Spruce Run seeks 24-hour hot line volunteers

loading...

Spruce Run Association is a domestic violence project that serves Penobscot County.

Margo Batsie is the community response coordinator for Spruce Run, and she wants readers to know that this organization really needs some helpful community response.

Batsie e-mailed that individuals are being sought to take its Hotline Volunteer Training course, which begins Tuesday, May 29, and runs through mid-July.

The sessions are conducted Monday and Thursday evenings at Spruce Run’s Resource Center in Bangor.

However, Batsie added, “due to Memorial Day, the first training session will fall on a Tuesday,” and she wants potential volunteers to understand they will “have one or two training sessions on a Saturday.”

“The training will give you all the skills you need to provide support, validation and information about options [available] to people affected by domestic abuse,” Batsie wrote, adding that “hotline volunteers can work from their homes or from our offices.”

For information about this program and how you can become part of it, call Batsie at 945-5102.

To receive assistance from Spruce Run’s 24-hour hot line, call (800) 863-9909.

One of the more appreciated regular events hosted by the Unitarian-Universalist Society of Bangor is its free Baked Bean Dinner, which is 4-5 p.m. Saturday, May 26, at its 120 Park St. facility in Bangor.

On behalf of the UU Bean Dinner Committee, Mike Grondin cordially invites you to attend and enjoy the free meal and camaraderie.

Members of the Charlotte Historical Society invite you to a Memorial Day Remembrance at 8:15 a.m. Monday, May 28, at Round Pound Cemetery.

The observance will feature an honor guard, music, reading the roll call of Charlotte’s deceased veterans and other activities.

Ann Carter reports the service ends with a procession through the cemetery, with cedar wreaths made by local schoolchildren placed on each veteran’s grave.

After the cemetery service, the historical society invites the public to enjoy brunch at the Charlotte town hall and visit their museum on the building’s second floor.

Bob Cottrell invites the public to hear the Mount View Chamber Singers perform at 7 p.m. Wednesday, May 30, at First Congregational Church of Brewer, 35 Church St.

Cottrell wrote the singers have “performed all over eastern and central Maine,” as well as New Brunswick, and “are, perhaps, best known for their Carols-in-the-Round during Advent.”

The choir “recently returned from a concert tour in Hungary,” he wrote, “where they performed at an 800-year-old church in Budapest, at the cathedral in Kalocsa,” a school, and “a museum where their performance was recorded and subsequently broadcast on television.”

After the concert, Cottrell invites guests to “a meet-and-greet reception, with light refreshments, and the opportunity to buy one of the Singers’ CDs.”

For information, call the church office at 989-7350 or e-mail fcongobrw@midmaine.

com.

Jessica Taylor e-mailed the BDN that the first-ever Golden Road Bike Tour & Race is Friday, June 1, through Sunday, June 3, from Ambajejus and Millinocket lakes to Ripogenus Dam and Gorge.

This premiere event is presented by The Katahdin Trails Alliance in cooperation with Katahdin Forest Management LLC.

The registration packet for one is $25 or $40 for families, and group rates are available.

The event begins with a Welcome Bikers Party on Friday evening, features a 30-mile tour starting at 9 a.m. Saturday and a “just-for-fun” race beginning at 9 a.m. Sunday.

The tour’s first prize is an original painting of Katahdin by Marsha Donahue, and prizes will be awarded for Sunday’s fun run.

For information, a schedule of events, or to register, e-mail stan.extreme@gmail.com, write Katahdin Trails Alliance, P.O. Box 248, Millinocket 04462 or visit www.katahdintrails

alliance.com.

Members of John Bapst High School Class of 1967 are in the midst of planning for the 40th reunion of graduates of that Bangor institution now known as John Bapst Memorial High School.

The JBHS 40th Reunion is scheduled for the weekend of July 20-21, but, unfortunately, some of its classmates are among the “missing.”

Those with whom planners have lost contact are Scott Beede, Patrick Burke, Pamela Conners Walter, Bonnie Devino McGinley, Christine Kelly Galonski, Mike Morse, Blanche Nicola and Glenn Rice.

If you have any information about these members of JBHS Class of ’67, you are asked to call Richard Fernald at 862-3974 or e-mail him at xyzref@aol.com, or call Brenda Verceles Donroe at (603) 432-6066, or e-mail her at brv224@comcast.net.

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