The Howard Trafton Memorial Golf Tournament, that begins with an 8 a.m. shotgun start Saturday, Aug. 16, at Whitetail Golf Course in Charleston, is a meaningful one for hosts and WGC owners Scott and Shari Duthie.

The tournament is in memory of Shari Duthie’s father, who died in March, and proceeds will benefit her brother’s American Cancer Society Relay for Life team that will participate in that event, next May, in Old Town.

Duthie’s brother, Mike Trafton of Corinth, is a cancer survivor.

The 4-person scramble includes a buffet lunch and, I learned last week, the field is full and there is a waiting list.

However, Shari Duthie told me hole sponsorships, for $50 each, in memory or honor of someone with cancer, and merchandise or gift certificates for prizes for the players, are still being accepted and would be most welcome.

All proceeds benefit the Trafton Relay for Life team.

Shari Duthie wrote that her father helped with the construction of the golf course, “and mowed for us, up until his passing.”

During the past 40 years he attended most sporting events at Central High School in Corinth and was an avid Red Sox fan.

Donations to support the Trafton Relay for Life team are still being accepted.

Checks can be made payable to WGC and mailed to 373 School Road, Charleston, 04422.

For more information about this event, or the Relay for Life fundraising, call WGC at 285-7730.

My co-worker, Pam Tweedie, reports all alumnae who want to participate in the 2nd Annual Bangor High School Girls Soccer Alumnae Game, which is 7 p.m. Friday, Aug. 22 at BHS, are asked to register by Wednesday, Aug. 13, by calling her at 947-7245.

The participant fee of $20 benefits the Danielle Marie Thompson Scholarship Fund in memory of the 2003 BHS graduate, 4-year squad member and team captain who died after a brief illness during her senior year at the University of New Hampshire.

The game features two, 30-minutes halves, with current BHS varsity playing alumnae.

Admission to the game is free, but donations to benefit the scholarship will be accepted. Concessions will be available from 5 to 9 p.m.; a silent auction will take place during the game and raffle prizes will be given away.

The participant fee includes a T-shirt.

Woodlawn Museum executive director Joshua Torrance reports the Ellsworth Antique Show at Woodlawn opens with a gala Preview Party sponsored by Eaton Peabody at 5 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 13, at the Museum on Route 172.

Tickets are $75 each and are available at the door or in advance by calling 667-8671.

The show opens at 10 a.m. each day, Aug. 14-16.

Admission, including a museum tour, is $15 or $10 for the show only.

For more information, call the number above or visit www.woodlawnmuseum.org.

Freda Gaw wrote that the Guilford Garden Club is supporting the Maine Cancer Foundation Pink Tulip Project “to raise awareness of women’s cancer, and 100 percent of funds raised will stay in Maine to be used for women’s cancer research.”

Anyone who wants to plant pink tulip bulbs in his or her garden this fall can order bulbs for $1 each at the Guilford Memorial Library, or by calling Dodie Curtis at 876-3905.

However, the deadline for ordering tulip bulbs for this project is Friday, Aug. 15.

The GGC has purchased 500 bulbs through the MCF and will plant a pink tulip ribbon garden at the Guilford Medical Arts Building in October, and add them to the gardens of Guilford Memorial Library and in Cummings Park.

For more information, visit www.pinktulipproject.org and click on Guilford Community Gardens.

Janet Pease e-mailed that Friday, Aug. 15, is the deadline for making reservations for the meeting of Seven Sisters Downeast, which is noon, Wednesday, Aug. 20, at the Pease home in Brooklin.

For more information or to make reservations, call Judy Beebe at 223-4757.

Seven Sisters Downeast includes students and graduates of Barnard, Bryn Mawr, Mount Holyoke, Radcliffe, Smith, Vassar and Wellesley colleges.

Pease describes the group as “an organization formed to encourage Maine high school graduates to attend” those colleges.

“We’d love to meet those people we haven’t yet discovered who are either living in, or visiting in, Maine,” she added.

The featured speaker is Hancock author and teacher Sandy Phippen.

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