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COMMUNITY CALENDAR set A Secret Safe Place for Newborns will be holding an auction this year for its second annual fundraiser. Items for the auction are now being collected. You or your business may donate to this cause, and take advantage of tax savings as all donations are tax-deductible. Donated items can be picked up or dropped off no later than Thursday, (tonight), March 8. To arrange for pick up/drop off, please call 251-275-3144 or email firstcircuitalda. org. Ask for Amy Duke or leave a message. All kinds of items are needed: gift certificates to local merchants, hunting packages, new furniture, tickets to UA or AU football games, vacation packages, dinners for two, jewelry, items for kids, cell phone service or equipment, free personal tax filing, Easter items, artwork, outdoor decor or services and other valuable items. Please mark your calendars, March 8 from 6 until 8 p.m. at the Chatom Community Center. Bake sale for Relay The Grove Hill Baptist Church Relay for Life Team will hold a bake sale Friday, March 9 beginning at 8 a.m. in front of City Drugs. A large assortment of goods will be available for purchase. All proceeds will go to the American Cancer Relay for Life to be held Friday, April 13 in Grove Hill. If rain, the sale will be across the street at Galaxy Cable. Community wide cleanup Help Keep Our Roads Beautiful by participating in a community event Saturday, March 10 at 8 a.m. when trash pick up begins. You will meet at the Rockville Baptist Church on the Rockville Road. There have been some areas in need of a spring cleaning and it is asked that you and your neighbors set aside a couple of hours that morning to help with the clean up. A coordinator will be on hand to provide trash bags and water for volunteers and to collect the filled bags. Alabama River Fest set The Alabama River Festival will be Saturday, March 10 from 9 a.m. until 4 p.m. at the Claiborne Lock and Dam. There will be re-enactors demonstrating how the first inhabitants of Monroe County lived in the 1700s and 1800s. You will witness what life in a typical camp site would have looked like and be able to ask the demonstrators questions, as well as join the Creek Indians in the stomp dance and in a traditional game of stick ball and dance. Visit with the Indians, frontiersmen, traders and travelers. Music, demonstrations and food, all at the only museum on the Alabama River. Bring your found artifacts and fossils. University of Alabama experts Dr. Doug Jones and Dr. Jerry Oldshure, will be on hand on Saturday to identify and answer questions. For more information contact the Monroe County Heritage Museums at 251-575- 7433 or the website at mchm@frontiernet.net. Landowner tour The Alabama Treasure Forest Association and the Clarke County Forestry Planning Committee are hosting a Landowner Tour Saturday, March 10 north of Jackson. Topics covered will include logging practices, forest product utilization, invasive species, cost share programs, prescribe burning and an update on the new LP oriented strand board mill. Speakers include Tom Thompson, La. Pacific, Madeline Hildreth and Benji Elmore, Alabama Forestry Commission. Tour will start at 10 and lunch will be served at noon. For directions call 251-513-5732 or 251- 275-3283. Class reunion meeting The Clarke County High School Class of 1998 will be having a class reunion meeting at the city park Sunday, March 11 at 5 p.m. For more information contact Samantha Richardson at 251- 282-6321 or Hodrick Dotson at 251-769-0432 or Tamara White at 251-769-5442. JHS '77 Class meets Jackson High School 1977 Class Reunion Committee will hold a meeting at the Jackson Steakhouse Saturday, March 17 at 4 p.m. Call Laura Donald at 251-769-8607. SWAIA to meet The Southwest Alabama Improvement Association, known as SWAIA, will hold a public meeting Tuesday, March 20 at 7 p.m. at the Jackson Steakhouse. The guest speaker will be State Rep. Thomas Jackson, who will update the general public on legislative activities. There will also be a question and answer period. For more information contact Dr. Ozelle Hubert at 251-247-2520, 387-0357, 767-4178 or email: swaia@bellsouth.net. GHMH Auxiliary meet Grove Hill Memorial Hospital Ladies Auxiliary will have a meeting Wednesday, March 28 at 9 a.m. in the conference room of Grove Hill Memorial Hospital. The guest speaker will be Dr. Eniola Fagbongbe, OB-GYN to Grove Hill Memorial Hospital and Grove Hill Healthcare, PC. Relay for Life team selling salad plates The Clarke County Courthouse Relay for Life team is currently taking orders for chicken salad sandwich plates. All proceeds will benefit the Grove Hill's annual Relay for Life. Plates are $5 each and they can be picked up beginning at 11 a.m. in the basement of the courthouse on Friday, March 31. Anyone wishing to order a plate can contact Sylvia Fuller at 275-3251, the License Commission office at 275-4141 or Maurice Dyess at 275-8156. Relay for Life softball tourney to be held Infirmary Hospice Care will be holding a Relay for Life softball tournament on Saturday, March 31 at S.P. Hudson Park in Grove Hill. Local businesses and groups are encouraged to form a team and sign up for a day of fun with all proceeds going to the American Cancer Society. Registration fee is $50. This can be paid at the Infirmary Hospice Care office at 127 E Clarke Street in Grove Hill or call for more information at 1-866-201-5603 Trophies will be given to winning teams. Diabetic support group meets at GHMH Diabetic Support Group will meet quarterly at the Grove Hill Memorial Hospital. Meeting dates for 2007 are May 3, Aug. 2 and Nov. 1 at 6 p.m. Diabetes Education is offered at Grove Hill Memorial Hospital by an appointment only. For more information or to schedule an appointment call 251-275-3191, ext. 507. CCHS class of 1997 meets this summer The Clarke County High School Class of 1997 will be celebrating its 10th year reunion May 25-27, 2007. If you have any addresses for classmates that you think the class doesn't already have please use the link below. Group name: Clarke County High School 1997; group home page: hwwp://groups.yahoo.com/group /Clarkecountyhighschool1997; group email:clarkecountyhighschool 1997@yahoogroups.com WHHS Class of 1968 planning meeting The Wilson Hall High School Class of 1968 will celebrate its 39th year reunion beginning Friday, Oct. 19 through Saturday, Oct. 21, 2007 in Grove Hill. If you are a graduate of the class and have not been contacted please contact one of the following committee members with your current contact information: Mary Bracy, 302- 354-4389, Dorothy Horn Jackson, 510-543-7913, Carlton Pugh, 253-582-3169, Katie Mose Grant, 909-860-9710, or Ruby Taite Jones, 251-258-2201 or email whh1968@aol.com. CCHS Class of 1982 planning meeting The Clarke County High School Class of 1982 is planning a 25 year class reunion. Organizers are needing current phone numbers and addresses or if you are a graduate please contact one of the following people. San Thomas, 251-247-1269; Marylyn Moore, 334-636-5834 or Emma Martin at 251-275- 3380. Send in your items for the community calendar. There is no charge for this service. Call 275-3375, fax to 275-3060 or email ccdemo@mygalaxyexpress. com.
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