BURNHAM — The Winnecook Christian Church will have a building fund benefit bluegrass gospel festival and barbecue, from noon to 6 p.m. today at the church at 3 Chapel Lane. Suggested donation is $7 per person. Music will be performed by Mike and Mary Robinson, Northern Breeze, Wild Blue Yonder, Gloryland Singers and Backyard Bluegrass. Bring a chair. For more information, call 948-4673.

FARMINGTON — The University of Maine at Farmington recently announced Chiaping Wen, a UMF senior from Norway, majoring in interdisciplinary studies, with a concentration in international and global studies, was selected as a 2012 George J. Mitchell Peace Scholar. Recently honored at a UMF International and Global Studies celebration, Wen received one of only two single-semester Mitchell Peace Scholarships awarded annually by the University of Maine System.

WATERVILLE — The Waterville High School, class of 1946, will hold its summer monthly get-together at noon Wednesday, June 13, at Joseph’s Fireside Steakhouse, West River Road.

PORTLAND — The Maine Conservation Corps recently welcomed Christina Walker of Oakland to serve as an environmental educator and AmeriCorps volunteer at the Maine Department of Conservation’s Bureau of Parks & Lands.