COMMUNITY EVENTS
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TODAY’S HIGHLIGHTS MONDAY
The Berry College Science
Café will meet at 7:30 p.m. on Monday at Jamwich, 510 Broad St. Assistant Professor of Environmental Science Zachary Taylor will be speaking on climate change and the collapse of past civilizations. The meeting is free and open to the public. Doors open at 7 p.m.
Coosa Country Club,
110 Branham Ave., with
Olympic Gold medalist Gigi Fernández, will host A Day for Puerto Rico April
13-14 at the Coosa Country Club tennis center. Tickets for the event are available starting Monday at www.adayforpr.com. Events include picoteo by celebrity Puerto Rican chef André Gómez at 7 p.m. on April 13 and adult doubles clinic with Gigi Fernández at 10 a.m., junior clinic with tennis professionals Gigi Fernández, Melanie Oudin and Edina Gallovits at 2 p.m. and exhibition match, party and silent auction with Melanie Oudin and Edina Gallovits at 6 p.m. on April 14. Proceeds will support the rebuilding of neighborhood tennis facilities identified by the Puerto Rican Tennis Association and will help fund tennis programs for local children. Raffle tickets are available at www.adayforpr.com.
The Rome affiliate of the National Alliance on Mental
Illness will meet Monday from 6-7:30 p.m. at First United Methodist Church, 202 E. Third Ave. Dr. Smita Varshney will address the importance of sound medication management in the recovery process of people living with a mental illness. There will be a Q&A period. NAMI’s educational meetings are open to anyone and light refreshments will be served. For more information call NAMI Rome at 706-506-5010.
TUESDAY
Historic Downtown Rome will host the first Downtown Rome Saturday on May 5 beginning at 9 a.m. There will be visual art, live music, culinary flavors, cultural performances and the inaugural Rome Lantern Parade. Entry is free. The first family-friendly lantern-making workshop will be at the Rome-Floyd ECO River Education Center on Tuesday at 4 p.m. For more details visit RomeGeorgia.org/ LanternParade. All event-related registration forms, vendor forms, volunteer information and contact information is available at downtownromega.us/saturdays/. For questions contact the Office of Downtown Development at 706-236-4520 or email downtown2@romega.us.
Kiwanis Club of Rome will
display its annual art showcase at the Rome-Floyd County Library, 205 Riverside Parkway, on April 3-11. Art showcase participants must be students in grades 6-12. Special recognition will be given to first-, second- and thirdplace winners for each grade level. Academic scholarships ranging from $200 to $1,000 will be awarded for students in grades 9-12. Awards will presented on April 5 at 6 p.m. Participants should be present for the awards ceremony. The deadline for application submission is Tuesday
(March 27th). For more information and to obtain an application visit www.romekiwanis. org or ask your school’s art instructor.
WEDNESDAY
The Rome 0344 chapter of Taking Off Pounds Sensibly will have an open house
Wednesday at 10 a.m. at Garden Lakes Baptist Church, 2200 Redmond Circle. TOPS is a nonprofit network of weight loss support groups open to anyone ages age 7 and up. For more information call Jean at 706-331-1111.
The Coosa Valley Tennis
Association will host the second annual Rome Open on April 7-8. Registration is open through Wednesday. Register for one or two divisions. One division with a partner is $20, one division without a partner is $25, two divisions with a partner is $30 and two divisions without a partner is $35. Register and get more information at www. rometenniscenter.com. USTA membership is not required.
SATURDAY
Floyd Emergency Medical
Services will host two free classes on stopping bleeding, hands-only CPR and general first aid on Saturday at EMS headquarters, 500 Riverside Parkway. The first session is from 8-10:30 a.m. and the second session is from 11 a.m.-1:30 p.m. Those interested in attending may call Maj. Rick Cobb at 706-509-3820.
MULTIDAY EVENTS
AARP Tax-Aide is offering free assistance during the tax-filing season through
April 16 at two sites. Help is available at the Rome-Floyd County Library, 205 Riverside Parkway, on Mondays from 1-4 p.m. and at the Charles C. Parker Senior Center, 1325 Kingston Highway, on Wednesdays from 1-4 p.m. Bring all tax paperwork, last year’s tax return, a picture ID and Social Security card. For more information call 706234-0931.
Oak Hill & The Martha
Berry Museum will present “Sanctuary at Berry: Wildlife Photography by Gena
Flanigen” through Aug. 18. This exhibition explores Berry College’s wild inhabitants, including a variety of birds, mammals and reptiles. Berry faculty and community members will present lectures on white-tailed deer, the Berry College bald eagles, striped bass spawning and more. Museum admission costs $8 for adults, $7 for senior citizens and $5 for students. For more information visit berry. edu/oakhill.
Habitat for Humanity
Coosa Valley is accepting applications for the “A Brush with Kindness” program. The program assists homeowners in Floyd County by painting and performing minor repairs on the exterior of their homes. The homeowner repays the cost of the materials and supplies through a no-interest loan. Applications may be picked up at the ReStore, 95 Three Rivers Drive. There is a $10 fee for a background check. Homeowners will be required to make a 10-percent down payment on the estimated cost of the project.
The Coosa River Basin
Initiative is seeking businesses and school, civic and church groups to participate in Rome’s
Big Float on June 2. More than 1,000 people are needed to create a mile-long chain of inner tubes and inflatables. Discounted group registration rates are available. Regular registration is $25, with children 12 and younger floating for free. Participants receive an event T-shirt, tube rental and shuttle service to and from the river. Following the float there will be food, music and games at Heritage Park. Sponsorship opportunities are available. For more information about group participation and event sponsorships email Shira Kerce at skerce@coosa.org. For more information contact Jesse Demonbreun-Chapman at 706232-2724 or jesse@coosa.org.
Blood Assurance is requesting blood donations at local donor centers or bloodmobile drives. Donors must be at least 18 years old or 16 years old with parental consent, weigh 110 pounds or more, and be in good health. Call 800-962-0628, text “BAGIVE” to 444999 or visit www.bloodassurance.org to schedule an appointment.
Floyd County Superior Court Clerk Barbara H.
Penson requests that veterans of all military branches of service be sure their DD214 discharge is recorded at the courthouse. Veterans may record their DD-214 in Floyd County in addition to their hometown, county or state. Bring a DD-214 to the Clerk of Superior Court’s Office, 3 Government Plaza, Suite 101, to have it recorded for Floyd County. This is a free service for all veterans. UPCOMING
The Friends of the Library will hold their annual meeting on April 2 at 1:30 p.m. in the Etowah Room at the Rome-Floyd County Library, 205 Riverside Parkway. The meeting is open to the public.
Unity Christian School
will host its annual Benefit Dinner on April 2 at 6 p.m. at the Forum River Center, 301 Tribune St. The guest speaker will be Ben Watson, who is the current tight end for the Baltimore Ravens. Family, friends and the community are. Tickets, meet-and-greet passes and sponsorships are available. For more information call 706-292-0700 or visit the school’s website at UnityChristianSchool.org.
Chieftains Museum/
Major Ridge Home and the Environmental Studies program and the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Berry College will co-sponsor a lecture by Tony Harris titled “If Plants Could Talk: A Cherokee Relationship” on April 3 at 7 p.m. in McAllister Auditorium, Berry College, 2277 Martha Berry Highway. Harris is a citizen of the Cherokee Nation and was born and raised in Muskogee, Oklahoma, graduated from Northeastern State University, is an active member of the Cobb County Master Gardeners and the Georgia Native Plant Society, and serves as the current president of the Georgia Trail of Tears Association. Harris also maintains an educational website at mycherokeegarden.com. For more information visit www.chieftainsmuseum.org or call 706-2919494.
New Hope Cathedral
Church of God, 200 Nixon Ave., will host the Students of Excellence Scholarship Foundation’s community gathering to commemorate
the 50th anniversary of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King
Jr.’s assassination on April 4 at 7 p.m. The bell will ring 39 times to represent the years of King’s life. National Recording Secretary of the Southern Christian Conference Jeremy D. Ponds will be the keynote speaker. The event will feature the New Life of St. John Baptist Church Team Circle of Angels and God’s Men of Distinction. Jeneal Johnson will be providing music. Reception to follow in the L.M. Mitchell Life Center. Doors will open at 6 p.m. For more information call 770-547-8369 or email gladysallen@att.net.
The New Romans Club will meet for lunch on April 4 at 11 a.m. at Coosa Country Club, 110 Branham Ave, with a presentation by teachers and students from Elm Street Enterprises. Elm Street School’s Elm Street Enterprises was recently recognized as a 2018 Heart of the Community Business Award recipient. Contact Jane Franssen at janeffranssen@ gmail.com or 706-236-2527 for reservations. Reservations are $19 each.