CLUB CALENDAR

ASSOCIATIONS

• NARFE Chapter 14, for active and retired federal employees, will meet at 1 p.m. Wednesday at the Saxon Club, 710 Meridian Road, Austintown. Dennis Petrack, president of NARFE Ohio Federation, will speak on member benefits and the importance of belonging to NARFE. Lunch will be served.

AUXILIARIES

• Trumbull County Beekeepers Association will meet at 2 p.m. Oct. 12 at Trumbull County Agricultural Building, 520 W. Main St., Cortland. Mike Shafer will speak on “The Varroa Destructor.” The public is invited to the free event. Those attending are asked to take a food item for a potluck dinner. For more information, contact www.trumbullcountybeekeepers.org.

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. Members of the 1946 and 1948 classes are also welcome.

CLUBS

• Austintown II Homemakers will meet at 10:20 a.m. Thursday at the Austintown Log Cabin, Raccoon Road. After a tour, members will go to the 9/11 Memorial Park, then to Eat’n Park for lunch. On Oct. 15, the group will attend Sharing Day from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Mill Creek MetroParks, Route 46.

• College Club of Sharon will have its first meeting of the season Oct. 11 with a noon luncheon at The Corinthian, Sharon, Pa. The hospitality committee includes Antoinette DeAngelis, Paula Haehnel and Laura Kubyako. Anyone taking guests may call either Carole Barker or DeAngelis at (724) 962-5880.

• McDonald P.E.G.S. will have a monthly meeting at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday in the elementary school library.

• Tri-County Chapter of Medical Assistants will have its monthly educational meeting Tuesday at the Austintown Surgery Center, 45 Canfield-Niles Road, in Austintown. The topic will be IC therapy and will be awarded one CEU. The speaker will begin promptly at 7 p.m.

Library friends

• Friends of the Poland Library will meet at 9:30 a.m. Tuesday for coffee in the Poland Library meeting room. After the 10 a.m. business meeting, members of the Salem Preservation Society will present the program, “First Ladies’ Lives After the White House.” The hostesses for the meeting are Sue Perry, Louise Martinko, Ann Trefethern and Lee Centofanti. Book and magazine donations for the Poland Friends Book Cart fundraiser will be collected at the meeting, which is open to the public.

RELIGIOUS GROUPS

• St. Michael Altar Guild of St. Michael Church, Canfield, will meet at 7:30 p.m. Monday in the parish center. Rosary at 7 p.m. in the church will precede the meeting. Pat Hoyle will preside. Patti Pritchard L’Italien will present a program, “Life’s Little ‘F’ Words (Faith, Family, Friends, Freedom and Forgiveness).” Guests are welcome.

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

• St. Vincent de Paul Society of St. Rose Church will meet at 7 p.m. Wednesday at the church.

SERVICE CLUBS

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

SUPPORT GROUPS

• Alzheimer’s Assistance and Referral Network, 4212 Market St., Youngstown, has scheduled the following meeting: Tuesday at 7 p.m. at Zion Church, Main Street, Greenville, Pa.; Wednesday at 7 p.m. at St. Charles Church, Boardman-Canfield Road, Boardman; and Oct. 11 at 10:30 a.m. at Christ Lutheran Church, corner of Sexton and Garfield, Struthers. For more information, call (330) 788-9755 or (866) 822-2102.

• Alzheimer’s Association Caregiver Support groups will meet on the following dates: Tuesday at 10 a.m. at the Senior Center of Mahoning County 1110 Fifth Ave., where Liz Mulroy will present “Maintain Your Brain”; Wednesday at 1:30 p.m. at the Easter Seals Day Center, 721 Boardman-Poland Road, Boardman; Oct. 20 at 2 p.m. at the Antonine Sisters Adult Day Center, 2691 N. Lipkey Road, North Jackson; and Oct. 23 at 1:30 p.m. at the Alzheimer’s Association, Building B, Suite 301, 3695 Boardman-Canfield Road, Canfield. The association also offers a Families in Transition program. An education and support session for those experiencing early stage memory loss will take place Oct. 27. A brief interview is needed before participation in the program. All services relating to this program are free of charge. For more information, call the Greater East Ohio Area Alzheimer’s Association at (330) 533-3300 or (800) 272-3900.

• Crisis Shelter of Lawrence County is offering a support group for sexual assault victims every first and third Tuesday of each month from 1 to 2:30 p.m. at its facility, 1218 W. State St. New Castle, Pa. For more information, call (724) 652-9206 Ext. 103. No registration is necessary, and the services are always free and confidential.

• Fred Childress Greater Mahoning Valley Parkinson Support Group will meet from 2 to 4 p.m. Thursday at Western Reserve United Methodist Church, 4580 Canfield Road. There will be exercises with Larry Trombitas, and the speaker will be Dr. Robert Johnson.

• 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.

• Mahoning Valley New Voice Club, a support group for laryn-gectomees and their families and friends, will meet at 6 p.m. Wednesday at Youngstown Hearing and Speech Center, Beeghly Medical Park, 6614 Southern Blvd., Youngstown. For information call Donna Hendricks at the center, (330) 726-8855.

• SNAP Support Group for those who are victims of abuse by clergy will meet at 7 p.m. Tuesday at Denny’s, 4927 Mahoning Ave., Austintown. For more information, call (330) 398-8890.

• Scleroderma Foundation Youngstown Area Support Group will meet at 6 p.m. Monday at Lucianno’s Restaurant, Raccoon Road.

• TOPS 1237, Austintown, will meet Thursday at Idaho Road Alliance Church, 250 Idaho Road, across from Frank Ohl Middle School. Weigh-in is from 5 to 5:30, p.m., followed by the meeting until 6:30. For further information, call (330) 758-4923.

• 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.

VETERAns

• Catholic War Veterans Paul Sgambatti Post 1903 and Auxiliary will meet at 7 p.m. Thursday in the parish house meeting room.

• VFW Triangle Post 2799 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.