COMMUNITY CALENDAR

CHARITY GAME: The Forrest City School District will host a charity basketball game featuring district staff against St. Francis County first responders on Friday, May 21, at 1 p.m., in the Forrest City Junior High School gymnasium. Tickets are $1 or a donation of a canned good. All proceeds will benefit the St. Francis County Food Pantry.

INDIGENT CARE: The St. Francis County Indigent Care Board is scheduled to meet at 11 a.m., Wednesday, May 26, in the board room at Forrest City Medical Center.

NARCOTICS ANONYMOUS: Narcotics Anonymous meetings are held each Wednesday, at 7 p.m., at the Good Shepherd Episcopal Church, located at 400 Hill Street in Forrest City.

RECOVERY SUPPORT: Celebrate Recovery meets at 7 p.m., each Friday at the First Church of the Nazarene at 132 McCutchen St., in Forrest City. Anyone having problems with addictions, habits or hangups is welcome to join. For more information, contact pastor Lynn Hickman at 501-831-6353.

LIBRARY: The Forrest City Public Library is open Monday through Thursday, from 9 a.m. until 4 p.m., and on Friday from 9 a.m. until 3 p.m. Masks are required. No one under 16 will be admitted at this time. Half of the computers will be available for one hour per person per day. Visitors may browse the stacks to look for books or movies, but are required to remain six feet apart.

LITERACY PROJECT: The Eastern Arkansas Literacy Project is offering basic instruction to adults 18 years and older for reading, writing, basic math, computers, financial literacy and English as a second language. All services are free and confidential. For more information, call 870633-4480 ext. 310.

FREE WOMEN’S CLOTHING: Spring Creek Community Baptist Church is giving away free women’s clothing. For more information, call at 870-494-6962.

QUILTERS: The Caring Touch Quilters meet each second and fourth Tuesday in September through May at the First Baptist Church gym at 10 a.m. The group also teaches quilting. For more information, call 633-5837.

FREE MULCH: Free mulch is available on the first Saturday of each month at the Forrest City landfill from 8 a.m. until noon.

TABITHA’S CLOSET: Tabitha’s Clothes Closet at Oak Hill Church of God in Forrest City will be open the first Saturday of every month from 10 a.m. to noon. For more information, call 870-6337331.

WOMEN’S CLOTHES: The clothes closet, sponsored by Women in Transition to Glory Services Inc., is open on the fourth Saturday of each month from 2 to 3 p.m., at 407 Cleveland Street in Forrest City. Clothes are available specifically for women. For more information, email inquiries to women@witginc.com.

FORREST HILLS WATCH: The Forrest Hills neighborhood wants to organize a Neighborhood Watch program in partnership with the Forrest City Police Department. Those who are interested are asked to call Pastor Moses Green at 870-514-1304 or 630-9055.

LEASHES NEEDED: Forrest City Area Humane Society is in need of clamp leashes and collars, to make a donation, drop off at the Times-Herald.

CEMETERY MAINTENANCE: Volunteers and donors are being sought for the maintenance and renovation of the Forrest City Cemetery on Fletcher Road. Any check or money order donations can be made out to the Forrest City Cemetery and sent to P.O. Box 2234, Forrest City, AR 72336.