People who attend Bangor Noon Kiwanis Club’s sixth annual Dessert Charity Auction can win one of two $100 gift certificates from Dysart’s of Hermon, which can be used for gas, merchandise or food at any Dysart’s location.

Doors open for the fundraiser that features silent, live and Western auctions at noon Saturday, Oct. 29, at Bangor Banquet and Conference Center, 713 Hogan Road.

Admission is free, and the auction is 1-4 p.m.

However, to participate in the auction, you must purchase a numbered bidding paddle for $5.

It’s important, also, that you understand how the Dysart’s gift certificates offer works.

Entry coupons will be available at the door for those who did not clip them from The Weekly on Thursday, Oct. 20, or from the Bangor Daily News Saturday-Sunday, Oct. 23-24, edition.

“There will be a stack of them at the door, and you can fill them out right there,” my colleague and Bangor Noon Kiwanis Club president Nok-Noi “Nit” Hauger told me.

You must be 18 to enter; only one coupon per person is allowed; there is no purchase obligation to enter; the drawings will be at 1:30 and 4 p.m.; and you do not need to be present to win, but you must drop the coupons off at the auction the day of the event.

The auction includes many other items, from handcrafted wood products to rounds of golf, hotel stays, and a variety of gift certificates.

Items numbered with cowboy hats will be auctioned for 25 cents during the Western auctions.

To play, you pay a quarter, hold up your paddle, and the last number left is the winner.

Nit hopes you will attend this fundraiser, she said, “because, really, it is all for the children.”

Proceeds benefit Bangor Noon Kiwanis programs for area children ranging from the four 4-H scholarships it awards each year, to two $1,000 scholarships for graduating seniors, and making sure a young child has the proper clothing to wear to school.

Nit told me the children’s programs are the focus of the work of this club.

“We have an administrative fund that takes care of those expenses,” she said. “Everything else, all the funds we raise, goes to help kids in need.”

Members of the Dedham Elementary School Class of 2007, and their parents are hosting a Hunter’s Breakfast from 4 to 9 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 29, at the school on Route 1A.

Kelly Webb reports tickets are $5 for adults, $3 for children, and $12 for families, and are available at the door, from those hard-working pupils, or by calling the school at 843-6498.

With their parents helping organize the fundraiser, the pupils will be tending the tables, Webb wrote.

All proceeds from the breakfast benefit the class to help with the cost of their eighth-grade functions, Webb explained of visiting Camp Chewonki, taking a class trip to Funtown, and helping with their graduation arrangements.

Jim Bird informs us the Orono Bog Boardwalk volunteers are hosting their annual Potluck Supper, Silent Auction and Contra Dance 6-10 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 29, at the Keith Anderson Community Center in Orono.

Tickets are $10 each, $25 per family, or $5 with a student ID.

Bird wrote there are more than 40 “wonderful items” in the Silent Auction, including Penobscot Theatre Company tickets, an autographed Stephen King book, tickets to the Nutcracker, and guided nature walks.

“It promises to be a great evening, capped off by a contradance with the Marsh Island Band,” he wrote.

Bird hopes that “everyone who enjoys the Orono Bog Boardwalk can come” to this second of the organization’s two annual fundraising events.

For more information, call Bird at 866-2578, or e-mail Jim.Bird@umit.maine.edu.

Now is the time to purchase your tickets for the fifth annual All Saints Catholic School Scholarship Super Supper.

That event, in which one lucky person becomes the fundraiser’s fourth $10,000 winner, begins with cocktails at 5:30 p.m. and dinner, served by the staff of the Chocolate Grill Restaurant, at 6:30 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 6, at the Bangor Motor Inn on Hogan Road.

Ric Tyler will serve as host for the event and will initiate the raffle drawings, which is capped off with that special ticket, soon after dinner begins.

Admission is $250 per couple, and tickets are available by calling Deb Nadeau at All Saints, 947-7063. Proceeds benefit scholarships for pupils to attend All Saints School.

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