Members of Medomac Valley Grange and their friends have undertaken quite a responsibility, and your support will help them succeed in their quest to help others.

Medomac Valley Grange is hosting a benefit supper and auction to benefit not one, but two families of fellow community members who were each seriously injured recently and do not have health insurance.

A benefit supper and auction will begin with the dinner at 4-6 p.m. Saturday, March 22, followed by the auction all at the Appleton Village School.

Admission for the meal of baked beans, ham, chicken, mashed potatoes, vegetables, rolls, desserts and beverages is $8 for adults, $4 for children and a maximum of $25 for a family of five or more.

The event benefits two men who are residents of the Burkettville section of Appleton: 37-year-old Ronald Gibson and 33-year-old Mike Pease.

By exchanging e-mails with Debbie Millay, I learned that Gibson, a married father of four children ranging in age from 1 to 18, “is a self-employed businessman” of Creative Concrete.

“While snowmobiling with friends on Feb. 21,” Millay wrote, “Ronald was in a snowmobile accident and was airlifted to Eastern Maine Medical Center in Bangor.”

He has undergone three surgeries for a double-compound leg fracture and “will be laid up for a while.”

Pease, the married father of two children in grade school, is self-employed as Appleton Land Management. While working March 7, a tree fell on Pease and “he was also airlifted” to EMMC, where he remains under treatment “for an injured spine and nerves and a broken back. He will be in the hospital for quite some time,” Millay wrote.

Hosts of the benefit met recently, and Millay e-mailed a list of some of the items up for bid that might surprise you.

More than 75 contributions are included in the auction “ranging from gift certificates for pizzas, restaurants and newspaper subscriptions to a certificate for materials and labor for a chimney,” which includes blocks, bricks and a flue, all valued at more than $2,500, Millay wrote.

Also up for bid will be a gas grill, Wiscasset Raceway passes, a beanbag chair, weekend use of a wood-splitter, certificates for lobsters, cords of delivered firewood, gravel and loam; a vehicle tuneup and alignment, a tuxedo rental and a bookcase, a coffee table, an afghans and quilt, excavator or tractor rentals, doors and a $500 gift certificate toward orthodontic treatment from Dr. Edward Zanca.

If you cannot attend and make live bids at this auction and you want to help one or both of these families, you can make a check payable to the Ronald Gibson Fund or the Mike Pease Fund and mail it to Damariscotta Bank and Trust Co., P.O. Box 727, Union 04862.

Bobbie Dumond of Milford e-mailed that the Bangor Mall is hosting a Community Day 9 a.m.-9 p.m. Saturday, March 22, at the mall, and that her nonprofit organization, Comforting Blankets, “has been invited” to participate.

“This day will be about giving people information about what the group is all about and a place for people to bring their blankets to donate to the group,” she added.

Comforting Blankets collects blankets for cancer patients in our area.

Dumond also reported she “will have Pizza Hut cards” for sale at $8, with all proceeds benefiting Comforting Blankets.

Each card contains 12 valuable Pizza Hut peel-off coupons, with a total value of more than $75, she explained, adding she hopes “to see you there.”

For information, visit comfortingblankets.org or call her at 433-0896.

Annie and Frank Schwartz invite you to enjoy “an evening of jazz” featuring their “Cole Porter and torch song review,” beginning at 6 p.m. Saturday, March 22, at the Neighborhood House in Northeast Harbor.

Also on the program will be “incidental piano music” with Alexander Phillips,” Annie Schwartz wrote.

There is no charge to attend, but any donations would be appreciated to benefit the Neighborhood House.

Jackie Frisk e-mailed the 27th Hampden Highlands Children’s Fair is planned for Saturday, May 17, in the Hampden Academy gymnasium and “reservations for table spaces are currently being accepted.”

The fair features used baby equipment, toys, clothing and sports equipment “at greatly reduced prices,” she wrote.

Anyone who would like to reserve a table for the event can call Wendy Westley, 659-1542, or Penelope Olson, 947-0639.

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