Passadumkeag Grange 586 has chosen a great way to help raise funds to support what member Beatrice Mottram describes as the Grange’s “many charitable contributions requested throughout the year.”

To help meet the needs of those it serves, this Grange is hosting a Father’s Day Dinner with servings at noon and at 1 p.m. Father’s Day, Sunday, June 15, at the Passadumkeag Community Building, 34 Pleasant St.

The menu is baked ham and assorted vegetables with strawberry shortcake for dessert, Mottram wrote.

There will be no tipping, she added, “but there will be door prizes” offered.

For adults with reservations, the cost is $8, or $10 at the door.

For children under 12, with reservations, the cost is $4.50, or $5 at the door.

Mottram wrote that “advance reservations would be appreciated,” and you can mail them to Lillian Marquis, 94 Main Road, Passadumkeag 04475.

For information about this special Father’s Day activity, call one of the event co-chairwomen: Marquis at 732-3232 or Alice Dolley at 827-5864.

Diane Whitney invites you to attend the First Congregational Church of Lincoln’s second annual Plant Sale, featuring perennials, beginning at 8 a.m. Saturday, June 14, at the church, 15 School St.

The sale will continue “until 11 a.m., if there are still plants available at that time,” Whitney wrote.

Last year’s sale was not only a success but was fun as well because all the plants that were donated came from gardens of friends and church members.

The plants sell for $1, $2 or $3 each, Whitney wrote, adding that “anyone who buys perennials, these days, knows this is a bargain.”

Carol Higgins Taylor of Eastern Area Agency on Aging in Bangor invites the public to attend a free workshop on Medicare and Long-Term Planning from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday, June 14, in Peakes Auditorium at Bangor High School, 885 Broadway.

Doors open at 8:30 a.m., she wrote. Refreshments will be available. From 9 to 9:30 a.m., you can visit information tables that will be set up outside the auditorium and at the same time you can drop off unused or expired prescription drugs at a TRIAD table.

Anyone of any age is welcome to attend and learn about changes in Medicare and obtain up-to-date information about retirement.

The program is co-sponsored by Rosscare, and more information is available by calling Eastern Area Agency on Aging at 941-2865.

Young people who are members of St. Matthew’s, St. Gabriel’s and St. Teresa’s Roman Catholic churches are planning a Canadian Shrines Youth Pilgrimage and are working hard to help defray costs of that trip.

Anne Gabbianelli O’Reilly reports a “grand fundraising day for the junior high-high school pilgrimage” is planned rain or shine from 9 a.m. to noon Saturday, June 14, at St. Matthew’s church parking lot at the corner of Routes 9 and 202 in Hampden.

At this event you can have your car washed, “buy some baked goodies and bring your returnable bottles,” she wrote, adding that “if you have too many bottles, we’ll come to you!”

Raffle tickets for an afghan will be on sale, and orders will be taken for Fernwood collectibles, which she described as “free-standing wooden blocks” of each of the three churches.

You can also participate in the raffle or place a Fernwood order at Masses through June and July, O’Reilly wrote.

For information or to ask about having returnables picked up, call O’Reilly at 862-2222.

Here’s an update from Rory Schmand of Sangerville about the next fundraiser for Pirate Rec, the group working to send 33 Piscataquis County girls to the Next Level Basketball Camp this summer in Waterville.

Pirate Rec will hold a spaghetti supper from 5 to 7 p.m. Saturday, June 14, at the United Methodist Church in Guilford.

Admission will be by donation.

President Renee Overlock of the National Association of Letter Carriers Branch 391 reports the 16th annual Letter Carriers Food Drive in May collected 129,432 pounds of food for local food banks and pantries.

Central Maine Merged Branch 391 thanks everyone “who gave their time, energy and food to help make the ’08 Food Drive the most successful ever held,” Overlock wrote.

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