Westbrook/Gorham Rotary Club President Jason Beever, left, in a presentation to Mike Sanphy, Westbrook Historical Society president, donates several items recently to the society. The donations, from the collection of Beever’s mother,  the late Jane Beever, include memorabilia from the time during Kem Brook’s term as Rotary district governor.

Westbrook students meet Patriots players

Students from Westbrook Middle School had the opportunity to meet New England Patriots players and ESPN reporter Mike Reiss, work with a professional improv group and meet other students from around New England at a recent Fuel Up to Play 60 Leadership Summit at Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Mass. Students Angelica Johns, who is also this year’s state ambassador for Fuel Up to Play 60, Jaylen White and Jason Shackley, along with their school’s program adviser and physical education teacher, Michele Higgins, and Westbrook High School student Madison Damon, a former state ambassador, attended the event July 21.

Fuel Up to Play 60, the nation’s largest health and wellness program created in partnership with Maine Dairy & Nutrition Council and the NFL, in cooperation with USDA, encourages students to eat healthy, be active and make positive, healthy changes in their schools and communities. Johns and Damon also served as student coaches for the event, organizing and leading other students through the various activities, which included a skills session with former Patriot players and a smoothie recipe contest, which Johns’ group won.

“Fuel Up to Play 60 has provided our school with so many wonderful opportunities to improve our school’s wellness, and the New England Summit has been my favorite perk of all,” said Higgins in a press release. “This was my second New England Summit, and my favorite part was the speech by Duron Harmon.”

Higgins said what stuck with her most was when the New England Patriots safety spoke about fooling around at football practice as a kid and his coach called him out on it. “The coach asked him how expected to do great things when he was acting like that, so Duron turned himself around and starting working hard every day to achieve his dreams,” Higgins said in the press release

She added that she also enjoyed the opportunity to work and collaborate with other program advisers from New England, getting advice and ideas about how to improve the program at Westbrook.

“And seeing our Westbrook kids take part in such a well run program, made me really excited to see how they will step it up when school starts and help Westbrook Middle School improve our healthy eating and physical activity,” she said.

White and Johns then went on to attend the national Fuel Up to Play 60 Student Ambassador Summit on the Purdue University Campus in Indianapolis, Ind., the following week.

Church park service

Trinity Lutheran Church, 612 Main St., is holding a worship service at 9 a.m. on Sunday, Aug. 21, under the trees near the gazebo in Riverbank Park on Main Street.

A church announcement said the sermon will be on the Lord’s Prayer. The church’s Ethiopian Choir will provide special music and Bonnie Wright will perform a liturgical dance.

Everyone is invited and an international brunch, representing the various cultures in the church’s congregation,will be served in the church. For more information, call the church at 854-5653 or visit www.trinitywestbrook.com.

Poetry reading reminder

The monthly poetry series, Lowry’s Lodge, continues at 7 p.m. on Saturday, Aug. 20, at Continuum for Creativity, 863 Main St., Westbrook. Jim Donnelly and Anna Wrobel will host the event. The suggested donation is $4 and refreshments will be served.

Final summer concert

The Pardon Me, Doug Band will play from 6-8 p.m. on Wednesday, Aug. 24, in Riverbank Park, as the free summer concert series concludes. Band members are Benny St. Clair, Kevin Roper, Chris Chasse and Cameron Gray. The group is a Phish tribute band that formed in 2012.

Dance center open house

Drouin Dance Center, 90 Bridge St., is hosting an open house from 5-7 p.m. on Thursday, Aug. 18. The event includes a tour, light refreshments and dance activities.

The center is on the second floor ofd the Dana Warp Mill. For more information, call 854-2221 or visit www.drouindancecenter.com

Westbrook Middle School students Angelica Johns, Jaylen White and Jason Shackley, Westbrook High School student Madison Damon, and program adviser Michele Higgins meet New England Patriots safety Duron Harmon, center, at the recent New England Fuel Up to Play 60 Leadership Summit at Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Mass.