Since Hurricane Katrina, the meeting locations and times have changed for
many Coast organizations. GCN has kept the contact information though some
are no longer meeting. Many of these changes have yet been updated in
our list pending notification to us. Please review our list and if you see
that changes are needed, please contact GCN.
For Changes, updates or additions, contact GCN at
news@gulfcoastnews.com
Directory:
ART CIVIC
EDUCATIONAL FRATERNAL
GARDEN MILITARY
POLITICAL
PROFESSIONAL RELIGION
SERVICE SOCIAL
ART
Ohr-O'Keefe Museum of Art, Office open,
228.374.5547, contact:
marjie@georgeohr.org
USM
Gulf Coast Civic Chorale:
rehearsals currently held Tuesday evenings @
7PM in
First
Methodist
Church,
Gulfport. For further information regarding performances, contact Dr. John
Flannery at USM main campus in Hattiesburg.
John.Flannery@usm.edu
Gulf Coast Writers Association, 7 p.m. fourth Thursday, Barnes and
Noble, Crossroads Shopping Center, Gulfport. Details: Victoria Olsen,
575-6211; or www.GCWriters.org or e-mail
GCWriters@aol.com .
Pass Christian Art Association critique session and meeting, 2 p.m.
third Saturday, Pass Christian Library. Details: 452-4596.
Renaissance Recorder Consort, 7 p.m. Tuesdays, Seacoast Recital Hall,
Howard and Seal avenues, Biloxi. Details: 435-2673 or 374-2436.
CIVIC
Biloxi Exchange Club, noon Wednesdays, Biloxi. Details: 865-9974.
Biloxi-Edgewater Civitan club,
2nd Thursday
of the month at noon and the 4th Thursday of the month at 6:30 pm,
Details:
Jenny,
392-2909, or 596-6950, AMCFan730@aol.com
Biloxi Kiwanis, noon Mondays, Details:
374-1710.
Biloxi Lions Club, noon Wednesdays, Mary Mahoney's Old French House,
116 Rue Magnolia, Biloxi. Details: 374-2626 (days).
Biloxi-Edgewater Civitan Club meets 2nd and 4th Thursday of the
month at 6:30 pm at McAlister's Deli, 2422 Pass Rd (Next to Office Depot).
Friendship Civic Club of Ocean Springs, social 10 a.m., meeting at
10:30 first Thursday, Ocean Springs Civic Center. Details: Frances Jett,
872-6791.
Gulfport Exchange Club, noon Tuesdays, Details: 868-4581.
Gulfport
Lions Club meets at noon on the first and third Wednesdays of each month
at Steve's Marina Restaurant. Contact Gaye Goodwin for more information
228/297-2091.
Gulfport Long Beach Optimist Club, noon Wednesdays, Details: Hedy Walker, 896-5527.
Kiwanis Club of Hancock County, Every 4th Tuesday at noon. The
Gathering Place, 304 Louisa St., Waveland, MS.
Visit
www.KiwanisNews.blog.com
Kiwanis Club of Long Beach, noon Tuesdays, Sicily's Pizza, Winn-Dixie
Plaza in Long Beach. Details: 214-5252.
Kiwanis Club of Pascagoula, noon Tuesdays, LaFont Restaurant,
Pascagoula. Details: 762-3755.
Orange Grove/Gulfport Rotary Club 6840, noon Mondays, Holiday Inn
Airport, U.S. 49. Details: Ralph Anderson, 832-6448.
Orange Grove Lions Club, 7 p.m. Mondays, Garden Park Hospital in
classroom 2 and 3. Details: 831-4574.
Rotary Club of Biloxi, noon-1 p.m. Tuesdays, Mary Mahoney's Old
French House Restaurant, 116 Rue Magnolia, Biloxi. Details: Gayden Gladman,
875-0165, or Mary Nichols, 374-2100.
Rotary Club of Edgewater Sunrisers, Biloxi chapter, 7-8 a.m. Fridays,
Holiday Inn Coliseum, U.S. 90, Biloxi. Details: Paul Ellis, 864-4111, or
Jerry Olson, 865-9575.
Rotary Club of Long Beach, 7-8 a.m. Wednesdays, Hardy Hall at USM-Gulf
Park, Long Beach. Details: Robert Dienelt, 868-4100.
Rotary Club of Stennis Space Center, 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Tuesdays,
NASA Conference Center behind Building 1100. Details: Ken Cooper, 688-5007,
or Al Lewando, 689-8002.
EDUCATIONAL
Adult Literacy Partners in Service. Details: Frank Koch, 897-3811.
Beginning bridge, 6-9 p.m. Wednesdays, Handsboro Community Center, $1
per night. Details: Lamar Jordan, 897-9052.
Gulf Coast Bridge Association lessons, locations from Diamondhead to
Pascagoula. Details: Rebecca McMichael, 432-1313 or 896-9876; Wayne Kiddy,
392-6768 or kiddycat@cableone.net; or gulfcoastbridge.com.
Harrison County Gem and Mineral Society, 6:30 p.m. second Thursday,
workshop 9 a.m. the Saturday after meeting, Handsboro Community Center, 1890
Switzer Road., Gulfport. Details: 863-0035 or 863-7770.
Help Save This Treasure, Friends of Mary C. O'Keefe Cultural Center of
Arts and Education, 6:30 p.m. third Monday, Old Public School, 1600
Government St., Ocean Springs. Details: 875-1055 or e-mail bsmjhm@ametro.net.
Parenting classes, free to Jackson County residents, 6-7:30 p.m.
Mondays at Ocean Springs YMCA Total Fitness Center, U.S. 90, and Wednesdays
at YMCA, 5343 Jefferson Street. Details: Laura Foreman or Lakeisha Keen,
875-5050.
Success Through Communications Course,
The ability to
communicate effectively. Face tough situations at home, work or with
others. Course offered daily (except Fri and Sun) Mission of the Gulf
Coast, 837 Howard Ave. Biloxi. Call 436-6900
Women's anger management classes, free for Jackson County residents,
6-7:30 p.m. Tuesdays, Ocean Springs Library; men's classes at various dates
and places. Details: Laura Foreman or Lakeisha Keen, 875-5050.
FRATERNAL
Colonel Richard Pace Chapter of National Society Colonial Dames of
Seventeenth Century. Details: 432-7228.
Ocean Springs Chapter 394, Order of Eastern Star, 7:30 p.m. first
Thursday, McLeod Masonic Lodge, Ocean Springs.
International Order of Rainbow for Girls, Biloxi Assembly No. 6, 6:30
p.m. first and third Tuesday, Magnolia Masonic Lodge No. 120, Biloxi.
Details: Janet Twigg, 604-4413
Joppa Shrine
Center, 7:30 p.m. third Monday, Woolmarket exit 41 off I10, North 1 1/2
mile. 392-9345.
.
Knights of Columbus, Council 9094, 7 p.m. first and third Tuesday,
Sacred Heart Parish School gym. Details: Larry Tabor, 392-6379.
Mcleod Lodge No. 0424 F&AM, meets each
Tuesday at the lodge building on Government street in Ocean Springs. Meals
served. Phone: 697-8289
PEO Sisterhood, Chapter E, 5:30 p.m., first and third Tuesday.
Details: Ann Clower, 432-7578.
PEO, Chapter H, times and places change monthly.
PEO,Chapter B, 1:30 p.m. first Thursday. Details: Carol Reeves, 864-8954.
PEO, Chapter A, 11:30 a.m. first Thursday. Details: 872-3997.
PEO of Diamondhead, Chapter T, 9:30 a.m. second Friday, places
change. Details: 255-2548.
PEO of Diamondhead, Chapter Q, 1:30 p.m. first Wednesday. Places
change. Details: 255-7817.
Rectitude Lodge 323, F&AM, PHA, 7:30 p.m. first and third Wednesday,
Masonic Lodge, 1905 32nd Ave., Gulfport. Details: 832-2303.
Woodmen of the World Gulfport Lodge 1446, 6:30 p.m. third Tuesday,
Coast Electric, U.S. 49 north, Gulfport. Details: 868-6713.
Woodmen of the World Youth Lodge 1451, 6:30 p.m. second Thursday for
ages 8-11, third Thursday for ages 12-15, Coast Electric, U.S. 49 north,
Gulfport. Details: 832-1725.
GARDEN
Gulfport Garden Club. Details: 896-4794.
Gulf Coast Orchid Society, 2:30 p.m. second Sunday, conference room
behind Gulf Coast Medical Center cafeteria, Biloxi. Details: 863-0035 or
863-7770.
Gulf Coast Pond Society, 7 p.m. third Monday, places change. Details:
388-7172.
Mississippi Gulf Coast Camellia Society, 7 p.m. third Tuesday,
Gulfport Memorial Hospital, South Annex. Details: Bruce Stinson, 452-3262.
Mississippi Gulf Coast Daylily Society, 2 p.m. second Saturday, St.
Martin Community Center. Details: Kathy Homsey, 832-6424.
Mississippi Gulf Coast Rose Society, 3 p.m. second Tuesday, Long
Beach Senior Citizens Center. Details: 863-0035 or 863-7770.
MILITARY
American Merchant Marine Veterans, Mississippi Gulf Coast Chapter, 11
a.m. third Tuesday, Holiday Inn Coliseum. Details: W.L. Bourgeois, 864-7936.
American Legion MS Post 77, Waveland, MS. 503 Waveland
Avenue (Under Construction) P. O. Box 380, Waveland, MS 39576. Visit:
http://legionpost77.blog.com/
Bayou Gulf States Chapter of Paralyzed Veterans of America, 6:30 p.m.
third Monday, American Legion Post 119, 111 Courthouse Road, Gulfport.
Details: Howard Olsen or Debbie Farrell, 563-2558.
Disabled American Veterans, Chapter #17,
meet the last Wed. of each month at 6:30 PM in Ocean Springs, MS. At the VFW
post 5699
Mississippi Gulf Coast Retired Officers Association, noon-1 p.m.
second Wednesday. Details: Carl Remley, 388-8221 or carlr28702@aol.com, or
Fred Dunaway, 374-7007.
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder clinic, 2:45 p.m. first and third
Friday, 706 Watts Ave., Pascagoula. Details: 769-3075.
The Retired Enlisted Association TREA, Magnolia Chapter 81, 7 p.m.
second Thursday, Keesler Air Force Base, NCO Academy Building 2901. Details:
Floyd Streeper, 832-3390, or Ben Bruhnke, 392-8958.
VFW Post 6731 D'Iberville, business meeting, 7 p.m. first Tuesday;
Ladies Auxiliary 6731 D'Iberville, business meeting, 7 p.m. second Tuesday,
post home, W. Gay Road, D'Iberville. Details: 392-1152.
VFW Post 3937 and Auxiliary, 7:30 p.m. second Wednesday, VFW post home,
213 Klondyke Ave., Long Beach. Details: 863-8602.
WAVES National, 10 a.m. fourth Saturday, Details:
Corrine, 897-8597, or Naomi, 897-8049.
POLITICAL
Harrison County Democratic Party - P.O.
Box 8421, Biloxi, MS. 39506, Telephone 228-324-4028, Web:
http://www.hcdec.net/
Mississippi Democratic Party -
Post Office Box 1583,
Jackson, Mississippi 39215, Office Phone (601) 969-2913,
Facsimile (601) 354-1599, Office Location,
832 North Congress Street, Jackson, Mississippi 39202, Web:
http://www.msdemocrats.net/home.htm
Mississippi Republican Party -
415 Yazoo Street Jackson, MS 39201, Office
Phone (601) 948-5191 Fax: (601) 354-0972 Web:
http://www.msgop.org/involved/
PROFESSIONAL
American Business Women's Association,
Gulfport Charter Chapter, 6 p.m. fourth Monday, Details: 863-8628.
American Business Women's Association, Singing River Charter Chapter,
6 p.m. second Monday, La Font Inn, Pascagoula. Details: Deborah Seidel,
875-7981.
Biloxi Bar Association, noon last Friday,
Biloxi. Details: 374-5566.
Biloxi Business Men's Club Inc., noon Thursdays, Mary Mahoney's Old
French House Restaurant, 116 Rue Magnolia, Biloxi. Details: 388-5903.
Biloxi Branch NAACP. Details: James Crowell, 377-5321 or 374-0858.
Business Network International, Wes Holsapple,
(601) 906-2969 or (800) 870-2969 or e-mail at wes@bnims.com or www.bni.com.
Christian International Business Network, third Tuesday. Details:
Gulf Coast Community Church, 875-3297.
Gulf Coast Association Insurance and Financial Advisors, noon third
Friday. Details: Kathy Turan,
868-4046.
Gulf Coast Association of Legal Support
Professionals, a charter chapter of
NALS, Inc.,
conducts it's monthly meeting at
5:45 p.m.
on the second Thursday
of each month at the
Harrison County Election Commission Bldg, 2600
24th Avenue, Gulfport, MS. NALS,
Inc. is a national non-profit organization open to anyone working in the
legal profession (legal secretary, clerk, lawyers' assistant, paralegal,
and/or lawyer). It is dedicated to enhancing the competencies and
contributions of members in the legal services profession through continuing
legal education; networking opportunities; and commitment to a Code of
Ethics and professional standards. For more information go to our national
website at
www.NALS.org
Mississippi Claims Association/Gulf Coast Chapter, 5-7 p.m. first
Tuesday, Anthony's Under the Oaks Restaurant in Ocean Springs. Details:
Joan, 435-1474; Mary, 475-4558; Doug Bates, 818-1200.
Mississippi Sound Association of Peri
Operative Nurses. Details: Gail Recore, 388-0220 or 875-8944.
Public Relations Association of Mississippi, noon, second Monday. Details:
Terry Hines Smith, 688-1159.
South Mississippi Mac User Group, 6 p.m., second Tuesday, locations
vary. Details: Sharon Fitzhugh, 896-0523, or Greg Alexander, 896-2410
Bienville Toastmasters Club, Thursday Meetings, 7 p.m.-8:15
p.m., Ocean Springs Chamber of Commerce, 1000 Washington Avenue. Contact
Michael Bayne at (228) 235-5046 or
mjbayne@aol.com for more details.
At Eze Toastmasters Club,
11 a.m., Tuesdays, 81 Communications Squadron, Bldg 1101, on Keesler Air
Force Base. Details: call 313-1872.
Brown Baggers Toastmasters Club, 6 p.m. first and third Tuesdays each
month, Gautier Library, Gautier. Details: 374-5111.
Gulf Coast Toastmasters Club communication-leadership workshop, 5:45
p.m. Thursdays, Edgewater Mall community room. Details: Erma Lamousin,
374-5111 or ermalee@cableone.net, or Edward Gordon or 539-1778, or Edward@XYSTUM.com.
www.fullcirclecom.com/tmdistrict29.
RELIGION
W.O.W. Christian Women's Fellowship luncheon, noon second Wednesday. Details: Lisa Watson MacEwan, 388-5700.
SERVICE
AARP, Gulf Coast Chapter 569, 10:30 a.m. second Monday 868-1148.
AARP, Biloxi Area Chapter 1381, 10 a.m. third Tuesday, Biloxi
Community Center, Howard and Belman streets. Details: John Caranna,
388-6438.
Biloxi Mayor's Awareness Committee for Citizens with Disabilities,
3:30 p.m. second Monday, Martin Luther King Jr. Building, 676 Washington
Loop, Biloxi. Details: 863-7770 or 435-6297.
Gulf Coast Chapter, Mississippi Council of the Blind, 10:30 a.m.
second Saturday, Handsboro Community Center, Switzer Road, Gulfport.
Details: Janice, 863-6479, or Lyda, 435-4740.
Gulf Coast Networkers, 11:30 a.m. first and third Tuesday, China Garden,
Ocean Springs. Details: Bob Mansker, 875-6786.
Mississippi Coast Amateur Radio Association,
Monthly Meeting: 7 p.m. third Monday, American
Medical Response building off of Cowan/Lorraine Road in Gulfport, MS.
Monthly
Testing: First Saturday @ AMR Bldg - Seaway Rd, Gulfport, Rd. Weekly
gathering: Thursday 6:00 p.m. McAllister's Restaurant Pass Rd @
Popps Ferry, Biloxi, MS. For more information, please contact Gail Horning
(228) 860-5377.
Harrison and Hancock Human Resource Association, 8-9 a.m. third
Thursday, U.S. 49, Gulfport. Details: Cindy Burnett, 867-8788.
Hope Haven Board, 6 p.m. third Tuesday, Mississippi Power Co., U.S.
90 and Dunbar, Bay St. Louis; speakers, information on child abuse and other
children's issues. Details: 467-7945.
Lupus Foundation of Mississippi, Gulf Coast area branch. Details:
(800) 866-9606 or (601) 366-5655.
National Association of Retired Federal Employees (NARFE),
Biloxi chapter 209, 11:30 a.m. third Thursday. Details: Vida Pope, 388-3627.
NARFE, Ocean Springs chapter 1765, 1 p.m. first Wednesday, Ocean
Springs Library. Details: Mary Ashworth, 872-2081.
NARFE, Pascagoula chapter, third Tuesday, Shoney's in Pascagoula.
Details: Sam Weil, 497-3584.
Sunshine Guild Inc., 9:30 a.m. second Wednesday, Gulf Coast Medical Center,
Support Services Building.
TOPS MS No. 190, Biloxi, 6 p.m. Tuesdays, St. Martin Lions Club on
LeMoyne Boulevard, D'Iberville, weigh-ins 5-5:55 p.m. Details: 875-2783,
392-4080 or 392-6734.
TOPS MS No. 214, Biloxi, 7 p.m. Thursdays, Bay Vista Baptist Church,
2485 Pass Road, Biloxi, weigh-ins 6-6:50 p.m. Details: David, 388-1916.
TOPS MS No. 219, Biloxi, 9 a.m. Thursdays, Beauvoir United Methodist
Church, 2113 Pass Road, Biloxi. Details: 388-3627.
TOPS MS No. 5, Gulfport, 9:20-10:00a.m., Thursdays, Orange Grove
Baptist Church, Orange Grove Road, Gulfport, weigh-ins 8:30-9:20a.m.
Details: 228-223-6537.
TOPS MS No. 294, Latimer, 7-8 p.m. Thursdays, New Fayard Methodist
Church, 14900 Jim Ramsey Road, Latimer, weigh-ins 6-7. Details: 392-5875 or
392-1436.
TOPS MS No. 19, Ocean Springs, 7-8 p.m. Thursdays, St. Paul United
Methodist Church, 800 Porter St., Ocean Springs. Details: Susan Odom,
872-1734.
TOPS MS No. 281, Ocean Springs, 9:30-10:30 a.m. Thursdays, Ocean
Springs Church of Christ, 1116 Washington Ave., weigh-ins 8-9 a.m. Details:
392-6429 or 392-3209
.
TOPS MS No. 213, Pass Christian, 6:15-7:15 p.m., Tuesdays, Pass
Christian Public Library, Hearn Ave., weigh-ins 5-6:15 p.m. Details: Gayle
Arnold, 467-7198 or Geri Lock, 863-5504.
TOPS MS No. 317, Vancleave, weigh-in at 6:30 with meeting at 7 p.m.
Mondays, Vancleave Library, 12604 Miss. 57, Vancleave. Details: Sherrie,
826-2296, Edwina, 475-2517 or www.tops.org.
TOPS MS No. 307, Waveland, 5:15-6:15 p.m., weigh-ins 4:30-5:15,
Wednesdays Waveland Public Library, Coleman Avenue, Waveland. Details:
Paula, 467-0420, or topsms307@yahoo.com.
Volunteer Families for Children, recruiting families to care for
children of all ages. Details: Cindy Thomas, 363-3023.
SOCIAL
Christian Motorcyclist Association, 9 a.m., second Saturday, Gautier
Library. Details: Jim Savage, 497-2444, or e-mail jtsavage@datasync.com, or
Wendell Sullivan, 872-3437 or e-mail WndllSllvn@aol.com.
Gulf Coast Chapter Amateur Ballroom Dancers. Details: Janet Green,
872-9763.
Gulf Coast Newcomers Club. Details: Roma Bugenhagen, 831-9712;
Corrine Robinson, 897-8597; or Becky Eymard, 463-0067.
Gulf Coast Opera Salon. Details: Bettie Kendall, 385-2471.
Mississippi Coast Amateur Radio Association, 7 p.m. third Monday,
Harrison County Courthouse Civil Defense conference room, Gulfport.
Mississippi Gulf Coast Kite Club, 3 p.m. third Sunday, Long Beach
Harbor, all ages. Details: 863-9195.
Scottish Society of the Gulf Coast, 7:30 p.m. second Monday, Biloxi. Details: 875-2260. |
