Summertime fund-raisers promise fun for all

Almost any activity you can imagine is available to you this weekend, thanks to the efforts of staff members and service organization volunteers participating in a number of summertime fund-raisers.

You can enjoy the return of the Pink Flamingos to Mount Desert Island or watch a regatta there, enjoy a house tour in Dover-Foxcroft or a patriotic musical in Old Town, attend a country fair at the Curran Homestead in Orrington or race motorcycles in The County.

Don Featherstone, creator of the plastic pink flamingo, returns with his flock for the annual Harbor House Quietside Festival from Friday, July 19, to Sunday, July 21, in Southwest Harbor.

Friday’s events begin with music on the Village Green at 4:30 p.m. Then start your Saturday with a pancake breakfast at 6:30 a.m. at the Legion Hall.

The Tremont Trot Road Race is 8 a.m., followed by a craft fair, parade, carnival, adult softball games, tours of the U.S. Coast Guard Station, a croquet tournament and a Little League game.

Sunday’s activities include a kayak race and the annual Polo & Yacht Club Member Cocktail Party at the Causeway Club Barn.

Proceeds from various activities benefit Harbor House, which provides recreational programs for more than 2,000 children and adults in Southwest Harbor and Tremont.

If you’re in the MDI area Saturday, July 20, you will see more than 40 racer-cruiser sailboats participating in the sixth annual Hospice Regatta of Maine.

U.S. Sen. Susan Collins is honorary co-chairwoman of the event, which benefits Hospice of Hancock County.

The race will be in the Great Harbor of Mount Desert between Mount Desert Island and the Cranberry Isles, and concludes with a lobster bake and awards ceremony, with television personality Jan Smith as mistress of ceremonies.

For the Miosac Club, a member of the General and Maine Federation of Women’s Clubs, Elizabeth Harvey invites you to attend an Open House Tour 1-4 p.m. Saturday, July 20, in Dover-Foxcroft.

Five homeowners will open three in-town homes of varied styles and architecture, a year-round home at Sebec Lake and a charming country home for the tour.

Tickets, for a donation of $10 each, are limited to 100 and can be obtained by calling 564-2067 or 564-2660.

Refreshments will be served at the Gerrish-Warren Center at Thayer Parkway.

A commemorative quilt made by members of the club featuring six historical buildings on the tour will be raffled at the conclusion of the tour.

Pam Martin directs the Bangor-Brewer Y-Players in their patriotic 1940s musical, “A Tribute to the Red, White & Blue,” at 2 p.m. Sunday, July 21, at the Old Town Museum, formerly St. Mary’s Catholic Church, 138 South Main St., Old Town.

No admission fee will be charged, but donations will be graciously accepted to benefit the museum roof-repair fund.

Board member Irv Marsters hopes many will participate in an Olde-Fashioned Country Fair that helps kick off the Annual Orrington Old Home Week.

Fair activities begin at 11 a.m. Saturday, July 20, at The Curran Homestead on Fields Pond in Orrington and includes horse rides, live music, a barbecue lunch, plus gingerbread and fresh lemonade, children’s games and storytelling, trail walks, homestead tours and even an introduction to kayaking.

Also that day, the Fields Pond Nature Center will hold its annual Summer Yard Sale from 7 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Nature Center, where you can purchase outdoor recreational equipment, nature items, household goods and books.

Registration for the 25-mile Spud Cycle Classic 2002 is 8:30 a.m. at Hillcrest Estates in Fort Fairfield. The race, part of the Potato Blossom Festival, starts at the Blockhouse on Main Street and ends at Hillcrest Estates.

Medallions will be awarded to the first three placers in several male and female age categories from 14 to 70-plus and team medallions will be presented to the top three finishers. The event, which also features T-shirts and raffles, is directed by a local club, the County Spinskis and sponsored by Cary Medical Center, Aroostook Bicycle and Sport, S. W. Collins Co. and Hillside IGA. For more information, call CMC at 498-1361.

Also this weekend, friends will join former Charleston residents Frank and Helen True of Corinth celebrating their 60th wedding anniversary.

The Rev. Willis McLaughlin married the couple July 18, 1942, at the Corinth Methodist Parsonage. They have two children, seven grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren.

Greetings for this special anniversary can be sent them at 13 Manor Drive, Apt. 5, Corinth 04427.

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