The Millinocket Community Garden of Hope, wrote Jan Moore, will be a Pink Tulip Garden “in honor of all the women who have touched our lives who have been affected by breast cancer.”

The Women’s Fellowship of the First Congregational Church of Millinocket has ordered more than 200 pink tulip bulbs for the garden, 100 to be planted and 100 to sell, Moore wrote.

From your $3 donation, $1 “will pay to provide one bulb for the garden in memory of, or in honor of someone; $1 will provide one bulb for the donor; and $1 will benefit” the Maine Cancer Foundation’s Cancer Fund.

Moore also wants you to know 100 percent of “the funds raised will stay in Maine.”

This program is part of The Pink Tulip Project, founded by Robin Whitten of Portland after her 2004 breast cancer diagnosis, Moore said.

More information about The Pink Tulip Project is available at http://pinktulip.kintera.org.

“The bulbs will arrive in early October for fall planting,” Moore wrote. “We encourage everyone to join us in The Millinocket Community Garden of Hope.”

For information, call Moore at 723-8081 or Nancy Porter at 723-9293.

Joe Marshall of the Gilbert and Sullivan Society of Hancock County has announced the production of its 2009 offering, “The Pirates of Penzance,” will begin with the society’s “traditional, pre-show gathering” at 2 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 28, “at the home of longtime Society member Dotti Schaller in Sullivan.”

He encourages anyone interested in the show, particularly men, to attend the gathering, bringing a dish for a potluck meal and “a friend (men are again in particular demand) … and join in a discussion of the show and a sing-through of the show.”

Directions to the gathering can be obtained by calling Marshall at 667-2544 or e-mailing joe@mjmarshallarts.com. Rehearsals begin at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 8, at a site to be announced. Auditions for principal parts are 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 11, and 1-5 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 12, at the Unitarian Universalist Church on Bucksport Road in Ellsworth.

A list of roles and audition selections is available by calling or e-mailing Marshall.

Pianist Jonathan Biss, 28, helps the Bangor Symphony Orchestra open its 113th season at 3 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 28, in Peakes Auditorium at Bangor High School on Broadway.

Tickets are available by calling the Maine Center for the Arts box office, (800) MCA-TIXX or 581-1755, or at www.bangorsymphony.org.

Current and former residents of Bradley are invited to share family and community histories at Leonard’s Mills, the Maine Forest and Logging Museum, in that community.

Cathy Goslin reports Bradley residents are asked to participate in this event from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 30, at the museum on Government Road off Route 178.

Bradley residents are asked to bring old photos, memorabilia, maps, books, business items or anything else that might “highlight the community’s history,” Goslin wrote.

She believes “stories about Bradley’s past” will offer visitors “a glimpse of life in our community” during the last 300 years.

On this day, Bradley residents and those sharing its history will be admitted free.

For information, call 581-2871 and leave a message.

Here is a reminder from Barbara Fister, executive director of My Friend’s Place, that this adult social program in Bangor will introduce a new program, Memory Joggers, during an informational meeting from 5 to 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 30, at First United Methodist Church, 703 Essex St., Bangor.

This new program, Fister said, “is specifically designed for people experiencing early memory loss.”

Clinical neuropsychologist Dr. James Thomas of Neuropsychology of Maine-Eastern Maine Medical Center will be the meeting’s guest speaker.

The meeting is offered to answer questions about early memory loss, how to identify early memory loss, and offer help for families and individuals dealing with early memory loss.

For information about this new program, call Fister at 945-0122 or e-mail myfriends

place@verizon.net.

Norma Milton reports Caribou Pet Rescue is reducing adoption fees for spayed and neutered dogs from $100 to $25 through Oct. 1.

“Most of these fine dogs have had over $150 worth of medical care,” enabling you “to gain a valued family pet; your best friend for life,” at a most reasonable cost, Milton wrote.

For information, call Caribou Pet Rescue vet-tech manager Laurie Clark at 498-3800.

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