Expanding program offerings and educational outreach is one mission of the Bangor Symphony Orchestra, and your contributions to the historic organization are what make it possible.

Development director Kate Beale reports that, with less than a month remaining in the BSO fiscal year, the organization is within 10 percent of its annual fund goal.

She points out that with your support members of the BSO Know Your Orchestra! Ensembles have been able to visit schools from Jackman to Eastport, Kingfield, Stratton and Phillips.

Maestro Xiao-Lu Li has spent time with students in Winter Harbor, Mount Desert and Blue Hill and, through the Maine Center on Aging, BSO musicians have entertained in area retirement facilities.

Just a few more dollars will help the oldest regularly operating community orchestra in the United States maintain these activities.

Contributions made out to BSO with Annual Fund written on your check’s memo line, can be mailed to P.O. Box 1441, Bangor 04402-1441.

The BSO also is holding auditions for the 2004-2005 season at 10 a.m. Sunday, June 27, at Bangor High School.

Positions include assistant concertmaster, principal violin 2, viola, clarinet 2 and section strings as well as substitutes for all instruments.

For information about the Annual Fund, call Beale at (800) 639-3221. To get information about pay, mileage, housing and the orchestra’s season, call orchestra manager Scott Burditt at that toll-free number or 862-2711.

On behalf of Altrusa International of Bangor, Colleen Smith and Carolyn Dodge invite you to its annual yard sale 8 a.m.-3 p.m. Saturday, June 12, at 311 Wilson St., Brewer.

Proceeds benefit Altrusa literacy programs.

You can make your own sundaes and one for Dad too if you bring him the weekend before Father’s Day to the Veazie Congregational Church baked bean supper from 4:45 to 6 p.m. Saturday, June 12, at the church, 1404 State St. in Veazie.

The facility is handicapped-accessible.

Moosehead Historical Society is accepting reservations for several coach trips, now through September, in Maine and Canada.

If you are interested in a Portland Museum tour Monday, June 14, call the museum at 695-2909.

If you are interested in other trips, call or write the museum at P.O. Box 1116, Greenville 04441-1116, or e-mail history@midmaine.com.

Children’s Miracle Network of Eastern Maine Healthcare is the beneficiary of activities during CMN Fun Day 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday, June 12, at Wal-Mart in Bangor.

Admission is a $5 donation for activities that include horseback and train rides, lots of food for sale, a visit with McDonald’s Grimace and a car show.

Piscataquis Valley Fair Association will hold a baked bean supper 5-7 p.m. Saturday, July 12, at the Piscataquis Valley Fairgrounds dining hall in Dover-Foxcroft, reports Susie Ricker of Milo.

Proceeds will go toward replacing the fairgrounds barn that was lost in a recent fire.

Admission is $5 for adults and $3 for children age 10 and under.

The event includes raffles and a small auction.

Each Wednesday, Whitetail Golf Course in Charleston hosts a two-person scramble for members and nonmembers.

Proceeds from the nine-hole scramble, with tee-off any time after 1 p.m. Wednesday, June 16, at Whitetail, will benefit the Mike Thibodeau Family Fund.

Thibodeau, a popular, longtime elementary school teacher in Corinth, is receiving treatment for cancer.

The fee is $10 for nonmembers and $3 for members.

“Any two persons can play,” wrote co-owners Scott and Shari Duthie, who hope “not only our regular Wednesday Scramblers” will participate but others as well.

Prizes will be awarded for first place in men’s and couples divisions and closest to the pins. The event includes a 50-50 raffle.

If you don’t play, but want to help, you can make a donation at Whitetail.

For more information, call Whitetail at 285-7730.

Tracy Smith of Friends of Orono High School Hockey Boosters reports the eighth annual Hockey Boosters Golf Open begins with a shotgun start at 8 a.m. Saturday, June 19, at Hidden Meadows Golf Course in Old Town.

The rain date is Sunday, June 20.

Proceeds from the four-person scramble “help offset the expenses of the team,” she wrote, and “cover needs not met by the school.”

One of the Friends’ “most successful fund-raisers,” the event features “lots of food and prizes.”

For information or to preregister, call Hidden Meadows, 827-4779 or Aubrey Bryant, 827-3239.

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