Class to meet

RUMFORD – Stephens High School Class of 1954 classmates will meet at 11:30 a.m. Wednesday, June 21, at Sam’s Pizza in Virginia.

Open house

MEXICO – The Learning Center at Region 9 is preparing for an enrichment program open house from 6 to 7 p.m. Tuesday, June 20, at the Region 9 Learning Center, 377 River Road. Classes featured will be creative photography, chair caning and “Second Steps in Watercolor.”

Yard sale

MEXICO – An outside yard sale and inside food sale, along with a silent auction, will be held from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday, June 24, at the Mexico Congregational UCC Church, the Green Church.

Benefit supper

LOCKE MILLS – A benefit supper and dance for Deanne Rothwell of Bryant Pond will be held Saturday, June 24, at the Jackson Silver Post. A chicken pie dinner will be served from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. followed by the dance from 8 p.m. to midnight with music by DT Entertainment.

Rothwell, daughter of Dick and Evelyn Bodemer of Andover, lives in Bryant Pond with her husband and three young children. She was recently diagnosed with a rare form of cancer, a skull-based tumor. Most of the tumor has been removed by trans-nasal surgery, but 15 percent remains and she needs to undergo proton therapy to remove the remaining piece of tumor.

It can only be done at four cancer centers in the United States: Mass. General, the University of Indiana Cancer Research Center, Texas or Loma Linda, Calif. Mass. General cannot take her, so she will go to the University of Indiana Cancer Research Center.

Friends of Rothwell have planned the benefit dinner and dance to help cover the cost of airline tickets for her to travel to Indiana during the two months of treatment.

Donations for the dinner only are $6.50; dinner and dance, $10; dance only, $5. Raffles and a 50/50 will also be held.

Women to meet

RUMFORD – Women of the Stephens High School Class of 1943 recently met for a luncheon. Attending were Jean Barrington, Roselyn DesRoches, Theresa Gauthier, Connie Goudreau, Bernice Haynes and Rita Towle. The group continues to meet monthly. For more information, classmates may call 364-2932.

Must pay

PERU – Beginning Saturday, July 1, all Peru residents will be considered out-of-town patrons and will be required to pay a fee in order to use the Ludden Memorial Library in Dixfield.

The privilege was taken away when the Peru residents voted not to support the library. For more information, call the library at 562-8838.