Camp CaPella, a summer camp for children and adults with disabilities at Phillips Lake in Dedham, will benefit from a Family Halloween Dance 6-9 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 17, at Peakes Hill Lodge in Dedham.
Hosted by lodge owner Kellie Boyd, admission is $3 or $10 for families.
Music Central DJ Service will donate the music, Boyd wrote, and the fundraiser includes “raffles for prize donated by local businesses, a silent auction and refreshments.”
She hopes you attend and knows it will be “a lot of fun” and opportunity to “support a great cause.”
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Brewer Youth Theatre presents “Bye, Bye Birdie” at 7 p.m. tonight and Saturday, Oct. 17, at Brewer Middle School, 5 Somerset St.
Admission is $6 for adults, $3 for students.
Director Rich Kimball reports the play is “loosely based on the story of Elvis Presley.”
The production, featuring more than 40 students, stars Andrew Cote, Kyle Holyoke, Albert Peterson, Brianna Philbrick, Kate Weigel and Lauryn Goodall.
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Enjoy breakfast to benefit the Brooksville-to-Alaska 2011 elementary school trip to the Iditarod Sled Dog Race, 7-10 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 17, at Brooksville Elementary School.
Admission is $6 or $15 for a family.
More information is available by calling Nada Lepper, 326-8500, or e-mailing nlepper@brooksvilleschool.org.
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Ruth Thyen, president of the Child Study Center Parent Association at the University of Maine, invites you to its bake sale and yard sale 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 17, at the study center on Sebago Road on the Orono campus.
Baked goods also may be purchased at the Alumni Association Homecoming Craft Fair and Maine Marketplace.
Child Study Center Parent Association was formed to help the program become self-supporting Thyen said.
The Child Study Center “is a preschool and the lab school for the psychology department,” she said, estimating it “has taught and trained” more than 1,000 students in its 72-year-history” and taught “an estimated 2,000 children.”
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North Searsport United Methodist Church will hold its final monthly bean supper with doors opening at 4:30 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 17, at the church at the intersection of Mount Ephraim Road and the Loop Road.
Admission is $7 for adults, $3 for children. Proceeds benefit the ministry of the church’s Ladies’ Club.
For information, call 548-2239.
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Down East Hospice in Machias will benefit from dinner at the Redclyffe Restaurant beginning at 5:30 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 18, in Robbinston, reports Cynthia Carter.
Tickets are $25 each. Reservations are necessary; space is limited. Call 454-7521, ext. 126, or Art Carter at 454-8238 to see whether any space remains.
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Dog Wants Out, a Unity College band composed of staff members Rob Constantine, Anna McGalliard, John Zavodny and alumna Sara Trunzo, will make its final performance to support local food and farmers at 10 a.m. Saturday, Oct 17, at the Skowhegan Farmers Market in the Grange Hall Parking Lot on Madison Avenue, Skowhegan.
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First Church in Belfast UCC co-pastors Kate Winters and Joel Krueger invite you to a public supper, 5-6:30 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 17, at the church on the corner of Spring and Court streets.
The church is handicapped-accessible, and you should enter “by using the Spring Street entrance to reach the upstairs Fellowship Hall,” the pastors wrote.
The cost for the full roast pork meal is $7 for adults, $4 for children 12 and under, free for children under 4.
Takeout is available. Proceeds benefit the church and its work.
For more information, call 338-2282.
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John Simbeck of Ellsworth reports a Turkey Shoot from 9 a.m. to noon Saturday, Oct. 17, with host the Blue Hill Rifle & Revolver Club on Range Road in Blue Hill, will benefit the Emmaus Homeless Shelter in Ellsworth.
The entry fee is $5 for two shots.
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Sue Kircheis reports Simpson Memorial Library will hold a bake sale 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 17, at Ye Olde General Store on Route 2 in Carmel.
“Proceeds will go toward automating the library’s lending system and-or to the building fund,” Kircheis wrote.
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Temple of the Feminine Divine offers a household cleaning workshop, Green Cleaning is Simple, with Joyce Elaine 1-3 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 17, in Suites 204-205 at 31 Central St., Bangor.
The cost, including book and materials, is $30, and additional “Green Cleaning is Simple” booklets will be available.
If you plan to attend, call 941-0261 and leave a message.
Joni Averill, Bangor Daily News, P.O. Box 1329, Bangor 04402; javerill@bangordailynews.net; 990-8288.