The fire that destroyed the rental home of Ann Ahearn of Trenton the first Friday in February not only left her homeless, it also took the lives of two pet cats and left Ahearn without her computer and software. Those items are essential to the woman, who works for Downeast Graphics in Ellsworth, her friend Jane Bradley of Gouldsboro told me.

Those are some of many reasons Bradley and other friends and community members hope to help Ahearn start over by holding a benefit supper from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. Sunday, March 6, in the Parish Hall of St. Joseph's Catholic Church on High Street in Ellsworth.