St. Croix Valley to preserve quilting heritage

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For the first time in the St. Croix Valley, people with heritage quilts can have them documented.

The St. Croix International Quilters’ Guild, a chapter of Pine Tree Quilters Guild Inc., is hosting a quilt documentation day 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Sunday, June 4, at Downeast Heritage Museum on Union Street in Calais.

The event is being conducted with the cooperation of the Maine Quilt Heritage Committee for quilts made before 1960.

These PTQG volunteers are dedicated to preserving the quilt heritage of Maine through its quilts and quilters.

At documentation days, each quilt receives a registration number and forms are completed describing the quilt along with additional information from the owner about its history.

The quilt owner is given a copy of the registration number, documentation data and information about quilt care. The committee keeps the original documentation and photographs, and places the quilt information on permanent file.

The committee does not, however, appraise quilts or certify their age.

There is no charge for this service, and no appointment is necessary.

For more information, call Bonnie Hunter, 726-5117 or e-mail bonnie@bonniehunterquiltmaker.com.

The public is invited to a reception for retiring Brewer High School assistant principal Dan O’Connell from 4 to 6 p.m. today in the Student Services Conference Room at BHS.

O’Connell has worked in the education field for more than 30 years, as a teacher, coach and administrator.

On behalf of Mabel Wadsworth Women’s Health Center of Bangor, Barb Bowler invites you to its annual Buds ‘n Blooms Plant Sale 8 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturday, June 3, at Grace United Methodist Church, 193 Union St. in Bangor.

Bowler reports the sale features annuals, perennials, herbs and flower and vegetable plants.

For more information, or to donate plants, call MWWHC, 947-5337, ext. 104.

You are also invited to attend the MWWHC Open House at its new facility Thursday, June 15, in the Evergreen Woods complex.

Reservations are requested and can be made by calling Deanna Partridge at the number above.

Barbara Jewell reports the Hampden Historical Society annual yard and book sale is 8 a.m.-1 p.m. Saturday, June 3, at the Kinsley House, 83 Main Road South in Hampden.

Sale proceeds will help with the upkeep of HHS buildings.

Jim Bird and other Orono Bog Boardwalk volunteers are hosting their annual yard sale from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, June 3, at 139 Main St. in Orono. The rain date is Sunday, June 4.

All proceeds will help maintain the boardwalk.

“We expect to have many items for sale including children’s items, some furniture, clothes, books and much more,” Bird wrote.

Staff of Bangor Nature Club’s Blethen Library invites you to a Bird Walk, guided by Hope Brogunier and Bruce Barker, at 7 a.m. Saturday, June 3, beginning at the library in the Crosby House at ECOTAT Gardens at the intersection of Route 2 and Annis Road in Hermon.

You are asked to leave your vehicles in the Annis Road parking area.

Brogunier and Barker hope that a number of birds will be identified either by sight or call.

After the walk, you are invited for conversation and a continental breakfast in the library.

ECOTAT Gardens will also be conducting a Perennial Plant Sale from 9 to 11 a.m. the same day at ECOTAT.

“All of the perennials are hardy to this zone,” wrote Gaynor Reynolds, “and have been lifted from gardens on the property.”

For the sale, you are also asked to leave vehicles in the Annis Road parking area.

Vinal Applebee reports this year’s Habitat for Humanity of Greater Bangor annual yard sale is from 8 a.m. to noon Saturday, June 3, at 14 Savage St. in Bangor.

The sale also includes “outdoor garden and planting items” including annuals and perennials, and “much, much more,” he wrote.

Additionally, Applebee wrote, HHGB members are “soliciting contractors, builders, suppliers of building materials and individuals, for donations of excess or overstock building materials like lumber, shingles, electrical, windows, tiles, carpet, paint, bath fixture and vanities, sinks, white goods, appliances, etc., in new or good, resalable condition.”

You can drop off your items at 14 Savage St. in Bangor “or we may be able to pick up the donations,” he wrote, if you call him at 947-0153, ext. 331, or Monique Gautreau at 942-8700.

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