Lots of family fun awaits those who attend the Pine Tree Hospice 16th annual variety show from 7 to 9 p.m. Friday, April 30, at Center Theatre in Dover-Foxcroft.
For this major fundraiser of the year, according to Pine Tree Hospice executive director Jane Stitham, tickets have previously sold for $10 to $12, but this year are going to be sold by donation.
Tickets are available at Pine Tree Hospice, 883 West Main St., and at Center Theatre, 20 East Main St., both in Dover-Foxcroft, and will be available at the door, if any tickets remain.
For more information, call 564-4346.
Many new and returning acts are planned for the show, reports volunteer coordinator Amy Madigan-Dube, who says “the content will be appropriate for people of all ages.”
The program includes “singing, dancing, drumming and even some sign language.”
Those who support this organization are reminded that Pine Tree Hospice volunteers do not charge for their service, which is why they hope you will attend “and help us support the work of these volunteers who are a much-needed resource to families who find themselves to be in the most vulnerable period of their lives.”
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If you’re looking for May Baskets to leave with friends or loved ones on May Day, which is Saturday, May 1, Hammond Street Senior Center is the place to go.
Deanna Partridge reports several members “have been busy for months cutting decorative papers to form into hundreds” of baskets, and that they will be available through May Day.
You are welcome to stop in between 8:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. today and Friday, April 30, at Hammond Street Senior Center, 2 Hammond St., Bangor, to purchase your May Basket for $1.50 empty or $3 filled with fudge.
For more information, call Hammond Street Senior Center at 262-5532 or e-mail info@hammondstreet.org.
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The Bangor Memory Walk kickoff event is a special showing of “Sundowning” at 6:30 p.m. Friday, April 30, at the Collins Center for the Arts on the University of Maine campus in Orono.
Admission at the door is $5, and doors open at 5:45 p.m.
A free dessert bar will be available for this event that Kristie Miner reports is “presented by the Bangor Memory Walk Committee of the Alzheimer’s Association, Maine Chapter,” with “special thanks to Gum Spirits Productions and the Collins Center for the Arts.”
The film tells the story of three generations of lobstermen living on a Maine island, and what happens when the eldest develops Alzheimer’s disease.
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The next event in the Marine Environmental Research Institute’s 20th Anniversary Ocean Environment Lecture Series features Dr. David Guggenheim presenting “Ocean Lessons: Hopeful Solutions and the Power of the Next Generation.”
The event begins with a reception at 6 p.m. and the lecture at 7 p.m. Friday, April 30, at the Marine Environmental Research Institute, 55 Main St., Blue Hill.
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Preregistration is required for anyone who wants to attend a pressed flowers workshop 9:30-11:30 a.m. Friday, April 30, at Woodlawn Museum on Surry Road in Ellsworth.
The cost for the workshop, featuring Bar Harbor artist Lucy Tracy, is $35 for museum members and $45 for nonmembers, and includes all materials.
To register, call Woodlawn at 667-8671.
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Sue McIver reports the St. Croix International Quilters are holding a shop hop on Saturday, May 1, traveling to four quilt shops in Maine.
The bus departs from Calais but will pick up passengers in the Bangor area.
The cost is $52, and more information is available by call McIver at 427-6967 or e-mailing biglake3@myfairpoint.net.
“This will be a great day of fun and fellowship with other Quilters,” McIver wrote.
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Patricia Henner, executive director of Page Farm and Home Museum, invites you to enjoy “Not Just Chicken Feed” at 2 p.m. Saturday, May 1, at the Page Farm & Home Museum on the campus of the University of Maine in Orono.
The program features a gallery talk about the use of feed sacks for secondary purposes and features quilter Sharon Quinn Fitzgerald of Orono.
Fitzgerald will discuss “the shift from the 1930s theme of make do that went hand in hand with The Great Depression to the peak of flour sack power” in the ’40s and ’50s “when commodity bag manufacturers linked up with textile interests to market women drawn to [feed sack] use for conservation purposes.”
After the talk, Henner will conduct a tour of the exhibit located in the basement of the White Farm barn.
Joni Averill, Bangor Daily News, P.O. Box 1329, Bangor 04402; javerill@bangordailynews.com; 990-8288.