You are invited to join Trail Riders of Today in helping a very young friend and her family.

Paula Leavitt reports Trail Riders of Today is hosting a benefit Equestrian Trail Ride beginning at approximately 9:30 a.m. Sunday, Aug. 5, at the home of Ed and Pam Logue in Dixmont.

Participants are asked to seek sponsors for the ride or just make a donation to help the family of Glenn and Shannon Niles Hicks of Corinna.

The parents of three daughters, their 4-year-old, Rabekah, has been diagnosed with brain stem glioma, a type of brain tumor.

Leavitt said the ride is “a rain or shine event, and we ask that they call us if they are coming,” so organizers will have an idea of how many participants to prepare for.

After the ride, a potluck lunch will be served, and you are asked to bring a dish and your own chair.

Nonriders can also participate by making a donation to Trail Riders of Today/

Rabekah’s Fund, and mailing it to P.O. Box 36, Dixmont 04932.

Leavitt said “anybody wishing to attend” can call Pam Logue, 234-1017, or Betty Davis, 234-4700.

For more information, Leavitt added, you can visit Rabekah’s Web site at www.patientweb.org/rabekah/.

Two coming events benefit the Vicky E. Morgan Foundation, a nonprofit organization “dedicated to helping others and serving those in need,” reports Robin Dow.

An Indoor Craft Fair and Outdoor Flea Market is 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Friday, Aug. 3, at Redmen’s Hall, 153 Main St. in Belfast.

If you wish to participate as a vendor and bring your own table, the fee is $5; if you wish to be inside, with a table provided, the fee is $8.

For information, call 342-3259.

The other fundraiser is the second annual Cars of Yesteryear Show 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 4, at H.O. Bouchard, off Interstate 95, Exit 180 in Hampden. The rain date is Sunday, Aug. 5.

The entry fee is $5; food can be purchased; the show features several classes and trophies; and pets are allowed, if they are leashed.

For information, call the number above.

Bonnie Hunter invites you to “take a trip Downeast this summer to attend one of Washington County’s best-kept secrets.”

The St. John’s Biennial Quilt Show is 6-8 p.m. Friday, Aug. 3, and 9 a.m.-3 p.m., Saturday, Aug. 4, at St. John the Evangelist Catholic Church, 39 Hersey Road, Pembroke.

The setting for the show is the 150-year-old church, “one of the oldest Catholic churches in Maine,” Hunter wrote of the facility which sits “on the banks of the Pennamaquan River.

“Just follow the signs from Route 1,” she added.

Admission is just $3, and includes light refreshments served in the church’s summer kitchen and the opportunity to win door prizes, which will be drawn hourly.

“Quilt-as-you-go” stained-glass demonstrations are included as well as wall hangings and quilts made by children. You can also purchase tickets for the church’s raffle quilt titled Secret Garden.

The event also features crafts, and a Quilters’ Corner where you can purchase needed supplies.

Proceeds benefit the church’s building fund, and information can be obtained by calling Hunter at 726-5117 or e-mailing bonnie@bonniehunterquiltmaker.com.

This is a special year for members of the Ellsworth Garden Club who are hosting their 75th Anniversary Garden Tour from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 4, featuring six private gardens, many of which are on or near the banks of the Union River, reports Mary Blackstone.

The tour includes the gardens of Nancy Graham, Marty Harmon, Mike and Nancy Harrington, Ed and Peg Davison, Marie Gardner and Avis Harmon, and five other gardens “of a more public nature,” Blackstone said.

Those gardens are the Donald A. Little Park, where refreshments will be served; Ellsworth’s Old Burial Ground, the Ellsworth Community Gardens, Woodland’s formal garden and the demonstration gardens of the Hancock County office of the University of Maine’s Cooperative Extension program.

Tickets are $15 and are available at any site, by calling Betty Ray, 667-8475, at New Land Nursery and Landscaping, Sweet Pea Gardens and Flower Shop, and Dublin Gardens.

Blackstone reports the rain date is Sunday, Aug. 5, “rain or shine.”

Proceeds benefit Little Park, which the Ellsworth Garden Club has owned and maintained for more than a half-century.

Assisting with the tour are members of the Veterans of Foreign Wars and master gardener volunteers of the Hancock County Cooperative Extension program.

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