How nice it was to learn from Scott and Shari Duthie, owners of Whitetail Golf Course in Charleston, that a golf benefit they sponsored last summer was so successful they are repeating it this year.

The second annual Stephen Gomm Memorial Tournament begins with shotgun starts at 8 a.m. and 1 p.m. Saturday, July 24, at the course in Charleston.

The event is a three-person scramble, and the $25 per person fee includes a buffet lunch.

Shari Duthie wrote that the event is in memory of the popular Old Town High School athlete, one of two young men killed in a 2002 automobile accident that injured two other students.

Proceeds benefit an OTHS scholarship fund created in Gomm’s memory.

The couple decided to continue the tournament because they received such “a wonderful response” from business owners who supported the tournament as well as “people playing” in it.

“We are in hopes of filling both times, like last year,” Duthie wrote of the separate shotgun starts.

The morning session is about half-full, she wrote, but there is still “a lot of room for the afternoon.”

Any business owner interested in making a donation can sponsor a hole for $100, “or we would be very happy with gift certificates, merchandise or whatever they could donate to help us out,” Duthie added.

For information, or to register for the tournament, call the course at 285-7730.

Jazz pianist Bob Rodriguez, who has been a SummerKeys faculty member for more than a decade, is featured in the free SummerKeys Mary Potterton Memorial Piano Concert at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, July 14, at Lubec Congregational Christian Church.

Tickets for the Concert Boat from Eastport are $12 in advance, available at 853-2500, and $15 on concert nights.

Debbie Paton is chairwoman of the ninth annual Zonta Club of Bangor Garden Tour, to be held noon to 4 p.m., except for one garden open 2-6 p.m., Sunday, July 18, in the Bangor area.

She wrote that gardens on the tour include three in Bangor, one in Brewer, two in Orono and one in Carmel, where the club will hold a perennial and annual plant sale.

For the sale, club members “acknowledge the very generous donation of leftover annual plants” from Everlasting Farm in Bangor, Paton wrote.

Ticket are $13 each and are available at Johnson Florist and Gift in the Airport Mall and Carden Kennels, 889 Ohio St., both in Bangor.

“We’re hoping for very good weather and a great turnout,” Paton added.

The Guilford High School-Piscataquis Community High School Alumni Association 77th annual banquet-meeting begins with registration and a social hour at 4:30 p.m. Saturday, July 31, at PCHS in Guilford.

The cost of the dinner is $10 per person, and 2004 alumni dues are $5 each.

Anyone who attended high school a minimum of two years is eligible for membership and invited to attend. Faculty members are honorary alumni and are also invited to attend.

Reservations should be mailed to GHS-PCHS Alumni Association, P.O. Box 60, Abbot 04406.

The gathering includes an 18-hole Golf Scramble for alumni beginning at 8:30 a.m. that day at Piscataquis Country Club.

The $30 per person cost includes greens fees, prizes, a cart and donation to the scholarship fund.

For information about the scramble, call Phillip Bullard, 876-2662, or Eric Curtis, 876-4445.

The family of late Etna resident Annie Marcho wrote to extend their “deepest thanks to the friends at Hospice of Eastern Maine” and its hospice volunteers.

“We feel blessed to have had you in our home. What a remarkable group.”

While there have been no recent sightings of Cocoa, a 1-year-old female chocolate Labrador retriever, who is a member of the Joe and Amanda Sherburne family of Dexter, Amanda Sherburne said the family still hopes for Cocoa’s return.

She probably was chasing something when she disappeared from the family farm at the end of April, Sherburne said.

The couple wrote last month to thank everyone in Dexter and the surrounding area who have been so concerned and helpful in assisting and encouraging them in their search for Cocoa, who is especially missed by her two young next-door companions, the couples’ nieces, Dakota and Wendy Lovejoy.

If you have seen Cocoa or have information that would help her return to her family, please call the Sherburnes at 924-3057.

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