The Celtic Club is sponsoring the St. Pet’s Day food donation drive from March 8 through March 17.

Residents can donate dry dog and cat food and cat litter at their local fire station, in most cases, March 8 through March 12, and March 15 through March 17 between 8 a.m. and 4 p.m. Donations also can be dropped off in the front lobby of the Repository.

Donations will benefit local humane and pet rescue groups.

Drop-off sites include:

• Alliance fire station, 63 E. Broadway St.
• Canal Fulton fire station (March 15 through March 17), 1165 Locust St. NW.

The following exhibits on display at Malone University are free and open to the public.

Art-in-a-Case

Senior Flex exercise sessions with weights take place from 9 to 10 a.m. Monday, Wednesday and Friday at Foltz Community Center at 224 N. Wood St. in East Canton.
For more information, call (330) 488-6500.

CARROLL COUNTY commissioners, 9 a.m., Carroll County Courthouse, Commissioners’ Meeting Room, 119 Public Square.

Meetings are held every Monday and Thursday. If Monday or Thursday falls on a legal holiday, the board will not meet.

Every Monday from 10:30 to 11:30 a.m. there will be a free blood pressure clinic at Summit's Trace of Greater Canton Independent Living Dining Room, at 820 34th St. NW in Canton.
The agency providing the blood pressure service is Advantage Home Health Services.
This service is free to anyone in the community and at Summit's Trace of Greater Canton.
For more information, call (330) 705-8646.

March 3 – April 3

Main Hall Gallery, Free
Mon. – Fri. 11 a.m. – 5 p.m.
Sat. 10 a.m. – noon

Mercy Medical Center now offers a weekly breastfeeding support group open to all breastfeeding women and their babies. This free program, entitled the Breastfeeding Mothers Support Group, is held every Monday from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. inside the Mercy Childbirth Education Room in Mercy Hall.

Led by Regina Ravine, RN, IBCLC, Certified Lactation Consultant for Mercy Medical Center, this support group offers weekly baby weight checks, a question and answer session about breastfeeding challenges, as well as networking with other breastfeeding moms.

MONDAY: 11 a.m.-1 p.m., Salvation Army, 420 Market Ave. S, Canton.

Discuss the 2010 Big Read book selection, "The Shawl" by Cynthia Ozick in the Chit Chat Coffee Shoppe at the Massillon Museum on Monday, March 15, at noon. The discussion is free and open to the public; no reservations are required. The Big Read is funded by the National Endowment for the Arts and sponsored by the Massillon Museum in collaboration with Massillon Public Library and Kent State University Stark Campus. Get copies of the book at Massillon Public Library or Backlist Books. The Massillon Museum is located at 121 Lincoln Way East, in downtown Massillon.

MONDAY: Noon-1 p.m., St. Joseph’s School, 322 Third St. SE, Massillon; (330) 833-4907.

Tuscarawas County board of commissioners meetings are held every Monday at 1 p.m. and Thursday at 9 a.m. at the Tuscarawas County Courthouse Annex. If the regular meeting day falls on a holiday, the meeting is held the next day.

“Just for Grandparents” will be presented by registered nurse Mimi Gozdan, BSN, from 1 to 3:30 p.m. March 15 at the Stark County District Library Jackson Branch, at 7487 Fulton Dr. NW.
New and experienced grandparents are invited to learn new “how to” tips including long-distance and stepgrandparenting.
The session is free and open to the public, but seating is limited. To register, call (330) 363-8255 (TALK) or go to www.aultman.org.
Presentations are for educational purposes only and do not in any way constitute professional advice.

With Maryann Ziegler, Mayfield Senior Center, 3825 13th St. SW; (330) 477-9982.

MONDAY: 6 p.m., Refuge of Hope Ministries, 300 Walnut Ave. NE, Canton.

A tai chi class takes place every Monday from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. at Merging Hearts Holistic Center. Tai chi is a Chinese martial art believed to facilitate the flow of qi (life force) in the body, promoting good health and vitality.
Cost is $30 for four classes or $10 per class.
Merging Hearts is at 5590 Lauby Rd., Suite 4B, in Green, near the Akron-Canton Airport.
For more information, contact Sue Covert at (330) 354-1174 or howlingwolf@neo.rr.com

6:30 p.m., beginner instruction, 7 p.m., formal meditation, Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Greater Canton, 2585 Easton St. NE, Plain Township; (330) 936-5274 or jcarli@neo.rr.com

7-9 p.m., beginners and advanced; 9 p.m., partners; Foltz Community Center, 224 N. Wood St.; (330) 488-6500.

BEACH CITY Village Council, 7 p.m., 105 E. Main St.

Meetings are held on the first and third Mondays of the month.

BREWSTER Village Council, 7 p.m., 302 S. Wabash Ave.

Meetings are held on the first and third Mondays of the month.
Committee meetings are held at 6 p.m. on the third Monday of the month.

Boy Scouts of America Troop No. 4 will meet weekly from 7 to 8:30 p.m. Mondays in Trinity United Church of Christ at 3909 Blackburn Rd. NW (corner of Blackburn Road and Fulton Drive NW, across from Johnny Applecheese), in Plain Township.
Activities at each meeting will vary according to what the boy-led leadership decides to do.
Any boy age 11 and older is welcome to join us at any weekly meeting, swim night or camp outing.
For more information, visit www.cantontroop4.org.

ALLIANCE City Council, 7 p.m., City Hall, 470 E. Market St.

Meetings are held the first and third Mondays of the month unless a holiday falls on a Monday. If holiday falls on Monday, the meeting will be switched to Tuesday.

PARENT SUPPORT GROUP
Monday: 7-9 p.m., Amherst Community Church, 8650 Beatty St. NW, Jackson Township; (330) 837-6519 or bjknapp@sssnet.com

Sweet Adelines. 7:15 p.m., City of Flags Chorus, Greenwood Christian Church, 4425 Frazer Ave. NW, Canton; (800) SWEET 05.

Women of all ages are invited to learn to sing a-cappella. Visit the City of Flags, a 60 female, voice chorus, on any Monday evening at 7:15 pm. except Monday holidays. Rehearsal hall is at Greenwood Christian Church in Canton. We dance and sing and have a great time. We are currently working on contest music for our regional competition in May and on new music for our annual show, Nov. 6, 2010. Pay us a visit and see if this is the musical hobby for which you have been searching.

CANTON City Council, 7:30 p.m., City Hall, 218 Cleveland Ave. SW.

Meetings are held every Monday, except for holidays and during the summer. If a holiday falls on Monday, the meeting is canceled.

The summer meeting schedule is: June 7, June 21, July 12, July 26, Aug. 9 and Aug. 23.

The Malone University School of Arts and Sciences – Department of Music – will present a senior recital Monday, March 15 at 7:30 p.m. in the Stewart Room of the Randall Campus Center. The program – featuring Jessica Mazza on flute – is free and open to the public.

Monday: 7:30 p.m., First Friends Church, 5455 Market Ave. N, Canton.

7:30 p.m., Trinity United Church of Christ, 3909 Blackburn Rd. NW, Plain Township.