Senior home repair program needs volunteers

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Anyone handy with a hammer – a regular do-it-yourselfer with time to give and a willingness to help others – is needed by Eastern Agency on Aging of Bangor for its Eaa-Z Fix It program.

Carol Higgins, EAA director of communications, wrote “we need volunteers, desperately” for this program in which volunteers make minor repairs and perform maintenance chores for seniors unable to tackle those jobs on their own.

Among the needs are for volunteers to assist with such things as lawn care, weather-stripping, storm window installation, washing windows, faucet repairs, repairing or replacing light fixtures or replacing smoke detector batteries.

Higgins explained that this work often ensures older persons can remain in their own homes as long as possible.

You will not be asked to supply materials, which are paid for by those you assist.

If you can help, call EAA at (800) 432-7812 and ask for Rolf Staples.

If you are a senior who needs help with minor jobs around your home, you can also call the number above and ask for Staples.

Since 1974, EAA has provided assistance to help senior residents of Penobscot, Piscataquis, Hancock and Washington counties remain independent, and much of that assistance comes from volunteers who give of themselves to help make life better for their neighbors.

A sincere “bon voyage” is extended to Brenda Davis, executive director of Crossroads Ministries, who begins her fourth Annual Maine Credit Unions’ Ending Hunger Walking Tour today in Old Town.

Covering more than 600 miles and visiting 46 communities from Kittery to Madawaska, Davis will collect a $100 donation from each credit union she visits to benefit a food pantry in each locality.

Already, more than $10,000 has been pledged for this fundraiser.

The Heart of Maine Chorus invites women who love harmony to an open rehearsal at 6:45 tonight at The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 639 Grandview Ave., Bangor.

For more information, call Anita McGarry, 942-6046.

On behalf of Good Shepherd Food-Bank Northeast board of directors and staff, Michelle Gosselin invites the public to celebrate a Happy Harvest Season by attending an open house at one of two Good Shepherd Maine locations.

The Gathering, a Harvest Celebration, is 3-7 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 1, at Good Shepherd, 88 Stevens Road, East-West Industrial Park, Brewer.

Here you will meet Good Shepherd team members and partner-agency representatives, view the organization’s new Food Mobile, and enjoy food samples by representatives of Tastefully Simple.

For more information, call Sue O’Brien at 989-4672.

The other open house is 3-7 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 9, at Good Shepherd Food-Bank, 3121 Hotel Road, Auburn.

For information about this event, call JoAn Chartier, 782-3554.

“Dog Show,” featuring photographs taken by Edwin Martin during Bangor’s Downtown Dog Day in mid-August, are currently on display during regular business hours in the foyer of Bangor City Hall on Harlow Street.

The display runs through Nov. 30.

Melody Weeks, director of development for John Bapst Memorial High School, invites you to see the John Bapst Players in their production of the William Shakespeare comedy, “A Midsummer Night’s Dream.”

Performances are 7 p.m. Friday, Nov. 4, and 7 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 5, at JBMHS, 100 Broadway.

Admission is $5. Tickets can be purchased in advance by calling the school’s fine arts office, 947-0313.

Tickets will also be available, for each performance, at the door.

The Cancer Community Center of South Portland seeks volunteers for its Maine Buddy Program.

CCC will offer a one-day training program Saturday, Nov. 12, in Bangor, and is seeking individuals for its one-on-one peer matching network that connects those facing cancer with a trained volunteer who has been through a similar experience.

To learn more about the program and training, call Jess Colamaria, 774-2200, or e-mail jcolama@Maine.rr.com.

For more information, visit www.cancercommunitycenter.org.

Bangor resident Betty-Lou Lewis called to publicly commend a local postal worker.

Lewis said letter carrier Brian Woodward’s “alertness saved my home, on Randolph Drive … from being completely destroyed by fire” while she was away from her residence Thursday, Oct. 20.

“Although the entire house had extensive smoke damage,” she said, “due to Brian’s diligence, it is still standing.”

Lewis also thanks members of the Bangor Fire Department and Bangor Police Department who were on the scene after being contacted by Woodward.

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