Half of the proceeds from the annual Garlic Festival, which is 1-5 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 20, at Ray’s Tavern at the Atlantic Brewing Co. in Town Hill, will benefit The Women’s Collective, according to tavern manager Garrett Fitzgerald.

WoCo is a relatively new nonprofit organization supporting women and girls on Mount Desert Island. The funds from the Garlic Festival will help WoCo support its body image and media literacy documentary project to be produced by MDI High School girls.

Under the direction of WoCo director Milja Brecher-DeMuro, the student documentary project will examine the relationship between media influence and positive self-image in Maine women and girls.

Admission to the Garlic Festival is $15 and includes all-you-can-eat garlic and smoked foods, beverages, live music and a kid’s corner.

To learn more about the MDI documentary or what you can do to help support this worthwhile project for young women of Maine, call Brecher-DeMuro at 288-0660 or e-mail milja@women.mdimaine.us.

The public is invited to help the Maine-ly Music Chorus, the Bangor Chapter of the Society for the Preservation and Encouragement of Barbershop Quartet Singing in America, celebrate its 30th anniversary during a 2 p.m. concert, Saturday, Sept. 20, at Hermon High School.

The concert titled, “Give Me A Barbershop Song,” will feature the guest quartet Limelight from Nashua, N.H.

Limelight is the 2003 Granite and Pine Division champions, reports chorus member Russ Van Arsdale. The division includes Maine and New Hampshire.

Admission is $10.

This concert “is new, in the sense that it is an afternoon show only, and at a new location outside Bangor,” Van Arsdale said.

He said chorus members “are hoping the new afternoon hours will be more suitable for those who are not comfortable driving at night,” and reminds readers that the HHS facility is handicap accessible.

Proceeds from the event help the chorus support its charitable works, including United Cerebral Palsy of Northeastern Maine, and the Harmony Foundation, a national charity of the society, Van Arsdale explained.

For tickets or information about the chorus, call Bill Campbell at 942-3594.

We’ll have more information about the work of the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill, courtesy of NAMI’s Bangor affiliate, next month.

But, for now, Nancy Grimes of NAMI-Bangor has this message for readers.

She wants to remind you that NAMI-Bangor is “offering a free, mental health education workshop for families and friends of people with mental illness.”

The workshop is the third Sunday of each month at Acadia Hospital on Stillwater Avenue in Bangor.

The next NAMI workshop is 1-3 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 21, at Acadia.

Free educational material is given to participants of the workshop.

Grimes wrote of those who do attend, from such distances as Lincoln and Castine, “they offer great evaluations” of the workshops, which makes her hopeful that even more people will participate in the future.

If you would like more information about NAMI and the programs it offers, call Grimes at 223-5686.

Nancy Carter of Bucksport will participate in the 15th annual Boston Marathon Jimmy Fund Walk on Sunday, Sept. 21.

Carter will be one of more than 8,000 participants who hope to raise $5 million for cancer research and care for children and adults at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston.

To participate, walkers need to raise $200, but you can make a financial contribution by visiting www.jimmyfundwalk.org or by mailing your donation to Boston Marathon Jimmy Fund Walk, 10 Brookline Place, 6th Floor, Brookline, Mass. 02445.

To receive more information about this event, call (866) JFW-HERO.

In Tuesday’s column I wrote about the current hours for the Bangor Museum and Center for History, which are 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesday through Friday and noon to 4 p.m. Saturdays at 6 State St. in Bangor.

Director Linda Jaffe pointed out that admission to the museum is free.

However, there is a charge for docent tours of the Thomas A. Hill House, which is open from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Tuesday through Friday, at 159 Union St. in Bangor.

The charge for touring that facility is $4 for adults and $3 for seniors. There is no admission charge for children.

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