Credit unions plan walking tour to end hunger

Safe traveling is my wish for Brenda Davis, executive director of Crossroads Ministries of Old Town, which serves people throughout eastern Maine, as Davis begins her seventh annual Maine Credit Unions’ Ending Hunger Walking Tour today in Augusta.

Maine’s 67-member credit union’s State Trade Association has raised more than $2.7 million to end hunger in Maine since 1990 and, this year, has pledged more than $25,000 for this event.

Davis will travel nearly 700 miles, visiting 56 communities from Kittery to Madawaska in every Maine county and end her fundraiser Monday, Dec. 1, at University Credit Union in Orono.

In each community that Davis visits during this impressive venture, the MCU will donate $100 to a local food pantry.

Bangor Region Junior Achievement is raffling 200 gallons of fuel oil at the Dead River Co. office on Friday, Oct. 31, at 103 Main St. in Brewer.

Junior Achievement co-chairwoman Sue Lovell reports last-minute raffle tickets can be purchased from 11 a.m. to noon that day, at the Dead River office.

A $5 donation gives purchasers one chance to win 200 gallons of Dead River fuel oil; a $10 donation offers four chances to win; and a $20 donation gives 10 chances to win.

Proceeds will help area students, who are part of Junior Achievement, to prepare for their lives as productive consumers, citizens and workers.

For more information about this raffle, or Junior Achievement, call Lovell at ABC 7 and FOX Bangor, 945-6457, ext. 3114; 478-1326; or e-mail slovell@wvii.com.

As she does each Halloween, Kelly Whalen of U.S. Cellular suggests you make use of cell phones to help ensure the safety of your children and you, on what should be a fun-filled evening of trick-or-treating.

Whalen suggests you add the heading ICE (In Case of Emergency) to address books and include the name and number of your closest ICE contact.

You also can store doctors’ names and numbers “and any allergy or prescription information” that might “help safety officials at the scene of an accident.”

In conjunction with the Phillips-Strickland House Corp. Old Fashioned Fair, Phillips-Strickland House is offering a lobster roll takeout meal to be picked up between 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. Friday, Oct. 31, at Phillips-Strickland House, 21 Boyd St. in Bangor.

The cost of the meal of one Maine lobster roll, beverage, chips, coleslaw and a cookie is $14.95.

Orders must be placed in advance, and the order deadline is today.

So, if you want to be able to enjoy that delicious delight, call Sharon Nickerson at 941-2820.

Then you can plan to enjoy the Old Fashioned Fair between 10 a.m. and 1 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 1, at Phillips-Strickland House.

At the fair, you can place an order for holiday poinsettias and choose holiday gifts from the offerings of eight outside vendors, as well as choose items ranging from greeting cards to baked goods, antiques and collectibles, toys and scrapbooking supplies.

Two quilts will be raffled, and the P-S House Cafe will open at 11 a.m. offering lobster rolls, haddock chowder, three-bean chili and homemade pies.

Proceeds from the fair directly benefit residents of Phillips-Strickland House, the only nonprofit, residential facility for seniors in the area.

Joyce Martin and members of the Daughters of Isabella invite you to their annual craft fair, 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 1, at St. Teresa’s Parish Hall on South Main St. in Brewer.

There is no admission charge for this fundraiser, which also includes a raffle featuring “one cord of wood, cut, split and delivered, and an afghan, a food basket and more,” Martin said.

She also wants you to know that you can purchase handmade items offered by “many outstanding Maine amateur crafters,” and relax with a luncheon menu that features a choice of soup and sandwich or hot dogs, or a meal of soup, sandwich, hot dog, drink and dessert for $5.

Finally, Martin wants readers to know that “this is our largest fundraiser, and there are many agencies, in our community, that need our help.”

For North Brewer Eddington United Methodist Church, Selina Lufkin invites you to A Snowball Fair, 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 1, at the church, 31 Main Road in Eddington.

At the “church on the bend,” she wrote, you will find everything from food to mittens and theme baskets, and lunch as well.

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