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Bangor

Art by seniors

Young at Art, a collection of multimedia works by members of Hammond Street Senior Center, will be on display through August in the Lecture Hall at Bangor Public Library.

The 25 artists, ages 60 and up, have been painting for four years. The senior center provides a wide variety of classes for members.

For information, contact Kathy Bernier at 262-5532.

New food pantry

A new food pantry sponsored by Samaritan Inc. opened July 28 at Union Street Brick Church on the corner of Main and Union streets.

There will be fresh fruit, vegetables, eggs, sandwiches and other perishable items available.

The agency also is looking for donations. For information, call Bonnie Rittal at 947-4968.

Memory Walk

The Maine Alzheimer’s Association Memory Walk in Bangor is set for Oct. 4. Walks are held at 15 locations statewide. This year’s goal is to raise $325,000 to benefit 30,000 Maine people who have Alzheimer’s disease, their families and caregivers. To learn more about the walk, obtain a team captain kit or to make a donation, call 942-7336, or the association chapter office at (800) 660-2871.

Coastal retreat

St. John’s Episcopal Church in Bangor is offering a religious retreat led by Chaplain Maryann Ingalls of St. Joseph’s Hospice, Friday-Sunday, Sept. 19-24, on Eagle Island, off the Maine coast.

Participants will explore what it means to seek and to be sought, to find and to be found. They will observe daily offices, and group meditations will be offered. Although there will be some structured communal time, most of the retreat will be an on-your-own experience to complete suggested exercises. Throughout the retreat, periods of silence will be observed.

A minimum of 10 participants is required and it is not necessary to be a member of St. John’s Episcopal Church.

The cost is $245 for a single room, or $205 to share a room at the Quinn’s. There also is an $8 fee for parking for the weekend. Meals are included in the fee. A deposit of $75 is due immediately. Full payment is due Sept. 1.

Eagle Island is located off Deer Isle. Participants will take a boat from Sunset at 5 p.m. Friday and return midafternoon on Sunday.

Accommodations on the island are rustic and participants need to bring their own bedding. Solar power provides lights and unless the cistern is full of rain water, a privy is the order of the day.

To obtain information, call Ingalls at 990-2403, or St. John’s Episcopal Church at 947-0156.

Brewer

Stroke prevention screening

Area residents have an opportunity to be screened to reduce the risk of having a stroke. Life Line Screening will be held at St. Joseph’s Church, 521 North Main St., at 11 a.m. Tuesday, Aug. 5.

A stroke, also known as a “brain attack,” is ranked the third-leading cause of death in the world, the second among women. Through preventive screenings, the risk of having a stroke can be greatly reduced.

Screenings are fast, painless and low cost. They involve the use of ultrasound technology and scan for potential health problems related to blocked arteries, aortic aneurysms which can lead to a ruptured aorta and hardening of the arteries in the legs – a strong indicator of heart disease.

Also offered, for both women and men, is a bone density screening to assess the risk of osteoporosis.

Each screening requires 10 minutes or less to complete. A complete vascular screening package, including the stroke-carotid artery, abdominal aortic aneurysm and ankle brachial index, costs $99. The vascular screening plus the osteoporosis screening is $12.

Life Line Screening was established in 1993 and has since become the nation’s leading provider of vascular screenings. More than 45 ultrasound teams are on staff to travel to local communities to bring the screening sessions.

To obtain information and to make an appointment, call (800) 643-6188.

Clifton

Camping for children

The American Council of the Blind recently held its fifth annual camping weekend 125 for visually impaired children and adults at Camp Molly Molasses. Activities included swimming, canoeing, fishing, ropes course, bungee pull, sing-alongs and campfires. All activities that are not readily available to blind and visually impaired people.

The weekend is offered each year at no cost to participants. The council reimburses travel costs. In some parts of Maine, vans are available to transport campers to Camp Molly Molasses.

Maine has more than 22,000 blind or visually impaired people.

To learn more about the weekend, to volunteer or to make a donation, call Jack Beveridge, director of the American Council of the Blind, at 942-3389.

Hermon

Return of recycling

No. 2 plastic milk jugs and detergent bottles are once again being accepted for recycling in Hermon. Paper and cardboard also are accepted.

The transfer station is open for recycling noon to 4 p.m. Wednesdays and 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturdays.

Hermon water reserves

Though officials don’t expect to tap into it for 50 to 100 years, they were pleased to find that a boggy area near the Carmel town line could provide more than 850,000 gallons of water a day to meet the needs of growing communities such as Hermon.

The town has acquired six of nine properties in the area, and it hopes to purchase the other three eventually.

Most residents in Hermon rely on private water sources such as wells. However, water piping has been extended down a section of the Coldbrook Road and a standpipe storage facility by the Dysart’s trucking facility has been built.

Indian Island

New wastewater plant

Groundbreaking for a new wastewater treatment plant and pump station was held July 24 on Indian Island.

The current facility has had only minor improvements since it went on line in 1976.

Those involved in the project include the U.S. Department of Agriculture Rural Development, Indian Health Services, the Bureau of Indian Affairs, Apex Construction and Olver Associates.

Old Town

Vintage recordings

Bill Osborne will give a talk on collecting and caring for vintage recordings and related music memorabilia at 2 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 3, at the Old Town Museum at 353 Main St.

He will share samples of the music of Caruso, as well as more modern singers such as Frank Sinatra. The program is free.

Compiled by Ardeana Hamlin