Bangor High students organize Rock for Relief

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Music that will appeal to all ages will be heard at Rock for Relief, hosted by the Bangor High School Student Council to benefit school-age victims of Hurricane Katrina.

Rock for Relief is 3-7 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 24, at Cameron Stadium on Mount Hope Avenue in Bangor.

Admission is $5 per person, with all proceeds going to the American Red Cross. Children age 2 and under will be admitted free of charge.

Senior James Rogers is coordinating the event with Andy Mead, and their hope is to raise as much money as possible to help their peers in Louisiana, Alabama or Mississippi who lost everything in one of this nation’s worst natural disasters.

After talking with Rogers, it sounds as if members of the BHS student council have been working hard to make this event a great success, and have pulled together a great lineup of entertainment to please all ages.

This is not solely a BHS fund-raiser, however, since all Bangor students, staff, families and friends have been invited and encouraged to participate.

Rogers said the musical entertainment, featuring at least 10 acts, will range from classical to jazz, folk, the ’50s and ska, which he described as “upbeat reggae.”

The ’50s music, by the way, is apparently going to be supplied “by a group of parents,” he said.

Information booths, face painting and speakers will be part of Rock for Relief, and sales of T-shirts and beads, plus additional cash donations from collection boxes will be combined with the local schools’ “Dimes for Disaster” campaign to benefit the work of the ARC.

And it will not only be your financial contributions that can lift the spirits of young people in the affected area: You will also be able to create artwork and posters or write notes of encouragement to send to the students and pupils displaced by Hurricane Katrina.

If you have no other plans for today, Joanie Jones invites you to join the St. Croix International Garden Cub “digging in to build a perennial garden at the newly-opened Pembroke Library,” she wrote.

She asks that you bring any perennials you can contribute, and plan to help with the planting.

The digging and planting begins at 1 p.m. today at the library in Pembroke.

Refreshments will be provided by club members.

Brewer Middle School Coordinator and Youth Theatre director Rich Kimball has announced that singer-songwriter Livingston Taylor will appear in concert at 8 p.m. Friday, Sept. 23, at BMS, 5 Somerset St.

Tickets are $20 and are

available at the school or at

The Grasshopper Shop in Bangor.

“He has a new album coming out, featuring duets with his brother, James Taylor,” Kimball said, “as well as Carly Simon, Vince Gill and several other stars.

“He usually does very well when he gets here, and it’s a great way to kick off the fall at the middle school.”

For more information, call the school at 989-8640.

International fundraising consultant Kim Klein, founder of the “Grassroots Fundraising Journal,” who specializes in raising money for nonprofits, is conducting a daylong, all-levels workshop 8 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 28, at Wells Commons at the University of Maine in Orono.

Registration for the workshop is $150, and proceeds benefit Mabel Wadsworth Women’s Health Center in Bangor, the only free-standing, nonprofit, feminist health center in Maine.

Lunch and refreshment breaks will be provided. The facility is handicapped-accessible, and limited scholarship assistance is also available.

For more information, or to register, contact Deanna@mablewadsworth.org or call (800) 948-5337, ext. 104.

Preregistration is advised, since the benefit is expected to sell out.

The workshop is supported by the Maine Women’s Fund and hosted by the UMaine Women’s Resource Center.

With such a huge fund-raising focus on victims of Hurricane Katrina, Maj. Douglas Burr asks you not to forget the local needs of The Salvation Army.

In a press release, Burr indicated a recent loss of funding has necessitated locating new financial support to keep its Dorothy Day Soup Kitchen open.

The soup kitchen is the largest feeding program in the Bangor area, serving more than 30,000 noon meals each year.

Individuals, corporations and others are asked to help continue what is, obviously, a much-needed program.

Your donation can be sent to The Salvation Army, 65 South Park St., Bangor 04401, with a notation that it is for the Dorothy Day Soup Kitchen.

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