The Deer Harbor Community Club is sponsoring a halibut dinner to raise funds to help pay off the mortgage on its post office building on Saturday, Aug. 28. The halibut will be fresh-caught from Alaska by trustee Mike Speece.

The Craicers, a Celtic music group, will be providing entertainment at the halibut affair to be held at Deer Harbor’s 105-year-old Community Club at 5 p.m.

Howard Barbour, president, with a twinkle in his English eye, said, “The Community Club is not in the business of buying up all available real estate, just owning and maintaining what is necessary for Deer Harbor to exist as a community with a meeting place and a post office.”

With cut-backs looming on the federal level, there was a concern last year that the Deer Harbor post office would be shut down like so many other rural post offices in the nation.

The Deer Harbor Community Club, with the help of many island residents, purchased the building used to house the post office, and obtained a 10-year lease with the government. Donations, which were tax deductible because the community club is a not-for-profit organization, totaled about half of the money needed. Then four families loaned the club sufficient funds to buy the building which is the mortgage the halibut dinner will help to retire.

To purchase tickets, call Bev Polis at 376-8808. The full dinner, including beverages, is $40, with $10 tickets available at the door for children.