Jonesboro Bicentennial Committee co-chairmen Jim Varney and Linda Varney and fellow committee members including Lee Rose and Suzanne Plaisted invite you to join them Friday through Sunday for this Washington County celebration.
Friday’s events will begin at 4 p.m. with colonial storytelling at Jonesboro Union Church, followed by a public supper and music, a beard contest and a street dance.
Saturday will start with a 7 a.m. pancake breakfast. It will feature everything from a craft fair to an 11 a.m. children’s parade, a grand parade at 4 p.m. and fireworks at 9 p.m.
The rain date for the parade and fireworks is July 19.
On Sunday you are invited to attend the 10 a.m. service at Jonesboro Union Church, bring your own picnic to Chandler River Lodge, and enjoy music by the Orange River Jazz Band.
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The next Belfast Garden Club Open Garden Day will be 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday, July 17, in the David Berg gardens, 12 Water St., Searsport.
A shade garden, pond and a cut-leaf Japanese red maple are among the highlights of this tour for which the suggested donation is $3, payable at the garden.
Limeade will be served, and a list of remaining tours is available at local businesses and www.belfastgardenclub.org.
For information, call Gina Fry, 338-5345.
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Nancy LaHaye reports Bangor High School Class of 1940 will hold its 69th annual get-together at noon Friday, July 17, at the Holiday Inn, Odlin Road, Bangor.
For information, call LaHaye at 941-9714.
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Sharon Smith invites you to the Monroe Community Church annual yard sale, 8 a.m.-1 p.m. Saturday, July 18, at the church.
Proceeds from table rentals benefit The Game Loft in Belfast.
Coffee and doughnuts will be available in the morning, and hot dogs will be “on the grill by 11 a.m.,” Smith wrote.
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Lanie Colson of Eastern Maine Healthcare Systems reports that Sam’s Club will hold its first Miracle Ride to benefit Children’s Miracle Network of EMHS, beginning with registration at 8 a.m. and the ride at 9 a.m. Saturday, July 18, at Sam’s Club on Haskell Road in Bangor.
The 150-mile motorcycle ride will take participants from Bangor to Newport, Guilford, Milo and back to Sam’s Club in Bangor, where lunch will be served.
If you can’t ride, you can still participate by collecting pledges.
For information, call Jane Hopkins, 947-4606 or 944-9844, Ken Demmons, 234-7227 or 745-4933, or Mindy Whittington, 947-4606.
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Representatives of the Vicky E. Morgan Foundation invite you to its Two-Day Charity Event beginning at 8 a.m. Saturday, July 18, at the Searsmont town office, Route 131.
Saturday’s events will include a craft fair, farmers market and a bean supper, 4-6 p.m. Admission is $6 for adults and $3 for children. The day will conclude with a 7 p.m. dance featuring the True Country Band. Admission is $7.
Sunday’s event is the Cars of Yesteryear Fun Show, 11 a.m.-2 p.m., with music, food and door prizes. You are asked not to bring pets.
For information, call 342-3259 or the town office at 342-5411.
According to previous information provided by Robin Dow, the foundation is “dedicated to helping others” and “serving those in need,” especially in times of crisis and tragedy.
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Carmen Smith reports that the 11-garden Dover-Foxcroft Historical Society Shiretown Garden Tour will be 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, July 18, rain or shine.
Presale tickets for the self-guided tour are $10 at Mr. Paperback, Rumbling Falls Gift, Riverside Florist, Stutzman Farms, Carmen’s Greenhouse and the Observer Building Museum. Your ticket purchase includes a map and brochure.
Tour-day tickets are $12, and senior citizen tickets are $8. Stutzman Farms will be open 1-4 p.m., Smith said. For information, call 564-2178.
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Toni Mailloux e-mailed that First Baptist Church of Belfast will mark its 200th anniversary with a community celebration and Silver Tea at 1 p.m. Saturday, July 18, at the church.
The celebration will include an address by Roy Medley, general secretary of American Baptist Churches USA, a community choir and the presentation of a time capsule by church youth.
The program also will feature “an announcement of official affiliation of Habitat for Humanity of Waldo County,” Mailloux wrote, “which was spearheaded by the church but now has a nondenominational board of directors.”
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Barbara Higgins of Veazie called to say the Eastern Maine General Hospital-Eastern Maine Medical Center-Husson University Nurses Alumni Association meeting planned for Saturday, July 18, at Husson University in Bangor has been canceled due to “lack of attendance.”
Joni Averill, Bangor Daily News, P.O. Box 1329, Bangor 04402; javerill@bangordailynews.net; 990-8288.