CLUB CALENDAR | Local organizations plan meetings
ASSOCIATIONS
• NARFE Chapter 14 invites all current and retired federal employees and their spouses to a meeting and lunch at 1 p.m. Wednesday at the Saxon Club, 710 S. Meridian Road.
CLASSES
• Woodrow Wilson January and June classes of 1947 will meet for breakfast at 9:30 a.m. Wednesday at Denny’s restaurant in Boardman. No reservations are necessary.
CLUBS
• Austintown II Homemakers Club will meet at 10 a.m. Thursday at Smith Corners United Methodist Church with Diane Calinger and Charlene Lytell serving as hostesses. A craft will be made. The club’s Achievement Day trip to the Mahoning County Career and Technical Center on Palmyra Road is on April 22.
• McDonald P.E.G.S. will have a monthly meeting at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday in the Roosevelt Elementary School library. Everyone is invited.
• Mahoning Valley Civil War Round Table will meet at 6:30 p.m. April 13 at Antone’s Banquet Centre in Boardman. Reservations are required and the cost for the dinner meeting is $13. For more information call (330) 726-7603. Mark Leepson, historian, will speak on his book, “Desperate Engagement: How a Little-Know Civil War Battle Saved Washington and Changed American History.”
GUILDS
• McDonald Literary Guild will meet at 8 p.m. Thursday at Woodland Park United Methodist Church.
RELIGIOUS GROUPS
• Catholic War Veterans Paul Sgambatti Post 1903 and Women’s Auxiliary will meet Thursday at 7 p.m. in the parish house meeting room.
• Junior Seton Circle will meet for lunch at noon Thursday at A La Cart Catering in Canfield. The speaker will be Ralph “Skip” Barrone from St. Vincent de Paul soup kitchen. Ruth Eich is the chairwoman, and other hostesses are Mary Lou Kroll, Delores Plager, Helen Zynski, and Betty Conway.
• St. Rose Quilting Group will meet at 10 a.m. Wednesday in the parish house.
• St. Vincent de Paul Society of St. Rose Church will meet at 7 p.m. Wednesday at the church.
SINGLES
• D.A.R.E., a social group for divorced, widowed or separated people, has planned the following events: Wednesday, walking at Mill Creek Par from Dr. Shah’s parking lot at 6 p.m.; Thursday, no meeting at Disciples Christian Church; and April 10, cheap movies in Boardman at 6:30; and April 11, bowling at Boardman Lanes at 7. For more information call 330) 759-7409, (330) 757-1440 or (330) 793-1484.
SUPPORT GROUPS
• 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 group sessions will follow. Hosts will be Van and Betty Royal. Speakers will be elder law attorneys Charlene Burke and Rob Rusu. A Parkinson Symposium has been scheduled for April 25 at Tallmadge Community Center. Members can register by calling (800) 630-3193 by April 17.
• Mahoning Valley New Voice Club, a support group for laryngectomees 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.
• TOPS 1262, McDonald, meets Wednesdays 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
• ITAM Post 3 Auxiliary will meet at 7 p.m. Wednesday at the Post Home, 115 S. Meridian Road. Plans will be made for the May 3 state meeting. Reservations will be taken for a mother-and-daughter dinner to be on May 6 at Barry Dyngles Pub on Raccoon Road, Austintown.