This fall is filled with activities involving those who work for, with, support and use the services of Pine Tree Hospice of Dover-Foxcroft.

Let’s begin with PTH’s involvement in what is described as the world’s biggest, simultaneous, singing-fund-raising event, “Voices for Hospices 2003 – Hospices in Harmony,” which begins at 7:30 p.m. Oct. 4, at Holy Family Catholic Church in Greenville.

Since 1991, the event has been held every three years.

In 2000, more than 200,000 people participated to raise money for local hospices in 43 countries, according to PTH volunteer Jeannette Morrill, who is seeking volunteers to join a community chorus and/or provide their own music as part of this event.

If you are interested, or wish additional information, call PTH, 564-4346, or Greenville Hospice of PTH, 695-5283.

Then there is this terrific PTH fund-raiser, courtesy of the Back Door Dance Studio team and owners Chuck and Sue McKay of Eddington.

The Zoot Suit Revue will appear at 7 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 27, in the Milo town hall auditorium.

Admission is $5 for adults and $3 for students for this terrific show that features music from the 1920s to the 1950s, complete with appropriate costumes.

For more information about the show, call PTH at the above number.

For more information about the free fund-raising services offered nonprofits by the dance team, visit www.backdoor

dance.com.

Finally, PTH director Theresa Boettner reports the organization “is seeking individuals interested in attending meetings, in the Dover-Foxcroft area, to form a new chapter of The Compassionate Friends.

“TCF is a nonprofit, self-help organization offering friendship, understanding and support to bereaved parents,” Boettner wrote.

“The purpose of TCF is to support and aid parents in the positive resolution of the grief experienced upon the death of a child.”

She understands that, while some parents who lose a child may not need the services TCF can offer, others “do have the need for more understanding, more hope, more knowledge and more comfort than the people around them can provide.”

TCF meetings include “parents who are working through their own grief and who can empathize with a bereaved family and offer support,” she stated.

However, “TCF is not a therapy group,” she explained, nor are the chapter meetings therapy sessions.

“Healing is slowly and gently promoted as parents gain insight and understanding, have an opportunity to vent their feelings in an accepting atmosphere, and to reach out to other, newly bereaved parents as they are able,” she added.

For more information about TCF, call Stanley “Stosh” Spoors, 997-2914.

Building Blocks, a nonprofit, day-care agency providing services for children age 6 weeks to 6 years who live in Greater Bangor, works with Child Development Services, Penquis Community Action Program and Aspire.

The Building Blocks Bike-A-Thon begins with registration at 8:30 a.m. Sunday, Sept. 21, at the University of Maine steam plant parking lot in Orono.

Members of the board, and friends, will ride 60 miles throughout Old Town, representing one mile for each child enrolled in Building Blocks.

If you would like more information about Building Blocks, call 947-5117.

On behalf of Hampden High School Project Graduation 2004, Debbie Richards invites the public to attend a Longaberger Basket Bingo Fund-raiser at 1 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 21, in the Hampden Academy old gym.

Tickets are $15 each, and will be available at the door.

More information can be obtained by calling Richards, 862-6296, or Sheryl Mayo, 862-6093.

People from Presque Isle to Brewer are urged to be on the lookout for Hermon residents Shawn Cowan and Carol Lackedy, who are participating in the second annual Tractor-A-Thon to benefit Children’s Miracle Network of Eastern Maine Healthcare.

Cowan departs on a Kubota lawn tractor at 8 a.m. Monday, Sept. 22, from The Aroostook Medical Center in Presque Isle.

His fiancee will follow in the official Ricky Craven Motor Sports 4×4 truck.

The couple is expected to arrive that evening at the Brewer Wal-Mart, where a welcome-home cookout is planned.

The Hermon couple will be collecting donations for CMN along the route, and proceeds from the cookout also will benefit CMN.

Dorr’s Equipment of Bangor provided the tractor, and other local businesses and individuals have pledged their support.

For more information, or to become a sponsor, call Lackedy at 848-7317.

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