Organ,violin concert
BANGOR — St. John’s Organ Society International Concert with Montreal duo Jacques Boucher, organ, and Anne Robert, violin, will take place at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, March 4, at St. John’s Catholic Church, 207 York St. Music of Corelli, Gounod, Rheinberger and Bèdard. Admission is free, but donations will be accepted.
Lenten service
BREWER — A Lenten service of scripture, prayer, meditation and songs of Taize will be held at 6:30 p.m. Friday, Feb. 27, at St. Patrick’s Episcopal Church, corner of North Main and Holyoke streets. For information, call 989-1308.
Gala to benefit three nonprofits
BANGOR — The Friends of the Cross Insurance Center will host its second annual Gala on Saturday, April 1, at the Cross Insurance Center.
The Gala is an opportunity to celebrate community, its successes and the continuing economic development work of the region, organizers said.
The Gala will offer an evening of dinner and dancing, and will raise funds to benefit Bangor Region Homeless Shelter, Spruce Run/Womancare Alliance and the Shaw House. Dollars raised will be divided equally among the three charities. Each organization will receive a fixed gift and each will be in the running for an additional bonus gift based on Gala attendee voting during the event.
Information and tickets are available at crosscentergala.com.
Cabin Fever Reliever
BANGOR — The Penobscot Fly Fishers Cabin Fever Reliever show will take place 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 28, and 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Sunday, March 1, at the Brewer Auditorium. The event will feature exhibitors that promote traditional Maine outdoor activities and crafts through education and demonstration.
Door prizes will be given away and a lucky youngster will get a chance to win an LL Bean angler outfit or a Cabela’s fly tying outfit by tying a fly at the Penobscot Fly Fishers’ table.
A raffle for an Old Town canoe complete with life jackets and paddles will be available.
Admission is free. For information, go to penobscotflyfishers.com.
Business facades grants
BANGOR — The city of Bangor announced a new round of grant funding for business facade improvements within certain areas of the city. The program offers grant funding up to $15,000, which must be matched by equal or greater investment of private funds to improve commercial storefronts. Funding may be used for a variety of facade enhancement activities including, painting, window and door repair or replacement, signage, awnings, and storefront restorations.
Applications will be accepted until 1 p.m. Thursday, March 19. Award notifications are expected to be made by April 1.
Businesses and property owners are encouraged to call Jason Bird, community and economic development officer, at 992-4239 about a project before developing the full application. All projects must be completed by the end of November.
For information about the program, go to bangormaine.gov/facadegrant.
Benefit concert
BANGOR — WHSN’s 2015 AS4MS MS Society benefit concert will take place at 7:30 p.m. Friday, April 10, at the Gracie Theatre at Husson University. Worried Well, Tall Horse, One Shot Nothing, Skosh and The Royal Bones will perform.
Tickets are $10 and available at all Bull Moose locations or at whsn-fm.com. Proceeds will benefit the Greater New England Chapter of the National Multiple Sclerosis Society.
D.A.R. meeting
BANGOR — The Orono Esther Eayres Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution will meet at 11:30 a.m. Monday, March 2, in the second-floor conference room of the Phillips-Strickland House, 21 Boyd St., Bangor.
Woman in the area are invited to join chapter members to learn about Revolutionary War ancestors.
Each chapter member will prepare a short presentation sharing how she found the information to prove that she is descended from a veteran of the Revolutionary War.
Music Boosters fundraiser
HAMPDEN — The Reeds Brook Middle School Music Boosters is hosting a Gift Basket Raffle to raise money to replace its choral risers that are 25 years old and do not have back and side safety rails.
Organizers said the gift basket is packed with something for everyone in the family to help ward off the winter blues, all donated by the Boosters and valued at more than $350.
Basket items include $10 Amazon Gift Card, Anna’s Ginger Swedish Thins, $25 Applebee’s Gift Card, Bananagrams game, blue and black scarf, blueberry pattern tea cup and plate, jams, Callaway HEX Warbird golf balls, Cinnamon Hot Chocolate On A Spoon, four-pack handcrafted Maine Root root beer, “Guardians of the Galaxy” DVD, honey spoon, hot chocolate mix, hot buttered rum flavor, $10 iTunes Gift card $10, Kendama game, Lindt Excellence dark chocolate-caramel with a touch of sea salt, Lindt Excellence dark chocolate-chili, Lindt Lindor assorted chocolate truffles, lip balms in six assorted flavors, “Looking For Alaska” book, Lu Petit Ecolier milk chocolate European biscuits, “Maleficent” DVD, Metal Earth-One World Trade Center craft, Mother’s Mountain wild blueberry ginger jam, Phase 10 (a rummy-type card game), Photo Gallery box of 10 puzzles of 5,600 pieces, Raspberry Flavor On A Spoon, Rural Charm 750 pieces puzzle, Swan’s Maine Beekeeper raw and unfiltered wildflower honey, Tazo Chai box of 20 tea bags, Tazo Chai classic latte concentrate, Tazo green ginger tea box of 20, “The Fault In Our Stars” book, The Naked Bee hand and body lotion, The Original Rummikub, Transformers Construction Bots, votive candles, Walkers Pure Butter Shortbread and more.
Raffle tickets cost $1, six for $5, 25 for $20. For a ticket request form, visit the Music Boosters website at https://sites.google.com/site/rbmsmusicboosters/.
Penobscot Nation Museum
INDIAN ISLAND — The Penobscot Nation Museum, located on Indian Island, 12 miles north of Bangor, is open 9 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Monday through Wednesday, and 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Thursday through Saturday, closed on holidays.
The museum, said James Neptune, museum coordinator, is filled with many artifacts made by Maine’s indigenous people, including stone tools that date back seven or eight thousand years, a 200-year-old birchbark canoe and many other items of interest.
Visitors learn the history of the artifacts and the cultural history of the people who made them through guided tours and videos.
For information, call 827-4153 or email firekpr@hotmail.com.
Volunteers needed
ORONO — The free 21st annual HOPE (Help Organize Peace Earthwide) Festival will be held 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Saturday, April 25, at the University of Maine Student Recreation and Fitness Center.
The festival will feature an organizational fair with more than 60 nonprofit social change groups, displays and sustainability demonstrations by “green” organizations, talks to inform and inspire, live music and entertainment, as well as a children’s program and food sold by local vendors.
Volunteers are needed 7:30-9:00 a.m. for festival set up duties; 10-11 a.m. to help exhibitors; throughout the day with the children’s program and food concession; 3-4 p.m. for clean up.
For information, call 942-9343 or visit peacectr.org and click on the HOPE Festival “volunteer” button.