Hawley

PPL Wallenpaupack Environmental Learning Center, 9am-4pm. Presenter: Waterways Conservation Officer Bob Plumb, Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission. The Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission’s eight-hour boating safety class gives boaters practical information. Students who pass the exam at the end of the daylong course can apply for their boating safety education certificate from the commission. This certificate will enable people to operate personal watercraft. Please bring your own lunch and snacks for the day. A $10 certificate fee is payable to the Fish & Boat Commission after class.  Read more

PPL Wallenpaupack Environmental Learning Center, 10am. Presenter: Sarah Hall, Northeast Pennsylvania Audubon Society. Learn to identify the birds you will see around the lake this time of the year. Pass the osprey nest and take a stroll on the Wallenpaupack Creek Trail for bird watching. Registration is not required for this free program.

All you can eat spaghetti dinner fundraiser for the Ringus family at the Blooming Grove Fire Department, 2-6pm. The Ringus family lost everything in a fire. Cost: adults, $10, children 4 to 11, $6. Takeouts available. 570/685-1868.

Unusual workshop for plant and nature lovers: Fern Ethnobotany, taught by Nathaniel Whitmore at Northern Light Natural Foods, 12 noon-4pm. The workshop will include field identification, medicinal use and more. RSVP: wathakes@gmail.com.

Billy Joel’s right hand man Wade Preston at the Hawley Silk Mill, 7:30pm. 570/588-8077, www.silkmillharmony.com.

Award winning indie folk Barnaby Bright at the Hawley Silk Mill, 7:30pm. 570/588-8077, www.silkmillharmony.com.

Quintessential American folk The Amigos Band at the Hawley Silk Mill, 7:30pm. 570/588-8077, www.silkmillharmony.com.

Funky fearless Americana The Boston Boys at the Hawley Silk Mill, 7:30pm. 570/588-8077, www.silkmillharmony.com.

Americana artist on the verge Jesse Terry at the Hawley Silk Mill, 7:30pm. 570/588-8077, www.silkmillharmony.com.

Genre defying vocalist Aimee Bayles at the Hawley Silk Mill, 7:30pm. 570/588-8077, www.silkmillharmony.com.