The Penobscot County Friends of NRA is planning its fourth annual banquet and auction for May 10.

The event will take place at 6 p.m. at the Bangor Convention Center on Hogan Road.

The banquet and auction supports the NRA Foundation, which has generated more than $40 million in contributions for projects that promote firearms and hunting safety, enhance marksmanship skills, and shooting sports.

The Penobscot County FNRA is accepting donations of merchandise suitable for live auction, silent auction, or bucket raffles.

Donations received before March 21 will be displayed at the FNRA booth at the Eastern Maine Sportsman’s Show in Orono.

Call Sandy Hatt at 843-5924 for more information.

Penobscot Fly Fishers to meet

The Penobscot Fly Fishers will hold their monthly dinner meeting on Wednesday at Pete and Larry’s Restaurant in the Odlin Road Holiday Inn in Bangor.

The casting pool opens at 6 p.m. with featured fly tier Don Corey. Following dinner the guest speakers will be Paul Johnson and Scott Roy, fisheries biologists from the Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife’s Greenville region.

Johnson and Roy will be giving an update on the fisheries in the Moosehead Lake area.

The meeting is open to the public. For more information, visit the club Web site at www.penobscotflyfishers.com.

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