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Perhaps one of the longest-running traditions in Jonesboro is the Jonesboro Union Church Auxiliary annual harvest craft fair and supper.
The fair will be held 8 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 10, at Jonesboro Elementary School, followed by the 5:30 p.m. supper at Chandler River Community Center, next to the church.
Suzanne Plaisted reports these fundraisers have been “going on so long, no one seems to know” when they first began.
In 1937, the Merry Workers, Willing Workers, Church Aid Society and other church groups joined forces as the Auxiliary, she explained.
Plaisted’s childhood memories include her grandmother and great-aunt preparing for this event and, although Plaisted has asked Auxiliary members “who are in their 80s” when it all began, “they are unsure.”
And while the locations have changed, the events have become a treasured, Jonesboro tradition.
Brewer High School and Brewer Middle School present the 1930s comedy, “You Can’t Take it With You,” at 7 p.m. tonight, and the same time Friday, Nov. 9, and Saturday, Nov. 10, at BMS, 5 Somerset St.
Starring Jamie Bartol and Erika Cote, tickets are $3 for adults and $2 for students.
“We expect good crowds,” reports play director Rich Kimball. “It should be a lot of fun.”
Chairman Randy Kluj of Milo called to report that the Department of Maine American Legion Support the Troops Committee, assisted by members of SOAR (Support Our American Recruits), will be “collecting items to send to our deployed troops in Iraq and Afghanistan.”
The collection will be held 8 a.m.-10 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 10, at Kmart on Hogan Road in Bangor.
A list of items the troops need, everything from toiletries to entertainment items, socks, pillowcases and batteries, “will be available at the store,” Kluj said.
And, he added, “We will be happy to take addresses of any loved ones who are deployed to whom we can send items.”
He suggests if you do submit a name, that you have the individual’s complete military address.
For information about this project, call Kluj at 943-5509.
The Hancock Woman’s Club annual craft fair is so popular that it fills the school, Chairwoman Gertrude Wildes said of the event that will be held from 8:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 10, at Hancock Grammar School.
From stocking stuffers to home furnishings and food, holiday shoppers will enjoy the variety of items available at this sale, which supports the year-round community projects of the HWC.
Dancing Like the Stars, to benefit Brewer High School Project Graduation 2008, is at 7 p.m. Saturdays, Nov. 10 and 17, at Wilson Street Ballroom, 797 Wilson St., Brewer.
Admission is $5 for adults and $3 for students. The benefit event is a dance-performance competition featuring seven couples who are BHS “teachers, students and coaches,” reports Anne Knowles, “along with Brewer Mayor Michael Celli.”
During this “evening of fun entertainment, with special demonstrations” by members of Back Door Dance Studio in Eddington, Knowles wrote, you will be able to “vote your favorite dancers on to the finals.”
Recently relocated to Massachusetts, former Brewer resident Jane Pierce wrote me “one last time” to inform readers that First Congregational Church of Brewer is hosting its annual Gingerbread House Fair 8 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 10, at the church, 35 Church St.
“If you are a pet lover, especially dogs,” she wrote, “it’s the place to go. There will be a doghouse to fit a cocker spaniel or smaller, plus sweaters, of all sizes, for dogs.”
The sale also offers stuffed dogs, and catnip mice for kittens, she added, along with “handcrafted baskets and a lovely hand-braided rug.”
Finally, Jane wrote, “Come and enjoy the buffet like you never saw before!”
Penquis (formerly Penquis Community Action Program) has announced it is seeking artists to create original metal barn stars that will be displayed at the Historic Inns of Rockland during the Festival of Lights, and Camden’s Premier Inns during the Christmas by the Sea festivities.
The stars will be auctioned to benefit the Penquis Keep ME Warm Fund for Knox County at 7 p.m. Friday, Dec. 7, at Gallery One at Huston-Tuttle in Rockland.
The deadline to submit stars is Friday, Nov. 16, at Penquis, 170 Pleasant St., Rockland.
Penquis will provide artists with a basic metal star, and interested artists should call Maria Staples at Penquis, 800-215-4942 or contact her by e-mail at mstaples@penquis.org.
Joni Averill, Bangor Daily News, P.O. Box 1329, Bangor 04402; 990-8288.
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