Daily Five: Durham Dari Serv Opens Today

1. What's the Weather? Partly sunny, with a high near 53. Tonight: Mostly cloudy, with a low around 30.

2. Dari Serv Opens Today Durham's popular ice cream shop will open today, according to owner Bob Pavlick. First opened since 1955, Dari Serv now offers 32 flavors of ice cream, soft serv and frozen yogurt. There's also sugar-free and non-fat ice cream.

"I'm very fortunate the place has been here a long time, been successful for a long time," said owner Bob Pavlick. "I tell people, I say my job is just not to screw it up."

Pavlick has owned the ice cream shop for 16 years. He says his favorite flavor is Cherry Amaretto. Special flavors are advertised on the ice cream shop's cow board. "They're usually the more indulgent, more mixings, tougher to make," he said.

Dari Serv will be open daily from 12-9 p.m. until late September. Dari Serv is hiring: anyone interested in applying for a position should stop by the ice cream shop to pick up an application.

3. Baseball and Softball Today There's no school because it's Good Friday, but the Coginchaug baseball and softball teams play today. The baseball team hosts Hartford Public at 10 a.m. while the defending state champion softball team plays at Choate Rosemary Hall at 3 p.m. Both games are scrimmages.

4. Food Bank Needs Donations The Middlefield Food Bank is very low on the following items: green beans, jelly, corn and pasta.  We kindly ask that you do not donate expired, dented and rusted cans.

These items can be dropped off at the Social Services office in the Middlefield Community Center, located at 405 Main Street, during business hours Monday – Friday or left in the box next to the office anytime. If you have any questions please contact Antoinette Astle at 860-349-7121. 

5. Hunger Awareness Banquet Join the Coginchaug ECO club on Friday, April 4 at Coginchaug Regional High School for their annual Hunger Banquet to raise awareness of worldwide hunger and to raise money for local and global hunger relief organizations. The event is scheduled from 6-8 p.m.

For $10 participants will receive a handmade ceramic bowl filled with soup of their choice and bread. The guest speaker is Elisabeth Kennedy, who will speak about HELO Haiti and the changes that have occurred since the large earthquake a few years ago.  There will also be a dessert auction.  All money raised from ticket sales and the auction will go to hunger relief efforts.