Club News for Dec. 15

Brunswick County Beekeepers Association Beginning Beekeeping Class

BOLIVIA -- Brunswick County Beekeepers Association Beginning Beekeeping Class, a fun and informative course is open to anyone interested in bees or the basics of beekeeping. No experience is required. The cost of the course is $50 (cash or check).

A free interest seminar and registration will be held, 8-10 a.m. Feb. 2 at the N.C. Cooperative Extension Office, 25 Referendum Drive (Brunswick County Government Complex). The six-week course will be on consecutive Saturdays, Feb. 2-March 9.

For more information, email brunswickcountybeekeepers@outlook.com or call 910-367-1896.

Kiwanis Club of Wilmington

WILMINGTON — The Kiwanis Club of Wilmington will meet at noon Dec. 19 at First Baptist Church Activity Center, 1939 Independence Blvd. Guests wishing to attend can call Bill Malchano at 910-540-7677. Details: www.wilmingtonkiwanis.org. Students from the Alderman School chorus will sing a medley of Christmas songs under the direction of music teacher Nicki Richmond.

Stamp Defiance Chapter members donate gift bags to Hospice Center

WILMINGTON - Stamp Defiance Chapter members gathered over $2,400 in personal items for the Hospice Center at the Veterans Administration Hospital in Fayetteville. Members donated sweat shirts, under shirts, socks, blankets, candy, stuffed animals, books, personal items and holiday items. The members came together at an evening meeting to make up over 50 gift bags full of these items. Regent Jo Stroud and Jewel Hansen delivered the items to the Hospice Unit. Lynn Ashcraft made a second trip to the hospital to take another load of items that did not fit in the first delivery.

World War II Remembered Group

WILMINGTON -- Southeastern North Carolina’s World War II Remembered Group meets 10 a.m. Dec. 19 at the New Hanover County Senior Center, 2222 S. College Road. The program will be about a Wilmingtonian’s World War I Army letters. Refreshments at 9:30. The program is free and open to the public.

Ed Hawfield, grandson of Wilmington native Lt. Edward Manning Hardin, 115th Machine Gun Battalion, 30th Infantry Division, will present the program. Hardin fought in France in 1918 and later became a successful pharmacist here. The 30th Division, formed basically from the North Carolina National Guard, is credited with breaking the German Hindenburg Line which prompted Germany’s surrender on Nov. 11.

For more information, contact John Nelson at 910-399-7020, or fjn39@ec.rr.com.

Send items to new.hanover@starnewsonline.com, brunswick@starnewsonline.com or pender@starnewsonline.com at least two weeks in advance of an event.