The public is invited to accept the invitation of Sid and Rainey Stutzman to “join them down by the farm pond” for Sid’s fourth annual Berry Festival.

The traditional baked beans and hamburger barbecue featuring strawberry shortcake topped with their strawberries for dessert, begins at 5 p.m. today, at Stutzman’s Farm in East Sangerville.

The music festival, featuring The Burnham Boys, will be held at 7 p.m.

Admission is $12 for adults, $6 for children under age 12. Tickets are available at Stutzman’s Farm Stand.

All proceeds benefit the farm’s Adopt a Senior Program, to help provide fresh fruits and vegetables for qualifying senior citizens.

For information, call 564-8596.

A special happy birthday salute is extended to former Lincoln resident Ashley Webster, who celebrates his 100th birthday today.

Webster’s niece, Marguerite Eckert, wrote that her uncle “taught school and was principal of the Ella P. Burr Elementary School in Lincoln,” and summered “at his camp in Castine.”

He now resides with family in Massachusetts, but “would love to hear from friends and former students,” Eckert wrote.

Your congratulatory messages can be mailed to Ashley Webster, 9 Linden Circle, Georgetown, Mass. 01833.

On behalf of Centro Hispano of Bangor, CHISPA, a local Spanish cultural group, Norma Peters of Bangor invites you to a CHISPA cultural celebration in recognition of the patriotic days celebrated by the countries of Venezuela, Argentina, Colombia and Peru.

This celebration is 1-5 p.m. Sunday, July 13, in the Campus Center of Peabody Hall at Husson College in Bangor.

The event is free, but donations will be graciously accepted.

Peters reports the event features documentaries and foods, clothing and music native to those countries.

University of Maine professor of anthropology Dan Sandweiss will deliver a presentation about the archaeology of Peru at 3 p.m.

For more information about this event, or CHISPA, call 990-8977 or e-mail chispacentrohispano@hotmail.com.

The deadline for Camden High School alumni to purchase tickets to attend its annual banquet is Friday, July 18, reports Linda Colford.

CHS Alumni, including graduates through 1965, meet for their annual reunion and banquet, beginning with a social hour at 5 p.m. and dinner at 6 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 9, at the American Legion Hall on Limerock Street in Rockland.

Tickets for the banquet are $25 each, and can be obtained by calling Patricia Ayers by July 18, at 236-3192.

Colford, who is publicity chairwoman for the CHS Alumni Association, reports that each year the association awards three scholarships to graduating seniors.

“Contributions to the scholarship fund are always welcome, and may be included with payment for banquet tickets.”

Here is a reminder from Michaeleen Ward that there is “still space on the bus” for anyone who would like to take the St. Croix District Garden Club Tour on Saturday, July 19, to Kingsbrae Gardens, and 12 private gardens, in St. Andrews, New Brunswick.

The bus departs from Ellsworth for the one-day tour. The cost is $97 a person and includes transportation, admission to the gardens, a light lunch and afternoon refreshments. For more information, call Ward at 669-8241.

Members of the Hope Volunteer Fire Department still must raise $40,000 of their $100,000 building fund goal, and they encourage you to help them by purchasing raffle tickets that feature a grand prize of a $300 gas card, a $100 gas card second prize and a $50 gas card third prize.

Tickets are $1 each, or six for $5, and can be purchased at area locations or by calling Reney Crochere at 542-4873.

HVFD reports all proceeds will benefit the New Hope Corner Fire Station Building Fund.

Readers are reminded that friends Nancy Norton of Hudson and Laurie Dunton of Corinth, who both lost sons to cancer, will lead the second annual Hike Up Mount Katahdin to benefit the Maine Children’s Cancer Program and Ronald McDonald House.

The hike begins at 6 a.m. Sunday, July 20, at Mount Katahdin, and anyone who wants to hike is welcome to participate.

There is no minimum donation, and people can hike as far up as they want, or just cheer on the hikers.

For more information, call Norton at 884-4169 or Dunton at 478-4995.

If you cannot participate, but want to contribute to this fundraiser, make out checks to the Shane Wood-Norton Fund and mail them to Norton at 25 Brandy Lane, Hudson 04449, or to Dunton at 471 Tate Road, Corinth 04427.

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