Writing on behalf of members of St. Croix Valley International Garden Club, Joni Miller invites you to “enjoy summer’s beauty, strolling down floral lanes, when you attend the club’s annual Tour and Victorian Tea.” Both events are Saturday, July 14.

The tour is 10 a.m.-2 p.m. at eight sites; the tea is 11 a.m.-1:30 p.m. at the Holmestead on Main Street, all in Calais.

Tickets are limited, so Miller suggests you purchase them early.

Admission is $15 for the tour and tea or $9 for the tour and $6 for the tea, and can be purchased by calling Alyce Butler at 454-3452, Iris Brown at 427-3203, Sue Crawford at 454-2673, or Kathy Mekelburg at 454-0654.

Miller wrote that the tour features small, jewel-box gardens, large, formal gardens, unusual designs, and offers displays of “varied and clever ideas on garden planning.”

She also wants readers to know that “the Victorian-styled tea will feature delicious sweets, sandwiches, lemonade, coffee and tea.”

Trudy Darling, representing the American Red Cross Blood Services Blood Donor Center in Bangor, reminds “all blood donors” that your donations are needed, especially during the summer months.

The Blood Donor Center is open for donations 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Tuesdays through Thursdays, and 8 a.m.-2 p.m. Fridays and the first and third Saturdays of each month. The center is located at 900B Hammond Street in Bangor.

“Donate blood during the month of July in our donor center,” Darling wrote, “and enter a raffle to win an Old Town canoe-kayak package that includes a paddle and a personal flotation device.”

For more information, call the ARC Blood Donor Center at 941-2900.

If you’ve not yet attended a SummerKeys Mary Potterton Memorial Concert, here is your chance.

SummerKeys presents the Halcyon Duo, returning as part of this series, at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, July 11, at the Lubec Congregational Christian Church.

The duo features husband and wife SummerKeys faculty members, pianist Roberto Pace and flutist Eve Friedman.

The concert is free, but any and all donations to the piano-tuning fund are gratefully accepted.

This week, intermission refreshments will be provided by Downeast Drawings, Wildlife Gallery and Gifts.

From fundraiser co-chair Debbie Paton comes word that Zonta Club of Bangor, a member of Zonta International, is delighted to announce the “re-blooming” of the Annual Garden Tour, sponsored by Sprague’s Nursery of Bangor.

“After a 2-year hibernation,” Paton wrote, “we have started up again and are excited to show off this year’s gardens.”

The tour is 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Sunday, July 15, and will feature five Bangor-area gardens and one garden in Exeter.

Tickets are $15 and can be obtained in Bangor at Sprague’s, 1664 Union Street, Johnson Florist and Gifts in the Airport Mall, and Garden Cafe and D’Lor Beauty Salon, both located in Maliseet Gardens on Exchange Street.

Tickets will also be available the day of the tour at Sprague’s.

For more information, call Marcia Bean at 285-3636, or e-mail msbean1990@aol.com.

Proceeds help fund Zonta scholarships and contributions to local, nonprofit organizations.

Michael Gleason of Bangor has forwarded what is titled “an important notice for Maine Military Historical Society members and friends.”

The notice states that U.S. Air Force veteran Lee Huminston, “a national collector and authority on American prisoners of war,” will “discuss his collection and numerous projects to honor POWs, including his proposal to start a POW/MIA Museum in Portland.”

The presentation, which is open to the public, begins at 7 p.m. Monday, July 16, in a classroom on the second floor of the Augusta Armory.

Attendees should follow the signs inside the Armory to find the location of the classroom.

The presentation follows a business meeting of the MMS board of directors, which begins at 5 p.m. that day at the site.

The notice states that “the board of directors, headed by President Lt. Col. Dwaine Drummond, hope that many MMHS members, and friends, will attend this interesting presentation.”

Linda Colford of the Camden High School Alumni Association sent a reminder that CHSAA, for graduates through 1965, is hosting its annual reunion and banquet at 5 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 11, at the American Legion Hall on Limerock Street in Rockland.

Tickets are $25 each and can be obtained prior to Friday, July 27, by calling Patricia Ayers at 236-3192.

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