Children who are hard of hearing, deaf, or have parents with similar conditions can register for the Discovery Museum’s after-hours “Especially for Me’’ evening on Saturday, July 28. The new building at 177 Main St. in Acton meets standards set by the Americans with Disabilities Act and features never-before-seen exhibits. The free event is part of a collaboration with the Deaf and Hard of Hearing Program at Boston Children’s Hospital.E-mail fun@discoveryacton.org or visit www.discoveryacton.org.
The Knock Out Cancer Box-a-thon in Marlborough will donate all proceeds collected for the Saturday, July 28 event to the Dana-Farber Foundation. After three hours of kicking and punching at TITLE Boxing Club, 43A Apex Drive starting at 4 p.m., participants can take their gloves off and dance to DJ Statik Selektah’s beats from 8 p.m. to midnight. The minimum donation to participate in the box-a-thon is $25 and $20 will get you into the after-party.Visit www.facebook.com/TBCMarlborough. For tickets, call 866-212-8485.
After Ashland Farmers Market was voted the favorite in the region in this year’s Readers Choice Awards, it thanked its loyal 1,400-strong crowds July 14. Local vendors offered special promotions, and Needham Bank covered the price of smoothies and cold lemonades. Children played with a harmonograph, a machine that creates drawings of geometic shapes, while the drum band Steel Rhythm entertained the crowd in the morning. Visit ashlandfarmersmarket.org.
Children between the ages of 7 and 13 get to act, sing, and dance in Watertown’s Revels Summer Theater Workshop. Designing stage props and the theater set is also part of the workshop’s curriculum, which runs weekdays through Friday, July 27, at 80 Mt. Auburn St. On the final day, the cast will perform “A Journey . . . A Story about Coming to America’’ for friends and family. The fee to attend the program is $700. Visit revels.org/education and click on the “summer theater program’’ tab, or call 617-972-8300.
On Aug. 7, The Friends of the Milford Upper Charles Trail will stage a belated celebration of the trail’s 10th anniversary at CraftRoots Brewing, 4 Industrial Road. The project began over a decade ago, when the group transformed the area between two abandoned railroad tracks into hiking trails, and later expanded the trails into Hopkinton. In 2011, another trail was built toward Holliston, but a 1-mile gap between the two posed a challenge for those who wanted to an end-to-end hike. In 2014, the missing link was paved, completing Milford’s 6½-mile portion of the trails. The Friends group intends to celebrate properly this time starting at 6 p.m. Visit www.facebook.com/pg/MilfordUpperCharlesTrail and click on “Events.’’
A prayer vigil for immigrant families separated at the US-Mexico border was attended by hundreds of locals at Newton City Hall July 2. The gathering was organized by Mayor Ruthanne Fuller’s office, the Newton Clergy Association, Cooperative Metropolitan Ministries, and the Newton Human Rights Commission. A singing of “This Little Light of Mine’’ marked the conclusion of the vigil. Visit coopmet.org and click on “enews.’’
Cynthia Fernandez can be reached at cynthia.fernandez@globe.com.
