CLUB CALENDAR | Area groups plan events

ASSOCIATIONS

• NARFE Chapter 14, for active and retired federal employees, invites all of the same to a meeting at 1 p.m. Wednesday at the Saxon Club, 710 Meridian Road, Austintown. Rich Martin will speak about reverse mortgages.

ATHLETIC GROUPS

• McDonald Baseball Association will meet at 6 p.m. Sunday in the senior citizens room at the post office building.

• McDonald Midget Football Association will meet at 7 p.m. Sunday in the senior citizens room at the post office building.

• McDonald Sideliners will meet at 7 p.m. Tuesday in the Blue Devil Room at the high school.

AUXILIARIES

• VFW Post 2799 Ladies Auxiliary will meet at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday at the post home.

CLASSES

• Woodrow Wilson High School January and June Classes of 1947 will meet for breakfast at 9:30 a.m. Wednesday at Denny’s in Boardman.

CLUBS

• The Mahoning Valley New Voice Club, a support group for laryngectomees and their families and friends, will have its next meeting at 6 p.m. Wednesday at the Youngstown Hearing and Speech Center, located in the Beeghly Medical Park, 6614 Southern Boulevard. For more information, call Donna Hendricks at the center, (330) 726-8855.

• McDonald Parents of Performing Arts will meet at 7 p.m. Wednesday in the senior citizens room at the post office building.

FRATERNAL GROUPS

• Girard Golden Eagles will meet at 2 p.m. Sunday at the Girard Free Library, 105 E. Prospect Street.

GRANGES

• Dublin Grange will meet at 6 p.m. Tuesday for its annual corn and wiener roast. Food will be provided by the Grange. Election of officers and plans for Canfield Fair exhibits are on the agenda.

GUILDS

• Holborn Herb Growers Guild will meet at 7 p.m. Aug. 19 at Western Reserve Village in Canfield Fairgrounds. In keeping with the theme for the evening, “Learn More About the Gardens,” there will be tours of the gardens and information provided about each.

• Niles Chapter of the American Sewing Guild will host a “sit-n-sew” from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Thursday at Central Christian Church, 2051 E. Market St. Warren. Take a machine, cutting mats and basic sewing supplies. The project is sewing quilt tops for the Prince of Peace Lutheran Church’s World Relief program. Take a salad dish to share. Pizza will be provided. Nonmembers are welcome regardless of skill level. Any who don’t want to sew can cut squares. For more information, call (330) 847-8757.

• Western Reserve Knitting Guild will meet at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday at Fair Park in Canfield for the annual picnic and yarn swap. Those attending should take a covered dish, place setting, yarn to sell (with name and asking price attached) and any unwanted yarn to donate.

RELIGIOUS GROUPs

• K. of C. Ladies will meet at 7 p.m. Monday at the Knights of Columbus Hall in Struthers. There will be cards and games. Hostesses will be Dorothy Popio and Maryann Pirone.

• St. Rose Quilting Group will meet at 10 a.m. Wednesday in the parish house.

SERVICE CLUBS

• Girard-Liberty Kiwanis will meet at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday at The Golf Dome, 1300 N. State St.

• McDonald Lions Club will meet at 10 a.m. Saturday on the second floor of the Retirement Center, 550 Ohio Ave.

SINGLES

• Single For Any Reason has planned the following: Sunday, carpooling to Hale Farms for a Civil War Re-enactment; call (330) 369-1099 for details. Monday, deadline to order tickets for Yankee Peddler on Sept. 21. Tuesday, stitching night. Thursday, newsletter deadline, call to schedule or host an event for next month. Friday, 9 a.m., golf at The Links Golf Club, 4891 Clovercrest Drive, Warren, and/or Scrappers vs. Jamestown, 7:05 p.m. Aug. 16, 7:30-11:30 p.m. Dance to Road Work band at Niles Moose, 1240 Main St., $5 cover. For more information, call (330) 372-7124.

SUPPORT GROUPS

• Alzheimer’s Assistance and Referral Network, 4212 Market St., Youngstown, has scheduled the following meetings: Saturday, at 10:30 a.m. at Christ Lutheran Church, Sexton and Garfield, Struthers; Monday, at 7 p.m. at St. John Orthodox Church, 322 Struthers-Liberty St., Campbell; Tuesday, at 7 p.m. at Redeemer Lutheran Church, 2305 S. Canfield Niles Road, Austintown; Wednesday at 7 p.m. at St. Charles Church, Boardman-Canfield Road, Boardman; and Aug. 15 at 10 a.m. at Canfield Christian Church, 123 Broad St., Salem.

• Alzheimer’s Association Caregiver Support Group meetings are as follows; Wednesday, at 1:30 p.m. at Easter Seals Day Center, 721 Boardman-Poland Road, Boardman; Aug. 18 at 2 p.m. at the Antonine Sisters Adult Daycare Center, 2691 N. Lipkey Road, North Jackson; and Aug. 28 at 1:30 p.m. at the Alzheimer’s Association, Building B, Suite 301, 3695 Boardman-Canfield Road, Canfield. Meetings are free and open to all caregivers, family members and friends of those with memory problems. For more information, call (330) 533-3300 or (800) 272-3900.

• Alzheimer’s Association Families in Transition, for people with early stage memory loss, will meet Aug. 25. The meeting is free and open to all people and their families who are affected by a diagnosis of cognitive impairment such as dementia, Alzheimer’s disease, vascular dementia, Lewy Body disease, etc. There is a brief screening process involved before participating in the group. For more information, call the (330) 533-3300 or (800) 272-3900.

• Fred Childress support group will meet at 2 p.m. Thursday at Western Reserve United Methodist Church, 4580 Canfield Road, with Roy and Verna Bowman as hosts. Larry Trombitas of the YMCA Outreach Program will conduct exercises.

• Living Free, a Bible-based 12-step program for those faced with daily struggles, will meet at 7 p.m. Thursday at God’s Recovery Hut, 8590 Hitchcock Road.

• TOPS 327 will meet Monday at Christ Church Presbyterian, 1933 Canfield Road, Boardman. Weigh-in is from 6:15 to 6:45 p.m. followed by the meeting at 7. The first meeting is free. Guests are welcome. For information call (330) 793-4378 or (330) 757-9368.

• TOPS 698, Girard, will meet Monday at First Christian Church, 140 E. Broadway. Weigh-in is from 5:45 to 6:45 p.m. followed by the meeting at 7. New members are welcome; the first night is free. For information call (330) 394-1262 or (330) 545-3860.

• TOPS 822, Struthers, will meet Tuesday at Struthers Presbyterian Church, 110 Poland Ave. Weigh-in will be from 6 to 6:30 p.m. before the meeting.

• TOPS 1262, McDonald, will meet Wednesday in the senior citizens room at the post office building. Weigh-in is from 8:30 to 9:30 a.m., and the meeting will follow. New members are welcome.

• TOPS OH 1497, Austintown, will meet from 9:30 to 11 a.m. Thursday at Smith Corners United Methodist Church, 3000 S. Niles Canfield Road. New members are welcome; the first meeting is free. For more information, call (330) 759-4737.

• Club news is published Friday and Saturday. Please submit information about upcoming activities to the Society Department by 5 p.m. Thursday.