Community calendar

Published 9:32 pm Sunday, December 27, 2015

By Staff Reports

To announce your meeting in the Community Calendar, email the information to calendar@daltoncitizen.com with “community calendar” in the subject line or send the information by fax to (706) 275-6641. Please include a telephone number to contact for more information. You can also enter your event on our online community calendar at www.daltonnow.com by clicking on the add event tab label and following the instructions. There is no cost to add an event but you must register to use the site.

 

Ongoing

• Al-Anon meetings are held in the basement at St. Mark’s Episcopal Church on Mondays and Thursdays at 8 p.m. Al-Anon’s purpose is to give hope to family and friends who are living or have lived with alcoholism. Anyone affected by alcoholism is welcome. The church is at 901 W. Emery St.

• Alcoholics Anonymous meetings are held in the basement of St. Mark’s Episcopal Church on Sundays, Mondays, Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays at 8 p.m. All meetings are open to alcoholics or those who have an interest in the illness of alcoholism. The church is at 901 W. Emery St.

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• A Breast Cancer Support Group meets at 6 p.m. the first Tuesday of each month at the Rock Bridge Children’s Ministry Building on West Gordon Street in Dalton. The group offers an informal setting where anyone going through treatment and breast cancer survivors can be supported through the fellowship of others of similar experiences. For more information, call Sally at (706) 463-6514.

• City View Church of God at 3688 Chatsworth Highway hosts an Overcomers Freed Outreach program every Tuesday at 7 p.m. For more information, contact Nathan Case at (706) 671-3171, David Mathis at (423) 304-3667 or the Rev. James Michael Blalock at (762) 201-9631.

• The Civil Air Patrol unit meets each Tuesday at 7 p.m. at Dalton’s National Guard armory on Crawford Street. To find out more, call Eric Rochelle at (706) 410-0211.

• The Civil War Roundtable of Dalton Inc. meets the third Thursday of each month at 7 p.m. in the Crown Gardens and Archives at 715 Chattanooga Ave. The Civil War Roundtable seeks to preserve history by sharing knowledge. Recent speakers have included authors, historians, and researchers speaking on a variety of topics pertaining to the Civil War era, as well as interesting video presentations. Meetings are open to the public and visitors are invited.

• The Dalton Civitan Club meets at noon on the first and third Wednesdays of the month at Kelly’s restaurant. Heath Patterson is the club president. He can be reached at (706) 847-3338 or heath@alphaomega.com.

• The Dalton Lions Club meets the first and third Tuesday of each month at the Oakwood Cafe at 201 W. Cuyler St. Meetings begin at 5:30 p.m. For more information, contact Lee Oliver at (706) 260-7294.

• The Dalton Parkinson’s Disease Support Group, for patients and caregivers, meets at 6 p.m. on the second Tuesday of each month at RossWoods Adult Day Services, 1402 Walston Ave. For more information, call (706) 280-0324.

• The Dalton-Whitfield NAACP meets each fourth Monday of the month at 6 p.m. at the Mack Gaston Community Center. Everyone is welcome.

• The Dalton-Whitfield Solid Waste Authority holds its regularly scheduled monthly meeting on the third Monday of each month at 12:30 p.m. at City Hall, in the council chambers.

• The Hamilton Hospice Grief Support Group meets on the second Saturday of the month at 2 p.m. in the upstairs library of the Winkler Building, 1275 Elkwood Drive. Refreshments are served. Call (706) 278-2848 for more information.

• La Leche League of Dalton meets on the third Tuesday of each month at 10 a.m. at Christ the King Lutheran Church at 623 S. Thornton Ave. The nonprofit organization offers breastfeeding support and education free of charge. Babies and children are welcome at the meetings. Refreshments and a free lending library are provided. For more information, contact Patty Spanjer at (706) 260-1384, Melanie McDonald at (706) 218-4454 or Heather Tom at (706) 980-4028.

• The Murray County Republican Party meets the first Thursday of each month at 6:30 p.m. at the Murray County Senior Center.

• The Murray County Veterans Memorial Committee has its monthly meeting the first Monday of the month at 6:30 p.m. at the Murray County Senior Center. Everyone is welcome. For more information, call Harrison Parker at (706) 695-5301.

• The North Georgia Medical Managers Association meets on the second Thursday of each month from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. If you are interested in joining the NGMMA, contact T.J. Davis at (706) 270-4430 or ngmmadalton@gmail.com.

• The Northwest Georgia Breast Cancer Support Group meets the first Tuesday of each month at 6 p.m. in the Rock Bridge Children’s Ministry building on the corner of Pentz and Gordon streets (upstairs). For more information, please call Sally Knox at (706) 463-6514 or email sknox88@gmail.com.

• The Pilot Club of Chatsworth meets the first Monday of each month at 6:30 p.m. at Little Rome restaurant in Chatsworth. To find out more about the club, call Jan McNeill at (706) 695-4313.

• The Bandy Heritage Center exhibit “Deadly Skies: Georgians and the U.S. Army Air Force in World War II” continues at the center’s Old Freight Depot Gallery through May 31, 2016. The Gallery is at 305 S. Depot St. The exhibit is free and open to the public from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday.

Today

• An Affordable Care Act free enrollment event is from 9:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. at the Kroger at 1365 W. Walnut Ave. To pre-register, call (404) 291-5302. Qualifying clients will apply for, enroll in and review plans, or apply for an exemption that relieves them from paying a penalty for not having health insurance in 2016. Also, women ages 18 to 44 may apply for Planning 4 Healthy Babies provided they do not have health insurance. Applicants should bring an active email account and password; names, birthdays and Social Security number information; other health care insurance information; green card numbers; and tax returns and/or W2s for every family member needing coverage.

• Whitfield County commissioners are scheduled to vote on the 2016 budget at 6 p.m. in Administrative Building 2, 214 W. King St., just before the board’s regular joint meeting with the Dalton-Whitfield Planning Commission.

Tuesday and Wednesday, also Jan. 8

• The Creative Arts Guild and the Peruvian Medical Society host the exhibit “Capuli III, Vallejo and The World” at the Guild at 520 W. Waugh St. in Dalton. The exhibit includes poetry, painting and performing arts singing. Events begin at 4:45 p.m. on Tuesday and 9 a.m. on Wednesday. The event will continue on Friday, Jan. 8, from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. as part of the Guild’s First Friday exhibition. The exhibit is free and open to the public. For more information, call (706) 278-0168 or visit www.creativeartsguild.org.

Wednesday

• Dalton City Council members are expected to hold a vote on two tax allocation districts (TADs) and a TAD map at noon at City Hall.

Friday

• Fort Mountain’s 4th Annual Black Bear Plunge is at 11 a.m. Participants are asked to be at the Park Beach Pavilion between 10:15 and 10:30 a.m. to sign in. The deadline for pre-registering was Dec. 12. Call the park office for more information at (706) 422-1932.

Jan. 4

• The Dalton City Council meets at 6 p.m. at City Hall.

Jan. 8

• The Creative Arts Guild welcomes classical guitarist Jeff Bianchi at 7:30 p.m. at 520 W. Waugh St. in Dalton. Admission is $10. For more information, call (706) 278-0168 or visit www.creativeartsguild.org.

Jan. 9

• Whitfield County residents are invited to drop off live, natural Christmas trees and used electronic devices for recycling at the community’s annual Christmas Tree and Electronics Recycling event. Visitors will receive a packet of herb or vegetable seeds to plant at home or another promotional item as a thank you for participating. Keep Dalton-Whitfield Beautiful volunteers will be collecting live, natural, undecorated Christmas trees and electronic devices from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Home Depot parking lot at 875 Shugart Road in Dalton. There is no charge for dropping off live, natural Christmas tress. Trees must be free of ornaments, nails, hooks, wire, tinsel, lights and other decorations. Only natural, live, real trees will be accepted — no artificial trees, please. Trees will be recycled on site into mulch that will be used for beautification projects throughout Whitfield County. Please note that there is a $5 fee for CRT (cathode ray tube) television sets and computer monitors. However, other electronics can be dropped off for free.

Jan. 11-15

• The Dalton-Whitfield Senior Center hosts its annual “Family Quilt” exhibit from 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. each day. The event is free to attend and open to the public. Anyone who is 50 years and older that would like to share a family quilt or quilts and the story behind each quilt may call the Senior Center at (706) 278-3700 to register as an exhibitor.

Jan. 16

• The Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. dinner is at the Mack Gaston Community Center. The theme is “Invest In The Dream To Change The World.” Tickets are $25 and are available from planning committee members, at the community center and at Lisa’s Café and Catering at 410 S. Hamilton St.

Jan. 18

• The Humane Society of Northwest Georgia meets at 6 p.m. at the Wade Adoption Center, 1703 Cleveland Highway. The public is invited.

• Alumni of Murray County High School are invited to attend the meeting of the MCHS Alumni Association at the Historic Wright Hotel in Chatsworth beginning at 6:30 p.m. The group will be making plans for 2016, including the election of officers and the annual scholarship program. Membership in the alumni group is $10 per year. Dues can be sent to the MCHS Alumni Association, P.O. Box 2155, Chatsworth, GA 30705.

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