What fun awaits all who participate in the 10th annual Spring-O-Rama 10 a.m.-2 p.m. today, rain or shine, at Sprague’s Nursery, outer Union Street in Bangor.

Admission is $2, and food, sun catchers, tickets for raffles and Ducks in the Pond can be purchased.

Lanie Colson of Eastern Maine Healthcare Systems reports all proceeds benefit Children’s Miracle Network of EMHS, adding that there are many activities the kids will enjoy.

Colson reports new events this year include a Native American experience and a “Little Miss Spring-O-Rama” and “Little Mr. Green Jeans” competition for youngsters ages 5-9, which begins at 1:30 p.m.

Judging will be based on “originality and aptness of costume to the spring/farm theme,” and prizes will be awarded the top three finishers in each category. Everyone will receive certificates for participating.

Activities range from plant-pot decorating to a hayride, and Colson reminds you “it truly is a fun way to spend some time with your children.”

Roberta Fowler, president of The Animal Orphanage, hopes you and your pets, on a leash, will participate in the Old Town-Orono YMCA annual race-walk, beginning with registration at 9 a.m. and the race-walk at 10:30 a.m. Sunday, April 29, at the YMCA on Stillwater Avenue.

The fee is $10 for individual runners-walkers and $5 for families of walkers.

Proceeds benefit The Animal Orphanage.

For more information, call 827-2658 or 827-8777.

On behalf of Greater Bangor Seventh-day Adventist Church, Alexis Jones invites you to a free lecture, “Cancer: What’s Eating You?” 6-7:30 p.m. Monday, April 30, in the downstairs Children’s Department of Bangor Public Library, 140 Harlow St.

Jones reports Dr. John Glenn Clark “will be presenting an informative and scientifically based lecture” about the disease that will cover its “cause, prevention and treatment.”

For information, call Cherilyn Typaldos, 941-1146.

Jonathan Falk of Peace through Interamerican Community Action reminds you orders for PICA’s 2007 Perennial Plant Sale must be made by Tuesday, May 1, and payment is due upon delivery, which is expected to be mid-May.

PICA has partnered with Peter and Julie Beckford of Rebel Hill Farm in Clifton to provide more than 100 varieties of “hardy, field-grown perennials, including many plants native to Maine or New England,” he wrote.

A portion of each sale benefits PICA.

More information is available at www.pica.ws/plantsale2007.htm or by calling Falk at PICA, 947-4203.

Someone is missing one of life’s special mementos, and we hope to rectify that.

Michelle Harmon of Precision Auto on South Main Street in Brewer called to report that “we found a book titled ‘Dave Barry Turns 50’ that contains two small envelopes.”

The words written on each envelope, Harmon said, are “Nino’s Hair.”

One envelope is dated May 1953, and the other is just dated 1953.

“Obviously, these are important to somebody who saved them that long,” Harmon said.

So, if this is your book, and your mementos, call Precision Auto at 989-5818.

It was a great pleasure to be one of hundreds wishing Clara Swan an early happy birthday, last Sunday, during an open house in her honor at Husson College in Bangor.

It is an equal pleasure to join you in wishing her a most happy birthday today, on the actual date of her birth, 95 years ago, in Princeton.

This miracle baby, who weighed 1.5 pounds, spent the first days of her life swaddled in a shoebox in the oven of her family’s kitchen wood stove, was fed with an eyedropper and lost her mother at age 3, is one of the most active, vibrant, admired women we know.

Administrator, teacher, coach, athlete, friend and volunteer supreme, the miracle of Clara Swan is that she infused countless others with her own love of life, sense of self, dignity, determination and honesty, and a desire to be all you can be.

Thank you, Clara, for all you continue to do for others, and all you have done that has made such a difference in the lives of so many grateful people.

In Clara’s honor, Altrusa International of Greater Bangor has established the Clara Swan Scholarship to be awarded annually to a Husson College student.

To contribute, make a check payable to Clara Swan Scholarship and mail it to Lois Bloomer, 826 Bog Road, Hermon 04401.

For more information about the scholarship, call Margaret Brown, 825-3178, or Martha Porter, 843-5826.

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