Tickets for the Caribou Sesquicentennial Celebration Ball must be purchased in advance, Carol McElwee reports.
The ball begins with a social hour at 5:30 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 22, at the Caribou Inn and Convention Center. Dinner is at 6:30 p.m. and then attendees will dance to the music of the 17-piece Bangor-based band Sentimental Journey from 8 p.m. to midnight.
Tickets are $40 each and are available at Caribou One Stop, Food Trend, the Caribou Chamber of Commerce and Sleeper’s Shopping Center in Caribou; the Aroostook Centre Mall in Presque Isle, Harvest Market in Fort Fairfield and Ezzy’s in Van Buren.
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Pam Tweedie reports that the third annual Bangor High School Girls Alumnae Soccer Game will begin at 6 p.m. Friday, Aug. 21, at Bangor High School on Broadway.
Anyone who wants to participate must register by Wednesday, Aug. 19, Tweedie wrote.
The game, between BHS varsity and BHS alumnae, is in memory of Danielle Marie Thompson, BHS ’03, who was a senior at the University of New Hampshire when she died in January 2007 after a brief illness.
The $20 entry fee includes a T-shirt and will benefit the Danielle Marie Thompson Scholarship Fund.
Admission is free, but donations will be accepted for the scholarship. Concessions will be available.
For information, call Tweedie at 947-7245.
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Mount Desert Island and Ellsworth Housing Authority executive director Terrance Kelley invites you to ECO-MDI, 2-7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 19, at Northeast Creek Neighborhood in Town Hill.
At this rain-or-shine event, according to the release, you will learn how to “recycle it; solar power it; renew it; learn it; try it” as vendors and exhibitors offer information about the latest in alternative energy sources and conservation efforts, green building technologies and home financing. A specialist will be there to discuss tax incentives for such work.
This open house also offers a grand prize of $5,000 for one new homebuyer at Northeast Creek Neighborhood.
The event’s host is the Bar Harbor Housing Authority. Call 288-4770 or visit www.emdiha.org for more information.
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Central High School of Corinth Class of 1969 members are preparing for their 40th reunion Aug. 29 at the Davis camp on Williams Pond in Bucksport.
Listed among “the missing” are Anthony Shaw, Marie Brasslett Lancaster, David Randall and Nancy Chapman.
Anyone with current addresses, e-mails or phone numbers for these individuals, or for more information, can call Donna Archer at 296-2671.
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Kathy Strout, wife of Bangor Daily News assignment editor Jeff Strout, wrote recently to thank supporters and contributors who helped make it possible for their daughter, Elizabeth Strout, to participate in the Komen 3-Day Breast Cancer Walk last month in Boston.
Elizabeth raised more than $2,400 for the event, in which 1,600 walkers raised more than $4 million to benefit breast cancer research.
“As a 13-year-survivor,” Kathy wrote, “I am so proud and grateful to them all.”
Of the funds raised, 85 percent of the net proceeds benefit Susan G. Komen for the Cure, and the remaining 15 percent benefits the National Philanthropic Trust Breast Cancer Fund “to provide a permanent endowment for ongoing support of breast cancer initiatives,” Kathy wrote in thanking her daughter and “everyone for their support.”
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The field is filling fast for the 12th annual Phillips-Strickland House Charity Golf Tournament, beginning with registration and lunch at 11 a.m. and a shotgun start at 12:30 p.m. Monday, Sept. 14, at Penobscot Valley Country Club in Orono, reports its executive director, Nelson Durgin.
The registration fee is $115 per player, and hole sponsorships are available.
The registration and sponsorship deadline is Friday, Aug. 28, and can be made by calling Sharon Nickerson at 941-2820 or e-mailing snickerson@pshouse.org.
Joni Averill, Bangor Daily News, P.O. Box 1329, Bangor 04402; javerill@bangordailynews.net; 990-8288.