The Keep Searsport Warm Committee, “in conjunction with New Hope for Women,” wrote Brian Callahan, will conduct a Candlelight Vigil from 6 to 7 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 22, at the Penobscot Marine Museum Park on Main Street in Searsport in recognition of October as Domestic Violence Awareness Month.
Callahan wrote that “purple ribbons, signifying support of measures to curb domestic violence, will be distributed, and used cell phones will also be collected.”
Those phones will be “refurbished and used by victims of domestic violence,” he said.
According to its Web site, the New Hope for Women mission is to offer “support to people in Lincoln, Knox and Waldo counties affected by domestic and dating violence” and to provide “educational resources to assist our communities in creating a safer and healthier future.”
The organization has offices in Rockland, Belfast, Damariscotta and Boothbay Harbor.
Its 24-7 toll-free crisis hot line is 800-522-3304.
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Diane Kopec of Bangor Museum and History Center e-mailed that its last 2009 Ghost Lamp Tour begins at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 20, in the waterfront parking lot next to Sea Dog Restaurant in Bangor.
Admission for the event, led by costumed interpreters, is $5 for nonmembers, free for Bangor Museum and History Center members and children under 12.
For information call museum curator Dana Lippitt, 942-1900, or visit www.bangormuseum.org.
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Institute for Civic Leadership announces that associate director Suzanne Austin will present an Institute for Civic Leadership Board Building Workshop from 9 a.m. to noon Wednesday, Oct. 21, at the University of Maine Hutchinson Center, 80 Belmont Ave. in Belfast.
The registration fee is $70 for the first participant, $55 for each additional participant from the same organization.
To register, e-mail Shawn Hunt at shunt@civicleadership.org or call 773-3254, ext. 100.
The workshop is intended to answer the question, “Does your board struggle to find and keep great board members?”
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Karen Hartnagle of Community Health and Counseling Services in Bangor announces it again will offer a free Family Arts Nights program for children 8-11 and their parents and grandparents taught by Arrah Vanier, head of the art department at Hermon High School.
The program is 6-8 p.m. Wednesdays with the first group meeting Wednesday, Oct. 21, at Maine Discovery Museum, Main Street, Bangor.
In the program, adult and child “each do a piece of art together,” Hartnagle said.
To register, call Maine Discovery Museum at 262-7200.
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Newcomers are welcome to attend the next meeting of the St. Croix International Quilters Guild at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 21, at the Methodist Homes Recreation Center on Palmer Street in Calais.
For information about this organization, call Kathryn Mekelburg at 454-0654.
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Judy Bragg and Sandra Carter, both of Ellsworth, are co-presidents of Business and Professional Women-Maine.
Oct. 19-23 is National Business Women’s Week, and the annual Maine Business and Professional Women fall board meeting will be conducted Oct 23-24 at the Caribou Inn and Convention Center, hosted by the Caribou and Fort Kent BPW organizations.
Among the speakers will be BPW-Maine Vice President Dr. Rachel Albert of Fort Kent discussing her recent attendance at the Breast Cancer Summit in Washington, D.C.
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The Maine Community College System has announced that Maine high school juniors are invited to enter “A Journey Into Writing,” its statewide writing contest running now through Dec. 1.
Contest judges are “award-winning Maine authors Wesley McNair, Monica Wood and Richard Ford,” according to the release.
Sponsored by the community college system with support from U.S. Cellular, up to three winners who have written original poems, short stories or essays may be honored with the designation of 2010 Governor’s Young Writer of the Year and receive a $2,500 cash award.
To enter, e-mail writing@mccs.me.edu or visit www.mccs.me.edu and click on “A Journey Into Writing.”
Joni Averill, Bangor Daily News, P.O. Box 1329, Bangor 04402; javerill@bangordailynews.net; 990-8288.