SUN SPOTS

Editor’s Note: Sun Spots deadline is Friday at 5 p.m. for the next week’s paper.

JAN. 24

Enterprise State Community College will partner with Southeast Alabama Beekeeping Association member Richard Woodham to present a Beekeeping 101 class every Monday beginning Jan. 24 and continuing until March 28. This beekeeping class is a 10-week course, open to the public, for a cost of $15. The class will be held in the evenings at ESCC from 6:30-8 p.m. and will cover a variety of topics and speakers related to beekeeping. Participants can register for the class at https://esccf.formstack.com/forms/communityenrichment_application

JAN. 25

The Coffee County Extension office will be hosting a 2022 Ag Outlook Meeting on Tuesday, Jan. 25 from 11 a.m. – 1 p.m. at the Enterprise Farmers Market in Enterprise. This Ag Outlook meeting will discuss market outlooks and trends for row crops and livestock in 2022. The meeting is free to attend, and a sponsored lunch will be served for everyone who pre-registers by calling the Coffee County Extension office at (334) 894-5596.

JAN. 27

The January 2022 meeting for the DAV Wiregrass Chapter 99 will be held on Thursday, Jan. 27, at 6 p.m. in the New Brockton Senior Center. Everyone is asked to bring a covered dish. All members that can are asked to attend. For further information, contact Charles Lobdell at (334) 718-5707 or Mike Doran at (334) 406-6700.

UPCOMING

The Alabama Cooperative Extension System will be hosting the 2022 Wiregrass Cotton Expo on Friday, Feb. 11, at the National Peanut Festival Fairgrounds in Dothan. The expo will feature a vendor tradeshow, and Extension specialists speaking on a variety of topics including agronomic updates, the cotton market outlook for 2022, cotton chemical updates, and more. Registration for the Wiregrass Cotton Expo begins at 7:30 a.m. on Feb. 11, with the expo beginning at 8:30 a.m. The expo is free to attend and includes a sponsored lunch for those who attend. There will also be CCA and Pesticide points available for license holders. For more information, contact the Wiregrass Research and Extension Center at (334) 693-3800.

ONGOING

The Enterprise Senior Citizens Center is for anyone 60 years of age or older. There is no fee to participate in the senior center program but donations are welcomed. Art classes are offered every Tuesday from 9 until 11 a.m., and 11 a.m. until 1 p.m. Also every Tuesday and Thursday from 8:45-9:45 a.m., a Senior Aerobics class is available. Sewing classes are held on Wednesdays from 9 a.m. until noon. Chair exercise classes are held on Thursdays beginning at 10 a.m. On Friday, Jan. 28 at 10 a.m. there will be an Art Crafting Class with Birgit. Classes meet at 2401 Neil Metcalf Road (U.S. Highway 167 North). For more information and upcoming classes, please contact Angela Lane at (334) 347-3513.

“The Stories Behind the Stars” initiative was created to organize one central digital location to collect the stories of all Americans who were killed during World War II. These personal stories will be digitally linked to war memorials and cemeteries by a smartphone app so visitors can read the stories of the fallen. Work is currently being done on all of the Alabama WWII soldiers. Those with any information or photos they are willing to share on any soldier who died or was killed in World War II from Coffee or Geneva County, please contact Donna Snell at [email protected] or (334) 774- 6777.

The National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) of Coffee County meets on the first Monday of the month at Johns Chapel A.M.E. Church in Enterprise on the Geneva Highway. For more information, contact Ruthie Warren at (334) 347-1361.