Choir members sought

Choir members sought

AUSTINTOWN — Singers and musicians are being sought by cbernard Monroe Ministries Inc. to form a choir, which eventually will record.

Auditions will be from noon to 4 p.m. Saturday at the Fairfield Inn, Route 46. Participants, who must be 18 years or older, should have a head-shot photo and $10 registration fee. For more information, contact the Rev. Cecil Monroe at (330) 518-9181.

Old Timers Day planned

NEW CASTLE, Pa. — Old Timers Day will be Wednesday beginning at 11:30 a.m. at the Cascade Park Pavilion, 1928 E. Washington St. The annual all-seniors event will include lunch, dancing, prizes and souvenirs. Admission is free. Attendees may register the morning of the event. The first Old Timers Day was Aug. 23, 1907, in Cascade Park and attracted 7,000 attendees from the New Castle area. By its third year in 1909, 17,000 people attended the event.

Group stages library event

YOUNGSTOWN — The Youngstown Area Community Theatre Alliance, as part of their Marquee Awards Week, will present “All the World’s a Stage” for children up through the sixth grade on Tuesday and Thursday. The event Tuesday will be at 10 a.m. at Poland Public Library and at Austintown Library on Thursday at 10 a.m.

“All the World’s a Stage” consists of a readers theater for kids. Marquee Award nominees for this year’s awards will be on hand along with Rich Morgan of WKBN and Len Rome of WYTV to read from scripts designed for the designated age group. For more information, call YACTA at (330) 799-6176.

Bluegrass festival at church

NEWTON FALLS — The youth of the General Assembly Church of God are hosting their first church-sponsored bluegrass festival on Saturday starting at 4 p.m. Bands scheduled to perform include Vertical Limit, Matheson Family Pride, Limited Edition and the Meadors Family Band.

The festival will be on the church grounds at 2021 East River Road in Newton Falls. The bands will perform outdoors at the church pavilion. Some seating will be under the pavilion; tents will be available in case of rain. All proceeds will go to developing the church’s youth group program.

Antique gun show and sale

HARMONY, Pa. — Many fine black powder hunting and target rifles in the classic Pennsylvania style were made by master gunsmith Charles Flowers at his Harmony shop during the second half of the 19th century, and are sought especially by local collectors. Several rare examples, however, will be among those displayed at the Harmony Museum’s annual antique firearms show and sale Saturday from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Admission is $5 for the show in the museum’s Stewart Hall, Main and Mercer streets, which emphasizes flintlock, percussion and cartridge firearms made before 1898, as well as accouterments, swords and knives, and especially period firearms that were made in western Pennsylvania and Ohio. About 20 tri-state area collectors will display 18th- and 19th-century artifacts.

Harmony Museum is at 218 Mercer St., Harmony, Pa. Call (724) 452-7341 for more information.