COMMUNITY CALENDAR
TODAY
The American Red Cross, 112 John Maddox Drive, will have a blood drive today from 3-7 p.m. To make an appointment download the free Red Cross Blood Donor App, visit RedCrossBlood. org or call them at 1-800733-2767.
Oak Hill & The Martha Berry Museum, 24 Veterans Memorial Highway, will host Berry College Biology Professor Bill Davin for a talk titled “Fishes of the Oostanaula” at 6 p.m. today. Topics include research on striped bass spawning, the reintroduction of lake sturgeon and current species found in the Oostanaula River. The event is free and open to the public. For more information visit berry.edu/ oakhill/exhibits/temporary or call 706-368-6789.
TUESDAY
An AARP Driver’s Safety Class will be
offered Tuesday from 9 a.m.-3:30 p.m. at the Anthony Center, 2901 Garden Lakes Blvd. Bring a sack lunch. Cost is $15 for AARP members, $20 for nonmembers. Call 706-235-0094 to register.
WEDNESDAY
Rome City Schools will hold its final transitioning to kindergarten parent workshop on Wednesday at 2 p.m. at Elm Street Elementary. To RSVP or ask questions call Ginger Rowston at 706236-5050 ext. 5034 or email growston@rcs.rome.ga.us.
SATURDAY
National Alliance on Mental Illness-Rome will offer the NAMI Smarts for Advocacy class “Medication: Protecting Choice” on Saturday from 12:302:30 p.m. at 1 Woodbine Ave. This free 2-hour class explores the medication dilemma facing people with mental illness including blockages that limit choice and access to frontline medications, the “try and fail” method to prescribe old line medications and other hindrances to modern mental health care. If you have a mental illness, are a family member, provider, caregiver or just want to learn more about this topic, consider taking this class. It will provide skills in order for you to prepare and deliver a short advocacy statement to local, state, and/or national decision makers. Contact NAMI Rome at 706-506-5010 for more information and registration.
The Calhoun Area Writers will host the second Northwest Georgia
Writers Conference on Saturday at the Harris Arts Center, 212 S. Wall St., Calhoun. Author Karin Gillespie, who has written for the New York Times, Washington Post and Writer Magazine, will be the keynote speaker. The conference will include sessions on keys to great dialogue, recycling/reworking poetry, reasons people stop reading books and podcasting for writers. Other highlights include booksellers, door prizes and networking. Tickets are $65 for adult nonmembers and $50 for Calhoun Area Writers members and students. Visit calhounareawriters.com for tickets. For more information call 423-322-0504.
MULTIDAY EVENTS
One Community United and the Rome Art Coterie are sponsoring an art
challenge for the 2018 One Table event. Anyone interested in submitting art depicting the message of One Table should contact Nedra Manner in person at Yellow Door Antiques, 219 N. Fifth Ave., or via Facebook. The deadline will be
June 1. Winning artwork will become the property of One Community United to use in promotional material for One Table on Sept. 23.
To list an event email RomeNewsTribune@RN-T.com or call 706-290-5252.