Add Ethan Bagley, a 1998 graduate of Maine School of Science and Mathematics in Limestone, to the list of former Maine residents running for a worthy cause Monday, April 19, in the Boston Marathon.

Bagley, who called Machias home and graduated from Rochester (N.Y.) Institute of Technology, now lives and works in Massachusetts.

He will run “The Boston” in loving memory of his late grandparents, Walter R. Bagley and former state Rep. Martha Bagley.

The 24-year-old Worcester resident is raising money for the Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation to help find a cure for this fatal form of blood cancer.

His mother, Kim Bagley of Machias, was somewhere in Hancock when I reached her.

She was returning from visiting her son, and had been stopping “along the way, at Wal-Marts and other locations,” dispensing posters about his run, she told me after pulling safely to the side of the road to converse on her cell phone.

In what she described as a “very rare” situation, both her parents died of this disease: Her father in 1991 and her mother in 2002.

Kim Bagley told me when her son first started running a few months ago, “to be a running partner for a friend,” he called MMRF and said if he ever had a chance to run to raise money for the foundation, he would do it.

The foundation representative suggested Boston.

He agreed, and will wear a bib number donated by Olympic marathoner and four-time marathon winner Bill Rodgers.

At the finish line, Bagley will be greeted by his mother, his aunt, Wendy Schoppe and his cousins, 11-year-old Sianna and 5-year-old Ciara.

Bagley has been asked to raise $5,000, which is why his mother is working so hard to help, creating her own MMRF “Down East Maine Connection.”

Contributions made payable to MMRF can be sent to Ethan Bagley, 6 Richmond Ave., Worcester, Mass. 01602, or Kim Bagley, P.O. Box 196, Machias 04654.

Those donating $100 or more will have their name printed on his warm-up shirt.

For information, call Kim Bagley at 263-6995 or visit www.multiplemyeloma.org.

Anne Hawthorne, owner of Old American Threads in Milo, is the aunt of a child granted a wish by Dreams for Maine Kids, a Bangor-based nonprofit organization that fulfills wishes of Maine children with life-threatening illnesses.

Hathaway informed DMK she wanted “to give back” to DMK, so she made a floral quilt, 6 feet by 8 feet, that is being raffled by members of the Key Club at Penquis Valley High School in Milo.

Tickets are six for $5 or $1 each. Second prize is a set of three, handmade stuffed bears that DMK member Jack Gifford told me are “fully clothed, mechanical, red bears.”

Tickets are available from any PVHS Key Club member. They will be sold tonight at the Kiwanis Variety Show in Milo or you can call club adviser Trish Hawthorne, 943-2902.

The winning tickets will be drawn Friday, April 30, at Old American Threads.

Maine singer-songwriter Dave Mallett will appear in concert to benefit Brewer Youth Theatre at 8 p.m. Saturday, April 3, at Brewer Middle School, 5 Somerset St.

Tickets, $12 each, are available at the Grasshopper Shop in Bangor or at the door.

This is Mallett’s fourth appearance to benefit BYT, reports BMS coordinator Rich Kimball.

The performance will include selections from Mallett’s new award-winning CD, “Artist in Me,” as well as “lots of old favorites,” Kimball added.

When staff of Care Development of Maine learned some of their foster parents lost jobs when Eastern Fine Pulp and Paper closed in Brewer and Lincoln, they wanted to help.

Joining with Eastern Maine Community College, Care Development is hosting “A Wicked Good Spaghetti Dinnah” from 5 to 7 p.m. Wednesday, April 7, in Rangeley Hall at EMCC in Bangor.

Advance tickets can be purchased from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday, at Care Development, 970 Illinois Ave., Bangor. Tickets are $7 for adults and $3 for children age 10 an under.

Gov. John Baldacci is contributing spaghetti sauce from Momma Baldacci’s Italian Restaurant. Other contributors include Coca-Cola Bottling Co. and US Foodservice.

Entertainment will be provided by Tyke McKay, Chuck Somers and The Memphis Belles, also known as Pat Cummings, Penny Weinstein and Darlene Mogul.

U.S. Rep. Michael Michaud is scheduled to attend the event, which planners hope will draw between 300 and 500 people.

For information, call (888) 236-CARE, TTD 945-4329 or e-mail info@caredev.org.

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