ORANGE — St. Mary’s Parish is getting ready for summer with a series of activities. The annual Parish Tag and Bake Sale will be held today from 8 a.m. until 2 p.m.
The Women’s Club is holding its membership drive this month, and traveled to Fiskdale on Tuesday to visit St. Anne’s Shrine. The club has also placed a cradle in the church entrance to collect donations of clothes for Problem Pregnancy of Athol. It will remain until Father’s Day.
ORANGE — Deborah Kent, of the Friends of the Orange Public Libraries, invites everyone to the organization’s annual Summer Book Sale on June 25, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Fiction and nonfiction books of all genres and subjects will be available, as well as children’s books, DVDs, music CDs, audiobooks, puzzles and more. Homemade baked goods and Dean’s Beans coffee will also be on hand in the Friends’ Cafe.
Donations sale will be accepted until June 23. Textbooks and magazines will not be accepted. For more information, call 978-544-2495 or visit www.orangelib.org.
ORANGE — A visit from the official mascot of the Boston Bruins, a rocket-building workshop run by the Boston Museum of Science, hula hoop lessons, a gardening club for children, and an ice cream party with live music are some of the events planned for young children and teenagers at the Wheeler Memorial Library’s summer reading program this year.
To help motivate children, the library will hold weekly raffles for prize packs.
Registration begins on June 20 in the children’s room at the Wheeler Memorial Library at 49 East Main St.
See the full calendar of summer reading events at orangelibraries.blogspot.com. Questions should be directed to the children’s room at 978-544-2495.