Help wanted on benefit supper for ill woman

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Friends and family members are planning a benefit spaghetti supper for Lorrie Gray of Dedham, who is receiving treatment for an unknown, serious bacterial infection.

Organizers still need a few items for the event, which will be held 5-7 p.m. Saturday, June 25, at the Dedham School.

Tickets are $5 each or $20 for a family.

Items needed include cups, napkins, butter, salad dressings and a few more pies for a homemade pie auction.

Also, the planners would like you to save your returnable bottles and cans because they hope to collect enough to fill a dump truck.

If you can help with this benefit, call Diane Jackson, 843-7495, or Fran Payson, 843-6977.

Sandra Gordon of Waldo County General Hospital’s Office of Community Relations reports a handbag and accessories sale will be held from 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. today in the hospital’s Education Center, 118 Northport Ave. in Belfast.

Conducted by the Bag Ali Co., the sale will feature leather bags, fashion bags, backpacks, briefcases, travel bags, evening bags, wallets, totes, scarves and shawls.

This company, she wrote, has conducted similar sales at hospitals throughout the state, but this is a first for Belfast.

“There will be something for everyone, at reasonable prices, so plan to buy a new summer bag or pick up a gift,” Gordon suggests.

Proceeds benefit Hospital Aid, which has pledged $60,000 to the hospital’s surgical services campaign to build a new wing for operating rooms.

Credit cards and checks will be accepted.

We wish safe cycling for Sprague Energy President and CEO John McClellan, who will ride 1,000 miles in two legs on his second “Doing More Bike Tour” to raise money and awareness for children’s charities.

During a two-week period, he will stop at 16 Sprague fuel terminals from Maine to New York.

He leaves today from Sprague’s terminal in Searsport, and concludes the first leg on June 24 in White Plains, N.Y.

The second leg is July 27-30 when he bikes from Oswego, N.Y., to Portsmouth, N.H.

McClellan and those who join him along the way will be riding to raise funds for the March of Dimes and the Nashoba Learning Group, a program for people with autism founded by his wife, Liz Martineau.

Bill Robertson, vice president of the Franklin Historical Society, wants local readers and summer visitors to know the public is invited to attend the society’s monthly meetings.

The society meets at 7 p.m. the third Tuesday of each month at the Franklin Historical Society Museum building on Hog Bay Road, Route 220 in East Franklin.

Robertson also wanted to point out that the meeting date is a change from previous years.

The program for the first meeting, which is 7 tonight, sounds delightful. It features a video made by Sumner Memorial High School students, covering the two days they spent at the FHS Museum, and George Torrey’s “Workshop on Old Tools.”

The FHS Museum is open 2-4 p.m. Saturdays, July through September, or by appointment by calling Helen Cantor, 565-2223, or Irene Obermann, 565-3336.

Jan Cox hopes you will be there with her when it’s time to “strike up the band” for the first summer concert of the season.

The Brewer Hometown Band performs for your pleasure at 7 p.m. Thursday, June 23, at Indian Trail Park in Brewer.

Should the weather not cooperate, however, “we will be inside, at the Brewer Auditorium,” Cox wrote.

For your calendar, she wants you to know the remaining concerts are Thursday, July 7, at Sunset Park; Thursday, July 21, and Thursday, Aug. 4, both in the Brewer Auditorium parking lot; and Thursday, Aug. 18, at Doyle Field.

“These concerts are free,” Cox wrote.

“Bring a chair and enjoy a warm weather tradition.”

Plans are under way for the 55th reunion of the Bangor High School Class of 1950 on Friday, July 22, at Penobscot Valley Country Club in Orono.

Reunion organizers have been unable to locate David Douglas, Joan Nelson, Robert Stevens, Janice Garland Whitcomb or Murial Arnold Sheaffer.

Anyone with information about these individuals is asked to call Jean Weatherbee, 348-6153, or write her at 37 Hardys Hill Road, Deer Isle 04627; or call Jo Wood, 667-8132, or write her at 92 Marlboro Beach Road, Lamoine 04605.

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