From two very regular Brewer “boosters” comes special word of events they are connected with that they hope you will include in your visit to Brewer Days, A Hometown Celebration, which takes place this weekend.

Herb Hopkins, president of the Brewer Kiwanis Club, wants to remind you that “our Brewer Kiwanis Pancake Breakfast, to benefit Kiwanis children’s charities,” will be held 7-10 a.m. Saturday, Sept. 13, at the Brewer Auditorium.

Admission is $5 for adults and $3 for children, and the menu includes pancakes, sausage, orange juice, milk and coffee.

And Brewer Hometown Band director Jan Cox wants to remind you that Brewer Days not only begins with the Brewer Hockey Association Spaghetti Supper from 5 to 8 p.m. Friday, Sept. 12, in the Seniors Room of the Brewer Auditorium, but that the Brewer Hometown Band is “ready to jump into another season,” with its first fall concert.

That event takes place at 3:30 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 14, on the stage of the Brewer Auditorium and, she added, during the concert intermission, the Brewer Citizen of the Year will be announced and honored.

With this year’s Brewer Days, she added, “we are certainly going to do our part to make the day a success,” as I know is true for everyone involved with this special weekend.

Brewer Days includes everything from a pet parade to entertainment by Julie and the Bug Boys, the Zoot Suit Revue and Bruce Nye, the Elvis Guy, to youth soccer, a business and organization expo, a children’s carnival, pumpkin bowling and a driving lawn mower obstacle course.

Most of the activities are in the area of the Brewer Auditorium, but for more complete information, call Brewer parks and recreation at 989-5199.

On Wednesday I spoke with Teresa Berkowitz of Pine Tree Camp for Handicapped Children and Adults in Rome.

Berkowitz told me spaces are still available for interested people to attend Maine’s first Young Onset Parkinson’s Disease Retreat, which will be held Saturday and Sunday, Sept. 13 and 14, in the camp’s fully accessible, winterized cabin at Pine Tree Camp.

Retreat planners hope this event will fill a void in the young onset Parkinson’s disease community.

Representatives of the Maine Parkinson’s Society report that young people in Maine with the disease are spread across the state, and that there are no specific young-onset Parkinson’s support groups.

The $60 fee includes lodging and meals.

For more information, or to register, call Pine Tree Camp at 443-3341 or e-mail tberkowitz@pinetreesociety.org.

The annual Spaghetti Dinner and Silent Auction to benefit the Maine Alzheimer’s Association will be 4:30-7 p.m. Friday, Sept. 12, at the Bangor Elks Club, 108 Odlin Road.

Sponsored by Westgate Manor of Bangor, Kristie Miner reports admission to the dinner, which runs from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m., is $5 for adults and $2.50 for children under the age of 10.

All proceeds benefit the Maine Alzheimer’s Association.

Here’s a reminder from director Michele Hall that auditions for the Bangor Area Children’s Treble Choir, for young people between the ages of 9 and 16, will be 4-6 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 17, at All Souls Congregational Church on Broadway in Bangor.

Calls back are planned for 4-5:30 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 18, at the same site.

The Youth Chorale, for young people in grades seven to 12, which held auditions in June, still needs female voices to round out the male-female balance, she added, and more boys could be included depending on the number of girls added to the group.

For information about all auditions, of any aspect of the program, call Hall at 947-2023.

On the second anniversary of the terrorist attacks on the United States, I pause to remember all the individuals who innocently lost their lives during the attacks, and to honor those who gave their lives in the line of duty, as a result of those tragic events.

But, today, I especially remember, and deeply appreciate, the selfless act of the late Todd Beamer and those aboard United Airlines Flight 93 who, I believe, deliberately chose to give their lives not only to save others but, perhaps, to help save our nation as well.

We can only imagine what might have happened if that plane had not been forced down in a Pennsylvania field, and had instead hit its intended target in our nation’s capital.

God bless them all.

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