Helping to grant the wish of a child living with a life-threatening medical condition certainly has to be a gratifying experience, and Amy Theiss and other staff members of Make-A-Wish Foundation of Maine hope you agree because Make-A-Wish is in need of volunteer “Wish Granters.”

The Camden-based organization “is in search of caring volunteers … to help bring magic to children” of our area by granting their “greatest wishes” and to help bring “hope, strength and joy to those children as they strive to beat their illnesses,” Theiss wrote.

A child’s wish “springs from his or her imagination,” she explained of children’s desires “to meet their biggest hero, travel to an exotic location, be a princess for a day, have a puppy, kiss a dolphin” or whatever else they wish.

Since it was founded in 1992, Make-A-Wish of Maine has granted more than 600 wishes statewide, thanks in large part to wish-granting volunteers, Theiss wrote.

Wish Grant-ers work in teams and are the primary contact be-tween the wish children and the organization throughout the wish process.

“Each wish takes an average of 10-20 hours over an average of a four-month time period. Training, support and magic wands are provided,” she wrote.

Theiss also wants you to know there are no financial obligations for being a Wish Granter and all expenses for each wish are paid for by Make-A-Wish.

If you would like to become a Wish Granter or learn more about it, you can attend the next training session, which is 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday, June 11, at Andover College in Portland.

For more information about this volunteer opportunity, call Kate Vickery at 221-2306 or email kvickery@maine.wish

.org.

For more information about the Make-A-Wish Foundation, call (800) 491-3171 or email wishme@Maine.wish.org.

Members of the Church of the Good Shepherd invite you to attend their 22nd Annual Fiddlehead Supper from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, May 24, at the church, 116 Main St., Houlton.

Joan Logan reports the menu consists of fiddleheads, ham, homemade fiddlehead quiche, potato salad, rolls and desserts.

Doesn’t that sound delicious?

Admission is just $6 for adults and $3 for children, and a percentage of the proceeds will be donated to the Houlton Animal Shelter Building Fund.

“This is always a very successful dinner,” Logan wrote.

“Our snowbirds are back from their winter homes and come in to renew acquaintances with their friends and families.”

Now, this is what I want to know: Do these folks have a secret spot where they pick fiddleheads?

I ask because it seems to me they need an awful lot of fiddleheads to host this unique event.

With thanks to all those who have already contributed recipes and historical notes for the Orono Cooks 2006 bicentennial publication, members of the Friends of the Orono Public Library are issuing a “last call for entries.”

Anyone who plans to contribute items for the bicentennial cookbook, has additional selections to submit or has a note to add about a submitted recipe or about Orono experiences, is asked to send the information by the end of May to Lianne Harris, 63 Forest Ave., Orono 04473, or e-mail Lharris

@nehs.net.

Here is the word, direct from Nancy Pennypacker LaHaye of Bangor, who wishes to inform the Bangor High School Class of 1940 of its 65th Class Get Together, scheduled for noon Friday, July 22, at Holiday Inn, Odlin Road in Bangor.

You are asked to let her know as soon as possible if you can attend by calling 827-8972 and leaving a message or by writing LaHaye at P.O. Box 1242, Bangor 04401-1242.

Writing on behalf of the Agape Food Pantry in Island Falls, Joyce Copeland expresses thanks to “the rural mail carriers for their dedicated hard work in collecting food for Stamp Out Hunger” last Saturday during the 13th Annual National Association of Letter Carriers’ Food Drive.

“We depend on the donations to keep our cause going,” Copeland wrote, while thanking all who donated food.

And from me, to all our letter carriers and all those who left nonperishable food by their mailboxes that day, thank you for your considerate efforts in helping to feed the needy among us.

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