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‘Give a Click’

LOWELL — Every quarter, Jeanne d’Arc Credit Union’s We Share a Common Thread Foundation donates $1,500 to a worthy nonprofit through its “Give a Click” program. The organization with the most votes wins the grant. Cast your vote for one of these three organizations: The Friends of the Pollard Memorial Library, Home Health & Hospice Care and Methuen Memorial Music Hall.

Readers can give a click at jdcu.org/community-about/our-foundation/give-a-click, which features videos about the nonprofits featured this quarter and an online ballot. Once voting closes, votes from the same IP address will be reviewed for legitimacy in order to keep voting fair for all nominees. Voting ends June 30.

Divas and dogs

CHELMSFORD — Save the date for the fashion and Fido fundraiser Divas and Dogs on the Runway, Thursday, April 25, from 6 to 9 p.m., at the Chelmsford Elks, 300 Littleton Road.

Admission is $35 per person and includes music, appetizers and a silent auction and raffle. A cash bar also will be available. Tickets can be purchased at chelmsfordgardenclub.org/events/#divas or on Tuesdays, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., at Mary Donnellan Interiors, 2 Central Square.

The event is sponsored by the Chelmsford Garden Club, and the funds raised are used in town beautification projects such as the Chelmsford Public Garden, the Red Wing Pollinator Garden, as well as providing financial support for Chelmsford student scholarships, the Newhouse Wildlife Rescue and the Chelmsford Open Space Stewardship, which maintains the town’s conservation lands.

For more information, email ChelmsfordMAGardenClub@gmail.com.

Spring bird walk

DRACUT — Mike Baird, a well known local birder, will guide his annual spring bird walk at Yapp Farm on Saturday, April 27 at 8 a.m., 650 Marsh Hill Road.

Baird has more than two decades of experience as a birdwatcher. The Dracut Open Space Committee hosts two bird watching events a year. The second event is in the fall.

Participants should bring binoculars and dress for the early morning weather. For more information, call 978-452-7924.

Fine art exhibit

LOWELL — Coffee and Cotton presents “Unexpected Things,” by artist Michelle Ward, fourth floor of Mill No. 5, 250 Jackson St., through the end of the month.

Ward works in acrylic, using various tools and techniques in her paintings to explore the natural world.

For hours of operation, visit millno5.com/coffeeandcotton, call 978-925-2626 or email coco@millno5.com.

Town Meeting shuttle service

TYNGSBORO — Senior citizens and other residents with mobility or transportation challenges can sign up for shuttle service to and from the May 7 annual Town Meeting.

To take advantage of this free service, residents must register by April 30 to enable the town to plan the route to and from the event. Residents using this service will receive an estimated morning pickup time at their homes. At the conclusion of Town Meeting, they will be dropped off. There will be no return rides before the Town Meeting is over.

To participate, contact the Council on Aging at 978-649-9211 or visit the center at 169 Westford Road. If there are no registrations by May 1, this service will be canceled for this meeting.

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Melanie Gilbert

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