When local comedian Joe Bennett takes the stage with his friend and fellow Maine humorist, Gary Crocker, at 7 p.m. Saturday, March 25, at Bangor High School’s Peakes Auditorium, it will be “the last time around for me,” Bennett said.

The last of his four children, daughter Hannah Bennett, is a senior, and her dad’s appearance with Crocker will benefit Bangor High School Project Graduation 2006.

“This is the farewell tour” for the Maine Humor Revue, Bennett said of the shows he’s been doing for some time now.

“I’m a little older, but no less enthusiastic” about performing for such a worthy cause, he added.

Admission to the Maine Humor Revue is $5 for adults, $2 for students, and a maximum of $15 for a family.

The show also will serve as a kick-off for another fundraiser, the Project Graduation Raffle with a $1,000 first prize.

Tickets are available from any parent of a Bangor High senior.

Also, Bennett wants people to know about the BHS Project Graduation Basket Bingo, which will be 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Sunday, April 2, at the Bangor Armory.

Tickets are $15; 15 prizes will be awarded; and a maximum of 275 tickets will be sold.

Tickets can be purchased at the Grasshopper Shop in Bangor or at Patrick’s Hallmark in the Broadway Shopping Center.

For more information about this event, call Ellen Cox, 990-5651; Susan Donahue, 945-3685; Laurie George, 947-8257; or Carol Jankowski, 942-5494.

Susan Bell, executive director of the Pine Tree Chapter of the American Red Cross in Bangor, has issued another urgent plea for donations as the agency finds itself responding to an increasing number of emergencies.

Since the end of February, this chapter has dealt with 22 separate house-apartment fires affecting 29 families and more than 95 individuals, including the recent seven-unit apartment fire on Ohio Street in Bangor that affected 15 people.

Working with the victims to provide immediate, free, emergency assistance in the form of food, clothing and shelter takes a great deal of money.

With an unexpected high number of fires in a brief time frame, and with local donations down due to generous contributions to hurricane disaster relief, the PTC needs your help, now. Monetary contributions can be sent to the Pine Tree Chapter, American Red Cross, 33 Mildred Ave., Bangor 04401, or by calling 941-2903.

From May to October 2005, Robert Sypitkowski of Bangor volunteered with Doctors Without Borders as a water/sanitation specialist on Simeulue Island, 100 miles off the coast of Sumatra, Indonesia, after the December tsunami and the March earthquake that affected that area.

Sypitkowski will offer a “Tsunami Relief Worker” slide presentation about that experience at 7 p.m. Tuesday, March 28, in the Penobscot Media Room at Dirigo Pines Inn in Orono.

The public is invited to attend this presentation sponsored by Friends of the Orono Public Library.

For more information, call the library at 866-5060.

You are invited to see and hear a presentation about the “Mysteries of Easter Island” delivered by David Zelz of Bangor at 7 p.m. Tuesday, March 28, at the Bangor Public Library, 145 Harlow St.

The program includes slides of the island’s landscape, people and statues and a discussion of the interesting history of this island said to be the most isolated populated place on the planet.

On behalf of Machias Savings Bank’s Bangor branch, manager Jennifer Morin invites you to attend its Super Scrapbooking Saturday from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. April 1, at the Old Town Elks Lodge on North Fourth Street.

Admission is $25 for this event that benefits the American Cancer Society’s Relay for Life in May in Old Town.

This is the second year Machias Savings Bank has participated in this the American Cancer Society event, Morin wrote, and planners hope to attract more than 100 people to what is expected to be its only outside fundraiser.

“Our goal is to raise $5,000 this year, so we are hoping that half of the proceeds will come from the Super Scrapbooking Saturday,” she added.

Lunch will be included, many door prizes will be offered, and scrapbooking supplies from Nancy’s Scrapbooking will be available for purchase.

If you wish to attend, please call Julie Pelletier at (800) 371-3227, ext. 3923.

If you have problems with that extension, as I did, be sure to stay on the line and punch 0 for operator!

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