Area Calendar for January 8th, 2019 to January 10th, 2019. To add your group event to our calendar email at least two weeks in advance to news@orangeleader.com. Put “area calendar” in the subject line.

 

Tuesday, Jan. 8

Networking Coffee

Bridge City Chamber of Commerce is holding a Networking Coffee at 8 a.m. hosted by 5Point Credit Union located at 2335 Texas Avenue in Bridge City.

 

OC Christian Writers Guild meeting

OC Christian Writers Guild meeting will meet at 6 p.m. in the kitchen area of Orange Neighborhood Center on 8th Street in Orange. New contest starts this month.  If you want to participate, check out this link and get your creative juices flowing. http://www.nycmidnight.com/  We will also be discussing new Board Members.

 

Wednesday, Jan. 9

Golden K Kiwanis meeting

Golden K Kiwanis, a non-Profit organization for those 60 years and above, meets 9:30-10:30 a.m. each Wednesday in the Salvation Army Building, 1950 MLK Drive in Orange.  A speaker and coffee are always offered, and the public is welcomed to attend. This week the speaker will be the new director of the Museum of the Gulf Coast in Port Arthur, Thomas Neal, a former administrator at Lamar State College-Port Arthur.  He will discuss the book, “Betting, Booze, and Brothels,” by Wanda A. Landry and Laura C. O’Toole, regarding Vice, Corruption, and Justice in both Jefferson and Orange Counties, from Spindletop to the 1960s, written in 2006.

 

Thursday, Jan. 10

FOOD meeting

The first meeting of the board and volunteers of the Friends of the Orange Depot will be held on Thursday, January 10, at 5:30 p.m., with a reception at 5 p.m. at the Depot, 1210 Green Avenue in Orange. Volunteers are encouraged to come and learn about the plans for 2019. This will be the first bi-monthly meeting that will be held on the SECOND Thursday of the month, rather than the third.

Following the meeting, a dinner will be held there for members and their guests to celebrate the New Year and the accomplishments of the organization during the past year.