Unity College will hold the Maine International Film Festival Pre-Party from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Thursday, July 10, at the Unity College Centre for the Performing Arts, reports Mark Tardiff of the college.

Free and open to the public, the pre-party is co-sponsored by Unity College and UniTel of Unity. Light refreshments will be served.

Special guests include festival participants housed on the Unity campus, festival director Shannon Haines, festival programmers Ken and Beth Eisen and directors Christina Hemaner and Roman Keller.

Tardiff wrote that Hemaner and Keller will screen a trailer of their documentary titled “A Road Not Taken,” which will be among the works screened during the festival.

“This film was shot, in part, at Unity College,” Tardiff said, “and tells a timely story about American oil dependence, and a lack of will to pursue alternative energy.”

The pre-party also will feature a re-enactment of former President Carter’s “historic Rose Garden speech given during the installation of the solar panels atop the White House.”

More information about the 2008 Maine International Film Festival is available at http://www.miff.org/about/

Executive director Joshua Campbell Torrance reports the first of a series of Woodlawn Museum Wednesday Afternoon Teas and Tours is at 3 p.m. today at the museum on Route 172 in Ellsworth.

The cost is $20 for nonmembers, $18 for museum members, and includes a tour of the museum. Reservations are suggested and can be made by calling 667-8671.

The remaining tea dates, at the same time, are July 23, Aug. 6 and Aug. 20.

In addition, from 1 to 4 p.m. Tuesday through Sunday, tea will be presented in a picnic basket for guests who would like to “take their tea anywhere they choose on the estate,” Torrance wrote.

The cost for the tea with refreshments is $10, or $5.95 for just the tea. A different homemade treat will be offered each week.

More information about the museum and its activities is available at www.woodlawnmuseum.org.

Pianist Roberto Pace and flutist Andrea Maurer entertain during the free Mary Potterton Memorial Piano Concert at 7:30 tonight at Lubec Congregational Christian Church.

Free intermission refreshments will be provided by the Blueberry Point Chefs and Ice House Wine and Cheese Shop of Perry. For more information, call 733-2316.

In memory of their late friend Ernie Griswold, Roger and Sally Lycette will open their gardens to the public from 1 to 6 p.m. Friday, July 11, at their home, 1348 Ohio St. in Bangor.

Admission is free, but “anyone who would like to make a donation to help the family with expenses may do so at the gardens,” they wrote.

Jackie Nicholson e-mailed that “all women are welcome to attend” the Hancock Woman’s Club meeting at 7 p.m. Thursday, July 10, at the Hancock Community Center.

Rich Malaby of Hancock and Rob Eaton of Sullivan will discuss the topic of “School District Consolidation and its Impact on Towns.”

The event includes “refreshments and socializing,” Nicholson wrote, encouraging interested women to attend this informative meeting.

For more information call 422-6614.

Nancy Herr reminds residents and visitors that the nonprofit Ruggles House Society, which maintains and supports the historic Ruggles House Museum, offers guided tours from 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday through Saturday and from 11 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Sundays. The museum is located at 146 Main St. in Columbia Falls.

Noted for its Federal period architecture, Herr wrote that the building features a “flying staircase, intricate carvings and period antiques.”

Admission is $5 for adults, $2 for children. More information can be obtained by calling 483-4637 or at www.ruggleshouse.org.

The reservation deadline for those planning to attend the EMGH, EMMC, Husson College Nurses Alumni Association Alumni Reunion is Saturday, July 12. The reunion begins at 1 p.m. Saturday, July 19, at Campus Center at Husson College in Bangor.

After the meet-and-greet session at 1 p.m., the reunion features games and surprises from 2 to 4 p.m., a silent auction from 4 to 5:30 p.m. and dinner served by Chef Brian Ross of JB Cafe and Catering at 5:30 p.m.

The cost of the dinner is $16 and reservations must be made with Gloria Lee, Treasurer, 238 Goshen Road, Winterport 04496.

For more information, call Barbara Higgins of Veazie at 942-9648 or 399-1872.

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