Zoot Suit Revue’s Calais show to benefit hospice

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Each time I receive a release announcing another appearance of The Zoot Suit Revue, I am thrilled to pass that information along to you, because I know how much you will enjoy the show, and how much good these enthusiastic, volunteer dancers are doing for the communities of our state.

Chuck and Sue McKay are owners of Back Door Dance Studio in Eddington, and they’re taking their multiage dancers on the road again.

The Zoot Suit Revue is 7 p.m. Saturday, May 21, at Washington County Community College in Calais.

The 1940s swing-era dance team will perform in memory of late Calais and Bangor community volunteer Andrea Vose. Proceeds from the event will benefit the mission of Down East Hospice, wrote office manager Ann Sullivan.

That mission, she said, is “to provide cost-free services to the terminally ill, their families and caregivers.”

Tickets are very reasonable: $7 for adults, $5 for seniors and $3 for students.

And while tickets will be sold at the door, it is suggested you purchase them in advance, to make sure you have a seat.

Tickets can be obtained in Calais at Taylor’s Furniture, Bernardini’s Restaurant and Treworgy Pharmacy.

They are also available by calling Cynthia Carter, 454-8238; DEH, 454-7521, ext. 126; or from any DEH volunteer.

Ruth Roy of Otis, who was widowed a year ago, I was told, is undergoing treatment for cancer.

The grandmother and mother of three grown children has lived in Otis for “a number of years,” her friend, Laura Salisbury, told me.

And that is why friends of the Roy family are making an effort to help with expenses during this difficult time by sponsoring a potluck supper for Ruth Roy.

That event is 5:30 p.m. Saturday, May 21, at Beech Hill School in Otis.

Admission is by donation. You are asked to bring a dish to share, and you will have an opportunity to purchase raffle tickets.

Would you like to take a bus trip to Lowell, Mass., and visit the New England Quilt Museum and the American Textile History Museum?

The Somerset County Co-operative Extension Homemakers are sponsoring this bus trip, Marjie Smith of St. Albans wrote. Registrations close Saturday, May 28, for the trip that is scheduled for Saturday, June 14.

The bus leaves at 6:30 a.m. Saturday, June 14, from the Somerset County Extension office, 7 County Drive in Skowhegan, and returns at around 9:30 p.m. to that site.

Your $65 ticket includes bus fare, museum admissions and a sandwich buffet at the Gazebo Restaurant.

Your expenses are a morning snack, shopping, and dinner at Warren’s Lobster House in Kittery.

To reserve your spot, call Smith at 938-4978 or send your name, address, daytime and evening phone numbers, and check to Marjie Smith, 442 Dexter Road, St. Albans 04971.

For those interested in learning more about the Cooperative Extension’s Homemakers program, you might enjoy attending one of the monthly meetings of Smith’s group, the Indian Lake Area Homemakers.

She reports all meetings “are open to the public” and it hosts workshops twice a year that have included everything from landscape design to embroidery.

One of those fun events kids are sure to love, which benefits youngsters and their moms, is the 8th annual Great Bangor Rubber Duck Race.

That event begins at 1 p.m. Saturday, May 21, at the Central Street Bridge, ending at the footbridge behind Pickering Square parking garage in downtown Bangor.

John Smist of WLBZ-TV Channel 2 in Bangor is the honorary chairman of the race and is expected to help get those 2,000 rubber duckies swimming.

Sponsors of winning ducks win prizes, and all proceeds benefit the programs of Good Sam, a nonprofit agency founded in 1902 that offers services to single parents that include an alternative education program and a daycare program as well as adoption services.

To become a sponsor, you can purchase one duck for $5 or six for $25 at Good Samaritan Agency, 100 Ridgewood Drive, Bangor, or at stores and businesses in the Bangor area.

By the way, don’t wait until the race to head downtown, because activities begin at 11 a.m. in Pickering Square.

You can purchase duck sponsorships there as well as duck race souvenirs, and the little ones will enjoy games and face painting as they wait for the race to begin.

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