Club Calendar: Area groups announce activities

ATHLETIC GROUPS

• Girard High School Athletic Boosters will meet at 8 p.m. Wednesday in the high school cafeteria.

• McDonald Sideliners will meet at 7 p.m. Sunday in the high school weight room. Anyone interested in becoming a member is welcome to attend.

CLUBS

• Casa Savoia will meet at 12:30 Wednesday at Caff√© Capri in Boardman. Make reservations with Carmel Holecko or Roseann Garritano.

• Chapter CE of PEO Sisterhood will meet at noon Wednesday at A La Cart in Canfield for a lunch and meeting. Installation of officers is planned, and Ann Baumiller and Martha Sulik are hostesses.

• Kent State University Mothers Club will meet at 6 p.m. Wednesday at Lucianno’s, 1792 S. Raccoon Road, Austintown. At 7:30 p.m. the group will tour Austintown Library, 600 S. Raccoon Road. Hostesses are Linda Pratt, Deborah Zajac and Christie Gillern. Prospective members are welcome. For information or reservations, contact Pratt, (330) 799-1891.

• McDonald Arts and Crafts Club will meet at 7:30 p.m. Monday in the senior citizens room at the post office building.

• Warren Women’s Connection will have an “Extreme Makeover” luncheon from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. April 14 at Aulizio’s Banquet Center, 4395 Youngstown Road. Vicki Billey, a Mary Kay consultant, will speak on cosmetics and provide a makeover demonstration; Marci McCombs will share her extreme makeover experience; and Tiffany Sokol will be the featured soloist. The cost is $10. For reservations, call Georgia Hagan, (330) 369-8936, or Joyce Faiver, (330) 539-5837, by April 9.

FRATERNAL GROUPS

• Croatian Fraternal Lodge 598 will meet at 12:45 p.m. Sunday in the senior citizens room at the post office building.

GUILDS

• Holborn Herb GrowersGuild will meet at 7 p.m. Tuesday at the Colonial Inn on Canfield Fairgrounds for a program on “All About Tea” by Bev Italiano. Hostesses will be Marge French, Debbie Cormell, Terri Dance, Sharyle Marcy and Margaret Stevens.

LEAGUES

• Wilmington Township Civic League will meet at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday at the Auction Road Municipal Building. Jim Fisher, former FBI agent, will discuss his eighth nonfiction book, “Forensics Under Fire.”

RELIGIOUS GROUPs

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

• McDonald Knights of Columbus will meet at 8:30 p.m. Wednesday at the K. of C. Hall, Illinois Avenue.

SERVICE CLUBS

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

SINGLES

• D.A.R.E., a social group for divorced, widowed or separated people, meets at 7:30 p.m. Thursday at Disciples Christian Church, 565 Boardman-Canfield Road. Other activities include: Monday at 6 p.m. and Wednesday at 6:30, meet in food court at Southern Park Mall for walk; March 21 cheap movies at 6:30 p.m. in Boardman; and March 22, go to Moose Club in Niles at 7 p.m. For more information, call (330) 759-7409, (330) 757-1440 or (330) 793-1484.

• Single For Any Reason has planned the following events: Sunday, bowling and raffle at 7 p.m. at Echo Lanes, 2592 Elm Road, Warren; March 21, carpool to Rogers Flea Market at 10 a.m. and steak fry and cards at 6 p.m., members to take meat and covered dish to share; and March 22, meet in Niles and dance to Road Work Band from 7:30 to 11:30, $5 cover. For more information, call (330) 372-7124.

SOCIETIES

• American Chemical Society, Penn Ohio Border Section, will meet at 7 p.m. Tuesday at the Lutheran Heritage Room of the Howard Miller Student Center at Thiel College. Dr. Rolande R. Hodel, president of AIDSfreeAFRICA, will speak on “The Production of Pharmaceuticals in Africa.” The public is welcome. For more information, call (330) 847-2284.

• Little Beaver Historical Society will meet at 7 p.m. Thursday at the Reformed Presbyterian Church, at First and Plumb streets in Darlington. The meeting is free and open to the public. Guest speaker will be Steven Baklarz, who will discuss the history of the 9th Pennsylvania Reserve Corps of Pittsburgh and the Civil War. Refreshments will be served. For more information, call (724) 843-4361.

• Mahoning County Chapter of the Ohio Genealogical Society will meet at 7 p.m. Monday at St. Charles Church Ministry Building, 7325 Westview Drive, Boardman. A program on “History of Meander Reservoir” will be presented by Tom Holloway, district manager and head engineer of Mahoning Valley Sanitary District. The Computer Interest Group meets at 6.

SUPPORT GROUPS

• Alzheimer’s Assistance and Referral Network, 4212 Market St., Youngstown, has scheduled the following meetings: Tuesday at 6 p.m. at Girard Public Library, 105 E. Prospect St.; Wednesday at 7 p.m. St. Paul Lutheran Church, 2860 E. Market St., Warren; Thursday at 6 p.m. at Sunrise Assisted Living, 335 W. McKinley Way, Poland; and Friday at 10 a.m. at Canfield Christian Church, 123 S. Broad St. For information, call (330) 788-9755 or (866) 822-2102.

• Alzheimer’s Association Caregiver Support Group will meet at 2 p.m. Monday at the Antonine Sisters Adult Daycare Center, 2691 N. Lipkey Road, North Jackson, and at 1:30 p.m. March 27 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 Support Group for people with early stage memory loss will meet March 24 . The meeting is free and open to 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.

• Mahoning County Survivors of Suicidewill meet at 7 p.m. Wednesday at Disciples of Christ Christian Church, 565 Boardman-Canfield Road, Boardman. For more information, call Help Hotline Crisis Center, (330) 747-2696.

• Columbiana County Survivors of Suicide will meet from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Thursday at Columbiana County Counseling Center, state Route 154. For more information, call Help Hotline Crisis Center, (330) 424-7767.

• Mahoning Valley Fibromyalgia Support Group will meet from 7 to 8:30 p.m. Wednesday at Bethel Lutheran Church, 425 Crestview Drive in Boardman. Dr. Patrick Ensminger, Warren chiropractor, will speak on the benefits of chiropractic services to those with fibromyalgia. Anyone interested is welcome; for additional information call (330) 758-8413 or (330) 565-7187.

• Postpartum Support Group meets at 6:30 p.m. Thursday at the D&E Counseling, 142 Javit Court, Austintown. For information, contact (330) 207-1385 or jodi@poemonline.org. Meetings are held the third Thursday of each month.

• Recovery International, a self-help mental-health group, will meet at 7 p.m. Thursday at Christ Church Presbyterian, 1933 Canfield Road, Boardman. For more information, call (330) 747-1176.

• TOPS 327 will meet at 6:15 p.m. Monday at Christ Church Presbyterian, 1933 Canfield Road, Boardman. 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 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 1805, Canfield, will meet Wednesday at Canfield Christian Church, Canfield. Weigh-in will be from 7:45 to 8:15 a.m. with the meeting to follow until 9. For information, call Gerri Brown, (330) 533-4172, or Judy Toth, (330) 533-2464.

• Youngstown PFLAG will meet from 3 to 5 p.m. Sunday at First Unitarian Church, 1105 Elm St., Youngstown. Chrissy Camps, president of YSU Unity, and Brian Wells are the guest speakers. For information, call (330) 747-7433.

VETERANS

• VFW, Triangle Post 2799 Auxiliary will meet at 8 p.m. Tuesday at the post home 3161 E. South Range Road, New Middletown. For more information, call (330) 542-9928.

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