BANGOR – The Family Connections Program is offering another year of service to grandparents, aunts and uncles who are raising their grandchildren, nieces and nephews.

At group meetings, caretakers discuss the experience of raising a relative’s child, and share information.

In a collaborative effort between Families and Children Together and the University of Maine Center on Aging, funding from a Generations United grant is now available to form local support groups for relatives raising relatives’ children.

For more information, call 941-2347, (800) 833-9786 or visit the Web site at www.kinshipconnections.org.

BANGOR – “Look Good … Feel Better,” a partnership between the American Cancer Society, the Cosmetic, Toiletry and Fragrance Association Foundation, and the National Cosmetology Association, is a program for women who have appearance-related side effects from chemotherapy or radiation treatment for any form of cancer.

The Bangor group meets the first Monday of each month. The next meeting is at 6 p.m. Sept. 23 at Eastern Maine Medical Center. For information, call 973-8108.

The program provides information and hands-on instruction on makeup and skin care, and offers suggestions for using wigs, turbans and scarves. There is no coast for the program.

BANGOR – Area businesses, organizations, schools and religious groups still have time to enter a team in the American Heart Association’s annual American Heart Walk. The walk is set for 9:30 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 5, at the Bangor Auditorium. Registration begins at 8:30 a.m.

A Red Cap Survivors breakfast begins at 8 a.m. Registered walkers who are survivors of heart attack, cardiac arrest, heart surgery or stroke will receive free tickets to the breakfast.

The cost for the breakfast is $10, $5 children under age 12.

Advance registration is required.

To obtain more information or to receive a team or friends-and-family team packet or walker collection envelope by mail, call (800) 937-0944 or 848-2888.

Collection envelopes also are available at Subway, a national sponsor of the American Heart Walk.