Thanks to patrons’ enthusiasm and overwhelming response, the Second Annual House and Garden Tour with Tea, to benefit Frontier Heritage Historical Society’s Friends Church Museum, is planned for noon-5 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 11, in Fort Fairfield.

Tax deductible donations are $25 each, but committee member Ruth Mraz wants everyone to know that advance reservations must be made in order to attend this event.

And the reason is simple: Organizers want to know how many people to plan on greeting and feeding!

Checks can be made payable to Frontier Heritage, and mailed to Mraz at 55 Morse Road, Fort Fairfield 04742 or Jean Deschesne, 51 Elm St., Fort Fairfield 04742.

Once your reservation is received, your name will be placed on their list and a packet, including a map, will await you at Friends Church Museum on Route 1A in Fort Fairfield.

For those who do not know, the Friends Church, built in 1844, is the only Quaker meeting house in Aroostook County.

Once a station on the Underground Railroad, it is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Tour participants will help preserve the church museum, which is also used for weddings, concerts and other meetings.

This year’s tour features the 1930s classic Dutch-Colonial home of Donald and Dorothy Cassidy on top of Fort Hill Street, where tea will be served all afternoon in their elegant formal dining room.

Guests can visit the Victorian farmhouse of Terry and Jeanette Condon at 58 Presque Isle St., which has just undergone a 15-month renovation. The property includes an attached barn and is admired for its “painted lady” exterior colors and bright gardens.

John and Pat McCrea welcome you to their 130-year-old homestead at 277 Limestone Road. Acquiring the home in which he grew up, John McCrea and his wife have turned a farmhouse into a family home and transformed an old potato field into a “secret garden.”

Dan and Mary Anne Ayoob’s home at 133 Russell Road has undergone many changes since last summer’s tour, including new gardens. With several separate gardens that everyone enjoyed last time, the Ayoobs agreed to participate on the tour again, so don’t miss this opportunity to enjoy their beauty along the Aroostook River.

You will nearly be standing on the U.S.-Canada border when you visit the home of Dale and Teresa Turner at 9 Boundary Line Road. Sweeping views of the Aroostook Valley are visible from many rooms in this house once covered with weeds and now restored by the Turners.

Gene and Linda Senechal of South Caribou Road invite you to visit the custom-built home they designed and built in 1976 that sits on 10 acres of pine trees and sweeping lawns. You will appreciate not only the grounds, but also the inside, which features a wood-burning cook stove on a polished parquet floor.

All monies from this year’s tour will go toward stabilizing the Friends Church Museum foundation.

To be sure you don’t miss this outstanding event, get those reservation checks in the mail today!

The Hershey Kissmobile will be at Eastern Maine Medical Center in Bangor today. Hershey Corp. is a national corporate sponsor of Children’s Miracle Network. The Kissmobile visits CMN sites throughout North America.

Kissmobile staff will bring treats to children in the EMMC outpatient pediatric and adolescent clinics, and in the pediatrics unit.

Next you will see the Kissmobile on Friday, Aug. 3, at Wal-Mart in Bangor where it will be part of the KISS 94.5 “Kickoff for Kids Karnival,” a three-day children’s event featuring safety and wellness exhibits, activities, entertainment and music.

Funds raised will be used as seed money for the first CMN Bangor Radiothon next March on KISS 94.5.

Quilt lovers won’t want to miss the 2001 St. John Quilt Show from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, Aug. 3-4, at St. John’s Church in Pembroke.

Committee members Rita Barr, Monica Goodwin, Lya Hajos, Bonnie Hunter, Helen Sexton and Fran Mulcahy have displayed new and antique quilts by hanging them from the walls, choir loft and communion rail; and draping them over the pews of this historic church built by Irish immigrants along the Pennamaquan River in the 1850s.

The suggested donation of $2 includes the exhibit, demonstrations, door prizes and homemade refreshments in the summer kitchen at the back of the church.

Quilt-related prizes such as books, patterns and boxes of fabric will be given away every hour and the main door prize, a hand-quilted wall hanging by Ellen Madden, will be drawn at the end of the show.

The winning ticket in a raffle for a pieced and hand-quilted scrap quilt in the snowball pattern will be drawn at the end of the show. Handcrafted items and food will be available for sale as well.

The 2001 St. John Quilt Show honors the Ironworks Quilters, church members and friends who began sharing their hobby a decade ago and inspired the first show.

Guests will be asked to cast their ballots for best in show, best large quilt and best wall hanging, and will also be asked to name their favorite quilt block pattern.

Students and staff of the National Theatre Workshop of the Handicapped invite you to attend its Gala Summer Performance at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 4, at NTWH Crosby School, 96 Church St., in Belfast.

The free family show is the final performance of the Student Alumni Workshop, and features scenes and music from plays by Neil Simon, author of the “Odd Couple,” “Barefoot in the Park,” “The Sunshine Boys,” “Plaza Suite” and many other classic American stage comedies.

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