5 Things: Ayla Brown Returns to Payson Park Festival; Oz at the Library

1. A Payson Park Music Festival favorite, American Idol star Ayla Brown, returns to Belmont's annual summer fete at 6:45 p.m. sponsored by Belmont Savings Bank. 

2.The Belmont Public Library will have special visitors coming by today: Dorothy and the Scarecrow from the Metrowest Family Theater’s production of The Wizard of Oz!at 3:15 p.m. in the Assembly Room. Children will have the chance to watch a scene from the play, hear performances of some favorite songs and learn a dance from the show. Kids can get an autograph and take a picture with cast members. Recommend for children four and up.

3. Town Meeting representatives from Precincts 3 and 4 will meet from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. in the Flett Room of the Belmont Public Library. 

4. Duplicate Bridge Club meets from 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at the Beech Street Center at 266 Beech St. Every Wednesday the club holds American Contact Bridge League-sanctioned games. All are welcome to play. Cost is $5. Phone: 339-223-6484 for more information.

5. On this day in 1964, the Civil Rights Act of 1964 – which ended unequal application of voter registration requirements and racial segregation in schools, at the workplace and by facilities that served the general public known as "public accommodations" – was approved after surviving an 83-day filibuster in the United States Senate. The passage came 99 years to the day when slaves in Galveston, Texas were finally informed of their freedom. The anniversary is celebrated in Texas and 13 other Southern states as Juneteenth.