Rock Hill Community Theater to stage 6 one-act comedies

The premier of “A Southern Girl’s Got to Have It,” written by Elaine Alexander will be performed 7 p.m. Thursday, 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday and 3 p.m. March 29 at the Rock Hill Community Theater, 546 S. Cherry Road. The show feature six zany one-act comedies with southern themes directed by Gaye Haid and Alexander. The comedies are “Orange Cat Fever,” “Let’s Mullet Over,” “Hard Copy,” Die Zombie Extra Die,” “There will be Fruitcake” and a monologue “Done with Duane.” Suitable for mature audiences. Tickets are $15, adults; $12 seniors ($2 discount for the matinee). Passes not valid.

Special events

▪ The Woman’s Club of Rock Hill Spring Luncheon and Garden Tour will be 11 a.m.-2 p.m. April 18 at the clubhouse, 607 Aiken Ave. Lunch includes a buffet of salads, sandwiches, homemade desserts and drinks. Tickets are $15 for adults and $7.50 for ages 10 and younger. For reservations, call 803-328-8888 and leave a message or email Peggy Enright at Enrightp63@gmail.com. Drop-ins welcome. Proceeds support the club’s community activities and upkeep of the house and gardens.

▪ Master’s Car Club will have its spring Show and Shine, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturday at Burns Chevrolet Cadillac, 2515 Cherry Road. Registration is free. There will be free hot dogs and drinks, door prizes, and 50 /50. For information, go to masterscarclub.com.

▪ Mystery at the 4 Deuces Casino will be 5-7 p.m. Thursday at Harbor Chase, 1611 Constitution Blvd., Rock Hill. There will be food and beverages for this 20s era night of mystery. RSVP to 803-981-6855 by Monday.

Fundraisers

▪ The National Honor Society chapter at Northwestern High School will host a yard sale 8 a.m.-noon April 11 at the school. Clothing, furniture, toys, household items and other goods will be sold. There also will be a bake sale and face painting. Proceeds will benefit the society’s scholarship.

▪ Kings Mountain Chapel United Methodist Church will host a barbecue 11 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturday at the church, 1130 Philbeck Road, York. Plates are $8. Dine-in or takeout.

▪ The 2015 Festival Golf Classic will be April 21 at Pinetuck Golf Club with a 12:30 p.m. shotgun start. Team entry is $240 and includes mulligans, on-course beverages and box lunch. Cash prize for hole-in-one, and awards for closest to the pin. Proceeds go to the Children’s Attention Home and the Palmetto School at the home. For information, call Jerry Couch at 803-329-1734 or Lewis Murray at 803-327-1141.

▪ Bethel United Methodist Church will host its soup kitchen at 11 a.m. Thursday at the church, 1232 Curtis St., Rock Hill. Open to the community. Donations accepted.

Entertainment

▪ Gene Barban, retired Winthrop University professor of music, will give a piano recital at 7:30 p.m. March 31 at Byrnes Auditorium. He will play Chopin and other selections. The concert is free and open to the public.

▪ Celebrating farm life in the 18th and 19th centuries, “Children’s Day on the Farm” will be 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday at Historic Brattonsville in McConnells. Activities include storytelling, candle-dipping, blacksmithing, and food preparations. The Friends of Historic Brattonsville will offer concessions. Admission: $8, adults; $6, seniors; $3, ages 4-17 and free, age 3 and younger and members.

Meetings

▪ The Rock Hill branch of the NAACP general meeting will be 9 a.m. Saturday at Bannon Hall across from St. Mary Catholic Church, 902 Crawford Road. For information, contact Sandra Oborokumo at 803-325-2855.

▪ The Lesslie Rural Fire Tax Board will meet at 7 p.m. Monday at Lesslie Fire Station, 3191 Lesslie Highway. Open to the public.

▪ Rock Hill for Peace, a local chapter of the Carolina Peace Resource Center, will host its inaugural meeting 7 p.m. Thursday in Room 107 at Grace Evangelical Lutheran Church, 426 Oakland Ave. The group will organize educational and advocacy efforts on peace, justice and environmental concerns. David Matos, president of the Carolina Peace Resource Center, will speak. For information, email Carolyn Ballard at writelady49@comporium.net.

▪ The York County Board of Disabilities and Special Needs will meet 7 p.m. Thursday at the Administration Building, 7900 Park Place Road in the East York Industrial Park, off S.C. 5. Open to the public.

▪ United States Submarine Veterans, Carolina Piedmont Base will meet 7 p.m. Saturday at Fort Mill VFW, 1442 Harris Road. Social and dinner at 5:30 p.m. For information, call John Wardean at 803-323-9130.

Clubs

▪ The Vintage Club dinner meeting will be 7 p.m. Wednesday in the Phil Glennon Community Center in Tega Cay. Cocktails begin at 6:15 p.m. Entertainment will be Francis Nazzaro’s tribute to Frank Sinatra. The club is open to residents of Tega Cay age 50 and older. For information, call Judie Fiegel at 803-547-6662 or jfiegel@comporium.net.

Library programs

▪ The York County Library will host the following programs:

Identity Theft Protection, 6:30-8 p.m. Thursday at the main library in Rock Hill (register at 803-981-5845) and 10-11:30 a.m. Friday at the Fort Mill library (register at 803-547-4114). Learn to protect yourself from identity theft, the fastest growing crime in the nation. Free workbooks will be provided for participants by Money Management International, a full-service, non-profit credit counseling agency.

Local author Jean C. Wheeler will read from her second book “Search for Reality” and discuss her year of training at Greystone Psychiatric Hospital and her work with psychotic patients, 10:30 a.m. Saturday at the main library, Rock Hill. Books will be for sale at the program and may be signed. Register at 803-981-5845 or go to www.yclibrary.org.

YMCA

▪ An Engineering for Kids class for ages 4-8 will be 4:15-5:15 p.m. Thursdays, April 9-30 at the Charlotte Avenue branch YMCA. The class will introduce students to the fundamental concepts of solids, liquids, and solutions. Participants will make their own samples of bubbles, play dough, and more. Cost is $50, members and $65 nonmembers. For information, email karenisaac@upymca.org.

Head Start

▪ Carolina Community Actions Head Start is accepting applications for children age 3-4 in York and Chester counties for the 2015-16 year. Head Start serves low-income families and children with disabilities. For information, call 803-366-5398.

Classes

▪ “I Am for the Child” – free child advocacy volunteer training – will be 8-9 p.m. Mondays and Thursday beginning March 30 at BTC Building, Suite 400, 454 S. Anderson Road, Rock Hill. Volunteer guardian ad litem training will be in May. For information on either program, contact Wendi Smith, county coordinator, at 803-327-9997 or email galyork@oepp.gov.

▪ Carolina Community Actions is accepting enrollment in the Workforce Investment Act (WIA) Program for 2015. Applicants must be ages 17-21 and meet the income guidelines to qualify. The program offers participants up to $5,000 in the following program services:

Assistance with obtaining a GED.

CNA training and assistance with tuition, books, uniform supplies and state exam fees.

Occupational training from a technical and occupational institution in the Tri-County.

Pharmacy tech internships.

Dental chairside assistant and office training.

Heavy equipment operator’s training.

Welding training.

Truck driving.

Incentives up to $300.

The program is paid for through the Catawba Regional Council of Government. CCA is a private, nonprofit corporation with a mission to promote self-reliance of low-income individuals and families by forming partnerships, which will provide a systematic reduction of the causes and conditions of poverty.

For information or to enroll, call Marilyn Burris, York County WIA case manager, at 803-366-5302, or Gwen Harris, Lancaster County WIA case manager, at 803-289-0904.

Tax help

▪ The Volunteer Income Tax Assistance Program will offer free tax-preparation assistance 9 a.m.-12:30 p.m. and 1:30-4:30 p.m. Mondays, Wednesdays and Thursdays through April 15 at the Rock Hill City Hall Wellness Center. Volunteers are IRS certified and trained by the S.C. and N.C. departments of revenue. Tax returns are electronically filed.

Bring current year’s tax forms, W-2 and 1099s, information regarding other income, information for all deductions and credits, a copy of last year’s tax return, proof of account for direct deposit of refund (e.g., voided check), Social Security or individual taxpayer identification cards, proof of identification.

▪ Free federal and state tax preparation for low- and moderate-income taxpayers and those 60 and older will be offered 12:30-3:30 p.m. Wednesdays and Thursdays through April 9 at the Adult Education Center at the Flexible Learning Center, 1234 Flint St. Ext., Rock Hill.

Bring a copy of last year’s tax return, Social Security card, picture identification and any W-2s, 1099s and other forms showing income or deductions. No appointment needed. Filings completed on a first-come basis.

▪ AARP Tax-Aide Program offers free federal and state income tax preparation 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesdays and Thursdays through April 14 at the Fort Mill branch of the York County Library in Baxter Village. Clients taken on first-come basis. Last client taken at 3:30 p.m. No age or income limit. Limited appointments can be scheduled at calendly.com/fortmilltaxes. Bring 2014 tax return, picture IDs, Social Security cards for all being claimed, 1099s, 1098s, 1095A forms, W-2s and any other proof of deductions or income. For information, email FortMillTaxes@gmail.com

Health

▪ Piedmont Medical Center will offer a free seminar on surgical weight loss on Tuesday. To register call 803-329-1234 ext. 2.

▪ North Central Family Medical Center, 1131 Saluda St., Rock Hill, will have special enrollment for the Affordable Care Act 9 a.m.-noon Friday and April 10 and 8:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. April 25.

▪ Early Learning Partnership’s free children’s clinic hours are 8:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m. Fridays in the Rock Hill Family Resource Center, 410 E. Black St. Children from birth to age 18 who do not have health insurance can see a doctor or nurse practitioner. Services include sick visits, immunizations and sports and school physicals. For appointments, call 803-322-6636. Other clinics are held Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday in York, Fort Mill and Clover. York County children may attend any of the four clinics.

Volunteers

▪ The nonprofit Friends of the York County Animal Shelter needs volunteers to help bathe, groom, exercise, socialize, train and provide adoption information for the animals, as well as assist in follow-ups, publicity, marketing and fulfilling other jobs at the shelter. Time and mileage may be tax deductible. Volunteers must be 18 or older; orientation and training are required. For information, call 803-818-6485 or go to the shelter at 713 Justice Blvd., York.

Reunions

▪ The 50th reunion of the Rock Hill High School class of 1965 will be April 17 with a get-together at the Come See Me Beach Bash downtown and on April 18 at the Rock Hill Country Club with dinner and dancing. For information email lindasjordan@comporium.net.

▪ The Rock Hill High School class of 1954 will meet at 1 p.m. Thursday at Golden Corral, Anderson Road. Members, friends and relatives invited.

▪ Rock Hill High School class of 1960 will host its 55th reunion 3-8 p.m. May 23 at Elks Park with a catered dinner. Reservations are due May 1. For information, call 803-324-9982.

Support groups

▪ The Rock Hill Chapter of Mended Hearts will meet 6:30 p.m. Tuesday at Piedmont Medical Center. Park in the Heart Center parking lot. For information, call Joe Ogrinc at 803-627-9246.

▪ Grief Share, a group open to all who are grieving the loss of a loved one, will meet 6:30-8:30 p.m. Thursdays through May 28 at the family life center at Grace Nazarene Church, 1029 Mount Gallant Road, a block from Cherry Road. For information, call Bill at 803-517-6177 or email wmstroud@comporium.net

▪ Alateen meets 8-9 p.m. Thursdays at Zoar Road Club, 14701 Thomas Road, Charlotte. Meetings are for two age groups: 6-12 and 13 and older. For information, call 803-547-2124 or 704-904-7834.

▪ Al-Anon meets at 8 p.m. Mondays and Thursdays at Serenity Club, 209 Grayson Road, Rock Hill; at noon Tuesdays upstairs at Oakland Avenue Presbyterian Church, 421 Oakland Ave., Rock Hill; at 8 p.m. Mondays at Grace Presbyterian Church, 2955 S.C. 160, Fort Mill; and at 8 p.m. Tuesdays in the house beside First Baptist Church, 121 Monroe White St., Fort Mill.

This story was originally published March 21, 2015 at 2:23 PM with the headline "Rock Hill Community Theater to stage 6 one-act comedies."