Once again, wrote Women’s Reentry Center volunteer Liane Giambalvo, your donations to assist with the center’s quilt project would be most appreciated.
“As you know,” Giambalvo wrote, “The Reentry Center helps women with training and skills to re-enter the work force after serving a prison term.”
As I reported previously, the center, located in Bangor and operated by Volunteers of America Northern New England, is a program of the Maine Department of Corrections for women making the transition from the Maine Correctional Center in Windham back into the community.
Giambalvo wrote that the quilt project helps “build self-confidence and social skills along with practical home sewing skills.”
She said the 30-plus residents “absolutely love the quilt project,” and that “they are currently making blankets” for the neonatal intensive care unit at Eastern Maine Medical Center in Bangor and other “charity projects for fundraisers” for programs such as Rape Response Service, Therapy Dogs and Alcoholics Anonymous.
On Thursday afternoons, “four volunteers teach basic sewing skills and quilt-making skills,” and those volunteers “depend on generous donors to provide most of the fabric, batting and tools we need to keep the program going,” Giambalvo added.
Needs include “Christmas fabrics, solids, children’s prints and other cotton, fleece or flannel fabrics” and “good sheets for backing.”
One other need, as well, is more volunteers for this most worthwhile project.
If you can donate, volunteer, or help in any other way, call Giambalvo at 862-3356 or Cynthia Reid or Carrie Hart at the center, 561-3630.
Giambalvo will collect donations in the Bangor area.
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Barb Brown Dalton reports all orders for the Veazie Garden Club’s Veazie Community Birthday Calendars for 2010 must be made by Saturday, Oct. 3.
“For just $5,” Brown Dalton wrote, “you can purchase a calendar and list up to four family birthdays or anniversaries. Additional listings are 50 cents each,” and businesses can purchase display ads for $40.
Orders or information about advertising can be obtained by calling Brown Dalton at 947-4827 or e-mail barbiebd@myfairpoint.net or call Leah Vetelino at 942-3569.
Brown Dalton wrote this is the largest fundraiser of the year for the garden club and proceeds help fund its many community projects.
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Barbara Waters of Millinocket reminds anyone with connections to that area the Knights of Columbus Council 680 of Millinocket wants you to know that contributions for the St. Martin of Tours Church’s new heating system are still being accepted, even though the system “has been completed and tested.”
Having volunteered to raise “the approximately $38,000 cost of the new system,” Waters wrote, the council’s effort has been progressing well and augmented through donations of many individuals and businesses, memorial contributions and twice-monthly suppers.
The council still needs to raise “some more money” to meet its financial obligation to pay for the heating system.
Donations may be made out to the Knights of Columbus Council 680 and, on the memo line, make a notation “For Church Furnace Fund.”
Checks may be mailed to the Knights of Columbus Council 680, 27 Highland Ave., Millinocket 04462.
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Katherine Hansen e-mailed that the Ladies Auxiliary of the Arnold R. Kelly American Legion Unit 200 is making plans to hold a flea market on Sunday, Oct. 10, at the Hermon Rescue Squad building on Billings Road in Hermon.
“We are seeking a variety of vendors to rent table space for the day,” Hansen said.
Vendors can rent 8-foot tables for $15 or two 8-foot tables for $25.
Proceeds from this fundraiser benefit the Arnold R. Kelly Auxiliary Scholarship awarded to a graduating senior, Hansen wrote.
For more information, or to rent a table, call Auxiliary president Gladys Knowles, 848-5597.
Joni Averill, Bangor Daily News, P.O. Box 1329, Bangor 04402; javerill@bangordailynews.net; 990-8288.