Looking for something different to give on Father’s Day?
Sustainable Harvest International founder and president Florence “Flo” Reed of Surry invites you to give Gifts of Hope for Father’s Day to help “Central American farmers farm sustainably and restore their environment.”
Reed and Sustainable Harvest International hope you will consider honoring your own father by helping other fathers by donating $25 to $450.
A $25 Gifts of Hope gift will provide “a dad with seeds, material and training to plant trees,” according to Sustainable Harvest International.
A $50 gift will “help a dad build a wood conserving stove, which saves thousands of trees and greatly improves families’ health.”
A $300 gift will provide a “dad and his family with the training and capital to start a rural bank, which community members match and manage. Families can then start small businesses and invest in their future.”
A $450 gift “will support a dad and his entire family’s work with SHI for one year.”
Each gift in your dad’s name for a Sustainable Harvest International dad “comes with a handmade note” for your dad, and any donation more than $40 “comes with an SHI baseball cap,” according to Sustainable Harvest International.
To donate, visit http://sustainableharvest.org/giftofhope.cfm.
For more information, call Sustainable Harvest International outreach director Sarah Kennedy at 919-967-3662, or e-mail sarah@sustainableharvest.org.
Reed is a former Peace Corps member who has been “helping to empower men and their families in Central America since 1997.”
Sustainable Harvest International was recently recognized for Non Profit Excellence at the Annual Maine Association of Nonprofits Dirigo Awards.
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Patten Lumbermen’s Museum is offering another Father’s Day gift opportunity with its Father’s Day Garage Sale, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday, June 20, and Sunday, June 21, at the museum, 61 Shin Pond Road.
Museum curator Rhonda Brophy reports this is a great place to bring that special man in your life to find new and used items that will appeal to him.
The event also offers authentic lumbermen’s bean-hole baked beans, homemade breads, cookies and cakes.
To donate to this event, bring your items to the museum or call 528-2650 to arrange for pickup.
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WNSX-FM disc jockey Bill DaButler reports the Great Maine Lumberjack Show will host a benefit for the Hancock County-Faith Community Fellowship Habitat for Humanity home for the Plaisted Family at 7 p.m. Saturday, June 20, at 127 Bar Harbor Road in Trenton.
Directions are available at http://www.mainelumberjack.com/map.html.
The event features two teams competing “in underhand chopping, ax throwing, crosscut sawing, log rolling, speed climbing and other cool, lumberjack and lumberjill events with hands-on activities for the kids,” DaButler said.
Admission is $5 for Maine residents and $8.75 for nonresidents.
The fundraiser also includes a scooter raffle. Tickets are $5 or five for $20.
Tickets are available at WNSX-FM in Winter Harbor or by calling 266-1943.
For more information about this Habitat project, visit http://twitter.com/FAFHabitat.
For more information about the show, visit www.mainelumberjack.com.
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Jeannette Hughes invites you to a Benefit Spaghetti Supper hosted by Milo American Legion Post 41 and sponsored by its Ladies Auxiliary 4:30-6:30 p.m. Saturday, June 20, at the Post hall, 41 West Main St.
Proceeds from the dinner benefit “Janice Treadwell, who has cancer,” Hughes wrote.
“Come on out and have a good meal and support a good cause.”
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Carolyn McKinnon wrote members of Bangor Community Chorus and their conductor, Joshua Schmersal, “invite you to Come to their Cabaret,” with doors opening at 6:30 p.m. and the show starting at 6:45 p.m. Saturday, June 20, at First Baptist Church, 56 Center St., Bangor.
“Dessert will be served, followed by a fun-filled evening of entertainment provided by members of the chorus accompanied by Colin Graebert,” McKinnon said.
Admission is $10 for adults.
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Aimee Gerbi is the Empty Arms Peer Companion at Eastern Maine Medical Center in Bangor.
The support group supports “families whose lives are touched by the death of a baby through pregnancy loss, stillbirth and infant death,” she said.
Empty Arms is hosting a yard and bake sale and children’s carnival 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturday, June 20, at Webster Park in Orono.
Proceeds will benefit a proposed memorial at Mount Hope Cemetery in Bangor “so families have a place to go to remember their babies,” Gerbi wrote.
The group is “also collecting funds for grief training and workshops as well as books for our small lending library.”
Joni Averill, Bangor Daily News, P.O. Box 1329, Bangor 04402; javerill@bangordailynews.net; 990-8288.