Some openings still remain in four contests that are part of the 16th annual Bangor Garden Show, April 6-9 at the Bangor Civic Center and Auditorium.

The show is sponsored by, and benefits, Keep Bangor Beautiful.

Volunteer Cynthia Cavanaugh, who has been associated with this event since its inception, reports you can still enter the Windowbox Contest, the Anything Goes Container Contest, the Door-to-Door Contest and the It’s-for-the-Birds Birdhouse Contest.

To enter, e-mail KBB executive director Kathy Guerin at Bangor.beautiful@bgrme.org.

The Preview Night Gala, Thursday, April 6, features delicacies donated by 12 local restaurateurs.

The show is 9 a.m.-9 p.m. Friday, April 7, and Saturday, April 8, and 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Sunday, April 9.

Admission is $8 for adults, $3 for students, and free for children under 5.

Tickets are available at the Bangor Civic Center by calling 947-5555, or at the door.

Among the highlights of this year’s show is the return after a three-year hiatus of South Thomaston artist Lyn Snow, whose work, “Dutch Iris,” is the 2006 Bangor Garden Show symbol and program cover.

Snow’s original painting – created for the show, framed by Bangor Frameworks and valued at $1,600 – is the featured raffle item. Tickets are $1 each or six for $5.

This 2006 garden show features 70 marketplace vendors in the Civic Center, Cavanaugh said, “and the auditorium is full with life-size landscape exhibits.”

The event also includes an interesting and extensive lecture series, as well as the Elephant Room where “Kids Grow, Too.”

Saturday night’s live auction, with Tom Cavanaugh wielding the gavel, will offer more than 120 garden or outdoor-related items.

And, if you have cell phones to recycle, bring them in and drop them off at the Keep Bangor Beautiful booth.

The public is invited to attend the meeting of the St. Croix Historical Society at 7 tonight at The Holmestead on Main Street in Calais.

Bill Eagan will discuss his book, “Woven in Time,” the story of the cotton mill in Milltown, New Brunswick. Refreshments will be served.

Linda Davis of Mayo Regional Hospital in Dover-Foxcroft reports the nonprofit MRH Seniority program has two offerings for people age 55 and older.

The first is a free “lunch-n-learn” educational program, “Creating Your Own Personal Health Record,” 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. Tuesday, April 11, in the hospital’s Piscataquis Conference Room.

Sheri Conley, medical information services manager and a certified personal health record trainer, will conduct the program.

Registration is required by Friday, April 7, and you can register by calling Davis at 564-4250. You need not be a Seniority member to attend.

The second offering is a bus trip to “Champions on Ice,” Saturday, April 22, at TD BankNorth Gardens in Boston.

The cost is $80 for Seniority members and $90 for non-members. The trip is limited to 52 people, and 48 must register by Monday, April 17, by calling Davis at the number above.

The bus leaves the hospital at 7:30 a.m. and makes a breakfast stop at 8:15 a.m. in Newport. A box lunch will be provided.

The program begins at 2 p.m. and the bus departs at 5 p.m. The evening meal will be at a fast-food restaurant in Portland, with the bus returning at 10 p.m.

Kathy Carmichael reports Hermon High School Project Graduation 2006 is hosting comedian Bob Marley at 5:30 p.m. Saturday, April 8, at the school.

Doors open at 4 p.m., with limited concessions available.

Tickets are $15, and can be purchased from any member of the senior class or by calling Carmichael, 848-3772; Laurie Ross, 848-5608; or Krista Potter, 884-8533.

Proceeds from the third annual Wes Jordan 5K Race and Fun Run benefit the Wes Jordan Athletic Training Education Complex project, which consists of renovations resulting in state-of-the-art teaching lab space in Lengyel Hall on the University of Maine campus in Orono.

The facility, expected to open next fall, is named after the late UMaine athletic trainer.

Registration begins at 8:30 a.m. and the race at 9 a.m. Saturday, April 8, at Lengyel Hall.

Preregistration fees are $10, or $12 on race day, and $20 for a family of three or more.

Sponsored by the UMaine Athletic Training Student Organization, the event offers a variety of prizes from gift certificates to an Old Town Canoe kayak.

Pre-registration can be made by e-mailing Darci Dickison, secretary of the ATSO, at darci.dickison@umit.Maine.

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The first 40 registrants receive a race T-shirt.

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