COMMUNITY calendar

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WEEKLY EVENTS Sundays

• Pictou County Fly Tyers Club – Meets 6:30-9 p.m. at the Stellarton Seniors Club building at the corner of Park Street and Acadia Avenue. All necessary instructions, equipment and materials will be provided. Novice and experienced tyers are welcomed.

• Karaoke – Westville Legion, 7 p.m.

• Meat Roll – Pictou Legion, 2 p.m. All welcome.

• Meditation – East River Meditation Centre, New Glasgow, 7 p.m. All welcome, please call ahead, 755-4325.

• Hootenanny – Stellarton legion, 6-10 p.m. $7 per person.

• Cafe and Market – Merigomish Schoolhouse Community Centre, 10 a.m.-1 p.m. featuring a brunch and local market items for sale.

• Tea – Star of the Sea Centre after the 11:15 a.m. Stella Maris Mass. Everyone welcome.

• Dance – Stellarton legion 6-10 p.m. Cost $7 per person.

Mondays

• Card Party – Auction 45s at 7 p.m. at the Meadowville - Poplar Hill Community Hall. Everyone welcome.

• Drop-in Badminton – For adults at New Glasgow Academy 7:30 p.m.9:30 p.m. New members welcome.

• TOPS Group – Take Pounds Off Sensibly, non-profit organization, Superstore community room, 9:3011:30 a.m.

• Mixed Darts – New Glasgow 55+ Club, 1:30 p.m., New Glasgow Fire Hall.

• Over 50 Prize Bingo – Royal Canadian Legion, New Glasgow, 1:30 p.m. Lunch served.

• Karate – Juniors 6:40 to 7:40 p.m. Adults 6:40 to 9 p.m. at the New Glasgow Fire Hall. For more info email rfraser1@eastlink.ca

• Card Party – Northend Rec Centre, 7:30 p.m. Light lunch served.

• Stellarton and Area Lions Club – Meeting second and fourth Monday of month, 6:30 p.m. at the RCAFA meeting room, Foord St. All Lions welcome. Visitors please call 3963946.

• Youth Darts – Westville legion, 6:30-7:30 p.m. Ages 8-18. Everyone welcome.

• Keltic Chords – For women interested in singing four-part harmony, meet at New Glasgow Academy (front door), 7-9 p.m.

• Bingo – Pictou legion 7 p.m.

DAILY EVENTS March 24

• Cape Breton Style Square Dance – Plymouth Community Centre. Come to listen or come to dance, Everyone welcome! Music by Heather Cameron, Lorna Kennedy, and Fhinn Timmons. Beginners lesson at 6:30 p.m. led by Irene Endicott, dance begins at 7. $5 or by donation.

• Old Time Dance – 7:30 p.m. at West Branch Community Hall. Music by The MacKinnons plus Marilyn, Alvin and Tracy; Roger Simm, calling. Lunch served, shared sweets. Admission $7.

• Yard/Craft Sale – Fundraiser, ADE Tri Lodge, 427 Little Harbour Rd., 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Bill and Margie MacDonald, Norman and Jean McComb. Proceeds to the Shriners Children’s Hospital travel funds.

• Food Drive – Supporting Pictou County food bank, Sobeys, Aberdeen Mall, 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Watch for the food bank truck and pass on your grocery donations to members of the Pictou County Service Club.

• Auction 45’s – Trenton Legion 1 p.m.

• Creative Pictou County Arts Society – Annual General Meeting at 2 p.m. in the Community Room of the New Glasgow Library. All are welcome. Check us out at: www.facebook.com/creativepictoucounty/

March 25

• Ecumenical Worship Service – Pictou United Church 10:30 a.m. Palm Sunday-Passion Sunday worship.

• Evening of Gospel Singing – Sponsored by Lighthouse Mennonite Church at Northend Recreation Centre, New Glasgow, 7 p.m. All welcome.

• Chase the Ace – For Westville Rink and Westville Legion 1-3 p.m. at Westville Legion. Current Jackpot $15,793.50.

• Chase the Ace – Trenton Legion spons. by Trenton Fire Dept and Br. #29. Adavance tickets: Tartan Blade Barbershop, Needs Trenton, Needs Stellarton Rotary, Sobeys Express, Abercrombie Variety, Cornish’s Variety, Cocoa Beach Tanning. Tickets also sold 2-4 p.m. Sunday with draw to follow. You don’t have to be present to win. Jackpot starts at $28,643. Karaoke with KGB Ent. 4:30-9 p.m.

• Crown the Queen – Fundraiser for Summer Street Industries, New Glasgow Kinsmen and New Glasgow Kinettes. Jackpot over $23,000 this week. Advance tickets: Summer Street Industries, Fas Gas, Tip Top Tailors, Cross Roads Country Market, East End Grocery. Also Sundays at Summer Street Industries 1:303:30 pm. You don’t have to be present to win. Draw at 4 p.m.

March 26-29

• 20 Minutes at the Foot of the Cross – First Baptist Church, New Glasgow, 12:10 p.m. Speakers: John Dunnett, the 26th; Jim Webber Cook, 27th; Leon Teal, 28th; Wilma Jansen, 29th.

March 27

• Free tax clinic – for simple, low income returns from 1 p.m.-4 p.m.at Westville Library/gym.

• Documentary – Water Warriors, a 22-minute film about a community’s fight to protect their water and way of life, specifically from fracking. A free event at 7 p.m. at the Stone Soup Café (41 Water St., Pictou); the screening will be followed by discussion.

• New Glasgow and Area Highland Garden Club – Meeting 7 p.m., at Glen Haven Manor – please use rear entrance. Margie Beck will do a power point presentation on garden tune-ups. Light lunch. New members welcome.