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Bangor

Fraud prevention

The Penobscot County Area TRIAD, an organization composed of area law enforcement officers, senior citizen volunteers and senior service professionals, will hold a family fraud prevention forum from 8:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, April 26, at Penobscot Job Corps Center, 1375 Union St.

Admission to the forum is by preregistration. The cost is $2 per person, which covers presentations, a hot lunch at noon and the opportunity to visit informational booths. Registration forms are available from Eastern Agency on Aging, 450 Essex St., or the Hammond Street Senior Center.

Sponsored by the U.S. Attorney’s Office, District of Maine, local police and sheriff’s departments and the U.S. Postal Inspection Service, the forum is aimed at senior citizens, their families and caregivers – groups that often are targets of potential fraud.

In addition to several speakers, representatives from area housing complexes and assisted living facilities, consumer protection agencies, senior service agencies and others will be available throughout the day to provide service, specific information and handouts.

Daffodil Days

The American Cancer Society will hold Daffodil Days the week of March 24. Volunteers will deliver daffodils to residents, schools, businesses and hospitals throughout the region.

In addition, those who have not already ordered daffodils may purchase them at Shop ‘n’ Save stores. Proceeds help fund programs such as Road to Recovery, Look Good – Feel Better, Reach to Recovery and Man to Man. For information, call (800) 464-3102, press 3.

Teen-parent communication

The Penquis Dispute Resolution Center will offer free Parent-Teen Communication workshops 5:30-7:30 p.m. Thursdays, March 20-April 10, at Penquis CAP, 262 Harlow St., Bangor. Through discussion, role playing, handouts and break-out groups, participants will learn how conflict can escalate and how to diffuse it. Participants also will learn the role that emotions play in conflict, and how adolescent development and adult transitions may color communication. Practical problem-solving techniques are stressed throughout the series.

The Penquis Dispute Resolution Center is part of Penquis Community Action Program and provides a variety of programs and services to residents of Hancock, Washington, Aroostook, Penobscot and Piscataquis Counties.

Space is limited and early registration is suggested. To learn more, call the Penquis Dispute Resolution Center at 973-3587 or the Maine Community Mediation Coalition toll free at (888) 497-3500.

Annual meeting

Bangor Community Theater will hold an annual meeting 4-6 p.m. Sunday, March 23, Isaac Farrar Mansion, at the Bangor YWCA. New members are welcome. Annual dues are $6.

The title of the next show and names of new board members will be announced at the meeting. A pot luck supper and entertainment is planned.

To obtain information, or to be part of the entertainment, call John Haskell, 942-3949, or Karen McCall, 848-7765.

Lenten worship

The season of Lent for worshipers at St. John’s Episcopal Church brings with it certain customs. During Lent, the Gloria in Excelsis Deo – Glory to God in the highest – is replaced with the Kyrie eleison – Lord have mercy. The saying of alleluias is omitted and the altar is draped in purple to symbolize penitence.

To mark this solemn season, the church is offering the Lenten Inquirer’s Course, “The Anglican Way,” Sunday mornings and Wednesday evenings March 16, 19, 23, 26, and 30, and April 2, 6 and 9. Topics include, “The Gospel Comes to Britain,” The Gospel in America,” “Doctrines of Christ in the Episcopal Church,” “Sacramental Life,” and “Holiness.” To learn more, call the church at 947-0156.

Carmel

Election results

Winning election March 1 to the single seat open on the board of selectmen was Garrett A. DeBeck with 140 votes, outpacing incumbent Glennis McSorley with 46 votes and John C. Bowman with 36 votes.

Peter Pelletier, running for one seat on the SAD 23 board of directors, received 163 votes. Write-in candidate Windy Keith received 38 votes.

McSorley had worked for the town from 1965 through 1998, when selectmen voted not to renew her contract as town manager.

She sued the town in February 2000, one month before her election to a three-year term on the board. McSorley settled her suit with the town’s insurance company for $50,000 later that same year.

Eddington

Town elections

The town will hold municipal elections March 17. Polls will be open from 10 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. at Comins Hall. One position for selectman, a three-year term, and one position for the school district director, also a three-year term, will be voted on. One person is running for each position.

The town meeting will be held 7 p.m. Tuesday, March 18, in the Eddington School gym.

Orono

AFS raffle

Need a kayak or mountain bile? The AFS, the international high school student exchange program, is sponsoring a raffle. Items to be raffled items are an Old Town Stoker Kayak – color tequila sunrise – and paddle, a $350 value; a Jamis Cross Country SC 17-inch mountain bike, a $200 value; a nine-patch crazy quilt, 75 inches by 75 inches, pieced by Pat Cody and machine quilted by Rosalita Feero of Grandma Rose’s, a $150 value; and a handcrafted poseable clown, a $50 value. Raffle items are on display at the Orono Pharmacy, Mill Street.

Winning numbers will be drawn May 3. The first name drawn gets first choice of the prizes. Tickets are available at Orono Pharmacy, or by calling Nancy Grant, 866-4542, or Joyce Murdoch, 866-7732. Tickets are $1, or six for $5. Proceeds from the raffle will be used to help defray expenses of local students participating in the AFS exchange program.

Veazie

Senior housing

After a year of construction, the $2.8 million John Graham Senior Housing complex held a grand opening March 11 with a ribbon-cutting and recognition of partners ceremony.

The complex brings 20 units of affordable senior housing to Veazie and includes a community center, a restoration of the original John Graham schoolhouse. The community center is a public building, which will be used by the town of Veazie for senior citizen activities and by Eastern Agency on Aging to provide services. The Veazie Senior Citizens Club will use the community center for its activities, as well.

The senior housing initiative was developed with the Maine State Housing Authority’s Low Income Housing Tax Credits Program, partnership with the Maine Housing Investment Fund, a grant from the Federal Home Loan Bank of Boston, Merrill Merchants Bank and a significant contribution by the town of Veazie community development fund.

Penquis CAP and the town of Veazie received a housing development award from the Maine State Housing Authority.

“The town of Veazie and Penquis Community Action Program have shown that affordable housing developers and communities can work together for the betterment of the community and better housing for low-income residents,” the award citation stated.

Compiled by Ardeana Hamlin