Newtown Savings Bank’s Relay For Life Team will host a fundraising car wash this weekend. The public is invited to visit the parking lot of the bank’s main branch, at 39 Main Street, between 9 am and 1 pm. Car washes will be offered in exchange for donations. All money collected on Saturday will then be donated to Relay For Life through the team’s efforts.

The 2015 Newtown Relay For Life will take place Saturday, June 13, so we expect to hear from plenty of teams doing fundraisers in upcoming months. Anyone hosting an event is invited to contact The Bee with details. As long as your event is going to be a full fundraiser — in other words, where 100 percent of any money collected is donated — we are always happy to help with publicity. Send your fundraising information to Shannon Hicks at shannon@thebee.com.

Cindy Simoneau, who started her journalism career as a news reporter here at The Bee in 1980, will be inducted into the Connecticut Journalism Hall of Fame on May 21, at the Connecticut Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ) Excellence in Journalism dinner, which will be held in Wallingford, according to the Connecticut SPJ. Among the roles she has played in the field since her start at The Bee, she is now the chair of the Journalism Department at Southern Connecticut State University and an associate professor of journalism. Congratulations!

I know there will be plenty of proud parents and friends photographing the Newtown High School seniors all dressed up for Prom, this Friday. Share the photos you take with The Newtown Bee, for publication in a future print edition or for an online photo slideshow, by e-mailing photos to education reporter Eliza Hallabeck, eliza@thebee.com, with the subject line “Prom 2015,” by Tuesday, April 28, at 10 am. Being a “tuxedo” cat, I’m all set to go, myself. All I need is a date…

There have been some purr-fectly lovely sounds coming from the practice room of the Newtown Choral Society. Hear the fruits of their labors this coming Sunday, at their spring concert. The concert is at the Newtown Meeting House on Main Street, beginning at 3:30 pm, and features some lively Cajun tunes. NHS Band Director Kurt Eckhardt and NMS Band teacher Bob Nolte will back up the chorus with their musical talents, with Susan Anthony-Klein at the piano, all under the direction of Mary Andreotta. Take a break from that backbreaking yard work. Tickets are $10, $8 for seniors and students, and are available at the door.

The Kneen family found quite a surprise in their garage, Tuesday morning: a large beaver. “We’re baffled where he came from,” said Liz Kneen. The family lives near Hattertown Pond, and she hates to think another territorial beaver booted “Mr B” out, but there he was, hiding in her garage, scared and confused. (As were they, initially!) She suspects Mr B wandered in when the garage door was left open earlier in the morning. Adorable as he looks, a garage is hardly a good environment for a beaver. Several phone calls later, Liz found someone to set up a Hav-A-Hart trap in the evening, baited with luscious lettuce. By then, says Liz, Mr B had fallen asleep in the garage, using their lawn mower for a pillow. During the night, sure enough, they heard a racket and ran down, expecting to find Mr B in the trap. But no. Instead, he was chewing on the garage cable. “I opened the garage door then, and he must have scooted out later in the night, because he was gone in the morning,” she says. The Kneens are positive that Mr B left, and was not hiding elsewhere in the garage. They had put a line of flour just outside the garage door, and tracks led away into the woods. At least he left with a full stomach. “He ate all the lettuce around the trap, but didn’t go in,” says Liz.

Looking for something to do in The Big Apple next weekend? The music of composer Joel Feigin will be performed by Elaris Duo — violinist Larisa Elisha and cellist Steven Elisha, who performed a free concert at Newtown Meeting House in September 2013 — on Saturday, May 2, in Mary Flagler Cary Hall of The DiMenna Center for Classical Music, 450 West 37th Street. The concert is being presented as a fundraiser for Sandy Hook Promise. The program will include the world premiere of Feigin’s “Shifting Spirits” (2010), a duo for violin and cello; a special preview performance of his “An Offering,” written for the families of Newtown (2013), with Mr Elisha being joined by Mr Feigin on the piano for the work; and Meditation 1 from Lament Amid Silence (2009) for solo piano, also to be performed by the composer. Other selections to be performed by the duo will be Duo For Violin And Cello by Erwin Schulhoff and Zoltan Kodaly’s Duo For Violin And Cello, Opus 7. Admission to the 7:30 concert is by donation, with a suggested donation of $20. For tickets, visit www.brownpapertickets.com/event/1434131; for additional information, call 516-586-3433.

I don’t have any meditations, laments, or duos to offer, but I promise you won’t be disappointed next week, if you… Read me again.