• Rhymes Memorial Library’s August artist of the month is D’Juana Neal Stewart of Rayville. Ten pieces of Stewart’s work will be on display at the library Sept. 2-30. Her work features prismacolor and graphite drawings as well as watercolor paintings. The library will open the showing with a reception from 4-6 p.m. Sept. 2.

• Rayville Junior High School will host a Back to School night at 6 p.m. Aug. 28 at the Rayville Art Center. Those parents who attend and sign in will receive a free dress ticket for their child.

• Rayville Masonic Lodge #209 will meet at 7 p.m. Aug. 28. The lodge meets on the second and fourth Thursday of each month.

• A benefit singing will be held at 7 p.m. Aug. 29 at Colewa Community Church, 377 Hwy. 577, Pioneer. Entertainment will include the Johnston Family, Michael Herrington and local singers.

• This Hope will perform at 7 p.m. Aug. 30 at First Baptist Church in Rayville.

• Louisiana Angels softball team is holding public tryouts for girls born on any day in 1996 or 1997 who are looking to be part of a fast pitch softball select tournament team. The team will play in tournaments this fall and in the spring & summer 2009. Tryouts will be held beginning at 9 a.m. Aug. 30 at the Osterland Recreation Center on Holland Drive in Monroe. If it rains bring tennis shoes to tryout inside the gym. All positions are available but limited. For more information, call 512-7490 or log onto www.eteamz.com/louisianaangels.

• Pretty Xtreme girl’s softball will hold tryouts for its tournament teams from 9 a.m. to noon Aug. 30 at Brady Ballfield Complex on White’s Ferry Road in West Monroe. All girls who are from 9 to 14 years of age on Jan. 1, 2009 are eligible. For more information, call Todd Hutton at 614-4141, William Trichell at 245-8189 or Mike Smalling at 537-1874.

• The Mangham Prayer Breakfast will begin again for the new school year at 7 a.m. Sept. 3 at Mangham United Methodist Church. The prayer breakfast is held at 7 a.m. each Wednesday for all community youth. Following the breakfast, prayer and devotional, youth are taken to school. Transportation is available. For more information, call Patricia Jordan at 248-2778 or Marshall Sevier at 341-1666.

• A Wildland Fire Safety program will be presented by the Archibald-Alto and Mangham fire departments at 6 p.m. Sept. 4 at the First Baptist Church gym in Archibald. The program will teach landowners and homeowners to how prevent wildfire and protect their property. For more information, call Gary Piro at 248-3219 after 5 p.m. or Ronnie Dilmore at 248-2783 after 5 p.m.

• Lori Leggitt, Sara Leggitt, and Alan McVay will be in concert at North Central Baptist Church located 1374 Highway 859, Delhi, at 5 p.m. Sept. 7 For more information, please contact Pastor Eddie Fuller at 878-3703 or by cell at 366-3111.

• King David “Hopewell” Baptist Church, of Mangham, will celebrate their 85th Church Anniversary at 11 a.m. Sept. 7.

• A back to school night for Boy Scouts will be held at 6 p.m. Sept. 11 at the Holly Ridge Elementary School cafeteria.

• Rayville High School Class of 1978 will host its 30th reunion Sept. 12-13. For more information, contact Lorraine Jackson-Scott, 30 Branch Crossing Road, Rayville, LA 71269 or call 728-2283.

• St. Matthew Baptist Church in Mangham will host a concert by the Southern Harmoneers and the Tree of Life Choir at 7 p.m. Sept. 13.

• A Celebrity Cake Auction benefiting the March of Dimes Light A Little Star event will be held at 6 p.m. on Sept. 16 at the Rayville Civic Center.

• The Louisiana Bayou Bluebird Society will host its annual meeting Sept. 20 at the Black Bayou Conservation Learning Center in Monroe. The meeting will begin at 9:30 a.m.

• Rayville High School’s earliest Palmetto issue is the 1927 edition. The school is missing the books for 1929-1941, 1943-1945, 1970, 1974, 1982, 1983, 1991, 1994, 1995, 1997, 2002 and 2003. Anyone who would like to donate a copy of any of these years to RHS, is asked to call the school at 728-3296.

• Free Health Screenings will be available to all residents of Richland Parish, 18 years and older, offered by The Richland Awareness Campaign Healthy Heart Program. The screening includes blood pressure, Heart Rate, Blood values using a simple finger stick only (Blood sugar, Total cholesterol, HDL-cholesterol, LDL-cholesterol, and Triglycerides). Brief, on-site counseling and education will be available at time of screening; screening will take an estimated 15 minutes, with blood values available in that time frame. All information is held confidential. To schedule your free screening, please call 878-2845.