You should be ordering your tickets now for “In Grand Style,” the fourth annual luncheon and fashion show to benefit The Grand in Ellsworth, because the event is always a sellout, reports fashion show committee co-chairwoman Paula Kee.

The event begins with a chicken salad or vegetarian quiche luncheon at noon and the show begins at 1 p.m. Friday, Aug. 18, at Ellsworth Holiday Inn.

Tickets are $25 and can be obtained by calling The Grand box office, 667-9500.

Kee reports the fundraiser, sponsored by Bar Harbor Bank and Trust Co., Kelco Industries, Machias Saving Bank and Union Trust Co., will feature WLBZ-TV’s meteorologist Steve McKay as master of ceremonies, and piano accompaniment by Janet Pearson and Ann O’Neill.

Models will wear fashions and accessories from The Avenue at Beals Jewelry, The Grasshopper Shop, Ruth Foster’s and Terra Cotta of Ellsworth, Rosen’s of Bucksport, Sara Sara of Blue Hill, Talbot’s of Bangor and The Kimball Shop and The Romantic Room of Northeast Harbor.

The event also will feature jewelry raffles, gift baskets and more, Kee wrote.

Proceeds benefit The Grand, which Kee describes as “your Downeast cultural center offering live theater, children’s summer workshops and educational programs, film, performing artists and ever-changing art exhibits” in the newly-renovated Art Deco lobby.

In addition to attending this Grand fundraiser, Kee hopes you will “be sure to visit” the theater on Main Street in Ellsworth “this season, and enjoy our beautiful, new facility and comfy new seats!”

The first SummerKeys Mary Potterton Memorial Concert Faculty Chamber Concert features flutist Suzanne Gilchrest, clarinetist Anna Maria Baeza, guitarist Winslow Browning, cellist Biana Kovic; and pianist Bruce Potterton at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 2, at Lubec Congregational Christian Church.

The event is free, but donations for the Piano Tuning Fund are appreciated.

Intermission refreshments will be served by Bayside Chocolates. The Concert Boat, accessible for a fee, will make the Eastport-to-Lubec round trip. Call 853-2500 for reservations.

Here’s a reminder that the 2006 Relay for Life of Washington County begins at 6 p.m. Friday, Aug. 4, at Washington County Community College on River Road in Calais.

Participants will walk around-the-clock to raise funds for the American Cancer Society.

A family-oriented event, teams can include co-workers, neighborhood groups, family members, friends and business associates who have gathered donations prior to the event.

Marianne Moore is the event chair, and more information about how to form a Rely for Life team is available by calling ACS-2345 or at www.cancer.org.

Ione Rush of Dover-Foxcroft wrote that due to illness in the family some relatives might think there is no Rush Family Reunion this summer, but that is not the case.

The reunion begins with a potluck dinner at 1 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 5, at the Rush Farm in Monticello.

For more information, call Marjorie Rush at 532-2729.

Lois Rowe e-mailed that Nokomis Regional High School Alumni will be holding their yearly reunion beginning at 8 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 5, at Millennium in Palmyra.

Admission is $10, payable at the door, and “the honor classes are all the classes ending in 1 and 6,” she wrote.

Rowe’s class was 1976, the year of America’s bicentennial.

In recognition and honor of that event, she wrote, the class colors were red, white and blue, so she hopes her fellow classmates will dress in those colors for the reunion.

“Does anyone remember our class song,” she asked? “I do, I think.”

Rowe hopes to see you all there, and invites you to call her at 234-2183 or e-mail lrowe@uninets.net if you have questions or need more information.

Although e-mails and letters have been sent to as many classmates as possible, announcing the 20th reunion of Bangor High School Class of 1986, Karen Pooler believes the reunion committee “didn’t get to everyone,” so she’s providing contact names and numbers for those individuals the committee may have missed.

The BHS 20th Class Reunion begins with an informal gathering at 7 p.m. Friday, Aug. 11, at the Sea Dog Restaurant in Bangor.

A family day is planned for noon to 4 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 12, at Hayford Park on 13th Street in Bangor, and the reunion dinner is 6 that evening at Jeff’s Catering in Brewer.

For more information, or to make your reservations, call Pooler at 949-4997, Dana Billington at 945-9786, or e-mail bangorrams86@yahoo.com.

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