Libby I: Book reading, signing

Alissa Libby will read exerpts from her book, “The Blood Confession,” and sign copies at noon on Friday, Feb. 2, at Portland Public Library, 5 Monument Square, Portland.

Libby is the daughter-in-law of Gene and Florence Libby of Westbrook.

Her first publication, Libby wrote the book, a historical novel, based on the life of Hungarian countess Erzebet Bizecka.

Libby is a graduate of Emerson College in Boston. She and her husband, Thomas Libby, live in Brockton, Mass.

The book, which was published in August, is available at area bookstores.

Libby II: Top restaurant manager

Christopher Libby was recently honored as being among the top 3 percent of 700 managers for the Red Robin Restaurant chain.

The announcement came at a recent convention in Miami, Fla. Gene Libby said his son is the manager at a franchise in Dallas, Texas, where he’s been for more than three years.

Christopher Libby is a graduate of Westbrook High School and College of William and Mary in Virginia.

Brittany Symbol, a guard on the Cedar Crest College basketball team, recently participated in a panel discussion on academics and athletics with local media after being named to the Lehigh Valley Small College Media Organization’s Scholar-Athlete Team. Cedar Crest is located in Allentown, Penn. An outstanding student, Symbol is majoring in biochemistry with a concentration in forensics. Just a freshman, she has nevertheless started all eight games so far this year. She is joined on the Scholar-Athlete Team by players from Muhlenberg College, Moravian College, Delaware Valley College and DeSales, East Stroudsburg and Kutztown Universities. She is a Westbrook High School graduate

Lincoln Club banquet

The Lincoln Club will host its 122nd annual banquet on Saturday, Feb. 3, at the Italian heritage Center, 40 Westland Ave., Portland.

A social hour at 6 p.m. precedes a dinner at 7 p.m.

Phyllis Bailey of 55 Webster Ave., Westbrook, is the club’s recording secretary.

Tickets are $25. For reservations or more information call Cora L. Brown at 772-2443 or Bailey at 854-2469.

St. Hyacinth’s benefit dinner

A spaghetti dinner will be held at 6 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 3, at St. Hyacinth’s Church (St. Anthony Parish) on Brown Street.

The dinner will benefit the work of the Sisters of the Presentation of Mary in Ecuador, South America. Tickets are $6 and $4.

For more information, call John LaPointe at 854-8660.

In this brilliant fiction debut, Libby resurrects the real-life Erzebet Bathory, a 17th-century countess who believed that bathing in human blood would preserve her looks forever.