BRIEFLY TOLD

Published 3:17 pm Thursday, April 19, 2018

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Thursday April 19th at West Point Active Life The Reigning 2017-2018 Ms. Senior Georgia Sandra Komiskey will have a meet and greet from 10 – 10:30 AM and will speak from 10:30 – 11. Everyone is welcome to attend. No children please. For information call 706-645-3580.

Friday April 20th West Point Active Life will hold its monthly Billiards Tournament. You must be 55 + to compete, there are no restrictions on where you live, sign up is free and starts at 9:30 AM, tournament starts at 10 AM. Winner receives a Trophy and an invite back to play in our yearly winners tournament held in January and of course bragging rights. Lunch available daily for $2. For further information, call 706-645-3580.

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West Point Active Life Center is a Recreation Center for independent adults 55+. We provide a $2 lunch for those over 60 as well as Activities, Games, Billiards, Quilting, Trips, Exercise Classes and every Wednesday we have FREE BINGO at 10:30 AM. We serve West Point and the surrounding area. Come check us out M-F 9 AM – 2 PM. 1114 O.G. Skinner Drive, West Point, GA 31833 or call 706-645-3580 for more information.

Starting on Thursday, April 19th, the Chambers County Lanett Annex will no longer be open during the lunch hour. The operating hours will be 8 a.m.-12:30 p.m. EDT and 1:30-5 p.m. EDT.

A fish fry and bake sale will be held in Standing Rock, Ala. from noon till 7 p.m. EDT on Saturday, April 21. Plates will be $10 each and will include catfish filets, cole slaw, hushpuppies, and French fries. For tickets, call (706) 586-0252. Proceeds will go to the Standing Rock Community Building Project. Drive-through pick-ups will be available at the Dodgen home, located on a hill off County Road 278 on the east side of Standing Rock.

Bradshaw Library will host a Lunch N Learn program, “The Great Depression in Alabama Photographs,” with Frances Robb, a Road Scholars speaker with the Alabama Humanities Foundation on April 24 at 12 noon. Call (334) 768-2161 by April 23 to make your FREE lunch reservation.

LifeSouth Community Blood Centers, Inc. will have a blood drive at the West Point Presbyterian Church from 9 a.m. till 2 p.m. EDT on Sunday, April 22nd.

The Chambers County New South Alliance welcomes the public to meet your local political candidates at a forum that will be held at 6:30 p.m. EDT Thursday, April 19th at Bradshaw-Chambers County Library in Valley. Candidates for local and statewide offices have been invited to briefly provide their case for election.

There will be a FREE LIVESTREAM of the Money & Marriage Conference on Wednesday April 18th at Unity of Faith Outreach building, 801 S. Jennings Ave, Lanett. The speakers are money expert Rachel Cruze (Dave Ramsey’s daughter) and marriage expert Dr. Les Parrott.  6:45 pm – 9:45 pm ET. For more information, 770-310-8841. This is a fun, informative, free “date night” for married or engaged couples; please do not bring children.

GriefShare, a special help seminar and small group support for people experiencing grief and loss, will be held on Sunday evenings at The Bridge Church beginning March 18 from 4 to 6 p.m. CDT for 13 weeks excluding Easter, Mother’s Day and Father’s Day.