This Independence Day we have an invitation from Lt. Col. Brenda Jordan of the Maine National Guard specifically for golfers.
Lt. Col. Jordan wrote that the National Guard Association of the State of Maine is issuing an invitation for four-person teams to participate in its 14th annual Invitational Golf Tournament Aug. 13 at the Palmyra Golf Course.
Proceeds from the event, she said, “support a scholarship fund for military service members and their families. Last year, four scholarships were awarded to high school students.”
However, the tournament is only open to the first 36 teams that register, and registration must be made by July 31.
The registration fee of $220 per team for the 18-hole tournament includes greens fees, golf carts, prizes, team pictures for each golfer and a chicken barbecue lunch.
For a registration form, call 624-2860 or e-mail darrell.stevens@us.army.mil.
Lt. Col. Jordan also reports that the tournament is seeking hole sponsors for $100 that will include the sponsor’s logo.
The sponsorship commitment date is July 24, and those sponsorships can be made by calling Col. Jerry Dunlap at 430-5292 or e-mailing Gerald.dunlap@us.army.mil.
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Space is limited and preregistration is required for anyone wishing to attend a Make Your Own Paper workshop, 9:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m. Tuesday, July 7, at Woodlawn Museum, Route 172 in Ellsworth.
The fee is $45 for members and $55 for nonmembers, including material. Additionally, the extra $10 can be applied toward your Woodlawn membership.
For more information and registration, call 667-8671 or e-mail events@woodlawnmuseum.org.
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Author Kerry Hardy, former director of the Merryspring Nature Center in Camden and Rockport and currently with Farmers Fare in Rockport, will discuss “Languages, Landscapes and Lifeways of Ancient Maine” at 7 p.m. Tuesday, July 7, at the Dr. Campbell House, 225 Main St., Warren.
Hardy recently wrote “Notes on a Lost Flute.”
Nancy Blake of the host Warren Historical Society wrote that the public is invited to attend and to take part in a potluck cookout at 6 p.m. at the Campbell House.
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Members of the Farmington Area Alumni Association want fellow alums to know the association will hold its annual meeting and banquet beginning with a social hour at 4 p.m. and then dinner at 6 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 8, at Mt. Blue High School in Farmington.
Admission is $12 per person.
All alumni and their guests are welcome. Call Diane Ellis Ward at 778-8585 for more information.
At this event, committee members report, the Farmington Area Alumni Association scholarship recipients for 2009 will be recognized, and during the business meeting, a discussion will be conducted regarding changes in FAAA scholarship funds.
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Members of the Milo Historical Society are proud “to announce the launching of a new book of vintage photos and narratives,” wrote Kathryn Horne Witham of the book, “Brownville, Lake View and Milo.”
“This is an ‘Images of America’ series book that has been in the works” for more than a year, Witham said of the collaborative effort of Milo and Brownville Historical Society members.
The book is $21.95 “and will be available at major bookstores in Bangor and Dover-Foxcroft, online at Amazon.com, at local vendors in Milo and through the museums in both Milo and Brownville by contacting members of the respective historical societies,” she said.
Proceeds will help raise funds to support the Milo Historical Society museum building, which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
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Norma Milton of Halfway Home Pet Rescue reports it is holding a tag sale from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. today and from noon to 5 p.m. Sunday, July 5, at Valley Woodworking, 6 Carroll St., Caribou.
Additionally, Milton wrote she is conducting a daily tag sale “when the garage door is open, and every weekend, with no set hours,” at her home, 773 South Shore Road, Madawaska Lake in Stockholm.
“We use the honor system of payment at both places,” Milton said, “and people have been very good.”
She added that the “small, state-licensed shelter, which operates on a grassroots effort with a few volunteers,” is “always looking for items to add to our tag sale.”
If you can help, drop off your contributions at the Milton residence or at Beaulieu’s Garage on South Main Street in Caribou.
Currently, Milton reports, the shelter is full with 17 cats and kittens “in our foster care system.”
Joni Averill, Bangor Daily News, P.O. Box 1329, Bangor 04402; javerill@bangordailynews.net; 990-8288.