Milo club raising cash for gazebo sound system

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Members of Three Rivers Kiwanis Club in Milo recently completed a community service project to build a gazebo in their park, wrote Joe Zamboni, of the club’s gazebo committee.

“The gazebo was completed and dedicated this past June,” he continued, adding that “we are now trying to raise some money to purchase a P.A. [public address] system for the gazebo, as it has become a popular place to have band concerts, get-togethers and even weddings.”

To help in that effort, the Alumni Dance Band of Piscataquis County will present a free concert at 6 p.m. Friday, Sept. 2, at Milo’s new “Gazebo in the Park,” Zamboni wrote.

Before the concert, Three Rivers Kiwanis invites you to enjoy a chicken barbecue at 5 p.m. in the park, to help raise funds to purchase that new sound system.

While the concert is free, dinner is $6 per person and, Zamboni requests, “please bring your own chair.”

Little ones will love seeing one of two Maine benefit performances of LaLaLuna right here in the Queen City.

Wolfe Bowart, an international physical comedian, brings his magical solo show for all to see at 7 p.m. Friday, Sept. 2, at the Bangor Opera House.

His other Maine performance is 7 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 10, at the Portland High School Theatre.

Tickets are $25 for reserved seats or $15 for adult general seating and $8 for children’s general seating.

Tickets are available at The Briar Patch, 27 Central St. (941-0255), Patrick’s Hallmark at the Broadway Shopping Center (942-6587) in Bangor, and at Longfellow Books, 1 Monument Square (772-4045) in Portland, or at Borders, 430 Gorham Road, (775-6110) in South Portland.

Tickets can be purchased online at www.mekids.org or by calling 623-1868, ext. 202.

The poetic comic-drama is being presented by Maine Children’s Alliance, which is committed to improving the lives of all Maine’s children and families by providing leadership to create or improve policy on their behalf.

John Dudley of Alexander has news of particular interest to residents of that community.

He reports a set of 15 panels, each about an Alexander individual or couple, will be on display for two weeks beginning Friday, Sept. 9, at Downeast Heritage Museum in Calais.

Each panel includes an excerpt from an hour of taped interviews with Alexander residents spanning a 70-year age difference “between the youngest and oldest natives featured,” Dudley wrote.

This showing is a project of History Dome and Art Park of Alexander, supported in part by the Maine Humanities Council and the Maine Arts Commission.

The museum is open 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. seven days a week in downtown Calais.

For more information, call the museum at 454-7878.

Johnna Lacey has announced a new one-year, percussion position recently opened with the Bangor Symphony Orchestra.

The orchestra is entering its 110th season and will conduct auditions Sunday, Sept. 10, in Minsky Recital Hall, Class of 1944 Hall, at the University of Maine School of Performing Arts in Orono.

Other openings are principal clarinet, principal viola, section strings and substitutes for all instruments.

For complete requirements and further information, call the orchestra’s personnel manager, Surya Mitchell, 942-5555 or (800) 639-3221 or e-mail surya@bangorsymphony.com.

Speaking of the Bangor Symphony Orchestra, you are invited to join Music Director and Conductor Xiao-Lu Li and the orchestra for the 2nd POPS at the Camden Public Library at 5 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 11, in Camden.

Advance tickets for adults are $20, or $25 at the door, and there is no charge for people age 17 and under.

Tickets can be reserved online at www.bangorsymphony.com; through the orchestra box office at (800) 639-3221 or 942-5555; and at the Camden Public Library.

If it rains, the performance will be the same time and date in Strom Auditorium at Camden Hills Regional High School.

The performance will feature familiar and patriotic music, with Mort Strom narrating “God Bless America.”

OHI is hosting a basket bingo fundraiser with doors opening at 11 a.m. and games beginning at 1 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 10, at the Brewer Eagles Club.

Duane Hall reports that tickets are $10 per person for the final event after six years of fundraising for this trip that will take “30 individuals with disabilities to Florida in November.”

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