As part of its pro-life campaign today through Sunday, June 6, Daughters of Isabella, Circle #422 of Greater Bangor-Brewer is sponsoring a baby shower.

Donated shower items will go to St. Andre’s Group Home, a facility for new mothers associated with the Roman Catholic Diocese of Portland, and Good Samaritan Agency in Bangor, which offers services for single parents, including an alternative education program, day care and adoption services.

Lucille Gosselin of Orrington explained receptacles will be placed at the entrances of St. Teresa’s and St. Joseph’s Catholic churches in Brewer, St. Mary’s Catholic Church in Bangor and St. Gabriel’s Catholic Church in Winterport.

“Please be generous in giving unwrapped baby items such as soaps, bottles, clothing, diapers, blankets, sweaters, etc.,” she wrote.

For more information about this campaign, call Joyce Martin at 825-8742.

Gosselin thanks you in advance for your anticipated participation in helping to make this a success.

Old Town High School juniors, seniors, their families and friends are experiencing a couple of heart-wrenching days, today and tomorrow, as they participate in the “Every 15 Minutes” program which is designed to impress upon them the dangerous, and often deadly, consequences of impaired driving.

The program name represents the fact that someone in the United States dies from an alcohol-related traffic accident every 15 minutes.

The Old Town Police Department offers the program with assistance from other community agencies and services.

While nothing can truly prepare anyone for the unexpected loss of a loved one at a young age, let us hope this wonderful program will make these Old Town students think before they act in a manner that could make what they are experiencing now a reality later.

Here is a touching story from Jacksonville provided by Laura Welch, lecturer of Jacksonville Grange #358.

She explained that two years ago, members of her grange “learned of an unmarked grave in the Jacksonville Cemetery” that contained the remains of 16 members of the Jacob and Lucretia Crosby family.

The remains had been moved there in November 1911 from the site of what was then the new Massachusetts Institute of Technology camp “on the other side of Gardner Lake.”

That camp no longer exists, Welch told me.

After trying unsuccessfully to get names and information from MIT about those individuals, grange members contacted a surviving family member and had a stone installed last fall at the site.

Grange members and possibly one member of the Crosby family will gather to dedicate the stone at 5 p.m. Friday, May 21, at Jacksonville Cemetery.

All interested individuals are invited to attend.

Lisa Martin reports the Phillips-Strickland House yard sale is 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Friday, May 21, in the facility’s parking lot on York Street in Bangor.

Organizers request no early birds, and remind you all proceeds benefit the PSH activity department.

By the way, from what I’ve heard of past sales, you might be quite surprised at what you’ll find there!

The Second National March to End the Silence is Saturday, May 22, in Providence, R.I.

Members of the Maine Silent Witness Project, honoring Maine murder victims of domestic violence, are seeking people to represent our state at this event, and some scholarships are available.

A bus will leave at 8:30 a.m. that day from the University of Southern Maine campus in Portland. The expected return time is 9 p.m.

The cost of the trip is $30 per person.

If you are interested in participating, call 774-5074 or e-mail SWP2000@cs.com for more information.

The Ellsworth Garden Club annual plant sale is 10 a.m. Saturday, May 22, at the Donald Little Memorial Park at the intersection of School and State streets in Ellsworth.

“The proceeds,” Elaine Fernald wrote, benefit the “future of community composting in Maine.”

The Green family of Bangor extends a “special thank-you to Advantage Payroll and all its employees” who recently sponsored “the wonderful benefit supper” for Bruce Green who was involved in an auto accident in early January that left him paralyzed from the chest down.

The family thanks everyone who donated to the event and all their friends who have offered a great deal of help and support to him and his family.

“Everyone has been so wonderful and supportive that we could not thank you all enough,” the family wrote.

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