People who have old trophies of any variety who no longer have the space to store them are going to love this invitation.
Patricia Jenkins e-mailed that the Bangor High School Speech, Debate and Student Congress team will hold a tournament on Saturday, Oct. 31, and “we want to try something to keep the cost of trophies down.”
“So,” Jenkins continued, “we’re looking for old trophies that are collecting dust, or that people have put away in the attic.
“They can be trophies for any activity,” she continued, emphasizing “they do not have to be just speech/debate trophies.
“We’ll have plaques made up and let winners choose the trophy they want from the selection we collect. It could be a lot of fun.”
If you have trophies you would be willing to share, “we can use them,” Jenkins added.
For information or to donate a trophy or trophies, e-mail pjenkins@bangorschools.net or jpelletier@bangorschools.net or call 299-8381 or 992-5546.
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Marlene Doucette wrote that the Orono Historical Society will present a lecture, “The Faces Behind the Places,” at 7 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 15, in Town Council chambers in the Orono Municipal Building on Main Street.
“Our speakers will profile local people who have been important enough to Orono, and the University of Maine, to have buildings named after them,” Doucette said, adding that the event will include light refreshments.
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Lyn Smith has announced that the Pittsfield Public Library will be closed Thursday, Oct. 15, for the library construction project.
With electricity shut down to install wiring in both the old building and the addition, “this will cause the wireless router to be unavailable, so personal laptop computers will not be able to be used outside the library,” Smith said.
“There may be other, short-term library closings, throughout the building construction project,” which is expected to be completed in December.
Smith wrote that library personnel would provide “as much advance notice, as possible, about any closings.”
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Ann Carter reminds patrons of the Calais Free Library Used Bookstore that it is open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Thursdays and Fridays, and from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturdays, through Saturday, Nov. 7, when the store closes for the season.
The library is located on Main Street next to Unobskey College.
“The store has enjoyed a steady stream of folks who are preparing to spend the winter with a good supply of reading material from the bookstore collections,” Carter wrote.
“Fortunately, there are also many who are culling books from their own collections, as they either downsize or make room for new books.
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Congregation Beth Israel Hebrew School will hold its first book sale from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. Friday, Oct. 16, at Congregation Beth Israel, 144 York St., Bangor.
School principal Corrin Miller said that “proceeds from the sale will help develop the school library and provide special library programs for the students.”
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Director Ken Hanscom reports that Brewer Parks and Recreation will hold its first Children’s Fair from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 24, at Brewer Auditorium.
“If you are interested in selling some of your child’s used clothing and toys,” Hanscom wrote, he asks you to call Gerry Spencer at 989-5199 no later than Friday, Oct. 16, “for registration details.”
Tables are $25 each, “and space is limited,” Hanscom said.
This sale offers “the perfect opportunity to do a little shopping” for people seeking “good quality, affordable clothes and toys,” he added.
Joni Averill, Bangor Daily News, P.O. Box 1329, Bangor 04402; javerill@bangordailynews.net; 990-8288.