Around your town

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Around Your Town serves to inform readers of nonprofit events happening in our communities that are open to the public. Please send items to svhnews@transedge.com. Please try to submit your item two weeks in advance of the event.

Holiday events

There will be a food drive at Rendezvous Nightclub on Saturday night, starting at 7. Bring any nonperishable food item. All donations will be given to St. Vincent de Paul. Call Mark Scheibe at (602) 751-8092.

Christian Women of Sierra Vista will present their fourth annual Christmas Tea on Dec. 13, from 2 to 4 p.m., at Sierra Vista United Methodist Church, 3225 St. Andrews Drive. Tickets are $15. Call Sandra at 378-0797.

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“The Road to Guantanamo” will be presented Friday at 7 p.m. as part of the International Film Series at Central School Project, 43 Howell Ave. Call 432-4866 or e-mail info@centralschoolproject.org.

Cha-Ching, sponsored by the Kiwanis Club, will be held Friday from 6 to 10 p.m. at Turquoise Valley Golf and RV Park. A $30 ticket includes dinner, entertainment and a player’s package that will cover games of craps, blackjack, Texas hold ‘em, roulette and more. Proceeds will go toward the Kiwanis Club-sponsored Cub Scout Pack 401. Call Dave Cartun, 432-7766.

Sierra Vista

Sierra Vista Regional Health Center’s Wellness Depot and the American Lung Association will host free spirometry screenings today from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Mall at Sierra Vista. Also, a representative from the American Lung Association will present two informational talks on chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, at noon and 4 p.m. Call 459-8210.

The Thunder Mountain Republican Women’s Club will have a luncheon on Tuesday at the Pueblo del Sol Country Club, starting at 11 a.m. Bill Hess and Suzanne Cronn, journalists from the Herald/Review, will present a slideshow presentation about their monthlong trip in Iraq. For reservations, call Elizabeth at 803-9356 or Alice at 378-7017.

Cochise College will continue its annual Student Pottery Sale and Art Exhibition today at the Sierra Vista campus, in the library. The sale will run from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Proceeds will be split between the artist and a fund that supports the college’s Art Department. Contact richt@cochise.edu or 417-4025.

Toni Leiboff, a certified life success consultant with a master’s degree in counseling, will speak to the Coronado Chapter of the Military Officers Association of America on Thursday in the Thunder Mountain Activity Centre. The event starts at 6 p.m. Leiboff coaches individuals, businesses and groups on how to improve their relationships, enhance their working environments and increase their productivity through self-esteem and relationship building and increasing communication and leadership skills. Contact Helen Patterson at hdpatterson.2006@yahoo.com or 458-2032.

There will be a greyhound adoption day on Saturday, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., at Ramsey Canyon Feed and Pet on Highway 92 and Glenn Road. Call Dave at 378-1763 or visit azgreyhounds.com.

Huachuca Audubon Society will sponsor a field trip to Gray Hawk Nature Center on Saturday. Meet at 8 a.m. at the Nature Center, located at 3918 Gray Hawk Lane. Take Charleston Road east to Escapule. Turn right on Escapule and after less than a mile, turn left to the ranch. Families are welcome, and the herpetology building will be open. Call Sherry Cunningham, 378-2201.

The Cochise County Chapter of Compassion & Choices Arizona will meet at 11 a.m. Saturday in the Mona Bishop Room of the Sierra Vista Public Library. Elizabeth C. Smith, a Tucson attorney specializing in elder law, will speak about changes in the law with regard to asset protection as well as how guardianship and conservatorship work from the perspective of the “Alleged Incapacitated Person.” Call Billie at (877) 535-3600 or 803-9285, or visit choicesarizona.org.

The “famed, perhaps infamous” Basic Black Dress Skit will be performed by the Fort Huachuca Community Spouses’ Club Players today. The luncheon starts at 10:30 a.m. and will be held at Thunder Mountain Activity Centre. Several generations of Army wives have handed down the skit for more than 50 years. The cost is $12. To learn if reservations are still available, contact Kerri Hajjar at 378-0664 or fhcscreservations@yahoo.com.

A fitness and wellness seminar will be held today, from 9 to 11 a.m., in Our Lady of the Mountains church hall. Call Bobby Widhalm at 803-7788.

Dave Baker will make a presentation at 6:30 p.m. today in the Mona Bishop Room of the Sierra Vista Public Library about his hiking the 800-mile Arizona Trail last spring. Call Debra at the library at 458-4225.

The Huachuca Mineral & Gem Club will meet at 7 p.m. today at Room 304-305 at Cochise College. Anna Domitrovic, retired curator of the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum, will present “Wulfenite, a Distinguished Mineral.” The club will have a field trip on Saturday to Gold Gulch near Bisbee. Call Tom Rogers at 803-6547 about the trip.

Huachuca Toastmasters, a nonprofit educational group dedicated to helping its members improve their public speaking and leadership skills, will host an open house meeting at 11:30 a.m. on Thursday at the Education Center Annex A, Building 21114, at the corner of Christy Avenue and Adair on Fort Huachuca. Call Tiffani Steward at 417-9970 or visit huachuca.freetoasthost.org or toastmasters.org.

The Sierra Vista Area Gardeners Club will meet Thursday, from 1 to 4 p.m., at the Oscar Yrun Center. Meg Richard will present “How to make a Wreath.” Call 366-5447.

Until 12,000 years ago, when people came into the San Pedro Valley, megafauna such as mammoths, giant beaver, saber tooth tigers and camels lived in our region. Who were the Clovis people who lived here and hunted these animals? Learn more at a free program sponsored by SAVE, at 7 p.m. on Thursday, in Room 313 at Cochise College. Call 459-2555.

The 1200 Club, a local Republican organization, will meet at 6 p.m. on Friday at Pueblo del Sol Country Club. Sharon Giese, an Arizona state committeewoman, will analyze election results. Reservations must be made in advance by calling Barbara Kilness, 459-1715, or by sending your check with reservation request to 1200 Club, P.O. Box 832, Sierra Vista AZ 85636. The cost of the dinner is $20 per person if paid in advance.

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Ad Sales wrote on Nov 19, 2008 6:46 PM:

" Not bad mouthing anyone, just reading the editors headline: Around Your Town serves to inform readers of nonprofit events happening in our communities that are open to the public.
Get it? Non profit! "

Get Informed wrote on Nov 19, 2008 11:01 AM:

" This is to "Ad Sales," both Rendezvous and Nicks are in business to make a profit, that's the idea of a "business." If they can donate to charity to help the community, they should do it. More business' should follow their lead. Why would you bad-mouth a business for doing something for charity? "

Ad Sales wrote on Nov 19, 2008 6:22 AM:

" Non profit events my back end. The Rendezvous is a for profit place of bussiness and just because they are accepting food to give away, doesn't warrant free advertising in this forum. This is sinking to a new low. Nicks has bike nights every fourth Thursday of the month, and raise money for charity, but aren't given free ads in this forum.
EDITOR'S NOTE: The owner or manager of Nick's can provide information about any community fund-raiser to editor Keith Allen at keith.allen@svherald.com. "