Princeton resident Dale Speed “has always helped others in need,” wrote Peta Brown of that gentleman who now needs help himself.
“Dale has been a very active Shriner, a Mason in Lewey Island Lodge 138 and a charter member of the Princeton Rod and Gun Club,” Brown added.
Since February, Speed has been hospitalized, and “now it is our turn to help him and his family,” Brown wrote.
A benefit roast beef supper for Speed is 5 p.m. Saturday, May 15, at the Princeton Rod and Gun Club.
Admission is $12 for adults, $6 for children 10 and under.
The benefit will include a Chinese auction.
Anyone willing to help with this event or donate to the Chinese auction is asked to call Brown at 796-5409, Phillip McDowell at 796-2389 or Gertie Damon at 796-6300 for information.
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Hammond Street Senior Center will hold a public Gallery Discussion and Wine and Cheese Reception from 2 to 4 p.m. Thursday, May 13, at the center, 2 Hammond St., Bangor.
The new exhibit features the work of 11 members of the senior center’s pastel painting class taught by local artist Linda Packard.
Featured artists are Joan Goodwin, Rita Haunert, Gail Hipsky, Fred Irons, Gloria Hodgdon, Carol Brooks, Priscilla Ireland, Jean Townsend, Sue Roberts, Liz Donald and Michelle Walker.
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Boston Red Sox versus the Kansas City Royals baseball tickets could be yours if you bid high enough at the Charlotte White Center annual Live and Silent Auction from 6 to 9 p.m. Friday, May 14, at Bangor Motor Inn, Hogan Road.
Admission is $10 and includes appetizers, beverages and door prizes as well as a cash bar. Cash, checks and credit cards will be accepted.
Tickets will be available at the door and can be purchased in advance at 38 Penn Plaza, Bangor, and at 576 Bangor Road, Dover-Foxcroft.
Kerry Sack and Erica Lewis of the Charlotte White Center remind you that all proceeds benefit the Children’s Program Department of this Dover-Foxcroft-based organization.
Among those essential program services are in-home support for families with children with autism, case management, counseling and LifeJackets, a wilderness curriculum-based after-school program.
The Charlotte White Center covers a seven-county service area in central, northern and eastern Maine. Information about the auction or the center’s programs and services is available by calling 947-1410.
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Michaeleen Ward wants readers to know that “the Wild Gardens of Acadia bog project was selected for Tourism Cares’ Save Our Sites Web page, along with four other national park candidates,” and you have until Friday, May 14, to cast your vote. While only one vote is allowed per day, you can vote each day.
The site is http://www.tourismcares.org/save-our-sites/vote-for-a-site.
The project receiving the most votes receives a grant ranging from $5,000 to $10,000.
As you will see when you visit the site, the competition is stiff.
Ward explained that “the Wild Gardens of Acadia is a project initiated in the 1960s by two members of the Bar Harbor Garden Club, at the suggestion of the Superintendent of Acadia National Park.”
“Native plants were collected and propagated by Garden Club members on the island, and Wild Gardens of Acadia has become a place where visitors can see and identify the native flora presented in habitats such as the ones where they would be naturally found on Mount Desert Island.”
Ward said many dedicated volunteers give their time to Wild Gardens and Ward hopes “you will support this project, as it means so much to this area, which hosts millions of visitors who come to Acadia National Park.”
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Volunteer Sharon Knopp reports Island Connections will conduct its online auction May 14-June 3 at www.islconnections.org.
“Visit often and bid generously!” Knopp urges because proceeds “support our mission of providing transportation and other services for seniors and people with disabilities” living on Mount Desert Island.
“This auction features wonderful experiences to create your own Island Memories,” Knopp wrote of items up for bid ranging from boat and horse-drawn carriage rides to lobsters.
For information, call Island Connections, 288-4457.
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Jim Ellis wrote that the Hooked on Fishing project will hold a day of fishing for people 15 and under from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday, May 15, at Kiwanis Park Pond in Dover-Foxcroft.
You should bring your bait and fishing rod. Information is available by calling Ellis at 343-0503 or Rocco Palumbo at 683-5050.
This day of trout fishing is sponsored by the Dover-Foxcroft Police Department.
Joni Averill, Bangor Daily News, P.O. Box 1329, Bangor 04402; javerill@bangordailynews.com; 990-8288.