What a wonderful legacy Beth Charczynski Wright has left cancer patients and their families in the Addison area.

Just two months before her death in August 2000, at age 28, she established the Choose Life Foundation to assist others suffering from that devastating disease.

To help fund the services her foundation offers, the 4th annual Beth C. Wright 5K Walk for Life begins at 10 a.m. Saturday, May 22, at Addison Town Hall.

Buses will transport walkers from Worcester Wreath on Route 1 in Columbia, and registration begins at 8 a.m. Runners are also welcome to participate.

Since the first walk four years ago, the event has grown considerably, wrote Lynne Toppin, Wright’s sister.

This year, the walk will include a Chinese auction, bake sale, barbecue-lobster bake, craft fair, a dunk tank featuring the Downeast Wrestlers hosted by Billy Charles, Anah Shrine Funsters and clowns, a bounce house and music by Sonny Beal.

Toppin wrote the Choose Life Foundation has made a $25,000 donation to help fund and establish the Beth C. Wright Cancer Resource Center to be located on High Street in Ellsworth.

Another $25,000 will be donated next year, she added.

“The center will be a place for cancer patients to receive information about their care, whether it be traditional or alternative,” Toppin explained. It will provide “nutritional and inspirational information” as well as offering activities such as yoga and a variety of speakers.

“The center is expected to open this fall and is currently under the direction of the newly hired executive director, Michael Reisman,” Toppin wrote.

Beth Wright’s legacy has no bounds. How pleased and proud her family and friends must be of what she created.

For more information about the walk or the Choose Life Foundation, call Toppin at 483-6104 or Angel Alley, 483-2326.

Make Up, Bake Up and Wake Up Awareness is a fund-raiser for charities working to end domestic violence and cancers affecting women.

The event is from 6 to 8 p.m. Friday, May 21, at the YWCA Isaac Farrar Mansion, 17 Second St., Bangor.

Hand and lip treatments, skin care products, color cosmetics and fragrances will be available along with baking and cooking utensils.

Items will be available for sampling and sale, and a percentage of the proceeds will benefit the Mary Kay Ash Charitable Foundation and the American Cancer Society.

Door prizes will be drawn on the half-hour.

More information can be obtained from Stephanie Erb, 884-8114 or Nonnie Gonyar 884-8114.

John Smist of WLBZ is the honorary chairman of the 7th Annual Great Bangor Rubber Duck Race beginning at 3 p.m. Saturday, May 22, at the Central Street Bridge in Bangor.

Individuals can sponsor one of 200 ducks for $5 or six ducks for $25.

The event includes activities for all ages beginning at 1 p.m. in Pickering Square, and sponsorships can be purchased there until race time.

Proceeds benefit Good Samaritan Agency of Bangor, which offers services for single parents.

For more information, call 942-7211.

Brewer teachers Ken Bonstein, Katherine Schwigan, Brian Hamel and their students are hosting an indoor yard sale from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday, May 22, in the cafeteria at Brewer Middle School, 5 Somerset St.

Proceeds will help with landscaping projects at BMS and State Street School.

Items will include plants, planter boxes, stepping stones, cedar trees, books and miscellaneous items.

Once again Peggy Rogers has “plant information” for us.

She writes that the Castine Garden Club’s annual plant sale is 10 a.m.-noon Saturday, May 22, in Emerson Hall on Court Street.

Local gardeners will supply perennial plants, and club members and C&G Growers in Penobscot will supply annuals.

Proceeds will help purchase elm trees for the community and support local beautification projects of the CGC.

Under the direction of Dr. Ronald Sherwin, Bangor Community Chorus presents its 37th Annual Spring Concert at 2:30 p.m. Sunday, May 23, at First United Methodist Church, 703 Essex St. in Bangor.

The concert theme is songs from around the world.

The chorus, solos and ensembles will sing songs from Scotland, Ireland, France, Italy, the United States and other countries.

“The chorus welcomes all to come and enjoy the music,” member Carolyn McKinnon said, “and welcomes new members as well.”

The concert is free, but donations are always appreciated.

If you would like to learn more about joining Bangor Community Chorus, e-mail mckinnon@maineguide.com.

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