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Haiti-Related Events

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Friday, March 12   Hampden Academy National Honor Society Hosts

Spaghetti Dinner


On Friday, March 12, from 6-8 p.m., the National Honor Society of Hampden Academy

hosts “Hungry? Help Haiti,” a spaghetti dinner that will benefit Haiti.  The cost of the

dinner is $5 or $20 for families.  Hampden Academy is located at 1 Maine Road in North Hampden.  The event is being organized by Melanie Parker and Hannah McPhedran under the supervision of Brad Veitch, the supervisor of the National Honor

Society of Hampden Academy.   (source:  Bangor Daily News, March 8, 2010)

Friday, April 2 - Houlton - Salvation Army Collects Health Kits For Haiti

Good Friday service, noon April 2, Salvation Army, 12 Court St. 532-2322. Offerings will benefit Salvation Army Fuel Fund. Donations of health kits including a bag filled with a washcloth, hand towel, toothbrush, soap, comb and $1 to be sent to Haiti will be accepted.

Sat. May 15 - Quilt and Fiber Arts Exhibit and Tea for Haiti

Source: Bangor Daily News, May 4, 2010

An informal Quilt and Fiber Arts Exhibit and Tea will be held 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturday, May 15, at Redeemer Lutheran Church, 540 Essex St., Bangor.

Baby and lap quilts made for local distribution, miscellaneous quilts made and-or owned by members and fiber arts items will all be on display.

A raffle will be conducted and a tea party will convene in the church’s Morning Glory Diner, where freshly baked scones and other desserts will be available.

General admission is $3; the tea party is an additional $3.

Proceeds will benefit efforts to provide relief to Haiti.


Tuesday, May 18, and Wed. May 19 -Help With Container To Haiti

 

VOLUNTEERS NEEDED

 

Over the last few months PARTNERS FOR WORLD HEALTH has been sorting, organizing and packing boxes  bound for Haiti to help with disaster relief for victims of the earthquake. The container will be delivered to the Justinian Hospital in Cap Haitien supported by Konbit Sante. The container is READY TO GO!!! Volunteers are needed to help participate with loading the container so all are invited. This is what Partners for World Health is all about making sure that all that we recycle makes it to locations throughout the world to help those less fortunate than we are!

 

 DATE 

 

May 18th 8am to 11am or so

425 Marginal Way 

We will load and transfer to location on Read St. 

 

May 19th 10am - 12 noon

Read Street location more info to follow

 

Please RSVP if you can come to Elizabeth McLellan

Many thanks for your support and help to make this mission possible. 



Quick Links...

Our Website: www.partnersforworldhealth.org

 

RSVP to Elizabeth McLellan through email or phone

[email protected]

 

207 671 4723 

Saturday, June 12 - Singing Women of Texas

On Saturday, June 12, at 6:30 p.m., the Farmington Baptist Church will host the Singing Women of Texas, an 80-member group sponsored by the Baptist General Convention of Texas. The performance is a benefit concert and the proceeds will go to provide a roof on a church in Haiti.

For people wishing to donate items, Sacred Heart/ St. Dominic’s prefers to have people drop off items on the day of the yard sale-Sept. 11, 2010 anytime after 7:30AM, but if someone has something small it could be dropped off beforehand.   Contact Ursula Slavick number(773-6562)  or Anne W. Johnson(929-3088) for questions.  The rain date will be the next day, Sept.12, 2010.  The sale is held on the lawn of Deering High School on Stevens Ave. near Woodfords St. in Portland.  

Saturday, September 11 - 

8:30 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Sacred Heart/ St. Dominic’s Holds Yard Sale For Their Work In Haiti On Lawn Of Deering High School



FOR MORE INFORMATION:       Wendy Taylor, cell:  207-671-1564, [email protected]

Christy Comeau-Pierce, 207-939-6775,  [email protected]



And She Came Out Singing

A musical evening with Christy Comeau-Pierce 

in celebration of new beginnings

to benefit the people of Haiti



Friday, October 1 - 7:00 pm


Reception with refreshments and more music

follow the performance


Maine Irish Heritage Center

34 Gray Street (corner Gray and State), Portland


Tickets $30 ($15 for students)  Available through PortTIX

online at www.Porttix.com or phone at 207-842-0800,

or the Box Office at Merrill Auditorium, 20 Myrtle Street,

Portland. 

                                                                                                     


Reception to follow with music by the popular local band, Sly-Chi.   



Christy Comeau-Pierce received her degree in music from the University of Maine in Orono.  The recipient of numerous awards in singing, Ms. Comeau-Pierce has performed with The University of Maine Singers, Opera Workshop Productions, the Bangor Symphony Orchestra, and the Portland Opera Repertory Theatre.  Following two years of extensive, successful treatment for cancer,  Christy joyfully invites you to share in this personal and collective celebration of life and the healing powers of music and community.  




“Music is a common language of the human experience, expressing the pain as well as the joy.  I was so moved seeing and hearing the courageous and resilient people of Haiti raising their voices in hymns of praise after enduring unimaginable suffering, and it was this outpouring of  the human spirit through music that moved me to add my voice to theirs.”         Christy



Proceeds from the concert will benefit Konbit Sante Cap-Haitien Partnership, a Maine-based organization working to save lives and improve health care in northern Haiti by building local capacity in all aspects of the health system - from door-to-door community outreach programs, to strengthening community health centers, to improving care at the regional referral hospital.  www.healthyhaiti.org.



Our thanks to...


Benefactors:Dermatology Associates


In-Kind Donors:Basics Fitness Center

Figa Restaurant

The Frog & Turtle Restaurant

Geary Brewing

Macy’s

Maine Irish Heritage Center

PortTIX

Jerry Robinov

Starbird Music


Friday, October 1 - 7:00 pm