When you think about it, there are not too many productions more enjoyable to watch than those starring your good friends and neighbors.

That is why I hope you have purchased your tickets for Pine Tree Hospice’s 13th annual Variety Show beginning at 7 p.m. Friday, April 27, at the Center Theatre in Dover-Foxcroft.

“Building on Solid Ground” is the theme of this year’s show directed by Rhonda Kirkpatrick, Pine Tree Hospice reports.

Tickets are $12, and there is no charge for children under age 5.

Tickets will be available at the door, but you can purchase them in advance in Dover-Foxcroft at the hospice office, 895 West Main St., Mr. Paperback and Center Theatre; and at Hudson Avenue Florist and Gifts in Guilford.

Raffle tickets for “Burst of Spring,” a quilt created and donated by Helen Higgins and Rita Mountain of Memory Makers, a Dover-Foxcroft quilting group, also are available.

This year’s show, as always, features the talents of Mayo Regional Hospital staff and friends who will be giving it their all, entertaining you with music, dance, humor and other performances.

This event is the major fundraiser for Pine Tree Hospice, and all proceeds will go directly to the educational efforts and services of this volunteer non-profit organization that assists people who are facing a terminal illness or grieving the loss of a loved one.

For more information about either the show or the services offered by Pine Tree Hospice, call 564-4346, visit www.pinetreehospice.org or stop by Pine Tree’s office, which is located on the campus of Mayo Regional Hospital.

Thanks to an e-mail from Brenda Hall of the public affairs office of Mount Desert Island Hospital in Bar Harbor, I am now aware that TV-Turnoff Week 2007 is April 23-29.

In fact, everything you want to know about TV-Turnoff Week 2007 can be found at its Web site, http://www.tvturnoff.org/week.htm.

And if your family is participating in this special week, Hall has a neat suggestion for you.

In celebration of TV-Turnoff Week, she wrote, all parents and children are invited to a special open house from 4:30 to 6 p.m. Thursday, April 26, at the hospital.

“A visit to the hospital doesn’t need to be a scary experience,” Hall wrote, as she encourages you and your children to “alleviate your fears and get a firsthand look” at what goes on at your hospital.

The following departments will be participating in the open house: registration, infection control, emergency, physical and occupational therapy, medical imaging, laboratory and surgical services.

“Visit one department or all,” Hall wrote. “The choice is yours.

“Feel free to ask questions, and have fun learning about what happens, behind the scenes, at your local hospital.”

Hall urges you to “join the fun during TV-Turnoff Week and take advantage of this great opportunity,” and if your kids want, they are welcome to bring along their favorite “stuffed animal patient.”

Interested parents should pre-register their children by calling Anne West at 288-5082 or e-mailing anne.west@mdihospital.org.

If you have questions about this event, call Hall at 288-5082, ext. 198.

Obviously, members of Bangor High School Class of 1967 are eager to hear from classmates who are “among the missing,” because I have heard from not only one, but two, members of that class.

Deb Wiley first contacted me with a request to help locate missing classmates, and then Gary Cole e-mailed me with information about their coming reunion.

Both Wiley and Cole want members of BHS ’67 to know their 40th Class Reunion begins with a happy hour at 5:30 p.m. followed by a buffet dinner at 6:30 p.m. Saturday, July 28, at the Sea Dog Restaurant on the Bangor Waterfront.

“We want to celebrate graduating and still being around to brag about it,” an enthusiastic Wiley wrote.

“Remember the all-night party at Camp Jordan?” she asked.

Unfortunately, however, it appears that many members of BHS ’67 are among the missing.

“Out of our class of 338,” Cole wrote, “we have not been able to locate 129 classmates.”

So, Wiley and Cole request, if you are a member of this class, or know of someone who is, please contact your fellow classmates.

And anyone who has been contacted but has not responded to the invitation, please let your classmates know you plan to attend.

The contact people for BHS ’67 are Wiley, 947-8998 or DearLee615@aol.com; Cole, 262-9910 or garycole67@aol.com; Jan Downie Healey, 942-5983; and Judy Horten, 990-3090.

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