Family events at Greater Pushaw Lake meeting

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The 2008 annual meeting of the Greater Pushaw Lake Association will be held at 1:30 p.m. Saturday, June 28, at the Pushaw Lake Campground on Forest Avenue in Orono, reports Sandi Duchesne.

She wrote that “all full-time and part-time residents living on or near Pushaw Lake and Little Pushaw Pond are invited to attend.”

In addition to the meeting and election of officers, lakeside families will enjoy an ice cream social, family-oriented games and “educational activities … sponsored by the Penobscot County Soil and Water Conservation District,” Duchesne wrote.

You also will learn about invasive plant identification, water quality, camp road maintenance “and other issues that are important to lakeside property owners.”

For information, call Duchesne at 827-3782.

Ann Carter reports the first SummerKeys Mary Potterton Memorial Piano Concert will feature founder-director Bruce Potterton at 7:30 tonight, at the Lubec Congregational Christian Church.

There is no charge to attend and free refreshments will be offered during intermission, compliments of the West Quoddy Lighthouse Association.

For information, call 733-2316.

Dr. Everett Parker e-mailed that guided tours of the new Center for Moosehead History’s Eveleth-Crafts-Sheridan Historical House museum campus starts today and will be offered 1-4 p.m. throughout the summer on Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays, “with other times and days available on request.”

Parker also invites you to attend the center’s annual meeting at 7 p.m. Thursday, June 26, at the museum.

“The public is encouraged to attend and hear a presentation by Susan Muzzy and Ryan Edmondson,” Parker wrote of “An Old Post Card Tour of the Moosehead Lake Region.”

The museum is launching a new, major membership initiative, he pointed out, and information may be obtained by calling the museum at 695-2909, writing CMH, P.O. Box 1116, Greenville 04441-1116, e-mailing mooseheadhistory@veriozon.net or visiting www.mooseheadhistory.org.

Bob Davids e-mailed information he believes might be of interest to our readers, and I bet he’s right!

The 13th annual Antique Tractor Festival of the Maine Antique Tractor Club begins when gates open at 8 a.m. each day, Friday, June 27, through Sunday, June 29, at the Farmington Fairgrounds.

Admission is $5 for adults, $2 for children ages 11-17, free for youngsters under 10.

Hundreds of antique farm tractors, implements, construction machinery, lawn and garden tractors, and antique engines are on display, and the show also features antique tractor pulling, lawn and garden tractor pulling, a parade, food and demonstrations.

For information, call festival chairman Dick Larrivee at 892-4946, or e-mail rlarr437@aol.com, or call Davids at 938-3258, or e-mail 2davids@tdstelme.net.

Suze Howe of Eastern Maine AIDS Network reports as part of National HIV Testing Day, an annual campaign produced by the National Association of People with AIDS, EMAN will offer free, rapid HIV antibody testing from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Friday, June 27, at the EMAN office, 370 Harlow St., Bangor.

The results will be available in approximately 20 minutes, and those being tested also will be offered counseling and safer-sex supplies.

Howe wants readers to know that the Maine Center for Disease Control estimates that 1,500 to 1,700 Mainers are infected with HIV, “and as many as 540 are unaware that they are infected.”

For information about National HIV Testing Day, visit http://www.hivtest.org.

Nan Cobbey of the Belfast Garden Club reminds readers the next BGC Open Garden Day is 10 a.m.-5 p.m. at the residence of Dr. George Holmes, 1442 Atlantic Highway, in Northport.

The veterinarian’s extensive gardens include perennials, roses, lilacs, magnolias and woodland plants. The suggested admission is a donation of $3.

For a list of all gardens and directions, visit www.belfastgardenclub.org or obtain brochures and maps inside the decorative birdhouse at Post Office Square in Belfast.

The Farnsworth Art Museum in Rockland is in need of information desk volunteers, reports volunteer coordinator Niki Dabrio.

Volunteers are needed to staff the newly created information desk 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Tuesdays-Saturdays, during July and August, where the volunteers will serve as greeters and visitor hosts.

All that is asked of volunteers is to commit to a minimum of one day a week and that you are preferably a “people person who is interested in helping the Farnsworth Art Museum enhance the visitor’s experience.”

If you can help, call Dabrio at 596-6457, ext. 143, or e-mail ndabrio@farnsworthmuseum.org.

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