With a son and nephew in the Army National Guard 1136th Transportation Unit “out of Calais, Bangor and Sanford” who are being deployed to Afghanistan in February and March, Sue McIver wrote that “it would be nice” for each soldier to have a handmade pillowcase with a Maine theme to take with them as a memento of home and family.

If anyone is interested in making these pillowcases, “it would be greatly appreciated,” McIver wrote, adding that she has patterns “that I can send, or e-mail, to anyone” who is willing and able to make the pillowcases, which McIver would need to receive by Jan. 15, 2010.

You may contact McIver by writing her at P.O. Box 651, 1295 Houlton Road, Baileyville 04694, e-mail biglake3@myfairpoint.net or call her at 427-6967.

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In conjunction with the Searsport Fling Into Fall Festival, reports the Rev. Steve MacLeod, Searsport United Methodist Church will hold its monthly turkey supper with doors opening at 4 p.m. Friday, Oct. 9, at the church on Main Street (Route 1).

The buffet-style, all-you-can-eat meal “with all the trimmings topped off with homemade apple crisp,” is $8 for adults, $4 for children 12 and under.

During the festival on Saturday, Oct. 10, MacLeod continued, members of the Searsport and North Searsport United Methodist churches invite you to visit their “world-famous Lunch Wagon” and, between 9 a.m. and 2 p.m. stop by the Searsport church’s fellowship hall, where “the Searsport Ladies will be selling crafts” ranging from quilts to sock-monkey dolls.

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Breanna Pinkham reports that the final installment of Schoodic Arts for All’s Jazz and Classical Concert Series will begin at 7 p.m. Friday, Oct. 9, at Hammond Hall in Winter Harbor.

The event will feature the Mike Bennett Trio. Admission is $15 for adults, $7 for students, free for children under 12.

For more information, call 963-2569 or visit www.schoodicartsforall.org.

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Members of St. Gabriel Catholic Church in Winterport will hold a rummage and yard sale, 8 a.m.-1 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 10, at the church on Main Street (Route 1A).

Those who arrive between 8 and 9 a.m. will receive free coffee.

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Jim Ellis e-mailed that the Dover-Foxcroft Kiwanis Club will hold a Hooked On Fishing Program for youngsters 15 and under from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 10, at Kiwanis Park Pond in Dover-Foxcroft.

Young people need bring only their bait and fishing rod. More information is available by calling Ellis at 343-0503 or Rocco Palumbo at 683-5050.

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Heather Goldsmith wrote that a new 4-H group is being organized for children 5-18 who live in Hudson and surrounding communities.

Organizers will hold “a no-charge, open enrollment day” from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 10, at the town office.

The club’s name is Hands & Hooves. Its program “will focus on community service and equine,” Goldsmith wrote.

For more information, call Goldsmith at 974-8442 or e-mail handsandhooves@yahoo.com.

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Walter Macdougall e-mailed that a “celebration of the life and contributions of Moses Greenleaf” (1777-1834) who was “Maine’s first geographer and mapmaker” will begin at 2 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 10, at the Piscataquis Lodge Hall on Route 11 “1.2 miles north of Milo heading toward Brownville.”

After the presentation, a wreath will be laid at 3 p.m. at the Moses Greenleaf Monument in Williamsburg Township, and attendees will have an opportunity to view the Greenleaf homestead after the wreath-laying.

“In so many ways, Moses Greenleaf remains our neighbor and Maine’s greatest proponent,” Macdougall wrote.

“In honoring him, we participate in a renewed faith in ourselves as Mainers and responsible citizens in a good and promising land.”

The celebration, sponsored by Piscataquis and Pleasant River Masonic Lodges and five other area lodges, he added, will conclude with “a semipublic supper” at 6 p.m. at Piscataquis Lodge Hall, but anyone may attend by making reservations with Macdougall by calling 943-2331.

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Plans are under way for a full day of fundraising for Passadumkeag Grange 586, 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 24, at the Passadumkeag Community Building. You can be part of it, reports Beatrice Mottram.

For $10, you may rent a table, and all proceeds from the table sales will be yours.

Reservations should be made as soon as possible by calling Lillian Marquis, 732-3232, or Yvette Herbert, 732-6194.

Alice Dolley chairs the fundraiser, which will include sale of food, crafts, other items and a light lunch.

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