purchase the vehicle.

Andrea Knowles and members of St. Joseph’s Catholic Church in Brewer hope any of you who are checking out yard sales will include a stop at theirs.

Knowles said the St. Joseph Yard Sale is 9 a.m.-3 p.m. today at the church, 531 N. Main St., Brewer.

She informed me the sale features a great variety of items; perennials will be for sale, and refreshments will be available.

People involved in planning Brewer High School Project Graduation 2003 “came upon a dilemma,” BHS junior parent Tootie Bell reported of the event which uses the facilities of Maine Maritime Academy in Castine.

While Brewer usually holds its graduation the first weekend in June, next year it will be the second weekend, she said, and that date conflicts with a long-standing commitment MMA has with another organization that has been meeting there for nearly 20 years on the second weekend in June.

“We just learned this, and we don’t have time to get out a mailing, but we need to meet with all BHS junior parents to discuss and decide where we are going to have it next year,” Bell said. “And we can’t do that until we form a committee, which we usually do in the fall, so we have to form the committee now.”

All Brewer High School junior parents are asked to attend this very special meeting at 6 p.m. Monday, June 10, at BHS.

I received a call from Esheen Harmon of Orrington informing me that members of Bangor High School Class of 1992 have made plans to hold their 10th reunion at 7 p.m. Saturday, July 27, at Jeff’s Catering in Brewer.

But one of the difficulties being encountered is trying to locate all the members of that class. “I actually got the alumni book and went through it,” Harmon said, “but I found that a lot of the phone numbers and the e-mail addresses are not the same now, and have been changed or disconnected.”

She would very much like to hear from any members of the BHS Class of ’92 in the hopes you will be able to attend the reunion or, at the very least, send a message to your fellow classmates.

You can reach Harmon by calling her at work, 942-4141, on her cell phone at 745-2272, or e-mailing her at davcon28@msn.com.

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