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EAST LIVERPOOL - The answer to the question "So what is new at the East Liverpool Area Community & Learning Center" is very simple. A whole lot. If you haven't visited the center recently for a party, club meetings, to view the Butterfly Garden or other exhibits, attended classes or a Legacy Lecture, to vote, get vaccinated or be tested for a new city job, then you are probably just not up with the times.
The eighth season of Legacy & Legends with eight new lectures for its series members was launched last month. Over 50 people attended the first lecture in the center Farmers Room that featured popular newspaper columnist and humorist Fred Miller. On Oct. 24 will be Gary Cornell with his talk entitled "Dark Days." Proceeds of the Lecture Series are used to underwrite some costs of operating the community center.
Memberships are still available. Lectures are open to supporters who pay $100 for themselves plus one guest. Lectures are recorded and retained for future showings.
Last month Attorney Bernie & June Fineman surprised the center staff with a presentation of one of Hans Hacker's paintings of a local red barn. On display in the Hans Hacker Display Room at the center in addition to Hacker paintings are about 600 pictures taken of Hacker paintings that can be viewed on a computer, collector china featuring Hacker pictures of historic building in the East Liverpool area and the original Han's Easel used for painting his masterpieces.
The center is running out of space for new activities. We were approached for a room to provide therapy massages for seniors at the center. The only room available that could be used is the Mary Sue Lang Art Gallery. This room will provide a relaxing environment while the therapist does her work. It will be a quiet and unusual setting. This service is available beginning in November each Wednesday and Thursday during center hours from noon to 5 p.m.
The third week of September the Calcutta and East Liverpool Rotary Clubs with assistance from students of the High School Workshop Class repaired and replaced the roof on the garage where Rotary stores its supplies. This includes items for the Fall October Fest and summer Annual Golf event at Turkana Golf Course in Calcutta.
The Rotary Club of East Liverpool will host a team of high school foreign exchange students as part of its International Exchange Student program. It will be held the last weekend of October. Their weekend wraps up at the center with games, movies, and maybe even some sleep at their overnighter at the center.
There are several weddings planned for the Auditorium in the next two months. There will also be a debate between the three candidates for the office of Mayor of the City of East Liverpool Oct. 5. The center also serves as a polling site for casting ballots on Election days.
At the Butterfly Garden at the center, the Rotary Club hatched and set free four Monarch butterflies in September. The Butterfly Garden is in full bloom in anticipation of the offspring of the Monarchs returning to the garden next year and attracting additional butterflies as well.
The N.A. Class has met in the center every Saturday morning for over eight years in their own room. That room now will be shared with guests viewing the garden. Available will be displays and information about butterflies. Students from the high school work shop class under Josh Ludwig did the heavy lifting in preparation of the soil for the Butterfly Garden.
The four movies to be shown for Movie Nite in the Center Theatre in the month of October that begins at 5 p.m. each Thursday will be: Arsenic and Old Lace staring Carey
Grant, House on the Haunted Hill starring Vincent Price, Abbot & Costello Meets the Invisible Man and finally on Oct. 26 will be Psycho directed by Alfred Hitchcock and starring Anthony Perkins.