With preparations well under way for the Bangor Area Homeless Shelter Hike to Help End Homelessness up Mount Katahdin on Aug. 2, hike leader and shelter program manager Michael Andrick extends thanks for making this fund-raiser a success.

The event, sponsored by WVII-TV 7, has received assistance through Ken Peters, chief executive officer of Trans Tech Industries of Brewer, and from UPS with the help of Les Titus and Dale Cross, Andrick said.

Thanks are extended to Russell’s Entertainment of Bangor, and for the continued sponsorship of the Bangor Daily News.

Andrick also issues “a sincere thank you to all individuals and businesses who have sponsored a hiker, and we appreciate the help of the community,” which continues to be supportive of the shelter.

Hike donations may be mailed to BAHS, 263 Main St., Bangor 04401, and more information obtained by calling BAHS at 947-0092.

On behalf of Immaculate Conception Catholic Church, Mary Casey invites you to its annual baked bean supper from 4:30 to 6 p.m. Thursday, July 31, at the church in Calais. Bingo follows the supper.

Donations for a yard sale, which is 1-6 p.m. that day at the church, are requested, with the exception of clothing. All proceeds will help defray church expenses.

Bangor’s Reform synagogue, Congregation Beth El, will present the film “Blacks and Jews” at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, July 31, in McCormick Lecture Hall at College of the Atlantic, 105 Eden St., Bar Harbor.

Laura Lindenfeld-Shur will lead a discussion of the film, which addresses black-Jewish relationships and how the media shape and frame conflict.

Additionally, the synagogue’s rabbi, Larry Milder (known for his light-hearted, ironic take on Jewish music) will entertain you at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 5, at Jesup Memorial Library, 34 Mt. Desert St., Bar Harbor.

Both events are free and open to the public.

Silas Yates writes that the terrific Friends of the Witherle Memorial Library 33rd annual book sale is 10 a.m.-2 p.m., Saturday, Aug. 2, at Maine Maritime Academy’s Smith Gymnasium in Castine.

After 12:30 p.m., most books (at one of the largest book sales in New England) will be half-price.

The 31-year-old Camden-Castine Race on Saturday, Aug. 2, and Sunday, Aug. 3, benefits the Brain Injury Association of Maine.

Entering boat owners are asked, but not required, to make contributions to BIA of Maine. For information about the race, call event chairman John Fitzgerald, 236-3603.

For information about BIA of Maine, call director Sandra Thomas, 763-4604, or e-mail kelsie99@tidewater.net.

The 11th St. John Quilt Show, dedicated to the late Ellen Madden, one of its founders, is 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 2, in Pembroke, and new and antique quilts are being sought for inclusion in the show.

If you can lend a quilt for the event, call Bonnie Hunter, 726-5117, or Sharon Lund, 726-4297. The show will include a special exhibit of Madden’s quilts.

The suggested donation is $3. Refreshments will be offered and hourly door prizes awarded. Proceeds will benefit the historic 1855 church.

The Guilford High School-Piscataquis Community High School Alumni Association’s annual banquet and meeting is 4-8:30 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 2, at the PCHS gymnasium.

Dinner is $10 per person, and alumni dues are $5. Call Phil Bullard, 876-2662, or Pat Littlefield, 876-3344, for information.

An alumni golf scramble begins at 12:30 p.m. that day at Piscataquis Country Club. The $25 fee includes a scholarship fund donation. Call Dave Gaw for information, 876-3203.

Also, the 25th anniversary of Little Miracles Country School features an open house from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 3, at the school in Guilford United Methodist Church on School Street.

The 47th Lowell reunion for descendants of Klein and Grace Lowell begins at 11 a.m. Sunday, Aug. 3, at Mallett Hall in Lee.

You should bring a dish to share for lunch, family pictures and an item for the scholarship auction.

Valdine Atwood heads the Burnham Tavern Museum lawn party from 11 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 5, at the museum in Machias.

Proceeds from the 40th annual event, hosted by the Hannah Weston chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution, help maintain the 233-year-old facility that serves as chapter headquarters.

The event includes a light lunch in the tavern kitchen, a tour of the 1770 building, and booths featuring everything from white-elephant items to crafts.

Beginning the week of Aug. 11, the Greenville High School auditorium will undergo a major stage renovation, and your volunteer labor is essential.

A local committee raised $36,000 to replace the original, 1935 curtain rigging and scenery but to remain within budget, volunteer labor, under a professional rigging supervisor, is needed.

The work will take approximately two weeks.

Anyone who is comfortable working on a 30-foot scaffold with a safety harness, is able to work an eight-hour day, and can commit to at least two days, is asked to call Dale Murray, 695-2625.

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