Reservations are limited and since a sellout is possible, you should obtain tickets now for the 3rd annual “In Grand Style” fashion show. The event helps celebrate the 30th year of the Grand Auditorium of Ellsworth.

Lunch will be served at noon with the show beginning at 1 p.m. Friday, Aug. 19, at the Ellsworth Holiday Inn.

Tickets are $25 and may be reserved by calling the auditorium’s business office at 667-5911, or box office at 667-9500.

WLBZ-TV news anchor Matt Friedman will serve as master of ceremonies, and Janet Pearson and Ann O’Neill will offer piano accompaniment.

Models will be wearing fashions provided by Ellsworth’s The Avenue at Beal’s Jewelry, The Grasshopper Shop, Ruth Foster’s, Terra Cotta Stylish Stuff and Willey’s Sport Center. Sara Sara of Blue Hill and Talbot’s of Bangor will also be represented.

The models will be showing jewelry, accessories and shoes for men and women, and children’s clothing from Ruth Foster’s.

Since 1933, the auditorium has served as “a center for everything from art to theatre to music,” reported Paula Kee of Bucksport, a member of the Grand Auditorium’s board of directors.

“I just love the place,” she said of the facility she considers “the anchor for the arts in Hancock County.”

Co-chairing the fundraiser is Jane Bradley of Gouldsboro, and making a major contribution is fashion show committee member and fellow Gouldsboro resident Pat Close.

Kee reported the first fashion show raised $10,000, $18,000 was raised last year, “and, this year, we aspire to $20,000.”

Proceeds from the show benefit the Grand Auditorium, which offers live theatre, children’s summer workshops, film, performing artists and art exhibits in its Art Deco Lobby, all on Main Street in Ellsworth.

On behalf of the Pittsfield Public Library Special Events Committee, Karen Wagner invites you to enjoy its final concert of the season in the series designed to help raise awareness about the library’s renovation and expansion project.

The concert is 6:30-7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 17, at the Hathorn Park Bandstand and features Downeast Brass.

“We are delighted to close the season” with this “very talented and popular” group, Wagner wrote of the musicians who possess “a special gift for connecting with audiences of all ages.”

Downeast Brass is directed by trumpeter Dwight Tibbetts, “who arranges the wide range of musical favorites from classical to Dixieland,” Wagner wrote.

Completing the group are Andy Forster, trumpet; Loren Fields, French horn; Charles Moy, trombone and euphonium; and Mark Mumme, tuba.

Wagner added that Downeast Brass “has performed in many New England settings from private parties at the Governor’s mansion in Augusta to churches and theaters, at the Mount Washington Hotel in Bretton Woods, N.H.,” and marched “in the famous Moxie Parade.”

You should bring your lawn chairs and blankets; refreshments will be sold; and any donations to the library project will be welcome.

One month from today, at 6 p.m. at seven Eastern Maine sites, you have the opportunity to participate in Make-A-Wish Foundation of Maine’s fifth annual Walk for Wishes.

Registration and check-in begins at 5 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 15, at the following sites: Bass Park, Bangor; Belfast High School; the Congregational Church in Dennysville; Ellsworth Middle School; Houlton Civic Center; Sebasticook Valley Hospital, Pittsfield; and the Lutheran Church on Cool Street in Waterville.

Anyone preregistering before the day of the event will be entered in a drawing for a $100 L.L. Bean gift certificate; one certificate will be awarded at each site.

Adults raising at least $100 receive a free T-shirt; youngsters under 18 raising at least $50 receive one as well.

All walkers raising any funds receive a Make-A-Wish “Share the Power of A Wish” awareness bracelet.

According to information provided by the organization’s communications director, Amy Theiss, more than 60 Penobscot County children have been granted wishes through this organization, and more than 600 children statewide have had wishes granted since the chapter formed in 1992.

The average cost of a wish is $5,000, and this event is a major source of raising funds to grant those wishes.

Last year, Theiss wrote, walkers in Bangor raised nearly $5,000 for Make-A-Wish of Maine.

You are invited to walk as an individual or form a team of co-workers, family or friends. There is no registration fee.

For more information about how you can participate, visit www.Maine.wish.org, call (866) 704-WALK, or e-mail wishwalk@Maine.wish.org.

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