Here’s an interesting twist on the usual spring sale fundraiser.

Norma Milton wrote that Caribou Pet Rescue is holding a pet adoption fair and bottle drive from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, June 2, “on the lawn at Cindy’s Sub Shop on Sweden Street” in Caribou.

Milton added that “Cindy’s Sub Shop will honor each pet adoption with a coupon for a free small sub, chips and soda,” and you also will have a chance to win door prizes.

“Please help us pay the shelter expenses by donating your returnable bottles and cans on this day,” Milton requests, “and also help the animals by considering an adoption.”

She urges you to “come on down, bring or buy a picnic lunch and sit on the lawn and enjoy getting to know our beautiful animals,” but “don’t forget your returnable bottles. We sure do appreciate them.”

At this fundraiser, Milton wrote that you will find “beautiful pets” who have been spayed-neutered, have been leukemia-tested and are all current with their shots.

According to Eric Baxter, anyone attending the 12th annual Eastern Maine Soap Box Derby from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, June 2, on Buck Street next to Paul Bunyan Park in Bangor will find some extra fun in addition to cheering on the young racers.

Weather permitting, a children’s concert is planned for 11 a.m.-1 p.m. at the Gazebo in Paul Bunyan Park.

The concert features Maine musician-entertainer John Tercyak, who Baxter promises the kids will love, as well as 17-year-old singer Kristyn Murphy.

Sophie Sevey, Bangor High School Music Boosters chairwoman, reports the group’s fourth annual yard sale is 8 a.m.-3 p.m. Saturday, June 2, at 895 Essex St., Bangor.

The sale will include household items, books, CDs and more.

Besides enriching “students’ learning experiences by bringing in guest musicians,” Sevey wrote, money raised will help BHS musicians travel to New York City to compete in the Heritage Music Festival.

She reminds you that when more than 200 BHS students competed last year in Washington, D.C., they brought home “awards for chorus, orchestra and band.”

For more information, call Sevey at 990-4605.

President Elinor Canders and members of Whitcomb-Baker Veterans of Foreign Wars Auxiliary 4633 invite you to attend their yard sale from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, June 2, at the Post Home on Canoe Club Road in Hampden.

Refreshments and baked food also will be for sale, and proceeds from the event will benefit the Auxiliary’s Community Service, Youth Activity and Veterans Assistance programs.

Kathryn Mekelburg of Robbinston reports the St. Croix International Quilters Guild is holding two workshops.

The first is 9 a.m. Saturday, June 2, at Methodist Homes Recreation Center on Palmer Street in Calais. There is a charge for this “Stack and Whack” workshop. To register, call 726-5117.

The second workshop, at 6 p.m. Wednesday, June 6, at the same site, is free and will teach hand-piecing techniques including set-in seams, partial seams and eight-pointed stars, Mekelburg wrote.

For a supply list, call the number above.

On behalf of the Amherst-Aurora Congregational Church, Pastor Lisa Jones invites you to its annual spring fling 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturday, June 2, at the church on Route 9 in Amherst.

“We will have crafts, plants, a bake sale, yard sale and be serving hot dogs, hamburgers and beverages,” she wrote of the event.

Proceeds benefit the church’s fuel fund and will “help us expand our ministry in the surrounding towns,” she wrote, adding that, in the event of rain, the sale will be inside at Aurora Town Hall “on the old Route 9.”

Barbara Conners wrote the opening program for the Old Town Museum summer season is a musical by Peggy Manzer.

Doors open at 1 p.m. and the program begins at 2 p.m. Sunday, June 3, at the museum on Main Street in Old Town.

Admission is free, but donations are gratefully accepted.

“Travel the USA” features a mixed chorus of 30, plus The Gem Tones singing group, directed by Theresa Laliberte.

Guests will take “a musical trip across the USA,” starting in Old Town with the song, “In My Old Town Canoe,” Manzer wrote, adding that this is the first in a series of weekly programs offered by the museum through September.

Museum hours are 1-5 p.m. Wednesdays through Sundays, beginning Wednesday, June 6.

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