WHAT'S UP

Auditions

The Gaffney Little Theatre will hold auditions for Talking With..., a series of monologues centered on women and the life lessons they have endured, on Thursday, Jan. 8, at 5:30 p.m. in the old Brown Furniture building. Auditions are open to students in grades sixth through 12. The play will be presented Jan. 30-31. For more information, contact Phyllis Randolph, 489-9411, or Karen Lavender, 488-3876.

Gospel singing

Edify will be in concert Saturday, Jan. 10, at the Chesnee Gospel Music Center, 672 Green Lake Road, at 7 p.m. Concessions will be available.

Christian recording artist Gordon Mote will be in concert Friday, Jan. 9, at 7 p.m. in Malcolm Brown Auditorium, located on the campus of Shelby High School in Shelby. Blind since birth, Mote is a gifted pianist, singer and songwriter who travels with Bill Gaither's Homecoming Tour and is a 2008 Dove Award nominee. The concert is a benefit for cancer patient Wendy Price Greene. For more information, contact Landmark Baptist Church in Shelby, 704-487-5716.

Meetings

Tuesday Woman's Club will meet Jan. 13 at 4 p.m. at the home of Mrs. Jamie Grindstaff. Co-hostesses are Mrs. Bill Peeler and Mrs. Steve Wood.

Gaffney Masonic Lodge No. 186 meets on the second Tuesday every month at the Masonic Lodge, 219 E. Floyd Baker Blvd. A meal is served at 6:45 p.m. and the meeting starts at 7:30 p.m.

Lost Penny Day

Lost Penny Day is held each year on Abraham Lincoln's birthday, Feb. 12. This year is special because it is the 200th birthday of Lincoln. The purpose of the day is to collect pennies that have been forgotten - in pockets, car floors, sofas, etc. - and to donate them to a local charity. This will be the seventh Lost Penny Day at the Senior Centers of Cherokee County. The organization is asking everyone

to find lost pennies and bring them to the Gaffney or Blacksburg senior centers by Feb. 27. All donations will be used for the home-delivered meal program. Approximately 24,000 hot meals were served to seniors in the county last year in addition to bag lunches for holidays, snow bags for bad weather days and goody bags during the holidays. To help a senior adult receive meals each week look for those pennies and turn them in. For more information, call Leslie Pearson, 487-2725.

Fund raiser

Cherokee Falls Baptist Church will have a fund raising fish fry on Saturday, Jan 10, from noon until. The menu features Santee Cooper catfish fillets, catfish stew, chicken stew, chicken nuggets (for the kids), assorted desserts, tea and soft drinks. Dine in or carry out. Cost is donations only, with all proceeds going to the church's renovation fund. For more information, contact Bryan Tindall, 864- 839-1549, or 864-839-1309. The church's fellowship building is located at 696 Batchelor Drive, Blacksburg.

Church news

There will be a special service Friday, Jan. 9, at 7 p.m. at New Harvest Ministries, 215 Pecan St. Evangelists Neil and Jane Evans of Marietta will be ministering.