Woonsocket museum seeks yearbooks

If you went to public or private high school in Woonsocket, your old high school yearbook can do more than collect dust. It could become part of a historical exhibit. The Museum of Work & Culture is seeking all editions of the Woonsocket High School yearbook, Quiver, to become part of the classroom exhibit. All donations will be acknowledged and a notation inscribed in each Quiver.

Other yearbooks sought are:

Mount St. Charles Academy: 2002-2008, 1979, 1975, 1971, 1956, 1957, 1954, 1952, 1944, 1941, 1936-1939, 1931-1933, 1928 and 1929.

St. Clare High School: 1942-1944, 1938, 1936, 1935, 1931, 1907-1927.

Yearbooks may be dropped off at the museum during normal business hours or mailed to 42 South Main St., Woonsocket, RI 02895.

The museum is open Tuesday through Friday, 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m.; Saturday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sunday from 1 to 4 p.m.

For more information, call (401) 769-9675 or e-mail iblais@rihs.org.

W. Warwick library sponsors photo contest

The West Warwick Public Library is sponsoring a summer-long photography contest. The contest complements the library’s summer reading program, “Be Creative……Express Yourself.”

To be eligible, photos must be taken in West Warwick between June 1 and Aug. 25. Photographs may be black and white or color. E-mail digital entries to the reference department (ref@wwlibrary). Printed entries may be dropped off or mailed to 1043 Main St., West Warwick, RI 02893. A contest form and rules are available at the library.

Film focuses on human trafficking

“Dinner and a Movie” will be the first event sponsored by Run for Freedom, a new organization in Rhode Island focused on raising awareness of human trafficking. The film, Human Trafficking, will be screened at 6 p.m. Monday, June 22, at Cinema World at Lincoln Mall.

The organization has been set up by Pat and Mary Ann Manzo, former pastors of the North Providence Assembly of God.

Tickets are $10 and include a catered buffet in the theater. For more information or tickets, call Mary Ann Manzo at (352) 250-1909 or Lisa Sfameni at (401) 455-0060 or visit www.runforfreedom.net

Fundraiser to help Cambodian families

Improving the lives of children and their families in rural villages of Cambodia is the goal of a fundraiser event on Thursday by the Middletown Rotary Club. Initiated by Rotary Club member Gunther Hausen in 2006, the project involves efforts to provide a disease-free water supply and to educate residents in health and reading.

The event at the Atlantic Beach Club, 55 Purgatory Rd., Middletown, begins at 5:30 p.m. and includes a silent auction and a dinner of Cambodian cuisine and music. Tickets are $50. For details, call (401) 783-7030.

Friends of Plum Beach Lighthouse to meet

The Friends of Plum Beach Lighthouse are looking for more friends. If you are interested, attend the group’s meeting at 10 a.m. Saturday at the North Kingstown Chamber of Commerce. For information, call Dee Hoebbe, (401) 295-7665.

Meeting Street offers therapy

Children who need help with impulse control, social skills or attention span, or have speech or physical problems, might benefit from group therapy sessions this summer at the Meeting Street School’s Providence campus.

Eighteen therapy groups that take into account age and need are being offered for children ages 3 and older. For information or to register, call (401) 533-9104 or visit meetingstreet.org.

Steamboat presentation in Narragansett

Rhode Island resident Charles Rochon has spent a lifetime studying the steamboat and building steamboat models.

Monday at 7 p.m., he will present a slide program on the steamboats of Narragansett Bay at the Weaver Library, 41 Grove Ave., East Providence.

Models will be on display both in the Weaver Library display case and during the program, which is free and open to the public.

For more information, call adult services librarian Joyce May at (401) 434-2453 or e-mail her at jmay@eplib.org.

YMCA sponsors swimming lessons

Children ages 6 to 14 can learn basic swimming skills and water safety at a “Learn to Swim” program sponsored by the Pawtucket Family YMCA, with the support of the City of Pawtucket. The program runs from July 6 through Aug. 14 at Vets Pool at the Fairlawn Family Recreation Complex on Smithfield Avenue. Lessons take place Monday and Wednesday from 6 to 7 p.m., followed by open swim until 8 p.m. Participants should not be members of the YMCA.

All children must be accompanied by an adult relative. For information, call Samantha Knight, director of aquatics, at (401) 727-7900.

— Compiled by Stephanie McKenna