Tonight (Wednesday, May 1) at 7, there will be a “Home Buyers Seminar” presented by The Norton Group RE, the law offices of O’Donovan & Dwyer, along with Barry Shields of Primary Residential Mortgages. The seminar is free and takes place at 699 Broadway (Ball Square, The Norton Group office). The event will explain the process of buying, and a credit counselor will be on hand to help and assist and give advice on how to get your credit score up. The seminar is open to the public, and light refreshment will be served.

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The Somerville Pop Warner Football and Cheer Banquet is this coming Sunday, April 27, at 1 p.m. at Foss Park. They will be selling SomerVILLENS T-shirts during the free event, and there will also be a sign-up table or the 2014 season. The rain date is May 4.

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The Somerville Rotary Club here in the city is celebrating 90 years of service to our community with an anniversary dinner at Anthony’s of Malden this Friday, May 2. The cost is $50 per person. RSVP to toam.ferraro@comcast.net. If you’re a current member or past member – and in particular a past president – you need to be at this special occasion. Somerville Rotary does a lot here for the community and is constantly giving back to various organizations. The Rotary meets every Tuesday afternoon at 12:15 at the Mt. Vernon Restaurant on lower Broadway. The luncheon is always open for potential candidates for membership.

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The annual Somerville High Scholarship raffle is getting closer and tickets are still available for the big $10K drawing. It’s being planned by the committee for May 16 at the Highlander Café. Again, like every year since 1990, the raffle is limited to 250 tickets at $100 each. The grand prize will be $10K, which is the last number called. Get your tickets early and support this fine organization that helps to give students at the high school scholarships. Make check payable to the SHS Scholarship Foundation and mail to the following: S.H.S. Raffle c/o Joseph Favaloro PO Box 440275 Somerville 02144. Upon receipt of your check, your ticket will be mailed to you. You can also call Gene Brune at 617-628-5835.

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That reunion we keep telling you about down in East Somerville is on for sure and will be held at the Somerville City Club July 12. At last check, they raised over $1,000 for the event. If you’d like to donate, go online to Facebook and look up “East Somerville Reunion.” Should be a great time. East Somerville was so unique in its character and makeup, more so than the rest of the city. Everyone who grew up in Lower Broadway knew each other, even though they were broken off into groups. Make sure to mark it on your calendar.

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Happy Birthday to some of our fans out there, both here in the Ville and elsewhere. Mrs. Florence Lewis, formerly of East Somerville, is a very nice lady with a great family. We wish her a big HB. To Chris Cianci, who grew up here, graduated from SHS and still is seen in the Ville every week, happy birthday to you, as well. A good friend and lawyer over in Woburn, Frank J. Kautz II, is celebrating this week (He’s also a great photographer amongst other things). We salute him. And happy birthday to Jim Bain, a well-known Wells Fargo mortgage representative who’s here in the Ville all the time. Another guy who grew up and went to school here is Anthony Frasers. We wish him a good day as well. A former real estate agent here in Somerville, Dane Chenery, has his own TV show in Boston and is also celebrating. Happy birthday to good friend and great family man Mike Moccia of Ball Square Café (who doesn’t like Mike?). He is the best public relations guy for any business (After all, you’d have to be pretty loyal to stand outside in the cold days while he is smiling and bringing you a cup of coffee. Although living in Forge Village (Westford), Ms. Linda Norton-Beebe is celebrating. She was born here in the Ville and lived here the first part of her life (She is, of course, the niece of Pat and Don Norton). She’s celebrating her birthday this week as well. Finally, happy birthday to Leo Saltman, a good guy who works at DPW here in the Ville. To all others we haven’t mentioned, we wish them all a great birthday.

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A good friend and all around real nice guy recently passed away. Robert Skip Trahey had a stroke about two weeks ago, never pulled out of it and passed away in a coma. Arrangements haven’t been set down, but we’re told they will be handled by Doherty’s Funeral Home. Skip, as he was called by the many who knew him from Somerville where he grew up in, was a clown with the Shriners up in Wilmington. He was also an avid photographer for various organizations around the area. He will be missed.

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We wish Tom Taylor and his family the best and hope that Tom gets well soon. He’s been a hero of sorts down in Ward 3 over the years fighting for all the residents.

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The Healey School’s Young Artists in Action Arts Gala (YAA!) will be held from 2 to 5 p.m. as part of the Somerville Open Studios weekend. Admission is free, and there will be live music performances, indoor and outdoor art activities for kids, shadow puppets, face painting, refreshments and more. There is also an extensive silent auction featuring many local businesses and services, restaurants, theatre subscriptions and Red Sox and Celtics tickets. The school is located at 5 Meacham St. All proceeds from the fundraiser will go towards funding enrichment activities at the school and other off-site learning opportunities.

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The Somerville Garden Club’s May meeting takes place from 7 to 9 p.m. Wednesday, May 14, at the Tufts Administration Building at 167 Holland St. Dr. Bryan Hamlin, chairman of the Friends of the Middlesex Fells, will talk about the great variety of habitats as the basis for many plants and animals in the Fells. He will show slides of the various habitats found in the Fells, including mixed woodland, wetland, both swamp and pond-side, and rocky outcrop, as well as the scores of flowering plants that have adapted to those particular habitats. Bryan will lead a hike of the Fells the following weekend. Meetings are on the second floor and are wheelchair accessible. Parking is available on site and the building is a short walk from the Davis Square T station and is on the #87 bus route. All Somerville Garden Club meetings are free, and the public is invited to attend. For additional information, visit www.somervillegardenclub.org.

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“School House Rock Live Jr.” will be held beginning at 6:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday, May 2 and 3, at the John F. Kennedy Elementary School, 5 Cherry St. The suggested donation is $5. The Kennedy School Drama Club’s performance is a modern musical based on the Emmy award-winning 1970s Saturday morning cartoon series. Parents and kids alike will thrill to sing along with such beloved classics as “Just a Bill, “Conjunction Junction”, “Interplanet Janet” and “Great American Melting Pot.”

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Somerville Community Access Television (SCATV) is hosting an Open House and PSA Day Monday, May 5. The studio at 90 Union Square will be open from 4 to 8 p.m. for tours and information about how Somerville residents can learn to use HD cameras, create studio TV shows, become a radio DJ, or cover important local stories for Somerville Neighborhood News. Nonprofit organizations are invited to come in between noon and 8 p.m. to record a 60-second promotional video, or “PSA,” about their services that will air on SCATV Channel 3. Organizations should call the SCATV studio at 617-628-8826 for details about this valuable offer and to schedule a tape time. The PSA is free for organizations that join SCATV.