Too tired to cook after a busy, fall day? Members of the Caribou Kiwanis Club have the answer to that dilemma: Plan to attend their lobster-steak dinner and auction that begins with dinner served from 5 to 7 p.m., and the auction at 6:30 tonight in the cafeteria of Caribou High School.

The popular event is the major fundraiser for the club, said member Jeff Franklin, and all funds raised will benefit Kiwanis youth and community projects.

While the Kiwanians are barbecuing steaks, baking potatoes and boiling the lobster and clams, members of the CHS cafeteria staff will be right alongside them, preparing the rolls and apple crisp.

Add to the menu coleslaw, tea, coffee and milk, and you have one, great, delicious dinner bargain for just $15.

Franklin said tickets are available at the door, but you can purchase them before you arrive at the Caribou Chamber of Commerce, Caribou Food Trend, Caribou One Stop and from any Kiwanis Key Club or Kiwanis Builders club member.

It’s a sure bet incoming president Bill Donnelly and his fellow Kiwanians hope you will attend and enjoy this event, which features auction items donated by local businesses, organizations and individuals.

The Young Americans are preparing for a performance at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 19, at Nokomis Regional High School in Newport that will include students of SAD 38 and SAD 48.

Tickets for the performance are $8 for adults, $5 for children.

To prepare for this production, the 38 young professionals will conduct and teach three workshops focused on singing, dancing and performing.

Steve Hoekstra of the SAD 48 Music Boosters reports those workshops are 4-9 p.m. Monday, Oct. 17; 8 a.m.-8 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 18; and 4 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 19, in the Nokomis gymnasium.

The cost of the workshops is $47, and a performing T-shirt is available for an additional $9.50.

Preregistration is suggested, with checks payable to NRHS sent to Tammy Leonard, Sebasticook Valley Middle School, 337 Williams Road, Newport 04953.

Sally Bates of Bangor Center Corp. suggests you might want to visit The Antique Marketplace this weekend in downtown Bangor.

That new Main Street business, in the building that was previously home to the Surplus Store, LaVerdiere’s Drug Store and Woolworth’s, is celebrating its first year of operation by “offering discounts at nearly every booth,” Bates wrote, adding there also will be “lots of door prizes and refreshments all weekend long.”

The celebration takes place during regular business hours Saturday, Oct. 8, through Monday, Oct. 10, at The Antique Marketplace.

Once again, Paula Ballesteros reminds those who love kitchens and delicious food that the Eastern Maine Medical Center Auxiliary Bangor Area Kitchen Tour is 1-4 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 15, in eight area homes.

Tickets are $20 each and are available at the EMMC Gift Shop, Rebecca’s, The Grasshopper Shop, Patrick’s Hallmark, Affiliated Pharmacy, Westgate Pharmacy at the Healthcare Mall and Airline Pharmacy.

For more information, visit www.emmcauxiliary.org.

Rep. Chris Greeley of House District 22, serving Corinth, Glenburn, Kenduskeag and Levant, mailed me a reminder that is of interest not only to his constituents, but to all Maine residents. “Under very special circumstances,” Greeley wrote, “the people of Maine are sometimes eligible for special legislative recognition” known as a Legislative Sentiment.

“These may, potentially, be awarded to people for things like special academic achievement, retirement from a job, certain types of military service” such as serving in Iraq, or placing first or second in a contest.

“Not everyone is eligible,” he said, “but almost everyone has done something in their life to qualify.”

Greeley reports that a Legislative Sentiment “costs the recipient nothing,” and he would “happily hand-deliver it.”

The age of the recipient is not a factor, but the event, or the act, “has to be relatively recent,” he added.

If someone in Greeley’s district would like to receive a Legislative Sentiment, you can contact him and, I believe, that would be equally true for any other legislator.

The site has been changed for Wayne Hamilton’s Power Point presentation, “Hometown Folks: Then and Now,” at 3 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 8, at Searsport District High School.

The program will be presented in the SDHS cafetorium, and is free and open to the public.

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