Community Calendar
TODAY
Mountain Day Weekend at Berry College will continue today. A tradition lasting over a century, students, faculty and staff, alumni, friends and families participate in various events and activities throughout the weekend. Visit berry. edu/alumni for more information. The Berry College Theatre Company will present “Crimes of the Heart” at the E.H. Young Theatre today at 2 p.m. which will be open to the public. For more information and tickets visit berry.edu/bctc.
The Rome-Floyd E.C.O. Center will host a garden party to celebrate the designation of the Ridge and Valley Garden to the Rosalynn Carter Butterfly Trail today from 2-4 p.m. The Ridge and Valley Garden is in front of the center at Ridge Ferry Park, 363 Riverside Parkway. For more information call 706-622-6435.
MONDAY
The Rome-Floyd Branch NAACP Unit 5230 will host a meet and greet with local candidates Monday from 5-8 p.m. at the Rome Civic Center, 400 Civic Center Drive.
Shanklin-Attaway Ladies Auxiliary Unit 5 will meet Monday at Post 5, 5 Shorter Ave, at 7:30 p.m. For more information call 706-266-6791.
TUESDAY
The Floyd County Board of Commissioners will meet Tuesday in the Community Room, Suite 206, on the second floor of the County Administration Building, 12 E. Fourth Ave. Caucus will begin at 2 p.m. in Suite 204, followed by the Board Meeting at 4 p.m.
Rome Seven Hills Rotary will meet at Coosa Country Club, 110 Branham Ave., Tuesday at noon. Floyd County Superintendent John Jackson will speak about the ELOST.
The Rome Lions Club will meet Tuesday at noon at Red Lobster, 700 Shorter Ave. Regina Wright of Riverwood Retirement will speak.
The Floyd County Board of Commissioners and the Floyd County Board of Education will have a called joint meeting Tuesday in the Evergreen Meeting Room at Hawthorn Suites, N. Second
Ave., at 6 p.m. The meeting is for discussion only, no action will be taken.
The East Rome and West Rome High Schools Classes of 1959 will meet for lunch Tuesday at noon at O’Charley’s, 737 Turner McCall Blvd. Spouses and friends of classmates are welcome. For information contact Judy Ballard Dempsey at 706-237-2606.
The Rome Art Coterie will meet Tuesday at 6 p.m. in the Oostanaula Room at the Rome-Floyd County Library, 205 Riverside Parkway. Rome artist Claire Howard, who makes and uses marionettes and puppets in her work teaching at the Berry Academy middle school, will be guest speaker. Join during the current membership drive, “Bring a Friend,” and get two memberships for the price of one.
The Berry College Society of Physics Students will host a free science cafe Tuesday at 8 p.m. at Jamwich, 510 Broad St. Berry College Professor of Physics and Astronomy Todd Timberlake will lecture on exoplanets and the possibility of extraterrestrial life and participate in a question-and-answer session. Doors will open at 7 p.m. Food will be available for purchase.
The Greater Rome Society for Human Resource Management will host a fall seminar on servant leadership Tuesday from 8:30 a.m.-1 p.m. at the Berry College mountain campus, 2277 Martha Berry Highway. Free to members
and $60 per guest. To reserve a spot email Mike Bowers at mike_bowers@ mohawkind.com.
The Northwest Georgia Winds will present the concert “Cowboys and Aliens” featuring music from screens large and small Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. at the Rome City Auditorium, 601 Broad St. Admission is free.