TODAY’S HIGHLIGHTS

National Alliance on Mental Illness Rome will host a community forum with the superior court judge candidates Emily Matson and Kay Ann Wetherington

today from 6-7:30 p.m. at Rome First United Methodist Church, 202 E. Third Ave. The candidates will address their platforms and answer questions. Light snacks will be served. Contact NAMI Rome at 706-506-5010 for more information. Rome Toastmasters

will have an open house from 6:30-7:30 p.m.

today in the Coosa Room at Rome-Floyd County Library, 205 Riverside Parkway. Director of Outreach and EMS Relations of Redmond Regional Medical Center Scotty Hancock will be speaking about the importance of communication skills for today’s community. Members and guests will learn about Toastmasters meetings. For more information email Merrill

Davies at welshharp06@yahoo.com. Toastmasters of Rome meets at the library on the second and fourth Monday of each month at 6 p.m. For more information about the club visit www.romegeorgia.toastmastersclubs.org.

Berry College Associate Professor of Biology Christopher Mowry will give a talk on urban coyote

populations at 6 p.m. today at Oak Hill & The Martha Berry Museum, 24 Veterans Memorial Highway. Mowry founded the Atlanta Coyote Project, an organization of scientists devoted to learning more about coyotes living in the metro Atlanta area, and has done extensive research on coyotes that live on the Berry campus and northwest Georgia. This event is free and open to the public. For more information visit berry.edu/oakhill/exhibits/temporary or call 706-3686789.