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The last concert of the summer season for the Brewer Hometown Band is 6:30 tonight at Brewer Auditorium, reports director Jan Cox. “Weather always determines if we’ll play inside or out,” she wrote.
“But whatever the weather, we’ll give you an evening of great music,” she added. “We hope you’ll bring a friend or two and spend this concert time with us.”
The concert is free, but donations are “gratefully accepted.”
This program features each section of the band with pieces that highlight those instruments, including “Tuba Tiger Rag,” “Trombone King,” “Basses on a Rampage” and “Flight of the Bumblebee” for clarinets.
Jennifer Brooks reports that Penquis, Z107.3 FM and Wal-Mart Supercenter, with assistance from Cyr Bus Lines, are in the midst of their Stuff the Bus campaign to fill a school bus with school supplies for young people in Penobscot and Piscataquis counties.
Donated school supplies can be brought from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. today and 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Friday, Aug. 15, to the Wal-Mart Supercenter in Brewer.
Ellwood Titcomb, a Florida resident who summers at Owls Head, invites members of Brewer High School Class of 1941 to attend their Annual Rendezvous at 11:30 a.m. Friday, Aug. 15, at Howard Johnson Restaurant on Odlin Road in Bangor.
You can order from the menu, and “all class members are urged to come,” Titcomb said.
Geneva Frost reminds readers a baked bean supper to help Brandon Salisbury of Otis build a new home is 5:30 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 16, at Mariaville Grange.
Penobscot Community Health Care is hosting a free National Health Center Week back-to-school fair for children 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 16, at the former Bangor Theological Seminary.
The event will offer a wide range of activities, from health and educational exhibits to tours of public service vehicles and a bounce house.
Among the expected participants will be PCHC president the Rev. Bob Carlson and Bangor schools Superintendent Betsy Webb.
Bob Potts reminds Lee Academy alumni their all-class Reunion 2008 begins with registration and a continental breakfast at 9 a.m. Saturday, Aug. 16, at the academy.
Class photos will be taken at 11:30 a.m., and the Lee Academy Alumni Association will hold a picnic lunch at noon under a canopy. The school mascot, Panda, will make an appearance at registration and lunch.
The All Alumni Reunion program and presentation of awards is at 1 p.m.
The reunion coincides with the first Lee Community Day Celebration, which ends with a street dance from 9 p.m. to midnight at the academy.
For more information, visit www.leeacademy.org.
Joyce Barr reports the St. Thomas Anglican Church Lobster Supper has two sittings at 4 and 6 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 16, at 373 Bangor Road in Ellsworth.
Only 100 tickets are available for a donation of $12 each, and they can be obtained by calling 359-2319 or 367-5198.
Takeout is available for the meal, which includes potato salad, corn on the cob, rolls, a beverage and strawberry shortcake.
Proceeds benefit the church building fund.
Helen Nezda writes Searsport’s Local History Art Show is 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 16, and 1-4 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 17, at Searsport Town Hall auditorium.
Among other local artists, it features “paintings by Searsport’s own Grandma Moses,” Nezda wrote of the late Gertrude Gordon, who painted into her 90s and whose “legacy is carried on by her daughter Barbara Gordon Merry and granddaughter Sarah Nickerson’s hooked rugs in nostalgic primitive designs.”
Listings for the Winterport Woman’s Club annual community calendar sale can be left in drop boxes at the Winterport Town Office, Winterport Pizza, Old Port Cafe and Rosie’s Diner.
May Pardy reports forms for the free listings will be picked up by Monday, Aug. 18.
Calendars will be sold Nov. 5 at Wagner Middle School for $5.
For advertisements or more information, call Mary Lester at 223-4104.
Mary Blackstone of the Ellsworth Garden Club invites you to a “miniflower show” at 7 p.m. Monday Aug. 18, at the Hancock County Cooperative Extension office on Boggy Brook Road in Ellsworth.
Exhibit divisions include horticulture, houseplants, mixed container and design, and Blackstone will conduct a “show-and-tell discussion” featuring designs, principals and styles.
For more information, or if you’d like to exhibit in the show, call her at 667-8878.
Joni Averill, Bangor Daily News, P.O. Box 1329, Bangor 04402; javerill@bangordailynews.net; 990-8288.
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