COMMUNITY CALENDAR
MONDAY
Shanklin-Attaway Ladies Auxiliary Unit 5 will meet Monday at Post 5, 5 Shorter Ave. Dinner will be served at 7 p.m., with the meeting to follow at 7:30 p.m. For more information call 706-2666791.
Rome Little Theatre will hold open auditions for “The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee” on Monday and Tuesday at the DeSoto Theatre, 530 Broad St. Registration will begin at 5:30 p.m., and auditions will begin at 6 p.m. Callbacks will be Wednesday at 6 p.m. Visit www.romelittletheatre.com for more details.
TUESDAY
The Rome Lions Club will have their regular meeting Tuesday at noon at the Red Lobster on Shorter Avenue.
A Laughercize Class will meet Tuesday from 4:305:30 p.m. at the Charles C. Parker Center, 1325 Kingston Road.
The Telephone Company Retirees will meet Tuesday at 11 a.m. at the Charles C. Parker Center, 1325 Kingston Road. Bring a covered dish. The Telephone CWA Retirees will meet June 19 at 11:30 a.m. at the Union Hall on Old Lindale Road. Bring a covered dish to go with Mexican food. For more information call 706802-7576.
The One-Stop & Adults/ Dislocated Workers will meet Tuesday at 10:30 a.m. at the Northwest Georgia Regional Commission, 3 Jackson Hill Drive, for a One-Stop update, goals and objectives, and other items.
The Tubize/Celanese Boys will meet Tuesday at Landmark Restaurant, 2740 Martha Berry Highway, at 8:30 a.m.
The Greater Rome Society for Human Resource Management will have a lunch meeting Tuesday from 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. at Hawthorn Suites, 100 W. Second Ave., Suite 110. Chuck Shaw of Garner & Glover will be the guest speaker. Lunch will be provided.
The Rome Seven Hills Rotary Club will meet at noon Tuesday at Coosa Country Club. The program will be presented by the Young Marines.
The 1959 Graduates of East Rome High and West Rome High Schools will meet for lunch at noon Tuesday at O’Charley’s Restaurant & Bar, 737 Turner McCall Blvd. Spouses and friends of classmates are invited. For more information call Judy Ballard Dempsey at 706-237-2606.
The Rome Art Coterie will meet Tuesday at 6 p.m. in the Oostanaula Room of the Rome-Floyd County Library on Riverside Parkway. Georgia artist Teresa Ramsey will present a program on her style of realistic painting including the inspiration and the process involved. Admission is free. The Rome Art Coterie meets the second Tuesday of every month. For more information call Moriah Medina at 706-512-2061.
THURSDAY
The Rotary Club of Rome will host Tricia Steele, founder of Makervillage, on Thursday. The club meets at noon at Coosa Country Club, 110 Branham Ave.
The Pepperell High School Class of 1967 will meet to plan its 50-year class reunion on Thursday at 11 a.m. at Fuddruckers, 595 Riverside Parkway. For more information call 706676-2762.
The Southern Belles Book Club will meet Thursday from 6:30-8:30 p.m. at Swift & Finch Coffee Shop, 600 Broad St. Local author Merrill Davies will be the guest speaker. For more information call 706-238-3954 or email southernbellesbookclub@gmail.com.
UPCOMING
The Adult Unit of the Rome/Floyd County NAACP will hold its annual Freedom Fund Banquet on June 17 at 6:30 p.m. at the Lovejoy Baptist Church Joy Life Center, 436 Branham Ave. Dinner tickets cost $35 for adults and $15 for youth ages 12 and younger. For more information call 706204-4176 or 706-802-1659.