Recently I received e-mails from Myrna Parker with two pieces of information concerning those interested in the activities of United Bikers of Maine.

The Hancock County chapter of UBM holds its monthly meeting beginning with dinner at 6 tonight at Pat’s Pizza in Ellsworth.

More information is available by calling 664-0605.

The second piece of information is of interest to everyone associated with UBM, and that’s the benefit poker run, Ride for Roxanne, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 29, beginning in Blue Hill and ending in Ellsworth.

The e-mail explains that Parker, a UBM member, has been diagnosed with lymphoma and is receiving chemotherapy treatments in Bangor.

Proceeds from the ride will help with extra financial expenses incurred by her illness.

The first stop is South Street Market in Blue Hill; then Big Apple in Orland, G&M Market in Holden, Amherst General Store and, finally, the Pizza Hut in Ellsworth.

The fee is $10 per hand. The rain date is Sunday, Sept. 30.

Options such as discarding cards and buying additional cards for $5 each will be available, and you can play as many hands as you wish for $10 each.

The high hand winner receives a prize; a consolation prize is awarded the lowest hand and a half-and-half raffle is included. All hands must be turned in by 2 p.m. the day of the ride.

Participants need not be members of UBM nor ride a particular brand and, in fact, need not ride a motorcycle: You can participate by car, too.

All proceeds benefit Parker, and information is available by calling 469-3607 or 469-7107.

Norma Milton e-mailed this is the final week you can visit HamburgerHelper.com and vote for a $5,200 grant request submitted by Caribou Pet Rescue.

To help Caribou Pet Rescue receive this grant, Milton said, go to that site, “click on Find a Project, click under the state to bring up Maine, type in Caribou, and click on search. It will bring up our site.” The funding opportunity closes the end of the month.

Milton wrote that, at that site, you will be asked “to comment on your view of our need being reasonable and real.”

“Just follow the instructions, and be sure to X the checkmark rules box at the bottom for ‘I agree to rules.’ This grant is extremely important to meet our basic shelter needs over the next year.”

And Milton reminds readers “we are still totally full with cats and kittens, plus we have close to 30 in foster care waiting for space.

“All are leukemia tested; all adults are spayed or neutered; and all youngsters are adopted with a fully-prepaid spay-neuter vet voucher; and all age-appropriate shots are given” both cats and dogs.

For information, call Caribou Pet Rescue at 498-3800, or write P.O. Box 488, Caribou 04736.

Here’s a final reminder that Bangor Symphony Orchestra will conduct auditions at 6 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 29, at Bangor High School on Broadway.

Positions include principal viola; horn 3; contracted seats in violin, viola and cello sections; and substitute positions in all sections.

For audition requirements, location or more information, call personnel manager Scott Burditt, 944-0929, or the BSO office, 800-639-3221 or 942-5555, or e-mail symphony@bangorsymphony.com.

Music director and conductor Xiao-Lu Li is beginning his sixth season with the historic, 112-year-old BSO.

Paula Sprague, adviser to Family Career and Community Leaders at Schenck High School in East Millinocket, contacted me last week.

“This organization is the former Future Homemakers of America,” she explained of the group that has “compiled a cookbook in honor of the East Millinocket Centennial.”

Unfortunately, Sprague continued, the book “wasn’t ready” for the community’s official celebration in mid-July, but it is now.

“The book is coil-bound, featuring a picture of the town of East Millinocket in 1907,” she wrote.

“Two pages are the history of the town; there is a section of recipes that have been reproduced from a 1945 East Millinocket” cookbook; and some recipes have been reproduced from an old Medway church cookbook, she added.

“Other recipes are from my foods classes,” and the remainder were donated by community members, she wrote.

The cookbook is titled “Schenck FCCL Celebrates Our Town’s Centennial.”

The cost is $10, plus $2 for handling, and you can order your cookbook by calling Sprague at 746-9422 or the school at 746-3511.

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