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Bangor

The Roaring ’20s

The Roaring ’20s are coming to Bangor.

The Bangor-Brewer YWCA Y-Players will present their show as follows:

. 2 p.m. Sundays, May 2, 16 and 23.

. 2 p.m. Tuesdays, May 4, 11 and 18.

. 7 p.m. Fridays, May 7, 14 and 21.

The shows will be held at the Bangor-Brewer YWCA on Second Street in Bangor.

Admission is by donation. For information, contact the YWCA at 941-2808.

Food collection day

The 12th annual National Association of Letter Carriers, in conjunction with the U.S. Postal Service, United Way and the AFL-CIO, will collect nonperishable food items Saturday, May 8, for distribution to local food banks in communities throughout the nation, including eastern and central Maine.

Food donations placed beside mailboxes will be picked up by letter or rural mail carriers and delivered to a local food bank or pantry.

Last year, 14,247 pounds of food was collected in the Bangor area. Nationally, participants donated 61.7 million pounds of food in last year’s effort. In the past 11 years, a half-billion pounds of food have been collected in the annual letter carriers’ drive.

Benefit dinner and auction

Habitat for Humanity for Greater Bangor will hold a benefit dinner and auction 6-10 p.m. Saturday, May 1, at the Sea Dog restaurant in Bangor. Activities will include an auction of donated items, music by John Tercyak and sale of raffle tickets on an Otter kayak.

Tickets are $10 a person. For information, contact Cindy Ault at 989-4547 or Steve Earl at 942-1127.

Doll club sale and show

Mainely Dolls Club will hold its annual sale and show 9:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m. Sunday, May 2, at the Elks Club, 108 Odlin Road. Dolls, doll clothes, bears, miniatures, dollhouses and supplies will be on sale. Lunch will be available. Attendees will have a chance to win door prizes. The donation is $3 for adults, $1 for children.

Indoor yard sale

The Hammond Street Church will hold its annual indoor yard sale 8 a.m.-1 p.m. Saturday, May 8. Clothing, household items, sports equipment, books and small furniture items will be sold. This year’s sale also will include seedlings, potted plants and baked goods. Beverages will be available for a small donation.

Organizers request that no early birds arrive before the yard sale opens.

Bangor Art Society

In May, the Bangor Art Society will show an eclectic mix of work in the Bangor Public Library’s Lecture Hall and Stairwell Gallery.

The society will display in the Lecture Hall the Bangor and Old Town art societies’ annual juried show. In the Stairwell Gallery, society members will show works with Monhegan as a central theme.

The art show opening reception is set for 6:30-8 p.m. Tuesday, May 4. It is open to the public and refreshments will be served.

Child-care vouchers

The Resource Development Center at Penquis Community Action Program is accepting applications for the voucher program to help income-eligible families who are working or going to school pay for child care expenses. The vouchers may be used in a variety of child-care settings, including family child care, child-care centers and friend or relative child care, if the caregiver passes state background checks.

Families of two may earn up to $33,770 and families of four may earn up to $49,661 to qualify for child-care assistance. Call 941-2840 to obtain more information or to request an application.

Troop greeters

The late Margery M. Dean of Columbia Falls and Bangor has been honored with a Legislative Sentiment for her dedication to greeting returning troops at the Bangor International Airport. Dean died April 1 after falling ill on her way to greet the troops.

Presented by Rep. Patricia Blanchette of Bangor and co-sponsored by the entire Bangor delegation, the sentiment paid tribute to Dean who, along with her husband William, greeted nearly 350 flights in the last year, at all times of day and night.

“This is a woman who brought great joy to hundreds of servicemen and servicewomen touching U.S. soil for the first time, simply by welcoming them home,” said Blanchette. “She displayed patriotism and kindness that will not be forgotten.”

Former State Representative Charles “Dusty” Fisher of Brewer, also a troop greeter, had become friends with Dean over the past year.

“She was a great motivator,” said Fisher. “Times when I thought it was too late to run over, I’d think of her. She was confined to a wheelchair and it never stopped her from making it in more than 300 times to greet her ‘boys.'”

Old Town

Tummy Time

The Penquis Community Action Program Resource Development Center will offer “Introduction to Tummy Time” from 9 a.m. to noon Saturdays, May 8 and 15, at the Old Town Head Start-Child Care Center, 89 Middle St.

The six-hour training session introduces child-care providers to developmental movement patterns and its effects on babies’ brains and their cognitive and relationship development.

Workshop participants should wear sweat pants, bring a blanket and come prepared to move around on the floor.

Registration is $10. Call Eleanor at 941-2840, Ext. 103, to register.

Children’s yard sale

Great buys and fun activities for kids will be offered at the children’s yard sale 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturday, May 1, at Old Town Elementary School. There will be free fingerprinting and gun locks.

Zack the Juggler will make balloon animals 10:30-11:30 a.m.

Youngsters can have their pictures taken with Elmo and with Bananas the Bear from the University of Maine.

Those interested in renting table space to sell baby- and child-related items may do so for $25. Call Danielle at 827-2150, or e-mail daniellehaggerty@hotmail.com. Proceeds benefit River Coalition and Canoe Hullabaloo.

Orono

Bach Bash

The American Guild of Organists will present its Bach Bash, works by Bach, at 4 p.m. Sunday, May 2, at Orono United Methodist Church, 36 Oak St. The event, presented by area organists, is free.

Statewide

One-room schoolhouses

Husson College professors Drs. Terry Tang and Kenneth Lane are interested in compiling information on one-room schools in Maine.

They are hoping to hear from one-room schoolteachers, their descendants and students who attended one-room schools to lend old negatives, slides, photographs of the interior and exterior of such schools, group pictures, school activities, school records, certificates and other related materials.

The materials will be digitized to preserve the heritage of our educational past.

“We will organize these materials in such a way that our Maine school history could be viewed and studied by those interested,” Tang and Lane wrote.

Items should be identified with location, year, name of teacher, name of school and names of children if known.

“Your willingness to share these precious resources with the future generations of Mainers will be very much appreciated,” they said.

Those who are interested can bring materials in person to the Hillman House (Farmhouse) at Husson College, or send them to Terry Tang, Farmhouse, School of Education, Husson College, One College Circle, Bangor 04401; telephone 973-1014.

Materials will be returned by registered mail.

When materials are one of a kind, it’s always good to make copies or to deliver the items in person so as not to have to worry about losing them in the mail.