The Ball Play Ruritan Club  will host a free canning class on Saturday, July 28 from 1-5 p.m. Limited to 12 people, participants will learn pressure cooker and hot water bath methods.  Offered as a community service of the Ruritan Club, there is no charge for either event.  Picnic and canning class will be at 157 Ball Play School Road, 1/2 mile west of the intersection at Hwy 360, at the Friends Meeting of Ball Play. Please call Lynn Pearson to register for the canning class at 442-7053.

Happy birthday to  Loomis Carmley, Lily Annabelle Witt, Dawn Williams, Merle Pearson, Carolyn Kelley, Reece Williams, Olita Walker, Alyssa Brown and Lois Shields.

Get well wishes go to Reba Williams, Betty Cheeks, Sam Belcher,  Faye Torbett, O.R. "Red" Young, Sue Young, Susie Moser, Otis Young,  Molly Gray, Mammie Belcher, Wail Dalton, Thelma Matoy, JoAnn Queen,  Boyd Rodgers, Emma Best, Wayne Lynn, Stanley Collins, Charlotte Duncan, Sharon West, Justine Williams, Margaret Wall,  Virgil Tipton, Jean Collins, Faye McDaniel, Clifford Lynn and Mildred Wattenbarger.

Sympathy is extended to the familes of Donnie Davis, and Dervern Ledford Lichlyter.

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