Veazie Garden Club president Carol Arnold has announced it is taking nominations for its annual Veazie Community Improvement Award and that nominations are due Friday, April 30.
Any Veazie Garden Club member or Veazie resident may submit a nomination.
The award is given to a business or public or private organization “that has made a significant improvement to a property,” during the past 12 months, in Veazie, “either through renovation or new construction.”
Nominations also can include “improvements to parks or other public, outdoor areas,” but “private residences are not eligible,” the release states.
Nominations can be sent to Veazie Garden Club Community Improvement Award, c/o Carol Arnold, president, 1008 Buck Hill Drive, Veazie 04401, or e-mailed to gaafam@aol.com.
More information is available by writing Barb Brown Dalton, 21 Black Bear Drive, Veazie 04401-6929, calling her at 947-4827, or e-mailing barbiebd@myfairpoint.net.
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The public is invited to hear Peter Lord discuss “Starlit Communities: Stewardship for a New Resource,” at 7 p.m. Thursday, April 29, at Woodlawn on Surry Road in Ellsworth.
Lord, the release states, is executive director of the Island Astronomy Institute and “will introduce the Institute and its collaboration with Acadia National Park to measure, promote and protect the night sky.”
The presentation is part of Woodlawn’s spring lecture series.
Admission is free, but donations for Woodlawn programs are appreciated.
Reservations may be made by calling Woodlawn at 667-8671 or e-mailing events@woodlawnmuseum.org.
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Pilor Thibodeau wrote that “as prom season approaches,” The Attic is conducting a “half-price sale on all our gowns.”
The Attic, a thrift shop, is open 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Monday-Friday and 10 a.m.-1 p.m. Saturdays at 170 Center St. in Bangor.
Proceeds from sales benefit All Saints Catholic School in Bangor.
For more information, call Connie Caron at 942-0394.
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The public is invited to attend Taylor Mali and the Bangor High School Poetry Slam with doors opening at 6 p.m. and the performance 7-9 p.m. Friday, April 30, at Peakes Auditorium at Bangor High School on Broadway.
General admission is $10, and tickets may be purchased at Patrick’s Hallmark at the Broadway Shopping Center, at Bangor High School or at www.brownpapertickets.com.
Proceeds from this event, featuring the National Poetry Slam artist, will benefit the BHS speech and debate team and enable it to send Ben Claeson, Caleb Shortt and Rami Blair to the National Forensics League Tournament in June in Kansas City, Mo.
Opening for Mali will be “several of Bangor High’s own, talented poets who earned a spot at our student poetry slam competition” earlier this month, said assistant team coach Pat Jenkins.
For those unfamiliar with the term “slam poetry,” Jenkins said it is “performance poetry and is usually competitive and judged by the audience. The poet’s original writing and his-her performance … are given equal consideration.”
Taylor, who “performs throughout the country,” appeared “at the Maine Forensic Association State Tournament last January at the University of Maine in Orono.
“He was amazing,” Jenkins wrote. “His poetry speaks to both students and adults.”
Jenkins also reported that Taylor will be meeting, during the day of his performance, with the students who entered the January Poetry Out Loud competition.
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You are invited to a screening of the award-wining film “In the Light of Reverence,” at 7 p.m. Friday, April 30, at the Penobscot Indian Nation Community Center on Indian Island.
Rick Pouliot, executive director for Gedakina Inc., reports the event is free and includes an after-film discussion with filmmaker Malinda Maynor Lowery.
Pouliot said the film is a “72-minute documentary on Native American struggles to protect landscapes of spiritual significance,” telling “the stories of three communities and places they care for: The Lakota at Devils Tower in Wyoming; the Hopi in the Four Corner area of the Southwest; and the Wintu at Mount Shasta in California.”
This is the second event in the film and discussion series co-hosted by the Penobscot Indian Nation Cultural Historic Preservation Department and Gedakina.
According to its mission statement, “Gedakina is a multigenerational endeavor to strengthen and revitalize the cultural knowledge and identity of Native American youth and families from across northern New England and to conserve our traditional homelands and sacred places.”
For more information about Gedakina, e-mail rickpouliot@gedakina.org, call 673-3089 or visit www.gedakina.org.
For more information about this event or the series, call Maria Girouard, director of Cultural and Historic Preservation for the Penobscot Indian Nation, at 817-7471 or e-mail Maria.Girouard@penobscotnation.org.
Joni Averill, Bangor Daily News, P.O. Box 1329, Bangor 04402; javerill@bangordailynews.com; 990-8288.