Newburgh plumber to get boost in recovery

Friends of Mark and Pat Leavitt of Newburgh are hosting a benefit spaghetti supper for the couple, who are dealing with Mark’s recovery from an aneurysm that was followed by a stroke and subsequent surgeries.

The 53-year-old Newburgh plumber and highly respected member of that community “is home now, and continuing to recuperate and gain back his speech and movement,” wrote Rosanna Libby, one of the benefit’s organizers.

“It has been a long process,” she said of the efforts by Mark, those involved with his therapy, and family and friends who are doing all they can to assist during this difficult time.

The benefit is 5-7 p.m. Saturday, May 8, at Newburgh Elementary School. The event features a live band for entertainment and silent auction.

“It will take lots of helping hands to make this [benefit] work,” Libby wrote, and she urges anyone who would like to be involved or help the Leavitts in any other way to call her at 234-2089.

A grateful couple seeks “a very special man” who was driving the day after Thanksgiving, Nov. 28, 2003, along Route 9, Township 22, wrote Kelly Brown.

That good Samaritan “witnessed a car accident involving my husband and a wall,” she said.

After making sure her husband was safely out of his car, the man left to call for help, then returned and stayed until the ambulance arrived.

During this stressful time, no one got his name, and all the couple knows are “the few things my husband remembers,” she wrote.

He was a middle-aged man driving a full-size beige truck.

“If you are reading, we love and thank you more than we can ever express and would like to meet you,” she said. Call 989-7218 or e-mail kelandkris@aol.com.

Kay Byther Eames, dean of the Bangor chapter of the American Guild of Organists, invites you to the group’s annual Bach Bash at 4 p.m. Sunday, May 2, at Orono Methodist Church, 36 Oak St.

There is no admission for this event, featuring area organists playing pieces by J.S. Bach with Dr. David Klocko, dressed as Bach, as master of ceremonies.

For those unaware of the history of the organ at the church, Eames said it is an 1891 Emmons Howard tracker instrument with two manuals and 27 ranks that was restored in 1978.

As part of its opening day celebration 7 a.m.-7:30 p.m. Sunday, May 2, Des and Betsy Pal of Island Green Golf Center and club pro Tim Roggero are hosting Eastern Fine Paper Day at their center, 1 Main Road in Holden.

Not only will half the day’s revenue be donated to those affected by the closing of the mill, but people are also encouraged to drop off food items during the day.

Sue Jagels and the Friends of the Bangor Public Library remind you that donated books are needed for its annual Book Sale, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Saturday, May 8, in the library’s Lecture Hall on Harlow Street.

The Friends would appreciate “good quality, used hardcover and paperbacks, including children’s books,” she wrote. But they request no textbooks, Reader’s Digest Condensed books or magazines.

Books can be dropped off during regular library hours, or call the library, 947-8336, Ext. 128, to request pickup.

Not only books, but also your help is needed as well. If you can assist with this event, leave your name, phone number or e-mail address at the library front desk or call the number above.

The registration deadline is Wednesday, May 19, for the Gardening Study School sponsored by the Garden Club Federation of Maine.

Program chairwoman Gloria Burrill of Corinna reports that Course VI, Series VII, will be taught 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Friday, May 21, and Saturday, May 22, at Clapp’s Greenhouse at the University of Maine in Orono.

The cost is $50 for the two-day course and $25 for one day. Topics are outdoor plant identification, techniques for growing woody ornamentals, and specialized styles of gardening, including growing fruit and raising plants under lights.

To register and receive books, call Burrill, 278-5994, e-mail

goblin@tdstelme.net or write 140 Greenbush Road, Corinna 04928.

I had the correct date but the wrong day for Holbrook School of Holden’s Destination ImagiNation Bake Sale. It is 9 a.m.-2 p.m., Sunday, May 2, at Wal-Mart in Brewer.

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