Grant applications available for Harvest Fund

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Considering the unsettled state of the economy, representatives of any eligible organization might want to apply for grants offered by The Harvest Fund at Maine Initiatives.

The application deadline is Wednesday, Nov. 12.

Charlie Bernstein reports the organization “is calling for grant applications from people planting the seeds of sustainable agriculture and an end to hunger.”

Harvest Fund grants, Bernstein said, range from $500 to $5,000 and “have supported healthy food advocacy, community gardens, heirloom seed preservation, defense of family farming, organic milk production, farm markets, co-ops and more.”

They are not for individuals, however, these grants are “for groups of people, working together, to grow something,” he wrote.

For more information,

or to apply, call Maine

Initiatives, 622-6294, or visit www.maineinitiatives.org or e-mail info@maineinitiatives.org.

Word is the Bangor Public Library-River City Cinema Anything But Silent Film Festival, with the “play-it-as-he-hears-it” piano accompaniment of Harry Weiss, is a winner.

The free series of silent films begin at 1 p.m. today, with a vampire movie, and at the same time Nov. 1, Nov. 22 and Nov. 29 in the BPL Lecture Hall, 145 Harlow St.

For titles of the movies, call BPL at 947-8336 or RCC, 745-1202.

While this is a free event (for which master fabric craftsman Dan Leaden has made the sky-lit hall dark for enjoyable viewing) donations are appreciated.

Toni Mailloux provided details about the Waldo County General Hospital annual Oncology Walk, which begins with registration at noon and the walk at 1 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 26, at WCGH Education Center on Northport Avenue in Belfast.

With your $10 registration you receive a T-shirt, cinch bag or cap or, for $20, a hooded sweat shirt.

Proceeds benefit the Cancer Patient Assistance Fund and the Mammography Fund. For more information, call the WCGH oncology department, 930-2555.

Teresa Burgess e-mailed that Basket Bingo will be held at 1 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 26, in the gymnasium at Hermon High School. Doors open at noon.

Advance tickets are $10 and can be purchased at C&K Variety in Hermon.

At the door, tickets will be $12. Refreshments will be available.

Proceeds benefit the Katherine Vashon Scholarship Fund.

Clayton Rogers, Dora Rexrode, Teresa Sprague and Steve Estey of Columbia Street Baptist Church invite you to “a program of Sacred Music,” Rogers wrote.

The program is open to the public and begins at 6 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 26, at the Bangor church.

People with a family history of high blood pressure and-or who smoke, are overweight, have little physical activity or high amounts of stress are at risk for high blood pressure, states a release from Eastern Maine Medical Center announcing a free, blood pressure screening open to the public.

EMMC and the Bangor Y will be co-hosts at the screenings from 8 a.m. to 9 a.m. Monday, Oct. 27, at the Bangor Y on Second Street.

For more information, call Alyssa Hanson at EMMC, 973-7089.

Barbara Higgins of the EMGH-EMMC-Husson College Nurses Alumni Association reports the group will meet at 1 p.m. Monday, Oct. 27, at the Dyke Center at Husson University in Bangor.

The guest speaker will be Beverly Wilson, R.N., manager of hospice service for the Bangor Area Visiting Nurses Association.

Refreshments will be served, and Higgins urges you to come and support the alumni.

For information, call 942-9648 or 399-1872.

Brenda Whitley of the Family Caregiver Support Program of Spectrum Generations, and Margie Spencer-Smith of Waldo County Home Health and Hospice, invite caregivers, their friends and family to share experiences or concerns at the next Waldo County Family Caregiver Support Group.

That meeting is noon to 1 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 28, in the Education Building next to Waldo County General Hospital, 118 Northport Ave., Belfast.

Bring your own lunch, and beverages will be provided.

For more information about this organization, call Whitley at 800-282-0764, ext. 127, or Spencer-Smith at 338-2268.

Leigh Butler e-mailed that the Bangor Art Society will meet at 6 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 28, at the Bangor Public Library on Harlow Street.

Cathy Melio of the Center for Maine Contemporary Art in Rockport will present “Fear No Art,” and offer free admission tickets to all attending, to visit the CMCA.

Butler reminds readers that BAS meetings are free and open to the public, and are regularly held on the fourth Tuesday of each month.

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