CLUB CALENDAR | Local organizations plan meetings

ASSOCIATIONS

Reserve Officers Association, Mahoning County Chapter, will meet Thursday at The Manor restaurant, Route 46 and Kirk Road in Austintown. Active and retired reserve officers from the area are invited to attend. Air Force Reserve Col. (retired) Judge Robert Milich will be the guest speaker. His topic will be the Veterans Court process being initiated. Walter M. Duzzny, retired ASAR, will preside.

BOOSTERS

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

CLASSES

Campbell Memorial High School Class of 1963 will meet for lunch at noon Wednesday at The Elmton in Struthers. Guests are welcome.

South High School Class of 1953 will have a monthly luncheon at 11:30 a.m. Tuesday at Johnny’s on Market Street in Boardman. Plans for this year’s Christmas party will be made. All classmates are welcome.

Woodrow Wilson High School Class of 1953 will meet for lunch at 11:30 a.m. Monday at Johnny’s on Market Street in Boardman. Guests are welcome.

CLUBS

Chapter CE of PEO Sisterhood will meet at noon Wednesday at A La Cart in Canfield for lunch and a business meeting. The program, “T 4-2 Dolls,” will be presented, and the guest speaker is Paula Farcas. Hostesses will be Dee Snyder and Laura Reed.

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

Western Reserve Amateur Radio Club will meet at 7 p.m. Tuesday at Davidson’s Restaurant, 3636 Canfield Road, Canfield. Al Avnet will preside, and Dave Beatty will speak on “Repeaters and How to Use Them.” For additional information call Avnet at 330-549-3051.

Youngstown Torch Club will welcome Professor Charles W. Darling to the podium at 6 p.m. Monday when he presents the paper “Myths of the American Revolution.” The meeting will take place in Bresnahan Suites I and II, in Kilcawley Center on the campus of Youngstown State University. To make reservations for this dinner meeting or to learn more about the club, call 330-792-7351.

LEAGUES

The Wilmington Township, Mercer County Civic League invites the public to its community meeting at 7:30 p.m. Oct. 19 to talk about “Emergency Preparedness.” The speakers will be Darlene Sansone of the Lawrence County Cooperative Extension and Dick Wilson, supervisor, Wilmington Township, Mercer County. The meeting will focus on ways to help each other during emergencies, especially senior citizens. Refreshments will follow the meeting.

LODGES

Croatian Lodge No. 598 will meet at 12:45 p.m. Sunday in the senior citizens room at the post office building.

RELIGIOUS GROUPS

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

Youngstown Council of Catholic Nurses will meet at 12:30 p.m. Wednesday at The Manor, 114 S. Canfield-Niles Road, Austintown. The program will be St. Vincent de Paul Society by Skip Barone. New members are welcome.

SERVICE CLUBS

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

SINGLES

40-Plus Singles will meet at 6 p.m. Wednesday at El Ternampa Restaurant in Leetonia. Any single over 40 is welcome. For more information call Eileen Russell, 330-427-0424.

Parents Without Partners, Portage County Chapter 600, will have a chili supper from 6:30 to 7 p.m. and a dance from 7:30 to 11:30 p.m. Oct. 23 at Kent VFW 3703 post home, 500 VFW Parkway, Kent. Meals include corn bread, dessert and coffee. The cost is $6. For more information call 330-699-2361 or 330-322-9559. The public is welcome.

SUPPORT GROUPS

Bereaved Parents of the USA, Mahoning County-Youngstown Chapter of a national nonprofit self-help group that offers support, understanding and hope to bereaved parents and other family members, will meet at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday at Park Vista, 1216 Fifth Ave., Youngstown. For more information about the chapter, call Diane Hunter-Copeland, at 330-770-2686.

Myeloma Support Group will meet at 6:30 p.m. Monday at Denny’s Restaurant, 4020 Belmont Ave., where meetings take place the third Monday of each month To register or for additional information call Donna Detwiler at 330-884-3500, 330-770-0808 or 330-549-4617.

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

Survivors of Suicide in Columbiana County will meet from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Thursday at Columbiana County Counseling Center on state Route 154, Lisbon. For more information call 330-424-7767.

Survivors of Suicide in Mahoning County will meet at 6 p.m. Wednesday at Disciples Christian Church, 565 Boardman-Canfield Road, Boardman. For more information, call 330-747-2696.

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 330-799-9660 or 330-779-0144.

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, 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: Sunday, Ostomy support, 2 p.m., Greenville Campus; Monday, Bereavement, 7 p.m., Greenville; Tuesday, Cancer, 1 p.m. Shenango Valley; Tuesday, weight loss surgery, 7 p.m., Shenango Valley; and Wednesday, Lupus, 6:30 p.m., Womancare Center.

Youngstown Area PFLAG will meet from 3 to 5 p.m. Sunday at the Stonewall Center, 1523 Poland Ave., Youngstown, for a regular support, education and advocacy meeting. All are welcome.

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