Calendar of Events

FRIDAY

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TODAY

• St. James Village Outreach Facility, 1308 E. Hillsboro, will give away clothing only from 10 a.m. until 2 p.m. each Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Please place clothing only in blue containers in front of building. They do not accept furniture. For more information, contact Dr. George Calloway at 870-6398007.

• Boomtown Toastmasters Club meets at noon each Wednesday at Murphy USA, 422 N. Washington. The community is welcome. Bring your own lunch and learn to communicate more effectively through speeches, conversations and leadership roles.

• Open Door Recovery Fellowship Group of Alcoholics Anonymous will meet at noon for an open discussion at East Sixth and North Park Street.

• The Turning Point board meets at noon on the fourth Wednesday of each month in the second floor conference room of Regions Bank, located at 100 E. Peach St. For more information, call 862-3672 or 862-0929.

• Narcotics Anonymous will meet at 7 p.m. at Strong City Hall. Everyone needing assistance is welcome. This is a non-smoking meeting.

• The El Dorado Group of Alcoholics Anonymous will meet at 7 p.m. on Wednesday at 100 Hargett.

THURSDAY

• Stitch & Share Quilters will meet from 9:30 a.m. until noon each Thursday at 826 Camp St., El Dorado. The contact is Ruth Matocha, 862-8088.

• Liberty Association Food Pantry, 901 S. Washington, will be open from 9 a.m. until 1 p.m. on Thursday. For more information, call 862-3063.

• Marrable Hill Chapel Clothes Closet is open from 10:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. the first Thursday of each month. Free clothing and household items are available. Directions: Turn left off old Strong Highway onto Marrable Hill Road; take the fourth right at Marrable Hill Chapel entrance.

• The El Dorado Lions Club meets at 6 p.m. on the first and third Thursday of each month at Simmons Bank, second floor conference room.

• S. H. I. F. T. (Seeking Holiness, Intimacy, Freedom and Transformation), a Christcentered recovery meeting, will be held at 6 p.m. each Thursday at Cross Life Church, located at 1010 Combs St. The public is invited to attend. For more information, contact Pastor Cleje Blackwell at 870866-9461.

• Order of the Eastern Star No. 280 meets at 7:30 p.m. on the first Thursday in the Masonic Temple.

• Open Door Recovery Fellowship will have a speaker at 7 p.m. on Thursday at 806 E. Park.

• The El Dorado Group of Alcoholics Anonymous will meet at 5:30 p.m. on Thursday at 100 Hargett.

• The Liberty Ministry Center Thrift Store will be open from 9 a.m. until 1 p.m. on Thursday at 504 N. College. For more information, call 8623063.

• The South Arkansas Administrative Professionals meet from noon until 1 p.m. on the first Thursday of the month in the Parish Hall at St. Mary’s Episcopal Church. For more information, contact Wendy Brown at wendyl.brown@yahoo.com.

• The Delta Kappa Gamma Alpha Chapter in El Dorado meets at 4:30 p.m. on the first Thursday of each month at St. Mary’s Parish Hall September through April. The group does not meet during the month of January. The Newell Homemakers

Extension Club will meet the first Thursday of each month 1:30 p.m. at the extension office.

VFW Post 2413 to hold fish fry

The Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 2413 will hold their annual fish fry at 6 p.m. on Friday, April 14, at the post in El Dorado. All members and guests are invited.

Lost Prairie plays Club 10

The duo Lost Prairie, from Homer, La., will play from 8 to midnight on Friday, April 14, at the American Legion Club 10 in El Dorado. Everyone over 21 is invited. Cover charge is $8. Remember, American Legion Bingo is held every Thursday at 5 p.m.

• St. James Village Outreach Facility, 1308 E. Hillsboro, will give away clothing only each Monday, Wednesday and Friday from 10 a.m. until 2 p.m. Please place clothing only in blue containers in front of building. They do not accept furniture. For more information, contact Dr. George Calloway at 870-639-8007.

• TOPS (Take Off Pounds Sensibly) will meet at 8:45 a.m. each Friday at the First Baptist Church. Visitors are welcome and those attending are asked to enter through the Elm Street entrance. For more information, call Terri Simpson at (870) 918-2593.

• The El Dorado Group of Alcoholics Anonymous will meet at 7 p.m. on Friday at 100 Hargett.

SATURDAY Gardner High Alumni holds fundraiser Saturday

The Gardner High School Alumni Inc. of Strong will host its Annual Fundraising activities beginning at 8:30 a.m. Saturday, April 15, 2017, on the parking lot of Strong Supermarket, Hwy 82.

The fundraiser will consist of a variety of delicious baked goods and other items. Everyone is invited to please support this effort.

For more information, please contact Ethel Kemp, Mary Lovett, Cindy Smith, and Mandy Abson and other members of the alumni.

UAPB/AM&N chapter to meet

The Union County alumni chapter of UAPB/AM&N will hold its quarterly meeting at 10 a.m. Saturday, April 15 at Douglas Chapel Baptist Church, located at 969 Smackover Highway. For more information, contact Leodis Williams at 870-310-0487.

First Assembly plans Flashlight Easter Egg Hunt

El Dorado First Assembly is having a Flashlight Easter Egg Hunt Saturday, April 15 at the church, located at 2225 W. Hillsboro Ave. Games, inflatables, and popcorn begin at 7 p.m. and the egg hunt will begin at dusk. Events will be organized in three different age groups: 1-3 years old; preschool and kindergarten; and grades 1-5. First Assembly has 9,000 eggs total. Egg hunters are asked to bring a flashlight and a basket to collect the eggs.

• Disabled American Veterans and Auxiliary will meet at 10 a.m. the second Saturday at Grace Bible Baptist Church, 1502 Champagnolle.

• Narcotics Anonymous will meet at 7 p.m. on Saturday at the small house next door to College Avenue Church of Christ.

• Liberty Ministry Center Thrift Store will be open from 9 a.m. until 1 p.m. on the last Saturday of each month. For more information, call 8623063.

• Delta Network Food Pantry distributes food and clothing for free from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. every fourth Saturday at Jehovah Jireh Living Bread Ministry of Help and Pilgrim Chapel Missionary Baptist Church, located at 403 S. Pelham St. in El Dorado.

SUNDAY

• Open Door Recovery Fellowship Group of Alcoholics Anonymous will meet at noon Monday through Sunday at 806 E. Park.

• Union County Genealogical Society meets the second Sunday of each month. Meetings begin at 2 p.m. at Barton Library. For more information, call Jan Fournier at 862-3049.

• Narcotics Anonymous will meet at 7 p.m. on Sunday at the small house next door to College Avenue Church of Christ.

MONDAY

• The St. James Village Outreach Facility, 1308 E. Hillsboro, will give away clothing only from 10 a.m. until 2 p.m. each Monday, Wednesday and Friday. If you have clothing to donate to the cause, please place clothes in the blue containers in front of the building. Furniture will not accepted. For more information, contact Dr. George Calloway at 870-6398007.

• Open Door Recovery Fellowship Group of Alcoholics Anonymous will meet at noon Monday through Sunday at 806 E. Park. Open Door Recovery Fellowship will have a meeting at 7 today.

• Breast Friends Breast Cancer Support Group meets the third Monday of the month at 5:30 p.m. at St. Mary’s Episcopal Church Parish Hall on Madison Avenue. For more information, call Pat Rackow at 310-6920.

• Alcoholics Anonymous will have a closed discussion at 5:30 p.m. at First Christian Church, 420 N. Madison, (use back door). This is not a Glum Lot group.

• El Dorado Group of Al-Anon meets at 7 p.m. each Monday at 801 E. Sixth St.