Fashion show to benefit Altrusa scholarships

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Tickets are now available for Altrusa International of Greater Bangor’s annual Fashion Review at 7 p.m. Monday, April 25, at the Husson College Campus Center.

Admission is $12, and tickets can be obtained at the door or in advance by calling Margaret Brown at 825-3178.

Homemade refreshments will be served.

Brown reports that proceeds will benefit Altrusa’s scholarship fund, and club members are “thrilled” that media personalities “Ric Tyler and Sharon Pelletier have agreed to be our hosts again this year.”

The show features contemporary fashions for women, men and children.

An international volunteer service organization of business and professional women, the local club awards three $1,000 scholarships annually to women enrolled in degree programs at local colleges.

This year, as Altrusa members in Bangor celebrate 50 years of service, Brown reports, “We will start a new scholarship in honor of a beloved Altrusa member,” Peggy Jo Youngblood, who died last September after a long and courageous battle with cancer.

Youngblood was a native of Washburn, so Altrusa has chosen to give this new scholarship to someone from Aroostook County.

Altrusa was formed in the United States in 1917, Brown wrote.

“As the first classified service organization for women, we have strived to improve the lives of others.”

Brown reports that the organization is “very excited” about having received “generous grants” that will enable it to “make children’s books available at local libraries for child care providers.”

Attention, Boston Red Sox fans!

Johnna Lacey, marketing director of the Bangor Symphony Orchestra, wrote that the BSO “just received word” that it has tickets to three Red Sox baseball games in Boston.

“One is sold out, but all the tickets are hard to come by,” she added.

Two of the games include overnight stays at the Sheraton Hotel in Boston.

The tickets, she explained, will be “live auction items” for the BSO Springing Dinner-Auction.

That event is 5 p.m. Sunday, April 17, at Wells Commons on the University of Maine campus in Orono.

Tickets for the dinner-auction are $40 each and can be obtained by calling the BSO box office, (800) 639-3221 or 942-5555 or online at www.bangorsymphony.com.

The fund-raiser follows the orchestra’s fifth classical concert at 3 p.m. that day at the Maine Center for the Arts.

The University of Maine Singers and University of Maine Oratorio Society join the orchestra for Beethoven’s Mass in C Major and Thompson’s “The Testament of Freedom.”

Beethoven’s Mass also features guest performers soprano Jane Ohmes, mezzo-soprano Judith Engel, tenor Neal Harrelson and baritone Zheng Zhou.

Ohmes, Engel and Zhou last appeared in the BSO’s 2003 performance of Verdi’s “Requiem.”

Advance ticket prices for the concert range from $13 to $38 and can be reserved by calling the numbers listed or at the Web site.

Nancy Ziegenbein called to report that the Boston Pops has allowed the Penobscot Theatre Guild to extend its deadline for the May 22 concert, “Broadway Legends,” to enable more people to join those planning to attend that special event.

The new reservation deadline is Monday, April 18.

Tickets are $139 per person and include transportation on a fully accessible coach and lunch at the Wenham Tea House.

The bus boards at 7 a.m. Sunday, May 22, at the Park and Ride Lot at the corner of Interstate 395 and Odlin Road in Bangor, and other boardings along Interstate 95 can be prearranged.

Reservations can be made by calling Ziegenbein, the volunteer trip coordinator, at 947-7965.

I extend sincere congratulations and best wishes for success to the 30 female students at Penobscot Job Corps Center in Bangor who last week gathered for the first of eight weekly meetings to begin the process of quitting smoking.

“Butt Out” is a campaign sponsored by PJCC and Bangor Region Partners for Health.

The program is funded with a grant BRPH received from Healthy Maine Partnerships under the Bureau of Health through funds obtained in the state’s tobacco settlement.

“Butt Out” is geared toward the female students, BRPH director Janet Spencer said in a press release, because “right now, the tobacco industry is targeting young women ages 18 to 24.”

The first meeting began with a focus on nutrition and body image, anxiety and stress, exercise and prevention of weight gain from quitting, relaxation, anger management, healthy relations and coping skills.

When the program ends, those who made it through successfully will enjoy an off-center field trip.

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