Throughout the summer, the Blue Hill-based steel band, Flash in the Pans, performs benefit concerts in midcoast and Down East Maine for a variety of groups and organizations.

Directed by Carl Chase, the all-volunteer band will perform from 7:30 to 9 p.m. Monday, July 19, at Fort Point State Park in Stockton Springs.

During the concert, Stockton Springs Boy Scouts and Cub Scouts will sell refreshments to raise funds for uniforms and camp, according to Jeri Cole.

Hosted by the Bureau of Parks and Lands, the concert “will take place in the large field overlooking the lighthouse and Penobscot Bay,” Cole wrote.

Fort Point State Historic Park, covering 120 acres, is a long peninsula where, according to the Maine BPL Web site, Gov. Thomas Pownall established Fort Pownall in 1759.

The site has picnic tables with a waterfront view, pier and floats for fishing and boating and access to a scenic bicycling trip.

Opened in 1974, the park also includes Fort Point State Historic Site and the Fort Point Light Station.

The remains of Fort Pownall contain interpretive panels and a stone marking the original burial site of Gen. Samuel Waldo, for whom Waldo County and Waldoboro are named.

Cole invites you to “bring your family and friends, and a picnic, set out your chairs or blanket overlooking the beautiful lighthouse and Penobscot Bay and get ready for a unique and enjoyable evening.”

For more information about the concert, call Cole at 567-3356.

For more information about Flash in the Pans, visit www.peninsulapan.org/.

More golfers and more sponsors are needed to help make the first Rite Aid Golf Tournament on Saturday, Sept. 11, at J. W. Parks Golf Course in Pittsfield, a success.

Judy Rodzen, manager of the Skowhegan Rite Aid, said this event “is the first time we’ve done anything like this, altogether,” referring to the 24 Rite Aids included in the territory of District Manager Dave Smith of Hampden.

Proceeds from the tournament benefit Children’s Miracle Network of Eastern Maine Healthcare, based in Bangor, and Barbara Bush Children’s Hospital at Maine Medical Center in Portland.

The entry fee, including greens fee, golf cart and a barbecue, is $40 per person or $150 for a four-person team.

Rodzen hopes the event will prove popular.

“The more golfers and the more sponsors we have, the more money we can raise and the more we can give” each organization, she said.

To register, or become a sponsor, call Rodzen at 474-3914, ext. 5; or Michelle Gray, 487-3333, ext. 5.

Abbe Museum development director Sharon Broom invites the public to view the exhibit, “Paddle Art,” from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily at the museum, 26 Mount Desert St., Bar Harbor.

The display includes 18 canoe paddles decorated by “Jamie Wyeth, Eric Hopkins, Joe Dana, Nancy Manter, Sam Shaw and other well-known artists,” Broom wrote.

Additionally, 25 art paddles are being displayed through Sunday, Aug. 1, at libraries in Blue Hill, Northeast Harbor, Southwest Harbor, Ellsworth, Brooklin and Bangor as well as businesses in Bar Harbor, Trenton, Blue Hill, Castine, Ellsworth and Bangor.

“The best way for people to find out where the business locations are is to visit our Web site,” Broom said.

That site is www.abbemuseum.org.

The paddles will be auctioned during the museum’s Summer Gala on Thursday, Aug. 12.

For more information, call 288-3519, or e-mail development@abbemuseum.org.

Ticket reservations are being accepted for the Fort Fairfield House and Garden Tour with a luncheon-tea from noon to 5 p.m. Saturday, July 31, rain or shine, in Fort Fairfield and Easton.

Admission is $25 per person and by advance sale only.

The tour of five homes and gardens plus two additional gardens benefits Frontier Heritage Historical Society’s Friends Church Museum.

Checks should be made out to Frontier Heritage Friends Church and mailed to Jean Deschesne, 51 Elm St., Fort Fairfield 04742, or Sue LeVasseur, P.O. Box 102, Fort Fairfield 04742.

For information, call Deschesne at 473-7273 or LeVasseur at 473-7951.

I omitted the day and date in yesterday’s column regarding the attempt to set the world record for most connected canoes, of which more than 778 canoes or kayaks are required.

This Canoe Hullabaloo event begins with registration from 7 to 11 a.m. and the world record attempt at 11 a.m. Saturday, July 17, at Old Town Airport.

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