United Cerebral Palsy of Maine wants you to “dust off your duds and save the date” for its ninth annual Line Dance, which begins with registration from 10 to 11 a.m., and the dance from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, April 5, at the Eagles Club in Brewer.

Hoping to “pack the house,” wrote staff member Deb Blease, readers are encouraged “to get out there, spread the word, and fill pledge sheets.”

The cost is $10 per dancer, and $5 for spectators.

Prizes will be awarded the individual, and the organization, collecting the most money.

“We will have lots of great giveaways, great music and dance lessons,” Blease added, and the event is all for a great cause, to support children with disabilities.

Now, about those dance lessons.

“We are looking for dance instructors for the day of the event,” Blease wrote.

“If your club would like to be spotlighted, or you have an idea for a featured dance,” you are asked to call UCP at 941-2952 and dial 0.

Dance instructors are asked to reply by Thursday, March 20.

“We want this to be the largest, and most fun, line dance that Maine has ever seen,” Blease wrote. “We count on you to make that happen. We hope you join us for a whooping good time!”

Two sessions remain in this winter’s Ellsworth Area Reads project, which focuses on “Go Ask Alice,” the story of a young girl’s journey on a path of drug abuse.

“Yesterday’s Alice, Today’s Augusta,” is a book discussion beginning at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, March 20, in the Riverview Room of the Ellsworth Public Library, 20 State St.

The presenter will be Martha Tod Dudman, author of “Augusta, Gone.”

At the final session participants will view a film and discuss “Go Ask Alice,” followed by pizza, at 3:30 p.m. Wednesday, March 26, at Ellsworth High School on Outer State Street.

The presenter will be Jessica Naylor of the Open Door Recovery Center.

“Go Ask Alice” was chosen for this Ellsworth Area Reads project because of its focus on an issue of increasing concern in the Down East area.

The series, sponsored by the library, University College at Ellsworth, The Ellsworth American, Ellsworth Area Chamber of Commerce, Downeast Health Services and Ellsworth Rotary, is free and open to the public.

For more information, visit www.ellsworthamerican.com/reads.

May Pardy of the Winterport Woman’s Club Community Auction says, “Cash or checks will be accepted and new and old stuff will be available,” for the event that begins with a preview at 6 p.m. and is followed by the auction from 7 to 9 p.m. Friday, March, 21, at the Wagner Middle School, 40 Mountain View Drive in Winterport.

Funds raised at the auction will benefit WWC community service projects, and the money made by Partners in Education, who will be selling refreshments for your enjoyment, will help support PIE school programs.

Walter Macdougall, secretary of the Brownville Assembly Advisory Board, invites interested girls age 11 and older to learn about International Order of the Rainbow for Girls.

Macdougall invites the girls to be guests of the Assembly at a dinner and program, beginning at 6:30 p.m. Saturday, March 22, at the Milo Masonic Hall.

The meeting, he wrote, offers girls “who have wondered about Rainbow to discover a very special opportunity. Rainbow’s beliefs and practices join with the purposes of churches and schools, and provide an important contribution to the family and community.”

Macdougall reports that the “Brownville Assembly has a very busy year ahead.”

“Besides service projects and fun times,” he wrote, the local organization will serve as the host assembly for the Rainbow Grand Assembly, which will be held in May at Husson College in Bangor.

For more information about this particular event, or Rainbow for Girls, call 943-2331.

Here’s a tip of the Bangor Daily News cap to members of the Skowhegan-Madison Elks Lodge.

Due to “unexpected success with some fund-raising activities last summer, along with many generous individual donations,” member Mike Lange wrote saying that the lodge recently “voted to donate $15,000 to the Maine Children’s Cancer Program.”

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