Everyone associated with Pine Tree Hospice in Dover-Foxcroft is certainly busy these days, with two very special events in the works.

The first is an educational program, Wounded Warriors and What They Can Teach Us, beginning with a social hour at 4:30 p.m. Friday, at the American Legion Chadbourne-Merrill Post 29 on Park Street, Dover-Foxcroft.

PTH executive director Cynthia Scott e-mailed that this informative evening, with co-host the American Legion, includes a potluck dinner at 5 p.m. and the program 5:45-8:45 p.m.

Open to the public, the program is intended to “provide information on the psychological impact of war on veterans,” and to offer “valuable end-of-life material directed to veterans, their families and their caregivers; personal and professional.”

For information about this event that features several guest speakers including representatives of Veterans Affairs and the Maine Hospice Council as well as PTH and the American Legion, call Scott at 564-4359, or Post 29 Commander Ed Conroy at 564-3265.

The second event is a golf tournament to benefit PTH on Saturday, June 7, at Dexter Municipal Golf Course.

The $30 registration fee for the 18-hole golf scramble includes lunch and refreshments, and anyone who wants to participate may call DMGC at 924-6477 to register and reserve a tee time.

Proceeds from this benefit will help support the volunteer work of PTH, which serves 28 towns in Piscataquis, Penobscot and Somerset counties.

Kal Elmore, fire arts department chair for Bangor High School, invites you to view the annual Student Art Exhibit, now through June 27, in the Lecture Hall and the Stairwell Gallery of Bangor Public Library on Harlow Street.

Even better, you may attend the exhibit’s opening reception 5-6:30 p.m. today, at the library.

The exhibit features the work of more than 40 advanced art students, ranging from paintings to drawings, prints and photographs.

“There are a great variety of styles and techniques” included in what Elmore describes as a “wonderful exhibit.”

Norma Milton e-mailed that June is National Adopt A Cat Month.

“To celebrate our furry feline friends,” Milton said, Caribou Pet Rescue is keeping the $25 adult cat adoption price” for cats 6 months and older throughout June, but that fee “will revert to $75” on July 1.

She added the fee includes necessary tests and shots valued at approximately $130, and that North Country Animal Hospital in Caribou and Presque Isle Animal Hospital “offer CPR adopters a free wellness health appointment within 30 days of adoption.”

For information, call CPR at 498-3800.

Mary MacKay of The Salvation Army in Bangor, wrote it is conducting a shoe drive now through Sunday, June 15 “to benefit Africa and missions.”

She urges you to clean out your closets and bring in new or nearly new shoes, especially athletic shoes, to help with this project.

The shoes may be dropped off in Bangor at The Salvation Army Family Store, 585 Broadway, Shaw’s and K-B Toys or at Marden’s in Brewer.

For information, call either MacKay or Captain Josh Lyle at 941-2990.

His family reports that “after nearly 40 years of coaching and educating in the state of Maine, Jack Tourtilotte will retire” this month.

They ask those who knew him “and would like to help him celebrate his retirement” to e-mail a “favorite memory, story, advice or best wishes” to jacktoretire@yahoo.com.

The information “will be compiled and presented” to Tourtilotte during a small family celebration in early July.

Submissions are requested by Monday, June 30 and also may be mailed to Jack Tourtilotte, care of Carolyn Pottle, 212 Campbell Drive, Lowell, Mass. 01851.

As we approach the end of the school year, the Bangor Daily News has heard from special education English teacher Valerie Cahill and her nine students at El Modena High School in Orange, Calif.

Cahill said her class has chosen “to learn information about Maine,” and hopes that “some of your readers … would be kind enough to send us a memento” of the Pine Tree State.

Cahill believes this project would be a good way for her class of “multihandicapped students with disabilities … learn more about Maine while getting them to work on their writing skills.”

If you can help with this project, send information about Maine to Cahill, EMHS, 3920 E. Spring St., Orange, Calif. 92869; call her at 714-997-6331 or e-mail vcahill@orangeusd.k12.ca.us.

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