The popular Arthur L. Hitchcock sixth annual Wild Game Dinner, sponsored by the Piscataquis Regional YMCA, is from 11:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 16, at SeDoMoCha School on Harrison Avenue in Dover-Foxcroft.

The suggested donation for the meal, which features wild game donated by the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife, is $10 for adults, $4 for children ages 6 to 12 and free for children under 6.

Last year, this community benefit for Piscataquis YMCA “served 400 people,” and this year, “we are looking to serve 500” people wrote Jim Ellis who, along with Rocco Palumbo is planning and preparing this unusual meal, which will include wild turkey, raccoon stew, moose meatballs, wild game pizza, porcupine and beaver stew along with venison, moose and bear.

Ellis also wants all guides and hunters to know that “any donations of bear, moose deer or other wild game meats would be appreciated” and gratefully accepted for this fundraiser.

The event, which helps promote and encourage youth participating in outdoor activities, includes a number of drawings for young people for supervised turkey- and rabbit-hunting trips.

The organizers also point out that this event is enjoyed not only by sportsmen and sportswomen, but also by people who might not otherwise have the opportunity to sample a wild game menu.

For more information about the event or contributing to it, call Ellis at 564-3949 or 343-0503, or Palumbo at 683-5050.

The public is invited to hear Patrice McCarron, executive director of the Maine Lobstermen’s Association, discuss “Navigating the Challenges Facing the Maine Lobster Industry.”

Marine Environment Research Institute will host the meeting beginning with a reception at 6 p.m. and the address at 7 tonight at MERI Center for Marine Studies, 44 Main St., Blue Hill.

For more information, call 374-2135.

Cancer Support Center of Maine executive director Barbara Vittum reports State Street Wine Cellars of Bangor, The Vineyard in Bucksport, Wicked Wines and Frank’s Bake Shop of Bangor are co-hosting a wine-tasting benefit for CSCM, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Friday, Nov. 14, at Isaac Farrar Mansion at the Bangor Y on Second Street.

Tickets are $25 and can be purchased at State Street Wine Cellars, 262-0500; The Vineyard, 469-7844; or by calling CSCM, 469-6363.

It is requested that tickets be purchased in advance to ensure the correct amount of food and beverages.

Wines tasted at the fundraiser may be ordered by the bottle or case and all proceeds will directly benefit CSCM.

The deadline for people interested in pre-ordering and paying for a Thanksgiving turkey to assist John Bapst Memorial High School Project Graduation is Friday, Nov. 14.

Project chair Carol Ryan reports the 10-13 pound turkeys are $15 each, and “you’ll receive a coupon to redeem your turkey” on either Nov. 21 or 22, at Hannaford on Broadway in Bangor.

Turkeys also may be ordered, to be donated to Manna Ministries, “and Hannaford will take care of the delivery for you,” Ryan wrote.

To order your turkey, or for more information, call Ryan at 843-6077 or e-mail carmattryan@cs.com.

Fellow Hampden Academy alumni Andrew Deighan of Newburgh and Hampden residents Shayla Goss and Sean Higgins are raising funds to travel, next spring and summer, to the village of Weajue, Liberia, to participate in charitable activities coordinated by First United Methodist Church in Monrovia and the Hampden-Highlands United Methodist Church.

To help raise funds for this project, the three are hosting a charity murder mystery dinner and auction at 6 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 15, at the Hampden-Highlands United Methodist Church Fellowship Hall, 44 Kennebec Road.

The public is invited, and dinner and auction proceeds will benefit Friends of Liberia.

Tickets for the spaghetti dinner are $15; two for $25; or $100 for a table of eight.

The auction will include donated African artifacts, according to information provided by the group.

Attendees, who may dress in costume if they wish, will take part in solving the murder mystery.

Tickets may be ordered, or donations can be made to assist in this effort, by calling Goss at 740-6924 or e-mailing shaylahrae@yahoo.com.

My sincerest condolences are extended to Virgil Warren of Maine and Florida, and his family, after the recent death of his wife, Dorothy “Dot” Warren.

Through a mutual friend, I enjoyed the company of this endearing couple on many visits to Florida, and will forever remember Dot’s welcoming warmth and delightful wit.

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