The PowerHouse Teen Center is a project of The Salvation Army in Bangor.

Recently, Charlie Liu of the center wrote community members to introduce a new $50,000 fundraising campaign, “Are You on The List?

The campaign will help “ensure the continuation” of the PowerHouse Teen Center program “that offers a safe haven for our community teens,” he said.

To introduce the public to the center, and to the campaign, the PowerHouse Teen Center is hosting an open house at 5 p.m. Friday, June 1, at The Salvation Army, 65 South Park St., Bangor.

The event includes a dodge ball tournament, for which you must register, vending refreshments, and live entertainment.

You will also hear from the teens about why having a teen center is important to them.

The PowerHouse campaign asks 500 people to donate $100 each, for which they will be recognized on The PowerHouse home page.

To be included in the campaign, you make a minimum $100 donation to The Salvation Army, with PowerHouse Campaign on the memo line, and mail it to The Salvation Army, 65 South Park St., Bangor 04401.

However, there are other ways you can help make the PowerHouse Teen Center available to all area youth: by becoming a PowerHouse Teen Center Contributor for $25 or a PowerHouse Teen Center Friend for $50.

Corporate giving is also encouraged, and all contributions are tax-deductible.

For information about the center, the campaign, or registering your team for the dodge ball tournament, call 941-2990.

Information about the center is available at its Web site, www.thepowerhouseteencenter.org.

Although novice Kenduskeag Stream Canoe Race participant H. Peter Muth of Spruce Head “fell at the first serious hurdle” at Six Mile Falls, he appears to have good memories of that 41st annual event, which took place the last Saturday of April.

Muth wrote the BDN to thank a good Samaritan who helped him out of the water.

The Samaritan then retrieved his own “truck from a remote parking lot,” Muth wrote, got Muth hot coffee, and even drove him back to where the race began to get his car.

“All I know” about this good Samaritan, Muth wrote, “is that he participated in the race, each year, from 1976 to 1996, and won his class in 1996.”

“I hope he is a regular reader of your paper, and that he reads this letter,” Muth says, because he extends “a heart-felt thank you, my stranger-friend, from the German you helped!”

“Thanks to you, I have none but fond, if somewhat wet, memories of this glorious day and race.

“I’ll be back next year.”

Representatives of Southern Aroostook Cultural Arts Project hope you will exhibit your talents during the Once in a Blue Moon Celebration that begins at 6 p.m. Thursday, May 31, in the Blue Moon Gallery in Visions at 66 Main St., Houlton.

According to a release, to recognize the “celestial blue moon,” occurring that evening, local artists of all skill levels can bring in one piece of work that is ready for display.

SACAP reserves the right of final approval for the works to be exhibited, but those that meet its guidelines will be exhibited through Monday, June 4, at Blue Moon Gallery in Visions.

For information, call SACAP, 532-9119, or e-mail sacap@mfx.net.

Myrna Parker reports Hancock County United Bikers of Maine will meet for dinner at 6 p.m. Tuesday, May 29, at Pat’s Pizza in Ellsworth.

Dinner will be followed by the organization’s meeting at 7 p.m., and more information about this event and about UBM can be obtained by calling 469-3607.

Members of Orono High School Class of 1957 are making plans for their 50th Class Reunion that begins with a get-together Friday, Aug. 3, at Pat’s Pizza in Orono, and then the main event beginning at 6 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 4, at Birch Street School in Orono.

Beverly Robichaud reports that the committee has been very successful in locating its classmates and that it has only two among the missing.

In fact, she told me, “we have been unable to find them for many years.”

If anyone knows the whereabouts of Arras Gardner McDonald or Donald Bicknell, Robichaud would appreciate hearing from you.

You can reach her at 866-2867, or if she’s not available, call Donna Coulombe at 827-3201.

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