Registration is now open for anyone who wants to run a beautiful 5-mile course on Mount Desert Island and support a worthy cause at the same time.

Jennifer Marzolf of Northeast Harbor Ambulance Service has announced that organization is conducting its 27th annual 5-Mile Northeast Harbor Road Race beginning with registration at 7:30 a.m. Saturday, Aug. 27, at Great Harbor Museum, Main Street in Northeast Harbor.

The race begins at 9:30 a.m. on Sargeant Drive. Before that, a 5-Mile Fun Walk begins at 8:30 a.m.

Your finish will be automatically computed in this event, which is sponsored by Bar Harbor Bank & Trust Co.

There are several age categories for this race, which is open to men, women and children.

Awards will be presented to the first and second overall male and female finishers, in each category, and to the oldest and youngest runner.

The first 75 entrants receive T-shirts.

For information about this event, call Carol Hamor at 276-3646.

Rental tables are available for the Skowhegan-Madison Elks Lodge Veterans’ Service Committee indoor yard sale 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 20, at the lodge, 21 Silver St., Skowhegan.

Tables are $10 each or three for $25.

The snack bar, where you can purchase hamburgers, hot dogs and cold drinks, will be open from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Mike Lange reports one table will sell “odds and ends donated by members,” and that all proceeds benefit the Veterans Affairs hospital at Togus.

For information, call Lange at 474-3111 or 938-3975, or e-mail elks2531@gwi.net.

As hard as it may be to believe, Jan Cox has announced the Brewer Hometown Band “will be performing its last evening concert of the season” at 7 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 18, if weather permits, at Doyle Field in Brewer. Otherwise, the concert will be inside Brewer Auditorium.

This final musical event of the summer will feature young tuba soloist Candace Hart of Hampden, “who will play several tunes in memory of our well-known ‘tuba 1,'” the late Sam Wyman, Cox wrote of the gentleman who was “an institution in the local music world.”

Among Hart’s selections will be “Top Kick,” by Gordon Bowie, who conducted the Bangor Band for many years and “wrote the march to feature Sam,” Cox said.

Making brief comments at the concert will be the Rev. Henry Wyman of Bangor, brother of the band’s late “tuba 1.”

“We’ll be playing lots of upbeat tunes for this performance,” Cox wrote, “so bring a chair, and the neighbors, for a great evening of entertainment.”

On behalf of Milbridge Wyman Methodist Church, Alicia Woodward invites the public to a fish chowder supper at 5 p.m. Friday, Aug. 19, at Pleiades Lodge on David Kennedy Memorial Highway in Milbridge.

Proceeds will help with church maintenance, and you can call Beverly Beal at 546-2413 for information.

The Woodlawn Museum second annual Summer Benefit Gala is 6-11 p.m. Friday, Aug. 19, at Woodlawn Museum in Ellsworth.

Museum Executive Director Josh Torrance reports hors d’oeuvres and cocktails “will be served in the formal gardens” beginning at 6 p.m.

The dinner will be catered by Crocker House owner-chef Rich Malaby. Brian Catell’s Jump City Quintet will provide music for dancing and entertainment.

For ticket information, call Torrance at 667-8671.

Proceeds benefit the museum’s Preservation Campaign.

Dave Mandravelis, owner of Evad Images, invites the public to “a celebration of talent of local artists,” he said of an open house his business is hosting from 6 to 8 p.m. Friday, Aug. 19, at Evad Images, 48 Main St. in Lincoln.

“We’ll have some acoustic music by Vicki Nesin and Carolyn Ferranti,” he said, “and we’ll be serving light refreshments.”

You will see works by local and other Maine artists in watercolor, oil, photography, pen and ink and wood sculpture.

Evad Images is an art gallery where Mandravelis also does photo restoration and custom picture framing.

Everyone is welcome to attend, enjoy the artwork, entertainment, and refreshments.

One of the major fundraisers of the year for the Franklin Historical Society, according to Bill Robertson, is its all-you-can-eat blueberry pancake breakfast.

That very special, very healthful and very delicious event, is 7-10 a.m. Saturday, Aug. 20, at the Franklin Veterans Club on Route 182 in that Hancock County community.

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