OHI basket bingo will help fund Florida trip

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Opportunities abound for people in our area this weekend who are into everything from bingo to theater to finding ways to entertain the youngsters. Best of all, these opportunities are for wonderfully worthy causes.

For example, for the past five years, OHI, a nonprofit organization that helps people with disabilities live productively in their communities, has been raising money to take 30 of those consumers, plus support staff, to Disney World.

Funds for that dream trip have been raised slowly and steadily through a variety of events, reports Duane Hall of OHI. This Saturday, May 14, the Longaberger Basket fund-raiser will be held at the Brewer Eagles Club, 22 Atlantic Ave., with doors opening at 11 a.m. and games starting at 1 p.m. Admission is $10 for the basket bingo event, and proceeds will help these folks fly to Florida this fall.

For more information about this event, or the trip, call OHI at 989-4007, ext. 769.

Norris Nickerson of Anah Temple Shrine called to report an error in the date for the free Children’s Screening Clinics. The clinics will be 10 a.m.-noon Saturday, May 14, at Aroostook Orthopedic Assoc., Presque Isle; the office of Dr. Richard Swett, Dover-Foxcroft; Downeast Community Hospital, Machias; Anah Shrine, Bangor; Waldo County Shrine Club, Belfast; Calais Regional Hospital, Calais; and Lubec Regional Medical Center.

For information, call 942-2254.

Singer-songwriter Gordon Bok appears in concert for the new Vose Library Building Fund at 7:30 p.m. Friday, May 13, at the Old Town House in Union.

Library director Lynn Allen said property for a new library was purchased outright in January, using funds raised during a four-year capital campaign.

Bok “generously agreed to this benefit concert in support” of this project, and the concert “will be the kickoff” for the building fund, Allen said.

Admission is $15 in advance and $20 at the door.

Allen said advance tickets are available at Harbor Audio Video, Camden; Reading Corner, Rockland; Clark’s Drug Store, Waldoboro; the Union library; and The Cricket, Union.

To match funds acquired from the Libri Foundation to purchase children’s books, librarian Tracey Hotham invites you to a book sale from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. Friday, May 13, and 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday, May 14, at Simpson Memorial Library in Carmel.

“Great bargains will be available,” she wrote, adding that “the library trustees also hope to replace the front steps and railing this year, and are holding a raffle to raise additional funds.”

Raffle tickets are available at the library, or from any trustee.

The winning ticket will be drawn in August during Carmel Days.

Senior citizens are invited to a free preview of the John Bapst Musicians annual spring concert 11:45 a.m.-1:45 p.m. Friday, May 13, at John Bapst Memorial High School auditorium, 100 Broadway, Bangor.

Doors open at 11:15 a.m.

This concert precedes the John Bapst Musicians annual spring concert at 1 and 6 p.m. Sunday, May 15, at that site.

Tickets for Sunday’s concert are $3 for adults, $2 for students and seniors, and $6 for families, and are available from 7:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. when school in session, or at the door, if seats remain.

The evening features the high school concert band, concert choir, chorale, chamber ensemble and jazz band.

For more information about the concerts, call Carol Robb, 947-0313.

On behalf of the Bangor High School Music Boosters, chairman Bruce Rocher invites you to Pops Night beginning at 6:30 p.m. Friday, May 13, at BHS on Broadway.

The evening features the BHS Jazz Choir, jazz bands, orchestra, Bangor Fiddlers, middle school jazz bands, musical combos and soloists as well as a silent auction and ice cream sundaes.

Admission is $5 for individuals and a maximum of $15 for families.

Donald Cloutier and Elizabeth McCann of Skowhegan and Canaan KOA offer free camping to the public Friday, May 13, at that site on Route 2 in Canaan.

Part of KOA’s second annual Come Camp With Us Day, free-will donation boxes will be available for KOA Care Camps for children with cancer.

To make reservations, visit www.koa.com and click on Come Camp With Us Day.

For more local information, call Skowhegan/Canaan KOA at 474-2858.

Tickets for Catholic Charities of Maine Dinner Theater, “Death by Father,” are $50 and can be obtained at local Catholic churches, St. Joseph Hospital Gift Shop and Shepherd’s Path, 849 Stillwater Ave., Bangor.

The event begins with a social hour at 6 p.m. Saturday, May 14, at Spectacular Event Center, 395 Griffin Road in Bangor.

Sister Mary Norberta, President and CEO of St. Joseph Healthcare, reports all proceeds benefit CCM programs, including St. Michael’s Center on Kenduskeag Avenue in Bangor.

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