Eastern Agency on Aging and Bucksport Bay Healthy Communities Coalition is offering a six-week program for people living with a long-term health problem including diabetes, asthma, arthritis, cancer, heart disease, obesity, Parkinson’s, fibromyalgia and depression.
Mary Jane Bush of the Bucksport coalition reports the Living Well: Living a Healthy Life with Chronic Conditions sessions, are from 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Thursdays, beginning June 4, at the Jewett School Community Center, 66 Bridge St. in Bucksport.
Participants must preregister by calling 469-6682.
The cost is $25 for the six sessions and covers a “Living a Healthy Life with Chronic Conditions” book and a Time for Healing CD.
Scholarships are available for those who cannot afford the fee.
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Janice Cox reminds friends, former colleagues and students of Bernard “Doc” Mann that his 100th birthday party will be held after the 4 p.m. Mass Saturday, June 6, at St. John’s Catholic Church, 207 York St., Bangor.
For this potluck supper, those with last names beginning with A through L should bring a main dish, M-S salads and T-Z fruit platters; dessert and beverages will be provided.
You are asked to RSVP by Thursday, June 4, by calling 942-6941.
You also are asked to bring your favorite “Doc” Mann story, Cox wrote, “to help him mark this momentous occasion.”
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Any women “who would like to know more” about activities of the Hancock Woman’s Club is invited to attend its monthly meeting at 7 p.m. Thursday, June 4, at the Hancock Community Center, reports its president, Jackie Nicholson.
You will have an opportunity to meet the club’s newly elected officers, and learn about monthly guest speakers and fundraising events that benefit its scholarships and student awards and help maintain the club’s Community Center building, “which provides meeting facilities for local groups,” Nicholson said.
For more information, call her at 422-6852.
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Pat Jenkins reports members of the 2009 award-winning Bangor High School Forensics (Speech, Debate and Student Congress) Team are raising funds so its national qualifiers, Ben Claeson, Caleb Shortt and Rami Blair, will be able to compete in the National Forensics League National Tournament this month in Birmingham, Ala.
To help in that effort, the team will present the Bob Marley Comedy Show at 8 p.m. Friday, June 5, at Peakes Auditorium at Bangor High School on Broadway.
Tickets are $15 and may be purchased at Patrick’s Hallmark at the Broadway Shopping Center, BookMarc’s, 78 Harlow St., and at the high school office or library.
Claeson and Shortt will compete in the Public Forum debate and Blair in the Student Congress-House divisions of the nationals.
For more information about this tournament, visit http://www.nflonline.org/NationalTournament.
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Dan Williams invites you to join him for “A Signed Journey,” presented by the Howard Foundation at 7 p.m. both Friday, June 5, and Saturday, June 6, at Between Friends Gift Shop and Art Center, 39 Center St., Brewer.
A portion of the proceeds will benefit the American Heart Association and the remainder will benefit the Howard Foundation in memory of Charles Howard, an openly gay man who died in 1984 after being beaten and thrown into Kenduskeag Stream.
Tickets for this sign-language performance are $10 and are available at Between Friends by calling 989-7100 or at the door.
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Your $90 registration fee is due by Friday, June 5, if you want to participate in the Scramble for the Animals Golf Tournament, according to a release.
The Ark president Tom Leigh wants you to know you do not need a foursome to participate as they will be completed for the event which begins with registration at noon Friday, June 12, at Bar Harbor Country Club on Route 3 in Trenton.
This popular tournament (which includes a lobster dinner) draws golfers from many areas, he added, and the prizes include “a new Chevrolet, for a hole-in-one, thanks to the generosity of Clyde Lewis at Morrison Chevrolet.”
Registration forms are available at Bar Harbor Country Club, The Ark Animal Shelter in Cherryfield or by calling 348-6039 or 348-9382.
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A benefit barbecue dinner for the family of adorable 2-year-old Desiree Ouellette, who has cancer of the eye, will be held 4-8 p.m. Saturday, June 6, at the Old Town Masonic Lodge on the corner of Brunswick and Center streets.
A raffle for several donated items is included in the fundraiser. If you cannot attend but would like to help, call Patricia Martelli, 974-8688, or Marie Danforth, 852-2129.
Joni Averill, Bangor Daily News, P.O. Box 1329, Bangor 04402; javerill@bangordailynews.net; 990-8288.