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Beach Jam benefits breast cancer

WESTBROOK — Just this once, you won’t mind if people blast their music on the beach.

Beach Jam for Breast Cancer, featuring at least 10 bands, is set for 1-10 p.m. Saturday at the Westbrook Elks Club, 142 Seaside Ave. Tickets are $25, available at the event or at outlets found at www.breastcancerbeachjam.com.

The event, which benefits the Yale-New Haven Breast Cancer Center at Smilow Cancer Hospital, is rain or shine. Bands scheduled to perform include presenter Freeplay, One Way Out, The Jim Shepley Band and Justa-lil-Country.

There also will be a silent auction and raffle.

Go, dogs, go to Mystic Seaport

MYSTIC — Welcome back the 2006 Westminster best-in-show winner, Rufus, the grand marshal for the Dog Days Parade at 5:30 today at Mystic Seaport. Other Dog Days events include meeting Clifford the Big Red Dog at 9 a.m., noon and 4 p.m. Saturday and Sunday; Connecticut Canine search and rescue demo at 10 a.m. Saturday and Sunday; and Newfoundlands of New England water rescue demo at noon on Sunday. For a full list of doggie activities which run from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, go to www.mysticseaport.org. The museum is located at 75 Greenmanville Ave.

Even backpacks can use some grace

OLD SAYBROOK — St. Paul Evangelical Lutheran Church will have a Blessing of the Backpacks at 8:30 and 10:45 a.m. Sunday at the church, 56 Great Hammock Road. Continued...

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Students of all ages, as well as teachers and other school system workers, are welcome to come and receive a blessing. Call (860) 388-2398 for more information. And kids, remember to bring those backpacks.

It’s star time at Papermania Plus

HARTFORD — Who knew paper could be so much fun? The folks in charge of Papermania Plus, that’s who.

The venerable show saluting all manner of collectible paper memorabilia returns to the Hartford XL Center, 1 Civic Center Plaza, Saturday and Sunday. In addition to antiquarian books, postcards, sheet music, animation cells, celebrity signatures, posters and historical documents, Papermania Plus this year will feature a nod to Hollywood, with movie and TV autographs and posters.

The event, now in its 58th year, also offers free appraisals of up to five items, from 11 a.m. until 2 p.m. Sunday only.

Papermania Plus hours will be 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday. Admission is $7. On Sunday only, senior citizens and college students with ID cards will be admitted for $3.50.

For more information, contact show manager Arlene Shea at 860-563-9975 or visit www.papermaniaplus.com.

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