Easter must be around the bend. I filled up on pancakes at the Shrove Tuesday supper this past Tuesday evening, at St John’s Episcopal in Sandy Hook. Now I’m looking forward to three upcoming Friday nights of eating delicious fish.

The Knights of Columbus Fish Fry will return this Lenten season. From 5 to 8 pm on Fridays, March 2, 16, and 23, the public is invited to partake in fresh fried fish dinners in the St Rose of Lima Gathering Hall, 46 Church Hill Road. Cost is $8 for adults, $5 for children — maximum $25 for a family — which will give you fish (or mac and cheese), coleslaw, french fries, drinks, dessert, and coffee. Takeout is available. Give Grand Knight Tim Reilly a call at 203-270-1838 if you need to know anything else. Reservations are not needed, just a healthy appetite.

I hear that thanks to a generous monetary award by Danbury Savings Bank earlier this year to Newtown Friends of Music, the NFOM has far less worries about funding the School Outreach Programs to our town schools in the coming year. The Community Arts Grant Award, one of several to local organizations, from the DSB Savings Bank of Danbury Foundation, will also go toward funding this year’s scholarship award. So if you are a musically inclined senior at Newtown High School, check out the application requirements for the scholarship issued through the Newtown Scholarship Association. And congratulations to NFOM on receiving this award, and for presenting 34 seasons of superb concerts. There’s another concert coming up April 1 — and that’s no fooling. Find out more at newtownfriendsofmusic.org.

Are you one of the 2,800 fans of The Newtown Bee Facebook page? We reached that mark on Tuesday of this week; if you aren’t a fan, visit us now and become one — it’s not far to 3,000.

What can beat a little stargazing? Beginning with a 6 pm planetarium show on March 3, the spring schedule of the Western Connecticut State University observatory gets underway. A complete listing of planetarium shows and observatory viewings is available at www.wcsu.edu/starwatch. For more information, call the observatory at 203-837-8672 or the Office of University Relations, 203-837-8486.

Word from a friend up Farmington way is that a lone daffodil has been blooming bravely since February 1 in her yard. It won’t be long now until we see the yellow swathe of more than 500 daffies planted around the Village Cemetery perimeter last fall (by certain industrious gardeners), I guess. Do I dare mention spring is just a month away?

Leave it to the worker bees here at the office to support a good cause, particularly if it involves baked goods. Just down the way from the 5 Church Hill Road office, Tuesday, the Sole Savers Relay For Life team was holding a bake sale on Wendover Road. I’m not sure if it was a faint scent of sweets wafting up hill or the dancing around at the corner by our former Bee intern Emily Ashbolt, with advertising sign in hand, that attracted us, but somehow we ended up with a bagful of goodies. The good news is that Bee purchases contributed to the $216 that Sole Savers earned. Now that’s pretty sweet.

2006 NHS graduates Katie Rose Crevier and Alana Wenick are making tracks — around the Princess Half-Marathon course at Disney World in Florida, that is. Katie and Alana will be running, along with approximately 17,000 other women, 13.1 miles through the Magic Kingdom and Epcot this coming Sunday, February 25. I’m not sure if everyone ends up with a handsome prince at the end of it all, but maybe they can trade in their sneakers for glass slippers. Good luck, to both of them!

Good luck, as well, to Cory Fisher and Mac Morlock, NHS senior wrestlers, who have advanced to State Opens. Cory and Mac will grapple with the rest of the state’s best, this weekend, at the Floyd Little Athletic Center in New Haven.

It has been suggested that I join the visual social network Pinterest. I think I could fill up a few boards: Bird Recipes. Mice I Love To Taunt. Scratching Posts I Don’t Want. Furniture I Love (To Claw). My Favorite Hiding Places. If only my days weren’t so filled up with scratching up the dirt around town, maybe I could commit to this.

The Oscars are being handed out this Sunday, and I will wear my usual tuxedo suit to watch. I know that movies like The Help, War Horse, and Moneyball are up for Best Picture, but for the life of me, I don’t know why I don’t see Puss in Boots, African Cats, or Thundercats in the running. For that matter, the remake of the classic Hitchcock film The Birds would get my vote. Hey, Oscar committee — call me!

It’s Leap Year! That means that all of those people born four years ago on February 29 finally get to celebrate their first birthdays. It also means I get one extra day this month to leap on some juicy news. Be sure next week to… Read me again.