The Warren Center for Communication & Learning, Bangor’s oldest nonprofit professional speech and hearing center, is a busy place these days.

First comes word that a new session of its free Coping with Memory Disorders through Communication Workshop is scheduled for 2-4 p.m. Wednesdays, beginning June 1 and ending June 22, at Redeemer Lutheran Church, 540 Essex St. in Bangor.

This workshop is for family caregivers of individuals with memory disorders, and the course and material are free, thanks to funding by United Way of Eastern Maine.

Also, free respite care is available.

The workshop is designed to help personal caregivers of people with memory disorders caused by stroke, traumatic brain injury, Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, Huntington’s and other diseases that result in memory loss. It should help them communicate more effectively with those for whom they are caring.

Warren Center speech-language pathologist Jennifer Fiske will conduct the course, and you should call 941-2850 to register.

If you require on-site respite care, please make that request when you call.

On a celebratory note, the Warren Center dedicated its second hearing booth recently, ending its Be a Hearing Aid campaign, which began in 2002.

Working to expand its audiology services, donors gave more than $72,000 to put up a donated hearing booth, purchase equipment to perform complete hearing testing and hire a second audiologist to keep up with the growing demand for the center’s services.

Board President Wayne Woodford and Warren Center Administrative Director Mary Poulin both extend their sincere thanks to those who made this audiology expansion possible.

Students at the Penobscot Job Corps Center are trying to raise more than $2,000 to send Cory Farnum, Diego Palmeras and Eric Allen to the SkillsUSA 2005 National Competition the week of June 20 in Kansas City, Mo.

Farnum, from Peru, won a gold medal in welding in the regional competition, and Palmeras, a resident of Meriden, Conn., won a gold medal in promotional bulletin board.

Allen, of Winchester, N.H., won the gold medal in technical computer applications and will be defending the school’s national gold medal in the competition, which was won last year by Mark Calivas of Bangor.

To help send these competitors to Missouri, PJCC students are conducting two carwash fund-raisers.

The first carwash is noon-4 p.m. today, and the second is the same time Friday, June 10, and both will take place behind the Dow Lane building on the PJCC campus, which is located at 1375 Union St. in Bangor.

The fee to get your car washed is $3, with interior vacuuming available for an additional $2.

Certainly, however, additional donations would be most welcome.

The fourth annual Memorial Day 5K Race and the Mile Fun Run, sponsored by the John Bapst Memorial High School student senate, begins with registration at 8:30 a.m. Monday, May 30, at Saxl Park on the grounds of Bangor Mental Health Institute on Mount Hope Avenue in Bangor. Sponsors plan to hold the fun run annually.

The registration fee for the 5K race is $10 and $2 for the fun run.

Starting times are 9 a.m. for the course tour, 10 a.m. for the 5K and 11 a.m. for the fun run.

Vanessa Weber, the high school’s senate secretary, reports the purpose of the race is to raise money for student senate activities, to continue a growing community tradition and to have fun.

Gift certificates will be awarded to male and female overall and age group winners. A licensed physical therapist will be on site, and all registrants will receive a free water bottle while supplies last.

For information, call the John Bapst office at 947-0313.

Farrah Mills Mugnai wrote that the Brewer High School Class of 1995 is making plans for its 10th reunion, “and we are looking for contact information for our classmates.”

The reunion is scheduled for Saturday, Aug. 6, at the Sea Dog Restaurant on the Bangor Waterfront, and the cost will be $25 per person.

Mugnai encouraged members and acquaintances of the 1995 graduating class from Brewer High School to e-mail her at Brewerclassof1995@yahoo.com with contact information.

“Further details and official invitations will follow,” she wrote. “We look forward to seeing you and catching up!”

Just a hint from long ago: If you haven’t attended a reunion in recent years, the 10th one is a lot of fun and, sometimes, full of surprises!

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