The Windjammer Barbershop Chorus is offering to deliver Singing Valentines on Valentine’s Day in the midcoast “from about Waldoboro to about Belfast,” explained member Asger Bagge of Camden.
Bagge wrote that the cost of the Singing Valentine “delivered, in person, by a Barbershop Quartet,” will be $30, and that reservations are now being taken.
The Windjammer Barbershop Chorus Singing Valentine includes “a couple of songs, a rose and a card delivered by a quartet,” which Bagge describes as a “unique and unforgettable way to say ‘I Love You,’ in song to sweethearts, families or special clients” and an event that has become a popular tradition in the area.
To arrange a time for delivery of your Singing Valentine, call 236-2159.
The Windjammer Barbershop Chorus, based in Belfast, is a member “of the nonprofit Barbershop Harmony Society” which, Bagge explained, is what we’ve long known as SPEBSQSA, or the Society for the Preservation and Encouragement of Barber Shop Quartet Singing in America.
Bagge encourages you to “surprise your loved ones, or your employees, with a Barbershop Quartet Singing Valentine.”
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Here’s a reminder from Cindy Freeman Cyr of Womancare that its second annual Valentine’s For a New Day Ball will be from 8 a.m. to 11 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 14, at Penquis Higher Education Center on Mayo Street in Dover-Foxcroft.
Given the success of last year’s fundraiser, Cyr wrote, “we are enthusiastically anticipating our second annual gala.”
The Foxcroft Academy student and alumni jazz band, directed by Shane Ellis, has been “practicing their big band tunes, and dance classes have begun.”
Tickets are $35 or $60 for couples and available at Womancare on Winter Street and Mr. Paperback in Dover-Foxcroft, Piscataquis Regional YMCA and Hudson Avenue Florist in Guilford and Indian Hill Trading Post in Greenville.
The event includes a cash bar, hot hors d’oeuvres and gourmet desserts, and a 50-50 raffle.
Proceeds support the Womancare building campaign.
For information, call 564-8165.
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Lucille Cardin and members of Veazie Congregational Church invite you to “bring your Valentine to supper” from 4:45 to 6 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 14, at the church on State Street in Veazie.
Italian Night features spaghetti and meatballs, mazzetti, breadsticks, rolls, desserts and “lots of chocolate.”
Admission for this handicapped-accessible public supper is $6 for adults and $3 for children.
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Bob Schmick, the Curran Homestead’s volunteer director of education programs, invites you to join him for the homestead’s first ice harvest, 2-4 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 15, at Fields Pond in Orrington where you can help “harvest a block of ice.”
This first event of its type offered by Curran Homestead will employ “authentic ice harvesting tools from our collections, and substitutions for those we don’t presently have,” Schmick said.
Attendees will help “cut a block of ice from Fields Pond and transport it up the hill to the kitchen of the Curran House where it will be placed in our vintage oak and zinc-lined icebox for the first time in many decades.”
For information, call Schmick at 843-5550.
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Jennifer Brooks of the social services agency Penquis in Bangor reminds readers that once again in conjunction with Brewer Winterfest, Penquis and Brewer Kiwanis Club are co-hosting the Winter SnowBall from 7 to 11 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 21, at the Muddy Rudder in Brewer.
Tickets are $20 per person, $35 for couples or $140 for a table of eight.
Brooks wrote the SnowBall features “music, hors d’oeuvres, happy hour drink prices and dance lessons,” and that “dress is casual.”
Tickets are available by calling Penquis at 973-3586, at www.penquis.org and at the door.
For information about Brewer Winterfest 2009, Brooks invites you to visit www.brewerme.org.
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Simpson Memorial Library secretary Sue Kircheis reports the Carmel institution “is participating in the Penobscot Reads program, and has two copies of the book, ‘Finding Amy,’ available.”
Additionally, the library is participating in “One Book, One District,” which is “sponsored by the Northern Maine Library District” and is also offering the book “Rules,” for youngsters in grades six through eight, and “The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian,” for those in ninth through 12th grades.
“The library also has two ‘Kill a Watt’ detectors, with energy-saving tips included,” that can be “checked out for one week,” Kircheis wrote, adding that librarian Becky Ames encourages you to check out these, and other, Simpson Library offerings.
Joni Averill, Bangor Daily News, P.O. Box 1329, Bangor 04402; javerill@bangordailynews.net; 990-8288.