Items of interest
HS Jazz Society founder to address VCK club
The Virginia Clinton Kelley Democratic Women’s Club will meet at 6 p.m. Tuesday at the Landmark Building.
A wine and cheese get-together will be held at 5:30 p.m. Speaker will be Shirley Chauvin.
Chauvin studied jazz and music education at North Texas University. She has led her own jazz and fusion combos in the Dallas area, opened for Dionne Warwick, John Davidson, Mel Torme, and appears at jazz festivals in Texas, Oklahoma and Arizona. She has performed in the Abilene Philharmonic Pops series and toured with the Arkansas Jazz Orchestra. She is the director of S’Wonderful and the co-director of the Little Big Band.
Chauvin is a founder of the Hot Springs Jazz Society and is chair of the Membership Committee and editor of the Society newsletter, HotNotes.
For more information, call Rynne Belk at 655-3435.
MS bike ride fundraiser to stop in HSV
The Bike MS: Rock’n Hot Ride will depart from Garver LLC in North Little Rock on Sept. 8 and conclude back there on Sept. 9. The ride will feature four fully stocked rest stops, medical support, SAG vehicles, HAM radio operators and a celebration party at the Ponce De Leon Center in Hot Springs Village at the Day 1 finish line.
“Bike MS is an experience grounded in camaraderie that brings together cyclists of all levels for one reason — to create a world free of MS,” said Karen Littlejohn, executive director of the National MS Society, South Central, in the press release. “Funds raised from this event support cutting-edge MS research, as well as programs and services for people living with MS in this community.”
Participation and volunteer registration can be done at http://bikeMS.org, by calling 855-372-1331 or emailing fundraisingsupport@nmss.org. Multiple sclerosis is an unpredictable, often disabling disease of the central nervous system that disrupts the flow of information within the brain, and between the brain and body. Symptoms range from numbness and tingling to blindness and paralysis. The progress, severity and specific symptoms of MS in any one person cannot yet be predicted. Most people with MS are diagnosed between the ages of 20 and 50, with at least two to three times more women than men being diagnosed with the disease. MS affects more than 2.3 million worldwide.
For more information about MS and the National MS Society, call 800-344-4867.