Literacy group in Bangor seeks volunteer tutors

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Registration must be made by Wednesday, June 1, for anyone who wants to be trained as an English As A Second Language volunteer tutor for Literacy Volunteers of Bangor.

The 18-hour training schedule is 9 a.m. to noon Monday, June 6; Friday, June 10; Saturday, June 11; Monday, June 13; and Friday, June 17, at United Technologies Center on Hogan Road in Bangor.

Course materials are $20, reports Literacy Volunteers of Bangor executive director Mary Marin Lyon, and scholarships are available for those who cannot afford the fee.

The group needs volunteers “in order to serve the request … for non-English speaking students,” Lyon wrote of the training that “focuses on how to teach someone the English language along with learning about American customs and culture.”

If you can help, or need a tutor, call Literacy Volunteers of Bangor, 947-8451.

Lyon reports that the deadline is the same (Wednesday, June 1) for those willing to become Basic Literacy Tutor Training volunteers, who will help adults learn to read or to improve their reading.

Lyon stressed that Literacy Volunteers of Bangor is particularly seeking volunteer tutors for the Newport, Dexter and Milo areas.

The tutor training is 9 a.m.-noon Monday, June 6; Wednesday, June 8; Monday, June 13; and Wednesday, June 15, at UTC in Bangor.

Course materials are also $20, and scholarships are available.

If you can help, or want to improve your reading, call the number above.

Cathy Bourgon of the Eastern Maine Medical Center School of Nursing Class of 1980 reports, “We have successfully located 30 of our 32 classmates” in preparation for their 25th class reunion this fall.

The only “missing” classmates are Nan Brawn and Cheryl Brown West.

Bourgon requests that anyone with information about these women call her at 469-2705; Denise Morneault Gehman, 825-4445; or Susan Page Habeeb, 862-5925.

Vinal Applebee, treasurer of Habitat for Humanity of Greater Bangor, wrote that donations of yard sale items of good quality, excluding clothing, are most welcome for the organization’s annual yard sale 8 a.m.-noon Saturday, June 4, at 14 Savage St. in Bangor.

“Construction and home building materials, plants and perennials, and everyday yard sale items are among the items for sale,” Applebee wrote.

For more information, call the Habitat office at 942-8977.

Donations of gently used furniture, books, clothing and household items, as well as plants, would be most welcome for the Liberty School Annual Yard Sale, which is 8 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturday, May 28, on South Street in Blue Hill.

Proceeds will help support the independent day school for grades nine-12.

For people in the Blue Hill area, transportation for donated items can be arranged by calling 374-2886.

Six students and their teacher are learning about southeast Africa through their travels there, and will return June 5 from Cape Town, South Africa.

In celebration of their return, preparations are being made for the school’s Second Annual Auction and first African Market at 7 p.m. Friday, June 24, at the school.

This event includes entertainment, food and a dance as well as African items for the auction.

Donations for the auction would be greatly appreciated.

If you have an item or service to donate, call the school’s volunteer coordinator, Yvonne Chick, 374-3695, or e-mail ykchick@prodigy.net.

The American Cancer Society is offering adult Maine residents afflicted with cancer, and their families, two opportunities to participate in We Can Weekend, a weekend retreat that offers quality time for families to deal with these changes in their lives.

The first We Can Weekend is June 3-5 at Rivier College in Nashua, N.H., and the second is June 10-12 at Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley, Mass.

Workshops addressing topics from cancer facts to stress management as well as art projects, games, physical activities, massage therapy and entertainment for the whole family are all part of the weekend, reports Amber Lovell of the ACS office in Topsham.

And the fee?

It’s fantastic: just $35 per family, for the weekend, including all meals and lodging and, better still, financial assistance is available.

To register, or to receive more information, call the ACS 24 hours a day, seven days a week, at (800) ACS-2345, (866) 228-4327 for TTY, or visit www.cancer.org.

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