Current Events

CERT class

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Sunday is the deadline for applications for the next class of the Community Emergency Response Team, which starts Aug. 16. For information, e-mail emer gencymanagement@ columbiacountyga.gov.

Blood drive

Columbia County Emergency Management and Shepeard Community Blood Center will hold a Save Our Summer blood drive from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. today at the Government Center Auditorium in Evans and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Roads and Bridges Department in Appling.

GOP breakfast

The Columbia County Republican Party will hold its monthlybreakfast meeting at 8:45 a.m. Saturday at Fatz Cafe in Evans. The party also will hold a committee meeting at 7 p.m. Tuesday. For information, go to www.columbiacounty republicanparty.org.

Shred day

Keep Columbia County Beautiful will offer free on-site shredding of residential papers from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday at the Columbia County Recycling Center, 424 Chamblin Road, Grovetown. Call (706) 312-7195.

Revivals

Musician David Crain will lead revival services starting at 11 a.m. Sunday at Bethesda Baptist Church, 5793 Old Augusta Highway, Harlem, and continuing nightly at 7 p.m. Sunday through July 28. Call (706) 556-6818.

The Rev. Darrell E. Hall, of Elizabeth Baptist Church in Atlanta, will lead the Back to School Revival Monday-July 28 at 7 p.m. at Gospel Water Branch Baptist Church, 703 Furys Ferry Road, Evans, with school supplies given to elementary, middle and high-school students July 28. Call (706) 860-7091.

Fire meeting

The annual meeting of the Martinez Volunteer Fire Department Inc., dba Martinez-Columbia Fire Rescue, will be held at Fire Department Headquarters, 3910 Desoto Drive, Martinez, at 7 p.m. Monday. Residents in the Martinez-Columbia Fire Rescue District are urged to attend.

Bible school

Marvin United Methodist Church, on Wheeler Road at South Belair Road, will hold vacation Bible school 5:30-8:30 p.m. Monday-July 30. Call (706) 863-0510, or go to www.marvinchurch.com.