With the understanding that “You Can Change The Life of a Child,” representatives of The Penobscot Nation Boys & Girls Club invite you to attend its third annual Dinner-Dance Silent Auction beginning at 5 p.m. Saturday, March 26, at the Black Bear Inn in Orono.

Tickets for two are $100 for this semiformal event and can be obtained by calling Carla Fearon, club organizer and unit director, at 827-7776, ext. 7355, or Pamela Colson Power at Maine Center for Integrated Rehab, 942-1492.

Colson Power is co-chairing the fund-raiser with Dana Mitchell.

She invites you to “join us for an entertaining evening of traditional dancing, drumming, silent and live auction, and music and dancing.”

Topping the list of excellent auction items are two separate vacation packages for a South African safari. Each vacation offers two people six days and six nights with full board and accommodations.

Other auction items include native crafts, collectibles, antiques, services, art, jewelry and sculpture. And you will also have the opportunity to win door prizes.

According to Colson Power: “Community and business support of this event will greatly assist us in the continuation and development of youth programs that will empower the Penobscot Nation boys and girls to attain their full potential in their families and in the community.

“You can change the life of a child,” she continued, reiterating the theme of the event.

“The club provides a safe place to go after school, and a hot meal every day. Programs include recreation, food and nutrition, music, basket making, canoeing and cultural activities that will significantly impact the preservation of the Penobscot Nation traditions and history.”

Colson Power proudly added that “we are the first Native American Boys and Girls Club in the Northeast region,” and that this club is “recognized, with distinction, on a national level, for our accomplishments.”

Piscataquis Regional YMCA will host its Spring Sprung Green Thumb Sale from noon to 3 p.m. Saturday, March 19, at the YMCA, 48 Park St. in Dover-Foxcroft.

Featuring gardening items donated by Woodbury Gardens in New Hampshire, many sizes and types of baskets, rain wands, garden flags, plant pots, wind chimes and much more will be available for purchase.

Proceeds benefit the PRYMCA Access Scholarship Program.

Celebrate the first day of spring with yoga teachers Bunny Barclay, Sandy Cyrus and John Yasenchak leading “Life in the Balance,” beginning with warm-ups and sun salutations at 7:10 a.m. Sunday, March 20, at Cascade Park in Bangor.

The Spring Equinox Yoga Event is 7:34 a.m., when the sun is directly lined up with the equator, the length of the day is equal to the length of the night, and the earth is in perfect balance.

They note you can balance an egg on its end at the moment of the equinox.

The event includes balancing postures for yogis and eggs, and herbal tea, muffins and sanga, or community.

For more information, call Full Circle Yoga, 866-4103.

You can help raise money for science programming at Milo Elementary School by attending Krop for the Kids from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, March 26, at the school, 18 Belmont St., Milo.

Admission is $15 and doors open at 9:30 a.m.

Lunch will be provided, and you are asked to register by Thursday, March 24.

You need not prepay, Susan Keith told me, just preregister.

To register, call Keith at the school, 943-2122, or after school hours, call Andrea Mills, 943-7981, or Tina Johnston, 943-8818.

Among the vendors participating are Creative Memories, Close to My Heart, I Remember When and Simple Sacks.

Planned science programs feature the Ocean Guy of Pemaquid, who teaches pupils about the ocean and ocean life, and Northern Stars Planetarium of Fairfield, which allowed pupils to explore planets, stars and constellations by experiencing a trip in a space shuttle.

Alberto Alfaro is a fifth-grader at Napa Valley Language Academy in California.

He chose Maine to research for his report on a state, he wrote.

Alberto must present an oral report that displays interesting items that come from Maine.

“I am looking for people to send me tourist maps, postcards, brochures, souvenirs, pictures of important buildings, and the state capitol,” he wrote.

“Thank you for your help.”

You can send these items to Alberto Alfaro, Napa Valley Language Academy, Mrs. Wallace’s Fifth Grade, 2700 Kilburn Ave., Napa, Calif. 94558.

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