What a wonderful experience is in store for some very hardworking pupils at Hancock Grammar School.

Lori Benn is a parent-coach for the school’s Destination ImagiNation team that “won the right to represent our state, in Tennessee, at the global competition of Destination ImagiNation,” she wrote.

According to its Web site, Destination ImagiNation is the world’s largest creativity and problem-solving competition for young people.

More than 8,000 participants and 7,000 supporters will attend the global finals May 21-25 at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville.

“To get there,” Benn wrote, the all-girl team “will need to raise quite a large sum of money.”

Besides planning fund-raisers that include holding a dance, waiting on patrons to earn tips at a local restaurant and conducting a bottle drive, “we would also like to ask for donations” from members of the public, Benn wrote.

The team of six girls, in grades two through six, includes Casey Benn, 11, Kelsey Jipson, 10, Lauren Preble, 10, Clarissa Westleigh, 10, Megan Tayamora, 10, and Christa Benn, 8.

If you can help these youngsters represent our state in the Destination ImagiNation global competition, send a check to Hancock Grammar School, DI Team, P.O. Box 37, Hancock 04640.

The Thursday Club of the University of Maine was organized in 1911 for the benefit of new faculty wives.

Today, the organization meets only for an annual luncheon to raise funds for its scholarship for nontraditional UMaine students.

That luncheon begins at noon Saturday, May 3, at the Penobscot Valley Country Club in Orono.

The featured speaker will be author Jo Carol Alford, who compiled “Favorite Recipes from Friends of Edith Patch,” now in its third printing as a fund-raiser for the organization working to save the Patch House in Orono.

Although Thursday Club luncheon organizers hope they have contacted all members about this meeting, some inadvertently may have been missed.

Reservations for the luncheon must be made by today with Nancy Grant at 866-4542.

Individuals who administer or plan programs for health or long-term care facilities, adult day care programs, assisted living centers, senior citizen centers, home health care programs or other community service programs for older adults, might want to attend one of three UMaine Center on Aging GOLD, or Geriatric Organizational Leadership Development, seminars next month.

The seminars, which are planned to help maximize organizations’ effectiveness and efficiency, will be led by University of Maine professor of management John Mahon.

All GOLD Seminars run from 9:30 a.m. to noon, and will be conducted Tuesday, May 13, at the UMaine Hutchinson Center in Belfast; Thursday, May 15, at the William S. Cohen Community Center in Hallowell; and Friday, May 16, at the Presque Isle Inn and Convention Center.

The fee for the seminar is $35.

Information can be obtained by calling program coordinator Sarah Denis, 581-3444, or by e-mail at goldseminar@

mainecenteronaging.org.

Penquis Community Action Program encourages you to help individuals affected by the layoffs at Georgia-Pacific’s mill in Old Town.

Already having raised nearly $50,000 through its Good Neighbor Fund for those affected by the shutdown of Great Northern Paper Inc.’s mills in Millinocket and East Millinocket, reports Jennifer Giosia, Penquis CAP is urging members of the public to contribute to that fund once again.

The fund helps affected families pay for food, housing, electricity and other necessities.

Checks or money orders can be made payable to the Good Neighbor Fund and sent to Good Neighbor Fund, Penquis CAP, P.O. Box 1162, Bangor 04402-1162.

If you have questions, or need assistance, call Giosia at 973-3500.

Penny Peasley called to report that the Clifton Historical Society is planning a yard sale for Saturday, May 31, and is seeking donations for that event.

“Monies from the sale, and any [financial] donations, will be applied to the cost of electrical supplies to rewire the old Clifton Town Hall at 15 Rebel Hill Road,” she said. “The building will, eventually, become a museum.”

The Clifton Historical Society extends its thanks to Harold “Red” Hodgins and members of the Clifton Snowmobile Club, Peasley added, “for their kind offer to rewire the building this spring.”

If you have items to donate for the sale, call Peasley at 843-5553, or Bonnie Bragg, 843-5908, “and someone will pick them up,” Peasley said.

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