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Informer: An Election Day food drive, cooking lessons, and locally spun yarn
By Bailey Putnam
Globe Correspondent

A vibrant array of locally spun yarn will thread its way through the Wayland Winter Farmers Market at the second Farm Fiber Day (below) of the winter season. The event will feature yarn and other fiber products from 20 vendors, 17 of them local farmers who use wool and fur from their own sheep, goats, alpacas, and rabbits to make their fiber products. It will take place Saturday, March 5, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the greenhouses at Russell’s Garden Center, 397 Boston Post Road in Wayland, where 40 food vendors will also be selling locally grown and procured vegetables, cheeses, wines, and more. For more information visit www.russellsgardencenter.com.

The Sherborn Community Center’s student directors and the Sherborn town clerk are teaming up to put together an Election Day food drive on Super Tuesday. Anyone voting in the presidential primary at Sherborn Town Hall March 1 is urged to bring nonperishable items to donate to Natick’s A Place to Turn food pantry. Students from Dover-Sherborn High School will be present to accept donations of canned food, boxed pasta, baking mixes, toiletries, cereal, jelly, peanut butter, white rice, and other nonperishables.

The First Parish in Lincoln welcomes the Rev. Manish Mishra-Marzetti as its new senior minister. The church will hold a traditional installation ceremony to honor the new minister Sunday, March 6, at 3 p.m. Mishra-Marzetti (above), a graduate of Harvard Divinity School, spent a decade serving at church ministries on the East Coast before arriving in Lincoln last year. Following the installation ceremony, there will be a reception at the Parish House at 14 Bedford Road.

Bullfinchs restaurant and catering in Sudbury is hosting cooking classes every Tuesday night until late June. Chef Scott Richardson will hold cuisine-based lessons at 6:30 p.m. at which students can learn — and devour — dishes from salmon tacos to beef Wellington. Each lesson is $50 per person before tax and gratuity and includes a three- or four-course meal with paired wine. The next lesson March 1 will feature fried oysters, black and bleu filet, and crème brûlée. For the full schedule, visit www.bullfinchs.com; to make a reservation, call 978-443-4094.

The Massachusetts Eye Research & Surgery Institution celebrated the opening of its new Waltham facility with a ribbon-cutting ceremony Feb. 3. The institution recently moved from its former Cambridge location to a new, larger facility on Waltham’s Main Street. The new site is open for business and features increased free parking, 50 percent more exam rooms, more than double the number of chairs in the infusion suite, and an on-site cafe. The office is at 1440 Main St., Suite 201, off Interstate 95, in the same building as the ambulatory surgery center Surgisite Boston. For more information, visit www.mersi.com or call 781-891-6377 or 866-353-6377 toll free.

Bailey Putnam

Bailey Putnam can be reached at bailey.putnam@globe.com.