Summer hours

DIXFIELD – Summer hours at Dirigo High School include the following offices: main/principal’s office open from 7:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. Mondays through Thursdays and closed on Fridays from June 30 to Aug. 11; guidance office closed Wednesday, June 28, to Monday, Aug. 14.

Athletic director’s office closed Monday, July 3, to Monday, July 31. The telephone number for the offices is 562-4251.

Family day

GILEAD – Friends and Family Day will be held from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, June 24, at the town hall, sponsored by the Gilead Historical Society. There will be a “Kids at Heart” parade at 11 a.m. and historical talk at 2 p.m. Music will be provided under the tent, children’s games, baked goods, ice cream sundaes, historical displays, raffles and BoBo the clown. It will be held rain or shine.

Class luncheon

RUMFORD – Members of the Stephens High School Class of 1949 will meet for luncheon at 1 p.m. Wednesday, June 28, at King Wok on Congress Street.

Violin classes

FARMINGTON – The Foothills Arts Center is accepting enrollments for its new Violin Adventures program to begin in early July. The program already has 18 children enrolled and is for beginning violin students age 4 to 6.

Lesson times will be scheduled to suit each family’s schedule and the age of the child. Rental of small violins is available at a reasonable fee.

Violin Adventures’ founder and teacher, Jeanne Feder of Farmington, will teach children note recognition as they develop right and left hand violin technique in a relaxed interactive group setting. Each class will last 45 minutes and will have four to five beginning violinists.

The lessons will be held at the Foothills Arts Center studio on Pleasant Street. Contact Anne Geller at 778-0448 or [email protected] for more information, including fees and scholarships.

Art camp

FARMINGTON – The Foothills Arts Center will offer a second session of its Art and Story Theater Camp from 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. July 24 to 28 at the Foothills Studio. The camp is for children who have completed grades one, two and three.

Children will use their imagination and express their own creativity as they do art work and read and act out stories about orange cats, gargoyles, flying pigs and flamingos. The camp instructor will be Debbi Hiltz of Farmington.

There are scholarships available for families who cannot afford the program fees. Contact Anne Geller at the Foothills Arts Center, 778-0448 or [email protected], for details.