Belfast VFW Wants to Replace Century-Old Facility

By JONI AVERILL

I recently received an e-mail from John O’Neill, commander of the Belfast Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 3108.

“The Post was established in 1934,” O’Neill wrote, “Since then the Post has supported veterans, their families and the community. We also provide a club for veterans to come to relax and enjoy themselves. They have earned it.”

O’Neill went on to explain that “the building we own is 100 years old, and [it] shows. We have undertaken a fundraising effort to replace this building.”

“With the new set of veterans coming home, we need a proper place that will last another 100 years.”

O’Neill urges readers to visit the post’s Web site, www.belfastvfw.org, where you will learn about the organization and the members’ efforts to raise $600,000 to replace the building.

To make a difference, simply scroll down and click the “donate now” button.

If you do not have access to a computer you may send contributions to VFW Post 3108, Attn: Building Foundation, 34 Field St., Belfast 04915.

For more information about this post or this project, call the post at 338-2358.

Leigh Butler wrote that the free Christians in Visual Arts exhibit and sale is 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 9, at the Sukeforth Conference Center in China.

The exhibit features Christian artists from all over the state of Maine, Butler wrote.

For more information call 223-4199 or 631-3599.

The 23rd annual Mostly for Fun trombone concert is 7 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 9, at Elm Street Congregational Church in Bucksport, reports Don Blodgett of Orland.

Admission is $8 for adults, $3 for students. Proceeds will help maintain the church’s historic E. & G.G. Hook organ.

Dr. Everett Parker, pastor of Shirley Community Church, invites you to Old Home Sunday, beginning with a service in recognizing the church’s 102nd birthday, at 11 a.m. Sunday, Aug. 10, at the church.

After the service, dinner will be served at 12:30 p.m. at Shirley Town Hall.

Admission for the dinner is $7 for adults, $3 for children 5-12, free for children under 5.

The menu features ham and potato salad, coleslaw, two kinds of homemade baked beans, biscuits, homemade pies and a beverage. Proceeds benefit the church.

For more information call Janet Parker at 695-3163.

Betty Littlefield reports the Brooks Historical Society Young at Heart Day will be 1-4 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 10, at the society’s Pilley Museum, 11 Moosehead Trail Highway.

The event features old songs and guitar music by Don Nickerson of Jackson and the museum’s regular exhibits in authentic settings.

The air-conditioned facility also features several new exhibits including an oil painting of Brooks by former resident Marilyn Reay, now of Australia.

Littlefield hopes some attendees will be able to help identify people in the Morse Memorial Elementary School photos of 1936-41, provided to the society by the family of the late Paddy Brown.

There is no admission fee, “but freewill donations are always gratefully accepted,” Littlefield said.

Free refreshments will be offered on the porch and willing participants may be filmed for the society’s collection, she said.

Brenda Hall of Mount Desert Island Hospital in Bar Harbor invites the public to attend its annual meeting beginning with a social hour at 5 p.m. and main program at 6 p.m. Monday, Aug. 11, at the Bar Harbor Club.

The guest speaker will be MDIH medical director of emergency services Dr. J.R. Krevans, who will present a speech titled “Personal Memories and Insights Learned in Alaska.”

Hall explained that for 20 years Krevans was a U.S. Commissioned Corps medical officer assigned to the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta, an area the size of New England inhabited by 25,000 people.

“The system used there contains ideas that may be helpful in improving access and quality of care here in Maine,” Hall said.

The Rev. R. Carlton Huntley of Sherman will celebrate his 93rd birthday on Saturday, Aug. 23, and cards, phone calls and visits from friends would be appreciated, wrote Glenice Huntley.

You can write or visit him at 89 Benedicta Road, Sherman 04776.

Among other churches, Huntley has been the pastor of Monarda Calvary Baptist Church in Silver Ridge for 44 years.

Joni Averill, Bangor Daily News, P.O. Box 1329, Bangor 04402; javerill@bangordailynews.net; 990-8288.

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