News Briefs: 'Peter Pan' flies into town
by TP staff
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Freiler School will present a musical based upon the childhood favorite play “Peter Pan,” with performances beginning today and running through Saturday on the campus.

Geri Neylan will direct performances with 125 students in two casts, featuring students from third through eighth grades. Carol Brohard, a teacher at Freiler, will also help with the school’s production.

Tickets cost $4.

For information: 831-5170.

At a glance

• WHAT: “Peter Pan” musical

• WHEN: 7 p.m. today through Saturday

• WHERE: Freiler School, 2421 W. Lowell Ave.

• COST: $4

• INFO: 831-5170

News Briefs Junior Miss tickets

Advanced-sale tickets are now available for this year’s Tracy Junior Miss Program, which is scheduled for April 8 at the Grand Theatre Center for the Art, 715 Central Ave.

The tickets, $15 each, can be purchased at Richard’s Men’s Wear, 70 W. 10th St., Mondays through Saturdays; or at the Tracy Elks Lodge, 6400 W. 11th St., during Sunday rehearsal sessions for program participants.

The advanced-sale tickets are for 100 up-front seats in the Eleni Tsakopoulos-Kounalakis Theatre, which is the Grand’s main venue.

Additional seats can be purchased at the Grand Theatre Web site, www.atthegrand.org, or at the Grand box office, which is open from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Saturday.

Information: Bob Haupt, 479-1110; or Grand Theatre, 831-6858.

Food for the needy

Residents with low incomes living in San Joaquin County can receive free food through the Human Service Agency starting at 8:30 a.m. Thursday at Tracy’s Larch Clover Community Center.

Proof of address and ZIP code, identification and a paper bag are required.

For information: 468-3679.

ICF announces dinner menu

The Italian Catholic Federation will have its monthly dinner at 6 p.m. Thursday in Father Fleming Hall at St. Bernard’s Catholic Church, 163 W. Eaton Ave.

Pork loin will be served with roasted potatoes and all the fixings. Cost is $8 for members and $10 for nonmembers.

For information: 835-2997 or 835-1474.

Moose dinner to star corned beef

The Tracy Moose Lodge will serve a corned beef and cabbage dinner 6 p.m. Friday night at the lodge, 35 E. Sixth St.

Cost is $10 per person.

For information: 835-4366.

Bikers help abused children

Bikers Against Child Abuse will ride from Tracy to French Camp and to a local prison’s family center to deliver Easter baskets to children in a shelter.

The ride will start at 10 a.m. Saturday from Back Roads Custom Cycles, 2446 Toste Road. One group of riders will head to the Mary Graham Children’s Shelter in French Camp, while another will ride to the family center at the Deuel Vocational Institution east of Tracy.

In addition to the basket deliveries, riders have organized a lunch with a local band at the children’s shelter. At the family center, riders will team up with Friends Outside to hand out Easter baskets and toys.

Jefferson 4-H plans fundraiser

The 49th annual Jefferson 4-H spaghetti and tri-tip dinner fundraiser will take place from 4:30 to 7:30 p.m. Saturday at Hawkins Elementary School, 475 Darlene Lane.

A silent auction will take place along with the dinner. Tickets are $12, and children 5 and younger get in free. Take-out dinners are available.

For information: 832-5389.

D.A.R.E. cosponsors bicycle drive

The Tracy D.A.R.E. Advisory Board, the Central Valley Wheelers bicycle club, Tracy Cyclery and Silva’s Bicycle Service will collect new and used bicycles from 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Saturday at City Hall, 333 Civic Center Plaza.

The bikes will be given away to needy children.

For information: Steve Abercrombie, 470-2892 or officerabs@yahoo.com.

Elks to host veterans dinner

The Tracy Elks Lodge will host its annual Vet Dinner starting at 5:30 p.m. Saturday at the lodge, 6400 W. 11th St.

The dinner raised more than $5,000 last year, and the money went to the Department of Veterans Affairs hospital in Livermore.

A raffle and a blind auction will accompany the roast beef dinner. The cost is $15.

For information: 835-4413.

Safe teen driving event planned

The Get Real Behind the Wheel committee and Altamont Motorsports Park will host an on-track safe teen driver training session from 4 to 6 p.m. Friday and 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Sunday at the racetrack, 17001 Midway Road.

Teens between the ages of 14 and 18, accompanied by their parents with their own car, can learn safe driving in the pit and on the track. The Department of Motor Vehicles and local law enforcement will help with the training.

For information: Ken Ucci, 601-6523 or letsdrivesafe@yahoo.com.

Chronic pain group meets

The Tracy Chapter of the American Chronic Pain Association meets from 6:30 to 8 p.m. on the first and third Monday of each month in Conference Room A of the physical therapy department at the Sutter Tracy Community Hospital, 1420 N. Tracy Blvd.

For information: 833-3330.

Society readies for annual luncheon

The Tracy Auxiliary of the Children’s Home Society will host its 13th annual spring luncheon and egg raffle from 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. March 23 at Portuguese Hall, 430 Ninth St.

Tickets cost $17.50, and space is limited.

For information: 835-5258 or 603-3128.

American Legion Auxiliary meets

The James McDermott Unit 172 of the American Legion Auxiliary will meet at 11:30 a.m. Tuesday at Perko’s Café, 1321 W. 11th St.

For information: Ruth Briggs, 835-1429.

Haircuts to help Haiti

Tresses Hair Salon will cut hair from 1 to 5 p.m. Tuesday at SouthWinds Church, 13400 W. Middle Road, to raise money for survivors of Haiti’s January earthquake.

Haircuts cost $10.

For information: 914-2760.

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