RIPTA office to close Fridays: The RIPTA’s Photo Identification Office in Kennedy Plaza will be closed on Fridays through much of next year to enable the staff to travel to communities throughout the state to provide bus passes to qualified seniors and individuals with disabilities who are unable to get to the main office in downtown Providence. The downtown office will remain open Monday through Thursday from 9 a.m. to noon and 1 to 4 p.m.

Photo identification bus passes are available to seniors and other qualified individuals with valid documentation. Senior passes cost $5 and are valid for 5 years. Identification cards for people with disabilities cost $2 and are valid for 2 years.

For information on how to qualify for and where to sign up for RIPTA’s Bus Pass Program for Seniors and People with Disabilities, call (401) 784-9500, ext. 604, or visit ripta.com.

Entrance exam Saturday: The Catholic high school entrance examination for the 2008-09 school year will be held Saturday from 8 a.m. to noon at Our Lady of Fatima High School, 360 Market St., Warren.

All new students are required to register to take the entrance exam. To register or for more information, call (401) 245-4960.

Wreath ceremony: The annual Circle of Love & Light ceremony held by VNA of Care New England will be held Wednesday, Dec. 5, at 6 p.m. at the Warwick City Hall, on 3275 Post Rd.

Nancy Schmidt, of Westerly, whose husband received hospice services from VNA of Care New England, will be a speaker along with Warwick Mayor Scott Avedisian and Dr. Alfred Arcand, hospice medical director for VNA of Care New England.

The wreath will shine at VNA of Care New England’s main office at 51 Health Lane, in Warwick, through Jan. 1, accompanied by a commemorative scroll listing the names of those honored. Names of loved ones will also be listed on the Web site, www.cnehomehealth.org.

Donations may be sent to VNA of Care New England, 51 Health Lane, Warwick, RI 02886, Attention Circle of Love & Light. Be sure to include the names of those individuals you would like remembered as well as your own name and address. For more information, call Erin Conley at (401) 737-6050, ext. 102.

RIC officer to head national group: Lt. Charles P. Wilson, of the Rhode Island College Campus Police Department, was recently elected as national chairman and chief executive officer of the National Association of Black Law Enforcement Officers by the association’s board of directors. He will begin a two-year term Jan. 1. The association has nearly 30 chapters and 15,000 members throughout the country.

Wilson, a former president of the Rhode Island Minority Police Association, is the first non-traditional law enforcement officer to lead the national organization, and the first to be elected after running unopposed. Wilson has previously served as a police detective and chief of police in northern Ohio and has served with the Rhode Island College Campus Police Department for the past 15 years. He most recently served a four-year term as the association’s national vice chairman.