Anyone who loves poetry might enjoy taking part in this very special event.
The public is invited to attend a birthday celebration for the late Maine poet Edna St. Vincent Millay at 1 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 21, in the Picker Room of Camden Public Library.
The community’s local historian Barbara Dyer e-mailed she will discuss the poet’s life growing up in Camden, and added that Marie Merrifield will also take part.
The celebration includes coffee and a birthday cake in recognition of Millay being the first woman to receive the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1922, Dyer explained.
She urges you to come join the celebration, and reports that donations will be $5 at the door.
Dyer’s latest book, “Remembering Camden: Stories from an Old Maine Harbor,” will also be available at the event.
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River City Cinema invites you to view Oscar-nominated films at two weekend showings.
Nominated for Best Documentary Feature is “Encounters at the End of the World,” directed by Werner Herzog and rated G, to be shown at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Feb. 20, at the Bangor Opera House on Main Street.
Richard Jenkins has been nominated for best actor in a leading role for “The Visitor,” which you can see at 7:30 p.m. Saturday Feb. 21, at the Opera House.
The film is rated PG-13 for “brief strong language.”
Admission is $5 and refreshments will be available.
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Alma Otto of Orono invites the public to a breakfast of pancakes, sausage, maple syrup, eggs, strawberries, whipped cream, coffee and orange juice from 8:30 to 10 a.m. Saturday, Feb. 21, in the downstairs Fellowship Hall of Orono United Methodist Church, 36 Oak Street.
Admission is $5 for adults and $3 for children under 12.
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University of Maine at Orono Crew Club volunteer rowing coach Rob Cady reports the club is hosting “a Crash B” event at 9:30 a.m. Saturday, Feb. 21, at the university’s Student Recreation and Fitness Center on the Orono campus.
“This is either a 1,000- or 2,000-meter sprint on a rowing ergometer,” Cady explained of the event, which he describes as a “lot of fun to watch or to compete in.”
This event is “for people who have rowed before and for those who would like to learn and participate,” he explained.
For more information about the organization and its activities, call Cady at 866-5674.
Next up is a buffet dinner fundraiser from 5 to 8 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 22, at the Sports Bar on Mill Street in Orono.
“The Crew Club is going strong,” and looks forward to a busy summer with “the entire community,” Cady indicated.
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Kadee Reynolds reports the next Orono Bluegrass Special features The Muellers, with opening act Maximum Blue, at 7 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 21, at the Keith Anderson Community House, 19 Bennoch Road, Orono.
Admission is $10 for adults, $8 for seniors, $5 for students and those with military identification and free for children under 12.
Refreshments and coffee will be provided by Tim Hortons.
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After the success of its previous fish chowder public supper, Toni Mailloux reports First Baptist Church of Belfast will hold another, similar supper, 5-7 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 21, at the church at 95 High St.
Admission is $6 for adults and $3 for children under 12, and proceeds benefit the church’s 200th anniversary celebration in July.
The meal also includes chicken soup and homemade pies for dessert.
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Liane Giambalvo wrote to “thank all the donors” who contributed items to the Women’s Reentry Center in Bangor.
“We are surely blessed to live in a place where people give so generously,” Giambalvo wrote.
Carolyn Reschke of Pfaff Pfanatic of Caribou sent two brand-new sewing machines and boxes of fabric, and “Debbie Norton of A Straight Stitch in Brewer has helped us get four new sewing machines at a great discount and she helps us with sewing lessons for the women,” Giambalvo wrote.
“Others offered to volunteer,” and the women at the Center are most grateful “for these opportunities” and “their support and kind words,” she said.
Giambalvo apologizes to anyone who may have tried to call and got a constant busy signal, because she’s been having telephone troubles.
The Women’s Reentry Center is a program of the Maine Department of Corrections, operated through a contract with Volunteers of America Northern New England, for women making the transition from the Windham Center back into the community.
Joni Averill, Bangor Daily News, P.O. Box 1329, Bangor 04402; javerill@bangordailynews.net; 990-8288.