PERU -The women of the Class of 1943 will meet for lunch at 12:30 p.m. Wednesday, April 9, at the Worthley Pond Variety and Restaurant. For further information, people can call Elaine at 364-8335.

Festival concert

RUMFORD -The SAD 43 music department will host the District IV Elementary Festival on Wednesday, April 9, at the Mountain Valley High School. Schools will send selected students to perform in an honors Elementary Concert for the community. The performing groups will be chorus, with a total of 141 students; band, with 100 students; and orchestra, with 30 students.

Each performing group will rehearse for half a day with its guest conductor and then perform for the public at 4:30 p.m. The public is invited to attend.

Author to visit

DIXFIELD — Maine children’s book author Lynn Plourde will do a presentation at Dixfield Elementary School beginning 9:10 a.m. Friday, April 11. During an open assembly, Plourde will present an interactive reading of some of her picture books “Pigs in the Mud in the Middle of the Road,” “Wild Child,” “School Picture Day” and “Moose, of Course!”

She’ll lead students in a dramatization of one of her books, with students playing parts using simple props. She also will visit with third- and fourth-grade students in smaller groups and share information about writing good stories. People can call Dixfield Elementary School, 562-4207, for further information.