Meetings

 The Cherokee County Education Association Retired will meet Wednesday, Oct. 21, in Stephenson Dining Hall on the Limestone College campus. Lunch will be served and a musical program presented at noon. Cost of lunch is $7.50. Call 849-3784 for more information.

 The Gaffney Business and Professional Women's Club will meet on Monday, Oct. 19, at noon at the Aegean Pizza. The meeting will be a membership drive. Guests and prospective new members are welcome.

 The monthly SHOC meeting will be held Wednesday, Oct. 21, at noon at Limestone College's meeting room off of the cafeteria.

Class reunion

 Members of the GHS Class of 1984 will have a 25-year reunion Saturday, Oct. 24, at 7 p.m. at Daddy Joe's. For more information, call Chrissy Little, 487-7681, or Robin Harper, 488-9902.

 The GHS Class of 1969 will meet for lunch at the Aegean Pizza immediately following the homecoming assembly Friday, Oct. 23. Contact Mike Clary, 487-1403, or Kathy Baines, 489- 4501, if you plan to attend.

Halloween events

 Buffalo Volunteer Fire Department will have a haunted house Oct. 23-25 and Oct. 29-31 at 137 Blackwell Road in Blacksburg. The horrors begin at 7 p.m. and admission is $5. For directions call 864-839-4500.

Support group

 Are you the spouse, parent, girlfriend, boyfriend or grandparents of someone serving in the U.S. military? Do you ever feel you just need someone to talk to? Well, here's your chance. On Tuesday, Oct. 20, at 7 p.m., you are invited to join a support group that will be held once each month. The first meeting will be at Central Baptist Church Family Life Center, 500 E. Montgomery St. For more information, call Velina Owensby, 864- 838-4827; Patti Johnson, 864-279-5131; or Leigh- Ann Turner, 864-489-6856.

Special events

 The City of Kings Mountain, N.C., will host the annual “Great Pumpkin Halloween Parade" on Friday, Oct. 30. Participants will gather at City Hall Plaza at 10 a.m. for a send off by Mayor Rick Murphrey. The parade will start at the plaza on Cherokee and Gold streets and continue to Battleground Avenue, Mountain Street, down Railroad Avenue to the Gazebo at Patriots Park. Local merchants along the parade route are encouraged to distribute candy. The Mauney Children’s Library, in cooperation with Partnership for Children, will provide entertainment, games, Halloween stories and songs. There will be an inflatable “bounce castle” and a hay stack search for Halloween goodies with one lucky individual in the three age groups finding the “gold pumpkin” and receiving a $25 gift certificate to a local toy store. The Kings Mountain Police Department will provide reflective bags for treats and the Kings Mountain Fire Department will have a fire truck on display. Children and parents are welcome to stay and bring a picnic lunch. For more information, call 704-734- 0333.