CLUB CALENDAR | Local organizations plan meetings

ALLIANCES

Ohio Cultural Alliance will meet for dinner at 6 p.m. May 2 at Mount Carmel Hall, 343 Via Mount Carmel, Youngstown. Artist Rosemary Cardoza will discuss Michelangelo, and John Gabriele’s one-man band will provide cultural enrichment. The cost is $15 for each paid-up member and $20 for each nonmember. Reservations may be mailed to OCA, P.O. Box 561, Canfield, OH 44406-0561 no later than April 26. Those attending are asked to take personal items such as toothpaste, bathroom tissue, razors, etc., for distribution by The Gleaners charity.

BOOSTERS

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

CLASSES

Chaney High School Class of 1960 will meet for breakfast at 9 a.m. Wednesday at Davidson’s Restaurant on Canfield Road in Cornersburg. All classmates and spouses 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. All classmates are welcome. The class is planning a picnic for July 19 at Boardman Park.

Woodrow Wilson High School Class of 1953 will meet 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 Wednesday at A La Cart in Canfield for a noon lunch and meeting. A Founders Day program will be presented by the speaker, Debra Moore Bryan. Hostesses will be Carol Richards and Karen Dennison.

McDonald Arts and Crafts Club will meet at 7:30 p.m. Monday in the Community Room at the post office building.

Round Table Woodcarvers will meet from 9 to 11:30 a.m. Thursday at the Senior Center, 1110 Fifth Ave., Youngstown, for carving lessons; wood and tools are provided. Children must be accompanied by an adult. For more information call 330-792-4355 or 330-533-6301.

That Quilt Group I Belong To will meet at 7 p.m. Tuesday at Fair Park Community Building in Canfield. Guests are welcome.

Western Reserve Amateur Radio Club will meet at 7 p.m. Tuesday at Davidson’s Restaurant, 3636 Canfield Road, Canfield. Roy Dyckman, KD8JMO, will speak about his 15,000-mile motorcycle trip from Key West to the Arctic Circle. For more information call Allan Avnet at 330-549-3051.

Youngstown Torch Club will meet at 6 p.m. Monday in Bresnahan Suites I and II at Kilcawley Center, on the campus of Youngstown State University. John K. Fockler Jr. will present a paper written by Donald K. Allen on the history and significance of Flag Day. For more information about the dinner meeting or the club, call 330-792-7351.

GUILDS

Holborn Herb Growers Guild will meet at 6 p.m. Tuesday at the Summer Kitchen Gardens in Boardman Park. Take your garden hand tools to clean up the gardens. Hostesses are July Sommerlad, Rosemary Pitzo, Margie Williams and Debbie Cromwell.

Niles Chapter of the American Sewing Guild has scheduled the following meetings: Howland Happy Stitchers, 10 a.m. Tuesday at Living Lord Lutheran Church, 851 Niles-Cortland Road (Route 46) Warren, to work on cancer caps for community service. Contact 330-847-9813 or 330-856-4827. Austintown Stitch and Share, 10 a.m. Thursday at Humility House, 755 Ohltown Road, Austintown, for a Sit & Sew project: pillowcases with drawstrings. Contact 330-533-7445.

LEAGUES

Wilmington Township Civic League of Mercer County will meet at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday. Jerry Zona, director of Lawrence-Mercer Counties Recycling and Solid Waste Department, will speak about the organization, its functions and regulations and the process used to recycle various materials. Refreshments will be served.

LIBRARY FRIENDS

Friends of the Austintown Branch of the Public Library of Youngstown and Mahoning County will meet at 10 a.m. Monday in the community room. The speaker, Joyce Gottron, parks supervisor for Austintown Township, will present an informative program on the Austintown Township Park System, followed by a presentation on backyard wildlife. The library is at 600 S. Raccoon Road at Falcon Drive. For more information phone 330-792-6982 or visit the Web at www.libraryvisit.org.

LODGES

Croatian Lodge No. 598 will meet at 12:45 p.m. Sunday in the Community 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 Avenue.

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

Youngstown Council of Catholic Nurses will meet at 12:30 p.m. Wednesday at The Manor, 314 S. Canfield-Niles Road, Austintown. For the program, representatives from the Area Agency on Aging will discuss the Passport Program.

SERVICE CLUBS

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

SINGLES

D.A.R.E., a social group for divorced, widowed or separated people, has planned the following: Sunday, dance at the Saxon Club at 6 p.m.; Wednesday, meet at the food court in Southern Park Mall at 6 p.m. to walk; Thursday, no meeting at Disciples Christian Church; and Friday, meet in lobby of Movies 8 at 6:30 p.m. For more information call 330-757-1440 or 330-793-1484.

SOCIETIES

The Historical Society of McDonald will meet at 7 p.m. Monday in the Community Room at the post office building. The society also will meet at 10 to 10:15 a.m. Thursday after the Mayor’s Seminar in the Community Room at the post office building.

Mineral Ridge Historical Society will meet at 7 p.m. Tuesday at Seaborn Elementary School. A discussion of the Mineral Ridge Camping Club, which existed in the 1890s, will take place. Special guests will be Bruce Thomas and Fran Thompson, who is a relative of a descendant of a member of the club.

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.

Mahoning Valley Fibromyalgia Support Group will meet at 7 p.m. Wednesday at Bethel Lutheran Church, 425 Crestview Drive, Boardman. The open meeting will last until 8:30 p.m. For more information call 330-758-8413.

Myeloma Support Group meets the third Monday evening of each month at Denny’s Restaurant, 4020 Belmont Ave., Youngstown. The next meeting will be at 6:30 p.m. Monday. To register or for more information, call Donna Detwiler, RN, at 330-884-3500 (work), 330-770-0808 (cell) or 330-549-4617 (home). The group serves adults diagnosed with myeloma, their adult friends and family members.

Nar-anon, a 12-step program for relatives and friends who have been adversely affected by a loved one’s addiction to drugs, meets at 7 p.m. Fridays at the Neil Kennedy Recovery Clinic, 160 Clifton NE, Howland. Newcomers should arrive at 6:45. For more information call 330-856-3822.

Recovery Inc., 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.

Survivors of Suicide in Columbiana County will meet from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Thursday at Columbiana County Counseling Center, 40722 state Route 154, Lisbon. For more information call 330-424-7767. This support group is for families who have lost a loved one to suicide.

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 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.

UPMC Horizon has scheduled the following support group meetings: Sunday, Ostomy at 2 p.m. at Greenville , Pa., campus; Monday, Bereavement at 7 p.m. at Greenville campus; Tuesday, Cancer at 1 p.m. at Shenango Valley campus, Silver and Fit at 1 p.m. at Wellness Center in Greenville, and Weight Loss at 6 p.m. at WomanCare Center in Hermitage, Pa.; Thursday, Silver and Fit at 1 p.m. at Wellness Center in Greenville, and Pulmonary Hypertension at 2 p.m. at Shenango Valley campus.

Women of Color, a domestic violence support group, is inviting women 18 and older to register for the group by calling the 24-hour crisis line at 330-747-4040. All calls are confidential.

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.

VETERANS

VFW Triangle Post 2799 will meet at 8 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. Please submit information about upcoming activities to the Society Department by noon Wednesday.