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Catasauqua: Mary Todd Lincoln to visit GTH June 4

At the George Taylor House, Poplar and Lehigh streets, from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. June 4, there will be a quilt show featuring new and historic quilts. You also will get a chance to meet Mary Todd Lincoln!

Enjoy light refreshments, house tours, snacks, re-enactors, speakers, interactive programs for kids and adults and more the first Sunday of most months.

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Now that your flowers are blooming, it’s time to learn more about flower arrangements. Join Catasauqua Garden Club members as Donna Baylor, Pennsylvania master gardener and experienced flower arranger, demonstrates some flower-arranging techniques.

This colorful session is scheduled 1 p.m. June 7 at Slovak Center Social Club, 1233 Fifth St., North Catasauqua. Folks with items to exhibit should arrive early to set up their artistic and horticultural masterpieces.

Garden-friendly guests are welcome to visit, share garden enjoyment and perhaps learn the difference between a Hogarth and a Crescent arrangement.

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St. Paul’s Evangelical Lutheran Church, 417 Howertown Road, is holding its annual yard and bake sale 8 a.m.-1 p.m. June 10 in the fellowship hall. Breakfast and lunch items will be available from the kitchen.

Proceeds will benefit the general fund.

If you wish to donate items for this sale, bring them to the church office, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Monday through Friday, by June 9.

For more information, call Bob Bastian at 610-266-4287.

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The youth of Holy Trinity Memorial Lutheran Church, Fourth and Pine streets, are hosting a junior Victorian tea and basket raffle 2-4 p.m. June 11. Doors open 1:30 p.m. for the basket raffle.

There will be kid-friendly beverages, desserts, activities, door prizes and fun for kids age 3 to 103!

Dads, sons and grandsons are welcome.

Dress up or come casual. There will be a prize for the best dressed - boys, too!

One-hundred percent of the funds raised will benefit Trinity’s youth activities fund and the monthly sponsorship of a teenager through World Vision.

For tickets or more information, call Diane at 610-739-6006.

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