Ellsworth Rotary Club president-elect and auction organizer Jack Frost invites the public to the club’s “largest auction in 57 years” from 5 to 8 p.m. Friday, May 9, at the Ellsworth Holiday Inn.

Frost reported last week more than $35,000 in auction items have been received, with that amount expected to reach $40,000 by Wednesday.

Tickets are just $10 for the event, which includes entertainment by Sirradon and the award-winning Ellsworth Show Choir. Tickets are available in Ellsworth at the Ellsworth Area Chamber of Commerce, Maine Coast Memorial Hospital, Downeast Family YMCA, the Ellsworth American, NewLand Nursery, Dead River Co. and TD Banknorth.

Proceeds will help Ellsworth Rotary Club partner with Maine Coast Memorial Hospital “to support the new Emergency Department Capital Campaign,” Frost said.

Evelyn Conrad and Nancy Graves remind you May is Doula Awareness Month and invite you to the Maine Association of Independent Doulas Mother’s Day Tea from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Thursday, May 8, at St. Joseph’s Parish Hall in Ellsworth.

MAID is “a nonprofit organization dedicated to providing community education about birth options and the benefit of doula-supported childbirth,” Conrad and Graves said.

Mothers, new moms, mothers-to-be or anyone interested in becoming a doula is invited to attend this free event, which will offer “information on community resources, pregnancy and birth information, birth planning,” refreshments and hand and shoulder massages for new mothers and mothers-to-be.

For information, call Conrad, 945-9804, or Graves, 288-1122.

Trustee Sue Kircheis reports Simpson Memorial Library will hold its annual book sale 8 a.m.-3 p.m. Friday, May 9, and 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Saturday, May 10, at the library in Carmel Village.

In addition to adult and children’s books, the sale includes annual and perennial plants.

Proceeds will help support the work of expanding the library “to include a children’s reading area, librarian work station and bathroom,” Kircheis wrote.

The Benefit Dinner, Silent Auction and Raffle for longtime Bradford and Hudson school bus driver Myra Leighton will be held 5-7:30 p.m. Friday, May 9, at the Bradford Community Center.

The dinner menu is spaghetti, salad, rolls and desserts.

Amanda Green and Lana Leighton, principals of Hudson and Bradford Elementary School, report admission is by donation to raise money to help cover expenses Leighton is incurring while she undergoes cancer treatment.

If you cannot attend but want to help in other ways, call 327-1444 for information.

Josephine Cooper, director of the Faith in Action Community Connection, e-mailed that FIA will hold its fourth annual Festival of Choirs concert at 7 p.m. Friday, May 9, at St. Joseph Catholic Church in Ellsworth.

Proceeds benefit Ellsworth-based FIA, which assists elderly and disabled Hancock residents with services ranging from transportation to friendly visits, Cooper said.

Participating in this year’s concert are the First Congregational Church of Ellsworth hand bell choir, an interfaith children’s chorus from area churches, the Maine Women Balkan Choir and the choirs of St. Dunstan’s Episcopal Church, St. Joseph Catholic Church, the Unitarian Universalist Church of Ellsworth and the Lamoine Baptist Church.

Bronwyn Kortege of the Bagaduce Chorale will direct the finale with all the participants, and a reception will be held afterward in the parish hall.

For information about the concert or Faith in Action, call 664-6016.

Reservations must be made by Friday, May 9, for individuals who want to attend the annual spring meeting of the St. Croix District Garden Clubs, which begins with registration at 9 a.m. Wednesday, May 16, at the Deckhouse Restaurant in Southwest Harbor.

Members and guests should make their reservations with their club treasurers.

District director Michaeleen Ward reports the St. Croix District includes the garden clubs of Hancock and Washington counties, and this meeting is being sponsored by the Bar Harbor Garden Club.

After the 10 a.m. business meeting, landscape architect Bruce Ridell will address the gathering. Lunch will be served at noon.

For information, call Ward at 669-8241.

Jennifer Hamel reports that reunion committee members for Skowhegan Area High School Class of 1988 are trying to locate fellow classmates for its 20th reunion, which is planned for July 19.

Hamel asks that classmates “provide contact information, such as e-mail address, mailing address and phone numbers” by calling Donna Wyman Nickerson at 399-4747 or e-mailing her at donnanick@yahoo.com.

More information is available at the reunion Web site, http://SAHS1988.classquest.com.

“Time is running out,” Hamel wrote. “We need to hear from you as soon as possible!”

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