Members of the Foxcroft Academy String Program and their string coach, Susan Ramsey, invite you to enjoy their fundraiser, “A Celebration of Strings,” featuring a special appearance by nationally known folk singer-songwriter David Mallett.
The concert is 2 p.m. Sunday, March 21, at Center Theatre in Dover-Foxcroft.
The snow date is 2 p.m. Sunday, March 28, at that site.
The suggested donation is $5, and admission is free for children.
Ramsey, who appeared as “The Fiddler” in Center Theatre’s production of “Fiddler on the Roof,” reports the Foxcroft Academy String Program was founded in 2008 under the guidance of FA music director Shane Ellis, with string coaches Ramsey and Ruth Fogg.
“The students have responded enthusiastically” to the program, Ramsey wrote, “learning how to play violin, viola, cello and bass violin.”
Supported by the FA Music Boosters, the program also received a $2,500 grant last year from Maine Community Foundation.
This concert will also feature classical music, Finnish dance tunes and Celtic music, and Ramsey urges readers to “please come out and support the FA String Program” featuring “some very talented musicians.”
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Ann Carter reports guests and visitors are welcome, and refreshments will be available, at the next meeting of the St. Croix Valley Amateur Radio Club.
That meeting is 6:30 p.m. Sunday, March 21, at the Methodist Homes Recreation Room on Palmer Street in Calais.
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Deb Jacques reports Hospice of Eastern Maine, a program of Bangor Area Visiting Nurses, is the local host for Hospice Foundation of America’s 17th annual National Bereavement Teleconference, this year titled “Cancer and End-of-Life Care.”
The broadcast is 1:30-4 p.m. Wednesday, March 24, at the Dyke Center for Family Business, One College Circle, Husson University in Bangor.
A local panel discussion follows at 4 p.m., and reservations are preferred.
For information, or to RSVP, call Peg Elmer at BAVN-HOEM, 973-6550.
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Susan Faloon of Bangor Hydro-Electric Co. has announced Bangor Hydro is offering 17 scholarships for one of the Challenger Learning Center of Maine missions, this spring, for pupils in grades six to eight.
Pupils must submit an essay of 150 to 200 words stating “why their class should be chosen … and how the learning experience would help them achieve future goals,” Faloon wrote.
The deadline for submissions is Friday, March 26.
Essays should be sent to Bangor Hydro-Electric Co., Attn: Susan Faloon, Communications Officer, 970 Illinois Ave, Bangor 04401; e-mailed to sfaloon@bhe.com or faxed to 973-2985.
For information visit www.clcofme.org or www.challenger.org.
A committee will choose the winner in early April.
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Karen Kelley e-mailed the fourth annual Searsport Historical Society Scrapbook Crop is 9 a.m.-8 p.m. Saturday, March 27, at Curtis Hall on Church Street in Searsport.
The registration fee, including lunch and dinner, is $35, and you can register by calling Kelley at 548-2947 or e-mailing scottjiffy@roadrunner.com.
The fundraiser also features door prizes and raffles.
Proceeds benefit the maintenance of the Searsport Historical Society Crary-Carlon-Coleman House, “and the mission to secure a barn to house the collection of larger artifacts,” Kelley wrote.
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Scott Burditt e-mailed Bangor High School Showcase 2010 is 6:30-9 p.m. Tuesday, March 23, at Bangor High School on Broadway.
The showcase features displays by clubs and booster organizations, performances by several of the music groups, and displays of student photography and artwork.
Activities will feature a variety of languages along with information about the math team; JROTC drill team and color guard demonstrations; displays by the civics, geography and global issues classes; student computer projects, honors accounting and economic discussions; and poetry.
Also, speech and debate demonstrations, library information skills, news of classes in earth science and marine biology, physics and chemistry; and “a view of the stars in our observatory,” Burditt wrote.
Special education projects, architecture, drafting and demonstrations by United Technologies Center students will be featured.
The event ends with a performance of the one-act play “Rebel Without a Cause” in Peakes Auditorium.
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Although the Penobscot Valley American Association of University Women annual book sale is not until April 10, wrote Sarah Clark, “we need books.”
Readers are asked to donate books now for this sale, and you can call Phyllis Borns at 866-4193 to arrange for delivery to the association’s storage area or to have the books picked up at your home.
Clark reminds readers this fundraiser supports American Association of University Women “scholarships for high school, college or university and postgraduate studies for women.”
Joni Averill, Bangor Daily News, P.O. Box 1329, Bangor 04402; javerill@bangordailynews.net; 990-8288.