SPIRIT OF WOODSTOCK: Bishop Norman F. McFarland...

SPIRIT OF WOODSTOCK: Bishop Norman F. McFarland of the Diocese of Orange arrives in Denver today to join Pope John Paul II at Sunday’s closing Mass of World Youth Day--a Vatican-created event intended to celebrate the spirit of international youth. (A1, B1) . . . With young Catholics in attendance from 100 nations, Bishop McFarland compares the huge event to “a Catholic Woodstock, but completely turned around. It’s just a wonder how many thousands rejoice together for this marvelous event.”

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CLAP, NOT SNAP: The Albert McNeil Jubilee Singers, appearing today at Anaheim’s Ball Junior High School (F2), perform a range of African-American musical traditions but strive to educate as well as entertain. . . . For instance, audiences often don’t realize that finger snapping to jazz is fine, but shouldn’t be done to Jubilee music, which initially celebrated freedom from slavery, says troupe member Virginia White: “You hand clap and move, but you don’t snap.”

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GO WITH FLO: When Florence Griffith Joyner saw a videotape by 16-year-old Sunni Lee of greater Boston saying her dream was to some day run with the Olympic gold medalist, Joyner happily agreed to it. It’s part of the NBC children’s TV show “Name Your Adventure.” The producers will shoot the “adventure” today at the track at Trabuco High School in Mission Viejo, near the track star’s home. “Young people need a chance to live their fantasies,” says co-producer Scott Friedland. “We give it to them.”

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LUXURY TO SPARE: For those who don’t bowl because it’s a sport that seems to lack the right status, maybe you should try Westbrook Bowl on Westminster Boulevard in Garden Grove. Today, so its invitation claims, it becomes the first bowling center in the country to offer free valet parking (tips encouraged, however). . . . Managers there say it’s not only for the customers’ convenience, but to give them “an increased sense of security.”