Plans are under way for the Bucksport High School Class of ’47 60th Reunion and organizers are hoping more than just classmates will attend this event Friday, July 27, in Bucksport.

Mary Haynes Holmes wrote that people living in the Bucksport area and beyond just might recognize some of the names of class members such as Don Blodgett, Ben Blodget, Norma Meigs, Bettye Taylor, Lyman Hutchins, Mary Lou Sullivan, Gus Gregory, Bill Baxter and Holmes. However, she also wants readers to know that classmates planning this special event are “also looking for folks who were in grade school, sports, band and other activities with us, and friends who would like to join us.”

For more information about this 60-year celebration, call Holmes at 772-9804 or, June 1, call Don Blodgett at (414) 447-6276 and, after that, at 469-6529.

Here’s a reminder for anyone who is interested that a new support group, Gam Anon, meets at 7:15 p.m. Thursdays at the Church of Universal Fellowship in Orono.

I have been told that Gam Anon (Gambler’s Anonymous) is for “the family and friends of those who have a gambling problem,” and that “it follows AA and Al Anon principles” by lending support “to those family members dealing with the gambling addiction.”

The meetings last approximately one hour, and the anonymity of those attending is honored.

For more information, call 827-5406.

Climate change has been a hot topic lately, to say the least.

If you would like to learn more about what is happening and what could happen right here in our own state, you might want to attend “Climate Change in Maine: Past, Present and Future.”

That lecture by professor Karl Kreutz is at noon Friday, May 25, at Page Farm and Home Museum at the University of Maine in Orono. Kreutz is a member of the Department of Earth Sciences and Climate Change Institute, according to a university release.

Kreutz will address “historic climate changes and current efforts to modify future outcomes, with a focus on the relevance of these changes to Maine.”

The lecture is free and open to the public as part of the museum’s Brown Bag Lecture Series.

Lorraine Davis of Lincolnville e-mailed the NEWS that Bald Rock Community: Scenic Prosperity for Midcoast Maine, “will be drawing the winning raffle ticket for the Lil’ Diamond kayak” Saturday, May 26.

The 11-foot, 36-pound fiberglass kayak retails at $800.

It was made by Lincoln Canoe and Kayak and donated to BRC by Ducktrap Kayak of Lincolnville, she explained.

Raffle tickets are just $3, or two for $5, and can be purchased at Ducktrap Kayak, Route 1, in Lincolnville; by calling 236-8608; or at www.BaldRockCommunity.org.

Davis added that “all raffle proceeds will help preserve the scenic beauty of Bald Rock’s pristine panoramic viewshed.”

Bald Rock Mountain is located in Camden Hills State Park.

Olive Benton of Bangor is secretary of Burton-Goode-Sargent Korean War Veterans of America Chapter One.

She wrote to let readers know that the Burton-Goode-Sargent KWVA chapter will be hosting a memorial service at noon on Memorial Day, Monday, May 28, at the Korean War Memorial in Mount Hope Cemetery in Bangor.

This particular service follows the Bangor area Memorial Day parade.

According to Deborah Ladner, health education coordinator for the Bicycle Coalition of Maine, heart disease is the No. 1 killer among women in Maine, which is why she is urging women to participate in the 6th annual Women’s Ride for Heart Health.

That event begins at 9 a.m. Sunday, June 3, in Freeport.

The entry fee is $15 and proceeds benefit BCM’s “education mission of teaching bike safety to more than 15,000 school children across Maine each year,” Ladner wrote.

For more information, or to preregister, visit www.BikeMaine.org or call 623-4511.

On behalf of the Millinocket Fourth of July Committee, Hal Cote wrote that organizers of that special day’s events are seeking “local people to be in our parade,” which begins at 10 a.m. Wednesday, July 4, in that community.

Cote wrote that committee members are “seeking floats, bands and groups who would like to participate.”

If you want to be part of America’s Independence Day activities in Millinocket, call Laura Monzo at the Katahdin Area Chamber of Commerce, 723-4443; e-mail info@katahdinMaine.com; or call Cote at home, 723-6677, or at work, 723-5161, ext. 213.

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