Members of the SeDoMoCha Middle School Odyssey of the Mind team will serve your breakfast and bus your table when you dine from 7 to 11 a.m. now through Thursday, April 22, at Countryside Restaurant on Main Street in Corinth, and order an Odyssey Breakfast Special.
Lynn Lamb reports 50 percent of the sales of the Odyssey Breakfast Specials will directly benefit the team members, who recently participated in the state Odyssey of the Mind competition and qualified to go to the World Finals May 26-29, at Michigan State University.
Team members extend thanks to Countryside Restaurant owners Scott and Denise Tuller “for working with us on this fundraiser.”
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Hampden Highlands United Methodist Church holds a 13-week, video-based, small group study, “Dave Ramsey’s Financial Peace University,” on Wednesdays and Saturdays, beginning May 12.
The cost is $100 for individual-family, and some financial aid may be available.
Before the presentation, two free one-hour previews will be offered at 6 p.m. Wednesday, April 21, and 10 a.m. Saturday, April 24, both at Hampden Highlands United Methodist Church, 44 Kennebec Road, Hampden.
The release states “participants can learn how to make a budget that they can use and understand, communicate with their spouse about finances and invest with confidence.”
For information, call the church, 862-4195, e-mail hhumcme@yahoo.com or visit www.daveramsey.com.
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Bucksport Senior Citizens Club will welcome the musical group “The Original Condition,” 7-9:30 p.m. Thursday, April 22, at the Alamo Theater, Main Street in Bucksport.
Bucksport Senior Citizens Club director Myrtle Pendleton reports that the show features Doug Alley “singing and pickin’ with the group.”
Advance tickets are $8. Tickets at the door are $10. For advance tickets, call 469-0703 or 469-7559.
Proceeds benefit Bucksport Senior Citizens Club.
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Mothers & More Greater Bangor Chapter co-leader Elizabeth Bushnell reminds readers during its participation in the national “Power of a Purse” campaign that it is still collecting monetary donations or donations of purses through the end of April to benefit Spruce Run Agency and St. Andre’s Home.
Purses or donations may be made at Purse Hollywood and The Grasshopper Shop, both in Bangor.
The purpose of the “Power of a Purse” campaign is to raise awareness about the issues of teenage motherhood and domestic violence.
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University of Maine junior Kimberly Preble, originally from Auburn and an Edward Little High School graduate, is raising funds to participate in the 2010 Susan G. Komen 3-Day for the Cure to be held Oct. 8-10, in Washington, D.C.
Preble, her sister and two friends call their team The Maine Squeeze and “are aiming to raise $10,000 for this great cause,” Preble wrote.
Preble informed me that “cancer research is a cause that I hold dear to my heart, especially since many members of my family have either died from it or have had it.” Her individual goal is $2,300, and she is selling breast cancer pins and T-shirts.
To make a donation, visit www.the3day.org site, click on “Donate,” click on “Search for a Participant” and enter the name “Kimberly Preble.”
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It was with regret that I read the e-mail from my “old, retired buddy,” former Bangor Daily News co-worker Jack Gifford, telling me that the program he and fellow volunteers conducted for some time, DREAMS FOR MAINE’S KIDS, “is ceasing operations.”
“Even though our organization will no longer provide service in Maine,” Jack explained, “we encourage families to seek out and utilize the dream wish facilitators” and “other outstanding providers” still operating in Maine.
Jack wrote that he especially appreciates and wants “to thank all those physicians and families who have called on DREAMS to provide dream wishes to children in Maine with life-altering illnesses who have sought our help over the years.”
Joni Averill, Bangor Daily News, P.O. Box 1329, Bangor 04402; javerill@bangordailynews.com; 990-8288.