CLUB CALENDAR | Local organizations plan meetings

ALLIANCES

Ohio Cultural Alliance will meet at 6 p.m. March 7 at the Saxon Club, 710 S. Meridian Road, Austintown. Professor Roman Rudnytsky of the Youngstown State University Dana School of Music will discuss and perform works of Beethoven as the cultural enrichment. The cost for a catered meal is $15 for paid-up members and $20 for nonmembers. Members are asked to take a nonperishable food item for Heart Reach, this month’s community project. Reservations must be made by March 1. Make checks payable to Ohio Cultural Alliance and mail to OCA, P.O. Box 561, Canfield, OH 44406-0561.

ASSOCIATIONS

Hermitage Business Association will meet at noon Thursday at Jess’ Restaurant, 3640 E. State St., Hermitage, Pa. Jill Seidel of Reed and Reed Associates Inc. will be the featured speaker. The election of officers is on the agenda. For more information about the association call 724-983-0900.

CLASSES

Campbell Memorial High School January and June classes of 1948 will meet for breakfast at 9:30 a.m. March 7 at Denny’s on Route 224 in Boardman. All classmates and spouses are invited.

South High School January and June classes of 1946 will meet for lunch at noon Wednesday at Denny’s on Route 224 in Boardman. All classmates, spouses and friends are welcome.

CLUBS

Youngstown South Christian Women’s Club will have a “Can’t Wait ’til Spring” luncheon from noon to 2 p.m. March 10 at Avion on the Water Banquet Center in Canfield. Featured will be The Hour Spa-Monkey Biz by Janeen Nicols, music by Sarah Turner, and a talk by Meryl Bishop, Stonecroft National representative. The cost is $13. Reservations are required by March 3 by calling 330-793-6676 or 300-758-6049.

Youngstown Torch Club will sponsor a debate by Dennis Thompson and John Fockler at 6 p.m. Monday at Bresnahan Suites I and II in Kilcawley Center on the campus of Youngstown State University. The debate topic will be “Should Government Elections Be Publicly Financed?” To make reservations for the dinner meeting or for information about the club, call 330-792-7351.

Youngstown-Warren Ohio Black Nurses Club will meet from 6 to 8 p.m. Tuesday in Room 4 at Forum Health Education Building. The theme for the speaker will be “Prevention and Risk Factors of Heart Attack and Stroke.” There will be light refreshments. For more information contact any black nurse or Esther McCain at 330-792-0571.

GRANGES

Dublin Grange will meet at 7 p.m. Sunday. Dues will be collected, and the program will be on presidential trivia.

GUILDS

Western Reserve Knitting Guild is having a brioche stitch workshop taught by Kay Thompson from 1 to 3 p.m. Sunday at Fair Park in Canfield. Those attending should take two contrasting colors of worsted-weight knitting yard, size 7 or 8 needles and a cable needle. There is no cost to guild members.

LIBRARY FRIENDS

Austintown Friends of the Library will meet at 10 a.m. Monday in the community room at the Austintown Branch of the Public Library of Youngstown and Mahoning County, 600 S. Raccoon Road. The meeting is open to the public. Pharmacist George Tuttle will speak on “Total Cholesterol Management: Taking Complete Control and New Developments for Statins.” For more information call 330-792-6982 or visit www.libraryvisit.org.

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

Court Bishop James McFadden 1650, Catholic Daughters of the Americas, will meet at 1:30 p.m. Thursday at Sunrise Assisted Living, 335 McKinley Way W., Poland. Delegates will be elected to attend the state convention. Members are asked to take prizes for bingo. Hostess will be Kay Kovalchik. For information on joining the court call Jean Puhalla at 330-792-0268.

Our Lady of Perpetual Help Altar and Rosary Society will meet at 7 p.m. Tuesday for the rosary followed by a meeting at the church, 618 Ohio Ave., McDonald.

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

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 events: Monday, meet in lobby of Movies 8 at Boardman Park at 6:30 p.m.; Wednesday, walking from the food court at Southern Park Mall at 6 p.m.; Thursday, game night at Disciples Christian Church at 7:30 p.m.; Feb. 25, Grand Buffet at 6:30 p.m. with sweepstakes to follow, Feb. 26, bowling at Boardman Lanes at 7:30 p.m., and Feb. 27, dance at Saxon Club at 6 p.m. For more information call 330-757-1440 or 330-793-1484.

SOCIETIES

Ethnic Heritage Society will meet at 10 a.m. Saturday at Boardman Public Library, 7680 Glenwood Ave. Upcoming events and the group’s role in celebrating and preserving ethnic culture in the Mahoning Valley will be discussed. Prospective members are welcome, and light refreshments will be available. For more information call the Rev. Joseph Rudjak at 330-792-1174.

Mahoning County Chapter of the Ohio Genealogical Society will meet at 7 p.m. Monday at St. Charles Church Ministry Building, 7325 Westview Drive, Boardman. The building is handicap accessible. Ron Garchar will present a program on “A Tour of Auschwitz.” The Computer Interest Group will meet at 6. For more information visit www.mahoningcountychapterogs.org.

SUPPORT GROUPS

Alzheimer’s Network Family Support Group has scheduled a meeting for 6:30 p.m. Tuesday at Emmanuel Lutheran Education Building, 251 S. Broadway Ave., Salem. The meeting is free and open to the public. For more information call 330-788-9755 or 866-822-2101.

F.O.C.U.S. (Friends Offering Compassionate Understanding Support) will meet at 7 p.m. Wednesday at a new location, St. Elizabeth Boardman Health Center, 8401 Market St., Boardman, in the Cedar Room on the second floor. Anyone who needs information should call the ACS office, 800-ACS-2345.

Mended Hearts, Chapter 7, a heart support group for members and their families, will meet at 7 p.m. Wednesday in the Azalea Room at St. Elizabeth Boardman Health Center, 8401 Market St. Guest speaker will be Kay Lavelle of the Mahoning County Sheriff’s Department, who will speak on meeting the needs of senior citizens. The public is invited. For more information call Joe Clark at 330-702-8859. A speakers bureau is also available to local organizations. For available dates call Lee Meadows at 330-793-2531.

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.

Parents Without Partners Portage County Chapter 600 will have its monthly dance from 7:30 to 11:30 p.m. March 5 at the Kent V.F.W. 3703 Post, 500 VFW Parkway (off Stow Road) in Kent. The monthly dances are open to the public, and nonmembers are invited to join the PWP members in celebrating the “Wearing of the Green” dance theme. As part of the refreshments, Mulligan Stew will be served. If anyone takes a canned ingredient for the stew, 50 cents will be deducted from the $6 cost for members and from the $8 cost for nonmembers. At the dance, officers for 2011-2012 will be installed. To join call 330-699-2361.

Survivors of Suicide in Columbiana County will meet at 6 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.

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: Bereavement at 7 p.m. Monday at Greenville Campus, and Mercer County Breast Cancer at 7 p.m. Wednesday at Womancare Center, Hermitage, Pa.

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.

Youngstown Multiple Myeloma Family Support Group will meet at 6:30 p.m. Monday at Denny’s, 4020 Belmont Ave. The speaker will be Jim Collins. For additional information call 330-770-0808 or 330-884-3500.

Club news is published Friday. Please submit information about upcoming activities to the Society Department by noon Wednesday.