BRUNSWICK

Downtown Benefit Auction

The Brunswick Downtown Association’s 12th annual Benefit Auction will take place from 5 to 7:30 p.m. Thursday at The Daniel Hotel, 10 Water St.

This will be the first year that auction items will be available for pre-bidding on the BDA website at www.brunswickdowntown.org. A wide variety of live auction items are available, ranging from a Boston getaway package to heating oil delivery.

The event’s silent auction will open at 5 p.m., followed by a live auction at 6:30 p.m. Auctioneer John Bottero of John Bottero Auction Services will emcee the evening. Musician and Maine native Jonah Howard will provide background music.

Tickets are $15 or $25 for two. They are available online at: www.brunswickdowntown.org/events/auction at the Brunswick Visitor Center on Station Avenue and at Cool As A Moose, 128 Maine St.

For more information, call 729-4439.

ALFRED

Ham supper, book signing

Friends of Old Corner Church will sponsor a baked ham supper fundraiser and book signing from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. Saturday at the Masonic Lodge, Route 202, 165 Waterboro Road. .

The cost of the meal is $8 and children under 10 eat free. Take-out is available.

Local author Irene Cote Single will have a book signing.

Proceeds will support restoration efforts for the historic 1804 church. For more information, call Bud Jamieson at 247-3635

BIDDEFORD

Knights host blood drive

The Knights of Columbus, St. Joseph Council No. 12941 will host a Red Cross blood drive from noon to 5 p.m. Monday at the St. Joseph Church downstairs hall on Elm Street.

Drop in or call 800-RED CROSS (800-733-2767) to schedule an appointment or search online for sponsor code: KOCBidd.

WELLS

Library events offered

Wells Public Library, 1434 Post Road, will offer the following events this week:

• Mother Goose Storytime for ages 2 and younger, meeting at 10:30 a.m. Monday to engage in lap activities, rhymes, songs and fingerplays.

• Teen Crafternoon: Decorating with contact paper at 1 p.m. Wednesday. Want to give your computer/phone/iPad/calculator/notebook a new look? Stop by the library to decorate your item with contact paper! Bring in an item you would like to cover and a sense of creativity, we’ll provide the supplies, free.

• “World in Your Library” program series, a partnership with the Kennebunk Free Library, 6 p.m. Tuesday. This week’s topic is “Introduction to Buddhism” presented by Dana Sawyer.

For more information, contact Devin Burritt at dburritt@wellstown.org, or call the library at 646-8181.

CAMDEN

Audubon bird program

Mid-Coast Audubon will offer the public a chance to connect with some magnificent birds via a Wind Over Wings program set for 7 p.m. Thursday at the Camden Public Library, 55 Main St.

Presenter Hope Douglas, founder and president of the nonprofit Bird of Prey Rehabilitation and Education Center, will head the talk “Birds of Prey & a Cockatoo, Too!”

The program is free and open to all. Donations are encouraged. For more information, call 236-3440.

KENNEBUNKPORT

Church to hold concerts

The First Church will host the first of three planned concerts Sunday at 141 North St.

The first concert will be an “Old Fashioned Hymn Sing.” The second concert will be Nov. 13 and a “First Church’s Christmas Concert & Carol Sing” will be held on Dec. 1 1. All will begin at 2:30 p.m.

Proceeds from the concerts will benefit the church’s capital campaign to restore an 1854 E. & G. G. Hook organ, originally built for South Congregational Church and given to First Church in 1916.

First Church is actively soliciting community support for its restoration. Concerts are free, but contributions are welcome.

If contributions are given by check, they should be made to First Congregational Church (and on the memo line: “Organ Restoration Fund”).

BUCKSPORT

Trust’s loop trail finish

Hikers are invited to join the trail crew at 9 a.m. Sunday to finish a loop trail on Great Pond Mountain Conservation Trust’s newest property off the Upper Long Pond Road.

Bring your favorite trail tools, work gloves and water and meet on Moosehorn Drive, off Mast Hill Road (near Hancock Pond) to carpool in.

For more information, call Brian at 812-2044 or brian@greatpondtrust.org.

SANFORD

Parish Fair Friday, Saturday

St. Therese of Lisieux Parish will host its annual Parish Fair from 5 to 8 p.m. Friday and 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday at the St. Ignatius gym on Riverside Avenue.

The fair will include a turkey supper with all the trimmings from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. Friday for $12, $6 for children.

On Saturday, breakfast items will be sold from 8 to 9:30 a.m. Lunch will be served from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. A baked bean supper will be served from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. featuring hot dogs, ham, chop suey, bread, dessert, beverages, for $8 and $4 for children under 12.

For more details, call Raymond Sargent at 324-7589.

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