Friends of Brewer Elementary School art teacher Bev Langley are doing what they can to help after she and her elderly mother were temporarily displaced when sewer effluent backed up into their new home on Patterson Street in Hampden, just as they were moving in.

While the town of Hampden and her insurance company are taking care of the situation, they have been relocated to temporary living quarters.

However, since they hadn’t completely unpacked, there were still boxes on the floor and a significant amount of sewage covered both the main floor and the basement.

To help them recover from this unsettling setback, a benefit supper is planned for 5:30-7:30 p.m. Wednesday, May 19, at Brewer High School.

Admission is $5 for adults, $3 for children and $15 for a family of four.

Tickets are available at all Brewer schools, or can be purchased at the door.

Brewer High School Coach Kelly Cookson and members of the BHS softball team invite you to a basket bingo at 1 p.m. Sunday, May 16, in the BHS cafeteria.

Tickets are $10 each and are available from any team member or by calling 843-5617.

The event features Longaberger baskets, raffles, door prizes and concessions.

All proceeds benefit BHS softball.

The first of the Old Town Museum Summer Series of programs for the public features Baycka Voronietsky of the University of Maine School of Performing Arts in a program dedicated to her friend and neighbor, Joyce Harris, who died in April.

The concert is 2 p.m. Sunday, May 16, at the museum, 353 Main St.

Selections include a variety of compositions ranging from light classics to familiar show tunes that were favorites of Harris, who was a faithful museum volunteer.

The museum will be open from 1 to 5 p.m.

Parking is convenient, and there is no admission.

The final classical concert of the 2003-2004 Bangor Symphony Orchestra season features several young musicians joining Maestro Xiao-Lu Li in an afternoon of great achievements.

The performance is 3 p.m. Sunday, May 16, at Maine Center for the Arts, University of Maine, Orono.

Tickets range from $12 to $35 for adults and $6 to $18 for youth under 18, seniors and UMaine students with discounts.

Friends of the Symphony will host a free reception following the concert in Bodwell Lounge.

Two public information sessions concerning the new Medicare Approved Prescription Discount Drug Card program and how it will affect Maine seniors and other Medicare recipients are planned for 9-11 a.m. Tuesday, May 18, and Tuesday, May 25, at Eastern Agency on Aging, 450 Essex Street in Bangor.

If you want to attend, or have other card-related questions, call EAA at (800) 432-7812 or 941-2865.

The 18-piece Acadia Big Band, featuring musicians of all ages, presents a big-band benefit jazz concert at 7 p.m. Tuesday, May 18, at Trinitarian Congregational Parish Church on Main Street in Castine.

The program includes music from the 1940s as well as blues, ballads and modern jazz.

All-state award-winning saxophonists Duncan Hardy and Kyle Hardy from George Stevens Academy in Blue Hill and Ellsworth vocalist Alice French will join conductor Joe Wainer for the concert.

Co-sponsored by the Castine Arts Association and Trinitarian Church, proceeds will benefit CAA efforts to promote the arts, and the church music program.

The suggested donation is $10, and the concert is free for those under age 16.

For information, call Dave Unger of the CAA at 326-8201.

Sixty years ago, a smaller class than usual donned caps and gowns to graduate from Brewer High School.

“Our class was small because of World War II, and so many went to war,” wrote Marion Bailey, adding her Class of 1944 will be honored during the annual BHS class reunion in August.

That is why members of her class are eagerly seeking information about some classmates and hope you can help.

Members of the BHS Class of ’44 are seeking information about Charlene Boober Morrill, Evelyn Bulduc Carlow, Lorraine Corbett Lister, Ethelyn Hamilton Eldridge, Frederick Hewes, Edith Irving Stiles and Fred Nickerson.

Also, Arlene Pilcrantz Manzo, Constance Rothwell Smith, Richard Shields, Lillian Shorey Thomas, Alice Wedin O’Connor, Everett Wiswell and Charlotte Zitaner Goldman are being sought.

Anyone with information about these “missing” classmates can call Bailey at 990-2322.

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