The Lower Macungie pool is open daily noon to 8 p.m. The pool will close 4:45 p.m. June 20, 27 and July 8 for swim meets. There will be a Summer Kickoff Party 1-5 p.m. June 23 with DJ Bar None Entertainment 1-3 p.m. and mermaid visits 3-5 p.m. There will be a DJ Pool Party with Wesley Works 5-7 p.m. July 12. On July 14 there will be a Wild Rapids Water Slide noon to 6 p.m. There will be a mermaid visit 2-4 p.m. July 17. Wildlands Conservancy will have a presentation 2 p.m. July 21. For more information, visit the website www.lowermac.org.

Swim lesson signups for Lower Macungie Pool are 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday at the Lower Macungie Community Center.

The Large Flowerheads will perform 6:30 p.m. June 28 at Hills at Lockridge Park. Mark James and Country Sunset Band will perform 6 p.m. July 6 at Hills at Lockridge Park. Pioneer Band will perform 7 p.m. July 13 at East Texas Park. The Main Street Cruisers will perform 7 p.m. July 19 at Hills at Lockridge Park.

Concordia Lutheran Church will hold Vacation Bible School “Miraculous Mission” 9 a.m. to noon June 24-28 for pre-kindergarten through sixth grade. For registration information, contact the church at 610-965-3265.

The Lower Macungie Garden Club will meet 1 p.m. July 10 at the community center.

The Lower Macungie Senior Citizens Club meets noon July 2 and 16 at the community center. After a business meeting, members play bingo or card games.

The community center offers a number of activities. Classes include youth and adult tennis lessons, cooking classes, safesitter, theater camps, mad science summer camp, junior art camps and sewing camp. Adult classes include card making, Tai Chi, Pilates and crafting at the barn.

For more information, contact the community center at 610-966-6924.

A new Saturday open gym time will be offered 10 a.m. to noon for children ages 10-15 with a parent. Family open gym time is 10 a.m. to noon Saturdays for ages infant through 10 years with a parent. Proof of residency is required.

The summer yard waste hours are 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday and noon to 7 p.m. Sunday. Yard waste permits are required for drop-off.

The Lower Macungie Township Public Library will be closed July 4 in observation of Independence Day.

The Teen Advisory Board for grades six through 12 will meet 3:30-4:30 p.m. May 17. They will celebrate a year of birthdays with a cupcake challenge.

The library book club will meet 10:30 a.m. July 3 to discuss “Pachinko” by Min Jin Lee. The book for Aug. 7 is “Warlight” by Michael Ondaatje.

The library summer program “A Universe of Stories” has begun. There are weekly prizes for children age two years old to entering fifth grade; family fun activities; infant/toddler special classes; middle school and high school events and teen reads raffle for students entering grades six through 12.

Family fun nights are back. Every Monday evening through July 29 there will be a family event including astronaut training camp, trivia night, STEM challenges, Galaxy golf, community drum circle and movie night.

Teen Thursdays will be offered for students entering grades six through 12. Activities include Design Your Universe and Let’s Get Lunar. Other teen events include Teen Advisory Board 3:30 p.m. June 21; What’s in the Stars lockin 5-8 p.m. July 12; teen movie afternoon 2-3:45 p.m. July 19.

Buckets of Nature for grades kindergarten through fifth will be offered 10:15-11:15 a.m. June 25 and July 16.

There will be a breakfast book share for second and third grade students 10 a.m. June 28 and snack and share book talk for grades 4-5 2 p.m. July 3.

Historian and engineer Peter Kern will discuss the U.S. Space Program in “Fly Me to the Moon…the Events Leading to the Historic 1969 Voyage of Apollo 11” 6-7:30 p.m. June 27.

There will be a showing of “First Man” at the library 1-3:30 p.m. June 29.

Students entering grades three to five can learn about stars 10:30-11:15 a.m. July 9.

“NASA Live: Explore Moon to Mars” will be a live stream program discussing NASA’s plan to return to the moon 2-3 p.m. July 11.

There will be an Escape Room: Blast from the Past 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. July 13. There are three time slots available.

The program “Universe of Sounds!” for ages three to 12 years will explore the sounds of space using different instruments and processors 11 a.m. to noon July 18.

“Dance by the Light of the Moon” at an after hours dance with DJ Jimbo 7-9 p.m. July 19.

Many programs have limited registration and require advance registration. Contact the library for more information.

Children’s storytimes are ongoing. Contact the library for times.

For more information, call the library at 610-966-6864 or go to library website www.lowermaclib.org.

One day we took our dog Daisy to visit at a local dog sanctuary. One of the volunteers was taking a snack break and Daisy the mooch started inching her way closer, looking for a handout. The volunteer looked at her and said, “You won’t like them. They’re veggie straws and I don’t even like them.” Undeterred, Daisy persisted and the woman gave her one. I figured she would eat it since Daisy will eat almost anything but the next thing we knew she was dragging her tongue across her teeth trying to get the veggie straw off her tongue! The woman said, “See, I told you you wouldn’t like them.”

The next township column will be published July 17; copy deadline is July 11.