CLUB CALENDAR

ALLIANCES

Ohio Cultural Alliance will have a dinner meeting at 6 p.m. June 4 at Holy Trinity Serbian Church Hall, 54 Laird Ave., Youngstown. William Lawson, executive director of the Mahoning Valley Historical Society, will discuss John Young, for whom the city was named. The Youngstown Connection, singers and dancers from Youngstown City Schools, will entertain, and the ladies guild of the church will provide an ethnic meal. Membership fees continue at $25 per person; meetings cost $15 per paid-up member and $20 for each nonmember. Reservations should be mailed to OCA, P.O. Box 561, Canfield, OH 44406, by May 29. Those attending are asked to take nonperishable food items for the Gleaners Food Bank.

ASSOCIATIONS

William Penn Association Branch 28 of Youngstown will meet at 2 p.m. Sunday in the community room at Assumption Nursing Home. Meeting topics will be the upcoming golf outing, bus trip and social events.

AUXILIARIES

Sulmona Valley Auxiliary will have a Mother’s Day dinner at 6 p.m. Tuesday at The Phoenix Fire Grill, 5231 S. Canfield Road, Canfield. Guests are welcome; the telephone committee will take reservations. Arlene DeChellis and Patty Bozichovich are chairwomen.

BOOSTERS

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

CLASSES

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

CLUBS

Columbiana and Mahoning County Beekeepers Association will meet Sunday at Chuck Hatch’s residence, 39729 Miller Road, Leetonia. A potluck lunch at 1 p.m. will precede the meeting at 2. Members are asked to take their own chair.

Mahoning Valley Cribbage Club will meet at noon May 25 at St. James Church, 7640 Glenwood Ave., Boardman. New players are welcome. For information call 330-530-1254.

LODGES

Croatian Lodge 598 will meet at 12:45 p.m. Sunday in the community room at the post office building, 550 Ohio Ave., McDonald.

RELIGIOUS GROUPS

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

Our Lady of Perpetual Help Church will have a potluck supper and meeting at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday in the church hall. Members are asked to make reservations by calling Marilyn Long at 330-533-2627 by Saturday and to take a side dish or a dessert. New members are welcome.

St. Rose Quilting Group will meet at 10 a.m. Wednesday at 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. Singles Group, a social group for divorced, widowed and separated people, meets at 7:30 p.m. each Thursday at Disciples Christian Church, 565 Boardman-Canfield Road. Contact numbers follow: 330-533-7062, 330-729-0127 and 330-793-1484. The following events are scheduled: Sunday, dancing at Stambaugh Auditorium at 6:30 p.m.; Monday, walking at Boardman Park (meet at the gazebo) at 6 p.m.; Tuesday, L’uva Bella Winery, Pub of the Month, at 7:30 p.m.; Thursday, game night at the church at 7:30 p.m.; and May 25, miniature golf at Boardman Sports World at 7 p.m.

SOCIETIES

Lake Milton Historical Society will meet at 10 a.m. Thursday at the Lake Milton American Legion. A short meeting will precede guest speaker Cary Wells, owner of the former Craig Beach Amusement Park Administration Building.

Mahoning County Chapter of the Ohio Genealogical Society will have a regular monthly meeting at 7 p.m. Monday at St. Charles Church Ministry Building, 7325 Westview Drive, Boardman. Loretta Ekoniak and Susan Summers will speak about Slovaks of the Greater Mahoning Valley. The computer interest group will meet at 6 p.m.

SUPPORT GROUPS

Breast Cancer Support Group will meet at 6 p.m. Wednesday at Eat’n Park Restaurant in Austintown.

Mended Hearts, Chapter 7, a support group for heart-disease survivors and their families, will meet at 7 p.m. Wednesday in the Azalea Room at St. Elizabeth Health Center, Boardman Campus. Nick Casdorph will speak on nutrition and heart disease. For information contact Joe Clark at 330-702-8859. A speakers bureau on heart disease is available at no charge. For dates call Lee Meadows, 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 are welcome at 6:45. For information call 330-856-3822.

Nar-Anon Family Group, which helps those who are adversely affected by a relative or friend who has an addiction, will meet at 7 p.m. Wednesday at the Neil Kennedy Recovery Clinic, 5211 Mahoning Ave., Suite 3000, Austintown. The 12-step program offers help by sharing experience, strength and hope. Newcomers are welcome at 6:45.

Parents and families of estranged adult children are organizing a support group. A meeting is scheduled for 6 to 7:30 p.m. Wednesday at Boardman Park Gazebo (Route 224 entrance). Names or personal information won’t be necessary; it’s just a get-together to share feelings and have someone to lean on.

Survivors of Suicide in Columbiana County will meet at 6 p.m. Thursday at Columbiana County Counseling Center, 40722 state Route 154, Lisbon. This support group is for families who have lost a loved one to suicide. For information call Help Hotline Crisis Center at 330-424-7767.

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 330-793-4378 or 330-779-0144.

TOPS 1237, Austintown, will meet Thursday at Idaho Road Alliance Church, 250 Idaho Road. Weigh-in is from 5 to 5:30, p.m., followed by the meeting until 6:30. For 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 information call 330-759-4737.

UPMC Horizon has scheduled the following support group meetings: Ostomy at 2 p.m. Sunday at Greenville, Pa., campus; and Bereavement at 7 p.m. Monday at the Greenville campus.

VETERANS

Amvets Post 44 will have a Memorial Day picnic at 1 p.m. May 27 at the post home, 305 Elm St., Struthers. The event is open to all members, family and friends. The post will provide the main course, and those attending are asked to take a covered dish. To RSVP with the number of guests and the type of dish that you are taking, call the post at 330-755-3333.

Korean War Veterans Association Mahoning Valley Chapter 137 will have its monthly meeting at 7 p.m. Monday at American Legion Post 301, 3652 Oakwood Ave., Austintown. New members from all branches of the service are welcome. For information call John Pariza at 330-717-5242.

Military Officers of MOAA will meet at 6 p.m. Thursday at Golden Corral, Route 18, Hermitage, Pa. Current, former, retired and warrant officers may attend.

VFW 6488 Auxiliary will meet at 4 p.m. Sunday at the post home, 2065 Coitsville-Hubbard Road. Sandra Graves will preside, and installation of newly elected officers will take place.

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