Seven women who work in Bangor are trying to raise $5,000 for the Maine Cancer Foundation Women’s Cancer Fund, and you can help.

Gail Creath e-mailed that she, Nancy Torresen, Darlene Emerson, Margaret Kravchuk, Julie Morse, Brenda DeRoche and Elizabeth Richardson “have formed a core group for a fundraising project to plant a pink tulip garden in front of the Margaret Chase Smith Federal Building” on Harlow Street in Bangor.”

To raise the $5,000, Creath said, the core group of gardeners will purchase 500 pink tulip bulbs and sell the bulbs for $10 each.

The public is invited to attend the Pink Tulip Project kickoff and purchase a bulb or bulbs at 10 a.m. Tuesday, Sept. 25, on the second floor of the federal building, where you also may enjoy brownies and coffee.

If you are unable to attend but would like to donate directly to the project, visit www.pinktulipproject.com, select Support A Garden, and then select Margaret Chase Smith Courthouse Garden.

Executive director Joshua Torrance invites you to the Woodlawn Canine Carnival 9 a.m.-2 p.m. today at Woodlawn, Route 172 in Ellsworth.

The family event features everything from a dog show to tips on responsible dog ownership, dog agility demonstrations, vendors and dog carting demonstrations.

Call 667-8671 or visit www.woodlawnmuseum.org for information.

Here’s late word from Criterion Theatre and Arts Center board member Erin Uliano that the country duo Blue County will perform a benefit concert for the SPCA of Hancock County and the Criterion Theatre and Arts Center at 7 tonight at the theater in downtown Bar Harbor.

Balcony tickets are $35 and downstairs tickets are $25. They are available at the theater and Cadillac Mountain Sports in Bar Harbor.

Uliano reports the concert will open with “Maine favorite Danny Harper,” and that the benefit “is very important to both nonprofit organizations and could really help with their fundraising.”

She also believes that such “a great Nashville name like Blue County doing a benefit in Maine” is quite special.

Katherine Marks-Molloy of the Orono Public Library reports it has been selected by the Maine Humanities Council to offer a “Let’s Talk About” Book Group with five sessions beginning 3:30-5:30 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 27, at the Inn at Dirigo Pines Retirement Community in Orono.

The succeeding sessions, all Thursdays, are Oct. 25, Nov. 29, Jan. 31 and Feb. 28.

All residents of Orono and nearby communities are welcome to attend any or all of the meetings.

The series, “The Mirror of Maine: The Maine Community in Myth and Reality,” will be led by Judy Hakola, and books will be available at the library.

The books in the series are “The Weir” by Ruth Moore, “A Maine Hamlet” by Lura Beam, “Twelve Journeys in Maine” by Wes McNair, “Empire Falls” by Richard Russo and “Maine Speaks: An Anthology of Maine Literature.”

For information, call the library at 866-5060.

Sue Tidd e-mailed that the Brain Injury Association of Maine is seeking volunteers to help plan the 2008 Walk for Thought scheduled for March 22 at six sites that will attract more than 1,000 walkers.

For information, call 861-9900 or e-mail stidd@biame.org.

On behalf of Bangor Center Corp., Sally Bates reminds interested parties that two public meetings on the subject of nighttime noise issues in downtown Bangor are planned for next week.

The first meeting is noon-1 p.m. and the second 5:30-6:30 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 27, in council chambers of Bangor City Hall.

Bates reminds readers the Bangor City Council asked BCC’s Liaison Committee to address the issue of “after hours bars” downtown and these meetings are follow-ups to the committee’s first public meeting, which was on Aug. 28.

Community Health and Counseling Services has announced it is seeking volunteers for its Warm Line program.

Warm Line, according to a release, “is a part-time, free and confidential, non-crisis telephone line designed to serve persons with mental illness, and their families, in Penobscot, Piscataquis, Washington and Hancock counties.”

Warm Line volunteers are individuals who possess “a sense of empathy, the ability to be nonjudgmental, and good listening skills.”

Training and support are provided, and information is available by calling Maureen Walsh, 947-0366, or 800-924-0366, ext. 214, and leaving a message.

Volunteers will receive an application and an interview appointment.

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