Martial arts event in Newport to benefit St. Jude’s

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Young karate enthusiasts have been busily seeking pledges, and lining up sponsors for the American Taekwondo Association Black Belt Academy and Karate 4 Kids martial arts fundraiser to benefit St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in Memphis, Tenn.

The public is invited to attend the event from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, May 27, at the ATA Black Belt Academy in Newport Plaza, 29 Main St., Newport.

Janice Novak said, “We’d like to get as many people there as we can, to participate and raise money for St. Jude’s foundation.”

There is no admission fee and you and your kids can purchase hot dogs and hamburgers at the event. The kids can enjoy a bounce house and other activities and everyone will get a kick out of watching Mike Schmidt break 200 boards in one minute.

Novak said the kids will be breaking boards, too, and attendees can have the opportunity to try their hand at it, as well, using specially provided karate boards.

Balloons for the kids, a fun time for all, and a worthy cause to support make this a great Saturday activity.

For more information, call Novak at 924-5841 or 368-2400.

St. Jude’s, founded by the late entertainer Danny Thomas, is internationally recognized for its work in finding cures for children who have been diagnosed with cancer and other diseases.

Dr. Michael and Diane DeVita of Hampden, who established the Christian, nonprofit Source of Life Healing Rooms of Greater Bangor, have announced that their facility has relocated to 201 Cedar St. in Bangor and will be reopening on Wednesday, May 24, at the new address.

In addition to offering courses periodically, the couple makes house visits for shut-ins and jail and hospital visits upon request.

For more information, call the DeVitas at 941-1118.

Kevin Birch, director of The Chamber Choir at St. John’s Catholic Church, invites you to join them for Sacred Music for Eastertide, Georgian Chants and 20th Century French, Dutch and American Choral and Organ works.

The performance is 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, May 24, at St. John’s, 207 York St. in Bangor.

Admission is free but donations are appreciated.

Cary Weston of Fusion Bangor invites “young parents and working professionals starting new families” to learn about the wonders of the Maine Discovery Museum from 5:30 to 7 p.m. Thursday, May 25, at the museum on Main Street in downtown Bangor.

The event is free, he wrote, but you must RSVP through the Fusion Bangor Web site to attend. You can register at www.fusionbangor.com.

The event will include door prizes and an optional scavenger hunt through the museum, which is featuring its new safari exhibit, he added.

“Our goal for this event is to open the eyes to our younger parents as to the tremendous asset the museum is to the region, and hopefully, introduce the social and networking value of Fusion to new folks as well,” Weston said.

Sally Bates, for Bangor Center Corp., wants readers to know that Schoodic Steel Pan Band will play for your pleasure from 6:30 to 8 p.m. Thursday, May 25, in West Market Square in downtown Bangor.

Bates said the music will be “great for dancing or just listening” and, “if it rains, we’ll move the band into the parking garage.”

This event is free.

Members of Bucksport High School Class of 1956 are planning their 50th Class Reunion for Thursday, June 29.

Reunion committee members are to be commended for their hard work, considering they are still seeking an address for only one classmate: Ronald Varnum.

Shirley Hutchins said the planners “are also looking for a photograph of the Walter Gardiner High School, as it was in 1956, that can be reproduced.”

If you have an old photo to lend, or know the whereabouts of Varnum, please call Hutchins at 469-3305.

Sister Marie Ahern reminds you that preparations are underway for the H.O.M.E. Inc., annual summer auction at the facility located at the intersection of Route 1 and Schoolhouse Road in Orland.

“We are searching for donations of good, auctionable items,” she wrote of contributions of any value, large or small, antique or collectible.

“If it’s dusty,” she wrote, “we’ll clean it up. If it’s heavy, we’ll move it. If it’s a mystery, we’ll solve it. If it needs picking up, we’ll haul it.”

Call 469-7961 to make your contribution.

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