COMMUNITY CALENDAR
TODAY
Shorter University, 315 Shorter Ave., will host a celebration and book release in the Arnold Art Gallery on-campus for Angie Crea O’Neal, the Joan Alden Speidel Chair in English, today at 6 p.m. The event is free and open to the public. Light refreshments will be served.
The Floyd County Board of Commissioners meet today in the Community Room, Suite 206, on the second floor of the Floyd County Administration Building, 12 E. Fourth Ave. Caucus will begin at 2 p.m. in the Commissioners Caucus Room, Suite 204, followed by the Board Meeting at 4 p.m. The meetings are open to the public.
Rome Seven Hills Rotary will meet at Coosa Country Club, 110 Branham Ave., today at noon. Floyd County Schools Superintendent Dr. John Jackson will speak on the upcoming ELOST.
The Rome Lions Club will meet today at noon at Red Lobster, 700 Shorter Ave. Regina Wright of Riverwood Retirement and Remembrance Village will be the guest speaker.
The East Rome and West Rome High Schools Classes of 1959 will meet for lunch today 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 today 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 Greater Rome Society for Human Resource Management will host a fall seminar on servant leadership today 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 a free concert “Cowboys and Aliens” featuring music from screens large and small, today at 7:30 p.m. at the Rome City Auditorium, 601 Broad St.
WEDNESDAY
The Music Lovers Club will meet Wednesday at 10 a.m. at the Rome-Floyd County Library, 205 Riverside Parkway. Scholarship winner Leif Atchley from Berry College will present the program on trumpet. For details call 706-291-2078.
The Fellowship of Christian Athletes will participate in the national Fields of Faith event Wednesday from 6 to 8 p.m. at Woodard-Tuggle Stadium, Model High School, 3252 Calhoun Road. All students from middle school through college are invited. For more information on the national event visit FieldsofFaith. com. To learn more about the local event contact Kent Howard at khoward@fca. org.
The Camellia Garden Club will meet at 11 a.m. Wednesday at the Rome Federated Garden Center, 100 E. Eighth St. A program on bees will be presented by Clint Wilder. For more information call 706-232-7874.
The Rotary Club of Rome will host Bonnie Moore, Executive Director of the National Alliance on Mental Illness, Wednesday at noon. The club meets at Coosa Country Club, 110 Branham Ave.
Chieftains Museum/ Major Ridge Home will host archaeologist Pat Garrow for a presentation titled “What We Learned from Archaeology at Chieftains” Wednesday at 7 p.m. Garrow has had a 51-year career in archaeology, of which 40 years have been spent in cultural resource management. He has extensive experience and has directed projects over much of the continental United States and the U.S. Caribbean. For more information visit www. chieftainsmuseum.org or call 706-291-9494.
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