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Weekend Planner

If you didn’t make it to opening night, don’t worry.

Three more performances of “Love Letters,” presented by the Albert Lea Community Theatre, are slated for tonight, Friday and Saturday nights.

“Love Letters,” written by A. R. Gurney, centers on two characters, Melissa Gardner and Andrew Makepeace Ladd III. During a relationship that spans 50 years, each character’s ambitions, dreams, disappointments, victories and defeats are revealed through letters they exchanged since they met in the second grade.

The show begins with Melissa and Andrew, performed by husband and wife duo Glen and Pat Parsons, reading letters that they began exchanging in the second grade. As the characters mature into their teenage years, the content of the letters matures, as well.

“It’s funny. It’s entertaining. It’s really delightful,” said Parsons. “It goes through the ups and downs and turmoils through their lives.”

“It has a charm of its own, and we hope you enjoy it,” said Parsons.

The show is slated for 7:30 p.m. today, Friday and Saturday at the Marion Ross Performing Arts Center. Admission is $14 for adults and $10 for students. Season ticket holders who cannot make it to the performance should contact the box office with reimbursement inquiries.

Below is a list of all activities slated across the area this weekend:

Friday

• Everyone is invited to a retirement party for Director of Freeborn County Public Health Lois Ahern from 2 to 4 p.m. in the Freeborn Room at the courthouse.

• The First Presbyterian Church of Albert Lea is hosting “Laugh Your Way to a Better Marriage,” from 7 to 10 p.m. Admission is $10 per couple.

Saturday

• Laugh Your Way to a Better Marriage from 9 a.m. to noon, First Presbyterian Church of Albert Lea, $10 per couple

• The Emmons Fire Department and First Responders are hosting their annual soup and pie supper from 4 to 7 p.m. at the Emmons Lutheran Church Social Hall. Donations will be collected at the door.

Sunday

• A pancake breakfast to benefit the Albert Lea High School choir’s trip to England will be held from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Moose Lodge. The menu includes pancakes, sausage, eggs, potatoes and beverages. Admission is $6 at the door. Students will also perform live at the event.

• The American Legion Leo Carey Post 56 is hosting a pancake breakfast from 8 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. The menu includes pancakes, sausage, scrambled eggs, potatoes, fruit, coffee, and juice. Admission is $7 per person, with $1 from each door charge going to church youth activity groups.

• The Sons of Norway Lodge is hosting a Sons of Norway pancake breakfast from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. Admission is $6 at the door.