Support groups

Narcotics Anonymous meets at noon and 8 p.m. today at 919 Hobson Ave. This is a 12-step recovery program for people for whom drugs have become a major problem. The Help Line number is 321-8700.

Lifeline Al-Anon Family Groups, a fellowship for relatives and friends of alcoholics, meets at 11 a.m. today at Prince of Peace Lutheran Church, 109 Hobson. Call Melinda, 520-7876, for information.

Alcoholics Anonymous meets at noon on Monday through Saturday and at 8 p.m. on Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 411 Sellers St.; Central Big Book, 5:30 p.m. Mondays at Westminster Presbyterian Church, 3819 Central Ave. Call 623-6328 for information.

Alcoholics Anonymous, Last House on the Block, meets at 6 and 8 a.m. today at 315 W. Grand Ave.

Alcoholics Anonymous, Malvern Group, will meet at

8 p.m. today at 211 W. Third St., Malvern, in the upstairs Chamber of Commerce Building. Doors open at 7 p.m. Call 501-467-5409 or

501-231-9518 for AA information, or 501-623-6328 for Hot Springs Intergroup.

A grief support group will meet at 1 p.m. Tuesday at Dierk- sen Hospice Office, 3648 Highway

7 north, Suite E. Call 318-1500 or

915-8500 for information.

U.S.D., UDC serve as hostesses at recognition ceremony

The United States Daughters of 1812 and the United Daughters of the Confederacy were again hostesses at the Fifth Annual POW/MIA Recognition Ceremony held Sept. 20 at the state Capitol in Little Rock.

They provided a light dessert reception for attendees, as well as U.S. flags and ribbon POW/ MIA lapel pins. U.S.D. 1812 Chapters represented were Simon Bradford Chapter, Pine Bluff, and Baseline-Meridian Chapter, Little Rock. Also assisting was UDC Chapter General T.J. Churchill, Little Rock.

The event, planned and coordinated by Andrea Welch Fisher, granddaughter of a World War II POW, was attended by around 125 people. Keynote speaker was Thomas Holland with the Defense POW/MIA Agency.

Arkansas has 964 soldiers listed as missing in action, most of them from World War II. “With the rapid advancements of DNA technology, there is renewed hope that more of them be identified and their families can be given closure. Until then, they should know they are not forgotten,” a news release said.

In all, more than 82,000 Americans remain missing from World War II through the Gulf Wars and other conflicts.

National POW/MIA Recognition Day is observed on the third Friday in September. It honors those who were prisoners of war and those who are still missing in action. Established by an act of Congress it is one of six days that the POW/MIA Flag can be flown.

“No symbol better commemorates the sacrifice POW/MIA veterans have made for the country than the famous POW/MIA flag. The POW/ MIA flag was designed during the Vietnam War as a symbol of national concern about U.S. military personnel taken as prisoners of war or listed as missing in action, according to the National League of POW/MIA families,” the release said.

Call Mary Ellen Laursen at 501-922-4802 for more information.

OMH plans to hike Ouachita Trail

Ouachita Mountain Hikers plans on hiking the Ouachita Trail on Thursday and Hot Springs Mountain in Hot Springs National Park on Saturday.

The first monthly overnight trip (Cossatot River overnight) is planned for Oct. 7-9. Visit http://www.omhikers.club for more information and updates.