Whitetail Golf Course owners Scott and Shari Duthie of Charleston are very generous when it comes to giving up profitable tee times on their course for a worthwhile, nonprofit, public fundraising effort.

Shari Duthie wrote to me that they will hold a special tournament beginning with shotgun starts at 8 a.m. and 1 p.m. Saturday, July 14, at the course, 373 School Road in Charleston.

Proceeds from the Beryl Bas Memorial Tournament will help raise funds for the 2008 American Cancer Society’s Relay for Life to be held next May in Old Town.

Bas, who was a resident of Corinth, was 56 when she died last September of cancer.

The scramble tournament format includes four-person teams, and the $30 per player cost includes a buffet lunch.

“We are very much in hopes of filling both morning and afternoon” scrambles, Duthie wrote.

“We are also asking for any donations that anyone would like to give. Hole sponsorships are $50” and can be made in honor or in memory of “someone they have known with cancer.”

Gift certificates or merchandise for prizes also would be welcome, she added.

“Beryl was a very special person to a lot of people, young and old,” Duthie wrote. “When her kids were growing up, her home was open to all who needed a place to come to wait after school … or just to hang out.”

And for the adult members in her community, Duthie added, “the coffee pot was always on.”

To register or for more information, visit the course or call 285-7730.

Dan Williams reports the Charlie Howard Memorial Walk begins with a memorial service at 6:30 p.m. Saturday, July 7, at Hammond Street Congregational Church in Bangor, and then the walk at 7:15 p.m. to the State Street Bridge site to mark the 23rd anniversary of the death of the young gay man. Howard died when he was attacked and thrown off the bridge by local teens.

“Diversity is to be cherished, not removed,” Williams wrote.

“Please bring a flower to the bridge, where there will be a brief remembrance.”

Nancy Herr reports the Ruggles House Society will hold its annual Ice Cream Social from 1 to 3 p.m. Sunday, July 8, at the Ruggles House, 146 Main St., in Columbia Falls.

“This is an annual event of free ice cream and tours to thank our friends and guests for their support throughout the year,” she wrote, as well as offering society members an opportunity to introduce the museum “to new visitors.”

She suggests, “If you haven’t seen the reconstructed ell, which was razed in 1938 and rebuilt in 2005, this is a good chance to visit.”

It is there, she reports, that you will see “the remains of the original basement kitchen hearth, which was uncovered in archaeological digs in recent years.”

The facility offers an “expanded gift shop with many handcrafted items,” she wrote, and where you will have the opportunity to purchase tickets for the society’s 2007 Quilt Raffle for “a handmade replica of an antique butterfly quilt pattern.”

The winning ticket for the Quilt Raffle will be drawn during the society’s annual Christmas Tea on Dec. 2.

Built between 1818 and 1820, Ness said, the house “is noted for its Federal period architecture, flying staircase, intricate carvings and period antiques.”

From 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday through Saturday, and 11 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Sundays, now through Oct. 15, you can take a guided tour of the facility. Admission for the tours is $5 for adults and $2 for children.

For more information, call 483-4637 or visit www.ruggleshouse.org, where you can view not only the beautiful flying staircase and the quilt, but much, much more.

Are you an old skull? A University of Maine Senior Skull, that is.

The university in Orono is reporting that a new alumni community has been formed, namely, the Senior Skull Alumni Interest Group, or Senior Skull AIG.

The hope is that the organization will help reconnect alumni who were members of the Senior Skull Society when they were students at the university.

The Senior Skull Society was established in 1906, the release states, and is the university’s “highest, all-inclusive honor society for male students” whose members “represent the top 1 percent of incoming senior men.”

“Members are chosen on the basis of leadership, integrity, role model and service” to the university.

David Mitchell, a Senior Skull from 1987, is president of the newly formed Senior Skull AIG board of directors.

To learn more about this new organization, visit www.seniorskulls.com.

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