Friends, neighbors and community members are hosting a Benefit Spaghetti Supper and Country Show for Emily Gray of Penobscot, who is suffering a recurrence of cancer.

To help the family through this very difficult time, Miriam Black reported the supper will begin at 5 p.m., and the show at 6 p.m. Saturday, March 3, and both will be in the gymnasium of Penobscot Elementary School.

The entertainment features Dave Taylor & Friends of Deer Isle and Brooksville.

Donations at the door are $8 for the supper, $7 for the show, or $14 for both, and admission is free for children under 10.

Black also reported that the benefit will include a 50-50 raffle and a silent auction.

If you want more information or are unable to attend but would like to help in another way, call Black at 326-4559.

This week, health care workers and hospital employees are being offered free tax preparation service by Liberty Tax Service at its 849 Stillwater Ave. office in Bangor.

For information about this service or to learn if you qualify, call owner Robin Case at 262-5829 or e-mail rcase54@adelphia.net.

The public is invited to enjoy the youthful performance of the Abbott Hill Ramblers and the Bangor Fiddlers from 6:30 to 8 p.m. Thursday, March 1, at the Bangor Public Library on Harlow Street.

The free performance is part of the Bangor Symphony Orchestra Strings Attached Outreach Series. It is presented as part of the world premiere collaboration among the BSO, composer Jens Kruger and the Kruger Brothers titled “Music from the Spring: A Romantic Serenade for Banjo, Guitar, Bass & Orchestra.”

That event is Saturday, June 2, at the Maine Center for the Arts on the University of Maine campus in Orono. For ticket information, call (800) 639-3221 or 942-5555.

Nearly 20 University of Maine at Machias students will participate in “The Vagina Monologues” at 7 p.m. Friday, March 2, and Saturday, March 3, at the Performing Arts Center on the UMM campus.

General admission is $10, and $5 for students and seniors.

The age-appropriate production has been presented on several campuses across the country and is part of the UMM V-Day College Campaign 2007 to educate people about sexual and domestic violence against women.

This V-Day College Campaign also includes a Silent Auction to be held March 2-9 to benefit Downeast Sexual Assault Services and Next Step Domestic Violence Project in Machias.

To learn more about The Vagina Monologues, call 255-1233 or e-mail organizer Alex Patel at apatel@maine.edu.

For information about V-Day or the V-Day College Campaign, visit www.vday.org.

For information about services relating to domestic violence, call Next Step, (888) 604-8692. For information about sexual assault services, call DSAS at (800) 228-2470.

Steve Hoekstra of Etna reports you can eat in or take out when you drop by the Carmel Benevolent Masonic Lodge 87 annual Scholarship Supper between 4 and 7 p.m. Saturday, March 3, at the lodge on Route 69 in Carmel Center.

The menu features turkey pie “with all the fixings” as well as dessert, Hoekstra wrote.

The cost is $7 for adults and $5 for children, and proceeds will benefit the annual scholarships awarded by the lodge to seniors graduating from the schools served by SAD 23 and SAD 48.

For information about this event or the scholarships, call John Luce, 848-3538, or Marvin Graves, 848-7468.

Here’s a thoughtful way you can help raise funds for the Warren Center for Communication & Learning in Bangor.

Mary-Anne Saxl reports that organization is requesting recipes for a planned Warren Center Cookbook.

“We are collecting recipes for main dishes, side dishes, desserts, appetizers and anything else you can think of,” Saxl wrote of recipes that will be accepted through Monday, April 16.

If you have a recipe you would be willing to share and you know others would enjoy, you can send it to The Warren Center Cookbook, c/o Mary-Anne Saxl, 175 Union St., Bangor 04401.

You can also e-mail your recipe (or recipes) to masaxl@warrencenter.org.

It is expected that the cookbook will be available for purchase during the Christmas 2007 season.

The Warren Center is a nonprofit professional speech and hearing center serving children and adults in eastern and central Maine.

For information about the services it offers, call the center at 941-2850.

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