The local chapter of the American Business Women’s Association, Business Women of Bangor, was just chartered in May 2005 and now has more than 50 members.

On behalf of those members, Jan Currier invites you to attend the group’s second annual spring fashion show, dinner and silent auction scholarship fundraiser from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. Thursday, May 4, at Spectacular Event Center, 395 Griffin Road in Bangor.

Currier said the show features fashions from Talbots, Filene’s, J.C. Penney, Pretty Woman, The Grasshopper Shop and Marlene’s Uniform Shop.

Tickets are $20, or $160 for a table of 8, and are available through ABWA members or by calling Debbie White or Andree Knowles at 942-8261.

Proceeds from this event go toward training in workplace skills and career development for women. Proceeds from last year’s event went toward a $2,000 scholarship for the University of Maine and a $1,000 scholarship for Beal College.

Currier said the organization has a very active Community Action Committee, and that in the past year it also has assisted The Salvation Army, Manna Ministries, Bangor Area Homeless Shelter, Big Brothers-Big Sisters, Bangor Humane Society, Toys for Tots, Relay for Life and Operation Keep ME Warm.

The group meets at 11:45 a.m. the first Thursday of the month at the Sea Dog Restaurant in Bangor.

For information, call White or Knowles at 942-8261.

The Eastern Maine Orchid Society’s annual Spring Orchid Sale is 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Saturday, April 29, at the Roger Clapp Greenhouse at the University of Maine in Orono.

May Pardy wrote that the sale offers a variety of plants, including complex hybrids, and Orchid Society members will be showing some of their specimen plants and answering questions.

Proceeds benefit the group’s projects.

Old-fashioned May baskets of crepe and tissue paper will be featured at the King’s Daughter’s Spring Fair, 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturday, April 29, at First Congregational Church of Brewer, behind City Hall at 35 Church St.

Betsy Reynolds reports that a soup and sandwich luncheon with homemade pies will be held, a la carte, from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m., and that you will find many “attic treasures, houseplants, food, candy, knits and crafts.”

The Brewer Volunteer Circle is now more than a century old, she wrote of “the last of the two remaining King’s Daughters Circles in Maine.”

This historic group “donates its earnings to many local organizations,” Reynolds said, with the major recipient being the Brewer Community Service Council.

Disc jockey Tommy Dean invites you to a Giant Indoor Yard Sale and Country Music Concert to benefit Christmas is for Kids 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Sunday, April 30, at American Legion Post 207 on Route 3 in Trenton.

Dean will emcee the concert, which begins at 11 a.m. and features country music recording artists Randolph Michaud, Janet Wentworth and Jim Russ.

Hot dogs and soda will be on sale, and you can purchase “In Memory of Carole,” a country music CD, to benefit Special Olympics.

For information, contact Dean at baker1@midmaine.com or call 667-0525.

People living in the area served by the Northern Katahdin Valley Region Chamber of Commerce who want to participate in its third annual Areawide Yard Sale, May 12-14, must register by Friday, May 5.

To register, contact the chamber, P.O. Box 374, Island Falls 04747, or call 463-2077 or 463-2816.

Last year, the event had 52 sale locations in Oakfield, Smyrna, Island Falls, Sherman, Stacyville, Moro, Patten, Hersey and Mount Chase.

The rescheduled fundraiser to benefit Robert and Mary’s Place of Ellsworth is a benefit concert 6-8 p.m. Friday, May 5, at The Grand Auditorium in Ellsworth.

Attendees will enjoy a variety of music ranging from contemporary to country provided by the Gary Mitchell Band.

The fundraiser features free refreshments, a silent auction and a 50-50 raffle.

The suggested donation is $7 for adults and $4 for children under 10 and seniors over 65.

Oops! I misread information provided by Pastor Kathy Macedo about the Grace United Methodist Church public presentation, “Breakthrough, An Evening of Worship and Praise,” 7:30 p.m. Saturday, April 29, which will be held at the Bangor Y on Hammond Street, not at the church as I wrote in yesterday’s column.

Doors open at 7 p.m. for the program that features the music of Modern Day Jeremiah.

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