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Alton

Church meals

Senior Meals on Tuesdays at Alton United Methodist Church will not be held until September.

The church will hold its final all-you-can-eat breakfast, 7-9 a.m. June 10, Alton United Methodist Church Hall, 3494 Bennoch Road. Breakfasts will resume in the fall.

Bangor

Pottery at the library

The second of the Bangor Public Library’s Meet the Artist and Artisan lecture series is set for noon Wednesday, June 14, in the library’s Lecture Hall. Dennis Martin and Henry Stupakewicz will show the many different ways of making and decorating pottery.

Stupakewicz is a teacher and mentor to Martin, who teaches at the Hammond Street Senior Center. Information on how to get started and where to find instructions and materials will be available. Bring a brown bag lunch and eat while enjoying the lecture.

Fundraising campaign

The Bangor chapter of MADD, with the assistance of ECMG, is conducting a local fundraising campaign. Local residents and businesses are invited to place an ad in the chapter’s 2006 program booklet, which will be handed out at the chapter’s annual comedy show, 7 and 9:30 p.m. Friday, June 30, at the Bangor Elks Club.

Hike to End Homelessness

Bangor Area Homeless Shelter director Dennis Marble announced recently that the Hike to End Homelessness will take place Saturday, June 24, at Cadillac Mountain in Acadia National Park. There is room for 100 hikers in four teams of 25 each. Each hiker pays a $25 registration fee.

Bangor Area Homeless Shelter is selling raffle tickets for $10 each. A variety of prizes are still being acquired.

The shelter’s fundraising goal is $25,000.

Businesses wishing to donate prizes for the raffle, or those who would like to sell raffle tickets, should e-mail bahs@gwi.net. Those who want to participate in the hike should e-mail mikebahs@gwi.net.

Bradley

Planning meeting

The next committee meeting to plan activities for Bradley’s Independence Day parade and Community Fun Day will be held at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, June 13, at the Viola Rand School.

Volunteers are needed to run games and vendors are needed on Fun Day. Veterans are needed to ride on a float.

Volunteers are needed to march in the parade and to participate in the car show. For more information, call Heidi Gifford at 827-1087.

Brewer

Shows by young dancers

Students from Northern Lights Dance Arts in Brewer, Ellsworth and Lincoln brought home one gold award and six “high gold” awards from the April 30 Olympic Miss Dance competition in South Portland.

The older Dazzlers also received the Clean and Clear tap award for “Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy;” the Beautiful Lines award for the lyrical “Via Dolorosa;” the Terrific Transitions award for “Take Every Chance;” and the High Endurance award for a hiphop number, “Holla at the DJ.”

On May 1, Sachi Cote and Jocelyn Duff took a master class at the Maine Dance Studio with Blake McGrath, who performed last summer on “So You Think You Can Dance.”

Northern Lights will present its year-end show at 4 p.m. Sunday, June 18, at Hauck Auditorium, Memorial Union, University of Maine in Orono.

A tribute to dads, the Father’s Day performance will include a medley of “daddy songs” performed by the Dazzlets, Junior Dazzlers and Senior Dazzlers. The Junior Dazzlers and Senior Dazzlers will present a Bob Fosse-inspired tribute to Broadway.

The show also will be given at 6 p.m. Saturday, June 17, at Ellsworth High School.

The younger dancers will treat residents of the Maine Veterans Home in Bangor to a year-end performance on Wednesday, June 21.

Kiwanis Club news

Brewer Kiwanis Club held an interclub meeting recently with members from the Orono-Old Town Kiwanis Club. Those atteding were Carl Gridley, Deanna Wade, Sam Hamilton and Betty Hamilton. Honorary member Clay Hardy spoke to the club about his travels last winter.

Local Kiwanians helped with the Veterans’ Casino, New England District Division 2, 3 and 4 Casino and the Brewer Citywide Cleanup Project.

At the Brewer High School awards ceremony, Herb Hopkins awarded academic trophies to high honor senior students who maintained a grade point average of 90 or above.

Recipients of trophies were: Jennie D’Amico, Hilary Fernald, Alyssa Quimby, Amanda Osborne, James Ecker, Erica Hart, Danielle Brady, Devin Ohmart, Kate Chambers, Kendra Keefe, Sarah Breau, Adam Mullen, Melanie Moore, Ashley Hawkins-Kimball, David Crawford, Mindy Michaud, David Coleman, Matthew Stratton, Matthew Desjardins, Johnna Ambrose, Nicholas Vaughan, Katie Hall, Brennan Cammack, Erin Suitter, Sarah Somers, Christopher Wilson, Brendan Carr, Kyla Bailey, Samantha Shepard and Matthew Sawyer.

At the ceremony, Danielle Brady and Mindy Michaud received Ron Adams Kiwanis Memorial Scholarships in the amount of $500 each.

Brewer Kiwanis is planning a casino for the seniors as part of Project Graduation.

Brewer Kiwanis meets 6-7 p.m. the second and fourth Wednesdays of the month at the Muddy Rudder Restaurant in Brewer. New members are always welcome.

Glenburn

Summer recreation

The Glenburn Summer Recreation Program for children ages 5 to 13 will run 8 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday through Friday, June 19-Aug. 11, at the Glenburn Elementary School. There will be no summer recreation sessions on July 4. The program is open to Glenburn residents only.

The fee for the program is $100 per week per child for the eight weeks. A $20 deposit per week is due by June 9. Participants may sign up for one or all eight weeks. Each child should bring a lunch.

Also available are soccer camps July 10-14 at Glenburn Recreation Field:

. World Cup program, ages 7-11, 9 a.m.-noon, $110.

. Advanced program, ages 12-14, 9 a.m.-noon, $110.

. Soccer Tots program, ages 4-6, 6-7:30 p.m., $80.

Host families are needed for the coaching staff. The deadline to register for soccer programs is Friday, June 30.

Registration forms for recreation programs are available at the town office.

Checks are payable to the Glenburn Recreation Department. Call the recreation director at 945-3119 for more information.

Kenduskeag

Benefit event

Kenduskeag Golf and Country Club will be the host for an 18-hole four-person golf scramble Saturday, June 24, to benefit CHOICES, a nonprofit foster child placement agency in Corinth. Shotgun starts are set for 7 a.m. and 11:30 a.m. The registration fee is $40 per person and includes greens fees and lunch. A discounted golf cart fee also will be offered.

There will be door prizes, and a hole-in-one on the eighth hole offers a trip to Las Vegas or $2,500 in cash. A raffle offering an all-day bass fishing trip, a set of ladies Jazz irons, a Jazz senior flex troubleshooter and a Wilson sand wedge will be available at the golf course. For more information, call Doug at 884-7330.

Orland

River Day on June 17

Great Pond Mountain Conservation Trust will celebrate its recent $346,000 award from Land for Maine’s Future program and kick off its public campaign for the Great Pond Mountain Wildlands at Orland River Day, June 17. The trust will host a booth, paddle, bus tour, programs and special speaker as part of the day’s events, as well as opening its Route 1 gate to visitors.

The land trust has raised nearly $2.2 million toward its $2.86 million goal in the past year, and is ready to take its campaign to the public. Just under $700,000 is left to be raised by June 2007.

Funds raised will go toward repaying a $1 million loan to protect the 4,200-acre East Orland property on and around Great Pond Mountain, and setting up a stewardship treasury for long-term management of recreational trails, working forests and wildlife habitat.

The trust will start the day’s events with the third annual Alewife Run Eco-Paddle, a 4-mile one-way recreational paddle from Alamoosook Lake-Dead River to Orland Village via the Narramissic River. The paddle starts at 8 a.m. from the Mushralls’ landing on the Dead River – directly across from the 810-acre Dead River section of the wildlands property.

Participants may drop off canoes or kayaks at the Mushralls’ home on Peaceful Valley Lane Friday night or early Saturday morning. Those wishing to have a vehicle waiting at the end of the paddle in Orland Village may park next to FL Davis Construction on Rte. 175 in the village, next to the post office, and catch the shuttlebus at 7:30 a.m. Saturday to the Mushralls’ landing.

Bring boat, paddle, life jackets, binoculars, bug repellent and drinking water. Kayak rentals are available from Bucksport Properties, LLC Kayak Rentals in downtown Bucksport, 974-6262. Kayak safety and paddling tips, and demos later in the day, will be offered by Castine Kayak. For directions and information, call 469-2008 or e-mail cdomina@midmaine.com.

The land trust will have a booth in the village from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. offering information on the wildlands, a raffle, T-shirts and totes for sale. It will feature Tony Sohns and his Maine Amphibians and Reptiles program at 11 a.m. and 1 p.m.

Maine Department of Conservation Commissioner Patrick McGowan, whose department sponsored the trust’s application to the Land for Maine’s Future Program, will speak at 12:30 p.m. about the wildlands, the Land for Maine’s Future program and conservation in the region.

The trust will offer, courtesy of Laidlaw Transportation, a bus tour of the wildlands leaving from the FL Davis lot at 3 p.m., returning at 4:30 p.m.

June 17 also will be Opening Day at the Wildlands. Starting June 17, and running through September, the Hothole Valley south gate on Route 1, across from the Route 176-Surry Road intersection, will be open to vehicle traffic every weekend from 8 a.m. to sunset.

Vehicles driving in on weekends are asked to park at the inner lot near the Hothole Brook Trail and outhouse. No vehicles are allowed past the barricades, and no ATVs allowed.

Guidelines and maps will be available June 17, at both north and south gates.

For more information on the Great Pond Mountain Wildlands events or campaign, or for a map and preserve guidelines, call 469-7190 or e-mail greatpond@midmaine.com.