TV celebrity ‘Bowzer’ to appear at Franco Center Jan. 17

Jan. 102017

LEWISTON — The public is invited to meet Jon “Bowzer” Bauman at a free event to be held at 2 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 17, at the Gendron Franco Center. Bauman, the co-founder of Senior Votes Count and formerly of Sha Na Na and TV game show fame, will be in Maine with Social Security Works to present a message entitled: Hands Off Medicare.

All are welcome to attend the brief talk in Heritage Hall and then stay for photographs with “Bowzer,” who will be joined by Alex Lawson, executive director of Social Security Works. This is Bowzer’s second appearance at the Franco Center.

Jon “Bowzer” Bauman is an American musician, best known as a member of the band Sha Na Na, and a game show host and celebrity guest in the 1970s and ’80s. His popular Sha Na Na character, “Bowzer,” was a gangly, slender-armed greaser in a muscle shirt.

The Dolard and Priscilla Gendron Franco Center is handicap accessible. Parking is available at the Roy Continental Mill on Oxford Street, across from the center.

For more information about the center and for directions, visit www.francocenter.org, or call 207-783-1585. Office hours are from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday.

 

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