Multiple myeloma patients and cancer survivors Rebecca Reeve and Irene Bartlett, along with Dottie Knappe, encourage you to participate in the third annual 5K Race for Myeloma to benefit the Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation beginning with registration at 9 a.m. and the race at 10 a.m. Saturday, Sept. 26, at the gazebo in Bass Park, Main Street, Bangor.
“The goal of the Race for Myeloma is to raise awareness of and funds for multiple myeloma research, an incurable blood cancer,” the women wrote.
“Multiple myeloma is the second most common blood cancer and one of the top 10 leading causes of cancer death.”
Information and registration forms are available by calling Reeve at 356-0425.
Donations and pledges will be collected the day of the event or can be mailed in advance.
The registration fee is $15 for anyone over 5 for this event sponsored by Courtyard Marriott and Dick’s Sporting Goods.
Walkers and runners are encouraged to collect 10 pledges of $10 each for the foundation, and prizes and a raffle are included.
“Each year,” the women wrote, “approximately 20 families” in Greater Bangor learn “their loved one has this incurable disease.”
Reeve, Bartlett and Knappe are part of the effort “to raise funds for research and to provide support for these families and their loved ones.”
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Cindy Kubetz reports Beth Israel Synagogue will honor Holocaust survivor Cantor Max Furmansky at 7 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 24, at the synagogue, 144 York St., Bangor.
“After 12 years of extraordinary service,” Kubetz wrote, Cantor Furmansky “will be retiring this year as the congregation’s High Holy Day cantor.” He and his wife, Hilda, reside in Israel.
The evening includes “a program with music and special surprises, and a reception following,” Kubetz added.
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Eastern Maine Medical Auxiliary president Cindy Curran reminds readers the fifth annual Eastern Maine Medical Center Kitchen Tour is noon-4 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 26, at homes with “gorgeous kitchens in Hermon, Bangor and Veazie.”
Tickets are $25 and are available in Bangor at EMMC gift shop, Patrick’s Hallmark on Broadway, Rebecca’s on Main Street and Westgate Pharmacy on Union Street; at Winterport Winery; and Airline Pharmacy in Brewer.
New this year is a kitchen tour tasting from 2 to 5 p.m. that day at Wellman Commons on the former campus of Bangor Theological Seminary.
For information, visit www.emmcauxiliary.org.
Curran reports proceeds benefit the Champion the Cure campaign for CancerCare of Maine.
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Bucksport Historical Society hosts its third annual historical house tour 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 26, in that community.
Most of the houses open for this rain-or-shine event are more than 150 years old, the society says.
Tickets are $15 and may be obtained by calling Dawn Elaine Danforth, 469-2543.
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While your attention is focused on Bucksport, Betty Robshaw wants readers to know doors open for the Bucks Mills Rod and Gun Club annual auction at 2 p.m. with the auction beginning at 3 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 26, at the clubhouse on Outer Central Street, “about five miles from Main Street in Bucksport,” Robshaw explained.
Items range from gift certificates to local restaurants to “lots of bathroom sinks,” NASCAR items and weed wackers.
Proceeds will benefit the club’s scholarship fund for high school seniors. This year, Robshaw added, the club was able to award three scholarships.
Refreshments will be available and information can be obtained by calling her at 266-8565 or Bob Robshaw at 469-7446.
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Community members, co-workers, friends and family “have been very helpful and supportive” of Donald Morrison and his family, following his recent diagnosis of Wegener’s disease, wrote Cindy Johnson.
According to the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Web site, “Wegener’s Granulomatosis is an uncommon disease, in which the blood vessels are inflamed, aka vasculitis. This inflammation damages important organs of the body by limiting blood flow to those organs and destroying normal tissue.”
To help the family with the unexpected medical expenses it now faces, Johnson explained, a benefit spaghetti supper for Donnie Morrison and family is 4-7 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 26, at Twin City Baptist Church on North Main Street in Brewer.
The requested donation is $5 for adults and $3 for children 12 and under.
“Please come out to the supper,” Johnson wrote.
“It would certainly help lift the spirits of the Morrison family during this difficult time.”
Joni Averill, Bangor Daily News, P.O. Box 1329, Bangor 04402; javerill@bangordailynews.net; 990-8288.