Wed. Nov. 5

Pet Loss Support Group

DAYVILLE --- NECCOG Animal Services on Putnam Pike will present a Pet Loss Support Group at 6 p.m. the first Wednesday of each month. Free. No fee/reservations are required, and you are free to attend as often as necessary throughout your grief process. 860-774-1253

 

Art Exhibit

DANIELSON --- QVCC will present an exhibit, “Chernobyl + 20 + 8: This is our land – we still live here,” in the Spirol Gallery through Nov. 7.

 

Fri. Nov. 7

Trivia Night

N. GROSVENORDALE --- The QVR Rotaract Club, part of the Putnam Rotary Club, will hold its second annual QVR Rotaract Trivia Night fund-raiser at the K of C Banquet Hall. Doors open at 5; dinner at 6. Register a team by Oct. 31.

 

Sat. Nov. 8

‘Tasty’ Fund-raiser

PUTNAM ---  Pet Pals Northeast will hold a Wine and Beer Tasting fund-raiser from 6 to 8:30 p.m. at the Putnam Elks on  Edmond Street.  $25 per person. Purchase at: Uncle Dan’s Wine Beer & Liquor, Quinebaug Valley Veterinary Hospital, Danielson, or by mail at Pet Pals, PO Box 64, Plainfield, CT 06374.   860-317-1720.

 

Yuletide Festival

PUTNAM --- The Yuletide Festival, sponsored by the Daughters of Isabella, will be held from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. at St. Mary Church Hall on Providence Street. 

 

Tiffany Program

KILLINGLY --- The Killingly Historical Society will present a free program, “Tiffany Connections" by Margaret Weaver, Killingly town historian after a 1:30 p.m. drawing, at the Westfield Congregational Church on Main Street.

 

Food Drive

PUTNAM ---  There will be a food drive from 8:30 a.m. to noon at the Cargill Council 64 Knights of Columbus Hall on Providence Street. Sponsored by Boy Scout Troop 21 and Cargill Council 64, KofC. Benefits Interfaith Human Services of Putnam. Mailed monetary donations welcome: Interfaith Human Services of Putnam, P.O. Box 281, Putnam, CT 06260. 860 928-0169.

 

Holiday Craft Fair

CANTERBURY --- A Holiday Craft Fair will be held from 8:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Canterbury Community Center off Rt. 14. Fund-raiser for Paddle for a Cure.

 

Holly Fair

E. WOODSTOCK --- The East Woodstock Congregational Church will host the Holly Fair from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.  in Fellowship Hall.  Coffee Hour all day. Luncheon begins at 11:30 a.m. 

 

Concert

WILLIMANTIC --- The Fall Bread Box Concert will present Americana/Folk group Rani Arbo & Daisy Mayhem at 7:30 p.m. at St. Paul's Episcopal Church on Valley Street. $25. Benefits the Covenant Soup Kitchen & Emergency Food Pantry.  860-429-4220

 

Sun. Nov. 9

Turkey Trot

THOMPSON --- The Citizen’s National Bank 5K Cross Country Turkey Trot and & 2.5K/5K Turkey Wobble will be held, rain or shine , at West Thompson Lake. The Turkey Wobble (2.5K or 5K walk) begins at 9 a.m. and the Turkey Trot (5K run) begins at 10:05 a.m. Seven age divisions. No dogs. Register on-line at www.thompsonrec.org or stop by Thompson Recreation in Town Hall.  Benefits TEEG Food Bank, Thompson Trails ad Parks. You may also help by soliciting pledges from people that can’t make the event. Bring pledges with you on Nov. 10th with donor's name, address, email, and amount or mail check with pledge sheet to P.O. Box 899, N. Grosvenordale.  Collect $50 or more in pledges and registration fee is waived.  860-923-9440.  

 

Vendor Event

WEBSTER --- A Splash of Panache Vendor Event will be held from 1 to 5 p.m. at Point Breeze Restaurant. Benefits St. Joseph School. $20. For tickets: 508-949-3517.

 

Fund-raiser Concert

POMFRET --- Habitat for Humanity of Eastern Connecticut will present Frederick Moyer, pianist, at 4 p.m. at the Tang Center at Rectory School. $25 and $15 tickets. 860-442-7890.

 

Mon. Nov. 10

Veterans Night

PUTNAM --- The American Legion Post 13 will present Celebrity Bartenders Night from 5 to 9 p.m. at J.D. Cooper’s Restaurant on Park Road. It will honor WWII veterans Robert Clemens and Armand Jolly.

 

Thur. Nov. 13

Play

POMFRET --- The Pomfret School Drama Department will present “Almost, Maine,” a play by John Cariani, at 7 p.m. Nov.. 13 and Nov. 15 at the Hard Auditorium on the campus of Pomfret School. Free. All welcome. 963-5260.

 

Fri. Nov. 14

Press Program

CANTERBURY --- Gail Usher & Herb Loughery of Historic New England on "The Power Of The Press:  The First Decade Of The Independent" [Woodstock's Henry Chandler Bowen's newspaper that advocated the cause of antislavery in the late 1840s] will be presented by the Canterbury Historical Society around 7:30 p.m. at the Town Hall Community Room. All welcome.  www.canterburyhistorical.org

 

 

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