Written in her still firm longhand, the annual letter from Anna Waring describing the next Y-Players production is always a delight to receive.

“Our show, this year, is about the Gay ’90s,” she wrote, “quite appropriate for me as I have finally reached that important landmark, having been born in 1912.

“I love the costumes and the music in this show. I can remember playing them and singing those old songs way back then.”

Waring reports that director “Pam Martin has worked especially hard on this one, finding authentic music and appropriate costumes for this era.”

Martin and some of the cast “have made beautiful dresses and hats for the first act, with bustles and leg-of-mutton sleeves!”

And, in the second act, they will be wearing old-fashioned bathing suits.

Act I is “In the Park,” and Act 11 is “On the Boardwalk.”

The cast members “make the sets, get the props and pay all costs involved,” Waring added.

Asking only donations at the door, last year the Y-Players took in $3,000.

“A Gay Nineties Revue” will be presented at 2 p.m. today; 7 p.m. Friday, May 9; 2 p.m. Sunday, May 11; 2 p.m. Tuesday, May 13; 7 p.m. Friday, May 16; and 2 p.m. Sunday, May 18, in the gymnasium of the Bangor-Brewer YWCA, 17 Second St.

Proceeds benefit YWCA programs, and more information can be obtained by calling 941-2808.

Organizers of the annual Friends of the Bangor Public Library book sale are still accepting donations of books for that event, which will be held from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday, May 10, in the lecture hall of the library at 145 Harlow St.

Call 947-8336 to arrange for pickup of your donations.

Millinocket Regional Hospital Auxiliary president Joyce Given invites the public to attend its annual spring fashion show and basket auction at 7 p.m. Wednesday, May 7, at St. Martin’s Parish Center in Millinocket.

Tickets are $5 each and can be purchased, in advance, from any Auxiliary member or, at the door.

Models include Auxiliary members, hospital staff, and representatives of local schools and the community.

The latest fashions will be offered by Miller’s Department Store, A Moose on the Roof Creative Paper & Gifts, Gracie’s Aunt’s Closet Resale Boutique, Maine Connection, New England Outdoor Center and the Pretty Woman.

The handmade baskets, created by local artists and filled with goodies, will be auctioned during the show to the highest bidder.

All proceeds benefit Auxiliary projects and scholarships.

Tryouts for “Veazie Revue,” scheduled for this summer in celebration of Veazie’s sesquicentennial, are 6-8 p.m. Thursday, May 8, and Friday, May 9, at Veazie Community School.

Dancers, singers, actors and anyone else interested in performing are asked to audition.

For more information, call Tom Logan at 942-6224.

Only 600 tickets are being sold for the Health Services Foundation Tim Sample Benefit Performance, so I hope you have yours.

This terrific, nationally known Maine humorist is appearing at 8 p.m. Friday, May 9, in the auditorium at Houlton High School.

Advance tickets are $10 each and can be purchased at Goodrich Jewelry, Houlton Water Company, Paradis Shop ‘n Save, York’s Book Store and the HSF office at Houlton Regional Hospital.

Tickets at the door are $12 each. Proceeds will benefit HSF programs.

For more information, call the HFS office at 532-2900, Ext. 403.

Training begins this month for the summer and fall tour schedule at the Bangor Museum and Center for History’s Thomas A. Hill House.

Volunteers are needed to work 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday, and would be required to work four hours during that period.

For more information, or to volunteer as a docent, call Linda Jaffe at 942-1900.

Plans are under way for the Bangor High School Class of 1983 20th reunion Saturday, July 26.

However, several members are among “the missing,” and reunion organizers hope you can help locate Julie Anderson, Teresa Bsullak, Darlene Cantara, Melinda Chester, Daniel Coon and Paula Cormier.

Also needed are Butch Day, Debbie Dodgins, Chris Dow, Heidi Gallant, Mike Grant, Lori Rowell Gilbert and Crystal Graves.

Addresses for Amy Kamil, Jennifer Lunt, Mary Marks, Patrick McGuire, Lisa Partridge, Douglas “Rocky” Plant and Arnold Potter would be appreciated, along with those of Lisa Sheridan, Darlene Young and Mike Lufkin.

If you can help, call Karen Corbett Trafton, 848-2417 or e-mail Ktrafton2000@ yahoo.com.

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