Members of the Ellsworth Garden Club invite you to join them on a visit to Birdsacre at 7 p.m. Monday, June 23, at the nature center off Route 3, the Bar Harbor Road in Ellsworth.

Mary Blackstone wrote that Stan Richmond, Birdsacre educator, will present a program about owls.

Refreshments will be served, and more information is available by calling Jay Barnes at 667-8878.

Richmond’s program “will feature the unreleasable, resident owls at the bird sanctuary, and provide opportunities for Club members, and any other interested members of the public, to learn more about the owls’ behavior, habitat, care and feeding,” Blackstone wrote.

You also can tour the childhood home of Cordelia Stanwood, “and learn more about this gifted ornithologist,” Blackstone added.

She encourages guests “to come early and visit McGinley Pond, the site of a hummingbird and butterfly garden, which is being designed” and prepared by the EGC.

Blackstone wrote that this event “is one of several educational programs” being offered by EGC and Birdsacre “in conjunction with this project which recently received a President’s Project Grant from the Garden Club Federation of Maine.”

Earlier this year, she wrote, the EGC also received a $1,000 grant for this project from National Garden Clubs Inc. and Principal Financial Group. With pride, Blackstone added that the EGC was “the only Garden Club in New England to receive the maximum grant amount through this program.”

Pine Cone Council 114 Knights of Columbus Grand Knight Larry Willey wrote that the 12th annual Bangor Knights of Columbus Golf Tournament begins with registration at 7 a.m. and a shotgun start at 8 a.m. Saturday, June 28, at Hermon Meadow Golf Course.

The tournament is a four-person team, best ball scramble.

Limited to amateur players, the $75 per-player fee includes greens fees, cart rental for 18 holes and a luncheon after the tournament.

Prizes will be awarded for first through third place in gross and net; closest to the pin on all par-3 holes; and the longest drive for men and women.

There also is a hole-in-one prize that includes “a chance to drive a new Chevrolet from Quirk Auto Park,” according to the information Willey provided.

Proceeds from the tournament “are used to support seminarians and novices, as well as Knights of Columbus charities,” Willey wrote, adding that “the Bangor Knights of Columbus is the largest supporter of seminarians and novices in the entire state, due to this outstanding project.

“We anticipate another big crowd, this year, and it is a very worthwhile event.”

For more information, or to register, write Knights of Columbus, Attn: Larry Willey, P.O. Box 994, Bangor 04402-0994, or call Willey at 262-6222.

Willey said golfers also may register the day of the event.

Janeen Feero reports applications for the 2008 Penquis Summer Fun Program are available for teens ages 13-15 living is Piscataquis County.

This free program is 12:30-4:30 p.m. Tuesdays and Thursdays, June 24 through Aug. 7, offering “fun, team building activities, community service opportunities and field trips,” Feero wrote. Snacks and drinks will be provided.

Applications are available at the Penquis Office, 50 North St. in Dover-Foxcroft, or at www.penquis.org. For more information, call Penquis at 564-7116.

Gaynor Reynolds e-mailed the Sebasticook Valley Band appears in concert at 7 p.m. Tuesday, June 24, at Ecotat Gardens in Hermon.

Bring a chair or blanket, and park in the Annis Road parking area. In case of rain, the date is Tuesday, July 1.

Ruth Summer White, secretary of the Over 50 Brewer High School Senior Alumni Reunion, wrote that event is Friday, Aug. 15, at Jeff’s Catering in Brewer.

The event raises money for scholarships for deserving graduating Brewer High School students, and more than 200 people, “from all over the country” return, yearly, “to renew old friendships,” White wrote.

White reminds everyone who attended Brewer High School “they do not need to have graduated” to attend this reunion.

This year, the honored class is 1948, some of whom are among the missing.

Brewer High School Over 50 Senior Alumni need information about the following: Alice Blackman Matson, Plylis Clark, Jeanette Pratt Byron, Robert St. Clair, Louise Walls Russell, Betty Cole, Mary Frances Derosier, Ruth Henderson Colford, Ruth Ireland Ring, Edith Sleeper Poole and Dorothy Smith Myers.

If you can help, call White at 942-9271, write her at P.O. Box 3605, Brewer 04412, or e-mail ruth513@yahoo.com.

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