Yard sale to help Maine native fight cancer

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Friends and family of 33-year-old Maine native and current Colorado resident Todd Mitchell are holding a benefit yard sale from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. Friday, Aug. 17, and from 8 a.m. to noon Saturday, Aug. 18, at 454 Garland St. in Bangor.

Gail Creath reports that Mitchell was diagnosed in July 2006 “with an extremely aggressive form of germ cell cancer, which is the same type of cancer that Lance Armstrong had,” although it is a different strain.

The son of Glenn and Judy Mitchell graduated from Brewer High School in 1992 and with a nursing degree from the University of Maine in 2000.

He worked several years at Eastern Maine Medical Center, and throughout the country as an operating room traveling nurse.

And although Mitchell had a stem cell transplant in May, the cancer has returned, Creath reports, and he has begun further chemotherapy treatments.

Proceeds from the sale will “help him with his living expenses and medical expenses” since he has been unable to work, she explained.

Pianist Mira Gill appears in the SummerKeys’ Mary Potterton Memorial Concert at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 15, at Lubec Congregational Christian Church.

Ann Carter reports admission is free, but contributions for the piano-tuning fund are appreciated.

Call 853-2500 for information about the Eastport-Lubec Concert Boat, for which there is a fee.

You can’t beat the price, or the setting, of the Hancock Woman’s Club Lobster Dinner 5 to 7 p.m. Friday, Aug. 17, overlooking Frenchman Bay on the lawn of the home of Pat Cyphers at the end of Point Road off Route 1 in Hancock.

“Just follow the signs,” wrote Jackie Nicholson.

The $17 shore dinner “includes lobster, corn on the cob, homemade slaw and desserts, rolls, watermelon and beverages,” she added.

Pat Hodgkins reports proceeds from the event being organized by Nancy Kephart will be used for the club’s year-round community projects such as enabling area groups to use the Hancock Community Center, college scholarships, youth sailing and tennis programs, a high school student art show, and a children’s Santa fund.

Everyone is welcome to enjoy this wonderful Maine summer dining opportunity.

For more information, call Kephart at 422-9555.

Friday, Aug. 17, is the deadline to submit nominations for three Fusion:Bangor Leadership and Vision Awards, which will be presented in October.

Fusion’s Tanya Pereira wrote that the purpose of the awards is to recognize “outstanding leadership and commitment to engagement of the Gen X set in the Bangor region.”

Nomination forms can be downloaded at www.fusionbangor.com.

For more information, call the Bangor Region Chamber of Commerce, 947-0307.

Janice Hosking of Sullivan reports members of St. Andrew Lutheran Church of Ellsworth are hosting a benefit for Downeast AIDS Network.

Church members invite you to a turkey dinner, with all the fixings, from 5:30 to 7 p.m. Friday, Aug. 17, at the church, 175 Downeast Highway in Ellsworth.

Admission is by donation.

Beth Beal reminds classmates that Brewer High School Class of 1942 “is having an informal get-together” at noon Saturday, Aug. 18, at Howard Johnson’s Restaurant, Odlin Road in Bangor.

Call her at 989-3505 for more information.

Members of Bangor Nature Club invite you to a free lecture about “The Effects of Climate Change on Maine Gardens.”

University of Maine professor of horticulture Dr. Stephanie Burnett will make the presentation at 4 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 18, in the Guy Brown Building at ECOTAT Gardens and Arboretum, 2699 Route 2 in Hermon.

The Castine Women’s Club is sponsoring the Bagaduce Summer Fair to benefit its scholarship program.

The arts and crafts event, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 18, in Emerson Hall on Court Street, features 25 local artists and crafters offering a variety of items from hooked rugs to jewelry, bags, wall hangings, photography, pottery and paintings.

For more information, call Charleen Wiseman, 326-4105, or Kathy Eaton, 326-4916.

Sandy Stone reports that members of the West Frankfort Volunteer Fire Department are holding their fourth annual auction with a preview beginning at 11 a.m. Saturday, Aug. 18, at the fire station, 291 Swanville Road.

Linda Payson will open bidding at 1 p.m. for the live auction.

Refreshments will be available, Stone said, and “donations will be accepted right up to the day of the auction.”

For more information, call Roy Stone, 223-4213, or Shawn Stone, 223-4391.

Proceeds will benefit the department.

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