Former East Millinocket resident, Old Orchard Beach firefighter and current Virginia resident 27-year-old Andy Turcotte is being treated for a rare form of spinal cancer, and friends back home are try to help him.

The On Fire for Andy Committee is working to raise money to complement two events that will benefit the young man who is the son of Dennis and Patti Turcotte of East Millinocket and Milan, N.H.

Tickets are on sale for a comedy show Friday, June 27, at Scarborough High School, featuring Paul Nardizzi.

Tickets are $15 and can be purchased from Peter Larlee, 746-0047, or at the East Millinocket Fire House.

The Five Alarm 5K Road Race is Saturday, June 28, in Scarborough. Entry forms, pledge sheets and more information are available at the race Web site, 5alarm5k.org.

Super Raffle Tickets also are being sold by Larlee, and are available at the East Millinocket Fire House, offering 30 prizes ranging from an Old Town kayak to trip packages.

Larlee wrote that Turcotte has “saved a lot of lives. Now it is time to help him.”

This weekend’s events are being sponsored by Scarborough Family Chiropractic and the Old Orchard Beach Fire Department.

Jan Crofoot e-mailed information about several summer events held by members of the Blue Hill Historical Society, so here are four you might want to mark on your calendar.

First, Al “Barney” Boardman will give a slide presentation about flying his own plane cross-country, at 7 tonight at the BHS Holt House Carriage House on Water Street in Blue Hill. There is no admission fee.

Second, the Holt House will be open for tours the afternoon of Friday, July 4, to celebrate “A Day to Remember.”

Third, the BHS will hold a series of four walking tours of Blue Hill neighborhoods on Tuesdays and Fridays, beginning at 9 a.m. Tuesday, July 8, from the Holt House.

Fourth, the Holt Hose will be open Tuesdays, Fridays and Saturdays during the summer for tours with guides. For tour times, check the sign on the Holt House door, or call Crofoot at 374-3277.

In a later column, I’ll have more information, from Crofoot, about other BHS activities.

Staff of Marine Environmental Research Institute invite you to an Ocean Environment Lecture, “Lobsters, Then and Now: A Century of Research and Attempted Management.”

The lecture features University of Rhode Island professor emeritus of biology Dr. Stanley Cobb, at 7 p.m., Thursday, June 26, at MERI Center for Marine Studies, 55 Main St., Blue Hill.

Before the lecture, at 6 p.m., you can attend the Ocean Art Gallery opening of “Blue Hill Landscapes,” featuring the work of East Blue Hill painter Wendy Lewis.

A portion of the proceeds of the sale of the oil pastels will benefit MERI research.

Members of Bridgewater Community Club are planning a fashion show for July 24 in conjunction with the community’s sesquicentennial celebration.

The show will feature fashions from each decade, beginning with the 1850s, wrote Diane Clough.

Each Thursday, until the show date, club members will meet to work on this event.

The next meeting is 7 p.m., Thursday, June 26, at either the Bridgewater Free Baptist Church or at the home of Pat Lenentine, 386 Main St. Call her, at 429-9444, for the correct site.

Clough wrote that “anyone who has clothes for the show, or who would like to model, or help with the show is invited to attend the work sessions,” and you can call Lenentine for more information about this, as well.

Kathie Norwood of Downeast Health Services e-mailed that Union Trust Co. in Ellsworth, a division of Camden National Bank, is displaying, for sale, donated pieces of artwork by the Moise family to benefit DHS.

The bank is open 8:30 a.m.-4 p.m. Monday through Thursday, and 8:30 a.m.-5 p.m. Fridays, at 66 Main St., Ellsworth.

Local artist and DHS board member Renata Moise has donated a 1969, oil-on-canvas painting by her father, the late William Moise, titled “Sorrento Harbor.”

She also will be selling a limited number of signed and numbered reproductions of two of her 2007 oil-on-canvas paintings. The framed and matted prints are $200 each, and proceeds will benefit programs of DHS.

To order a reproduction, contact Moise, P.O. Box 53, Hancock 04640; call 422-6854, or e-mail either antren@verizon.net or info@downeasthealth.org.

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