Neighborly activities

Want to lend someone in the Midlands a helping hand? Starting this week in Neighbors, we’ll try to help that process along.

Community Spirit, a column that begins this week in Neighbors, is designed to serve as a bulletin board for groups involved in charity or community service work.

We hope it will provide some recognition for the people in our communities performing good deeds. We also hope it will connect volunteers eager to help with the groups that need donations of money, time and expertise.

Look for it in Neighbors

Hooping it

It’s a big basketball game for the Elgin community when the youth of Blaney Baptist take on the adults at 7 p.m. this Saturday. The benefit contest is scheduled for the Family Life Center, with all proceeds going to summer youth camp.

Both teams will have mixed squads with women and men playing for adults and girls and boys playing for the youth. It will be a regulation-style contest.

On the ice

The Rockbridge Club will present its 31st Ice Show March 11-13 at the club at 4135 Rockbridge Road.

This year’s show, “Fairy Tales,” takes a journey through time and space with Alice in Wonderland as she meets villains, princesses and animals of all sorts.

Show times are 7:30 p.m. March 11 and March 12 and 3 p.m. March 13.

Tickets are $3.50 and can be bought in advance by calling the Rockbridge Club at 787-6141, or they can be bought at the door.

Annual auction

The Spring Valley Education Foundation’s seventh annual auction will be held next Thursday evening at the Ramada Hotel at Two Notch Road and 1-77.

Items up for bid will include two airplane tickets to anywhere in the continental United States, getaways to Atlanta, beaches and Charleston, golf packages, a mountain bike, TV-VRC combination and gas grills.

Tickets are $10 in advance and $15 at the door. Contact the foundation office at 699-3546 or 699-3500.

About bond vote

Members of the Richland 2 school board will be present at next Thursday’s Woodfield Park Homeowners Association meeting to answer questions about the district’s March 20 bond referendum for a new high school.

The meeting will be held at 7:30 p.m. at the Woodfield Park Baptist Church, 1834 Morninglo Lane.

Official business

• The Richland District 2 School Board meets at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday at the District Office at 6831 Brookfield Road.
• Forest Acres City Council meets at 6 p.m. Tuesday at city hall at 5205 Trenholm Road.
• The Elgin Town Council meets at 7 p.m. Tuesday at Town Hall on Main Street.
• Richland County Council’s Administrative and Finance Committee meets at 2 p.m. Tuesday, and the Development and Services Committee, at 4 p.m.

To ask questions or submit an item for this column, call Bertram Rantin at 771-8306.