Although the regular operating hours that The Queen’s Closet, a program of the Healthy Island Project, are yet to be announced, Cathy Boyce, Angelina Lucas and Whitney Eaton want readers to know it will be open at 2 p.m. Monday, March 9, in the former Finger Prints Shop, which their release describes as “the blue building across from Burnt Cove Market” in Stonington.
Boyce added her own note that, as this program enters its third season, “we are attempting to get the word out to more folks who might benefit from our program,” as well as reaching “those who may have items to donate” to it.
The Queen’s Closet offers clothing for every special occasion from weddings to “graduations, church, funerals, court, college, certain jobs and countless other special events … that may require wearing something nicer than one’s everyday attire,” the program’s release states.
In these difficult economic times, “The Queen’s Closet is attempting to ease this burden” as “a local source for free, dress clothing and accessories” of “gently used to new” items for children to adults, both male and female, but it does need more donations for its men’s department.
The program’s goal is “that no one should miss a special occasion in his or her life due to a lack of not having something nice to wear,” according to the release.
The program also welcomes not only clothing donations but cash to cover expenses for dry cleaning and display and storage equipment.
The Queen’s Closet also needs accessories ranging from evening bags to wraps and pantyhose.
Boyce wrote that “the support from our Island Community area, plus Ellsworth, Bangor, Brewer, New Hampshire and Massachusetts sites, has been incredible,” and that “our outfits have gone out across both Hancock and Penobscot counties.”
For more information about other opening times and dates, or how you can make a contribution to this program, call Boyce at 367-5061 or HIP at 348-6332.
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Foxcroft Academy Project Graduation 2009 treasurer Chris Paydos wrote to invite the public to attend an Old Fashioned Bingo, beginning with “a light lunch” at noon and bingo at 1 p.m. Sunday, March 8, at the American Legion Hall on Outer Park Street in Dover-Foxcroft.
The fundraiser will feature two buy-in games as well as a winner-takes-all game. For more information, call Jane Conroy at 564-3265.
Proceeds will benefit the Class of 2009 white-water rafting trip, Paydos wrote, adding that “we only have three fundraisers left and are hoping to be able to fully fund the trip for our senior class.”
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Sally Burke of the Penobscot Valley Ski Club wrote to remind members that its annual PVSC Awards Banquet begins with appetizers at 5:30 p.m. and dinner at 6 p.m. Tuesday, March 10, at the Elks Club on Odlin Road in Bangor.
Members who plan to attend are asked to make reservations by Sunday, March 8, by e-mailing mainevk5@yahoo.com.
The meeting’s guest speaker will be “ski journalist and Ski Museum of Maine secretary, Scott Andrews, who will present Fireside Chats, Down-Mountain and Cross-Country: 140 Years of Skiing in Maine,” Burke wrote.
The presentation includes “a 50-minute slide show tracing the history of Maine skiing from its origins as basic winter transportation, in Aroostook County’s Swedish Settlement, to present-day happenings all over the state.”
The evening will include recognition of this year’s club activities and participants, she wrote, “including those who have participated in Learn-To-Ski, Racing Development and our junior Nordic Program.”
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Bangor Nature Club director Ella Waitt of Hampden wrote to invite the public to attend a meeting of the club at 1 p.m. Wednesday, March 11, at First Congregational Church of Brewer, 35 Church St.
The guest speaker will be author John Neff, whose topic is “Stories Around a Katahdin Campfire” which, Waitt wrote, “will be based on his recently published book, ‘Katahdin: An Historical Journey — Legends, Explorations and Preservation of Maine’s Highest Peak.’”
Neff, “a retired pastor of the Orono United Methodist Church” who now resides in Winthrop, “has hiked and backpacked in the Katahdin region for nearly 45 years and still maintains a 5-mile section of the Appalachian Trail within Baxter State Park,” Waitt continued.
He is also “a founding member and first president of the Friends of Baxter State Park.”
Copies of his book will be available at the meeting, and there is no charge to attend.
Joni Averill, Bangor Daily News, P.O. Box 1329, Bangor 04402; javerill@bangordailynews.net; 990-8288.