Because of recent vandalism at the Hammond Street Senior Center in Bangor, there is no better time to purchase raffle tickets that might have you winning a great vacation while helping out the center at the same time.
Tickets will be sold “right up to the last minute” for the center’s Grand Summer Vacation Raffle drawing at 2:30 p.m. today at the center, 2 Hammond St., Bangor, wrote Deanna Partridge.
The raffle originally was launched to raise “enough money to make necessary repairs” to the center’s “100-year-old boiler furnace system,” she said.
But “we are now also in need of raising additional funds to cover a $1,000 deductible for vandalism sustained to a couple of windows and our handicapped accessible door.”
Partridge said that “selling just 50 booklets of tickets would cover repairing all the glass damage.”
Tickets are $5, or $20 for a book of five, and available at the Hammond Street Senior Center, Aunt Nellie’s Attic at 238 Main Road in Holden, or by calling 262-5532. You do not need to be present to win.
Prizes are a weeklong vacation on Cape Cod or Ogunquit, 10 rounds of golf in New England and $500.
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Bangor High School photography teacher Eric Hutchins invites you to the opening reception of the Bangor High School Student Art Exhibit from 5:30 to 7 p.m. Wednesday, June 3, at the Bangor Public Library, 145 Harlow St.
The student artwork will be on exhibit during regular library hours now through July 31 in the library’s Lecture Hall and Stairwell Gallery.
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Owners Marc and Andrea Nicknair of Tim Hortons Restaurants in Bangor and Brewer report that people who purchase a cup of Tim Hortons coffee on Tim Hortons Camp Day, Wednesday, June 3, can help send children ages 9-12 to summer or winter camp at one of six Tim Horton Children’s Foundation camps.
According to the company release, on that day, “every penny from coffee sales at Tim Hortons stores across Canada and the United States will be donated to the Tim Horton Children’s Foundation.”
For information about the foundation, visit www.timhortonchildrensfoundation.com.
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Gaynor Reynolds invites the public “to enjoy steel pan music in a garden setting” at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, June 3, at Ecotat Gardens on the corner of Route 2 and Annis Road in Hermon.
Performing under the direction of music teacher John Kollman will be Hermon School Department adults and students, Reynolds wrote.
Car-pool if possible, and park in the Annis Road parking area and bring your own lawn chair.
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The Piscataquis County YMCA in Dover-Foxcroft reports that through “the generosity and support of the Dover-Foxcroft Kiwanis,” the YMCA is able to offer summer swim lessons two days a week at half-price to Dover-Foxcroft children who have completed kindergarten and above.
Registration is $30 and can be made during regular business hours now through June 15 at the YMCA.
The swim program is 10-11 a.m. Mondays and Wednesdays, beginning June 22 and running through Aug. 13.
For information, call Piscataquis County YMCA aquatics coordinator Sara Lopez, 564-7111.
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Hermon High School Class of 1974 reunion committee member Scott Millard wrote those alumni will celebrate their 35th class reunion on Saturday, July 18, at the Levant home of Karen Goodwin Gagnon.
The committee has been unable to locate the following classmates and would appreciate any information anyone can provide.
“Missing members” of Hermon High School ’74 are Debrah Bowker, James Carlton, LouAnn Jensen Dauphinee, Charles Day, Peter Ellis, Delores Harris Ransdell, Gail Stoppel McCraken, Laura McElroy, Michael Nason, Gail Overlock, Alfred Sales and Barbara Tunks Stone.
If you can help, call Debbie Gurschick Goody at 866-2288.
Joni Averill, Bangor Daily News, P.O. Box 1329, Bangor 04402; javerill@bangordailynews.net; 990-8288.