Locks of Love to be part of Relay for Life event

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Many more activities than you might imagine are part of the Relay for Life event at the Old Town High School track Friday and Saturday, May 19-20.

For example, Jessica Gray of Corinna and members of her Relay for Life team, “Judi’s Hope,” invite individuals to donate their long hair to Locks of Love at noon Saturday, May 20, at the Old Town Relay for Life.

Gray reports the campsite to donate will be “well posted with the team name, Judi’s Hope,” which honors her late mother, Judi Oakman, a popular Clifton resident who died of melanoma in 1999.

Locks of Love, a national nonprofit organization based in Florida, provides custom hairpieces for individuals, particularly children, who have experienced total hair loss through illness, accident, disease or long-term medical conditions or treatment.

Gray explained in order for a person to donate hair, “it must be 10 inches in length, be bundled in a ponytail or braid and free of any chemical processing” such as bleach or a recent permanent.

“Your hair will be styled by a professional hairdresser, and a small gift will be given to those eligible for a donation,” she added. “Please come and help a child in need of a little love from a complete stranger.”

For more information, call Gray at 278-2325.

State Historian Earle Shettleworth will discuss Orono’s historic buildings during the free Bicentennial Lecture at 7 p.m. Thursday, May 18, at the Orono Municipal Building.

Prior to the lecture, at 6:15 p.m., you are invited to tour the former St. Mary’s School on Main Street.

Not usually open to the public, this facility is now a private residential complex.

You have two opportunities to take the kids to the Alan Drew Magic Show, at 4 or 7 p.m. Friday, May 19, at Lagrange Elementary School.

Admission is $5 for adults, $3 for children and free for little ones under 3.

Proceeds benefit the community playground fund.

Tami Campbell of the Hampden Highlands Methodist Church reminds readers the Hampden Children’s Fair, a giant, indoor yard sale of children’s equipment, toys and clothing from newborn to young adults, is 9 a.m. to noon Saturday, May 20, in the Hampden Academy gymnasium.

The sale is sponsored by the Jubilation Ringers of HHUMC.

Jane Pierce and fellow members of First Congregational Church UCC of Brewer are conducting their Second Time Around Sale 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturday, May 20, at 35 Church St. in Brewer.

Among the available items are clothing, plants, furniture “in excellent condition and other household items that folks just wish they had,” she wrote.

Coffee and muffins will be available “to help the shoppers keep up their strength,” Pierce added.

The church is handicap-accessible, with a ramp in the back and a chairlift into the basement.

Piano students of Eleanor Beckwith, Paulina Glazman, Ellen Newton, Sarah Pendleton, Patricia Stowell, Joanne Westin and the Music Teachers National Association 2006 Teacher of the Year, Ginger Yang Hwalek, will participate in the student piano performance at 2 p.m. Saturday, May 20, at All Souls Congregational Church, 10 Broadway in Bangor.

The selected students will perform on the Arlan A. Baillie Steinway Grand in the program, which, explained All Souls music director Kay Byther Eames, is designed to give them an opportunity “to play for each other, inspire one another, and experience performing on a grand piano in a concert setting.

There is no admission to attend.

Stephanie Cote of United Cerebral Palsy of Maine invites you to bowl as an individual or as part of a team in the UCP Bowl-A-Thon from 10 a.m. to noon Saturday, May 20, at Bangor-Brewer Bowling Lanes on Wilson Street in Brewer.

The event benefits the UCP Camp CaPalla program.

Admission is $10, prizes will be offered, and more information is available at www.ucpofmaine.org or by calling UCP at 941-2952.

On behalf of Stillwater Montessori School, Karen Benson invites you to a spring dance and live and silent auction from 6:30 to 9 p.m. Saturday, May 20, at the Keith Anderson Community Center in Orono.

The Marsh Island Band will provide dance music for this family-fun event to benefit the school scholarship fund.

Admission is $10, or $25 for families, and donations of auction items are welcome.

For more information call the school at 827-2404.

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