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Bangor

Financial needs workshop

Where’s the Job for Me? a four-session workshop addressing how to pay the bills and still feed your soul, will be held 9 a.m.-noon beginning Friday, April 4, at Women, Work & Community in Bangor.

Participants will identify skills, needs and interests and relate them to a career or educational choice. They will explore paths that will address financial needs and create a personal plan that matches who they are. Classes are free and confidential. Registration is required. For information, call 262-7842, or (800) 442-2092.

Lifeguard Job Fair

Teenage and adult lifeguards and those seeking lifeguard certification or employment are invited to attend the second annual Lifeguard Job Fair noon-3 p.m. Saturday, April 5, at the Bangor YMCA. The fair is free and participants will learn about the area’s most popular employment sites and obtain information about upcoming lifeguard training programs and certifications.

For the past two years, Maine had experienced a lifeguard shortage. Organizations needing lifeguards include the Boys Scouts, the Girl Scouts, municipal recreation departments and pools, state parks, area summer camps, the YMCA and the YWCA.

Sponsors of the fair are the Bangor YMCA, the Bangor-Brewer YWCA and the Pine Tree Chapter of the American Red Cross. Representatives will be on hand to answer questions about training and specialty courses. For information, call 941-2903, or 941-2815.

Employee food drive

St. Joseph Healthcare’s Mission Advisory Committee coordinated an employee food drive in honor of St. Joseph Day on March 19. The committee distributed the donated nonperishable food to the Bangor House on March 21.

The mission advisory committee consists of employees who work to develop and implement outreach activities and events furthering St. Joseph Healthcare’s mission.

St. Joseph Healthcare staff also served a meal at the Salvation Army’s Dorothy Day Soup Kitchen on St. Joseph Day.

Fresh Air Fund

Families in the Bangor area are encouraged to volunteer for The Fresh Air Fund and host an inner-city child. This summer, thousands of host families in 13 northeastern states and Canada will open their hearts and homes to underprivileged New York City children through the Friendly Town Program. The program allows city youngsters to experience simple summer pleasures such as skipping rocks across a lake and smelling newly cut grass.

Since 1877, The Fresh Air Fund has provided thousands of city children with the opportunity to enjoy these simple pleasures. Fresh Air hosts are young families, single professionals, empty nesters and grandparents, all of whom are willing to share their communities with an inner-city child.

To learn how to make summer special for a Fresh Air child, call Beth Shea at 784-5324; The Fresh Air Fund at (800) 367-0003; or visit www.freshair.org.

Bangor museum elections

At its annual meeting on Feb. 27, the membership of the Bangor Museum and Center for History elected members of the board and officers for the 2003.

Elected to serve three-year terms were Lynn Hickerson, Edwin Clift, Anette Rodriques, Russell Harrington, Deborah Thompson, Brian Ames and Patricia Bixel. Other members of the board are William Arata, Sally Bates, Beth Bohnet, Robert Croul, Jean Deighan, Joyce Henckler, Charles Hutchins, Linda Lawrence, Catharine Lebowitz, Sheila Pechinski, Glenda Richardson, Mary Schultheis, Warren Silver, Deborah Thompson and Richard Warren.

Elected officers were Beth Bohnet, president; Joyce Henckler, president-elect; Kay Lebowitz, past president; Jean Deighan, vice president; Ed Clift, treasurer; Mary Schultheis, secretary; Glenda Richardson, member at large.

Tuba concert

How low can you go? The Arcady Music Festival answers that “deep” question as the music of its Winter Concert Series continues with a series of concerts by the Bottom Line Tuba Quartet.

The New York group, called in to replace the Orquestra de Sopro from Brazil, will be in Bangor at 7 p.m. Monday, April 7, at the Unitarian Universalist Church. Its program will include works by Bach, Mozart, Gershwin and the Beatles.

Listeners will come away with a sense that they have witnessed four talented musicians who take great joy in expressing their art and in imparting that happiness to others, officials said.

Members of the Bottom Line are Rob Stattel and Walter Barrett on euphonium, Joshua Mandel on F tuba and Joe Stanko, CC tuba.

Performances are at 7 p.m. Monday, April 7, Unitarian Universalist Church, Bangor; 7 p.m. Tuesday, April 8, Congregational Church, Dover-Foxcroft; 7 p.m. Wednesday, April 9, Federated Church, Skowhegan; 7 p.m. Thursday, April 10, Elm Street Congregational Church, Bucksport; 7 p.m. Friday, April 11, Holy Redeemer Church, Bar Harbor.

Tickets are $13 in advance and $15 at the door. Those 18 and under may attend free. In several locations those attending the concert will get an additional treat – a performance by one of the 2002 Arcady Youth Competition winners.

The final offering in the Winter Arcady concert season is the Chicago Children’s Choir, May 1, at Peakes Auditorium in Bangor. To obtain information, call 990-2805, or visit the Web at www.arcady.org.

Tango lessons

Javier Bucher of Buenos Aires, Argentina, will teach a special series of Argentine tango lessons for beginners at 3 p.m. Sundays, beginning March 30, at the Thomas School of Dance, 14 State St. Intermediate level lessons are scheduled for 4:30 p.m. An open practice session for all levels of dancers will take place between the two lesson sessions.

Bucher is a former stage dancer whose teaching style has attracted dancers in Portland, where he now lives. His Bangor visit is sponsored by TangoMaine, a nonprofit group of tango dancers in the Bangor-Blue Hill area.

The TangoMaine group dances in Orono, Bangor and Blue Hill each Sunday, and offers field trips to tango events in Boston, Quebec City and Montreal.

For information, call 866-2467, e-mail tangoginny@adelphia.net, or go to www.tangomaine.com.

Health screening for women

A no-cost women’s health screening will be held 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Tuesday, April 8, at St. Joseph Hospital and Penobscot Community Health Center. Mammograms, breast exams, and Pap and pelvic testing will be offered. Preregistration is required. To obtain information or to register, call (800) 350-5180.

Brewer

Ellis Paul concert

Presque Isle native Ellis Paul will be the next singer to perform in Brewer Youth Theatre’s spring concert series. Paul, who records on the Rounder/Philo Records label, will take the stage at 8 p.m. Saturday, April 12, at Brewer Middle School, Somerset Street.

The 35-year-old Paul recently released his newest album, “The Speed of Trees,” to critical acclaim.

Paul has won 12 Boston Music Awards and his songs have been heard on soundtracks of two Farrelly Brothers films, “Me, Myself, and Irene” and “Shallow Hal,” as well as on the NBC television series “Ed.”

A highlight of his Paul’s career was becoming friends with Nora Guthrie, the daughter of the legendary Woody Guthrie. She invited Paul to pore through her father’s archive of unpublished songs, from which he finished “God’s Promise” and put it on his new album.

Tickets for Ellis Paul are $15 at the Grasshopper Shop in Bangor, Brewer Middle School and at the door. For information, call the school at 989-8640.

Program on aging

Brewer Public Library will present an informational program on aging, memory loss and Alzheimer’s disease at 7 p.m. Thursday, April 3, at the library. Speakers are Kristie Miner, director of social services at Westgate Manor, and nurse Barbara Fister from My Friend’s Place, an adult day care center.

The program will help caregivers and family members understand the aging process and the problems that come with it. The program will offer a number of places and people who can help.

There will be time for individual questions after the presentation. Refreshments will be served. For information, call 942-7336, or 989-7943.

Hampden

Bowlathon results

The Hampden Children’s Day committee held a bowlathon March 15 to raise funds for Hampden Children’s Day 2003 with 13 teams participating. They raised nearly $4,500.

The committee thanked McK’s Variety, Town & Country Realtors, Sunrise Glass, PDQ Door, Graves Supermarket, Hampden Wellness Committee, TDS Telecom and Coldbrook Landscaping for their contributions and support.

Prize winners were:

. Male individual with high three-string score – Rollie Russell, PDQ Door.

. Female individual with high three-string score – Terry Hunt, Town & Country Realtors.

. Team with the highest three string score – PDQ Door.

. Male individual with highest pledge total – Ron McKinnon, McK’s Variety.

. Female individual with highest pledge total – Michele Beaney, TDS Telecom.

. Team with the highest pledge total – McK’s Variety.

Businesses donating prizes were Qwik Stop Video, R&K Variety, Nicky’s Cruisin Diner and Sunrise Glass. The Sports Arena donated their facility as well as prize donations.

Fiddle Festival

Cape Breton fiddler Wendy MacIsaac returns to Bangor for Arcady’s seventh annual Fiddle Festival Friday and Saturday, April 11-12, at Hampden Academy. The two-day festival begins with the MacIsaac concert at 7 p.m. Friday, April 11.

Arcady will host a public supper and country dance at 6 p.m. Saturday, April 12. Music for the dance will be provided by more than 40 fiddlers, ages 5-75, led by Greg Boardman, professional fiddler from Lewiston. The traditional hot dog and bean supper will be augmented with casseroles – some vegetarian – and homemade desserts. The dance, which begins at 6:30, is geared for families and beginners.

Tickets will be sold at the door and at Schacht’s True Value Hardware in Hampden, BookMarc’s Bookstore, Lippincott Books and Patrick’s Hallmark in Bangor and Pretty Woman in Orono. To obtain information, call 990-2805.

Taxes due

Hampden taxpayers are reminded that the second half of the 2002-2003 tax bill is due April 9. As in the past, no notices will be sent.

Old Town

Nature photographs

Artist Jalen Foush will show a collection of colorful nature photographs March 14-April 12 at Old Town Public Library.

Foush has been taking photographs for more than 25 years, and has a bachelor’s degree from the Art Institute of Boston. Many of her photographs were made on her travels across Europe and the United States.

Foush has lived in Bangor for 14 years, raising and photographing her two children. Recently, her work has focused on the natural world of Maine.

Orono

Free prom gowns

KidsPeace New England will offer free prom gowns to teens in financial need 9 a.m.-noon Saturday, March 29, at the University Mall, 6 Stillwater Ave., inside Spotlight Cinema. To learn more, call (800) 221-7965.

Environmental ethicist

Andrew Light, an environmental philosopher and ethicist, will give two free lectures at the University of Maine. Light, an assistant professor of environmental philosophy at New York University, is the 2003 visiting philosophy scholar at UMaine.

He will speak at 12:30 p.m. Thursday, April 3, in the Bangor Lounge in the Memorial Union as part of the Marxist-Socialist Luncheon Series. That talk is titled “Restoring Ecological Citizenship.” His second lecture, “Contemporary Environmental Ethics,” will be at 7 p.m. in Room 140, Little Hall.

Veazie

Award nominations

The Veazie Garden Club seeks nominations for the second annual Veazie Community Improvement Award. The honor is given annually by the club to a business, or public or private organization that has made a significant improvement to a property in Veazie, through renovation or new construction, in the last 12 months. Improvements to parks or other public outdoor areas also will be considered. Private residences are not eligible.

Nominations may be submitted by club members or residents of Veazie. Include the name of the owner and location of the property; name, address and phone number of the nominator; and brief description of the improvements to the property that make it worthy of the honor. The deadline is April 1. The winner will be announced in May.

The first recipient of the Veazie Community Improvement Award in 2002 was Jackson Oil Co., honored for restoring the historic barn which houses their oil trucks on State Street.

Submit nominations to: The Veazie Garden Club, Community Improvement Award, c/o Julia Comeau, president, 1096 Main St., Veazie, ME 04401.

For information, call Barb Brown Dalton at 947-4827.

Compiled by Ardeana Hamlin