ART

Bethel Park -- Schoolhouse Arts Center, 2600 South Park Road, will begin fall classes in tole painting, acrylics, wire jewelry, calligraphy, stained glass and other subjects Tuesday. Center hours are: 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday. To register, call 412-835-9898.

Homestead -- Steel Valley Arts Council sponsors Early Sketches by George Nama through Sept. 28 at artspace303, 303 E. Eighth Ave. It includes digital reproductions of Mr. Nama's sketches of Munhall, Homestead and Oakland, done in 1959-60 when he was a student at Carnegie Tech. Exhibit hours are from 6 to 8 p.m. Wednesdays, noon to 4 p.m. Saturdays and by appointment. Call 412-476-0755.

Upper St. Clair -- Artist Mollie McKay will teach how to paint a snowman using acrylics from 9 a.m. to noon Sunday during the art session of the next Golden Triangle Decorative Painters gathering in the Consol Energy building, Washington and Fort Couch roads. Use the second entrance in the upper parking lot. Cost is $12. To register, call Debbie at 724-746-3168.

AUDITIONS

South Side -- Cold reading auditions for the fast-paced British comedy "Out of Order" by Ray Cooney, to be presented by Veronica's Veil Players Nov. 3-12, will be from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. next Thursday and Sept. 22 in Veronica's Veil Auditorium, 44 Pius St. For an appointment, call Dennis at 412-381-2127.

BINGO

Mount Oliver -- Mount Oliver Recreation Association will hold its annual Senior Citizens Snack Bingo from noon to 2 p.m. next Thursday at Casne World, formerly the Ulman-Horne VFW Post 456, 325 Hays Ave. Open only to Mount Oliver residents.

DANCING

West Homestead -- Bulgarian Cultural Center, 449 W. Eighth Ave., will hold a Vecherinka, or Balkan dance party, 8:30 p.m. Saturday, with the Bulgarian folk band Otets Paissii providing music. Free folk dance lessons, 7:30 p.m. Admission is $7 for adults. For more, call 412-461-6188.

DINING OUT

Homestead -- Dormont Presbyterian Church, Espy and Potomac avenues, will hold a ham dinner from 4:30 to 7 p.m. tomorrow. It will include green beans, au gratin potatoes, applesauce and dessert. Cost is $8 for adults and $4 for children under age 12. For more, call 412-531-1555.

Upper St. Clair -- Upper St. Clair Lions Club will hold a crepe festival from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday in USC Recreation Center, McLaughlin Run Road, with entertainment by a pianist and a German street organist. Crepe flavors include ham and cheese, veggie, apple, chicken a l'orange and chocolate. Cost is $6 for adults, $3 for children under 10.

West Homestead -- Bulgarian Cultural Center, 449 W. Eighth Ave., will offer a new season of Soup Sega, 9 a.m.-noon Saturdays, starting this weekend. Fourteen gourmet homemade soups will be offered. Cost is $5 for vegetarian soups; $6 nonvegetarian. For more, call 412-461-6188.

ENTERTAINMENT

Bethel Park -- South Hills Assembly's Creation Theatre Co., 2725 Bethel Church Road, presents an interactive dinner theater, "The Love Liner," at 7 p.m. Sept. 22 and 23, in the church's fellowship hall. Tickets cost $16 for adults and $10 for children age 10 to 12. Reserved seating only. For more, 412-835-8900.

FESTIVALS

Brentwood-- The Brentwood Spartan Marching Band will present its 24th annual band festival at 7 p.m. Saturday at Brentwood Stadium, Park Drive. Baldwin, Bishop Canevin, Brentwood, Carrick, Central Catholic, Steel Valley, Taylor Alderdice, Thomas Jefferson, Upper St. Clair and West Mifflin Area high schools will perform. Tickets are $3 for students; $5 adults; $4 senior citizens.

FLEA MARKETS

Bethel Park -- Bethel Park Department of Recreation will hold a flea market from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday at Port Authority parking lot, Lytle and Brightwood roads.

FUND-RAISERS

Brentwood -- St. Sylvester's High School Youth Ministry will sponsor a Wash for Life car wash as part of a national anti-abortion event from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday in the St. Sylvester Church parking lot, 3754 Brownsville Road. Proceeds benefit South Hills Pregnancy Resource Center in Bethel Park. For more, call 412-881-1180.

West Homestead -- The PKD Foundation will sponsor the Walk for PKD, or polycystic kidney disease, at 9 a.m. Saturday at The Waterfront. Registration opens at 8 a.m., and the walk begins in the shopping square near Starbucks. Registration fee is $15. For advance registration, visit www.pkdcure.org or call 412-388-0875.

Munhall -- The Carnegie Library of Homestead board of directors will host the third annual Taste of the Valley benefit celebration from 6 to 9 p.m. Sept. 29 in the music hall and library. Themed The Best of Food in the Best of Places, it includes signature dishes from restaurants, wine, live music and raffles. Tickets are $40 and available at the library desk or by calling 412-462-3444, ext. 227.

Robinson -- Proceeds from the Speakman Financial Group's fifth annual charity golf outing Sept. 25 at Chartiers Country Club, 601 Baldwin Road, will benefit South Hills Pregnancy Resource Center, of Bethel Park. Registration begins at 8 a.m.; shotgun start, 10 a.m.; scramble format. Cost per golfer is $225; dinner (cookout buffet) only, $50. For registration, sponsorship opportunities or more, call 412-787-3373, ext. 104.

Upper St. Clair -- The Early Learning Institute and Louis Anthony Jewelers will co-host the ninth annual Fore Kids! Golf Benefit on Sept. 25 at St. Clair Country Club, 2300 Old Washington Road. Hole-in-one prizes include a Mercedes-Benz and a Rolex. Registration, 9:30 a.m.; shotgun tee-off, 11:30 a.m.; cocktail hour and auction preview, 4:30 p.m., followed by dinner and auctions. For registration, sponsorship opportunities or more, call 412-922-8322, ext. 27.

West Mifflin -- Magician Lee Terbosic will perform new magic, comedy and illusion during the show "Live and Back on Stage" at 8:30 p.m. next Thursday to Sept. 23 at CCAC South Campus theater. Tickets are $15, with some proceeds benefitting the Multiple Sclerosis Society and CCAC Drama Club. For more, call 412-469-6220.

HEALTH

Bethel Park -- Christ United Methodist Church and St. Clair Hospital will co-sponsor a Health Fair with free screenings, 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Sunday at the church, 44 Highland Road. For more, call 412-835-6621.

Bethel Park -- Mary A. O'Connor, a legal nurse consultant, will discuss precautionary labels on vials and inserts during her talk, "Food and Drug Administration Boxed Warnings," at 9:30

a.m. Tuesday during a during a Southwestern Pennsylvania Registered Nurses Club meeting at Hamilton Presbyterian Church, Baptist Road.

LIBRARIES

Brentwood -- Brentwood Library offers these children's programs:

Kids Korner Konnection: Hidden Treasure, 3:30 p.m. Monday

Terrific Toddler Tuesdays, 11:30 a.m. Tuesdays, through Nov. 28

Wonderful Weeschool Wednesdays, 1 p.m. Wednesdays, through Nov. 29

For more, call 412-882-5694.

Castle Shannon -- Castle Shannon Library events include:

A Friends book sale from 1 to 8 p.m. today and tomorrow, and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday

Fall story time for 3- to 6-year-olds at 11:15 a.m. and 1:15 p.m. Tuesdays, next week to Dec. 12. Registration is required.

Call 412-563-4552.

Green Tree -- Friends of Green Tree Public Library will hold their annual used book sale in the borough building, 10 W. Manilla Ave., second floor, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, noon to 4 p.m. Sunday, and 10 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. Monday. A special preview sale only for Friends members will be from 7 to 9 p.m. tomorrow. Call 412-921-9292.

Mt. Lebanon -- Mt. Lebanon Public Library will offer:

Let's Talk About It! Jewish Literature: Identity and Imagination, at 7 p.m. next Thursday. A discussion of the book, "Little Disturbances of Man" by Grace Paley will be led by Pittsburgh author Abby Mendelson

Sensory Storytime, 10 a.m. Monday for children age 18 months to 3 years, with an adult. Advance registration requested. Call 412-531-1912.

Scott -- A financial adviser will present the seminar Financial Management, Especially for Women, at 3 p.m. Saturday at Scott Township Public Library. Call 412-429-5380.

South Park -- As part of a Consumer Education Awareness Series, a lawyer will discuss estate planning, living wills, power of attorney and other documents at 7 p.m. Wednesday at South Park Township Library. Call 412-833-5585.

Whitehall -- Whitehall Public Library will sponsor a two-part program on the Holocaust:

"Looking Back to the Holocaust in Hungary 60 Years Ago," 7 p.m. Monday, at the library, led by Holocaust expert Rugh G. Biro

Presentation by Les Banos, a Holocaust survivor and an agent for the Allied intelligence operation that infiltrated the Hungarian Nazi Division, 7 p.m. Sept. 25, at Harrison Middle School, 129 Windvale Drive.

Both events are free, but registration is required. Call 412-882-6622.

RELIGIOUS ACTIVITIES

Clairton -- Father Angelo D'Agostino, a Jesuit priest and medical doctor, will speak at the 8:30 a.m. Sunday Mass at St. Clare of Assisi Church, 460 Reed St. He will discuss three projects he founded in Nairobi, Kenya: The Nyumbani Children's Home for AIDs orphans; The Village, a Nyumbani intergenerational community of those whose children died of AIDs; and Lea Toto, a community program assisting extended families caring for young people whose parents died of AIDs. A reception will follow, and crafts made by Lea Toto's self-help group will be sold. For more, call 412 233-7870.

Bethel Park -- Christ United Methodist Church, 44 Highland Road, will sponsor these events:

Corn Roast and Classic Car Show, 5 to 7:30 p.m. Saturday

Africa program by the Zimbabwe Volunteers in Mission team, 7 p.m. Wednesday

Christian Dating, a three-week class starting at 7 p.m. Wednesday; registration required.

Raising Children of Faith, a six-week class starting at 7 p.m. Sept. 27; registration deadline is tomorrow

For more, call 412-835-6621.

Mt. Lebanon -- Southminster Presbyterian Church, 799 Washington Road, will install the Rev. Dr. Daniel B. Merry as its eighth pastor at 4 p.m. Sunday in the sanctuary. A reception will follow on the church lawn of Southminster House, weather permitting. For more, call 412-343-8900.

Peters -- St. Benedict the Abbot Church, 120 Abington Drive, will host a Separated/Divorced Gathering at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday. First topic for this fall program is Forgiveness, from the DivorceCare DVD series. For more, call Margie at 412-283-1000 or Dennis at 724-941-9406.

Upper St. Clair -- Westminster Presbyterian Church, 2040 Washington Road, holds a weeklong 60th anniversary celebration from Sunday to Sept. 24 that includes special heritage events for children, worship services, a formal dinner Sept. 23 and a family picnic Sept. 24. For more, visit www.westminster-church.org or call 412-835-6630.

South Park -- Peters Creek Baptist Church, Route 88 and Churchill Road, offers these activities from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. each Wednesday:

Activities for children and young adults: Kreek Kids Adventure Club, KidzKwest, Kaos and Konnect

Salt and Light Institute adult study electives on the Gospels of Matthew, Jeremiah/Chapters 1-13, Grief and NOOMA

Call 412-833-6111.

Whitehall -- Franciscan Spirit and Life Center, 3605 McRoberts Road, will present:

The Aging Process: Impact of Physical Changes on our Spirituality, 10:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Tuesday

Healing and Wholeness Service, 7-9 p.m. Wednesday

For more, call 412-881-9207.

SENIORS

Scott -- Vanadium Woods Village, Vanadium Road, will offer a presentation by the past president of the guards for the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, 7 p.m. Tuesday. Call 412-221-2900.

Mt. Lebanon -- Pianist Craig Zinger and vocalist Sharon Wolf will perform, 11 a.m. tomorrow, Southminster Presbyterian Church's Adult Interest Center, Washington Road. Lunch at noon, $6. Call 412-343-8900.

SPECIAL INTEREST

Baldwin Borough -- The Republican Committee will hold a candidates night at 7 p.m. next Thursday at the Option Volunteer Fire Hall, 825 Streets Run Road. Guest speaker will be Dan Davis, 38th legislative district candidate for state representative. To RSVP, call 412-884-0521.

Dormont -- Author Bob Regan and photographer Tim Fabian will present a lecture and slide show on their books, "The Steps of Pittsburgh, Portrait of a City" and "The Bridges of Pittsburgh," at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday during a Dormont Historical Society meeting in Room 101 of Dormont Presbyterian Church, Potomac and Espy avenues. For more, call 412-341-3667.

South Park -- Oliver Miller Homestead, Stone Manse Drive, will hold a Revolutionary War Encampment from 1:30-4:30 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. The Eighth Pennsylvania Regiment of the Continental Line will be camped on the grounds of the homestead, depicting day-to-day life of the 18th-century American soldier. Donation: $1. Call 412-835-1554.

STUDENTS

West Mifflin -- West Mifflin Area High School Principal Mark Hoover will discuss What You Want to Know About the High School at 7 p.m. Tuesday in the high school cafeteria during a Parent Teacher Student Association meeting.