Members of area Kiwanis clubs are to be commended, especially in these difficult economic times, for organizing the fireworks, parade and attendant activities that help eastern Mainers enjoy a traditional Fourth of July.
Bangor Kiwanis president Deborah Paradis reminds readers “it is the Kiwanis area chapters that raise the funds necessary for the fireworks and the parade,” and that during “the past few years, the cost for the parade and the fireworks has increased substantially, making it a yearlong process to raise the funds necessary for these events.”
Which is why Kiwanians need your support “to make this a special event.”
You can help fund this celebration by attending the annual Fourth of July pancake breakfast 6-10 a.m. Saturday, July 4, at the Brewer Auditorium.
You’ll appreciate Ken and Bev Tate’s strawberries, coffee donated by Dunkin’ Donuts of Brewer and sausage from Hormel, along with contributions from Farmland, Dennis Paper and Food Service, and Hilton Garden Inn.
“We are very lucky to have these wonderful sponsors,” Paradis wrote.
Breakfast is $4.50 for adults and $3.50 for children 12 and younger.
Later that day, you can attend a Fourth of July Barbecue from 3 to 8 p.m. in the Shaw’s Supermarket parking lot on Main Street in Bangor.
They will be serving hamburgers, cheeseburgers and hot dog baskets, which will include chips and soda or water, for $3.75.
You also can support this event by purchasing raffle tickets for $1 or six for $5. Winners will receive either a leather golf bag donated by Maine Distributors or a basketball hoop with netted sides.
In addition to organizing the Fourth of July festivities, Paradis reminds you “the main goal of the Kiwanis chapters” is to fund local children’s programs, ranging from providing clothing to camp scholarships.
Finally, if you can make a financial donation to support this event, send your contribution to Greater Bangor July 4th Corp. in care of Bangor Federal Credit Union, P.O. Box 1161, Bangor 04402-1161.
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Sharon Smith reports Monroe Community Church is planning a yard sale 8 a.m.-1 p.m. July 28, and that tables are available for $10 each.
Proceeds from table rentals “will be donated to The Game Loft in Belfast to benefit the area youth,” Smith wrote.
To reserve a space, call her at 525-3264, or Bernys Doak at 525-4431.
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Gene Stinson and Claire Frye have announced the 2009 Camden High School Alumni Banquet begins with a social hour at 5 p.m. and dinner at 6 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 8, at the American Legion Hall on Limerock Street in Rockland.
The cost is $25 per person, and checks should be received before July 23.
Attendees can make checks out to the Camden High School Alumni Association and mail them to CHSAA in care of Pat Ayers, 11 Colorado Ave., Camden 04843.
All CHS “alumni and friends are always welcome,” Stinson and Frye wrote, “and the Association looks forward to having a large attendance, especially all the classes that will be celebrating their individual reunions.”
They urge you to “contact your family and friends” and make this event “part of your 2009 summer plans.”
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Phyllis Bartlett reports “staff at the Hampden Historical Society Archives would appreciate donations of Hampden Academy Sedan yearbooks” to complete its collection.
“The yearbooks are used often when researching persons who attended Hampden Academy,” Bartlett said.
Editions that are needed are 1954, 1956, 1962, 1969, 1970, 1975, 1992, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000 “and any years before 1920,” Bartlett wrote.
If you can help, please call her at 862-3190 or write to her at 18 Canoe Club Road, Hampden 04444.
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Shirley Turner and members of the Brewer High School Class of 1959 are preparing for their 50th reunion on Saturday, Aug. 8, at the Lucerne Inn, but organizers have been unable to locate several of their classmates.
The missing include Ann Abbott, Wesley “Roy” Blethen, Deanna Bowden Dingwell, Dale Bulduc, Paul Cummings, Sallie Durgin, Janice Grant Hoffman, Charles Hanson and Marion Hersom.
Also, Robert Ireland, Mary Kelly Bell, Wyona Mann Bunker, Dariel McKenney Marsh, Wayne Merrill, Dawna Plummer Sullivan, Patricia Proctor Gray, Gordon Rand, Mary Spratt, Carleton Watters and David Waugh.
If you can help locate any of these people, Turner wrote, you are asked to call her at 843-5434.
Joni Averill, Bangor Daily News, P.O. Box 1329, Bangor 04402; javerill@bangordailynews.net; 990-8288.