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THURSDAYS

The Levitt AMP Middlesboro Music Series will be held at the downtown Middlesboro Levitt Lot each Thursday at 6:30 p.m. through Sept. 19. Experience free, live music with this lineup of impressive artists: Aug. 22; Larkin Poe, Aug. 29;Southern Avenue, Sept. 5; Sister Sadie, Sept. 12; Mike Farris & the Fortunate Few, Sept. 19. The public is invited to bring blankets and lawn chairs to the concerts, which will have an open lawn setting. There will be food trucks and vendors on site. Admission is free. Visit concerts.levittamp.org/middlesboro for a full schedule of concerts, directions and information on parking and wheelchair accessibility.

SUNDAYS

MEN’S BIBLE STUDY – The kickoff for the Men’s Bible Study, “Grounded In Prayer”, will began Sunday, August 18 at at 1:30 p.m. at First Christian Church Middlesboro. (Fellowship Hall – side entrance) This six-week Bible Study will deepen your prayer life and strengthen your daily discipline of prayer and reading the Bible. Please join us! For more information please contact Tracey at the church office at 606-248-2517 or by email at fccmky@setel.com

AUG. 18-25

Rose Hill Pentecostal Church will be holding their homecoming Aug. 18-25. The schedule is as follows: Sunday, Aug. 18 at 6 p.m. – Willie Barker; Monday, Aug. 19 at 7 p.m. – Jimmy Ewing; Tuesday, Aug. 20 at 7 p.m. – Josh Bowman; Wednesday, Aug. 21 at 7 p.m. – John Britton; Thursday, Aug. 22 at 7 p.m. – Lonnie Lyke; Friday, Aug. 23 at 7 p.m. – John Carter; Saturday, Aug. 24 at 7 p.m. – David Jones; Sunday, Aug. 25 at 11 a.m. – Charlie Napier. Come expecting a great time in the Lord. The church is located at 681 Highpoint Road, Rose Hill, Va., 24281.

AUG. 19-23

New Beginning Baptist Church will be in revival beginning Monday, August 19th through Friday, August 23rd, at 7pm each night. Rev. Tim Inklebarger, Pastor of Bethel Baptist Church in Corryton, will be preaching. Please join us for revival services and bring a friend with you! The church is located at 2305 Highway 63 in Cumberland Gap, about 4-1/2 miles west of Highway 25E in Harrogate. If you’d like more information, please call the church at 423-869-7378 or visit our website at nbbctn.com.

AUG. 24

Martin’s Station Masonic Lodge #188 located on Dr. Thomas Walker Road 1 mile west of Rose Hill will have a free community soup bean dinner at the Lodge Hall on Saturday August 24 from 4pm to 6:30 pm. Menu will include Soup Beans, Kraut & Weiners, Ham and Potatoes, Slaw, Cornbread, desserts, drinks and other items. The public is invited.

The Union Grade, Bean Fork, Bosworth, Edgewood, Yellow Creek School Reunion will be on Aug. 24 at the Middlesboro Community Center on 30th Street from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Everyone please bring a cover dish. Hope to see you there. For information, call 423-489-1697.

AUG. 27

The League of Women Voters will sponsor a town hall meeting on the local drug epidemic at 7 p.m. at the First Christian Church in Middlesboro. Guests will be Bell County Sheriff Mitch Williams, Pineville Chief of Police Kyle Dunn and Middlesboro Chief of Police Tom Busic. The audience will be encouraged to ask questions and make comments. We need everyone to work together to address this serious problem.

The Bell-Whitley CAA, Inc., Board of Directors meeting will be held on Tuesday, August 27th 2019. The meeting will be held at the Whitley County Health Department in Williamsburg, KY and will be called to order at 11:00 a.m. If you have any questions feel free to contact Kayleigh Straup or Sandy Hoskins at 606-337-3044 or 606-549-3933.

AUG. 30

The Bell County Cooperative Extension Office and Bell County Farm Bureau will be hosting the annual Bell County Agriculture Farm Field Day on Friday, August 30th at 9:00 am at the Bell County Fairgrounds. Come see the demonstrations and exhibitors. We will have activities for the kids and lunch will be served. For more information call the Extension Office at 337-2376.

AUG. 31

The Henderson Settlement High School Class Reunion will take place on Saturday, Aug. 31 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Frakes School Center gym in Frakes. The event is open to all former students, facility and anyone wanting to attend. Bring food and drinks to share. All paper products provided. You donations make this yearly event possible. All donations greatly appreciated. For more information, please contact Linda Gail Hurst at 606-337-3760.

Family Reunion: Descendants of Robert and Hattie Arthur Long, Saturday August 31, 2019 at 12:00 Noon. Trinity Tabernacle Fellowship Hall, Ewing, VA. Please attend and bring a covered dish. For more information, please call 276 445 4290.

MONDAYS

The ICE House Entrepreneurship Program will be holding events each Monday in September with the exception of Labor Day. The event will be held at the SKCTC Middlesboro Campus, Education Alliance Center, Community Education Room 106. Dates for the event is as follows: Aug. 26, Sept. 3, Sept. 9 and Sept. 23 from 5:30 p.m. to 7 p.m. The program enables participants to learn directly from the firsthand experience of real-world entrepreneurs who share their knowledge and experience throughout the course.

OCT. 19

Claiborne County High School Class of 1969 50th Reunion Plus friends from others years please join us! Saturday, October 19, 2019 at Jimmy’s Place at Norris Landing, 1015 Marina Landing Road, Tazewell, TN 37879 (Lone Mountain area) 5:00-6:30p.m. Gathering time, 6:30-7:30p.m. buffet, 7:30-9:00p.m. time to renew old friendships or start new ones. Tickets are $25/each. Buy at www.myevent.com/cchsreunion1969 or send a check to Betsy Payne Blackstock, 826 Rising Mist Lane, Knoxville, TN 37922 no later than October 1, 2019.

TUESDAYS

Stand in the Gap Coalition will host Support Transition and Recovery Training (START) on Tuesdays from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. at 325 Straight Creek Road in New Tazewell (old Powell Valley Electric office). START, conducted by James Shoffner, pastor of Riverview Baptist Church, will address substance abuse and addictive processes as well as provide support and education to individuals and families to help them overcome the strongholds associated and will also be providing life skills trainings. For more information, contact Shoffner at 865-279-9661 or the Stand in the Gap office at 423-300-1302, email Standntgap@gmail.com.

WEDNESDAYS

Those who are mourning the death of a loved one are invited to attend the Griefshare at New Beginning Baptist Church in Harrogate. This non-denominational Christ-centered program features biblical teachings by grief experts and testimonies of grieving people. GriefShare offers insights that help to renew hope for the future as well as providing the chance to be around other that understand. Meetings will be held on Wednesdays, from 6 to 7:30 pm, July 17 through Oct. 9. For more information, contact the church office at 423-7378 or Bob and Nancy Jackson at 423-869-4422. You may also visit nbbctn.com or www.griefshare.org.

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Effective the first week of August, Appalachian Promise of Claiborne County (APCC), a 501(C)3 faith-based organization, will provide monthly support meetings for MADD, Mothers Against Drunk Drivers, located inside the office, located at N. 1718 Broad Street in Tazewell. Meetings will be held weekly, times will be announced. A victims advocate is available now. You may stop in for assistance or by calling. For more information, call 832-377-5223 or 877-ASK-MADD for the 24-hour victim line.

Stand in the Gap Coalition (SIGCO), a 501(c)3 nonprofit, faith-based organization, along with local churches in the Tri-State area is hosting an evening out for grandparents and caregivers by providing childcare on the second Tuesday of each month. SIGCO is located at 325 Straight Creek Road, New Tazewell, Tennessee. A service of SIGCO is to provide free saliva-based drug testing kits with instructions, called Give Me a Reason. For more information on the evening out, addiction treatment or how you can help “Stand in the Gap“ call 423-300-1302, email standntgap@gmail.com or mail P.O. Box 539, Cumberland Gap TN 37724.

GED classes are being offered to anyone 19 years or older. Improve your reading, writing and mathematical skills and study to receive your GED. For more information, contact the following: Southeast Kentucky Community & Technical College Middlesboro campus at 606-248-3175, Bell County Council on Literacy at 606-248-2014 or the Pineville Learning Center at 606-337-3044.

Volunteers are needed for the Kentucky Long Term Care Ombudsman Program (Cumberland Valley District) to read a while, play a game of checkers, discuss the day’s events, reminisce or just sit and watch TV with a local senior. If you currently visit someone in a long-term care facility or would like to become involved, contact Arlene Gibson at 606-864-7391, ext. 119.

Free saliva-based drug testing kits are provided and sponsored through UNITE and Stand in the Gap Coalition (SIGCO). Give Me a Reason is designed for parents/guardians to use to talk with their children and randomly test them, which gives them a reason to say no when tempted or offered drugs. Kits can be obtained at 44 different distribution points throughout the Tri-State area and at the SIGCO office, at 325 Straight Creek Road, New Tazewell, Tennessee. For more information, contact the SIGCO office at 423-300-1302. To pick up a kit, stop by on Mondays from 1 to 5:30 p.m.

The American Red Cross is seeking volunteers with flexible schedules to respond to single- and multi-family home fires in the Lake Cumberland service area, which includes Bell, Harlan, Knox and Whitley counties. Red Cross Disaster Action Team volunteers respond to assist families with shelter, support and access to basic needs immediately following a home fire – often arriving on scene even as the fire is still burning. Volunteers may apply online by visiting http://www.redcross.org/volunteer or by contacting chapter Executive Terry Burkhart at 859-253-1331 or terry.burkhart@redcross.org.

The Lighthouse Homeless Shelter, at 117 South Pine Street in Pineville, is open seven days a week. For more information, call 606-337-9736.

Lighthouse Lifeline of Bell County non-residential support groups are held at the Lighthouse Mission Center, 3609 Hwy. 119 in Pineville. For more information, contact Sharon Teaney at 606-269-2187 or Ules Baker at 606-670-1949. Men’s and women’s support groups meet from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. on Tuesdays, and at 1 p.m. on Thursdays. Youth support groups (ages 10-18) meet from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. on Tuesdays.

Lighthouse Ray of Hope Children’s Advocacy Center, 3619 Hwy. 119 in Pineville, is open from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Tuesdays, and from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Wednesdays and Thursdays. For information, call 606-337-9955.

The “Something Different” Narcotics Anonymous group meets at 7 p.m. on Mondays and Fridays at the First Christian Church of Middlesboro, at 2130 Cumberland Avenue. Meetings are open.

Lighthouse Mission Center, 3609 Hwy. 119 in Pineville, will have food giveaways at 11:30 a.m. on the third and fourth Tuesday of each month. Emergency food boxes are available from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Tuesdays and Thursdays. For more information, call 606-337-1834.

A military support group for all active, separated or any former military men or women meets at 6:30 p.m. each first and third Monday of the month at the Middlesboro National Guard Armory, located on 30th Street. If you face financial, relationship, criminal, adjustment, substance abuse or other problems, this is for you.

GED classes will be held on Tuesdays from 6 to 7:30 p.m. at the Lighthouse Career Training Center, at 980 Old Bell High Road off of U.S. 119 in Pineville. For more information, call 606-337-9955.

Benchmark Family Services, serving Bell, Harlan, Clay, Knox, Laurel and Whitley counties, invites you to become a foster parent. Free orientation classes are held from 5 to 6 p.m. on any Tuesday. For more information, call 606-526-6992 or toll free at 866-526-6992.

Applications are available for the Lighthouse Medical Clinic, 3619 Hwy. 119 in Pineville, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Visits are by appointment only. For more information, call 606-337-9955.

Narcotics Anonymous will meet at the Living Clean Group Wallsend Community Room in Pineville. Meetings begin at 6 p.m. on Mondays; at noon on Wednesdays, closed for addicts only; and at 3 p.m. on Saturdays. For more information, call 606-499-0238 or 606-302-6972.

Narconon is reminding families that the use of addicting drugs is on the rise. Take steps to protect your family from drug use. If you know anyone who is struggling, get them the help they need. For a free brochure on the signs of addiction for all drugs, call 800-431-1754 or visit DrugAbuseSolution.com. Narconon also offers free screenings and referrals.

Appalachian Promise of Claiborne County (APCC), a 501(C)3 faith-based organization, has announced new office hours: Mondays and Wednesdays, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. The office, provides smart recovery services for those battling addiction provided by a licensed facilitator, these services are by appointment only, rehab placement services are also available. Job placement services and money management classes are also offered. For more information, call 423-259-8189.