Although the PICA Fair Trade Fair does not take place until Saturday, Oct. 2, Isobel Herbold of Bangor is already preparing for it, and she needs your help.

PICA, or Peace through Interamerican Community Action, is a Bangor-based membership organization working toward global economic justice.

As part of this fall’s fair, the young Bangor woman plans to make a large map covered with clothing labels.

“What I am doing is putting together a giant map of the world with clothing tags pinned on where they were manufactured,” Herbold told me.

She expects the Tag Map to consist “probably of two sheets of plywood, about 5 feet by 8 feet” and for it to be “plastered” with manufacturing tags.

What she wants you to do is to clip out the tags from pieces of clothing and mail or deliver them to her for inclusion on the map.

It should be quite a project and Herbold won’t know exactly how large the map will be until you respond.

The bigger, the better, I would expect and quite interesting as well.

Ever since Herbold first told me about this project a little more than a week ago, I have found myself noticing the tags on my clothing.

I’m keeping my scissors handy so I can send her some tags and I hope you will do the same.

Herbold’s address is 22 Fern St., Bangor 04401.

If you want more information about this project, call her at 947-4216.

Breast cancer survivor Merry Shepherd of Brewer has raised the $2,000 she needs to participate in the 60-mile Breast Cancer 3-Day walk to benefit the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation from Friday, July 30, through Sunday, Aug. 1, in Boston.

However, Shepherd was counting the latest donations for her walking partner, Hilda Chow of Brewer, when we spoke Monday morning and Shepherd reported that Chow is still $400 shy of her goal.

I hope some readers can help Chow immediately because checks must be received by Wednesday, July 28, and online donations by Thursday, July 29.

Checks can be made out to “Breast Cancer 3-Day” and mailed to P.O. Box 625, Brewer 04412-0625.

Online donations may be made by going to www.the3day.org, clicking on Boston, then clicking on donation and filling out the necessary information.

If cooking is not on your list of things to do during Orrington’s Old Home Week, Mona Spain wants you to know there’s a place where you can buy two home-cooked meals for your family.

East Orrington Congregational Church is offering an Old Home Week turkey pie supper beginning at 4:30 p.m. Thursday, July 29, at the church on Johnson Mill Road.

Admission is $6 for adults and $3 for children.

Also coming is the Orrington Old Home Week Olde Fashioned Farm-Style Breakfast from 7 to 9 a.m. Saturday, July 31, at the church.

Hosted by the Manly Men of EOCC, admission is $5 per person.

Rob Reeves of the YMCA and YWCA of Greater Bangor reports volunteers are needed to park cars for the Bangor State Fair which runs Friday, July 30 through Sunday, Aug. 8, at Bass Park.

Four volunteers are needed for the 11 a.m.-2:30 p.m. and 2:30-6 p.m. shifts and five workers are needed for the 6-9:30 p.m. shifts he wrote.

The opening session begins at 6 p.m. Friday, July 30 and the last session is from noon to 8 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 8, Reeves explained.

Anyone age 16 or older is more than welcome to volunteer.

“We do have a ball when we are there,” Reeves wrote of what he described as a great way for the new volunteers to get to know one another.

To volunteer, call the Bangor Y’s Hammond Street desk at 941-2808.

Just before I left on vacation, Sandra Johnson of the River City Cinema Society dropped by to deliver a “thank you” to sponsors and volunteers who “helped make our first ever satellite offering from the Maine International Film Festival such a success.”

“Both movies were excellent,” she wrote, “and Ed Harris and his movie, ‘Pollock,’ were sold out.”

River City Cinema Society thanks “the business community that bought ads for the program, Mid Maine Communications, a major sponsor for the event and, more particularly,” she continued, “Rick Warren and the Bangor Daily News for their generous sponsorship.”

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