Friends will hold a “Benefit Supper & (Lack of) Talent Show” to assist with medical expenses for Kim White of Levant.

The young wife and mother of two children, Tyler and Amy McFarland, who was a receptionist at Darling’s corporate office in Brewer, recently was diagnosed with breast cancer.

The supper will take place 4-7 p.m. and the show 7-9 p.m. Saturday, June 21, at Suzanne Smith Elementary School in Levant.

Admission is by donation.

The menu includes lasagna, salad, rolls, beverages and dessert.

Raffle items, including an all-expense-paid rock star Ultimate Fighting Championship trip to Las Vegas plus $500 in spending money, are being offered for $10 a ticket or five tickets for $40.

If you are unable to attend, but want to help this young family through a difficult time, donations may be made payable to Bangor Savings Bank for Kim White and mailed to BSB, Attention Bobbi, P.O. Box 577, Brewer 04412.

New members are welcome to join either the St. Croix Valley International Garden Club and-or the St. Croix International Quilters Guild, reports Kathryn Mekelburg.

The next meeting of the Garden Club is 1 p.m. Wednesday, June 18, at Holy Name Roman Catholic Church Parish Hall in Machias, where three Master Gardeners will discuss Remembering Historic Sites through Historic Plants, Mekelburg wrote.

The Quilters Guild meets at 6:30 that evening, at the Methodist Homes Recreation Center.

For information about either organization, call Mekelburg at 454-0654.

Connie Saucier wrote the VFW Ladies Auxiliary Post 7529 of Island Falls is “holding another organization meeting” at 6 p.m. Wednesday, June 18, at King Mitchell Hall in Island Falls.

Attendees should bring a light snack and are reminded that officers will be elected and installed in July.

For information, call Saucier at 757-8798.

Orono Public Library youth services librarian Laurie Rose reports the annual library concert is 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, June 18, in Webster Park.

Free and open to the public, the event is sponsored by Friends of the OPL and the Orono-Old Town Kiwanis.

Performing will be Julie Monroe of Julie and the Bug Boys with Don Berry, Clay Kirby, Jim Artesani, Laura Artesani and Ellie Shufro.

Friends of the OPL will sell hot dogs, baked goods and balloons, with proceeds benefiting library programs.

In case of rain, the concert will be at the Keith Anderson Community House in Orono.

Donations of baked goods will be accepted at the concert. For information, call the OPL at 866-5060.

The Ellsworth Concert Band invites area musicians to participate in its 2008 Summer Season. Rehearsals begin at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, June 18, at Ellsworth City Hall.

Open to students and experienced musicians, the band is directed by Ed Michaud of Ellsworth, who is the music teacher at Pemetic School in Southwest Harbor.

The season begins with a free, public concert at 8 p.m. Wednesday, July 9, on the steps of Ellsworth City Hall.

For information about joining the band or its summer schedule, call band president Kelley Tupper at 667-9572 or secretary Lynn Hall at 667-1344.

Sandra Gordon of Waldo County Healthcare reports the Bag Ali Co. will conduct a handbag sale to benefit Waldo County General Hospital Aid, 9:30 a.m.-4 p.m. Thursday, June 19, in the WCGH Education Center, 118 Northport Ave., Belfast.

New styles of the summer 2008 collection will be offered, including fashion bags, backpacks, briefcases, travel bags and totes, along with scarves and shawls.

Credit cards and personal checks will be accepted. For information, call 930-6739.

Brewer Hometown Band directors Jan Cox and Beth Zdrojowy invite you to the band’s first concert of the summer at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, June 19, at the Brewer Auditorium.

The concert will be outside if the weather allows and inside if it rains.

Be sure to bring your lawn chairs, “a few friends and maybe a picnic lunch to enjoy while the band is providing the music that has been a tradition for many years,” Cox wrote.

The band will play four concerts, so mark your calendars for 6:30 p.m. July 17, July 31 and Aug. 14.

This first concert, Cox wrote, “will consist of some favorite patriotic numbers, and all the music is bound to stir your patriotic spirit.”

Jaime Hanks is the program and patient services coordinator for the National Kidney Foundation of Maine in Portland.

She e-mailed that preregistration is required for anyone who would like to participate in the Kidney Early Evaluation Program, a free public health screening program, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Tuesday, June 24, at Union Street Dialysis Center in Bangor.

KEEP is “designed to identify those at increased risk for kidney disease, and to encourage them to seek further evaluation and follow-up with a physician,” Hanks wrote.

“Anyone with high blood pressure or diabetes, or who has a family member with high blood pressure, diabetes or kidney disease, is at increased risk and should attend,” she continued. Participants must be 18 or older.

To register, call Hanks at 800-639-7220, ext. 3; at 772-7270; or e-mail jaime@kidneyme.org.

Hanks reminds readers that “kidney failure is among the top 10 causes of death” in the U.S., “and the two leading causes of kidney failure are diabetes and high blood pressure.”

Ruth Ann Guay Lucas e-mailed to say John Bapst High School Class of 1958 is holding its 50th reunion on Saturday, Aug. 9, at what now is known as John Bapst Memorial High School on Broadway in Bangor.

Reunion planners still are trying to locate several classmates.

The missing members of Bapst ’58 are Margaret Baker Blasingame, Earl G. Burke, William J. Coffey Jr., Michelle Milroy Maybury, Lawrence E. Morro, Robert H. Rooney and Janice Garrity Townsend.

If you can help locate these individuals, call Lucas as 866-2698 or e-mail her at mumbuff@yahoo.com.

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