The Bangor High School Music Boosters invite you to hear the school’s award-wining jazz musicians in concert during the annual pops festival beginning at 6:30 p.m. Friday, May 1, at BHS on Broadway.

Admission is $4 per person or $10 per family. Proceeds benefit college scholarships, new equipment and the music department’s trip fund.

Tickets are available during the day at the high school or on the evening of the concert at the door.

Booster Jane Livingston reports the “Cohen Jazz Band, musical combos, soloists and the teachers” also will be performing.

Also featured will be performances by the state championship BHS jazz choir and jazz combo, as well as the Bangor Fiddlers and the BHS jazz band, which appeared in concert earlier this year with Maynard Ferguson and the Big Bop Noveau Band.

It’s certainly an evening of entertainment you won’t want to miss, and you’ll be helping support this great program at the same time.

For more information, call the BHS Music Department at 941-6200.

Bangor welcomes Dr. Eileen Gambrill, Hutto Patterson professor of social welfare at the University of California at Berkeley, as the keynote speaker for the ninth annual Child Welfare Conference for professionals working for and with children and families.

As part of National Child Abuse and Neglect Prevention Awareness Month, the conference is titled “Good Intentions are Not Enough: Ethical Decision Making for the Welfare of Children.”

An author who has written many books on child welfare, Gambrill’s latest publication is “Ethical Child Welfare Practice,” which she co-wrote with Martin Leever.

Sponsored by the University of Maine School of Social Work, the conference is 8 a.m.-4:30 p.m. today at the Bangor Civic Center.

Frank Davis reports that eighth-grade pupils at Medway Middle School are working hard to raise money for a planned trip to Alaska this summer.

Their next fund-raiser is a giant yard sale from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, May 3, and Sunday, May 4, at the school.

If you have items you wish to donate, call Davis at 746-3470 and he will arrange for them to be picked up.

Erica Fitzpatrick reports the All-Maine Women Honor Society Class of 2003 and the University of Maine football team are co-hosting their first Maine Kids’ Safety Fair from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday, May 3, in the Belgrade lot next to the Maine Center for the Arts on the UMaine campus in Orono.

As campus leaders, she wrote, All-Maine Women and UMaine football players are reaching out “to the community” to help “educate our future leaders on how to be safe” during the spring and summer.

Among activities offered will be a bike safety workshop sponsored by the Maine Bike Coalition, bike registration with the UMaine Department of Public Safety, safety information, games, food, a bike parade and a live broadcast by WEZQ-FM, 92.9.

Fitzpatrick invites you to join these campus leaders in a “fun-filled, educational celebration.”

Following last year’s successful humanitarian effort led by Bangor High School student Ben Sprague that collected 30,000 pieces of clothing for citizens of Honduras, BHS student David Kelly is heading a similar effort this year to help not only residents of Central America, but the needy in Maine communities as well.

Any clothing you do not need or want may be delivered between 8 a.m. and 6 p.m. Saturday, May 3, to the former Rite Aid parking lot on the corner of Broadway and State Street in Bangor.

Kelly hopes this year’s effort will equal the number of items collected last year, and he is willing to assist you in any way and answer any questions or concerns you may have.

Call him at 942-0897 or e-mail Frosted491@aol.com.

On collection day, if you want items to be picked up call 632-5390.

Robert Verrill of the American Lung Association of Maine has announced that registration is still open for the 19th Annual Bike Trek across Maine.

The association’s largest fund-raiser, the three-day ride begins Friday, June 13, at Sunday River Ski Resort in Bethel and ends Sunday, June 15, in Belfast.

The annual event raises more than $1 million for the association.

For more information or to register, call (800) 499-5864 or write the American Lung Association of Maine, 122 State St., Augusta 04330.

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