Senior League World Series needs volunteers

Bangor will play host to the Senior League World Series from Sunday, Aug. 10, to Saturday, Aug. 16, at Mansfield Stadium in Bangor. Gloria Owens of the SLWS Volunteer Committee reports that volunteers are needed to support the event.

She explained that the games feature the six best baseball teams of 15- to 16-year-old boys from all over the world. “As they advance to this tournament,” she added, “these kids are on the road, playing three and four weeks. Once they arrive in Bangor, we are responsible for them. We house them at Husson College, take them on a day trip to the Bar Harbor area and, of course, feed them.”

All those expenses are covered “by money that we raise for the tournament,” she explained.

Owens wrote that volunteers are needed to work the souvenir table, sell concessions, clean up the stadium and numerous other things during the tournament.

In addition to the players, she said many parents and relatives also come to the city and stay in local hotels and shop in area stores.

The tournament also “brings international and national attention to Bangor,” which is why your help in making this event a success is so essential.

People who volunteered last year are returning “with such a good feeling that it lasted all year,” Owens wrote.

“The kids were great,” she remarked, and even though their languages were different, “communication did not seem to be a problem.”

Owens considers Bangor “lucky to have this tournament,” and believes that “those who have not experienced this feeling should come and try it out.

“I guarantee that they will come back,” Owens stated.

If you can volunteer for the Senior League World Series, call Owens at 942-1149, or sign up at the concession stand at Mansfield Stadium.

Norma Binan of the Bangor Area Chapter of the American Sewing Guild said that the quilted banner that honors firefighters and all who died in the events of Sept. 11, 2001, has been on display the past eight months.

But now the quilt has a permanent home.

The banner, which was quilted by members of the local sewing guild chapter from a design provided by Jo-Ann Fabrics, has been displayed at several firehouses within a 50-mile radius of Bangor.

But chapter members decided the Hose 5 Fire Museum would be the most appropriate site for it to remain, in honor of all firefighters. The banner will be presented at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 6, at the Museum, 247 State St. in Bangor.

Local fire personnel will attend the presentation, along with members of the guild chapter, of which Andrea Dill is president.

Kathy Marks-Molloy, director of the Orono Public Library, invites the public to hear Ed Rice discuss his new book, “Baseball’s First Indian: Louis Sockalexis: Penobscot Legend, Cleveland Indian,” at 7 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 7, at the library on Goodridge Drive.

Rice, who has worked extensively in the media, is an avid long-distance runner and founder of the 20-year-old Terry Fox 5-K Run, a popular Bangor charity race.

The free event includes a book signing and refreshments.

Cynthia Fielding of Hampden reports the Daughters of the Nile Ankh Temple No. 160, a organization for women related by birth or marriage to a Shriner, will hold its fourth annual Golf Tournament to benefit Shriner hospitals.

The 18-hole, shotgun-start tournament begins at 10 a.m. Saturday, Aug. 23, at Island Green Golf Center (formerly Felt Brook) in Holden.

The teams consist of two men and one woman, or two women and one man. The cost is $35 per person.

Registration or more information can be obtained by calling Gayle Sprague, 255-3186, writing her at 24 Gardiner Ave., Machias 04654, or faxing her at 255-8494.

Director Jan Cox and members of the Brewer Hometown Band would like you to join them for their fourth concert of the summer at 7 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 7, in the parking lot at Brewer Auditorium.

Cox invites you to “come take a trip over ‘the pond’ with us,” as the band plays music from the British Isles, including everything from “Danny Boy” to a Beatles tune.

Members of the Franklin Historical Society invite you to hear Ben Obermann discuss the French Settlement in the Gulf of Maine and Fundy Region (known as “l’Acadie”) at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 6, at the FHS museum building, Hog Bay Road, Route 200, in East Franklin.

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