CLUB CALENDAR | Local organizations plan meetings

ASSOCIATIONS

• NARFE (for active and retired federal employees) will have its first meeting after summer break at 1 p.m. Wednesday at the Saxon Club, 710 Meridian Road, Youngstown. All active and retired federal employees, their spouses and friends are invited to come for lunch.

• Yo-Mah-O Chapter, IAAP, will meet at 6 p.m. Tuesday at A La Cart Catering in Canfield. A program on “Health Insurance Plans and Benefits” will be presented by Amy Romano and Darrell Walter of Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield. Reservations are being accepted by Chris Simone, (330) 652-1784.

ATHLETIC GROUPS

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

• McDonald Sideliners will meet at 7 p.m. Tuesday at the high school.

AUXILIARIES

• St. Elizabeth Auxiliary will meet at noon Sept. 14 in the private dining room. Richard Bell, director of Hospice House of Youngstown, will speak.

CLASSES

• Campbell Memorial High School Class of 1950 will have its regular meeting at noon Wednesday at Bedford Trails in Lowellville. All members and guests are welcome.

• Campbell Memorial High School Class of 1963 will meet at noon Sept. 22 at Jeremiah Bullfrog’s on Route 224. Classmates, guests and spouses are welcome.

• Woodrow Wilson High School Class of January and June 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 Club will meet at 10 a.m. Thursday at Smith Corners United Methodist Church. Yearly dues of $10 will be collected. Pat Chamberlain and Trudy Ponevac will serve as luncheon hostesses. Members will work on a community service project.

• K. of C. 2935 Ladies Auxiliary of Girard will meet at 7 p.m. Sept. 14 at the club hall. Yearbooks will be distributed and dues collected.

• Mahoning Valley Stamp Club will meet at 7 p.m. Sept. 10 at Highway Tabernacle, 3000 S. Raccoon Road, Austintown. The club meets the second Thursday of each month.

• Mahoning Valley Cribbage Club will meet at 6:30 p.m. Thursday at St. James Church, 7640 Glenwood Ave., Boardman. New players are welcome. For more information call (330) 757-9503.

• McDonald Parents of Performing Arts will meet at 4 p.m. Wednesday in the senior citizen’s room at the post office building.

• Poland Center Homemakers will meet Wednesday at Poland United Methodist Church for a casserole luncheon. Hostesses will be Pat Miller and Ellie Rigelsky. The craft will be greeting cards. Members should take a glue stick and scissors.

• That Quilt Group I Belong To has scheduled a lecture and luncheon for Sept. 19 at A La Cart Catering, 429 Lisbon St. Canfield. Tea and cookies will be served when the doors open at 10 a.m. The program will begin at 10:30 and will feature Sandy Lord of The Gallery Quilt Shop. She will speak about “Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Hankies and Doilies” and will display items made from them. The buffet luncheon will be at noon. Checks for $20, payable to TQGIBT, should be mailed to Carol Svetlak, 1653 Lynn Ave., Poland, OH 44514. The reservation deadline is Sept. 11.

• Warren Women’s Connection will sponsor a “Joy in the Morning” luncheon from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Sept. 14 at DiLucia’s Banquet Room, 2610 Elm Road NE, Warren. Janet Banner will display her handmade jewelry, and Sheila and Jason Fischer will present musical entertainment. A talk on “Searching for Happiness and Finding Joy” will be given by Debbie Mills. The cost is $12. Reservations for the luncheon and free nursery are required by Thursday by calling Joyce Faiver, (330) 539-5837 or Jan Sala at (330) 638-6508.

GUILDS

• The McDonald Literary Guild will meet at 8 p.m. Thursday at Woodland Park United Methodist Church.

• Niles Chapter of the American Sewing Guild has scheduled the following: Material Girls meet at 6 p.m. Thursday at Prince of Peace Lutheran Church, 490 N. High St., Cortland, for a demonstration on “What to Know About Zippers,” by Gretchen Saunders; Desiging Women machine embroidery group meets at 10 a.m. Friday at Domestic Sewing, 2011 Youngstown SE, Warren, for instructions on creative embroidery techniques; Fancy Cutters meet at 10 a.m. Sept. 14 at Lake Vista, 303 N. Mecca St., Cortland, for a demonstration by Judy Gontkovsky on a sewing organizer from 3 quarters; and Evening Cut Ups meet at 7 p.m. Sept. 14 at Grace Church of the Nazarene, 5253 W. Webb, Austintown to work on holiday projects.

• Western Reserve Knitting Guild will meet at 7 p.m. Tuesday at Fair Park in Canfield for a “Mystery Stole” program. Members are asked to take 650 to 700 yards of a light shade of worsted yarn and needles to give a gauge of 4 to 5 stitches per inch. The homework is to cast on 90 stitches and knit four rows.

LIBRARY FRIENDS

• Friends of Boardman Library will resume monthly meetings at 9:30 a.m. Sept. 14 with a social in the community room of the library. A program on “Owls” will be presented at 10 a.m. by Jeff Harvey of Wild Birds Unlimited. No reservations required for the program. New members and guests are welcome. Membership dues are $10 per year. Hostesses will be Bette Dunn, Mary Ann Elias, Beverly Gibson and Charlotte Vitt.

RELIGIOUS GROUPS

• Mount Carmel Society of St. Rose Church will meet at 7 p.m. Tuesday in the lower church.

• St. Monica Guild of Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church of Youngstown will meet at 7 p.m. Tuesday with Mary Ann Cardiero presiding. Hostesses will be Linda Ciotti, Patty Dawson, Phyllis DeChurch, Lucy DeLucia, and Eleanor DeLuco.

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

• St. Rose Catholic Women’s Club will meet after the 9:30 a.m. Mass on Sept. 13 at Fellows Riverside Gardens in Mill Creek Park for a Sunday brunch at the Davis center. There will be no Sept. 14 meeting. For more information call Dee Sullivan, (330) 759-1305.

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

• Trinity United Methodist Women, 30 W. Front St., will begin the fall season with a luncheon at noon Thursday. The speaker will be Juanita Pasley of the Methodist Community Center. The cost is $4 at the door. For reservations call Marilyn Samuels at (330) 549-2308, or the church at (330) 744-5032 by Monday.

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, has planned the following events: Monday, picnic at Master’s Pavilion in Boardman Park from noon to 4 p.m.; Wednesday, music by Easy Street Productions at Morley Pavilion in Mill Creek Park at 7 p.m.; Thursday, meeting at Disciples Church at 7:30; and Sept 11, Poland Library movie, “Quiet Man,” at dusk. For more information call (330) 759-7409, (330) 757-1440 or (330) 793-1484.

• Single for Any Reason has planned the following events: Sunday, ox roast at Glenn Christian Church at Trumbull County Fairgrounds, from 9 a.m. to 10 p.m.; Monday, Labor Day holiday; Tuesday, stitching night; Sept. 11, Golf at 9:15 a.m. at Old Avalon Golf Club in Warren, and Road Work Band at Greenville Moose from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. For more information, call (330) 372-7124.

SOCIETIES

• Girard Historical Society will meet at 10 a.m. Saturday at the Barnhisel House, 1011 N. State St. For special tours contact (330) 545-6162. The museum will be open to the public on Sept. 13 and Sept. 27.

• Hubbard Historical Society will meet at 7:30 p.m. Thursday for a tour of the Arms Family Museum of Local History on Wick Ave., Youngstown. Those wishing to carpool should meet at 6:45 p.m. at the parking lot of First Presbyterian Church. All meetings of the society are open to the public. For additional information call (330) 534-3885.

• Immaculate Heart of Mary Altar and Rosary Society will meet at 7 p.m. Tuesday in the Parish Center. Speaking on “Tracing Our Roots” will be Judy Williams of Mahoning and Columbiana counties Genealogy Society of Ohio. New members are welcome.

• Mercer County Historical Society, 119 S. Pitt St., Mercer, will meet Tuesday for a program on the Civil War Display of the MCHS. Plans will be made for the coming season. Doors open at 6:30 and the program begins at 7. Mercer County Civil War Roundtable Participation in the discussion group is open and free to the public. For more information call (724) 662-33490.

SUPPORT GROUPS

• TOPS 698, Girard, will meet Monday at First Christian Church, 140 E. Broadway. Weigh-in is from 6 to 6:30 p.m. followed by the meeting at 6:30. New members are welcome; the first night is free. For information call (330) 534-2618 or (330) 545-4770.

• 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 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.

• UPMC Horizon has scheduled the following support group meetings: Tuesday, Breast-feeding at 11 a.m. at Womancare Center, 875 N. Hermitage Road, Hermitage, register at (724) 347-4780; Cancer at 1 p.m. at Greenville Campus; Diabetes at 1:30 p.m. at Shenango Valley Campus; Wednesday, Breast Cancer at 7 p.m. at Womancare Center.

VETERANS

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

• VFW 2799 Ladies Auxiliary will meet at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday at the post home, 3161 E. South Range Road, New Springfield. For 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.