Golfers are invited to participate in the fifth annual Friends of Brewer Schools Golf Tournament beginning with registration at 11:30 a.m. and play at 1 p.m. Friday, Aug. 15, at Hermon Meadow Golf Club.

The $75 registration fee includes 18 holes of golf, a cart, lunch and an awards reception, reports Jill Reynolds.

Sponsorship opportunities are still available, and participants will be helping to “enrich the lives of Brewer students,” Reynolds added.

Payments can be mailed to Friends of Brewer Schools Inc., P.O. Box 455, Brewer 04412. For information, call Scott Fraser at 949-1416, or Mark Farley, at 989-4884.

Reynolds wants you to know “proceeds from this event go to help support quality education in the areas of curriculum, performing and cultural arts, athletics and recreation” within the Brewer public school system.

Meggan Dwyer reports the next Marine Environmental Research Institute 2008 Ocean Environment Lecture Series features Dr. David Gallo of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute presenting “Beyond Titanic: Uncovering the Secrets of Neptune’s Basement.”

The lecture is at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 13, at MERI Center for Marine Studies, 44 Main St., Blue Hill.

For information, call 374-2135 or visit info@meriresearch.org.

Librarian Lyn Smith of the Pittsfield Public Library reports special children’s programs, “Monarch Magic,” will be offered at 11 a.m. Wednesday, Aug. 13, at Hartland Public Library, and at 11 a.m. Thursday, Aug. 14, at the Pittsfield library.

Children will learn about monarch and other butterflies that live in Maine, enjoy a craft and story, and learn about the libraries’ monarch tagging program that relates to their migration to Mexico.

For more information, call the Hartland library at 938-4702 or the Pittsfield library at 487-5880.

Paula Kee reminds readers the sixth annual In Grand Style Fashion Show and Luncheon begins at noon Friday, Aug. 15, at the Holiday Inn in Ellsworth.

Tickets are $25, and all proceeds benefit The Grand “to support its varied programs of film, theatre, concerts, musical productions and educational workshops for children, and their productions,” Kee wrote of this “beloved institution on the Main Street of Ellsworth.

Tickets are available by calling The Grand box office, 667-9500, and luncheon selections include vegetarian and nonvegetarian fare at The Grand’s “only, annual fundraiser.”

Nan Cobbey reports visitors the next in the series of Belfast Garden Club’s annual Open Garden Days Tour “might come home with a few vegetables,” because “this unusual gardener,” Danya Klie, “plants a number of vegetables she doesn’t much like, and then she gives them away.”

Klie’s “totally organic” garden is open 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Friday, Aug. 15, at 17 Toads End Road, Belfast.

The suggested donation is $3, and proceeds benefit the garden club’s civic projects.

A list of gardens and directions are available at area businesses, at www.belfastgardenclub.org or inside the birdhouse planted at Post Office Square in Belfast.

Pam Colson Power of Penobscot Valley Industries of AMICUS in Bangor, invites the public to view the work of PVI artists during regular library hours, Aug. 15-28, at the Bangor Public Library on Harlow Street.

The art exhibit opening is 10 a.m. to noon Friday, Aug. 15.

“These artists have had the privilege of learning art through the devoted instruction of professional artist, Diana Willette, who has been teaching art at PVI for 11 years,” Power wrote.

“Please join us for the art opening, or visit, during August, to share the outstanding creativity and spirit of the highly accomplished artists at PVI.”

Mike Lange e-mailed the Skowhegan-Madison Lodge, and the Daughters of Isabella, are co-sponsoring an American Red Cross Blood Drive from noon to 7 p.m. Friday, Aug. 15, at the Skowhegan Community Center, 39 Poulin Drive.

“Since summer is, traditionally, a slow time of year for donations,” Lange wrote, “the Red Cross needs as many donors as possible.”

All donors receive a limited-edition Boston Red Sox baseball T-shirt, and appointments can be made by calling 800-GIVELIFE.

“A garage sale, for two families and the Otis Habitat House project,” is planned for 6-9 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 14; 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Friday, Aug. 15; and 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 16, at the home of Sharon Jankunas, 239 Otis Road in Otis, Frost wrote.

Donations, excluding clothing, are being accepted, and more information about this rain-or-shine fundraiser can be obtained by calling Jankunas at 537-5452.

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