Calendar of Events

WEDNESDAY

College & Community Job Fair

South Arkansas Community College will hold a College & Community Job Fair from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Wednesday, April 5, in the El Dorado Conference Center. Area businesses will be on hand so job applicants should dress to impress, bring resumes and come preapred. SouthArk students can register at collegecentral.com/southark. For questions, contact Grace Palculict, career counselor, at 870-875-7288.

• St. James Village Outreach Facility, 1308 E. Hillsboro, will give away clothing only from 10 a.m. until 2 p.m. each Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Please place clothing only in blue containers in front of building. They do not accept furniture. For more information, contact Dr. George Calloway at 870-6398007.

• Boomtown Toastmasters Club meets at noon each Wednesday at Murphy USA, 422 N. Washington. The community is welcome. Bring your own lunch and learn to communicate more effectively through speeches, conversations and leadership roles.

• Open Door Recovery Fellowship Group of

Alcoholics Anonymous will meet at noon for an open discussion at East Sixth and North Park Street.

• The Turning Point board meets at noon on the fourth Wednesday of each month in the second floor conference room of Regions Bank, located at 100 E. Peach St. For more information, call 862-3672 or 862-0929.

• Narcotics Anonymous will meet at 7 p.m. at Strong City Hall. Everyone needing assistance is welcome. This is a non-smoking meeting.

• The El Dorado Group of

Alcoholics Anonymous will meet at 7 p.m. on Wednesday at 100 Hargett.

THURSDAY

• Stitch & Share Quilters will meet from 9:30 a.m. until noon each Thursday at 826 Camp St., El Dorado. The contact is Ruth Matocha, 862-8088.

• Liberty Association Food Pantry, 901 S. Washington, will be open from 9 a.m. until 1 p.m. on Thursday. For more information, call 862-3063.

• Marrable Hill Chapel

Clothes Closet is open from 10:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. the first Thursday of each month. Free clothing and household items are available. Directions: Turn left off old Strong Highway onto Marrable Hill Road; take the fourth right at Marrable Hill Chapel entrance.

• The El Dorado Lions Club meets at 6 p.m. on the first and third Thursday of each month at Simmons Bank, second floor conference room.

• S. H. I. F. T. (Seeking Holiness, Intimacy, Freedom and Transformation), a Christcentered recovery meeting, will be held at 6 p.m. each Thursday at Cross Life Church, located at 1010 Combs St. The public is invited to attend. For more information, contact Pastor Cleje Blackwell at 870-866-9461.

• Order of the Eastern Star No. 280 meets at 7:30 p.m. on the first Thursday in the Masonic Temple.

• Open Door Recovery Fellowship will have a speaker at 7 p.m. on Thursday at 806 E. Park.

• The El Dorado Group of Alcoholics Anonymous will meet at 5:30 p.m. on Thursday at 100 Hargett.

• The Liberty Ministry Center Thrift Store will be open from 9 a.m. until 1 p.m. on Thursday at 504 N. College. For more information, call 862-3063.

• The South Arkansas Administrative Professionals meet from noon until 1 p.m. on the first Thursday of the month in the Parish Hall at St. Mary’s Episcopal Church. For more information, contact Wendy Brown at wendyl.brown@yahoo.com.

• The Delta Kappa Gamma Alpha Chapter in El Dorado meets at 4:30 p.m. on the first Thursday of each month at St. Mary’s Parish Hall September through April. The group does not meet during the month of January.

The Newell Homemakers Extension Club will meet the first Thursday of each month 1:30 p.m. at the extension office.

FRIDAY

• St. James Village Outreach

Facility, 1308 E. Hillsboro, will give away clothing only each Monday, Wednesday and Friday from 10 a.m. until 2 p.m. Please place clothing only in blue containers in front of building. They do not accept furniture. For more information, contact Dr. George Calloway at 870-639-8007.

• TOPS (Take Off Pounds Sensibly) will meet at 8:45 a.m. each Friday at the First Baptist Church. Visitors are welcome and those attending are asked to enter through the Elm Street entrance. For more information, call Terri Simpson at (870) 9182593.

• The El Dorado Group of Alcoholics Anonymous will meet at 7 p.m. on Friday at 100 Hargett.

SATURDAY

DBA hosts customer appreciation lunch

The El Dorado Downtown Business Association will host a customer appreciation hot dog lunch giveaway from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Saturday, April 1, on the Union County Courthouse steps. The public is invited to enjoy food, fun and festivities.

• Disabled American Veterans and Auxiliary will meet at 10 a.m. the second Saturday at Grace Bible Baptist Church, 1502 Champagnolle. Anyone who is a disabled veteran is welcome to attend and join the activities.

• Narcotics Anonymous will meet at 7 p.m. on Saturday at the small house next door to College Avenue Church of Christ.

• Liberty Ministry Center

Thrift Store will be open from 9 a.m. until 1 p.m. on the last Saturday of each month. For more information, call 8623063.

• Delta Network Food Pantry distributes food and clothing for free from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. every fourth Saturday at Jehovah Jireh Living Bread Ministry of Help and Pilgrim Chapel Missionary Baptist Church, located at 403 S. Pelham St. in El Dorado.

SUNDAY

• Open Door Recovery Fellowship Group of Alcoholics Anonymous will meet at noon Monday through Sunday at 806 E. Park.

• Union County

Genealogical Society meets the second Sunday of each month. Meetings begin at 2 p.m. at Barton Library. For more information, call Jan Fournier at 862-3049.

• Narcotics Anonymous will meet at 7 p.m. on Sunday at the small house next door to College Avenue Church of Christ.

MONDAY

• The St. James Village

Outreach Facility, 1308 E. Hillsboro, will give away clothing only from 10 a.m. until 2 p.m. each Monday, Wednesday and Friday. If you have clothing to donate to the cause, please place clothes in the blue containers in front of the building.

Furniture will not accepted. For more information, contact Dr. George Calloway at 870-6398007.

• Open Door Recovery Fellowship Group of

Alcoholics Anonymous will meet at noon Monday through Sunday at 806 E. Park. Open Door Recovery Fellowship will have a meeting at 7 today.

• Breast Friends Breast Cancer Support Group meets the third Monday of the month at 5:30 p.m. at St. Mary’s Episcopal Church Parish Hall on Madison Avenue. For more information, call Pat Rackow at 310-6920.

• Alcoholics Anonymous will have a closed discussion at 5:30 p.m. at First Christian Church, 420 N. Madison, (use back door). This is not a Glum Lot group.

• El Dorado Group of Al-Anon meets at 7 p.m. each Monday at 801 E. Sixth St.