Maine Special Olympics will be the beneficiary of a CD release party, “In Memory of Carole,” at 6 p.m. Friday, Sept. 23, at American Legion Post No. 207 in Trenton.

Scheduled performers include Stevie and Deb Cee, Janet Wentworth and 10-year-old Brian Wardwell.

The CD is a “gift of love” to disc jockey Tommy Dean and his family by a host of country music stars who participated in the recording project in memory of Dean’s sister, Carole Salisbury, who was born with Down syndrome and died two years ago at 43.

According to Dean, she loved Maine Special Olympics and music.

The release party will be the first time the CD will be sold, but after the performance it will be available at various outlets throughout Maine.

Admission to the concert is free, as are the refreshments. The CD is $12, and all proceeds benefit Maine Special Olympics.

Featured recording artists, in addition to the Cees, Wardwell and Wentworth, include Ernie Ashworth, Rusty Evans, Erin Hay, Jose Daniel, Richard Draime, Becky Hobbs and Mayf Nutter.

Also, Lee Sims, Tommy Cash, Jimmy Eaves, Jack Blanchard and Misty Morgan, Perley Curtis, the late Dick Curless, Tommy The UK Cowboy, Danny Harper, and Andrew Dean.

To purchase the CD by mail, contact Tommy Dean at baker1@midmaine.com.

You can also find more information by going to http://www.rhonbob.com and clicking on Buy Special CD.

The Good Will-Hinckley 12th annual Fall Festival and Harvest Celebration is 10 a.m.-4:30 p.m. today and 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 18, at GWH on Route 201 in Hinckley.

Admission is free for the event, which includes activities for children, a petting zoo, live entertainment, hayrides, a 5K race, Civil War re-enactors, historic programs and demonstrations for adults.

GWH executive director Gregg Dowty anticipates welcoming more than 2,000 people to the two-day event.

For a detailed scheduled, visit gwh.org.

The St. Croix Valley Amateur Radio Club annual Hamfest is 9 a.m.-5 p.m., rain or shine, today, at the Alexander School.

At its 8 a.m. meeting on Sunday, Sept. 18, at the Wickachee Restaurant in Calais, Jon Mahar of Jacksonville, who has lived in Japan for more than 30 years, will introduce his friend Ju Miyamoto of Japan, who hopes to establish ham contacts in Maine.

Newcomers and other visitors are welcome.

The regular season meeting of the club is 6:30 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 18, at the Methodist Home Meeting Room in Calais.

For more information about this club and its events, call 454-2156.

The public is invited to a baked beans and casserole supper from 5 to 6:30 p.m. today at Hampden Congregational Church, 101 Main Road North.

Admission is $6 for adults, $3 for children under 12 or $18 for a family of four or more.

The University of Maine Faculty Concert at 7:30 tonight in Minsky Recital Hall in the Class of 1944 Hall will feature the debut of a newly refurbished Steinway Concert grand piano.

Faculty pianists Laura Artesani, Ginger Yang Hwalek and Baycka Voronietsky will be joined by Jack Burt, trumpet; Liz Downing, flute; Richard Kenefic, guitar; Stuart Marrs, marimba; soprano Nancy Ogle; violist Anatole Wieck and Beth Wiemann on the bass clarinet.

Admission to hear “Cadenzato,” the UMaine faculty chamber ensemble, is $6.

Melissa Laverdiere, owner of Clay by Design, a do-it-yourself art studio, invites you to “Paint for Hope” from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 18, at the 56 Main Street studio in downtown Bangor.

Laverdiere will donate 100 percent of all pottery sales to the American Red Cross to assist in disaster relief following Hurricane Katrina.

Free food and beverage coupons will be available from The Lunch Box Cafe; T-shirt sales by Justice Clothing will benefit “The Big Easy”; and additional donations of nonperishable items will be welcome.

For more information, call Clay by Design, 945-5343, or visit www.claybydesign.com.

A public, rain-or-shine yard sale and craft fair to benefit the Maine Children’s Cancer Program is 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 18, at the Bangor Elks Lodge, 108 Odlin Road.

A Maine Elks Association project since 1985, last year’s event raised $222,222 to help Maine children with cancer.

The second annual follies, featuring music of the 1920s, is 2 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 18, at the Old Town Museum.

The program is free, but donations will be accepted to help with repairs to the museum heating system and roof.

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