Etowah Arts Commission: Meets on the third Tuesday of each month. Call Charles Munn at 263-7608.

Quarterly Area Lodge Social: All area lodges will have their quarterly social dinner on the fifth Monday of the month at 7 p.m. Bring a covered dish. All lodge members, their families and the public are invited. For place of social, call Walter Rackley at 887-7768.

Athens Goodtimers: will be teaching square dance classes for beginners every Thursday from 6:45-8 p.m. Sept-May. Line Dancing classes are taught June-August every Thursday from 6:45-8 p.m. All classes are at the McMinn Senior Activity Center in Athens. For more info., call Anita at 744-9113 or Katherine at 745-1117.

Athens Area Community Chorus: Meets every Monday from 7 to 9 p.m. at the Sherman Fine Arts Bldg. at TWC, except for the summer months and Dec. and Jan. Darnell Chance is the director. For more info. call 745-8306.

FOOD: Meets the first Tuesday of every month at the Keith United Methodist Church at 7 p.m. For more info., call Haroldean Thompson at 263-2133.

Athens Community Band: Practice every Tuesday from 7-8:30 p.m. in the MCHS band room. For information call Pam Clark at 745-1861.

Pendulum of McMinn County evening group: meets 7 p.m. on the first and third Thursday at Dakota Place, Athens Hiwassee House. Support group for those with depression and other affective disorders. For information call 744-8174, or Verdine at 745-4796.

American Business Women’s Association (ABWA): Meets the second Monday of each month at 6:30 p.m. at Western Sizzlin’ Steak House. For more information call Vicki Boyd at 744-7006.

AARP: Meets the last Thursday of the month except for November and December at 2 p.m. at the McMinn Senior Activities Center. For info. call Rex Moses at 744-7545.

Lunch and Learn Group: meets at noon in the East Wing 3 Conference Room at Erlanger’s Regional Cancer Center on the first and third Wednesday of every month. For more infor., call 778-7623.

Southeast Tennessee Tolers: a forming chapter of the National Society of Decorative Painters, meet at 6:30 the first Tueday night of each month at St. Therese Catholic Church, 900 Clingan Ridge Road, Cleveland. Contact Frankie Conar at 423-479-4817 or Audrie Walden at 423-568-2968.

Meigs County Republican Party: 7 p.m. Tuesday at the Meigs County Courthouse.

Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR): Alexander Keith Chapter, will meet on the second Saturday of each month at the Soup Kitchen at noon. For more info., call 745-5648. Farm Bureau Women: 2 p.m. Saturday at the Farm Bureau Building.

Mothers of Preschoolers (MOPS): Meetings are the first Tuesday of each month at East Athens Baptist Church, Athens, from 9:30 a.m. until noon. Charge is $4 per meeting. The group meets Sept.-May. Call 745-1394 for more information.

McMinn Central Band Boosters: Meetings are the first Thursday of each month at 6:30 p.m. at the school.

McMinn County Historical Society: meet at 2 p.m. the first Sunday of the month in the Blue Room of the McMinn County Courthouse from Oct-May. For more info., call Rex Moses at 744-7545.

Friends of the Library Book Discussion Group: Meets at noon on the third Tuesday of every month at E.G. Fisher Public Library.

Company A 402nd M.P. Battallion: 7 p.m. the third Monday each month at National Guard Armory in Athens.

Athens Products Retirees: will meet at Western Sizzlin’ at 1:30 p.m. on the second Thursday of each month.

Friends of the Library: Meet at noon on the third Thursday of the month at E.G. Fisher Public Library. Contact Teresa Anderson at 745-8332 or Beth Mercer at 745-7782 for more info.

McMinn County Democratic Women: 6 p.m. the second Thursday of each month at the Gondolier Restaurant for a “treat yourself ” dinner with the meeting at 7 p.m. New members are welcome.

Athens Area Ostomy Chapter: Meets on the first Thursday of every month at 7 p.m. in the Physicians Dining Room at Columbia Athens Regional Medical Center. Call Pris Cornwall for more information at 744-3249.

Lady Elks: meet the first Thursday of every month at 7:30 p.m. at the Elks Lodge.

May 3, at 6:30 p.m. Dinner and Speaker, Chie Nara.

TOPS (Take Off Pounds Sensibly) :Meets at 5:15 p.m. every Thursday at E.G. Fisher Public Library. For info 336-6913.

Community Artist League: Meets at 6:30 p.m. the first Monday each month at E.G. Fisher Library. First time visitors are welcome.

Amvets Post 100: County Road 813, Goodsprings Community: Meet the first Sunday of the month at 7 p.m. Call 263-3249 for more information.

Etowah Masonic Lodge 653 F&AM: Meets the first and third Monday of each month at 7 p.m. at the lodge on 9th Street, Etowah. Practice each Tuesday at 7 p.m.

Etowah VFW Post No. 8484: holds their monthly meeting on the second Monday of every month at 5 p.m. at the Senior Center in Etowah. All members are invited to attend.

Thomas A. Hamilton Masonic Lodge No. 317: hold their business meetings on the second Monday of every month at 7 p.m. at the lodge.

All meetings are now at TWC. The first Tuesday of each month at noon and the third Wednesday of each month at 6PM. They are all at TWC Cafeteria.

Friendship and Biblical discussions for women,To stengthen and incourage. The last Monday of the month at 7pm

The McMinn Branch NAACP regularly monthly meeting is held on the Second Saturday of each month at 6:30 p.m. The meetings are held in the Boaz Lodge located on Howard Street in Athens.