SCOPE Howland Senior Center, 8273 High St. N.E., Warren, activities are as follows: Mondays,

SCOPE Howland Senior Center, 8273 High St. N.E., Warren, activities are as follows: Mondays, billiards, 500 or chess from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., bring a sack lunch; Wednesday, dinner dance from 6 to 9:30 p.m., cost is $10 per person in advance, reservations limited to 65; and May 19, from noon to 1 p.m., a slide presentation of the Hawaiian Islands tour and cruise scheduled for Feb. 17-27, 2006. Also planned is a trip to the Pacific Northwest and California departing Aug. 8. Cost is $1,849 and includes eight days, 10 meals, air fare, bus from Howland to Cleveland airport, four hotels, entrance fees to major attractions and more. Eight seats are available. For more information on trips, events, schedules, fees or reservations call the center, (330) 609-7806 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Monday through Friday.
Kinsman Presbyterian Church will conduct an AARP Driver Safety Course from 1 to 5 p.m. May 24 and May 26. Attendance at both sessions is required to complete the course. Cost is $10 per person, and preregistration is required; call (330) 876-4485. AARP membership is not a requirement.
Senior Center of Mahoning County, 1110 Fifth Ave., Youngstown, has scheduled the following: Monday, bridge and follies at 1 p.m.; Tuesday, oil painting and computer classes and exercises at 10 a.m., blood pressure screening and computer class at noon, chorus at 12:30 p.m. and digital class at 2; Wednesday, watercolor and computer classes at 10 a.m., computer class and tai chi at noon, blood pressure screening at 12:30 p.m. and 500 cards at 1; Thursday, Watch Our Weight Support Group and woodcarvers at 9 a.m., Diabetes Support Group at 10, blood pressure screenings at 10:30 a.m. and 1:30 p.m., foot doctor at 11:30 a.m., financial group and square dancing at 1 p.m., Investment Club at 2 and line dancing at 3; and Friday, Senior Citizen Day luncheon and program at 11:30 a.m. Entertainment will be provided by the Volney Rogers Junior High Choir. Reservations are needed Monday; call the center.
On May 16 a tea, poetry and hat party will be held at 11 a.m. Tom Gilmartin Sr. will present a poetry program, "Back to Basics," a light lunch and tea will be served, and a prettiest hat contest will be held. Reservations are needed Monday, call the center at (330) 744-5071. The center has applications for the SBC Lifeline Ohio telephone discount program for $12.38 a month to eligible applicants. Also available are HEAP applications. Call Mary Clay at the center at the above number for information.