Friends and community members are hosting a benefit supper for Steven and Tina Mace from 4 to 7 p.m. Saturday, May 13, at the American Legion Hall on Park Street in Dover-Foxcroft.

According to Sherry French, Tina Mace has been dealing with a life-limiting illness for several months, and her husband has been caring for her in their home.

Proceeds from the supper will be used to provide needed respite care for Steven.

The meal features spaghetti with all the trimmings, and admission is by donation.

You are urged to come with a good appetite, enjoy the meal in the company of family and community, and help support the Maces during this difficult time.

If you cannot attend but would like to help with this fundraiser, you can receive more information by calling French at 564-2642 or Andrea Gilbert at 876-4081.

Volunteers are needed to help load, unload and sort food for the 14th annual National Association of Letter Carriers National Food Drive, Saturday, May 13.

That day, you are asked to put nonperishable food items in a box or bag next to your mailbox. Donations will be collected during regular mail delivery.

Your letter carrier will leave a thank you postcard at your mailbox. On the card will be a unique number you can use to register at www.ksqfm.com for a chance to win prizes, thanks to a partnership with Clear Channel KISS 94.5 FM.

If you receive your mail at the post office, you can leave donations in the lobby.

This year’s collection goal for eastern Maine is 20,000 pounds.

Anyone who can help with the work on the day of the event should call Jamie Comstock at United Way of Eastern Maine, 941-2800, e-mail jamiec@unitedwayem.org or follow the volunteer opportunities link at the UWEM Web site, www.unitedwayem.org.

My colleague, Nancy Golding, is lieutenant governor of the New England District of Kiwanis, and she wants readers to know that four local Kiwanis Clubs are hosting bicycle safety events on Saturday, May 13.

The Dover-Foxcroft Police Department will conduct bike safety checks, and second-graders will receive free helmets and fittings from 9 to 11 a.m. at the Piscataquis Regional YMCA. Snacks will be provided and the contact person for this event is Joe Guyotte, 564-2187.

The Mount Desert Island Kiwanis Club Bike Rodeo is from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. that day at the municipal parking lot in Southwest Harbor.

Representatives of the local police department and the Southwest Bike Shop will assist in safety checks and helmet fittings, and the club will provide helmets to children attending this event.

Refreshments will be available, and the contact person is Beth Clements at 266-5538.

A joint event by Bangor Breakfast and Bangor Noon Kiwanis begins at 10 a.m. at the P.A.L. Center on Watchmaker Street, off Essex Street in Bangor.

Children completing the bicycle safety course receive a helmet, a fitting, a safety goodie bag and have a chance to win a new bike.

The Bangor Police Department will honor the winners of the safety poster contest, and a bike auction will be conducted beginning at 11 a.m.

Refreshments will be available. Contact Kim Whitmore at 990-8076 for more information.

Sue Kircheis, secretary of the board of trustees of the Simpson Memorial Library in Carmel, invites members of the public to attend its benefit book sale from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. Friday, May 12, and from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday, May 13, at the library.

She reports the library will be closed for regular business on Saturday.

“During the year,” she wrote, “we cull some books that have not circulated in a long time” and put them in the sale.

“In addition, we have many books donated each year,” some of which “are added to our collection while duplicates are put into our book sale.”

Kircheis wrote that you will find “a wide selection of hardcover and paperback books.”

The Penquis Community Action Program’s 16th annual Mother’s Day 5-K Road Race begins with registration at 7 a.m. and the race at 8:30 a.m., Sunday, May 14, at the intersection of Pleasant and Union streets in Rockland.

Advanced registration is $15 each or $20 for a family, with an additional $2 charged for all divisions on race day.

Registration forms are available at Penquis CAP, 170 Pleasant Street in Rockland, or at www.penquiscap.org.

For more information, call 596-0361.

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