Italian classes offered at senior center

TORRINGTON » The Sullivan Senior Center, 88 E. Albert St., Torrington, is offering summer Italian classes this summer.

Intermediate Italian will meet on Tuesdays, 2:30--4:30 p.m., 12 sessions, from June 6 to Aug. 29, with no class on July 4.

The class will include grammar, conversation, culture, and reading. The required text is Italian Two and Three Years Workbook, second edition, by Tursi and Cincinnato, available online, as well a reader. The fee is $85 seniors/ $100 others.

Basic Italian, a beginner class, will meet on Thursdays, 9:15--11:30 a.m., 9 sessions, from June 29 to Aug. 24.

The class will include grammar, converation, and culture. The required text is Learn Italian the Fast and Fun Way, by Marcel Danesi, available at Barnes and Noble or online. The fee is $85 seniors/$100 others.

Conversational Italian will meet on Fridays, 9:15--11:15 a.m., 9 sessions, from June 16-Aug. 11. This is not a beginner class. It is designed for those who have a good vocabulary and basic grammar skills. The required text is Leggere con Piacere, by Aristide B. Masella, 1976 ed., available online. The fee is $85 seniors/ $100 others.

For more information or to preregister, call 860-4968041. The instructor is Dona Frauenhofer.

Still River Music Festival set in Riverton

RIVERTON »On June 24, the Riverton fairgrounds will be transformed in to the Still River Music Festival. More than a dozen local musicians will be playing on two stages, sure to entertain everyone, no matter what the age or music preference is: rock, pop, blues, soft rock and more. Bring the whole family.

There will be a karaoke barn, food vendors, a pop up market featuring local business and artisans, a beer garden, activities and more. Sponsored in part by Town and Country Realty and Joey’s Fashions.

For more information on the event, to buy tickets, sign up as a volunteer or become a vendor, visit www.stillrivermusicfestival.com, or follow on Facebook and Instagram.

Tickets are $12 if bought in advance and $18 if bought at the gate. Children 12 and under ½ price, 5 and under are free.

The Still River Music Festival will benefit AIM for a Better Tomorrow, a non-profit organization that supports and creates art and music programming for at risk populations in multiple communities. “We’re in the business of conspiring with others to bring smiles, hopes, and dreams to life….for you and your community.”

To find out more about AIM for a Better Tomorrow please visit www.aimforabettertomorrow.com.

Line up includes Flipper Dave, Soul Tsunami, Murderous Chanteuse w/s/g Scarlett, The Joey Sexton Band, Plural of Ruckus, Kazoo Crew Family Band, Joey Batts and Them, Con Coyote Doty and Moses Bone, Corey Rieman Band, and more.

The Karaoke Barn is being sponsored by Karaoke Junkies.

Other sponsors include Russ’ Septic Service, Community Health and Wellness, Eric Grogan Designs. Guests will be allowed to bring a lawn chair or blanket in to sit on.

No food, beverages, pets, firearms or fireworks allowed.

Learn to identify trees at Flanders

WOODBURY » The traits most often used to describe tree species — leaves, buds, fruit and twigs are often not clearly visible or seasonally absent. However, bark is a tree characteristic that is always visible in every season. On Saturday, June 17, naturalists and photographers Barbara and Peter Rzasa will teach participants how to identify trees primarily by their bark but also by leaves and fruit.

The program consists of a short lecture followed by a 2-mile hike through Flanders’s woodland trails that includes a large variety of hardwoods and softwoods.

Participants will learn about a system for classifying characteristics into different types, and for using

bark to identify species. They will discover why such a variety of bark characteristics exist—and why some species have smooth bark, while on others it is thick and broken as well as the different patterns that emerge in bark as trees age.

The program will be held at 9:30 a.m. at the Flanders’ Sugar House, which is located a quarter of a mile up on the right from the intersection of Flanders and Church Hill Road in Woodbury. The cost is $10 for members or $15 for nonmembers.

Those interested may register online at www.flandersnaturecenter.org or call 203-263-3711, ext. 10, for more information.