Old Town resident Lindsay Ford, a University of Maine nursing student, will travel in July to the Dominican Republic with the International Student Volunteers program.

To be a volunteer with this program, Ford has to contribute approximately $4,000 in addition to her airfare and money for some meals.

Ford, 20, explained that ISV involves student volunteers in projects ranging from teaching English to children to building schools and light construction and painting.

She will also participate in the distribution of food and goods to the needy and assume other community activities such as garbage cleanup and housing construction along with assisting in children’s school and summer camp programs.

To help Ford raise that money for this exceptional summer opportunity, you are invited to attend a Longaberger Basket Bingo, with doors opening at 1:30 p.m., and games beginning at 2 p.m. Saturday April 19, at the Knights of Columbus Hall in Old Town.

Tickets are $10, and everyone is welcome to attend.

The fundraiser includes regular bingo games and a blackout game, a 50/50 raffle, Longaberger basket door prizes, and a bake sale.

And although some tickets will be available at the door, it would be helpful if you purchased them in advance by calling Ford at 745-1227, or Sheila Wood at 942-5850.

If you cannot attend this particular fundraiser, but would like to help Ford in this endeavor, call her or Wood at one of the numbers above.

Tickets go on sale today for the Orono Public Library Foundation’s third annual gala auction May 17.

Tickets are $25 each and may be reserved by calling Laurie Rose at the library, 866-5060, or sending an e-mail to lrose@Orono.lib.me.us.

Janette Landis reports the theme of the 2008 gala is “Go Green,” to celebrate the environmentally friendly plans for the proposed library.

With plans to achieve a Silver Level Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design certification, she added, the “new library will be one of a small, but growing, number of green buildings in the area.”

The public is invited to hear Ruth Lockhart of the Mabel Wadsworth Women’s Health Center in Bangor, address the subject of Gardasil, the new HPV vaccine for young women.

Lockhart will be the guest speaker at a meeting of the UPtown Business & Professional Women’s breakfast meeting at 7:30 a.m. Wednesday, April 16, at Geaghan’s Restaurant on Main Street in Bangor.

The meeting is open to everyone, but to ensure the facility is set up for enough people, you are requested to call Marie Saucier at 992-5042 and leave your name and how many others will attend with you.

Public supper announcements often contain delightful notations, and this one is no exception.

Barbara Tarantino of Lincolnville invites you to enjoy a “Public Supper during a Spring Fling,” beginning with a band concert at 4 p.m. and a supper at 5 p.m. Saturday, April 19, at Tranquility Grange on Route 52, one mile north of Lincolnville, she wrote.

The meal consists of baked beans, casseroles, salads and homemade deserts, and will be followed by a variety show at 6:30 p.m.

But, here’s the delightful part: The cost of this community event is $7 for adults; $3.50 for children under 12, and free for individuals “over 90 and under 4,” Tarantino wrote.

She hopes you come and enjoy yourself, and know that your attendance is benefiting the Grange Hall repair fund.

Here is a notice for area artists from Leigh Butler, who wants you to know that you can drop off paintings to enter the Bangor Art Society’s 2008 open Juried Show between 10 a.m. and noon Saturday, May 3, at the Bangor Public Library on Harlow Street.

Declined work must be picked up between 2:30 and 3 p.m. that day.

The jury fee is $25, and you may submit two paintings.

Judges for this year’s show are artist Margaret Brown; Laurie Hicks, professor of art and interim director of the University of Maine Museum of Art; and Cathy Melio, education director for the Center for Contemporary Art in Rockport.

For information, call Kristborg Whitney, 942-3868, or e-mail kristborg@aol.com.

For the public, mark your calendar for the show’s opening reception 6-8 p.m. Tuesday, May 13, in the Bangor Public Library’s Lecture Hall.

The nonprofit art society promotes art and art education in the Bangor area.

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