Camp Bangor citywide cleanup on tap Saturday

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All Bangor children participating in the Camp Bangor scholarship program, and their parents or guardians, are reminded that the seventh annual Camp Bangor City Wide Clean Up begins at 9:30 a.m. Saturday, May 6, at Bangor parks.

Camp Bangor program administrator Sara Yasner of the United Way of Eastern Maine, reports participants can meet the program’s community service requirement by helping clean up Fairmount, Hayford, Chapin, Broadway, Little City and Stillwater parks; Essex, Prentice and Brown woods; the Doughty School yard, Paul Bunyan-Skate Park, Mary Snow School, Fruit Street School parking lot, Downeast School yard and Capehart.

For the East Side Neighborhood cleanup, participants should meet at the William S. Cohen School parking lot.

At those sites, garbage bags, gloves and directions will be provided.

A barbecue for all volunteers, with free food and activities for children, will be held after the cleanup at Stillwater Park on Howard Street.

For more information, call Yasner at 941-2800 or visit www.unitedwayem.org.

Working with School-Age Children and Youth, a 30-hour training session, is being offered to child care professionals by Penquis Community Action Program Resource Development Center.

The classes are from 8:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. May 6, 13 and 20, and June 3 and 10 in the Bangor Public Library board room on Harlow Street, except the May 13 session, which is at Penquis CAP, 262 Harlow St., Bangor.

There is a $15 nonrefundable registration fee, which current child care providers may apply for scholarship reimbursement, for the Maine Roads to Quality training program for children 5-13 cared for in center-based or family child care settings.

For more information, or to register, call Amy Ludwig, 973-3533.

Peace through Interamerican Community Action is hosting its Mother’s Day Sale 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Sunday, May 7, at the Peace and Justice Center, 170 Park St., Bangor.

Kathleen Caldwell suggests you remember your mother, celebrate spring, and support fair trade and sustainable communities at this event featuring the crafts of the women of our sister-city, Carasque, El Salvador.

For more information, call PICA, 947-4203, or visit www.pica.ws.

OHI is a social service nonprofit organization helping people with disabilities live and work in their communities.

Victoria Blanchette and Mindy Ward hope the public will volunteer with its staff between 9 a.m. and 4 p.m. Saturday, May 6, at the Chalila House, 130 North Main St. in Brewer.

People are needed to help plant flowers and shrubs, and donations of outdoor plants that can be divided for transplanting are needed.

You need to volunteer only “as long as you can,” Blanchette wrote, adding “garden tools to use or to share are also very welcome.”

For more information, call Blanchette at 848-5804, ext. 136.

People familiar with the country and western band Phoenix, which is popular throughout Hancock and Penobscot counties, might want to attend a potluck benefit dinner for Rollie Wilbur and his family from 12:30 to 3:30 p.m. Sunday, May 7, at the Eastbrook Community Building.

Wilbur, who is 43 and the father of five, recently suffered his third heart attack.

Admission is by donation only, and more information can be obtained by calling Julie Curtis at 565-2054 or Nita Wilbur at 565-3838.

Neighbors, friends and family are cordially invited to join in celebrating the 60th wedding anniversary of Arthur and Pauline Astbury during an Open House from 1:30 to 4 p.m. Saturday, May 6, at Bagaduce Hall, which is next to the Baptist church and firehouse in South Penobscot.

The Bangor Pug Society is holding a PUG PARTY 1-3 p.m., Saturday, May 6, at 393 Main St., Old Town.

Pugs, wrote Evelyn Conrad, have “a face only a mother could love, but the cutest dog there is,” adding that a pug party, with 50 or more pugs and their people, socializing all at the same place, is just “too much.”

The party will feature a May Bonnet contest, prizes, raffles and lots of fun.

For more information, call 945-9804.

Speaking of dogs, Rogation Sunday, the traditional rite of blessing animals and Earth, will be celebrated during the 10:15 a.m. Sunday, May 7, service at the Church of Universal Fellowship in Orono.

You are invited to bring caged and-or leashed pets, a plant or symbolic container of garden soil for the blessing by the Rev. Lorna Stuart.

Everyone is welcome to attend.

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