Whitetail Golf Course owners Scott and Shari Duthie invite you to participate in their annual fundraiser for the American Cancer Society’s Relay for Life event by entering the Lloyd Duthie Memorial Golf Tournament.

That fundraiser begins with two shotgun starts at 8 a.m. and 1 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 15, at Whitetail in Charleston.

The cost is $30 each for the 4-person scramble and includes a buffet lunch.

Hole sponsorships are $50 and can be contributed “in honor of, or memory of someone” with cancer you have known, Shari Duthie wrote.

To register or make a donation, call 285-7730 or mail a donation to Whitetail, 373 School Road, Charleston 04422.

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Laurel Robinson and folks at Centre Street Congregational Church in Machias remind you the 34th annual Machias Wild Blueberry Festival is today through Sunday, Aug. 16, in that Washington County community.

“There are some activities Thursday and Friday, but most of the action takes place Saturday and Sunday, with 250 crafts booths, two food courts, pie-eating and cooking contests, the road race and much more,” Robinson wrote.

She suggests you visit www.machiasblueberry.com for a complete schedule or call the church, which is hosting the event, at 255-6665.

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Maine Kids-Kin is holding a yard sale, 9 a.m.-2 p.m. both Friday, Aug. 14, and Saturday, Aug. 15, at Enterprise Grange Hall on the corner of Center Drive and Dow Road in Orrington, reports Janelle Wuoristo of Families and Children Together in Bangor, which sponsors Maine Kids-Kin.

All proceeds benefit Maine Kids-Kin Emergency Fund to help “grandfamilies in crisis,” Wuoristo wrote of the program that assists grandfamilies and extended family members who are caring for relatives’ children.

For more information, visit www.mainekids-kin.org, call Wuoristo at 941-2347, or e-mail jwuoristo@mainekids-kin.org.

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This week’s Belfast Garden Club Open Garden Days Tour is 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Friday, Aug. 14, at the garden of Janet Williams, 5 Elm St., Searsport.

Featuring a pond and waterfall, Williams’ garden last year “turned the 1840 Cape into a vegetarian-vegan B&B,” Nan Cobbey wrote.

A suggested donation of $3 is payable at the garden. Proceeds benefit the club’s Belfast Civic Beautification projects.

For more information, visit www.belfastgardenclub.org, call Diane Allmayer-Beck, 338-3105, or Martha Block, 948-2815.

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John Mullins e-mailed the Franklin Veterans Club is inviting “area veterans and their spouses to an Open House,” 3-8 p.m. Friday, Aug. 14, at the club “located at the intersection of Cards Crossing and U.S. Route 182 in Franklin.”

Refreshments will be served, and you can also call the club, 565-2977, for more information.

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Jean Miller e-mailed the Castine Town Band appears in concert at 6 p.m. Friday, Aug. 14, on the Town Common on Court Street.

You should bring chairs or a blanket for your family and friends who will enjoy this free event.

If it rains, the concert will be at Emerson Hall across the street from the Town Common.

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The 1988 and 1989 Hampden Academy High School Reunion Committee reminds fellow alumni the reunion is Friday, Aug. 14, and Saturday, Aug. 15, in conjunction with Hampden Children’s Day.

The adults-only main reunion kick-off party is 6:30 p.m.-1 a.m. at the Bangor Elks Club and will feature the band, No Warning, with HA 1989 alumni Ken White and Brett Leavitt.

Saturday’s Family Barbecue is 2-6 p.m. at Camp Peirce Webber and welcomes alumni, guests and children.

To view updated event information, visit http://sites.google.com/site/hampden2009reunion/ or e-mail hampdenacademy@gmail.com.

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Breanna Pinkham e-mailed Part 4 of 6 of the Schoodic Arts for All Jazz and Classical Concert Series features pianist Catherine Marie Charlton at 7 p.m. Friday, Aug. 14, at Hammond Hall, 427 Main St., Winter Harbor.

Admission is $15 for adults, $7 for students and free for children under 12.

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Family and friends are invited to the annual Sprague-Call-Williams Family Reunion, 11 a.m. Saturday, Aug. 15, at the Crawford Lake home of Fred and Linda Sprague Williams.

A barbecue begins at noon, and more information is available by calling Linda Williams at 454-2518.

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John Miller of The Boat School-Husson University reports the First Boast School-Husson Alumni Weekend is Saturday and Sunday, Aug. 15-16, in Eastport.

He hopes as many alumni as possible “from the Class of ’09 all the way back to the Class of ’69” will attend.

For information, call The Boat School-Husson, 853-2518 or e-mail john.miller2@hotmail.com.

Joni Averill, Bangor Daily News, P.O. Box 1329, Bangor 04402; javerill@bangordailynews.net; 990-8288.