Items of interest
Bradford to address NAACP on Saturday
The local branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, Unit No. 6013, will hold its regular monthly meeting via Zoom at 2 p.m. Saturday with Maurice “Mo” Bradford as guest speaker.
Bradford, a Hot Springs native, was a varsity football player, a Meining National Scholar, and an honors recipient in the Urban and Regional Studies program at Cornell University, where he earned a bachelor’s degree in Civic Planning. His interests include equity development, participatory planning, and the history of inequality. “In the future, he aspires to become a leader in planning who focuses on uplifting disadvantaged populations through just development and proper planning,” a news release said.
To attend, visit https://zoom.
us/j/96567496065. The meeting ID is 965 6749
6065 or, for one-tap mobile, +13462487799,
96567496065#.
Hot Springs Toastmasters to meet Saturday morning
Hot Springs Toastmasters will hold its weekly club meeting at 8 a.m. Saturday, both in-person and via Zoom.
The location will be at an outdoor/indoor facility on the southwest side of Hot Springs. Participants are welcome to bring or wear a mask.
For more information, including the meeting location, email via the club website,
https://7643.toastmastersclubs.org/, or call
501-620-9943 or 501-262-1664. The club can also be contacted using the “find a club” option on the Toastmasters International website, https://www.toastmasters.org/. The online meeting location cannot be accessed through either website.
The club has been meeting online since late March, instead of its “normal” meeting location at National Park Medical Center. “Currently we are doing the hybrid meeting style, which includes offering online Zoom attendance, as encouraged by Toastmasters International. When a meeting is in a hybrid format, enabling online attendance as well as in-person, we’re using laptop, hot spot and added microphone capability,” a news release said.
Toastmasters is a supportive, inexpensive way to learn speaking and leadership skills. Training resources for speechmaking are part of Toastmasters’ support available to members. Toastmasters International’s materials and programs also offer leadership development. New members are offered mentoring, either assigned or a chosen match. Meeting roles rotate from one week to the next. There is no charge to attend. Meetings normally are one hour long.