Caribou Council for the Arts member Theresa Cyr e-mailed me last week to report that plans are well under way for the Caribou Performing Arts Center 20th anniversary celebration in May.

In January 1988, she wrote, CPAC “celebrated its grand opening with a family-oriented performance by the New England Vaudevillians.”

“Since that opening event, 20 years ago, the CPAC stage has seen a wide variety of performances, enthusiastically supported by our community.”

Among the “regular users” of the facility, she explained, are “civic organizations, the hospital, nonprofit organizations, the choral society and, of course, the Caribou school system.”

As CPAC supporters prepare for this anniversary, they are asking for your help to make this “celebration event extra-special,” Cyr wrote.

“If you have a story to tell about CPAC, want to make a financial contribution to support the celebration, or have time to volunteer” during the event, you are asked to call CPAC director Ginny White at 493-4278, or Council for the Arts president Betty Rinehart at 498-2173.

The University of Maine reports its Employee Wellness Program, Healthy U, is bringing a free, traveling tour, “Komen On the Go” to the Orono campus.

Part of the Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure national community education and outreach program dedicated to the eradication of breast cancer, the bright pink Komen On the Go semitrailer will be parked from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. today in the parking lot of North Gym near the Memorial Gymnasium Field House.

The public is invited, and encouraged, to visit. The trailer, an interactive learning center, offers up-to-date breast health information and details on the Komen Race for the Cure.

For more information about the UMaine stop, call Erin Whitehouse, 581-4058, or e-mail erinwhitehouse@umit.Maine.edu.

For more information about this program, visit the Komen On the Go Web site at www.komen.org/go.

You can receive more information about Komen Race for the Cure by calling Jeni Lloyd, education chair for the Maine Affiliate of the Susan G. Komen For the Cure, at 862-6670.

Joyce Given, president of Millinocket Regional Hospital Auxiliary, wrote the auxiliary is sponsoring its Imagine Nation Two-Day Book Fair, with proceeds benefiting MRH Auxiliary scholarships.

The book fair is from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. today, and 7 a.m. to 3 p.m. Tuesday, April 8, in the Multi-Purpose Room, on the ground floor of MRH, 200 Somerset St. in Millinocket.

The event is open not only to MRH employees, but also to members of the public.

The public is invited to a Spaghetti Dinner and Band Night beginning with dinner at 5:30 p.m. and the All-City Band concert at 7 p.m. Wednesday, April 9, at Brewer High School.

Proceeds will benefit BHS students who will be performing at a music festival this month in Williamsburg, Va.

Tickets are $5 for adults, $3 for children and $15 for families.

Among the performers will be the BHS Concert Band, the Brewer Middle School Band, the Grade 5 Band and the University of Maine Symphonic Band.

For more information, call Brewer director of bands, Brady Harris, at 989-4140.

Kathryn Mekelburg of Robbinston sends out “a message for all you ‘cabin-fever’ sufferers,” adding that “a cure is just around the corner.”

Mekelburg invites you to attend the opening luncheon of the St. Croix Valley International Garden Club at 11:30 a.m. Wednesday, April 16, at Willow Woods in Perry.

The cost for members and guests is $15, but reservations must be made by Wednesday, April 9, by calling 454-7314.

The luncheon menu includes quiches, salad, fruit, rolls, Black Forest cake, coffee or tea.

“Overlooking Boyden’s lake,” Mekelburg wrote, “Willow Woods, formerly the Crohn Conference Center off South Meadow Road in Perry, is the perfect setting.”

Mekelburg encourages you to “bring a friend, or two, and join in the camaraderie of Garden Club members.”

Bangor High School art teacher Sarah Tabor of Corinth wrote she is organizing another “educational trip,” during vacation week of April 2009, “to major art cities” in Italy.

The trip is open to high school students and their family members.

This will be the third trip Tabor and her husband, Central High School of Corinth geography teacher Jerry Cunningham, have led, and this one will take participants to Venice, Florence, Pisa, Assisi, Rome and the Vatican.

Anyone who is interested in this educational experience is welcome to contact Tabor at kelmscott7@roadrunner.com.

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