Friends, community members and family are holding a benefit spaghetti supper from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 10, at the Guilford United Methodist Church on School Street in Guilford.

Donations will be accepted at the door, and 50-50 raffle tickets will be sold.

All proceeds benefit Exeter resident Terri Pushor Lemieux and her family.

Lemieux and her husband, Steve, are the parents of two young sons, Ben and Kyle. A 1986 graduate of Eastern Maine Technical College in Bangor, Lemieux experienced her first occurrence of melanoma that year. Unfortunately, the disease returned 10 years later, and she had a third recurrence this year.

Just having completed three weeks of full-brain radiation treatment, Lemieux expects to be accepted in the Clinical Case Trial Vaccine Study for Preventative Melanoma in California.

However, her participation in that program is not covered by insurance.

According to Sharon O’Connell of Guilford, several area businesses “have donated food for this supper,” and the balance of purchases for the benefit was made possible through the generous financial donations of other community members.

The supper is an all-round community effort, “with lots of helpers,” O’Connell said.

Anyone who cannot attend the benefit supper but would like to help Lemieux in her fight against cancer can send donations to the Terri Lemieux Fund, c/o Judy Folsom, Key Bank, P.O. Box 57, Guilford 04443.

Some Bangor High School students who hope to help make a difference in the lives of others are selling holiday ornaments on three different dates: from 3 p.m. to close Wednesday, Nov. 7; Wednesday, Nov. 28, and Wednesday, Dec. 19, at the community booth in the Bangor Mall.

Mikaela Bolduc and Katy Weber are heading the Ornament Project that benefits Partners in Ending Hunger, a Camden-based nonprofit organization that focuses on ending hunger in the United States.

The organization operates with a global view while acting locally, as this project demonstrates.

The holiday ornaments are handcrafted of papier-mache and hand-painted by artists in India who are members of cooperatives. The artists are paid fair wages for their work.

Bolduc and Weber, who are members of the BHS National Honor Society, said, “We really just wanted to volunteer for the cause, and to help out in any way that we could.”

And they are not alone.

“More and more people are getting involved,” they said.

My officemate and Katy’s dad, Tom Weber, told me the ornaments are “exquisite.”

The ornaments sell for $6 each, or two for $10.

David Kroehler of Bangor called to say that members of the Bangor Community Chorus are seeking some youthful voices to join them for their Christmas concerts.

“We’re looking for young singers between the ages of 8 and 14,” he said of girls, and boys “whose voices have not yet changed.”

The chorus will be offering its Christmas presentations the first weekend in December.

And while the chorus rehearses on Tuesday evenings, Kroehler said the youngsters “can rehearse another time. All those details can be worked out.”

“We just have several songs that need soloists, and we thought children’s voices would be perfect for those solos,” he explained.

If you are interested, please call Kroehler immediately at 947-2486.

If he is not available, leave a message on his voice mail.

The Aroostook Agency on Aging has initiated a program to help provide computers for senior citizens living in that part of the state.

The agency is seeking computers with Windows 95 or a newer program that have modems.

If you have a computer you would like to donate to this program, call Dottie Sines at 764-3396, e-mail arooage@ainop.com or call (800) 439-1789.

What a terrific idea!

“More than Just Leaf-Peeping” is the title of a presentation at 10:30 a.m. Saturday, Nov. 10, in the Riverview Room of the Ellsworth Public Library, 20 State St. in Ellsworth.

“More than Just Leaf-Peeping” features Ann Rivers of the Acadia Wildlife Foundation who will agree with you that a brisk fall walk in our Maine woods is a wonderful experience but, she will ask, “What would you do if you found an injured or sick animal?”

To help answer that question, Rivers will present a video and slide show program, and provide take-home materials about wildlife rehabilitation.

A program for the whole family, this is a rescheduling of an event originally planned for October.

For information, call Julie Gillette at 667-6363.

River City Therapy Associates is holding Veterans Massage Day from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Friday, Nov. 9, at River City Therapy, 229 State St. in Bangor.

To demonstrate their appreciation for veterans’ service to our country, four therapists will provide complimentary massage therapy sessions.

The therapists will help provide stress relief through 15-minute chair or table massage sessions.

For information about this free service, call Debra Roof at 990-0188.

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