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Red River Baptist Association is offering disaster relief training, basic training for new volunteers and previously trained volunteers. The group has a need for radio/-communications/ham radio operator volunteers to join the disaster relief unit. Contact Harold Johnson at 246-5151 or Maurice Hitt at 246-9524 or 246-4543.

There will be a marriage conference at First Baptist Church in Prescott. The Intimate Life' conference will be held March 2 and 3. Conference leader is Ed Balducci from ABSC. For more information contact Pastor Jimmy Hull at 887-6696.

Red River Baptist Association will offer a literacy training workshop on March 31. The workshop includes English as a second language,' tutoring youth and children,' and adult reading and writing.' Call Margaret Gillaspie at 246-4224 for more information.

Black history celebration will be held at Eastern Star Baptist Church Sunday, Feb. 25, beginning at 2:30 p.m with guest church, Mt. Zion Baptist Church of Gurdon. Rev. Quinton Radford, pastor of Mt. Zion, will bring the message. All churches are invited to attend.

A celebration of the sixteenth pastoral anniversary of Rev. Johnny C. Harris and his family will be held Sunday, March 4, at 3:00 p.m at Mt. Canaan Baptist Church, 504 South 5th Street in Gurdon. Guest church will be Greater Pleasant Hill Baptist Church of Arkadelphia with pastor Rev. Lewis A. Shepherd Jr.

Pre-anniversary musical for Rev Harris and his family will be held Feb. 25 at 3:00 p.m at Mt. Canaan Baptist Church. The public and all churches are invited to attend.

Bethel A.M.E. Church is holding its spring musical March 17 at 7:00 p.m and wish to invite all churches to attend. The musical is sponsored by Sis. Bertha Vinson.

The eighth annual Sawmill Days Festival will take place Saturday, April 14, in downtown Sparkman. Crafters, vendors and entertainers are needed to make this year's event a success.

The Miss Sawmill Days Pageant will be held Saturday, March 24, and will take place in the Sparkman School cafeteria at 6 p.m.

For more information call 870-678-221 during the day or 870-678-9389 after 6 p.m.

The Red Springs Extension Homemakers Club meets every second Thursday of each month at the Gurdon Municipal building beginning at 10:00 a.m. Any interested person is welcome to attend.

The city of Gurdon reminds residents the storm sirens are tested every Wednesday at 12:00 noon. Sirens are not tested during inclement weather.

Gurdon Masonic Lodge 187 meets the first and third Tuesday of each month. All members are urged to attend.

Alcoholics Anonymous meets on Wednesdays and Sundays at 8:00 p.m. at the American Legion building, Highway 67 North, one mile out of Gurdon.

For more information, phone 353-4710.

Narcotics Anonymous meets in Gurdon every Fridays from 7:30 to 8:30 p.m. and Saturdays from 12:00 to 1:00 p.m. at First Presbyterian Church, 206 East Main. For more information, call 353-6714.