Evergreen, the Pine Tree Hospice Center for Grieving Children and Their Families, will hold orientation sessions for interested family members, potential volunteers, teachers, guidance counselors, Sunday school teachers and members of the medical community.

The 90-minute sessions are 6 p.m. Monday, Sept. 21; noon Tuesday, Sept. 22; 4 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 23; 1 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 24; and 6:30 a.m. Friday, Sept. 25, at PTH, 883 West Main St., Dover-Foxcroft.

Evergreen offers age-appropriate peer groups for children and teens 3-18 who meet each Wednesday evening.

Evergreen needs volunteer facilitators, who “are our most valuable resource,” PTH executive director Cynthia Scott wrote of “people from the community, supporting families at a difficult and lonely time.”

There is no charge for the orientation, and fall training sessions are scheduled for the weeks of Oct. 5 and Oct. 12.

Volunteer facilitators are asked to make a one-year commitment and, “to ensure the safety of our families and volunteers,” Scott wrote, “background checks are done on all volunteers.”

For more information about the program or volunteering, call PTH at 564-4346, e-mail wecare@pinetreehospice.org or visit the PTH office.

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The St. Croix Valley Amateur Radio Club Ham Fest is 8 a.m. to noon Saturday Sept. 19, in the Alexander School gym and parking lot, wrote Ann Carter.

Volunteer examiner license testing begins at 9 a.m. for all levels for a $15 fee.

For $5, attendees can register for door prizes, a 50-50 raffle and a 2-meter radio.

Food and beverages will be available, along with display tables, and everything is first come, first served, Carter explained.

For more information, call Skip McGarvery at 853-2951.

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Maine Coast Memorial Hospital of Ellsworth employee Belinda Nichols “was recently diagnosed with a serious illness and is out of work,” wrote Debi Murphy of Addison.

Nichols’ co-workers will hold a benefit supper for her from 4 to 7 p.m. Friday, Sept. 18, at the Knights of Pythias Hall on Route 1 in Gouldsboro.

Admission is by donation for the meal of baked beans, casseroles “and all the ‘fixins’,” and the event will include a Chinese auction with more than 200 donated gifts, Murphy added.

If you cannot attend but would like to help, you may send a donation to Murphy, P.O. Box 35, Addison 04606.

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Walter Boomsma invites newcomers interested in activities of Valley Grange, for preschoolers to seniors, to attend its first meeting of the year beginning with a fellowship potluck supper at 6 p.m. and the meeting at 7 p.m. Friday, Sept. 18, at the Grange Hall on the corner of Butter Street and Guilford Center Road in Guilford.

Jim Annis is Grange president-master.

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Anne Sibley O’Brien leads the next Schoodic Arts for All workshop in the series “Maine Authors: How We Do It!”

The workshop, “Creating the Graphic Novel Picture Book,” is 1-4 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 19, in Channing Chapel of the Winter Harbor Public Library.

Admission is free but donations are accepted.

For information, call Mary Lou Weaver, 963-2640.

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Tammy Webb and members of Hampden Congregational Church invite you to their chicken pie supper 5-6:30 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 19, at 101 Main Road North.

Admission is $7 for adults, $3.50 for children under 12.

Proceeds benefit the Help for Hampden fund and the church.

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Janelle Wuoristo reports that Maine Kids-Kin of Families and Children Together will hold a benefit dinner 5-7 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 19, at Enterprise Grange Hall on the corner of Center Drive and Dow Road in Orrington.

Admission is $6, or $20 for a family of four, for the meal of spaghetti, beans, hot dogs, casseroles, biscuits, beverages and desserts.

For tickets, call 825-3245 or 941-2347.

Proceeds benefit the Maine Kids-Kin Pay It Forward Fund to help grandfamilies in crisis for necessities such as fuel and transportation.

For more information, visit www.mainekids-kin.org or e-mail jwuoristo@mainekids-kin.org.

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Jeannette Morrill of Shirley, who has been working to raise awareness and form a pulmonary hypertension support group in the Bangor area, wants readers to know the Maine Pulmonary Hypertension Association Support Group will hold a golf tournament and patient pulmonary hypertension forum beginning with registration at 7:30 a.m. Saturday, Sept. 19, at Toddy Brook Golf Course in North Yarmouth.

The event features golf, a chicken barbecue and guest speaker and is open to golfers and nongolfers.

For more information, e-mail morrill@dishmail.net or call her at 695-3042.

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