The Calais Lioness Club has come up with a couple of fund-raisers to help you, first, get out of the winter doldrums, and second, to help you with your spring cleaning.

The club’s first offer, of something different to bring a little excitement into your life, comes in the form of a mystery dinner theater presentation.

“Death with Father” begins at 6 p.m. Saturday, April 6, at the Calais Motor Inn.

According to Lioness Lorraine Mitchell, tickets are presale only, and a limited number of them remain.

To obtain your ticket for this exciting, participatory evening, call the Calais Motor Inn at 454-7111 or speak with any club member.

“Death with Father” is performed by Mystery for Hire, a Maine-based professional troupe operated by Dan and Denise Marios of Poland Spring.

This performance will be their first in the Calais area.

For those who never have participated in a murder-mystery performance, the evening begins with a scene from the show; one course of the meal is served; another scene takes place and a course is served until, approximately two hours later, you’ve not only eaten, you’ve helped solve the murder mystery and seen some exciting theater.

“We call it ‘mystery and mayhem coming to Calais,'” Mitchell said of this new-to-the-area form of entertainment which, I can vouch, is really a lot of fun.

I think you’ll enjoy this experience, as I have in the past.

In fact, those I’ve attended are so much fun, I didn’t want them to end!

“If it is successful,” Mitchell said of this fund-raiser, “we hope to make it an annual event.”

You have a choice of three entrees, including baked stuffed chicken, seasoned baked haddock or roast beef.

The club’s second effort, to bring a little spring into your life, is “a giant yard sale,” Mitchell said, and your donations would be appreciated greatly.

You have plenty of time to clean out the house, the garage, the shed or the barn for this fund-raiser, because the yard sale is not until 8 p.m. Saturday, April 27, at the American Legion Hall in Calais.

“We will take all contributions,” Mitchell said. “And we will pick them up, or people can deliver them to any of the Lioness members.”

Nancy Gillis is chairwoman of the yard sale.

If you need items picked up, or want to know where to deliver them, you can call her during the day at 454-3030.

Members of the Calais Lioness Club are working hard to help raise funds to make significant contributions to the improvement of their community.

They hope you will join them in that effort by attending the show, or contributing to the yard sale.

Carol Morrison called to report that I had an incorrect admission price for families who want to attend a Boy Scout supper in Millinocket.

Boy Scout Troop 58 is holding a spaghetti supper from 4 to 6 p.m. Thursday, March 28, at the American Legion Hall in Millinocket.

Tickets are $4 for adults, $3 for children and $12 for families.

And, Morrison said, not only are takeout orders available, but delivery as well.

For those special services, call 723-8008.

All proceeds help the Boy Scouts attend summer camp.

Here is another opportunity to learn about the work of the Brooklin Keeping Society, which invites the public to join its members for an open house beginning at 6 p.m. Thursday, March 28, at the Little Red Schoolhouse in Brooklin.

The local historical society, which formed in August 2000, now has a membership of “nearly 140 folks” according to secretary Joyce Barr.

Under the leadership of curator Clare Sullivan, the Collections Committee has been collecting, cataloging and working on proper storage of donated local artifacts, archives and oral histories.

During Thursday’s open house, as many of those donated collections as possible will be exhibited.

The public is graciously invited to view some of Brooklin’s history, Barr added, and enjoy “conversation and refreshments. We look forward to seeing you there.”

Members of the Prentiss Veterans Memorial Honor Roll Committee, including Belinda Raymond of Kingman, are working hard to raise $7,000 to erect an honor roll for residents of their community who served in World War II, Korea and Vietnam, and local residents now in the military.

Many fund-raisers are going on, and Raymond reports the committee is holding a “Musical Hometown Showcase” in April featuring “a lot of our local talent such as the singers you see every year at the Springfield Fair … at your local churches, in our local school bands, and some that you may never have had the pleasure of hearing sing before.”

The invitation is open to anyone to be part of this event.

If you would like to “sing a patriotic tribute, or dedicate a poem in honor of all veterans,” you are most welcome to do so.

To participate in the “Musical Hometown Showcase,” call Flora Curtis, 765-2440; Marie Worster, 765-2833; or Raymond, 765-2023.

An anonymous donor has contributed an American flag afghan to raise funds for this project, and tickets are available from committee members Raymond, Curtis, Worster, Frederick Curtis, Eldon Worster, Marie Irish, Maynard Irish, Samantha Osgood, John Osgood, Sandra Hollifield and “at participating general stores,” Raymond wrote.

Anyone wishing to assist with this project is welcome to send a donation to Prentiss Veterans Honor Roll Fund, c/o Belinda Raymond, 1640 Kingman Road, Kingman 04451.

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