Art
Dormont -- LifeSpan's Hillsdale Senior Resource Center will present its second annual art exhibit and sale, 5:30-9:30 p.m. Friday, 1444 Hillsdale Ave., featuring works by the Primary Colors Art Guild.
Mt. Lebanon -- Mt. Lebanon High School's Visual Arts Department hosts a public reception for the Senior Art Display, 7 p.m. today, 155 Cochran Road.
Dancing
Green Tree -- Sophisticated Singles will hold a dance, 8:30 p.m.-1 a.m. Friday, Holiday Inn Green Tree, 401 Holiday Drive. Admission: $7. Call 412-572-5259.
Dining out
Dormont -- Dormont Presbyterian Church, 2865 Espy Ave., will hold a spaghetti dinner, 4:30 to 7 p.m. Friday. Cost: $6 adults; $4 children (12 and younger). Call 412-531-1555.
Overbrook -- St. Norbert Church, Saw Mill Run Boulevard and Route 88, will sponsor a pancake breakfast, 7:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. Sunday. Cost: $5 adults; $3 children (younger than 12). For reservations, call 412-881-5636.
Entertainment
Mt. Lebanon -- Pupils in grades 6 to 8 at St. Elizabeth Elementary School, Pleasant Hills, will present a musical production of Irving Berlin's "Annie Get Your Gun," 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday, at Seton-LaSalle High School auditorium, 1000 McNeilly Road. Tickets: $8 adults; $5 senior citizens and children/youths (ages 3-18). Call Eileen, 412-884-3226.
Mt. Lebanon -- Southminster Presbyterian Church will present Music for Percussion and Organ with Chris Vandall and Rich Pinkerton, 7:30 p.m. Sunday. A freewill offering will benefit the Southminster Ringers' 2004 Summer Tour of Finland, Russia, Estonia and Iceland. Call 412-343-8900.
Mt. Lebanon -- The Mt. Lebanon Percussion Program will present its 20th annual Evening of Percussion concert series, 7:30 p.m. May 27-29 and 1 p.m. May 29, Mt. Lebanon High School Fine Arts Theater, 155 Cochran Road. Saturday's matinee will include alumni members participating in the traditional Sabre Dance grand finale and a post-concert reception in Center Court. Tickets: $8 adults; $5 students. Call 412-344-2030.
Flea market
Clairton -- Church of the Transfiguration, Fifth Street and Halcomb Avenue, will sponsor a flea market/bake sale, 8:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m. Saturday.
Fund-raisers
Bethel Park -- St. Thomas More School will hold a white elephant sale, 8:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Saturday, in the gym, 134 Fort Couch Road. Proceeds benefit the school technology program.
Bethel Park -- Friends of the Montour Trail will hold a Party on the Trail (Ramble, Run, Ride and Ribs), 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Saturday, starting at the Washington School parking lot, Clifton Road, to publicize the trail and benefit the Clifton Road Bridge Fund. Registration accepted on event day. Cost: $15 adults; $6 youths (ages 11-17); free for children younger than 11. Visit www.montourtrail.org or call 412-833-0270.
Bethel Park -- Bethel Park Lions Club will hold its semiannual fish fry, rain or shine, 4:30-7:30 p.m. Friday, Lions Park, 5757 Irishtown Road, with proceeds benefitting various charities and the care of Lions Park. Tickets: $6.50. Call 412-835-9672.
Green Tree -- The Greentree SportsPlex, Iron City Drive, Foster Plaza, will hold a nonstop Grand Opening Sports-athon, 6 p.m. Friday to 6 p.m. Sunday, to benefit the Tommy Maddox Foundation for Economically Disadvantaged Kids. Features tournaments in 16 sports. To register, call 412-922-1818.
Liberty -- The Pathfinder's Followers Celebration of Life Concert, 8:30 a.m. to dusk Saturday, Liberty Presbyterian Church, Elizabeth and Valley streets, will begin with a worship service, followed by praise bands, a pig roast, food booths, bake and craft sales, and children's activities. Proceeds will benefit the American Cancer Society in memory of church member Donald C. Kerklo.
McMurray -- Our Redeemer Lutheran Church, Route 19 and Gateshead Drive, will host a free music festival at 4 p.m. Sunday, followed by a benefit dinner at 5:30 p.m. for Maria's Bathtub. Maria is a first-grader in Peters who suffers from transverse myelitis, an inflammation of the spinal cord fluid that results in paralysis. As she struggles for independence, she would like to provide personal care for herself, but needs a wheelchair-accessible bathroom to do it. Dinner tickets: $10 adults and youths (age 13 and older); $5 children (age 12 and younger). Call 724-941-7467.
Gardens
Mt. Lebanon -- The Pittsburgh Iris and Daylily Society will present the 52nd annual Iris Show, 1-9 p.m. Saturday, Galleria, 1500 Washington Road, with a plant sale, 10 a.m. Member and nonmember entries will be accepted 8-10:30 a.m. Call 724-941-8101.
Health
Brentwood -- Brentwood Library will offer an American Red Cross certification course in Adult CPR/AED, noon-3 p.m. Saturday, teaching cardiopulmonary resuscitation on adults and use of an automatic external defibrillator. For age 16 and older. Cost: $30. Call 412-882-5694.
Mt. Lebanon -- Medical Rescue Team South, 315 Cypress Way, will offer these courses on Saturday: Healthcare Provider CPR, 8:30 a.m., $45; and First Aid Basics, 2 p.m., $55. To register, call 412-343-5111.
Mt. Lebanon -- Audiologist Marilyn Enock will present Dealing with the Confusing World of Hearing Loss, 1-3 p.m. today, Mt. Lebanon Public Library, 16 Castle Shannon Blvd. Audiological screenings will follow the free lecture, which is co-sponsored by Carnegie Library for the Blind and Physically Handicapped and Pittsburgh Vision Services. Call 412-531-1912.
Libraries
Bethel Park -- Bethel Park Public Library will offer introductory Internet and e-mail computer classes for seniors (age 55-plus), 8 a.m. Tuesday. To register, call 412-835-2207.
Brentwood -- Brentwood Library will hold a Pizza 'N Pages book discussion group for teens, with free pizza, 7 p.m. today. Topic: "Amandine" by Adele Griffin. Call 412-882-5694.
Mt. Lebanon -- At Mt. Lebanon Public Library:
The French Conversation Group will show the foreign film "Autumn Song," 6:45 p.m. tomorrow; and
The Reader's Theater group will perform excerpts from the dramatic play "The Tiger," 7 p.m. next Wednesday.
Call 412-531-1912.
Pleasant Hills -- Jack Aupperle, retired pastor of Baldwin Community United Methodist Church, will present a review of "Tour of Duty: John Kerry and the Vietnam War" by Douglas Brinkley, Pleasant Hills Public Library, 10:30 a.m. Friday. Call 412-655-2424.
Scott -- Scott Township Public Library offerings:
U.S. Rep. Tim Murphy, R-Upper St. Clair, will discuss "Medicare Reform and the Prescription Drug Program," 2 p.m. Monday;
The Rev. Richard Davies, rector of Old St. Luke's Church in Scott, will discuss "Chartiers Valley in American History," 7 p.m. next Wednesday. Call 412-429-5380.
Religious
Bethel Park -- Musical presentations at South Hills Assembly's church sanctuary, 2725 Bethel Church Road, will include:
Splash Kingdom by the Assembly's children's choirs, 7 p.m. Saturday and 6 p.m. Sunday. Call 412-835-8900.
Hillcrest Christian Academy's middle school musical, 7 p.m. Tuesday, and elementary school musical, 7 p.m. May 27. Call 412-854-4040.
Seniors
Mt. Lebanon -- Programs at the Adult Interest Center, Southminster Presbyterian Church, 799 Washington Road, include:
A musical performance by the Mt. Lebanon High School Triple Trio, 11 a.m. Friday; and
Bingo, 11 a.m. May 28.
Call 412-343-8900.
Special interest
Peters -- Registered genealogist Sharon Dulaney will present Beginning Genealogy at a Women (Women Organized to Mentor, Empower and Network) of Southwestern Pennsylvania program meeting, 6 p.m. tomorrow, Valley Brook Country Club, Hidden Valley Road. Cost: $21. For reservations, 724-941-6135.
Peters -- Duquesne University history education professor William Switala will present "The Underground Railroad in Pennsylvania" during a Peters Creek Historical Society meeting, 7:30 p.m. Monday, Wright's United Methodist Church, Fellowship Hall, 788 Venetia Road. Call 724-941-5024.
Pleasant Hills -- Child psychologist and U.S. Rep. Tim Murphy, R-Upper St. Clair, will present "Parenting in Today's World," 7 p.m. Sunday, Pleasant Hills Community Church, followed by a question and answer session. Call 412-655-2000.
White Oak -- St. Angela Merici School's Parent Teacher Guild will sponsor a Night at the Races, 7:30 p.m. Friday, St. Angela School Hall, 1640 Fawcett Ave. Tickets: $10. Call 412-664-7594.
Support
Areawide -- Self Help Group Network, a service of HelpLine, provides a database of support group meetings, including those in South Hills neighborhoods. Call 412-255-1155.
Mt. Lebanon -- Shawn McGill, family services coordinator from the Pittsburgh chapter of the Alzheimer's Association, will present "Coping with Caregiver Stress, " 6-7 p.m. May 27, during a Caregivers Support Meeting, Covenant of South Hills, 1300 Bower Hill Road. Reservation deadline is Monday. Call 412-294-1358.
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