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What a wonderful weekend it’s going to be as residents of the Bucksport area celebrate the opening of the new Bucksport Area Cultural Arts Center.
The festivities kick off with an inaugural performance and gala sponsored by the Bucksport Area Cultural Arts Society at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 11, at the Arts Center adjacent to the new middle school on Miles Lane in Bucksport.
Reservations are needed to attend this free event but, reports BACAS board member and Bucksport High School music teacher Mark Neslusan, some tickets are still available and can be obtained by calling the high school at 469-6650.
BACAS also invites the public to attend a second free performance and gala at 2 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 12, at the same site. No reservations are necessary for this performance.
Neslusan told me of the plans for this performance, and I heartily applaud the BACAS board for coming up with such a wonderful idea: Including not only current students, but alumni as well.
BACAS board member Lisa Whitney wrote, “We are so looking forward to welcoming many of our alumni members back to help participate in this event! Think ‘Mr. Holland’s Opus!'”
Neslusan said an alumni band portion will include “six or seven numbers,” and I have it direct from one alum, Linda Plourde of the Bucksport Bay Area Chamber of Commerce, that she is very excited about being part of this great occasion.
Neslusan said BACAS board members believed it would be nice to include alumni who never had an opportunity to perform in such a facility as is now available to young people in this area. I agree. It’s great.
Peter Clain is the gala director and Denise Perkins-Fields its choreographer.
The event includes students and alumni in performances from the past shows of a collection maintained by Clain and Neslusan since the late ’80s, Neslusan said.
It should be a wonderful occasion, and I hope performers look out into the audience and find there is standing room only!
While you are there, however, in between acts or during admission, take a good look around.
The fact that the town provided an additional $500,000 to increase the size of the auditorium from 135 to 500 seats is a magnificent commitment to the arts in this area, but work still remains to be done to make this facility complete.
Air conditioning is needed to enhance the use of the building year-round; sound and lighting systems need to be completed; and more stage curtains are required among other necessary pieces of equipment.
Support for this project, at any level, is still needed and greatly appreciated.
If you can help, in any way, send your tax-deductible donation to BACAS, P.O. Box 111, Bucksport 04416.
The Penobscot County Case Resolution Committee, chaired by Kim Day, invites the public to attend the third annual Resource Fair, 9 a.m.-9 p.m. Friday, Oct. 10, in Centre Court at the Bangor Mall.
Representatives of nearly 30 community providers that assist children of families with multiple or complex special needs will be staffing informational booths.
Shrine clowns will also attend and the event features other youth-oriented entertainment.
With grant funding from Union Trust and the Fisher Foundation, young people in Hancock, Waldo and Knox counties have an opportunity to meet professional musicians in their own schools.
For example, music teacher Dawn Noonan and her pupils at Rose Gaffney Elementary School in Machias will be getting to “Know their Orchestra” on Friday, Oct. 10.
Johanna Lacey of the Bangor Symphony Orchestra reports BSO musicians will “give demonstrations of the instruments, have an instrument ‘petting zoo,’ allow time for questions and answers … and work to get the students involved with music” during this event.
What a great school day this will be!
Congratulations to Denys and Carolyn Millar on the 30th anniversary of Carden Kennels.
The couple purchased the boarding kennel and pet grooming facility Oct. 10, 1973, from Leola Dragon, who built it in 1971.
To celebrate this special event, the Millars invite the “pet-owning public to stop by and tour our facility,” and meet manager Debbie Paton and the staff, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Friday, Oct. 10, at 880 Ohio St. in Bangor.
“Join us for coffee and donuts in the morning,” the Millars wrote, “and pizza and soda in the afternoon.”
Joni Averill, Bangor Daily News, P.O. Box 1329, Bangor 04402; 990-8288.
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