The membership of Zonta Club of Bangor is busy these days.

First, Denise Deshane reports the 29th annual Zonta Market Place is 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 10, and 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 11, at the Brewer Auditorium.

Admission is $1. Proceeds benefit local Zonta scholarships.

More than 60 crafters will be staffing booths filled with art, collectibles, antiques and “the very popular meals-to-go booth,” Deshane wrote.

The Zonta Cafe will have hot and cold lunches. A 50-50 raffle will be offered along with a turkey dinner raffle to benefit turkey dinner deliveries for those in need, Deshane said.

Additionally, Deshane wrote, Zonta is seeking donations of warm hats and mittens for children which “will benefit The Salvation Army of Bangor and children in the Bangor area,” she wrote.

“There is a great need for warm hats and mittens this year. We will also accept donations of skeins of yarn and polar fleece” for Zonta’s “volunteer knitters and seamstresses,” she said.

Zonta plans to collect and donate the hats and mittens by Dec. 1, Deshane wrote.

“We need your help now. Let’s not let the children in this area down.”

Call 852-3981 or visit www.zontaclubofbangor.org to obtain a list of drop-off locations.

Norma Milton forwarded a message on behalf of American Red Cross Pine Tree Chapter Aroostook County branch manager Joyce Knorr inviting residents of that area to attend Sound Friendships from 8 to 11 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 10, at the Northeastland Hotel in Presque Isle.

Featuring music, dancing and reminiscing, donations will be accepted at the door and Sound Friendships will donate all proceeds to the Aroostook County Branch Disaster Relief Fund.

Knorr, in her original e-mail, reported “in the past four months, our Red Cross staff and volunteers have provided shelter, food, clothes and medical assistance to six local families who were victims of a fire.”

This chapter has also provided “immediate assistance with emergency communication” for eight members of the military and their families free of charge.

This assistance has been “made possible by your generous support and financial contributions to your local Red Cross office,” Knorr wrote.

To make a donation, mail it to this chapter at 141 State St., Presque Isle 04769. For information, call 762-5671.

Alexis Jones e-mailed to say the public is invited to a free “afternoon of Thanksgiving alternatives” featuring cooking demonstrations, information and food samples at Better Lifestyle Choices and Disease Prevention, 3-5 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 11, at the Bangor Seventh Day Adventist Church, 42 Orion Way, Hermon.

The event also offers food samples, a door prize and free DVDs. For information, call 825-3762, 944-5953 or e-mail hajeij@hotmail.com.

Curves of Rockland franchise owner Louise Holmes e-mailed that Curves is participating in a local food drive by accepting turkeys and hams Monday, Nov. 12, through Wednesday, Nov. 14, for distribution to area food banks.

People who bring in a turkey or ham and join Curves on those dates can join without paying a service fee. Members who make a similar donation on those dates will be entered into a sweepstake for prize drawings.

Donations can be made during business hours on those dates at Curves at Harbor Plaza Shopping Center, 235 Camden St., Rockland.

Women of the World celebrates South Korea at noon Monday, Nov. 12, at Church of Universal Fellowship on Main Street in Orono.

Admission is $4 for women and children over 10, $2 for children 6-10, and free for children under 6 attending with their mother.

For information, call Mireille Le Gal, 581-3423.

Laurie Mountain e-mailed the PETS Holiday Sale is 9 a.m.-4 p.m. today and Saturday, Nov. 10, at 225 Dexter Road, Route 7, Corinna.

Mountain invites you to “visit our big Christmas room, and many other rooms overflowing” with holiday items, both new and of the yard sale variety.

“One huge room is stuff-a-bag-for-a-buck,” and she hopes you will “support animal welfare while having fun shopping.”

PETS, Prevent Euthanasia Through Sterilization, is a local, nonprofit animal welfare organization offering low-cost spaying and neutering services in central Maine.

Ella Waitt, a director of the Bangor Nature Club, “invites all interested persons” to hear Pat Snyder discuss “Butterflies are Free.”

Snyder will speak at 1 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 14, at First Congregational Church of Brewer, 35 Church St. Refreshments will be served.

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