Milford bean lunch to raise scholarship funds

Seven years ago, my friend Betty Comstock contacted me about the first Milford Main Street Grammar School Alumni reunion, which proved to be quite successful.

Since that time, Betty told me this week, the Milford Grammar School Alumni Fund has been established to provide “scholarships for children who attend Milford schools and then go on to college.”

To date, she added with understandable pride, the fund has provided six $500 scholarships for Milford students going on to postsecondary education.

“And we’d like to get that amount up to $1,000,” she said, “because, today, $500 doesn’t even buy all their books.”

To help maintain this fund, and to assist Milford students pursuing higher education, the Milford Grammar School Alumni are hosting a bean luncheon from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 20, at the Lewis Libby Grammar School on County Road in Milford.

The menu, Betty said, will feature beans, hot dogs, potato salad, coleslaw, rolls and beverages.

The suggested donation is $5 per person, but she certainly hopes those who attend will donate a bit more to help fund these scholarships.

The invitation is extended to one and all, whether you attended a Milford school or not, but this luncheon also offers a very special opportunity for Milford schools alumni to meet and greet one another and to renew old acquaintances.

The Bangor Center Corp mid-July concert featuring the band, One Five One, was rained out, Sally Bates reports, “but the good news is that we are bringing the band back to Bangor” for a performance from 7 to 8 p.m. today in Pickering Square.

Bates wants readers to know Pickering Square “has a great space for dancing,” and that the band’s music “is very danceable.”

With roots in “a variety of musical sources,” she wrote, the band plays jazz, R&B, soul, rock and reggae.

Featured vocalist Kenya Hall will be joined by musicians playing sax, bass, guitar and drum.

In the event of rain, this time, Bates added, the concert will be moved into space under the Pickering Square Parking Garage.

Thanks to the hard work of Timothy McLaughlin of Hermon, Bangor Municipal Golf Course becomes the first Maine site to host the New England Deaf Golfers Association eighth annual golf tournament Thursday, Sept. 1 through Saturday, Sept. 3 in Bangor.

McLaughlin, the host chairman, is still hard at work lining up sponsors for this event and is planning a practice round with foursomes of three sponsors and one NEDGA golfer on Wednesday, Aug. 31, at Bangor Municipal.

Potential sponsors and other interested individuals wishing more information can call McLaughlin, (TTY only) at 848-5764, e-mail him at temclaughlin@verizon.net or visit www.mainedeafiesnetwork.com/nedga.htm.

Madge Ames of Augusta reminds family members that the 17th reunion of the Descendants of George Herbert Ames is 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 20, at the home of Lillian Herring and her daughter, Anne Cress, in Dover-Foxcroft.

You are asked to bring a casserole or salad and something sweet to eat, as well as “your appetite,” Ames wrote. Beverages and dishes will be furnished.

Saturday Night in Dover-Foxcroft, the 2005 Concert Series, “Where the Stars Come Out to Play,” welcomes world-renown jazz clarinetist Brad Terry, leading a trio performing at 8 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 20, at Dover-Foxcroft’s Center for the Performing Arts.

The trio includes 16-year-old pianist Mateusz Kolakowski and bassist Jim Howe, an Old Town native.

This performance also features Robert Skoglund, also known as Maine Public Radio’s Humble Farmer, and will involve a taping of two, one-hour radio shows for Maine Public Radio.

Tickets are $12 in advance or $15 at the door and are available at Moosehead Furniture Factory Outlet and Mr. Paperback in Dover-Foxcroft and at the Moosehead Messenger in Greenville.

Proceeds benefit the Center Theatre and projects of the Southern Piscataquis County Chamber of Commerce.

Here’s a reminder that President Elise Nester and members of the Maplewood Restoration Committee will be hosting a craft fair from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 21, at American Legion Post #207 on Route 3 in Trenton.

Proceeds from the sale will help with that organization’s effort to restore Maplewood Cemetery in Orland.

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