Alton

Weekly dinner

The Alton United Methodist Church will sponsor a weekly dinner at 11:30 a.m. Tuesdays beginning Oct. 1 at the church hall on Route 16. Residents 60 years old and over are eligible to attend. A small donation for the meal is suggested.

Reservations are required and may be made by calling 394-2702 or 394-2734.

Bangor

Household hazardous waste collection day

Bangor Public Works Recycling Center, 530 Maine Ave., serves Bangor, Brewer, Clifton, Eddington, Etna, Dixmont, Glenburn, Hampden, Hermon, Holden, Levant, Orrington, Old Town, Orono, Veazie and Winterport as a dropoff location for household hazardous waste collection Saturday, Oct. 5, only. Trained attendants will be on site to unload containers.

Residents from participating towns who want to drop off hazardous household waste on collection day should contact their town offices no later than 4:30 p.m. Friday, Oct. 4, for details about registration, fees, permits and a list of products to be collected.

Bangor residents may obtain a permit 8 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Monday-Friday from Bangor Public Works or from the treasury department at City Hall.

A $10 recycling fee will be waived for those who preregister. For information, call 942-0220.

Fashion Show

The St. Joseph Hospital Auxiliary will hold its 27th annual Fashion Show and Luncheon noon-2 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 1, at the Bangor Civic Center. Cadillac Mountain Sports, Eddie Bauer, Filene’s, Talbots, The Children’s Place, The Grasshopper Shop, The House of Brides, and The Pretty Woman will provide fashions. Models include Sharon Pelletier and Lanie Witt of WABI-TV, Ric Tyler of WLBZ-TV, Steve Lacy and Jan Smith of WVII-TV. Commentators include Tom Morelli of Morelli Studios, Pelletier, Smith and Ric Tyler.

Advance tickets cost $20 at Patrick’s Hallmark Shop in the Broadway Shopping Center. Or call the St. Joseph Healthcare development office at 262-1720. Tickets at the door are $25.

The Fashion Show benefits St. Joseph Hospital’s cardiac catheterization lab, which will open next year.

Brewer

Hometown celebration

The city of Brewer will hold a Hometown Celebration 7 a.m.-3:30 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 5, at Brewer Auditorium and Doyle Field.

The celebration will feature a pancake breakfast cooked by the Brewer City Council, a children’s carnival, Brewer business and civic organization expo, and Brewer Brick Award events, including lawn mower driving obstacle course, pumpkin seed-spitting contest and children’s money grab.

The day will end with a concert by the Brewer Hometown Band and presentation of the Brewer Citizen of the Year Award. For information, call 989-5199.

Pumpkin Month

October is Paper Pumpkin Month for the March of Dimes. Shaw’s Supermarkets throughout Maine will give out paper pumpkins Oct. 18-Nov. 2 for a donation of $1 each. The money raised from the fund-raising project will be used by the March of Dimes to fund research in the causes of premature birth and birth defects.

Hampden

Business meeting

The regular meeting of the Hampden Business Association will be held at 7:30 a.m. Tuesday, Oct. 1, in the conference room at Graves Supermarket.

Diane Tilton, executive director of the sunrise county Sunrise County Economic Development Council will speak on “Rural Economic Development – What Works in Washington County.” For information, call 944-3264.

Orono

Memorial talk

The second annual Geddes W. Simpson memorial talk is scheduled 2 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 3, at the Page Farm and Home Museum at the University of Maine.

Professor Kimberley Sebold of the University Maine at Presque Isle will give a free talk about salt marshes along the coast of Maine, “The Low Green Prairies of the Sea.” For information, call 581-4100.