COMMUNITY CALENDAR
THURSDAY
The Rome Water and
Sewer Committee will meet Thursday in the Sam King Room at City Hall, 601 Broad St., at 8:30 a.m.
The Sons of the American
Revolution will meet Thursday at noon at the Landmark Restaurant on Martha Berry Highway. The guest speaker will be Associate Professor Barsha Pickell, Shorter University. The program is titled “If men were angels … The importance of virtue in the American Revolution and US Constitution.” For more information call Dick Richter at 706-857-7995.
The Rome African Violet
Study Group will meet at 1 p.m. on Thursday at the Rome Federated Garden Clubs, 100 E. Eighth St. The program will be presented by Kathy Spissman from Atlanta. She will speak about Streps and other Gesneriads. For more information call 706-295-3751.
FRIDAY
Faith and Deeds Community Health will host its fifth annual Tomato Sandwich Supper on Friday from 5-7 p.m. at Rome First United Methodist Church, 202 E. Third Ave. Proceeds will provide primary healthcare to the uninsured of Floyd, Polk and Chattooga counties.
The 1902 Stock Exchange & Public Square Opera House, 124 Public Square, Adairsville, will present “Leaving Iowa,” a road-trip comedy, in a dinner-theater format Friday and Saturday. All shows will begin at 7 p.m. The cost of dinner and the show is $50, and reservations are required. Call 770773-1902 to make reservations.
SATURDAY
Model High School Class of 1959 will hold its 58th class reunion Saturday at 5 p.m. at Enon Baptist Church. For more information call 706-506-1389.
Little River Canyon National Preserve, 4322 Little River Trail, Fort Payne, Alabama, will have a free Native American tools and weapons demonstration on Saturday at 10:30 a.m. CDT. Parking is $3. For more information call 256-845-9605 or visit www.nps.gov/ liri.
The Cave Spring United Methodist Church will host Eddie Elsberry from Berry College for a seminar on the Berry bald eagles on Saturday at 10 a.m. For more information call Karen Wetherington at 706-767-2819.
SUNDAY
The National Alliance on Mental Illness-Rome will offer NAMI Basics beginning Sunday from 1:30-4 p.m. NAMI Basics is a free sixweek course that addresses childhood mental health disorders. Classes meet at 1 Woodbine Ave. For more information and registration, call Jim at 706-232-4607.
MONDAY
Ridge and Valley Storytellers Guild will host its monthly “A Time to Tell” program Monday from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. at the Rome Floyd County Library, 205 Riverside Parkway. Guests are welcome to tell a story or listen to some of the best storytellers in Rome.
TUESDAY
The Sara Hightower Regional Library 205 Riverside Parkway, will host a lecture, “Understanding and Safely Observing the Great American Solar Eclipse”, with Dr. Todd Timberlake, professor and department chair in Physics, Astronomy and Geology at Berry College, in the Coosa Room at 7 p.m. on Tuesday.
The Celanese/Tubize Boys will meet for breakfast at the Landmark Restaurant, 2740 Martha Berry Highway, on Tuesday at 8:30 a.m. Rome Seven Hills Rotary Club, Rome Noon Optimist Club and the
Rome Lions Club will host the annual Front Line Awards Luncheon at Coosa Country Club, 110 Branham Ave., on Tuesday at noon.
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 N. Second Ave.
The Rome Art Coterie will meet on Tuesday at 6 p.m. at Farrell’s Frame and Design, 116 Broad St. For more information call Moriah Medina at 706-512-2061.
UPCOMING
The Pepperell High
School Class of 1958 will have a luncheon at the Landmark Restaurant, 2740 Martha Berry Highway, on Aug. 9 at 11:30 a.m. For more information call Eleanor Hardin Hamby at 706-232-8144.
The Rotary Club of
Rome will host Dr. Bridgette Dingle of Floyd Medical Center’s Neonatal Intensive Care Unit on Aug. 10 at noon. The club meets at Coosa Country Club, 110 Branham Ave. The Rome Chapter of the Compassionate Friends will meet Aug. 10 at 7 p.m. at Redmond Medical Center, 501 Redmond Road. Take elevator at outpatient entrance to lower level Classroom B. For more information call Sandra at 706-506-6108 or Dee Ann at 706-936-9021.
The Rome Police Department will be conducting Citizens’ Police
Academy, an eight-week program which provides first-hand information on the role of police officers, beginning Aug. 10 at the Rome Police Training Center, 2626 Callier Springs Road. Visit www.romefloyd.com/ departments/citizens-policeacademy to download and complete the application, stop by the Rome Police Training Center or contact the training staff at 706-2362399.
Parnick Jennings Sr.’s Good Shepherd Funeral Home will present an evening with Triumphant on Aug. 10 at 6 p.m. at Rome City Auditorium, 601 Broad St. Tickets are $15 in advance for adults or $20 at the door. Admission will be free for children 12 and younger. Tickets are $12 each for church groups of 10 or more. Advance tickets may be purchased at Good Shepherd Funeral Home, 2750 Shorter Ave.