With the weather warming up a bit, you’re apt to notice a few more runners on our city streets.

Some are out just for the exercise, but some are training for upcoming events.

Still others may be in training for this country’s premier running event: the Boston Marathon.

And while we probably won’t see this former Bangor resident training on our streets (unless she’s visiting Mom and Dad), I’m sure people around Beverly, Mass., have seen her.

I was so pleased to hear from my former Cottage Street neighbor, Cathy Larkin, that her daughter, Deb Larkin McHugh, is running “the Boston.”

Deb, a 1990 Bangor High School graduate, played soccer for Wheaton College in Norton, Mass. As a BHS senior, she captained the girls track team and also lettered in soccer and basketball.

But now, she’s taken on a greater athletic challenge.

Cathy Larkin wrote that while putting away Christmas mail a while ago, she thought of me when she came across Debby’s “happy holidays” letter, in which Deb announced she is running the Boston Marathon on Monday, April 19, “as part of the American Liver Foundation’s Run for Research team.”

“I am very excited about running the marathon, and committed to training as well as raising money for a great cause,” Deb wrote. “The ALF team of 230 runners hopes to raise $1.1 million or, approximately $5,000 per runner. This goal is achievable with lots of MY hard work and YOUR support!” Cathy and Deb’s dad, Gary Larkin, are equally as excited, Cathy explained, because running this marathon is something Deb has talked about doing for a few years.

In her holiday letter, Deb explained ALF “is a national, voluntary health organization dedicated to preventing, treating and curing hepatitis and other liver diseases through research, education and advocacy.”

Deb cited statistics that indicate more than 25 million Americans are afflicted with liver disease and more than 2,500 children are diagnosed each year.

If you would like to help, you have until Thursday, April 1, to do so.

You can contribute two ways: By visiting www.liverfoundation-ne.org and clicking on Run for Research and then Sponsor a Runner, or mailing a check to Deborah McHugh, 104 Hale St., Beverly, MA 01915.

Deb also requests readers to

contact her by e-mail at

Deborah.McHugh.b@bayer.com “so I can quickly update you on my progress with training and fund raising, as well as send you my marathon day information, if you’d like to watch or follow online.”

If you want her to run in honor or memory of someone, even one not associated with liver disease, “please let me know, and I will ensure their name is part of my running attire.”

Finally, Deb extends best wishes to all and hopes you will think of her on weekends “as I totally enjoy my long training runs!”

Former East Orrington Congregational Church organist Baycka Voronietsky of Belfast will perform a free concert at 6 p.m. Saturday, March 6, at the church, 38 Johnson Mill Road.

The concert will follow a baked bean supper from 4:30 to 6 p.m.

Admission to the supper is $5 for adults and $2 for children under 12. The concert is free and open to the public but “a love offering will probably be taken,” reports church member Mona Spain of Bucksport.

Voronietsky, a Poland native who immigrated to this country in 1969, has performed publicly since age 7.

She has appeared nationally and internationally and in 1982 performed Chopin’s “Concerto in E minor” with the Bangor Symphony Orchestra, then under the baton of the late maestro Werner Torkanowski.

Priscilla Hobart, fund-raising chairwoman for the Dennys River Historical Society, reports you can win “a bit of Down East history” through a raffle.

That “piece of history” is an 8-by-10-inch painting by Jane Hallowell “of the Stagecoach which traveled this area, from Bangor to Calais in the mid-to-late 19th century,” Hobart explained.

The drawing takes place at 9 a.m. Saturday, March 6, during a breakfast served by the fund-raising committee of the Dennysville Edmunds Congregational Church at the church’s Youth Center in Dennysville. Breakfast donations are $4 for adults, $2 for children under 13, or $10 per family.

Raffle tickets are $1 each or six for $5, and can be purchased during the breakfast. However, you need not attend the breakfast to enter the drawing. For raffle tickets, call Hobart at 726-0636.

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