The communities served by the Warren Center for Communication & Learning range from Millinocket to Machias, which is one very good reason that organization’s staff hopes people from throughout Maine will respond to this particular request.

Through its Regional Hearing Aid Bank program, Bangor’s nonprofit speech and hearing center recycles behind-the-ear model hearing aids, known at BTEs, reconditions them and provides them to those in need.

“We would take them from anywhere,” said the Warren Center’s Monique Gibouleau, “since the waiting list for such services is very long.”

Four placements already have been made, and four more are in progress.

ReHAB offers hearing aids to those who cannot afford them. Those individuals often are the elderly living alone or children who have outgrown their previous hearing aids.

All brands of BTEs are acceptable for use in the program.

And while in-the-ear models are not acceptable, the Warren Center can take them and be reimbursed $5 “each for those which we can use, to pay for the refurbishment of older, behind-the-ear models,” Gibouleau explained.

If donors wish, they can declare the value of the hearing aids when they send them in, and the center will reply with “a letter stating you have made a tax-deductible donation,” Gibouleau said.

For more information about the Warren Center ReHAB program and eligibility requirements or to donate a hearing aid, call Warren Center audiologist Dr. Amanda Sandera-Samoluk at 941-2850 or visit or write the Warren Center, 175 Union St., Bangor 04401.

“We would be very happy to have people mail the hearing aids to us if they can’t come to the center,” Gibouleau said.

If you have a behind-the-ear hearing aid you no long need, just think of the tremendous difference it would in the life of someone else, and send it along to the Warren Center.

The Blueberry Fest and Cabaret will be held from 7 to 9 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 15, at the Community House in Orono.

Sponsored by the Church of Universal Fellowship, the evening features cabaret-style entertainment under the direction of Jean Carville and the music of the church’s junior choir, senior choir, solos and barbershop group.

Tickets are $5 each, and can be obtained by calling Mary Ryan at 866-2624.

The annual Lamoine Volunteer Fire Department auction begins at 6 p.m. Friday, Aug. 16, at the Lamoine Consolidated School, 53 Lamoine Beach Road.

Goods and services, gift certificates for meals, travel and accommodations, plus new and used items, will be on the auction block, with professional auctioneer Chas Hare of Stockton Springs wielding the gavel.

Proceeds will help the fire department purchase turnout gear and an air-handling system for the fire station.

A preview beings at 5 p.m., and the Lamoine Grange will serve sandwiches and refreshments.

A Super Summer Block Party to benefit Wings for Children and Families is scheduled from noon to 6 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 17, at ATX, Inc. on Sweden Street in Caribou.

With food and fun for everyone, all net proceeds benefits Wings.

Along with host ATX, other community sponsors will host a variety of events including games, raffles, a bake sale, watermelon-eating contest, face painting, splash basketball and a dunking booth.

The local band, the Sound Friendships, will entertain you from noon to 3 p.m.

Hamburgers, hot dogs, bean-hole beans, cold drinks and snacks will be served throughout the day.

Wings is a nonprofit organization serving Aroostook County children with moderate to severe mental health needs.

The money will be placed directly into Wing’s Flex Fund, which Wings coordinator Wanda Anderson explained enables the organization “to focus on the actual needs and provide various support items for the children and their families that other financial resources fail to address” due to funding restrictions.

Everyone is invited to attend.

Co-chairwomen Gail Leiser and Kate Jordan invite you to participate in the first Carol Dyer Memorial “Light the Way to a Cure” Luminary Evening from 7 to 10 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 18, on the Village Green in Bar Harbor

The candles will be lit at 7:30 p.m. and will be left burning throughout the evening to honor loved ones and to remind others of the importance of contributing to American Cancer Society research programs.

Each candle is $10, and information about purchasing one can be obtained by calling Leiser at 288-9083 or Jordan at 288-9680.

The event supports fund-raising efforts of the YB-attitudes, Ladies of Liberty and the Misfits to participate in the in the American Cancer Society’s Relay for Life.

The event is named in honor of the former children’s librarian at the Jesup Memorial Library in Bar Harbor, who died of brain cancer in June 2001.

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