Carnival rides and slides, entertainment, delicious foods and the Spring into Stardom Talent Search are all part of the 32nd annual Bangor Y Spring Fair, reports Marie Stewart.

Spring Fair ’08 is 11 a.m. – 8 p.m. Friday, March 28; 10 a.m. – 8 p.m. Saturday, March 29, and 10 a.m. – 4 p.m. Sunday, March 30, at the Bangor Civic Center and Auditorium.

Tickets are $5 for people 13 and older, $3 for children 1-12 and free for children under 1.

Presale tickets, through Thursday, March 27, are just $2 for all ages and are available at both Bangor Y locations on Second or Hammond streets.

From 4 to 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday, a ride special offers attendees all the rides you can manage for just $12.

Stewart reminds you the entertainment is free and encourages you to “bring the entire family,” where you will find “something for everyone.”

For information call the Bangor Y at 941-2808 or visit www.bangorY.org.

Members of two area performing groups, Voices for Peace and Women with Wings, invite you to join them for a concert focusing on global harmony at 7 p.m. Friday, March 28, at the Brick Church on the corner of Union and Main streets in Bangor.

The suggested donation is $10, and the concert is free for children.

I thank Marty Kelly, Voices for Peace director, Linda Koehler, Women with Wings director, and Voices for Peace members Katie Greenman and Chuck Rodrigues for providing information about this special event that features songs of peace, justice and hope in this concert that, Kelley and Koehler explained, “began as a national movement to commemorate the fifth year of war in Iraq” and has now “expanded worldwide to focus attention on the victims of violence around the world and in local communities.”

Greenman and Rodrigues remind readers that “members of these performing groups” include residents of Bangor, Belfast, Brewer, Brooks, Bucksport, Eddington, Ellsworth, Exeter, Hampden, Old Town, Orono, Orrington, Somesville, Sorrento, Veazie, Winterport and other communities.

For information visit www.songofpeace.org.

President Maria Rave and members of C.H.I.S.P.A., Centro Hispano, invite you to enjoy Latin dance lessons at 7:30 p.m. followed by a dance at 8:30 p.m. Saturday, March 29, at the Campus Center in Peabody Hall at Husson College in Bangor.

Admission is $10 for adults, $5 for students with identification, and free for children under 12.

This is an alcohol-free event.

Tickets will be available at the door or can be purchased in advance by calling Thistle’s at 945-5480 or by calling 944-5892 or 735-5480.

For supporters of Mount Desert Island High School Project Graduation, MDIHS assistant principal Matt Haney invites you to attend a silent auction and spaghetti dinner from 5:30 to 8 p.m. Sunday, March 30, at the high school.

Doors open for this event at 5 p.m., he wrote, and dinner will be served from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. “with a last call for auction items at 8 p.m.”

Tickets are $10 for adults and $5 for students and may be purchased at the door.

Auction items have been donated by area business owners and organizations and range from gift certificates at local stores and restaurants to hotel and campground stays and a weekend at a condominium at Sugarloaf USA.

Proceeds benefit Project Graduation, a chemical-free, all-night graduation party for members of MDIHS Class of 2008.

For information call Haney at 288-5011, ext. 301, or e-mail mhaney2@u98.k12.me.us.

Elizabeth Dulin, executive director of Health Services Foundation, reminds people attending the Southern Aroostook Trade Show, Sunday, March 30, at Millar Civic Center in Houlton that at the end of the day the winner of a Nintendo Wii video game system, a $500 value, will be drawn.

The “Wii has sold millions of consoles,” Dulin wrote, but is “hard to get due to its immense popularity. The few stores that carry it have waiting lists.”

Tickets are $2 or $5 for three and available at the HSF office at Houlton Regional Hospital, Paradis Shop ‘n Save in Houlton, through the HSF Web site at www.healthservicesfoundation.org, or by calling HSF at 521-2503.

Raffle proceeds will benefit the HSF $1 million campaign “to support the nuclear medicine needs” of HRH, Dulin wrote.

“It is our goal to make sure that everyone using the nuclear medicine department at Houlton Regional will be assured state-of-the-art equipment and the privacy-comfort they deserve.”

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