Two organizations that share a similar focus and are located under the same roof are sponsoring two events on the same day, and everyone will be able to attend both.

First, Stefano Tijerina, director of Peace through Interamerican Community Action, invites you to attend Bangor’s first Fair Trade Fest from 11 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 2, on the Bangor Waterfront. The event features a sweatshop-free market with representatives offering goods not only from Maine but outside the state as well.

You will also have the chance to hear Ruth Mena and Yadira Vallejos of Nicaragua. Left homeless after Hurricane Mitch in 1999, they helped build their own sewing cooperative.

A Folk and Reggae Fair Trade Benefit Concert begins at 3 p.m., and proceeds will benefit both the sewing cooperative and PICA’s Fair Trade program.

For information about this event, call 947-4203 or visit www.pica.ws.

For dinner, Sandy Tardiff, Charlotte Herbold and Lee Davis invite you to attend the Peace and Justice Center’s annual Harvest Supper from 6 to 8 p.m. at the Unitarian Universalist Church in Bangor.

The keynote speaker is Eric Rector of the Maine Foods Network, and Maine activist Judy Guay will receive the center’s second annual Hands of Peace award.

The suggested donation is $10 for adults, $3 for children and $15 for a family.

For information about this event, call 942-9343, e-mail info@peacectr.org or visit www.peacectr.org.

Pat Woodbury, evangelism chairperson of First United Methodist Church of Bangor, wants readers to know internationally recognized artist, conductor and composer Roosevelt Credit is returning to Bangor.

Credit will perform in concert with his friend, local pianist John Haskell, and the FUMC choir at 6:30 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 25, at the church, 703 Essex St. in Bangor.

The concert follows a Healthy Heart Salad and Bean Supper from 5 to 6 p.m. at the church.

Proceeds from your supper tickets of $6 for adults and $3 for children under 12 benefit WEE-CARE, a parenting and nutritional education program for mothers and infants in Washington County.

For information, call the church office at 945-9567.

You are invited to “Celebrate the Tomato” with Ann Price and Sarah Speidel of the Master Gardener Volunteers of the University of Maine Rogers Farm.

Hosted by the Ellsworth Garden Club, the women will discuss heirloom tomatoes at 7 p.m. Monday, Sept. 27, at Hancock County Cooperative Extension, 66 Boggy Brook Way, Ellsworth.

For information, call Elaine Fernald at 244-3085.

On behalf of the Katahdin Valley Health Center in Patten, Durward Humphrey invites you to participate in its inaugural Autumn Charity Golf Tournament beginning with a shotgun start at 11 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 2, at VaJoWa Golf Club in Island Falls.

The cost for the 18-hole scramble is $160 per four-person team, which includes golf, buffet, door prizes, gross and net prizes, and a chance to win a car with a hole-in-one.

Riding carts are available with early reservations, and a guest can attend the buffet for an additional $15.

Proceeds will help support Katahdin Valley area diabetes programs.

For those who are unable to attend but would like to contribute, a tax-deductible donation would be welcome, and sponsorships are available.

Checks can be made payable to KVHC Charity Golf and mailed to KVHC, P.O. Box 500, 30 Houlton St., Patten 04765.

Information can be obtained by calling 528-2285 or e-mailing kvhc@kvhc.org.

The first Sweetser Stroll for Kids Walkathon is Saturday, Oct. 2, in Belfast.

Proceeds will fund a playground on Sweetser’s Belfast campus that has four children’s treatment homes providing live-in care each year for more than 100 area children.

To register or volunteer, call Sweetser at (800) 434-3000.

The annual Eastern Maine Walk to Help Dyslexic Children is 1 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 3, on Parkway South in Brewer.

Registration before Friday, Oct. 1 is $15 for adults and $5 for children 12 and under, and includes a T-shirt. After that date, the registration fee increases.

There is no minimum fund-raising requirement for the 3.1-mile event, but walkers are encouraged to solicit donations and incentive prizes will be awarded for specific levels.

Sponsored by the Masonic Learning Center at 116 Main St. in Bangor, proceeds benefit the program that helps children learn to read and spell.

Information is available by calling 990-2277 or at www.dyslexiawalk.org.

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