The eighth annual Kitchen Tour features seven kitchens in the Bangor-Brewer area. All funds raised by the tour go toward completing our pledge to Heroes, Hope, and Healing, the capital campaign for the new pediatric oncology floor at the Lafayette Family Cancer Center and nursing scholarships and Children’s Miracle Network to benefit children in eastern and northern Maine.

Maine Discovery Museum’s tenth annual gala dinner-auction features eighty fabulous one-of-a-kind artworks created on the theme of “Maine Discovery” by artists from all across the state.

Penobscot Valley Country Club is hosting an open house as well as kids games, music, a BBQ and cash bar, and a spectacular fireworks show.

This festival claims you will party like it’s the end of the world. Expect audacious sounds, then, with Penguin Prison, Now, Now, When Particles Collide, This Way, A Severe Joy, and more alternative acts.

The Sebasticook Valley Elks Lodge is holding a charity raffle to win a 2012 Jeep Wrangler. Tickets are $25 each and are available from any member, from the lodge, by mail, using the form on its Web site, or at Hartley's in Newport, Maine.

The Queen City's Grange Community Yard Sale is August 4 from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. 

The market, located along Broad Street and in West Market Square, will be held Thursdays June 21 to August 30 from 5 PM to 8 P.M. Up to fifty vendors are expected weekly. Market items sold are handmade, prepared or raised by the vendor, and with emphasis  placed on Maine-made, specialty food items and produce.