Mixed teams are encouraged but not mandatory, reports Cindy Fielding of the 8th Ankh Temple 160 Daughters of the Nile Golf Tournament that begins with registration at 9:30 a.m. and a shotgun start at 10 a.m. Saturday, Sept. 8, at Hermon Meadow Golf Club.

The tournament “is a best-ball format, with teams of three or four players,” Fielding said, and “everyone is welcome” to participate.

Your $45 entry fee includes 18 holes of golf, a cart and lunch, which is planned for approximately 3 p.m., when awards will be presented at the 19th Hole.

Fielding reports that, in addition to golfers, hole sponsors are welcome for $150.

“We will put up a sign with the company name [or your name] at a tee box and on the scoreboard, the day of the tournament,” Fielding said.

“If you would like to support us, as a friend, a donation of $50 to $100 will enable us to post a sign with your company name at the scoreboard the day of the tournament.”

Fielding said proceeds from this annual event benefit the funds established by the Daughters of the Nile “to help support the Shrine Hospitals for Children.”

For more information, to register, or to become a sponsor or friend, write Lorena Fenlason, 262 Copeland Hill Road, Holden, 04429; call her at 989-3664; or fax her at 989-6802.

If you have not played golf at Hermon Meadow before, this is a wonderful opportunity to test your skills on this delightful course, have fun and help a worthy cause at the same time.

Sandra Gordon of Waldo County Healthcare reminds all caregivers, their friends and family that the regular monthly meeting of the Waldo County Family Caregiver Education and Support Group is noon to 1 p.m. today in the Education Center of Waldo County General Hospital, 118 Northport Ave., Belfast.

Everyone is welcome to share experiences or concerns about care giving at this group meeting with Brenda Whitley of the Family Caregiver Support Program of Senior Spectrum and Margie Spencer-Smith of Waldo County Home Health & Hospice.

You may bring your lunch, and drinks will be provided.

For more information about this program, call Whitley, 800- 282-0764, ext. 127; or Spencer-Smith, 338-2268.

If you cannot attend this meeting, the next one is planned for Tuesday, Sept. 25.

Here’s a reminder from Millinocket Regional Hospital Auxiliary president Joyce Given that its Book Fair by Imagine Nation Books is 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. today and 7 a.m. to 3 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 29, in the ground floor Multi-Purpose Room of MRH, 200 Somerset St., in Millinocket.

Hundreds of books for all ages and at discount prices will be available to the public.

Proceeds benefit the auxiliary’s scholarship fund.

One sure sign summer is sadly coming to a close is word from Ann Carter that the final SummerKeys’ Mary Potterton Memorial Concert is 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 29, at Lubec Congregational Christian Church.

The concert is free, but any contributions to the piano tuning fund are always welcome.

The Concert Boat is available for a fee to transport attendees from Eastport to Lubec and back. For more information or reservations, call 853-2500.

The closing concert features SummerKeys founder and director Bruce Potterton on the piano and cellist Peter Lewy.

A mid-August yard sale to help with expenses incurred by former Mainer and current Colorado resident Todd Mitchell, who is receiving treatment for a very rare form of cancer, was very successful for which family and friends are very grateful.

Gail Creath of Holden wrote that Mitchell’s sisters, Michele Mitchell and Holly Chapman, “received many more donated items from caring friends and neighbors who wish to help Todd while he undergoes more chemo and radiation.”

To that end, the sisters are hosting another benefit yard sale for Todd Mitchell beginning at 8 a.m. Saturday, Sept. 1, at East Eddington Community Church on Route 9 in that community.

Jonathan Falk, director of Peace through Interamerican Community Action in Bangor, reports the Sister City Marketing Committee is planning a mid-September yard sale and is seeking donations of items.

“The Marketing Committee’s sales of products from Carasque’s sewing and crochet co-ops are a major source of income and employment for our sister community” in El Salvador, he explained.

To donate items, excluding clothing, call Francine Wickes, 945-0020, or e-mail fraw@juno.com.

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