Just about everything young people need to know about safely riding their bicycles will be offered those who attend the Safety Day held by the Bangor Noontime Kiwanis and the Bangor Police Department.

Safety Day is from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, May 4, at the Police Athletic League Center on Watchmaker Street, which is off Essex Street. The site also is known as the Essex Street sliding hill.

One of the major attractions of the Safety Fair is the Bike Auction, which begins at 11 a.m. Interested individuals can preview the bikes to be auctioned off beginning at 10 a.m.

But it is not only knowledge youngsters can obtain, it’s bicycle helmets and, perhaps, a bicycle itself.

The first 300 young people who come to the Safety Fair and complete the safety course will be given free bicycle helmets.

Pam McKay of Bangor Noontime Kiwanis also said that youngsters can go through the safety course with or without a bike, and that “there will be drawings for bicycles.

“Those who complete the course will enter the contest to win the free bicycle and we have that from tricycle size to 24-inch,” she said.

The event features bicycle safety information, and a rodeo in which youngsters walk or ride through the course, stopping at information points along the way.

They will learn about bicycle helmets, the proper air amount for their tires, whether their bicycle is the proper fit for them, keeping their hands on the handlebars, and the need to stop, look and listen.

Questions will be answered and information provided about hand signals as well as road and pedestrian safety.

“We will have lots of handouts and fliers,” said McKay, who is working on this event with Bangor police Officer Chris Stevens.

Representatives of the Bangor Police Department’s PAL and D.A.R.E. programs will be there, along with Bangor Police Department bicycle officers, who will assist with the safety course.

Refreshments will be available, and everyone is invited to come and join in the activities that will help keep our youngsters safe when they bicycle along our city streets.

Orchid lovers won’t want to miss the Eastern Maine Orchid Society Plant Sale from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, May 4, at the Roger Clapp Greenhouses on the campus of the University of Maine in Orono.

Eastern Maine Orchid Society co-founder Louise Snow of Orono told me that “hundreds of plants will be on sale,” and that members of the orchid society “will be there to answer your questions.”

Coffee and muffins, she said, “will be offered for purchase at reasonable prices.”

You are reminded that only orchids will be on sale, and it also is suggested that you get there early, because the plants go fast!

“Our ultimate aim is to bolster the University of Maine orchid collection,” Snow said, “and we will be giving some of them to the university.”

Snow is co-chairwoman of the event with her Eastern Maine Orchid Society co-founder, Mary Lou Hoskins.

Members of their community are lending their comfort and support to Darlene Donovan Savage and her sons Derek and Jeremy after the death of her husband and their father, Jerald “Jerry” Savage of Franklin.

Jerry Savage was just 43 when he died of cancer in mid-December.

A benefit supper for Darlene Donovan Savage begins at 5 p.m. Saturday, May 4, at Mountain View School on Route 200 in Sullivan.

Those who attend are promised lots of good food, and the opportunity to purchase tickets on raffle items that include gift certificates, a gas grill and a bread maker.

Admission is by donation.

Members of Orono High School Class of 1962 are planning their 40th reunion for Aug. 2-4, and the planners are seeking a few missing classmates.

If you know the whereabouts of one of more of the following individuals, you are asked to call Lyn Burpee Adkins at 866-7103.

OHS ’62 classmates are trying to locate Carol Armington, Bob Clapp, Jeannie Holmes Dorr, Dennis Hass, Bill Peterson, Barry Springer, Richard Stone, David Stone, Elaine Libby Thibodeau and Virginia Adams Waller.

Nancy Ziegenbein, trip coordinator for Bangor Symphony Orchestra’s Friends of the Symphony, called to report that “only six tickets remain” for the Friends of the Symphony coach trip planned for Saturday and Sunday, June 16-17, to attend “Star-Spangled Spectacular,” the Boston Pops concert in Boston’s Symphony Hall.

The cost of the two-day excursion is $249 per person, double occupancy, for non-Friends of the Symphony members, and $239 for Friends of the Symphony members.

The fee includes the coach trip, which leaves at 7 a.m. Saturday, June 16, from Bangor with pre-arranged stops along Interstate 95 and 295 through Portland.

The fee also includes a tour of the Museum of Fine Arts, including a folk art special exhibit; and the Boston Pops concert – with table seats on the floor – at 8 that evening at Symphony Hall, and overnight accommodations.

A trip to Quincy Market, a narrated Boston Duck Tour of the Charles River Basin in a restored World War II amphibious landing vehicle, and supper in Portland are planned for the return trip Sunday, June 17.

To obtain one of the six remaining spaces, call Ziegenbein at 947-7965 or the BSO office at 942-5555 or (800) 639-3221.

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