Help plant a pink tulip for Women’s Cancer Fund

Volunteers to do the planting and individuals or business owners who can donate compost, railroad ties or the use of backhoe services for a couple of hours are just some of the things Vicky Blanchette needs to help make her Pink Tulip Project Garden a reality.

Blanchette, who is working to raise money and awareness for the Women’s Cancer Fund at Maine Cancer Foundation, wants to turn “the property that faces the busy Broadway and Center Street intersection, right next to Tri City Pizza” in Bangor, into a Pink Tulip Garden.

The garden will become “part of a group of gardens in the Bangor area, all devoted to supporting the Maine Cancer Foundation,” she said.

Blanchette is working to raise $500 for the cancer foundation by selling pink tulip bulbs for $1 each, which will be planted, beginning at 9 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 27, in the garden.

She wrote that she has all the bulbs “in my basement, ready to plant,” and that all she needs now is for folks to help her complete this project.

“Your donation to the Broadway-Center Street Pink Tulip Garden will help honor friends while fighting cancer,” Blanchette wrote of donations that can be made “in honor or in memory of a friend or a loved one.”

All funds will benefit the Women’s Cancer Fund of the Maine Cancer Foundation and help support cancer research and patient programs here in Maine,” she wrote, while adding that “100 percent of these funds stay in Maine.”

To volunteer or to donate your time, materials or equipment to get this garden planted, call Blanchette at 945-3811 or e-mail vblanchette@roadrunner.com.

You can donate online at http://pinktulipproject2007.kintera.org; click on “Support a Garden” and then look for the Broadway-Center Street Garden “to learn more about the garden project and how to support the effort,” she wrote.

She reminds you that in-kind donations, especially equipment and supplies, would be greatly appreciated.

Local business-funnyman Steve Robbins hopes you join him and his grandchildren at Pumpkin Palooza, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., on both Saturday, Oct. 20, and Sunday, Oct. 21, at Sprague’s Nursery, Union Street in Bangor.

The event is “designed specifically for parents and grandparents with children 10 and under,” he said. “There is nothing scary.”

Pumpkin Palooza will benefit Children’s Miracle Network. It features pumpkin patch hayrides, creepy cookies, pumpkin faces and tasty worms and dirt, Robbins said.

All activities are 99 cents. With the change from a $1 bill, youngsters can buy penny candy at the Country Store to benefit CMN.

You are invited to hear The Muellers, award-winning MasterShield Recording artists who sing traditional bluegrass, gospel favorites and original material, from 7 to 8:30 tonight at Grace United Methodist Church, 193 Union St., Bangor.

The concert is free, but a good will offering will be taken.

Perry Women’s Fellowship invites the public to attend its lasagna supper from 4:30 to 6 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 20, at Perry Congregational Church on Shore Road.

Ivy Turner wrote that the menu includes lasagna, bread, salad, a beverage and dessert.

Brewer Hometown Band director Janice Cox wrote of “music of the ’50s, remember how hip we thought it was?”

Cox and the band will “take you back to those wonderful days” during its concert at 3 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 21, at Brewer Auditorium.

The facility “will be decorated to the nines with the flavor of that by-gone era,” she wrote, adding, “There may be a poodle skirt among the performers.” During intermission, you will “enjoy the delicious goodies that the band is known for.”

Cox hopes you will “join us for an afternoon of memories” and reminds you “our concert is free,” but donations “are eagerly accepted.”

All Souls Congregational Church Music Director Kay Byther Eames invites you to enjoy the music of two Bangor church choirs. They will present “Discovering the Haydn Brothers: A Concert with Commentary” at 4 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 21, at the church, 10 Broadway, Bangor.

No admission will be charged, but donations will be accepted for the concert. It will feature the St. John’s Catholic Church parish choir and the All Souls senior choir in Joseph Haydn’s “Small Organ Mass” with “shorter works of Haydn and his brother, Michael,” Eames wrote.

The “Mass” will feature soprano soloist Karen Pendleton. The program, with organist Kevin Birch and conducted by Eames, will also feature pianist Patricia Stowell.

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