AREA EVENTS
Seligman dance slated
SELIGMAN, Mo. - Seligman community dance will be at 7 p.m. Thursday, Feb.
2, at at the Seligman community building. Band will be Frosty Garland and the Road Hogs. Admission is $4 per adult. There will also be a Valentine dance on Tuesday, Feb. 14. Proceeds go to helping the needy with eye glasses and hearing aids.
The Lions Club is accepting donations of used eye glasses, hearing aids and used cell phones which can be dropped off at Seligman Auto Parts store, Seligman City Hall, People’s Community Bank or Freedom Bank, in Seligman. For information, call 417-846-5355.
Cassville dance set
CASSVILLE, Mo. - Cassville Senior Center will host a dance from 7-10 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 4, at the senior center. The Roaring River Sounds Band will play, there is a $4 cover charge and finger foods are welcome.
All proceeds go to benefit the senior center, 1111 Fair St., Cassville, Mo. For information, call 417-847-4510 or 417-847-0131.
Artists featured
DIAMOND, Mo. - A 60-minute documentary about artists of the Harlem Renaissance will be shown at 1 p.m. Feb. 4 and 5. The documentary includes more than 130 rarely seen paintings, prints, photographs and sculptures by black artists and archival footage of those artists’ work.
The park is located two miles west of Diamond, Mo., on Missouri Hwy. V, then 1/4 mile south on Carver Road.
The visitor center and park grounds are open daily from 9 a.m. - 5 p.m. For information, call 417-325-4151 or go to www.nps.gov/gwca.
Sweetheart dance scheduled
SHELL KNOB, Mo. - The Shell Knob Lion’s Club will kick off the 2012 dance season from 7-10 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 14, at the Shell Knob Community Building. Doors open at 6 p.m. with concessions available. Music will be provided by Evelyn Lock and The Outriders.
For information, call 417-858-6648 or 417-847-6714.
Lecture focus on making of atlas
SPRINGDALE - “The Making of the Atlas of Arkansas,” will be featured at noon Wednesday, Feb. 15, at the Shiloh Museum of Ozark History by Dr. Tom Paradise, professor of geography, cartography, and Middle East studies at the University of Arkansas, and author of “Arkansas: An Illustrated Atlas.” The Shiloh Museum is located at the corner of Johnson and Main in downtown Springdale. For information, call 750-8165.
Vote for Pea Ridge
Register at www.wehearyouamerica.readersdigest.com, and vote for Pea Ridge. The library with the most votes could win $50,000. Voting ends March 1, 2012.
Beta Alpha plans membership social
Beta Alpha is planning a membership social and Valentine’s Bingo from 4-8 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 11, at Camp’s Auction Barn just east of Pea Ridge, on Arkansas Highway 72. For information, call Dorothy Williams at 359-3300 or Karen Kitterman at 236-4849.
CALENDAR
Wednesday, Feb. 1
11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. - Seligman, Mo., Senior Center, donation lunch; for information, call Jo Ann Corn at 417-662-3749.
1 p.m. - Hobbits, Lost Bridge Community Center on Whitney Mountain; for information, call Roberta Heaton at 359-2139.
Thursday, Feb. 2
6:45 a.m. breakfast and 7 a.m. meeting - The Pea Ridge Optimist Club, Mt. Vernon Presbyterian Church; for information, call Sandy Lasater at 903-6795.
6 - 7 p.m. - Family Reading Night, Pea Ridge Intermediate school
6:30 - 7:30 p.m. - Jr. Girl Scout Troop No. 5780, Mt. Vernon Presbyterian Church
7 p.m. - Seligman, Mo., Community Dance, Community Building, sponsored by Seligman Lions Club; for information, call Wendell Bishop at 417-846-5355.
7:30 p.m. - Garfield AA, Brightwater Methodist Church. Open meeting and no smoking; for information, call 359-3734.
Friday, Feb. 3
5 p.m. - TOPS Club of Pea Ridge, Autumn Village; for information, call Becky Warner at 359-3764.
Saturday, Feb. 4
2-4 p.m. - Seligman, Mo., Senior Center, Fun and games; for information, call Jo Ann Corn at 417-662-3749.
Tuesday, Feb. 7
9-11 a.m. - Loaves ’n Fishes food pantry, New Life Church, 836 N. Curtis Ave.; for information, call Greg or Pam Cecil at 451-9333.
10:30 a.m. - 55 and Over Club, EMS community room; for information, call president Bob Hauter at 451-8274.
Wednesday, Feb. 8
10 a.m. - New Meadowbrook E.H. Club of Garfield, First Baptist Church of Garfield
12 p.m. - New Home Extension Club, Concordia Retirement and Independent Living Center; for information, call 855-2851.
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Community, Pages 5 on 02/01/2012