November 09, 2024
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Kiwanis to host Old Time Radio Gang in Milo

One of the highlights of the Milo High School Reunion Weekend is a coffeehouse hosted by Three Rivers Kiwanis of Milo and Brownville.

Ethelyn Treworgy, Kiwanis events chairwoman, wrote that doors open for the show at 6:15 p.m. Friday, July 1, at Milo Town Hall.

Tickets at the door are $8 each. The show begins at 7 p.m.

“Delicious desserts will be on sale, and drinks will be free,” Treworgy wrote, adding that “door prizes will be given away during the evening, and an enormous hanging plant will be raffled off.”

The show features Mac McHale and the Old Time Radio Gang.

“Their old-time radio songs include fiddled tunes, gospel songs, ballads that tell of depression, prison and train rides, and ballads that tell of love and heartbreak,” she added.

The show will also include Jay and Shane Smith, performing country music on fiddle and guitar as the Smith Brothers.

“They have roots in the town of Milo through their mother and grandparents,” Treworgy wrote of the young musicians, who live in Industry.

Proceeds benefit programs and activities the club sponsors for children and adults in Milo and surrounding towns that include: Reading is Fundamental for elementary schools, a children’s weekly library program; turning Milo Town Hall into an arts center; and building a gazebo on the Sebec River waterfront.

To help Three Rivers Kiwanis continue these worthwhile projects, Treworgy “hopes to see you there.”

The second SummerKeys’ Mary Potterton Memorial Concert is 7:30 tonight at the Lubec Congregational Christian Church.

There is no admission, but donations are accepted for the piano tuning fund.

The featured performer is Eastport musician-composer-teacher Gregory Biss, with a SummerKeys newcomer, violinist Trond Saeverud, a Robbinston resident and summer music camp director.

Their performance, spanning music over a period of 200 years, will include works of Bach, Beethoven, Biss, Mozart, Saeverud and DeVoto.

The public is invited to be in the audience with Bangor Symphony Orchestra Maestro Xiao Lu Li and his family as they help kick off the celebration of the Kingfield POPS with the River City Salon Orchestra, at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, June 30, at Nordica Auditorium on the University of Maine Farmington campus.

Tickets are $10 for adults, $8 for seniors and $5 for youths 17 and under.

They can be reserved by calling the BSO box office at (800) 639-3221 or 942-5555, online at bangorsymphony.com, or purchased locally at Mickey’s Hallmark in Farmington or Tranten’s Store in Kingfield.

The concert features light classical music, waltzes, standards and Broadway songs.

Tickets are also available for the third annual Kingfield POPS, which begins at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, July 2, at the Kennedy Farm, Route 142 in Kingfield.

Gates open at 5 p.m.

Well-known local soloist and Farmington native Daniel Woodward, choir director for Henderson Memorial Baptist Church, will sing “America the Beautiful” with the BSO during the POPS.

Advance tickets are $20 for adults and free for young people 17 and under when accompanied by an adult.

Tickets at the gate are $25 each.

Reservations can be made by calling the numbers above, at the above online address and at the outlets mentioned above as well as UnitedKingfield Bank branches and Grand Central Station.

Information about both events is available at the BSO Web site.

Openings are available for the Maine Writing Project’s Young Authors’ Camps, for which your registration fee of $100 includes midmorning snacks, a writers’ camp T-shirt, a certificate of participation, a group picture and anthology of your camp’s work.

Jean Plummer of East Machias, director of the program, reports the camps will be held at three sites.

One camp will be conducted from 8:30 a.m. to noon Monday, July 11, through Friday, July 15, on the campus of the University of Maine.

A second MWP camp will be conducted at the same times, and the same days, at Benton Elementary School in that community.

The third camp is at the same times, beginning Monday, Aug. 1, and continuing through Friday, Aug. 5, on the campus of The College of the Atlantic in Bar Harbor.

Writing workshops may include learning to write an autobiography, poetry, fiction or nonfiction stories, Plummer explained.

“Teachers who write, themselves, will share their insights in the process and love of writing,” she added.

More information, and registration forms, are available by calling UMaine YAC at 581-2438.

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


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