Community Notes

* The Bloomfield Town Council will conduct a special meeting on at 4 p.m. at the Town Hall. The only item on the agenda for meeting is to pass a resolution for the County Election Board to conduct the 2011 General Election for the Town of Bloomfield.

* The Bloomfield American Legion will be offering brats and wings from 5 to 8 p.m.

* The Friends of the Bloomfield-Eastern Greene Public Library are hosting a farewell/good luck open house for Library Director John Helling. The party will be at the Community Room at the Bloomfield Library from 5 to 6:30 p.m. Everyone is welcome to attend. There will be refreshments and music.

* The Shakamak Senior Citizens Center will host its monthly biscuit and gravy breakfast from 7 to 9:30 a.m. at the senior center. Other breakfast items and carry-out will be available.

* Trinity Lutheran Church in Linton will host its annual rummage sale today from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. If you would like to pick up leftover items on Aug. 6 at 12:10 p.m. call Genny at 847-7449 or (812) 309-9979.

Saturday, Aug. 6

* A benefit dinner to honor the memory of Jarad Rifner will be from 3 to 7 p.m. at Harvest Community Church south of Bloomfield. It will be a free will donation. For more information or to donate, call 384-5364.

* The Bloomfield Fire Department will host a breakfast at the fire station from 7 to 10 a.m. The menu includes biscuits and gravy, sausage patty, milk, coffee, orange juice, and water. Deliveries are available (within the Bloomfield town limits) by calling 384-8646.

* Mineral United Methodist Church will host an ice cream social at 5:30 p.m. in the church's community room. The public is invited.

* The Lawrence County Rock, Mineral and Fossil Club; with members from all over south-central Indiana; will meet at 7 p.m. at the Company Concourse (1402 H. St.) in Bedford. The program on Meramec Caverns will be presented by Benjamin Lyons. Visitors are always welcome. For more information, call (812) 275-7703 or visit the website at www.lawrencecountyrockclub.org .

* Mineral Church will have an ice cream social at 5:30 p.m. Music will be by Bunkum Valley Boys.

* The annual Harp reunion will be at Walnut Grove fellowship hall. A pitch-in lunch will be served at 12:30 p.m.

* Trinity Lutheran Church in Linton will host its annual rummage sale today from 8 a.m. to noon. If you would like to pick up leftover items after 12:10 p.m. call Genny at 847-7449 or (812) 309-9979.

Sunday, Aug.

Aids/STD Conference Being Held At Indiana University

(BLOOMINGTON, IN) - Public Health and Clinic Workers from rural communities all over the country are attending a rural aids/HIV prevention conference at Indiana University Bloomington.

The Biennial Conference is hosted by the Rural Center For Aids/STD Prevention.

Executive Director William Yarber says the center and the conference are specific to addressing the issues of rural areas and preventing the spread of sexually transmitted diseases.

This year's conference is focusing on minority populations with emphasis on African-Americans.

Yarber says Aids/HIV is a big problem among African-American men who have sex with men in the Deep South.

Yarber says the African-American community represents about half of the nation's aids cases. Yarber says the conference will also address other rural minority populations including Alaskan natives and Native Americans. The conference runs through Saturday.

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