Teenager Olivia Walden of Jersey Shores, Pa., is battling brain cancer, and friends of her family here in Maine are doing what they can to assist with expenses caused by her illness.

Olivia is the daughter of Kim and Vivian Walden, who are serving with New Tribes Missions in Jersey Shores. Kim Walden is a former Greenville resident and Greenville High School graduate.

According to its Web site, “through evangelism, Bible translation and discipleship, missionaries serving with New Tribes Mission are planting churches among unreached people groups” throughout the world.

To help the Walden family during their daughter’s illness, a benefit supper for Olivia is planned for 5-7 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 9, at Greenville High School.

The menu includes baked beans, hot dogs, yeast rolls, pickles, assorted pies and beverages.

Admission is by donation.

If you cannot attend but would like to help the family, contributions can be sent to either Grace Bible Church of Sangerville, 40 Douty Hill Road, Sangerville 04479, or Church of the Open Bible, 8 Sherwood Drive, P.O. Box 635, Greenville 04441.

For information or to contact the family, call Parker Reardon, 564-8650, or Peter Canterra, 695-2222.

The public is invited to attend the annual Maine Indian Basketmakers’ sale and demonstration from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 9, at Hudson Museum at Maine Center for the Arts on the campus of the University of Maine in Orono.

The event features the work of more than 30 Maliseet, Micmac, Passamaquoddy and Penobscot artists.

At the sale, you will find handmade, one-of-a-kind, ash-splint and sweet-grass basketry that includes creels, pack and potato baskets and fancy baskets. Porcupine quill jewelry, wood carvings and birch bark work also will be on sale.

Members of the Penobscot Nation Boys and Girls Club will sell traditional food, including hull corn soup, fry bread and blueberry desserts, and you will enjoy music, traditional drumming, dancing and demonstrations throughout the day.

And while admission is free from 10 a.m. on, if you wish to be an “early bird,” you can enter at 9 a.m. for a $10 fee.

Raffle tickets for a basket made by renowned basketmaker Theresa Secord of the Penobscot Nation are $5 each and available at the Hudson Museum Shop during the event. Secord is executive director of the Maine Indian Basketmakers Alliance.

According to a university release, in 2003 Secord became the first U.S. citizen to receive the Prize for Creativity in Rural Life from the Women’s World Summit Foundation at the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland.

For information, call the Hudson Museum at 581-1901.

Doris Seger informs us that Friends of the River Coalition is sponsoring its third annual Holiday Hullabaloo 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 9, at the Old Town Library.

During that time, children under 10 can visit its Children’s Holiday Shopping Mall where they can “purchase presents for their family for $1 each,” Seger wrote, and have the Christmas elves “wrap and label all presents purchased.”

Photos with Santa Claus, which will be framed, are just $4 each.

Holiday Hullabaloo includes a basket raffle with donated items from representatives of local businesses, schools and organizations.

Tickets are $5 for 25 for the baskets that have an estimated value of $40 or more. Names of the winners will be announced that day and winners do not need to be present.

Also, the Canoe Hullabaloo Cookbook will be on sale; the event will include the library’s annual cookie sale; at 2 p.m., the Old Town Museum will present “Christmas with Elvis”; and then, to complete this full day of activity in Old Town, the city’s tree-lighting ceremony takes place at 5 p.m. in Riverfront Park.

On behalf of the German Club of Bangor, Anette Ruppel Rodrigues invites you to enjoy Weihnachtsmarkt, a Christmas market, from noon to 3:30 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 9, at Bangor Museum and Center for History at 25 Broad St. in Bangor.

Rodrigues wrote “that the German Edelweiss Club is organizing” the event “to benefit the museum.”

During Weihnachtsmarkt, you will enjoy some of the sights, sounds, smells and tastes of German Christmas traditions that have become part of our country’s holiday celebrations.

Weihnachtsmarkt will feature Christmas cookies, stollen, Christmas decorations and a cafe with coffee and cakes.

Half of all proceeds will be donated to the Center for History.

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