Current events

Booster club meets

The Greenbrier High School Athletic Booster Club will meet at 7 p.m. Monday in the media center.

Hardy meeting

The Oliver Hardy Committee will hold a planning meeting for the upcoming festival. The meeting will be at 6 p.m. Tuesday at the Laurel and Hardy Museum 50 N. Louisville St., Harlem.

For more information, call 556-3448.

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Optimist Club contest

The Optimist Club of Martinez-Evans is holding a contest designed for young people deaf or hard of hearing to present thoughts in a public forum on "United We Stand in Opinion."

The contest is open to young people through 12th grade who are recognized by the school as deaf or hard of hearing. The winner will receive a $1,500 college scholarship.

The registration deadline is Friday. For more information, call Gloria Tanksley at 306-2246.

Fifth grade salutes MLK

The fifth-grade class of Brookwood Elementary School will perform a tribute titled "I Remember Martin Luther King Jr." at 1:45, 2:30 and 7 p.m. Monday.A tour will be at 10 a.m. Wednesday.

For more information, call Johnny Carr, music specialist, at jcarr@ccboe.net or 855-7596 extension 217.

Dinner performance

Stage III, Columbia County's community theater, will perform a dinner presentation of The Dinner Party by Neil Simon on Jan. 16-19 at the Jewish Community Center.

Tickets to the evening performances cost $25 and the Sunday matinee costs $15 per person. For reservations please call the community center at 228-3636.

Day school

Columbia County Christian Academy has spaces available for Pre-K through sixth grade. Classroom size is small and A Beka Curriculum is taught. Registration for fall classes will begin in February.

For more information, call Linda Powers at 863-0535.

Blue Ridge school council sets meeting schedule

The Blue Ridge Elementary School Council will hold meetings at 7:30 a.m. in the conference room of the school's media center, 550 Blue Ridge Drive, Evans, on the following Tuesdays: Jan. 14; Feb. 18; March 18; April 15; and May 20.