Golf tourney to aid Phillips-Strickland House

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Phillips-Strickland House of Bangor executive director Nelson Durgin called last week to remind golfers that registration is still open for the P-S House 11th annual charity golf tournament.

That event begins with registration at 11 a.m. and a shotgun start at 12:15 p.m. Monday, Sept. 8, at Penobscot Valley Country Club in Orono.

The cost is $115 per player, and sponsorships are welcome as well.

In 10 years, P-S House president Al Gibson reports, the tournament has raised nearly $120,000 to benefit direct resident support for P-S House, which is the only nonprofit, residential facility for seniors in the area.

For more information, or to register, call Durgin at 941-2820.

Mary Laury of Schoodic Arts for All invites you to enjoy Paul Sullivan jazz at 7 p.m. Friday, Aug. 22, at Hammond Hall in Winter Harbor.

The Grammy award-winning pianist has brought together “a terrific ensemble of award-winning players,” including Paul Lieberman on the saxophone and flute, Eliot Wadopian on bass, Bill Friedrich and Seth Kearns on percussion and gospel singer Theresa Thomason, Laury wrote.

Music will include jazz standards and new, original material that will be coming out in the fall, including this concert, which will be recorded.

Admission is $15.

For more information, call Schoodic Arts for All, 963-2569; e-mail info@schoodicarts.org or visit http://schoodicarts.org.

Pat Pierson e-mailed that Waldo County TRIAD is hosting a public supper from 5 to 6:30 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 23, at the Masonic Hall on Wight Street in Belfast.

The cost is $7 for adults and children 11 and older, $3.50 for children 5-10, and no charge for children under 4.

The meal is a boiled dinner with vegetables, dessert and a choice of beverages.

WCT is a partnership of public safety agencies, local organizations and citizens working to improve the lives and safety of people 50 and older. TRIAD services are free, with funds raised through such events as these, Pierson explained.

The public is invited to a dance to benefit “two current Hancock County Habitat for Humanity housing projects,” wrote Geneva Frost.

The dance is 7-11 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 23, at Holiday Inn in Ellsworth.

Tickets are $10 and are available at Mr. Paperback, The Grasshopper Shop and Ellsworth Chamber of Commerce in Ellsworth; Tapley’s in Bar Harbor; Hulls Cove General Store; Downeast Deli in Prospect Harbor; Franklin Trading Post and Otis General Store. Tickets will also be sold at the door, Frost wrote.

Proceeds will help support the construction of two homes, one for the Franklin family of Fred and April Rumill, who have three boys, two of whom have special needs, and the other for the Otis family of 10-year-old Nicolas Hovey, who has cystic fibrosis.

Nominations are available through Labor Day, Sept. 1, for people to be recognized by the Pine Tree Chapter of the American Red Cross during its 11th annual Real Heroes Breakfast, which takes place Nov. 13, at the Bangor Civic Center.

Mickey Sirota of the PTC describes Real Heroes as “men, women and children who have shown courage, kindness and unselfishness to help save the lives of others.”

Heroic acts for this year’s awards must have taken place between August 2007, and Sept. 1, 2008, and the honorees must either “live, work, or study in Penobscot, Piscataquis, Hancock, Waldo, Washington, Knox or Lincoln counties,” he explained.

Nomination forms are available by calling the Red Cross at 941-2903 or e-mailing sirotam@pinetree.redcross.org.

Now through Aug. 31, Staples is teaming up with pop star and American Idol winner Jordin Sparks in Do Something 101, which encourages teens to collect school supplies and drop them off at their nearest Staples stores.

In our circulation area, all donated supplies will be given to the Penobscot Nation Boys & Girls Club and United Way of Aroostook, according to a press release.

Teens can drop off school supplies for those in need at Staples, 1131 Union St. or 180 Bangor Mall Blvd., in Bangor, or at 830 Main St. in Presque Isle.

For more information about this program and others, teens can visit www.DoSomething.101.com.

Mary Marin Lyon reports training for Literacy Volunteers of Bangor, to help adults improve their reading, begins in mid-September, and the volunteer registration deadline is Tuesday, Sept. 9.

Scholarships are available to help defray the $25 cost of books and materials.

For information, call LV-Bangor at 947-8451 or visit www.lvbangor.org.

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