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Top Headlines The event, sponsored by the Taunton Kiwanis Club, is 15 bucks, 9 for kids. You can get tickets at Bristol Coiunty Savings, Future Graphics, Taunton Federal Credit Union, Mechanic's Coperative Bank, Biss Lumber and JK Oliveiri Insurance in Middleboro. (508.824.6466 and 508.965.0360) New Hope invites you to Fusion 5 Sports Bar on Route 1 in Foxboro Sunday June 1 to munch on free appetizers while the Red Sox beat the Orioles. It starts at 12:30 and includes a chance to win Red Sox tickets and memorabilia. The fundraiser is 15 bucks. (508.226.4015.x109) The Friends of WaterFire, a group of the volunteers who work to produce WaterFire, are having a May Breakfast fundraiser Saturday, 7:3o to 11 at the Knights of Columbus on Douglas Avenue in North Providence. Tickets are 15 bucks, 10 bucks for kids 6 and under. (friendsofwaterfire@waterfire.org and 401.273.9727) You can get two dinners with soup or salad for 16 bucks through Sunday with the coupon in The Sun Chronicle Monday for Jenerations on East Street in Downtown North Attleboro. (508.809.6585) Through Sunday, May 31, they're paying tribute to Texas at Magnolias on Inman Square in Boston. Look for Texas-sized flour tortillas stuffed with grilled pork-loin and layered with guacamole and chipotle salsa, and fresh soft shell crabs lightly breaded, pan fried and topped with crab remoulade and served over black beans.(617.576.1971) The liver and onions is 8 bucks and apple-baked pork chops are 9 bucks with the coupons in The Sun Chronicle Monday for Fitzy's Pub on Man Mar Drive in Plainville. (508.699.2532) Three long-term employees of Fine Catering by Russell Morin, headquartered in Newport and Attleboro, hav been promoted. Chris Minutoli, a 16-year employee, has been promoted to director of operations. Laura Goforth, a 10-year employee, was moved into the role of sales manager after three years as the wedding sales coordinator. Michael Morin, a graduate of Loyola University, has been named general manager. Fine Catering by Russell Morin is the preferred or exclusive caterer for Rhodes on the Pawtuxet, Gerald's Farm, Brown University, Newport Mansions and the Newport Country Club. Pot au Feu Bistro on Custom House Street in Providence, www.potaufeuri.com, now accepts reservations Monday through Friday evenings, as does the Salon. (potaufeuri.com and 401.273.8953) Jazz Sundays have started at Azure at the Lenox Hotel in Boston. You can can stick around after dinner for live jazz 9 to midnight. (617.933.4800) The Monday night deluxe buffet is 12 bucks at Spumoni's on Route 1 in Pawtucket, just over the Attleboro line. (spumonisrestaurant.com and 401.726.4449) Roberto's on Hope Street in Bistol has extended Pasta Nite through June with six pasta dishes, one vegetarian, for 13 bucks. It's available Sunday through Thursday except holidays. (401.254.9732) Ponderosa Steakhouse on Route 1 in South Attleboro has The Fight for Your Appetite through June 30. You'll get a lunch buffet for 5 bucks and a dinner buffet for 8 bucks if you bring in any fast food receipt, coupon or bag. Psst: If you need a fast food receipt go to ponderosasteakhouses.com and print one. Sel de la Terre Natick's Tour de France Dinner Series runs every other Monday through the end of June. They start at 7, cost 45 bucks and each week features a different region of France. Here's the schedule: May 19, Lyonnais; June 2, Franche; June 16, Bourgogne, and June 30, Champagne. (508.650.1800) Cena To Go on South Street in Plainville is having free wine and gourmet food tasting 5 to 8 on Friday, May 16. (508.695.0440) Meritage at the Boston Harbor Hotel kicks off itsThursday Wine Tasting Series next week, selecting from its 12,000-deep wine bottle collection. The inaugural tasting will highlight roses. The tastings, which are 5:30 to 7, are 25 bucks. (617.439.3995) More than a hundred restaurants, bakeries, cafes, cupcakeries and chocolatiers in and around Boston are making special desserts to help fight cancer for Boston Bakes for Breast Cancer. It runs through Sunday, and each establishment donates 100 percent of the proceeds from the designated dessert to breast cancer research and care at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. For a full list of participating restaurants, go to bostonbakesforbreastcancer.org. Bon apetit. And if you go let the Notester know. HAVE A NOTE? E-mail it to notester@silvercitybulletin.com. Or drop it in snail mail addressed to Restaurant Notes, The Sun Chronicle, Box 600, Attleboro, MA, 02703.
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