Robert and Mary’s Place in Ellsworth offers adult day care for local residents with memory loss.

Activities director Marjorie Bray wrote me recently to say that “we need the help of your readers.”

Bray explained that Robert and Mary’s Place has received “a brand-new, farmhouse-style dollhouse” it would like to decorate, furnish and donate to a children’s group.

They are “looking for donations of miniature furniture and people” for the dollhouse, Bray continued, as well as leftover wallpaper, dollhouse furnishings, “a family to go with it,” and even miniature pets, she added.

The plan is to include landscaping so it “will be a complete house and yard for some children to play with.”

Bray wrote that everyone involved is excited about the project and would appreciate your help.

For more information, including directions to Robert and Mary’s Place, call Bray between 9 a.m. and 4 p.m. Mondays, Wednesdays or Fridays, at 667-5449.

The Belfast Lion Club’s Harvest Festival includes a craft fair from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. today at the Belfast Boathouse, an auction at 3 p.m., a pumpkin carving contest, face painting, and more.

The Children’s Halloween Museum Barn is open through tomorrow, by reservation only.

You can visit the display arranged by Assata Sherrill of Acadia Entertainment to benefit Hurricane Katrina relief, with shows at 10:30 a.m. and 6:30 p.m. both today and tomorrow at 195 Norfolk St., Bangor.

Admission is $2 for children ages 3-5, and $4 for all others.

To make your reservation, call 433-7575, fax 433-0248, or e-mail acadiaentertain@aol.com.

Eastern Maine School of Self-Defense is hosting its third annual Haunted House starting at 6:30 p.m. both today and tomorrow at 1005 Olive St. in Veazie.

Admission is $3 per person, and children under 10 must be accompanied by an adult.

You are asked not to bring flashlights.

Head instructor Glen Kennedy said a portion of the proceeds will help provide scholarships for students to attend the school.

For more information, call 990-9330.

On behalf of Dennysville-Edmunds Congregational Church, Mary McFadden invites you to celebrate its 200th birthday during two special events.

The first is a 200th anniversary Service of Grateful Remembrance at 2 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 30, at the church, when members depicting historical characters from the church’s past will recount significant church events.

Under the direction of Pastor Colin Windhorst, the Dennysville Festival Choir will perform, and you are invited to join in singing favorite hymns.

A 200th anniversary supper at 5 p.m. will close out the day at Edmunds Consolidated School.

For $8, you will enjoy food that might have been served two centuries ago, such as turkey, pork, baked potato, corn on the cob, applesauce, cranberry sauce, apple pie, and pumpkin pie.

McFadden wrote that this church “is one of the oldest continuing churches in eastern Maine,” and its “very active congregation” is in the process of building a new Parish Hall.

I will have more information about the building project and activities to support it, later this week.

The Brewer Hometown Band will honor a former member, the late Sister Elizabeth Desjardins of the trumpet section, during a 3 p.m. concert Sunday, Oct. 30, in Brewer Auditorium on Wilson Street.

The program will reflect her outgoing personality with “seasonal selections, marches, a few goofy gags and some very familiar tunes,” director Jan Cox wrote.

A saxophone quartet will perform, and refreshments will be available during intermission.

Cox said band members hope to have “our usual, fun-loving audience” in attendance, and to see some new faces, too.

“We promise you a great afternoon.”

Musicians Kevin Birch, Kay Byther Eames, Carlton Russell, Baycka Voronietsky, Anatole Wieck, Marisa Solomon and Yukiko Fukumizu will be joined by three choirs when The American Guild of Organists, Bangor Chapter, presents Mendelssohn and Friends, Music and Commentary, at 4 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 30, at St. John’s Catholic Church, 207 York St. in Bangor.

There is no admission charge, but donations will be accepted for the work of the chapter.

Nancy Dysart of Children’s Miracle Network of Eastern Maine Healthcare reminds you that Clear Channel Radio of Bangor’s “Bids for Kids” continues through Monday, Oct. 31.

Clear Channel is offering dream-wish items in an online auction, with proceeds benefiting Children’s Miracle Network. The money will enable Children’s Miracle Network to help sick and injured children in northern, central and eastern Maine.

To view the items, visit www.bidskids.com.

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