St. Anthony of Padua School is celebrating its 60th anniversary with their first annual auction dinner on Saturday, April 25. Please call 209.401.6712 for more information.

The Christian Worship Center’s (786 Button Avenue, Manteca) annual Bike and Car Blessing is scheduled for Saturday, April 25, from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. All motorcycles and custom cars are welcomed and there will be food and entertainment.



What are you doing this weekend?

Can you imagine that a reading and literacy event will fill a whole arena? Well, on Friday, April 24, you can witness it first-hand. The Library and Literacy Foundation’s 24th annual Trivia Bee will be held at the Stockton Arena (248 W Fremont Street). This years’ theme is “The 60’s – BEE There or BEE Square.” Local community members answer numerous super hard trivia questions and compete for the coveted Bobble Head Trophy while raising funds for children’s literacy programs. You, the audience, will cheer them on, eat dinner, and compete on your own in a silent auction and raffle. Yay for literacy!

Price: $25 (includes dinner) Learn more here: http://sjcliteracy.org/events.htm

Another “Bee”, but this time of a different kind. Bee Aware is this year’s theme for the Stockton Earth Day Festival, set for Sunday, April 26, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., at Victory Park (North Pershing Avenue and Argonne Drive). The festival is in its 27th year of education, conservation, recycling, and bringing awareness to the most pressing environmental issues. This year it’s all about bees, the little fuzzy-kneed workers and how they impact our life. Besides bees, there will be a lively blend of music and dance, yoga at the park, family fun bike ride and you can also bring canned or boxed food and slightly used clothes to donate. Price: FREE Learn more at http://www.livegreensanjoaquin.org/



Have more fun
this weekend!

Enjoy Funny Papers, original comic strips from the 1940s and 1950s, at the Gregory Kondos Gallery (3835 Freeport Blvd., Fishbacher Art Building, Room 123, Sacramento) on Thursday and Friday, April 23 and 24, from noon to 3 p.m. (FREE)

uCelebrate the Hubble Space Telescope’s 25th anniversary of launching and craft your own Hubble image viewer at the Discovery Museum Science & Space Center (3615 Auburn Boulevard, Sacramento) on Saturday and Sunday, April 25 and 26, from noon to 2 p.m. ($8)

Come dressed as your favorite M*A*S*H character on Friday, April 24, at 9 p.m. when Rosa’s At Tower Park (14900 W. Highwayy 12, Lodi) will welcome the Military Vehicle Collectors Club to Stockton Delta KOA (Kampgrounds of America) during a huge MASH 4077th party. ($5)

Celebrate the dance, music and history of Polynesia at the Na Hoku Mai Kanoelani’s 12th annual Ho’ike at Warren Atherton Auditorium (San Joaquin Delta College, 5151 Pacific Ave, Stockton) on Saturday, April 25, at 6 p.m. ($20)

Children can meet Anna and Elsa at the Sherwood Mall on Sunday, April 26, from noon to 3 p.m. (FREE)

Get up close and personal with singing saxstress Ava Lemert during Wine, Food, Art & Ava Lemert at Watts Winery (17036 N. Locust Tree Rd., Lodi) on Sunday, April 26, from 4 to 7 p.m. ($30)

Tour seven beautiful homes and gardens in the Sacramento’s Curtis Park Neighborhood on Saturday, April 25, at 10 a.m. ($30)