Members of the Mount Desert Island Hospital Auxiliary are busily preparing for their Christmas Fair, Luncheon and Boutique.

Donations for these fundraisers are welcome. More information about how to help the auxiliary support the Mount Desert Island Hospital organization can be obtained by calling Jackie Agnese at 276-3278.

The Boutique, featuring new and nearly new clothing and accessories, is from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 15, and Friday, Nov. 16, and from 7 a.m. to noon Saturday, Nov. 17, at Acadia Park Wear, 6 Cottage St., Bar Harbor.

The Christmas Fair and Luncheon is from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Friday, Nov. 16, at Holy Redeemer Parish Hall on Ledgelawn Avenue, Bar Harbor.

It features a $50 door prize, raffle items donated by members of the business community, handicrafts and baked goods.

Brenda Hall of MDI Hospital reports the auxiliary has provided four wheelchairs this year for the reception-emergency room area; a blanket warmer for the Ambulatory Surgery Department; a blood cross-matching instrument for the laboratory and a laparoscope for the surgical services department.

The auxiliary also maintains the lifeline program, and sponsors a cancer support group for current patients in treatment, survivors and adult family members, Hall reported.

“These ladies are truly amazing” she wrote of the women who are also “involved in their churches, schools, libraries, etc.,” and who recognize that “keeping active, within their communities, is what keeps them so vital and young.”

Michael O’Hara of WBZN Z-107.3 reports beginning Tuesday, Nov. 13, its radio personalities will spend 24 hours a day in the Hannaford parking lot in the Brewer Shopping Center for the Free the Z program.

They will remain there until they reach their goal of collecting 2,007 turkeys, or monetary donations of $15 per turkey, for Manna Inc. and area food cupboards, to distribute to those in need.

To help Free the Z, drop off a turkey or a donation at the Hannaford parking lot, or call 991-9600 or 989-5631 and have the Thompson Printing Turkey Taxi come and collect your donation.

Kevin Sirois wrote that the Orono Firefighters Association Local 3106 All-Stars will face the Harlem Rockets Comedy Basketball Team at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 28, at Orono High School.

All proceeds, Sirois reports, benefit the Muscular Dystrophy Association, the Pine Tree Burn Foundation, the Orono High School Scholarship and other charities.

Representatives of “the LPC Corporation, a fundraising organization associated” with the Rockets, Sirois explained, will be calling local residents and businesses “to sell tickets and request donations.”

If you want to purchase tickets, call LPC at 888-626-8188.

Donations can be made by following the LPC directions, Sirois wrote; by visiting the OFD “where a collection box will be available”; or by writing a check payable to Orono Firefighters Association and mailing it to Local 3106, P.O. Box 143, Orono 04473.

If you have questions about this event or the fundraising, call Sirois at 299-5681.

Russ Page, executive director of the Piscataquis Chamber of Commerce, reports that while the Saturday performance sold out some time ago, there may be a few tickets remaining for the High Ryder Golden Oldies Show at 7 p.m. Friday, Nov. 16, at the Center Theatre in Dover-Foxcroft.

Page suggests you call the theatre at 564-8943 to inquire about tickets, which are $15 in advance or $17 at the door.

This show, which sold out its first appearance two years ago, “has been an excellent fundraiser for us,” Page said of the five-piece band that plays music from the late ’50s and early ’60s in the Saturday Night in Dover-Foxcroft concert series.

My deepest sympathies are extended to the family of LaJune Means, who died last week in Washington state, where she had returned to spend her final years after contributing so much to improving the quality of life in the Bangor area and her adopted home state of Maine.

LaJune was one of the loveliest, most caring, individuals I have known.

She was equally comfortable in the board room as a businesswoman or as a volunteer, and it was with equal energy, sincerity, determination and enthusiasm that what she set out to accomplish, she did; quietly influencing others with her positive, can-do attitude.

Although we have felt her loss since she moved back to the west coast to be with family there, we are fortunate to be left with a wonderful legacy of LaJune’s personal and community commitments.

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