ROCKS, MINERALS AND FOSSILS: The Granby Free Public Library recently acquired a collection of rocks, minerals and fossils for viewing by adults and children.
The “Significant Massachusetts Minerals case,” as the collection is referred to in a press release from the library, was a gift from the Connecticut Valley Mineral Club. The items are labeled with their sources, and the collection includes a booklet on the significance of the items.
The case is on display in the library’s children’s room. The library is also in the midst of “Mineral Hound Club” series in which Connecticut Valley Mineral Club President Jack Marcy teaches children ages 8 to 12 about rocks and minerals. Remaining dates for that series are July 9 and Aug. 6.
ST. VALENTINE’S FILM: St. Valentine’s Polish National Catholic Church at 127 King St. will show the 2012 drama “The Day of the Siege: September Eleven 1683” at 6 p.m. Tuesday.
The film, which stars F. Murray Abraham, dramatizes the conflict between European Christianity and Turkish Islam leading up to the Battle of Vienna –“considered one of the twenty most important battles in the history of the world,” according to a press release from the church.
BRIDGE STREET SCHOOL BENEFIT: CMT Music Award-nominated musician Aaron Lewis will headline a concert in August as a benefit for the Bridge Street School’s library.
The benefit concert is the fifth annual event from the It Takes a Community Foundation and will BE HELD at 5 p.m. Aug. 12 at the Pines Theatre in Look Park. Proceeds from the concert will go to the Bridge Street School Library Renovation project, which is scheduled to begin this summer, according to a press release from the foundation.
Lewis, who rose to fame as the front man of Springfield hard rock band Staind, released his solo country debut, an EP called “Town Line,” in 2011. On Friday, Lewis announced his second full-length record, “Sinner,” which will be released in September and follows 2012’s “The Road.”