The Millinocket Historical Society is now selling its 2009 calendars for $8.50 each, reports MHS member Trudy Wyman.

The calendar’s theme is Millinocket People and Places: 1930s and 1940s, and the calendars may be purchased at the MHS Museum from 1 to 3 p.m. Thursdays or at Pangburn’s IGA, Millinocket Floral, Levasseur’s and Magic City Mini Golf.

You also can add $2.50 for shipping and order them by mail at MHS, P.O. Box 11, Millinocket 04462.

Wyman reminds you proceeds from calendar sales “will help with the purchase of the new home for our museum.”

Cyndi Swazey e-mailed that her friend, Donnie Wright of Bangor, is a member of the Northeast Passage Wildcats Quad Rugby Team, which Wright describes as “a fast-paced contact sport played by individuals in wheelchairs in the footprint of a basketball court.”

The team of Maine and northern New England players, who all “have quadriplegia, from illness or injury, or similar physical impairment,” Wright explained, practice weekly at the University of New Hampshire in Durham, and compete in Division III of the United States Quad Rugby Association.

This year the team will participate in five tournaments in the Northeast and Canada, and is holding the its second annual Rugby Rampage Nov. 7-9 at UNH.

To help support this team, tax-deductible donations can be sent to NEP Wildcats, Hewitt Hall G01, 4 Library Way, Durham, NH 03824.

Brewer Methodist Church holds its Autumn Gathering Church Bazaar 8 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 8, at 40 South Main St.

The sale will also include lunch and a pie table.

Trish Worth e-mailed that members and friends of First Church in Belfast “extend a warm welcome” to our readers to attend their Christmas fair from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 8, at the church on the corners of Church, Spring and Court streets in downtown Belfast.

This event offers everything from baked goods to attic finds and potted plants, and includes a raffle for a Christmas tree, decorated with more than 25 gifts and gift certificates a silent auction, book and magazine section, hot drinks, sandwiches, treats and a fish chowder lunch available to go.

The Searsport First Congregational Church is holding a holiday fair 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 8, at the church on Church Street.

Sponsored by the Women’s Fellowship, lunch is available for $5 and the fair offers everything from baked goods to handmade gifts.

Ann Carter reports St. Croix Valley Amateur Radio Club is sponsoring an entry-level course in ham radio operation to prepare participants for license exams.

Open to all, the course begins at 10 a.m. Saturday, Nov. 8, at the Charlotte Fire Station on Route 214.

Attendees and instructors at the first class will decide the scheduling of the next five classes, Carter explained.

The course fee of $25 covers the manual and other materials. The fee for the license exam is $14. For more information, call Skip McGarvey, 853-2951, or e-mail mcgarveyskip@verizon.net.

Ellen Gray and Jon Falk remind readers the 22nd annual Peace through Interamerican Community Action benefit auction is 3-6 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 8, at the University College of Bangor College Center, 210 Texas Avenue.

Gray and Falk encourage you to attend the event to help support the organization’s work “for social and economic justice, here in Maine and in El Salvador.”

The fundraiser features a silent and live auction with items ranging from original Maine art to weekend getaways, refreshments and the live music of Brian Dyer-Stewart.

Auction items can be viewed at www.pica.ws.

Chuck Hillman e-mailed that Columbia Street Baptist Church is holding another fundraiser for The Salvation Army Fuel Assistance Program

A public lasagna supper is 5-6:30 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 8, at the Bangor church.

Admission is $5 for adults and $2.50 for children, and a free video follows the meal.

To date, Hillman reports, more than $1,000 has been raised for this fuel fund.

The Rev. Emily Taylor invites you to a public supper to benefit Safe Passage, a youth group mission trip in Guatemala.

The supper is 5-7 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 8, at Union Congregational Church of Ellsworth Falls, at the junctions of Routes 1A and 179.

Admission is $8 for adults and $3.50 for children under 12 for the baked bean and casserole meal.

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