Also on Tap

•  Hillsborough author Lee Smith will host the ninth annual Tea With Lee fundraiser at Foster’s Market in Chapel Hill from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. Dec. 6.

The tea will benefit Compass Center for Women and Families, the new merged organization combining The Women’s Center and Family Violence Prevention Center.

Smith she will be joined by authors Minrose Gwin (“The Queen of Palmyra”) and Anna Jean Mayhew (“The Dry Grass of August”). Books by Smith, Gwin, and Mayhew will be available for autograph and purchase. Flyleaf Books will contribute 50 percento f book sales. Foster’s will serve tea and baked goods and will donate 10 percent of its sales to Compass Center.

Tickets are $55, and available through the Compass Center website, compassctr.org or at 919-968-4610.

• The Triangle Medical Spouse Alliance will hold its annual Holiday Bazaar in the lobby of the N.C. Children’s Hospital from 10 to 5 p.m. Dec. 12.

More than 50 vendors will be on hand, and all proceeds will benefit the N.C. Children’s Hospital.

•  The Orange County Public Library’s Food-for-Fines and Toys-for-Fines event runs through Dec. 14.

The county’s three library locations will accept toys and non-perishable food items in exchange for reduced library fines or a reduced rate for a replacement card. Each food item results in one dollar being deducted from a library fine balance. Donations will be delivered to Orange Congregations in Mission to distribute to county residents in need. The library will also accept cans of pet food for county residents with pet, in lieu of paying library fines. For more information, call 919-245-2525.