This year the 25-plus-member team of volunteer and staff climbers participating in the Bangor Area Homeless Shelter Hike to End Homelessness on Saturday, Sept. 10, will have quite a change of scenery.

Shelter program director Michael Andrick, who has led the previous hikes up Maine’s highest peak, Mount Katahdin in Baxter State Park, now will be taking his hikers up one of Maine’s most spectacular elevations, Cadillac Mountain in Acadia National Park.

It was “time for a change in scenery,” said shelter executive director Dennis Marble of the new hike location, “and Cadillac Mountain is also closer to the shelter and those it serves.”

The purpose of the event as always is to raise funds for the shelter, but also to “promote awareness of homeless issues,” Marble said.

I am proud to report that the Bangor Daily News and Trans-Tech Industries Inc., are the corporate sponsors for the 10th annual Hike to End Homelessness.

Joining the corporate sponsors to help make this event a success are business sponsors Bar Harbor Bank and Trust; Bangor Savings Bank; Berry, Dunn, McNeil & Parker and Brake Service.

Additional business sponsors are Carlen Transport; Cumulus Broadcasting; Eaton, Peabody; H.O. Bouchard; The Muddy Rudder; WABI TV Channel 5; WLBZ NewsCenter 2 and WZON-WKIT-WDME.

Marble, Andrick, shelter staff, volunteers and those whom the shelter serves are most appreciative of the community support that this fundraiser, and the Bangor Area Homeless Shelter, continue to receive.

If you would like to help the shelter assist those in need, send a check to Bangor Area Homeless Shelter, P.O. Box 1754, 263 Main St., Bangor 04402-1754.

For more information about how you can help the shelter in other ways, call 947-0092.

Hot dogs, ice-cold virgin margaritas, pina coladas and daiquiris will be available for donors who participate in the first ever Hawaiian Luau Community Blood Drive from noon to 6 p.m. Monday, Aug. 29, at the Georgia-Pacific Training Center, 791 Main St. in Old Town.

The drive is co-sponsored by Georgia Pacific Corporation, USW (the union at GP) and Orono-Old Town Kiwanis, announced GP spokeswoman Kelli Manigault, who also suggests, “if you want to avoid long lines, come in between 2 and 4 p.m.”

Donors also will have a chance to win a Red Sox “Blood Donor of the Game” experience; there will be other prize giveaways and walk-ins are welcome.

Gov. John Baldacci will serve as host for the Al Hendsbee Benefit Dinner, which begins at 5 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 31, at the Waterville Elks Lodge.

Admission is $5 per person.

Hendsbee was a Maine State Police detective before retiring in 1990. He has been diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, and volunteers have been building an addition to his home in Fairfield.

ALS also is known as Lou Gehrig’s disease, in memory of the New York Yankees Baseball Hall of Famer who was 38 when he died of the disease in 1941.

ALS is a progressive neuromuscular disease that weakens and eventually destroys motor neurons, which are components of the nervous system that connect the brain with the skeletal muscles.

The second annual Hamilton Marine amateur golf tournament begins at 10 a.m. Saturday, Sept. 10, at Searsport Pines Golf Club.

Sponsored by the Searsport District High School Alumni Association, all proceeds benefit its scholarship fund.

To register your team, to sponsor a hole or to receive more information, call Natalie Knox at 266-9494 or e-mail natknox@yahoo.com.

Registration sheets also are available at Searsport Pines Golf Club.

The tournament is open to the public, and you do not need to be an alumnus of SDHS to participate.

The SummerKeys’ Mary Potterton Memorial Concert series comes to a close at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 31, at the Lubec Congregational Christian Church.

The concert finale will feature SummerKeys staff member Peter Lewy on cello and SummerKeys founder and director Bruce Potterton on piano.

Since founding SummerKeys more than 14 years ago, Potterton’s program now serves more than 150 students, who can study for up to four weeks at SummerKeys, and entertains hundreds of SummerKeys neighbors and visitors with its Wednesday evening concerts.

There is no charge to attend, but donations for the church piano tuning fund are accepted.

For the final ride on the Concert Boat from Eastport to Lubec, for which there is a fee, call 853-2500 to make your reservations.

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