COMMUNITY CALENDAR
SUNDAY
The 8th Regiment Band
of Rome will have its 30th anniversary concert Sunday at 3 p.m. at Second Avenue Baptist Church, 823 E. Second Ave. Admission is $10 for adults, $5 for students and free for children under 6.
MONDAY
Lavender View Garden Club will meet Monday at 11 a.m. at the Rome Federated Garden Club Center. The club will celebrate its 59th anniversary with a covered dish luncheon. The program will be about design, with Jane Davis, flower show judge, as the speaker. For more information call 706-346-4719.
Disabled American Veterans Chapter 95 will meet Monday at 6 p.m. at their new location, Brookdale Senior Living Center, 180 Woodrow Wilson Way. A meal will be served at 5 p.m. For more information call Butch Cohenour at 706-2916963 or Donald Phillips at 609-410-1076.
A Black History Month program titled “The Evolution of Freedom through
the Arts” will be held Monday at 6:30 p.m. at the Rome City Auditorium. The event will feature a diverse musical production from performers representing all Rome City Schools. Admission is free.
TUESDAY
The Rome Seven Hills Rotary Club will meet Tuesday at noon at Coosa Country Club, 110 Branham Ave. The program will be about Blood Assurance.
The Rome Lions Club will meet Tuesday at noon at Red Lobster on Shorter Avenue. Laura Fowler from Lutheran Services of Georgia will be the guest speaker.
The Sgt. Billy Freeman Korean War Veteran Association Post 1 will meet Tuesday at 6 p.m. at American Legion Post 52, 1205 Calhoun Ave. For more information call 706-234-8424.
WEDNESDAY
The Model High School Ole Timers will meet for their quarterly luncheon on Wednesday at 11:30 a.m. at the Landmark Family Restaurant, 2740 Martha Berry Highway. All former students and teachers of the late ’40s and ’50s are invited. For more information call 706-234-3680.
THURSDAY
The Rome Rotary Club will meet Thursday at noon at Coosa Country Club, 110 Branham Ave. Al Hombroek, district chairman of the Georgia Rotary Student Program, will speak.
Rome African Violet Study Group will meet Thursday at 1 p.m. at the Rome Federated Garden Center, 100 E. Eighth St. The program will be presented by Fran Myers on foliage feeding and disbudding. For more information call 706-295-3751.
Single Friends will have a potluck Thursday at 6:30 p.m. at the Charles C. Parker Center. New members are welcome. For more information call Sharon at 256-443-7426.
UPCOMING
The Floyd County Master Gardeners will present a free community workshop on pruning March 4 at 11 a.m. at the Rome-Floyd County Library, 205 Riverside Parkway. Terry Paige, city of Rome arborist, and Keith Mickler, Floyd County Extension Service agent, will speak. Call the Floyd County Extension Office at 706-295-6210 for more information.
A new Young Marine recruit training class will be held March 4 at Richard B. Russell Regional Airport next to the TigerFlight hangar. The Young Marines is a program open to all youth ages 8 to 18 or completion of high school not to exceed 20 years old. They meet on the first and third Saturdays of the month. The program is open to all surrounding areas. For more information call 678-848-3979 or 770856-7062.
The American Cancer Society’s Fresh Start Smoking Cessation Program classes are held the first Monday of each month from 9 to 11 a.m. and the second Tuesday of each month from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. at Redmond Regional Medical Center. The classes are free. For more information and to register call Barbara Earle at 706368-8880.
Evangelist and researcher Stephen Jarrard will speak about Planet X on March 11 from 1 to 4 p.m. in the Rome-Floyd County Library’s Coosa Room. For more information call 770369-1049 or email strengthtoescape@yahoo. com.
Enrollment for RomeFloyd Parks and Recreation’s Spring Break
Camp, taking place at the Anthony Center at 2901 Garden Lakes Blvd., is now open. The camp will run March 27-31. Drop-off times begin at 7:30 a.m. and pickup is no later than 6 p.m. The camp is for children ages 5-14 and costs $100 per child. Camp Anthony is also offering 9 weeks of summer day camps from May 30 through July 28. Each camp has a different theme and a field trip, and costs $100 per child for each week. Parents will need to register their children for each individual week of attendance. To register online visit rfpra.com/ camps. For more information email camp director Maria DeArmoun at dearmounm@ floydcountyga.org.