Tickets are still available for the Bucksport Area Cultural Arts Society’s first “Your Keys to Fashion Show,” with doors opening at noon and the show beginning at 1 p.m. Saturday, May 17, at the Bucksport Performing Arts Center at Bucksport Middle School.

Tickets are $12 and are available at the door or at the Bucksport Chamber of Commerce and BookStacks, both on Main Street in Bucksport.

Paula Kee promises a delightful afternoon as you view fashions from “a three-county area.”

You will enjoy what is available in Hancock County with fashions from Rosen’s of Bucksport; in Waldo County at Coyote Moon and Shamrock, Thistle & Rose, both in Belfast; and in Penobscot County at The Mad Hatter, Bella Luna and Best Bib and Tucker, all of Bangor.

Kee urges you to arrive early so you can browse the many booths featuring goods and services of area businesses as you prepare to enjoy this show in the 500-seat, air-conditioned auditorium that now boasts a grand piano on which Karen Dickes will be the featured accompanist for the show.

Kee reports Jeanne Russell of Verona Island Flowers will ensure you enjoy the refreshments and flowers, and you can participate in a raffle of items donated by area merchants.

In announcing this newest BACAS fundraiser, to help continue its “mission of development of cultural and arts opportunities in Bucksport,” Kee wrote Bucksport businessman Richard Rosen “notes that every participating store is an independent business.”

That fact, he reminds you, illustrates “the opportunities we have every day to support” local merchants and the investments they are making in our communities.

This show, Kee added, “is made possible in part by the generous sponsorship” of Rosen’s, Silks & Tapestries of Ellsworth, and others.

It is the sponsor’s goal, Kee explained, for this fundraiser to become an annual event.

For information, call her at 469-3507.

Norris Nickerson reminds readers Anah Shriners are “part of the Shriners of North America that founded and continues to operate 22 Shriners Hospitals for children in the U.S., Canada and Mexico.”

For no charge to children up to 18, the hospitals provide care for “orthopedic conditions, burns of all degrees, spinal cord injuries and cleft lip and palate” problems.

Nickerson reports Anah Shriners are sponsoring pediatric orthopedic screening clinics from 10 a.m. to noon Saturday, May 10, at various locations in our area.

No appointments are necessary to attend these clinics.

Those sites include Horizons Orthopedic Sports Medicine Center, Suite 9, Millennium Medical Office Building, Aroostook Medical Center, 140 Academy St., Presque Isle, with Jerry McAivaddy, 762-5171, as the contact person for information.

You also can attend a clinic at the Anah Shrine Center, 586 Main St., Bangor, and call Nickerson at either 942-2254 or 989-5594 for information.

The Dover-Foxcroft clinic will be at the office of Dr. Richard Swett, 45 Dwelley St. Martin Taylor, 876-4237, is the contact person.

Ryan Otis, 338-2604, is the contact person for the clinic at Waldo County Shrine Center, 20 Northport Ave., Belfast.

Brad Prout, 434-5223, ext. 225, is the contact person for the Down East Community Hospital Shrine clinic in the McBride Building, Upper Court Street in Machias.

Parents and guardians are also encouraged to bring children to the clinic at Calais Regional Hospital’s Clinic Room, 24 Hospital Lane. For information about that clinic, call Dale Speed at 796-2341.

Sebasticook Family Doctors director of outreach, Juanita Taylor, invites you to its fourth annual health fair from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, May 10, at the Millennium Convention Center, Route 100 in Palmyra.

Everything from free health screenings to service dogs and yoga demonstrations will be available, as well as representatives of many area health and service agencies.

Tammy Swasey-Ballou reports donations still are being accepted for supporters of the Camden-based Coastal Affiliate of the National Alliance on Mental Illness who will be participating in NAMI Walks for the Mind of America, the organization’s “signature walkathon,” on Saturday, May 10, in Portland.

Coastal Area NAMI provides education, support and advocacy for people in Knox and Waldo counties whose lives are touched by mental illness.

Swasey-Ballou reports that at least 40 percent of your donations will stay in the area.

You can donate online at www.nami.org/namiwalks08/MNE/tsb or by sending donations to Coastal NAMI, 18 Gould St., Camden 04843, or to NAMI Maine, 1 Bangor St., Augusta 04330.

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