Tomorrow is Mother’s Day, and Elizabeth Johnson, Maine district manager for customer service and sales for the U.S. Postal Service, urges you to celebrate “all of the very important women in our lives who have loved, supported, mentored, inspired and sustained us through life’s challenging times.”

And one way to do that is by purchasing the Breast Cancer Research Stamp to use on correspondence or to give as a gift.

This is “a semi-postal stamp,” she explained of the stamps that cost just 8 cents more than a regular first-class stamp.

The 8 cents, she added, goes directly to fund the fight to find a cure for breast cancer.

As one who purchases and uses these stamps regularly, Johnson encourages you to do the same, and add to the $43 million the sale of these stamps has already raised nationwide for breast cancer research.

Although there are no members of The Art Moves Dance Group residing in eastern Maine, Hanna Brown explained, “we do perform all around Maine,” and the group invites people from this area to attend its performance, “La Vie En Rose,” which is 7:30 tonight in the auditorium of Oxford Hills Community High School in South Paris.

Call 743-5569 for more information.

The final academic year meeting of Women of the World will be held at noon Monday, May 9, in the MacKenzie Room on the second floor of the Church of Universal Fellowship on Main Street in Orono, reports Mireille Le Gal.

This month’s food theme is “18 Boy Curry,” and the luncheon will be hosted Susan Wishkoski.

The menu includes chicken curry, curried vegetables, rice, and 18 side dishes, and will be followed by a curry history lesson presented by Wishkoski.

The cost of the luncheon, for international women living in this area, is $4, and small children are welcome, with their mothers, at no charge.

Mark Parent of the Hampden Academy Music Association wants you to know about two upcoming musical opportunities.

Cabaret Night, which he describes as “an evening of music featuring Hampden Academy Voices Unlimited” will be held at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, May 10, at Skeehan Gymnasium at the academy.

Tickets at the door are $5 for adults, $3 for students and $15 for families.

Desserts and refreshments will be available.

And, Parent added, the Hampden Academy Jazz Ensemble and the John Bapst Memorial High School Jazz Band will provide the music for a swing dance beginning at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, May 14, at Skeehan Gymnasium.

Before the dance, Backdoor Dance Studio members will offer dance lessons at 6:30 p.m. at the site.

Priscilla Osberg, president of Alliance, the women’s group of the Church of Universal Fellowship in Orono, urges you to make your plans now to attend its 17th Annual Daffodil Luncheon at 12:30 p.m. Tuesday, May 10, in the church vestry, 82 Main St. in Orono.

Osberg reports that after lunch at this popular event, “Nancy Paul of Pretty Woman will present a fashion show featuring the latest spring fashions.”

Tickets are $7 each, and can be purchased by calling Dorothy Griffin, 866-3088.

With end-of-life issues so much in the news of late, anyone who has not addressed that subject should consider responding positively to an invitation issued by two Bangor hospitals and supported by this newspaper.

Deborah Carey Johnson, president and CEO of Eastern Maine Medical Center; Sister Mary Norberta, president and CEO of St. Joseph Healthcare; and the Bangor Daily News invite you to attend a free End of Life Care Planning Workshop from 6 to 9 p.m. Wednesday, May 11, at Spectacular Event Center, 395 Griffin Road in Bangor.

Moderated by Dr. Erik Steele, local physicians, clergy, nurses, attorneys and social workers will share their expertise with you, answer questions about end-of-life issues, and help you fill out and file your own advance directive for that time when it is needed.

Material on advance directives can be downloaded before the workshop at www.emmc.org.

If you want more information about this workshop that is so very important to you and your family, call EMMC social work manager Dawn Simpson at 973-7841.

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