Church activities

Richland -- Guatemala Mission Group of St. Richard Church, 3841 Dickey Road, is sponsoring a harvest dinner of roast beef and chicken Florentine at 6 p.m. Saturday. Proceeds benefit orphans in Patzun, Guatemala. Tickets will not be available at the door. Call 724-444-1971.

Pittsburgh -- St. Cyril of Alexandria Guild Christian Mothers will have a luncheon card party at noon Saturday in Axmacher Hall, 3854 Brighton Road, Brighton Heights. Cost is $6. For reservations, call 412-931-4328.

Classes

O'Hara -- Lauri Ann West Memorial Library, 1220 Powers Run Road, is offering computer classes for adults: Introduction to computers, 10 to 11:15 a.m. tomorrow; Introduction to e-mail, 3 to 4:15 p.m. Monday; Introduction to Microsoft Word, in two parts, 6 to 8 p.m. Monday and Nov. 15; Introduction to genealogy resources and databases, 10 to 11:15 a.m. next Thursday, free; E-mail: beyond the basics, 3 to 4:15 p.m. Nov. 15; Search the Internet, 10 to 11:15 a.m. Nov. 19; E-mail: advanced, 3 to 4:15 p.m. Nov. 22. All classes cost $5 or $4 for seniors, unless otherwise indicated. Registration required. Call 412-828-9520, ext. 15.

Ross -- A Holiday Beadathon will be held from 1 to 4 p.m. Saturday at the North Hills Art Center, 3432 Babcock Blvd. Cost is $13.50 for members, $23.50 for others. Materials fee also will be charged per project. Advance registration and payment required. For information or to register, call 412-364-3622.

Richland -- The First Presbyterian Church of Bakerstown, Route 8 at Heckert Road, will offer a class on how to make greeting cards at 7 p.m. Monday and Nov. 22 in Fellowship Hall. Cost is $9 per class. For information or to register, call 724-443-1555.

Richland -- Richland Recreation Department will present a class on taking care of the elderly from 7 to 9 p.m. Tuesday at the Richland municipal building, 4011 Dickey Road. To register, call 724-443-5921.

Concerts

Ross -- The Scottish Rite Legion of Honor Valley of Pittsburgh will host The Highwood Holiday Players, The Let's Dancers and Ted and Zack Bergfelt in a Salute to the Armed Forces, Past and Present at 7:30 tonight, Greater Pittsburgh Masonic Center, 6579 Masonic Way. Tickets are $5. For information, call 412-322-1754.

McCandless -- River City Brass Band will premiere a performance of "The Oval Office," a look at presidents from the Revolutionary War to the fall of the Berlin Wall, at 8 p.m. tomorrow, North Allegheny Intermediate High School, 350 Cumberland Road. Tickets cost $19 to $23. For information or tickets, call the box office at 412-322-7222 or 1-800-292-7222.

Butler -- Butler County Symphony Orchestra will perform a family concert at 7:30 p.m. Saturday in Butler Area Intermediate High School auditorium, 551 Fairground Hill Road. Tickets are $8 for adults, $5 for children. No reserved seats. Get tickets at May's Music Shoppe, 247 E. Jefferson St., or at the symphony office, 259 S. Main St. For more information, call 724-283-1402.

Marshall -- The Center for Young Musicians will hold an ensemble recital at 1 p.m. Saturday in Marshall Middle School auditorium, 5145 Wexford Run Road. For more information call, 724-935-0505.

Ross -- The North Hills Chorale will hold a concert to benefit North Hills Community Outreach at 7:30 p.m. Sunday at Berkeley Hills Lutheran Church, 517 Sangree Road. Donations will be accepted.

Conference

Marshall -- Cranberry Area Chamber of Commerce's Business Expo with a Community Flair will be held from 3 to 7 p.m. Monday at the Four Points Sheraton Inn Pittsburgh North. Admission is free. The event will include more than 60 booths, cash awards and dozens of door prizes.

Craft shows

Franklin Park -- Ingomar United Methodist Church, 1501 W. Ingomar Road, will host its Gingerbread Shed craft show from 7 to 9:30 p.m. tomorrow and 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday. Proceeds benefit the future Community Prayer Garden. For more information, call 412-364-3613.

Cranberry -- Cranberry Women's Club will sponsor the Farkleberry Craft show and silent auction from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday at the Cranberry municipal building, 2525 Rochester Road. Admission is free. Proceeds benefit local charities.

McCandless -- Community College of Allegheny County-North Campus, 8701 Perry Highway, will host a craft show from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday in the campus' first-floor atrium.

Ross -- Kane Regional Center, 110 McIntyre Road, will hold a craft show from 5 a.m. to 4 p.m. tomorrow. Proceeds benefit the Animal Friends of Pittsburgh. For more information, call 412-469-8307.

Entertainment

Reserve -- The Ladies Auxiliary of Mount Troy Volunteer Fire Company will host its annual turkey bingo at 1 p.m. Sunday at 33 Lonsdale St. Cost is $5 for six cards. For information, call 412-231-2462.

Zelienople -- The Calvin Youth Groups will perform "Jesus Christ Superstar" at 7 p.m. tomorrow, Saturday, next Thursday, Nov. 12 and Nov. 13 and at 2 p.m. Sunday at Calvin Presbyterian Church, 415 E. Grandview Ave. Admission is $6 for adults, $4 for students. Mission programs will benefit. For reservations, call 724-452-7560, ext. 17.

Exhibits

North Side -- Community College of Allegheny County is hosting a free Civil War exhibit, Forever Free: Abraham Lincoln's Journey to Emancipation, through Dec. 10 at the Allegheny campus library, 808 Ridge Ave. The exhibit will be open 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Mondays through Thursdays, 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Fridays and 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturdays. For information, call 412-237-2391.

For parents

O'Hara -- A representative from the Pennsylvania Higher Education Assistance Agency will talk about applying for college funding at 7 tonight in Lauri Ann West Memorial Library, 1220 Powers Run Road. To register, call 412-828-9520, ext. 15.

Shaler -- James Stossel will talk about getting money for a child's college education at 7 tonight in Shaler North Hills Library, 1822 Mount Royal Blvd. Seating is limited. To reserve a spot, call 1-800-776-9896.

McCandless -- Dr. David Silk of Bellevue Pediatric Associates will discuss promoting positive behavior in children at 7 p.m. Tuesday in Northland Public Library, 300 Cumberland Road. To register, call 412-366-8100, ext. 113.

Fund-raising

Valencia -- Boy Scout Troop 58 will host an all-you-can-eat pancake breakfast from 7 a.m. to noon Saturday in Glade Run United Presbyterian Church, 1091 Pittsburgh Road. Cost is $5 for adults, $3 for children 12 and younger. Proceeds will be used to buy Christmas gifts for the less fortunate.

Shaler -- The Three Rivers Leatherneck Detachment of the Marine Corps League will sell artificial rosebuds Saturday at the Route 8 Giant Eagle to benefit flood victims.

O'Hara -- The St. Joseph Church Youth Group will hold a spaghetti dinner to benefit area flood victims from 4 to 7:30 p.m. Sunday in the church hall on Dorseyville Road. Cost is $5 for adults, $3 for seniors and students. Children younger than eat free. For information, call 412-782-1921.

Health

Richland -- Dr. Helen O'Hallaron, of Bellevue Pediatric Associates, will talk about the prevention and treatment of childhood injuries at 7 p.m. tonight at Northern Tier Library, 4015 Dickey Road. For reservations, call 724-449-2665.

Harrison -- Alle-Kiski Medical Center dietitian Dom Battaglia will present "Diabetes and Dieting: Understanding Facts and Fads about Weight Management" at 5 p.m. Monday in room 4-A of the Charles W. Young Conference Center, 320 E. North Ave. Free. To register, call 1-877-284-2000.

Pittsburgh -- Women are invited to attend a free seminar about menopause from 6 to 8 p.m. Monday at UPMC St. Margaret, 815 Freeport Road, near Aspinwall. To register, call 412-784-5386.

Ross -- Psychologist Jeffery D. Freedman will answer mental health questions about children and adolescents from 7 to 9 p.m. Tuesday at the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill Southwestern Pennsylvania office, McKnight Plaza, 105 Braunlich Drive, Suite 230. To reserve a seat, call Linda Pacella at 412-366-3788.

Brackenridge -- The Alle-Kiski mobile blood bank will be at St. Barnabas Episcopal Church, Freeport Road, from 2 to 7 p.m. Wednesday.

Cranberry -- UPMC Passavant Cranberry will offer free cholesterol and HDL screenings from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. Wednesday and Nov. 17 at the hospital's outpatient lab, first floor, 1 St. Francis Way, Cranberry. To register, call 412-367-6485.

Holiday happenings

Ross -- St. John's Lutheran Church, 920 Perry Highway, will hold a holiday open house from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday.

Zelienople -- Tickets are being sold today and tomorrow for the Dec. 4 Christmas house tour sponsored by the Zelienople Historical Society. Tickets are limited and cost $20. They are available from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at Passavant House, 243 S. Main St.

Meetings

Fox Chapel -- A parents meeting for the Fox Chapel Cotillion will be held at 7 tonight at Good Shepherd Lutheran Church, 1610 Powers Run Road. For information, call 412-782-6855.

Franklin Park -- North Hills Toastmasters will meet at 7 tonight in Ingomar United Methodist Church, 1501 W. Ingomar Road. For more information, call Kim Gracey at 412-809-8203.

Richland -- Gibsonia/Mars MOMS will meet at 10 a.m. Tuesday in Bakerstown United Methodist Church, Route 8 and Dickey Road. For more information, call Trish at 724-449-9241.

Ross -- North Boros Old Tymers Club will meet at 11:30 a.m. Tuesday at Monte Cello's restaurant, 2189 Babcock Blvd. Male graduates of Avalon, Bellevue and Avonworth high schools are invited. For more information, call Paul Lotz at 412-741-3625.

Leet -- A Parents Together meeting will be held from 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. tomorrow at the Education Center, Watson Institute, 301 Camp Meeting Road. For more information, call 412-741-1800.

West View -- West View Crime Watch will meet at 7 p.m. Monday at 398 Perry Highway.

Open house

Emsworth -- The Glen Montessori School, 500 Huntingdon Ave., will have an open house for parents of prospective pupils ages 3 through 6 from 4 to 6 p.m. Sunday. For information, call 412-766-3815.

Fox Chapel -- Shady Side Academy will host an open house for parents of prospective pupils in grades six through eight at 7 p.m. Wednesday and for parents of pupils in kindergarten through grade five at 7 p.m. next Thursday. For information, call 412-968-3180.

Religion

Harmony -- Norman Geisler, dean of Southern Evangelical Theological Seminary and author, will speak at the Spiritual Life Conference from 7 to 9 p.m. tomorrow and from 9 to 11:30 a.m. Saturday in Grace Church, 538 Main St. Child care will be provided for infants and children up to 4 years old. For information, call 724-452-7270.

Sales

Bellevue -- The clearance sale of Suburban General Hospital Auxiliary's New to You Shoppe, 411 Lincoln Ave., will continue from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. through Saturday.

Franklin Park -- St. Brendan's Episcopal Church, 2365 McAleer Road, will hold a holiday gift sale from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday. Items include Christmas home decor, gourmet foods, artwork, crafts, books, toys and more.

Ross -- McKnight United Methodist Church, 600 Fox Drive, will host a baked goods and rummage sale from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday with a bag sale at 1 p.m.

Ross -- Riverview Presbyterian Church, 3505 Perrysville Ave., will hold a flea market from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, with bag sale at 1 p.m.

Ross -- Berkeley Hills Lutheran Church, 517 Sangree Road, will sell hand-crafted items from 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Sunday. Proceeds benefit Northside Common Ministries.

North Allegheny -- North Allegheny School District Marching Band is selling citrus fruit through Nov. 18. Navel oranges and red grapefruits are $17 per box. For information, call Jim Belliveau at 724-934-0014.

Pine -- Salem United Methodist Church, 3250 Manor Road, will open the Olive Branch Gift Shop from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays through Dec. 18. A 10 percent discount will be offered tomorrow and Saturday. Additional hours are available by appointment. For information, call the church at 724-935-1627.

Seniors

O'Hara -- Senior citizens in the Fox Chapel Area School District are invited to a free dress rehearsal for the Fox Chapel Area High School's production of "A Midsummer Night's Dream," at 3:30 p.m. Tuesday in the high school auditorium, Field Club Drive. For reservations, call 412-967-2443.

Special interest

Marshall -- The Northern Allegheny County Chamber of Commerce hosts a progressive lunch at 11:30 a.m. today at the Four Points Sheraton Inn Pittsburgh North. Cost is $20 for members, $30 for nonmembers. To register, call 724-934-9700.

Edgeworth -- The Women's Club of Sewickley will host Dan Simpson, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette associate editor and retired U.S. ambassador, at 1:30 p.m. Monday in Edgeworth Club, East Drive. For information, call 412-761-2618.

Shaler -- Glenshaw Century Club house tour and fair will be held from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday. Tickets are $15 and available at the Shaler North Hills Library or by calling 412-366-2769.

Millvale -- Women are invited to a retreat offered by the Franciscan Sisters tomorrow through Sunday at Mount Alvernia. For information, call Sister Kathy Adamski at 412-215-7708.

Volunteers

Cranberry -- The adult literary program of Butler County Community College will offer free training for tutors from 8:45 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Saturday and Nov. 13 at the Cranberry Center, 250 Executive Drive. All tutoring is done within Butler County. For information or to register, call 724-287-8711, ext. 8350.

Workshops

Pittsburgh -- A ski and snowboard workshop will be held from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Tuesday at UPMC St. Margaret conference center, Freeport Road, near Aspinwall. The workshop is free, but registration is required by noon tomorrow. To register, call 412-784-5000.

O'Hara -- A workshop on durable power of attorney will be held at 9 a.m. today at the O'Hara township building, 425 Fox Chapel Road. Cost is $20. To register, call Adriane Deithorn at 412-784-4144.