Stewart Free Library director Cynthia Jennings e-mailed that she is really excited about the first concert of the 2006 Summer Concert Season, and with good reason.

She cordially invites the public to enjoy Inkas Wasi Peru at 7 p.m. Thursday, June 8, on the lawn of the library in Corinna.

Dressed in “current-day Andean costumes, and with traditional Inca flutes, drums, percussion and stringed instruments,” Jennings said, these natives of Peru now living in Saco will entertain you with “enchanting melodies and infectious rhythms.”

Jennings added that their “melodic and haunting music will transport you to a country far away.”

The program features music of Peru and other South American countries and, Jennings added, “this special concert will feature our own local children playing pan flutes” purchased by Corinna Elementary School.

Jennings said that “thanks to the generous award of Rose and Samuel Rudman Library Trust Grant funds,” she was able to schedule the group to spend an entire day in the community.

Members of Inkas Wasi Peru will visit Corinna Elementary School, teaching flute workshops for its 180 pupils, and then spend the afternoon with a home-school group at the library.

“It should really be an exciting occasion,” Jennings wrote of the daylong visit, “especially for many of our children who have not had the opportunity to participate in such events.”

Jennings added that she is “so excited about” this concert and visit, that she “can’t contain my joy.”

And, I expect, it will be an equally joyful experience for all those who participate, as well as everyone who attends the concert.

Your help is requested in raising $2,000 to enable members of Penobscot Job Corps SkillsUSA Team to travel to the 42nd annual National Leadership and Skills Conference June 18-24 in Kansas City, Mo.

Your next opportunity to help in that effort is a benefit luncheon for the SkillsUSA Team 11 a.m.-1 p.m. Friday, June 9, at the Lion’s Den Restaurant, 1375 Union St., on the Penobscot Job Corps campus in Bangor.

Your luncheon choices include a delicious variety of appetizers, entrees and desserts.

Admission is just $10 and reservations can be made with Duncan MacNab, 990-3000, Ext. 286, or Renae Muscatell, 990-3000, ext. 268.

Tickets are available for the Orono Public Library Foundation Silent and Live Auction beginning with the silent auction at 7 p.m. and live auction at 8:30 p.m. Saturday, June 10, at Buchanan Alumni House, 160 College Ave. at the University of Maine in Orono.

The event will include hors d’oeuvres, desserts and a cash bar.

Tickets are $20 each or $35 for couples and can be purchased at The Store/Ampersand, Woodman’s Bar and Grill and the Orono Public Library at Orono High School.

Ann Surprenant e-mailed a list of auction items which attendees should find quite appealing.

They range from a week at a cottage on Prince Edward Island to paintings by local artists, membership at Penobscot Valley Country Club, season passes for the Bangor Symphony Orchestra, a signed Stephen King book, quilts and antiques.

Mike Cornett of Orono reports that the Maine Aviation Museum, located on Maine Avenue in Bangor near the Hammond Street end of the Bangor International Airport runway, is now open for the season.

The museum will be open to the public from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturdays, and from noon to 4 p.m. Sundays.

Larry Castoro, vice president of Granville Stone, and Ken Crump, president of Mountain Man Landscape Design, have teamed up to offer three individuals or families the opportunity to a receive a gift certificate for work around their home valued at $1,000.

Winners must be nominated with information about why the individual or family “deserves a helping hand,” Crump wrote.

The partners will choose one winner each at the end of the month, during June, July and August.

Qualifying individuals include single mothers, the elderly, “and good people with little money or hard times,” he explained.

To nominate an individual or family, e-mail MountainManCorp@netscape.net or call 356-6994.

Lorraine Ross Welch of Veazie wrote that the Bradford School Reunion begins at 5 p.m. Friday, July 21, at Jeff’s Catering in Brewer.

She requests that Bradford School class members “who have not received a form by mail” call her at 945-5773 or call Marlene Stockwell Coleman at 843-5332.

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