Events

Saturday

Local growers sell produce, cheeses, baked goods, plants and other locally made items at Market on Main from 8 to 10 a.m. in the parking lot behind Carmike Theater. Troup County extension agents Celeste Garrett and Randy Drinkard will be at the market to answer questions about food preservation, canning, gardening and summer horticulture.

Local vendors sell homegrown and homemade foods and products at Glass Bridge Road Farmer’s Market from 8 to 10 a.m. at the pavilion across from Loyd Presbyterian Church, 550 Upper Glass Bridge Road.

Safe Haven Animal Rescue will hold a yard sale at the intersection of Roanoke and Fling roads from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Proceeds will go to spay and neuter local felines under the trap/neuter/release program. This is a program designed to control cat populations. Annice Whatley, 706-882-5311

Children’s Miracle Network hosts Kids Day at Walmart, 803 New Franklin Road, at 10 a.m. with vendors, rides and activities at 10 a.m. All proceeds go toward Children’s Miracle Network.

Los Nopales will sell T-shirts and have representatives on hand all day to answer questions about the Hope for a Day breast cancer walk, and sign up walkers and crew members for this year’s event on Sept. 29. The restaurant will donate a portion of all sales to Hope for a Day.

Kimberly-Clark hosts its fourth annual motorcycle ride and poker run to benefit United Way of West Georgia beginning at Kimberly-Clark Corp., 1300 Orchard Hill Road. Cost is $20 per bike and $5 for riders. A barbecue lunch is included and door prizes will be drawn at the end of the ride. Highest poker hand wins $100 gift card. To register, contact Wade O’Neal at 706-883-3254 or Donna Franklin at 706-883-3334 or at dfrankli@kcc.com.

Monday

Free, confidential HIV testing is available starting at 4 p.m. at Pathways at 122 Gordon Commercial Drive. Must be at least 18. 706-845-4054

Tuesday

American Red Cross hosts a babysitter’s training class from 9:15 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. at the American Red Cross office at 900 Dallis St. The class is for 11 to 15 year olds and will include basic childcare, first aid, injury prevention and decision making. Cost is $70 and includes lunch. To register, call Joanne Lynch at 404-597-7260.

The Interfaith Food Closet at 416 Pierce St. in LaGrange is open from 1 to 2:45 p.m. to help people in need of food. 706-882-9291

The opening reception for The exhibit “Bubbling Up Business: Bottling Industry of Troup County and runs at Legacy Museum on Main from 5 to 6:30 p.m. 706-884-1828.

Wednesday

LaGrange Memorial Library at 115 Alford St. hosts the Summer Reading Program at 2 p.m. The event is free. This week’s program is “Dream Your Dream by Reading” with Cliff Patton, ventriloquist and magician.

Thursday

Story Hour featuring stories, fingerplays, songs and rhymes for preschoolers and their escorts is at 10:30 a.m. at Hawkes Library in West Point.

The Interfaith Food Closet at 416 Pierce St. in LaGrange is open from 1 to 2:45 p.m. to help people in need of food. 706-882-9291

Beginner ballroom dance lessons for all ages are given from 7:30 to 8:30 p.m. at the Active Life center on Ragland Street. 706-884-5857

Friday

Vendors sell fresh produce, cheeses, honey, boiled peanuts and other items at Callaway Gardens Farmer’s Market from 4 to 7 p.m. at the Gardens’ Robin Lake Beach in Pine Mountain. Admission is free to the market through the beach entrance.

A senior dance is at 7 p.m. at the old Franklin Elementary School gym with a live band. Admission is $4.

June 16

Local growers sell produce, cheeses, baked goods, plants and other locally made items at Market on Main from 8 to 10 a.m. in the parking lot behind Carmike Theater.

Teaver Road Baptist Church youth is selling plates from Huckleberry’s Barbecue from 10:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. in the Walmart parking lot. Chicken plates are $8 and a slab of ribs is $17. Sandy Brown, 706-882-5774

LaGrange Art Museum holds Family Super Saturday with free tours at the museum and art activities at the Center for Creative Learning from 1 to 4 p.m.

June 16, June 17

Pine Mountain Resort, 8804 Hamilton Rd. in Pine Mountain, hosts the Cruisin’ Cars on the Mountain rally. Day passes are $5 per adult and $3 per child. Guests do not have to be staying at the resort to come. There is live music, food, vendors, car show, door prizes and raffles. A portion of the funds raised from raffle tickets and entrance fees are donated to the Our Fallen Soldier organization. www.pinemountain.rvcoutdoors.com or 706-663-4329

Meetings

Saturday

The National Alliance on Mental Illness Family meets at 10:30 a.m. at First Presbyterian Church, 120 Broad St., in LaGrange with a session for those diagnosed with mental illness and a session for family members, both led by trained facilitators. 706-594-4714

Sunday

Alpha Xi chapter of Omega Psi Phi fraternity meets at 5 p.m. at the 100 Black Men of West Georgia Resource Center on Union Street.

Monday

The Experimental Aircraft Organization meets at 6:30 a.m. at LaGrange-Callaway Airport.

The Troup County Commission meets for a work session at 9 a.m. on the third floor of the Troup County Government Center.

The Troup County Republican Women host a luncheon and meet the candidates at 11:45 a.m. at Highland Country Club. Reservations are required by calling 706-884-3039. Lunch is $11.

The Troup County Airport Authority holds its regular meeting at noon in the board room of the LaGrange-Callaway Airport at 200 Airport Parkway.

Downtown LaGrange Development Authority Business and Economic Development meets at 2 p.m. at the LaGrange-Troup County Chamber of Commerce.

The Democratic Women of West Georgia meet from 6 to 7:30 p.m. at LaGrange Memorial Library, 115 Alford St. with special speaker Gail Buckner. June Hogan, 706-637-8055

West Point City Council meets at 6 p.m. at City Hall.

West Georgia Flyers Club meets at 6:30 p.m. All cyclists may attend. Vicki Shaddix, http://www.westgeorgiaflyers.org/contactus.html

The Troup County branch of the NAACP holds a general membership meeting at 7 p.m. at the William Griggs Recreational Center.

Boy Scout Troop 10 meets at 7 p.m. in the Troup County Sportsman Building on Roanoke Road.

Tuesday

The Troup County Commission holds a public hearing on its proposed fiscal year 2012-2013 budget during its regular meeting at 9 a.m. in the first-floor commission meeting room in the Troup County Government Center at 100 Ridley Ave.

Grandparents Raising Grandchildren meets from 10 a.m. to noon at the Mike Daniel Recreation Center at 1220 Parkway.

Salvation Army Home League meets at noon at 806 Murphy Ave.

The LaGrange Newcomers Club Luncheon is 1 p.m. at Longhorn Restaurant on Lafayette Pkwy.

The Downtown LaGrange Development Authority meets at 2 p.m. at the LaGrange-Troup County Chamber of Commerce.

The LaGrange Housing Authority Board of Commissioners meets at 4 p.m. at 201 Chatham St.

LaGrange City Council meets at 5:30 p.m. in the council chamber at 208 Ridley Ave.

The LaGrange Symphony Orchestra Board meets at 5:30 p.m. in classroom A in the Callaway Education Building at LaGrange College.

Grief Share, a support group for people grieving the loss of someone close, meets at 7 p.m. at Cedarcrest Community Church at 2380 Roanoke Road. 706-882-6327

The LaGrange Shufflers meet at the Active Life center at 140 Ragland St. for regular square dance from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. 706-812-8840

Wednesday

The finance committee of the Troup County Airport Authority meets at 10 a.m. in the board room of the LaGrange-Callaway Airport at 200 Airport Parkway.

A bereavement support group meets 11 a.m. at Hospice LaGrange.

Thursday

The LaGrange Woman’s Club meets at Bellevue at 204 Ben Hill St. Social hour is at 11 a.m., and the meeting is at noon.

The LaGrange Area Safety Association meets at 11:30 a.m. at Ryan’s Steak House at 1509 Lafayette Parkway.

The Kiwanis Club of LaGrange meets at noon at Highland Country Club.

The Troup-Harris Regional Library board of trustees meets at noon at LaGrange Memorial Library.

Rehearsals for the LaGrange Civic Chorale are from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. in the Troup High School chorus room. choralsociety@charter.net, 706-882-2734

Troup County Master Gardeners meet at 7 p.m. at the Troup County Agriculture Building on Vulcan Road.

LaGrange chapter No. 474 Order of the Eastern Star meets at 7:30 p.m. at the Lodge Hall on Watson and Brown streets.

Churches

Saturday

Powell Chapel United Methodist Church hosts a free Juneteenth Communtiy Festival from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. at Goodsell United Methodist Church, 1007 N. Sixth Ave. in Lanett, Ala.

True Life Christian Ministries, 500 S. Lee St., hosts a fellowship brunch for parents at 10:30 a.m. Sylvia Cameron, 706-402-6670; Delois Leslie, 706-402-3040 or Tamikea Gunn, 706-416-6222

Springfield Baptist Church, 400 Poplar St. in Hogansville, hosts Divine Ministries International Ministries Inc.’s consecration of Cleavon Meabon III to bishop at noon. 770-670-3730

Trinity SDA Church Prayer and Bible Study Center at 710 Jenkins St. holds a free Bible study from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m. Pastor Walter Gordon, 706-812-0760

Sunday

New Macedonia Missionary Baptist Church, 111 Johnson St., celebrates the Rev. Jerome Shipman’s 16th anniversary. The Rev. Ryan Whitfield is speaker for 10:30 a.m service and the Rev. Anthony Shealey and members of Mount Zion Missionary Baptist Church in Loachapoka, Ala., are guests at 2:30 p.m.

Stovall Baptist Church in Greenville hosts its homecoming with a 10:30 a.m. singing and 11 a.m. service.

Burks Chapel United Methodist Church observes Family and Friends Day at 11 a.m. The Rev. Alphonso Smith will preach and teach.

Branch Hebron Baptist Church in Greenville host a men’s day program with guest speaker former commissioner of the Department of Labor Michael Thurmond at 10:45 a.m.

Louise United Methodist Church, 1189 Hines Road, celebrates Family and Friends Day at 11 a.m. Althea, 706-402-4924

Warren Temple United Methodist Church, 416 E. Depot St., celebrates its annual Men’s Day at 11 a.m. Guest speaker is the Rev. Quincy Brown, vice president for spiritual life and church relations at LaGrange College. George Baker, 706-333-1982

Mount Pleasant C.M.E Church in the Mountville community celebrates its new Men and Women’s Day anniversary at 2 p.m. The Rev. Ervin Smith is guest speaker. Dinner will be served. Rosa Whitehead, 706-302-0497

Bethlehem Baptist Church in the Saint Marks Community celebrates its church anniversary at 2 p.m. The speaker is the Rev. Yolanda Jones Colton of White Plain United Methodist Church. The Rev. Willie Joe Cameron Sr., 706-845-6758

Rising Grove Baptist Church celebrates its 134th church anniversary at 2:30 p.m. The Rev. Sherry Austin, pastor of Warren Temple UMC will be guest speaker. Dinner will be served.

Valley Grove Missionary Baptist Church, 126 Grady St., observes its annual homecoming at 2:30 p.m. Guest speaker is bishop China Evans and members of the Straight Street House of Prayer of Forsyth.

Leete Hill United Methodist Church hosts a pastor anniversary at 2:30 p.m. with geust speaker the Rev. Marlon Simpson of Clark Chapel United Methodist Church.

Sunday-Wednesday

Callaway Baptist Church, 310 John Lovelace Road, hosts Amazing Wonders Aviation Vacation Bible School from 6 to 8:30 p.m. Classes are provided for ages 3 years to adults.

Anointed by Faith Ministries holds 5 Fold Ministry conference with classes at 6 p.m. and service at 7 p.m. Speakers include apostle Melvin Cartwrighter, David Core, pastor Tifton Dobbs, bishop Tyear McCrary and apostle Dexter Trammell.

Monday-Friday

Mount Zion Community Church, 9703 Highway 34 West in Franklin, offers vacation Bible school starting at 6 p.m. Anyone who needs a ride was asked to call deacon Tyrone Wilkerson, 706-675-3713. mountzionfranklin.com

Faith Temple Church of Deliverance, 221, Edgewood Ave., hosts vacation Bible school nightly at 6 p.m.

Monday-Wednesday

Stovall Baptist Church in Greenville hosts revival services at 7 p.m. nightly with the Rev. S. T. Janney as speaker. A Wednesday fellowship is 5:30 p.m.

Tuesday-Thursday

Valley Grove Missionary Baptist Church, 126 Grady St., holds its annual revival at 7 p.m. nightly. Guest speaker is the Rev. Jeff McCauley of Mount Olive Baptist Church in Smiths Station, Ala.

Wednesday

Trinity SDA Church Prayer and Bible Study Center at 710 Jenkins St. holds community prayer and Bible study at 7 p.m. Pastor Walter Gordon, 706-812-0760

Hogansville Church of Christ, 4885 Mountville Road, holds a study on the book of Revelation at 7 p.m. with speaker J. Robert Brooks. 706-637-6476

St. Paul CME Church, 250 Lower Glass Bridge Road, hosts Bible study at 7 p.m.

Thursday

Celebrate Recovery, a faith-based recovery program, meets at 6 p.m. with a fellowship meal and worship at the welcome center of First Baptist Church on Church Street. 706-884-5631

Immanuel Ministries and Worship Center at 75 Patillo Road holds Bible study at 6:30 p.m.

True Life Christian Ministries, 500 S. Lee St., hosts Bible study at 7:30 p.m. for adults and youth.

Friday

True Life Christian Ministries, 500 S. Lee St., hosts movie night from 7 to 9 p.m. Sylvia Cameron, 706-402-6670

June 16

Trinity SDA Church Prayer and Bible Study Center at 710 Jenkins St. holds a free Bible study from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m. Pastor Walter Gordon, 706-812-0760

Faith Temple Church of Deliverance, 221 Edgewood Ave., celebrates Father’s Day at 5:30 p.m. The Rev. William Craig Thornton, pastor of Mount Beulah Baptist Church is guest speaker.