As an opportunity to honor Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s legacy, help fill snack bags to complement weekend meal bags distributed by Filling in the Blanks to children in need throughout Fairfield, Westchester and Putnam Counties. Sign up here to participate, four bags each per participant, $14. You can also add extra bags for $3.50 each. For those who cannot attend, donations are welcome so others can assemble bags.

Free kits are given away by the Aspetuck Health District to help you test for high levels of radon, the odorless, invisible gas found in groundwater, bedrock, and soil, that can creep into your home. Reducing radon levels can help lower the risk of lung cancer. A photo ID is required to receive a kit.

Stella Blue’s Band returns to Lachat, indoors, with a Dead of Winter show, an evening filled with acoustic renditions of Grateful Dead tunes. Tickets, $27 to $50 (plus fees) available here. Assigned seating ticket holders park in the lower lot. Standing room holders park in the upper lot at 1 Ladder Hill Road South. Enjoy farm-fresh specialty cocktails, wine, beer, non-alcoholic beverages, and street tacos. The bar will be open at 5:30 and during the set break.

Lachat teams with the Weston Pollinator Pathway and Advanced Master Gardener Alice Ely for a free hands-on workshop teaching how to make your own mini-greenhouse in a bottle to start seedlings of native plants that will attract pollinators, including monarch butterflies, to your yard. Bring clear 1-liter or 2-liter soda bottles or translucent half-gallon milk bottles. Special native seeds and potting soil will be provided. With limited space available, register here.

Poet, actor, and playwright David Mills explores the history of slavery in the North during the 18th century, interweaving poems with stories about noteworthy men and women of African and Indigenous descent at the time of the American Revolution. This free event is in honor of Black History Month and kicks off “America 250: The Revolutionary Spirit Lecture Series.” Registration, here, is recommended.

The Weston Police Department invites the community to a ceremony where Phousisongkhamloy Chokbengboune will be sworn in as the department’s newest officer.