Brewer garden club blossoming with activity

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Some people wear two hats well, and Carol Smith of Brewer is one of them. She is not only co-president of the Brewer Garden & Bird Club, she also is chairwoman of this year’s Garden Club Federation of Maine State Convention.

She wrote recently with information about coming activities for both organizations.

First, the Brewer Garden & Bird Club annual Plant, White Elephant and Food Sale is 9 a.m. Saturday, June 5, at the Brewer Historical Society on Wilson Street, across from Gold Star Cleaners.

Last year the club planted an heirloom garden there and this year, members “will be selling plants they have dug from their own gardens,” Smith wrote.

This major fund-raiser helps raise “the money we need to keep Brewer beautiful,” she explained, adding that you will find “sweets for sale, as well as tag sale items.”

Next is the “Garden Melodies,” the Garden Club Federation of Maine state convention with the Penobscot District as host Tuesday, June 15, through Thursday, June 17, at Black Bear Inn in Orono.

Conventioneers will be taken on tours, learn new floral designs, take field trips, attend workshops and conduct their annual business meeting.

One highlight of the Awards Luncheon will be the granting of the Garden Club Federation of Maine scholarship to a horticulture student.

Smith wants readers to know that the Federation offers not only support and guidance for its member clubs, but also “educational opportunities such as gardening study, landscape design and environmental studies courses,” she wrote, emphasizing that those courses “are not limited to members.”

If you would like to learn more about those opportunities or how to join one of several local clubs, call Smith at 989-1083, or e-mail luvs2garden2@aol.com.

It is with great pride that we welcome astronauts Rick Hauck and Kenneth Reightler; Grace Corrigan, mother of late astronaut Christa McAuliffe, and June Scobee Rogers, widow of Challenger commander Richard Scobee, to the Pine Tree State.

The four are among the honored guests participating in grand-opening ceremonies today and tomorrow for the Challenger Learning Center of Maine on Cleveland Street in Bangor.

The full schedule appeared in Section B, Page 5, of Wednesday’s paper.

For more information, call 941-9888.

Proceeds from a benefit yard sale, from 8 a.m. to noon Saturday, June 5, at 14 Savage St. in Bangor, go to Habitat for Humanity of Greater Bangor.

Savage Street is off West Broadway between Hammond and Buck streets.

For information, call Cindy Ault, 989-4547 or Monique Gautreau, 942-8700.

The fourth annual Paradis Cancer Fund Auction, rain or shine, will take place noon Saturday, June 5, at the Frenchville Community Center. The preview begins at 9:30 a.m.

The auction is a service of Northern Maine Medical Center in Fort Kent, and proceeds benefit the Edgar Paradis Cancer Fund for families of St. John Valley cancer patients.

The “Arts on the Green” Festival, hosted by Bangor Region Arts & Cultural Council and Bangor Public Library, is 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday, June 5, in Lady Liberty and Hannibal Hamlin parks along the Kenduskeag Stream in Bangor.

Food, artists, the Bangor Symphony Orchestra Instrument Petting Zoo, Maine Discovery Museum demonstrations and music will keep you entertained all day long.

The UMaine Museum of Art will offer tours at 11 a.m. and 1 p.m., with a reduced fee for attendees.

“Prevent Euthanasia Through Sterilization” is a nonprofit organization serving the Dover-Foxcroft area.

PETS volunteers will sell raffle tickets to benefit its Community Project, during regular business hours Saturday, June 5, at Wal-Mart in Bangor.

Tickets also are available from any PETS volunteer or at Cup and Easel, Main Street, Dover-Foxcroft.

The grand prize is a weekend getaway for two donated by The Birches in Rockland, valid from September through December 2005.

Second prize is a dinner for two donated by Guilford Bed and Breakfast.

For tickets or information about PETS, call Phyliss Dyer, 564-8072, Mary Shapleigh, 564-8092 or Sue Slate, 379-2809.

You’ll find perennial and houseplants priced from $1.50 to $5 at the Veazie Congregational Church plant sale from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, June 5, at the church, 1404 State St. in Veazie.

Jim Bird of Orono reports that Orono Bog Boardwalk volunteers will hold a yard sale 8 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday, June 5, at 139 Main St., Orono.

The rain date is Sunday, June 6, at that site.

Items include books, skis, golf clubs, clothes, furniture, children’s items, pictures, garden tools and more.

Proceeds benefit boardwalk maintenance and endowment funds.

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