VFW holding chicken barbecue

JAY — A chicken barbecue will be held at 4 p.m. Friday, May 25, at the VFW, Route 133. $8. 897-5112.

Living School open house

TEMPLE — Koviashuvik Local Living School will hold its Ice Cream Open House from 10 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Saturday, May 26.

The event will feature sustainable living, homesteading arts, traditional crafts and free ice cream. Participants may help turn the crank and make old-fashioned ice cream with ice from the new Koviashuvik ice house and cream from a local farm.

There will be live music and tours of the school grounds and sustainable homestead. The tour includes a stone root cellar, vegetable gardens, nut orchard, edible landscaping, earth-bermed greenhouse, rainwater collection systems, solar dehydrator, solar hot water system, alternative cooking technologies, composting toilet, log cabin, wall tent and ice house.

Tours will be given at 10:30 a.m. and 2 p.m. The event is free.

For more information, call 778-0318 or visit www.koviashuvik.com.

DAR holding sale

FARMINGTON — A sale featuring food, plants, odds and ends and something for everyone will be held from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Friday, June 1, at 499 Fairbanks Road, rain or shine. Sponsored by DAR as a fund raiser.