8 – Journal-Sun Wednesday, July 15, 2020

MONDAY J. E. MANNING AMERICAN LEGION POST 258 meets at 6:30 p.m. the second Monday of each month. The building is located at 320 N. Louise St. in Atlanta. For more info, call 903-796-3081. CASS COUNTY PATRIOTS meet at 6 p.m. the first Monday of every month at Amigo Juan Mexican Café on Loop 59 in Atlanta. For more info, call 903-796-6610. THE ATLANTA AREA WOMEN’S CLUB meets at 5:30 p.m. the second Monday of each month at the Queen City United Methodist Church fel- lowship hall. The church is located at 304 Marietta St. in Queen City. THE QUEEN CITY ALUMNI ASSOCIATION meets at 6 p.m. the first Monday of every month at Catfish King. For more info. call 903-796-6108. LINDEN: LINDEN CITY COUNCIL meets at 6 p.m. the second Monday of each month at the Mary Daughety Senior Citizen Center, 507 S. Kaufman. Pub- lic is invited to participate in open forum. SENIOR EXERCISE PROGRAM classes meet from 9:15 to 10:15 a.m. every Monday at the Mary Daughety Senior Center, 507 S. Kaufman in Linden. Classes are free. For info, call 903-756-5193 or 903-756-8880.

TUESDAY ECCSRA meets the second Tuesday of each month at the Queen City United Methodist Church fellowship hall located at 304 Marietta St. FRIENDS OF THE LIBRARY meets at 3 p.m. the first Tuesday of each month at the Atlanta Library. BIVINS COMMUNITY CENTER hosts a potluck supper at 6:30 p.m. the first Tuesday of each month. The center is located off Hwy 43 on FM 1841 in Bivins. For more info, call 903-796-9906. THE CASS COUNTY GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY meets on the sec- The story of Bessie Coleman ond Tuesday of each month in the fellowship hall of First United Method- ist Church in Queen City.6:30 p.m. A light meal and beverages are always Bessie Coleman soared across the ican woman. served. The church is located on the corner of Marietta and Fourth Streets in Queen City. For more info, call 903-796-3081. sky as the first African American, and She was famous for doing “loop-the- DIABETES SUPPORT GROUP meets at 1 p.m. every third Tuesday in the first Native American woman pilot. loops” and making the shape of an “8” the Conference Center inside the Medical Plaza Building at CHRISTUS Known for performing flying tricks, in an airplane. People were fascinated St. Michael Hospital-Atlanta. The hospital is located at 1007 S. William Coleman’s nicknames were; “Brave Bes- by her performances and she became St. in Atlanta; the Medical Plaza may be accessed via Pinecrest Drive. For more info, call 903-799-3004. sie,” “Queen Bess,” and “The Only Race more popular both in the United States OAK GROVE QUILTING CLUB meets from 8:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. every Aviatrix in the World.” and in Europe. She toured the coun- Tuesday The venue is on CR 2328, 1 mile from Hwy 43 South of Atlanta. Her goal was to encourage women try giving flight lessons, performing in For more info, call 903-846-5192. and African Americans to reach their flight shows, and she encouraged Af- HOUR OF PRAYER is offered every Tuesday from 6:30 to 7:30 a.m. at a new location, the Atlanta Church of God, located at 19730 FM 1841. Every- dreams. Unfortunately, her career end- rican Americans and women to learn one is invited to come and go freely and to pray for our city, county, state, ed with a tragic plane crash, but her life how to fly. nation and our leaders. For more info, call the church at 903-796-7807. continues to inspire people around the Only two years into her flight career, NIMBLE THIMBLE QUILT CLUB meets from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. every world. Coleman survived her first major airplane accident. Tuesday at the Atlanta Public Library, which is located at the corner of N. West and Hiram Streets in Atlanta. For more info, call 903-799-7870. Born in Atlanta, Texas on January 26, 1892, Bessie In February of 1923, her airplane engine sudden- LINDEN: Coleman had twelve brothers and sisters. Her moth- ly stopped working and she crashed. She was badly LINDEN AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE meets every FIRST er, Susan Coleman, was an African American maid, hurt in the accident and suffered a broken leg, a few Tuesday of the month at 6 p.m. at the Garden Club. and her father George Coleman was a Native Ameri- cracked ribs, and cuts on her face. LEDC BOARD OF DIRECTORS meets every third Tuesday of the month at noon at the LEDC offices located at 201 N. Main in Linden. The can sharecropper. In 1901, her father decided to move Thankfully, Coleman was able to fully heal from her public is invited to attend. back to Oklahoma to try to escape discrimination. injuries. This accident did not stop her from flying. CASS COUNTY COMMISSIONERS COURT meets at 8:30 a.m. the sec- Bessie’s mother decided not to go with him. Instead, She went back to performing dangerous air tricks in ond and fourth Tuesday of each month in the Justice of the Peace Court- the rest of the family stayed in Waxahachie, Texas. 1925. Her hard work helped her to save up enough room in the Law Enforcement and Justice Center on Hwy. 8 in Linden. Bessie grew up helping her mother pick cotton and money to purchase her own plane, a Jenny – JN-4 CASS COUNTY RETIRED SCHOOL EMPLOYEES ASSOCIATION meets at 2 p.m. on the second Tuesday of each month at the Mary wash laundry to earn extra money. with an OX-5 engine. Daughety Senior Citizen Center, 507 S. Kaufman in Linden. By the time she was eighteen, she saved enough Soon she returned to her hometown in Texas to per- MARY DAUGHETY SENIOR CENTER hosts a 42 Tournament the third money to attend the Colored Agricultural and Normal form for a large crowd. Because Texas was still seg- and fourth Tuesday of each month. Registration starts at 1 p.m. The venue is located at 507 S. Kaufman in Linden. For info, call 903-490-1774 or University (now Langston University) in Langston, regated, the managers planned to create two separate 903-756-5000. Oklahoma. She dropped out of college after only one entrances for African Americans and white people to CADDO WILDFLOWER CHAPTER OF THE NATIVE PLANT SOCI- semester because she could not afford to attend. get into the stadium. ETY OF TEXAS meets at 6:30 p.m. the fourth Tuesday of the month at the Mary Daughety Senior Citizen Center at 507 S. Kaufman in Linden. At age 23, Coleman went to live with her brothers in Coleman refused to perform unless there was only For info, call 903-835-5532. Chicago. She went to the Burnham School of Beauty one gate for everyone to use. After many meetings, the Culture in 1915 and became a manicurist in a local managers agreed to have one gate, but people would WEDNESDAY barbershop. Meanwhile, her brothers served in the still have to sit in segregated sections of the stadium. ATLANTA LIONS CLUB meets at noon weekly at Luigi’s Italian Restau- military during World War I and came home with She agreed to perform and became famous for stand- rant at 210 N. East St. in Atlanta. stories from their time in France. Her brother John ing up for her beliefs. KILDARE GARDEN GROUP meets on the third Wednesday of each teased her because French women were allowed to On April 30, 1926, Bessie Coleman took a test flight month at 1 p.m. at the Kildare Community Center, located on County Road 1779 in Kildare. learn how to fly airplanes and Bessie could not. with a mechanic named William Wills. Wills was pi- This made Bessie want to become a pilot. She ap- loting the plane, as Coleman sat in the passenger seat. THURSDAY plied to many flight schools across the country, but no At about 3,000 feet in the air, a loose wrench got stuck ATLANTA AREA ROTARY CLUB meets at noon weekly at Luigi’s Italian school would take her because she was both African in the engine of the aircraft. Wills was no longer able Restaurant, located at 210 N. East St. in Atlanta. American and a woman. Famous African American to control the steering wheel and the plane flipped CASS COUNTY MASTER GARDENERS meet at 6:30 p.m. the first newspaper publisher, Robert Abbott told her to move over. Unfortunately, Coleman was not wearing a seat- Thursday of each month in the Conference Room at CHRISTUS St. Mi- chael Hospital-Atlanta, which is located at 1102 S. William Street. to France where she could learn how to fly. She began belt. Airplanes at the time did not have a roof or any NUTRITION AND WELLNESS GROUP meets from 1 to 2 p.m. every taking French classes at night because her application protection. Coleman immediately fell out of the open second Thursday at the Atlanta Public Library. Bring a lunch. The library to flight schools needed to be written in French. plane and died. is located at the corner of N. West and Hiram Streets in Atlanta. For info, call 903-796-7027. Finally, Coleman was accepted at the Caudron Wills crashed the aircraft a few feet away from Cole- VFW POST 5870 meets at 6 p.m. the second Thursday of each month. The Brothers’ School of Aviation in Le Crotoy, France. man’s body and also died. Her death was heartbreak- venue is located one-and-a-half miles past Atlanta High School on FM She received her international pilot’s license on June ing for thousands of people. 251. For more info, call 903-799-6828. 15, 1921 from the Fédération Aéronautique Interna- Famous activist Ida B. Wells-Barnett performed the HUFFINES QUILTERS meet from 6 to 9 p.m. every Thursday at the tionale. Coleman’s dream was to own a plane and to funeral service to honor Coleman in Chicago. In 1931, Huffines Community Center, which is located south of Atlanta on FM 251. Beginners welcome. For info, call 903-796-9674. open her own flight school. the Challenger Pilots’ Association of Chicago started BUSY BEE QUILTERS OF HUFFINES meets from 7 a.m. to 3 p.m. every She gave speeches and showed films of her air tricks a tradition of flying over Coleman’s grave every year. Thursday at 4636 FM 251S near Huffines. For more info, call 903-796- in churches, theaters, and schools to earn money. She By 1977, African American women pilots formed the 1013 or 903-796-3404. refused to speak anywhere that was segregated or dis- Bessie Coleman Aviators Club. LINDEN: THE LINDEN LIONS CLUB meets every Thursday at noon at the Coun- criminated against African Americans. In 1922, she In 1995, the “Bessie Coleman Stamp” was made to ty Seat Café, at 109 N. Main in Linden. For more info, call 903-814-1482. performed the first public flight by an African Amer- remember all of her accomplishments. MARY DAUGHETY SENIOR CENTER hosts a 42 Tournament the sec- ond Thursday of each month. Registration starts at 1 p.m. The venue is located at 507 S. Kaufman in Linden. For more info, call 903-799-8621.

FRIDAY ATLANTA PUBLIC LIBRARY offers knitting classes from 10 a.m. to noon weekly. The library is located at 101 W. Hiram in Atlanta. For more info, call 903-796-2112. HUFFINES COMMUNITY CENTER hosts a community singing at 6 p.m. the last Friday of the month at the Huffines Community Center, which is located south of Atlanta on FM 251. For info call 903-796-9440. LINDEN: SENIOR EXERCISE PROGRAM classes meet from 9:15 to 10:15 a.m. every Friday at the Mary Daughety Senior Center, 507 S. Kaufman in Lin- den. Classes are free. For info, call 903-756-5193 or 903-756-5000.

SATURDAY CENTER GROVE BAPTIST CHURCH will host a gospel singing at 6 p.m. the first Saturday of each month with dinner and program at 7 p.m. The church is located on CR 1123 off Hwy 8 in Linden. For more info, call 903-556-4117. RADIO AMATEURS OF CASS COUNTY meet at 8:30 a.m. every third Saturday at the Hall-Miller Airport Lounge in Atlanta for a pancake breakfast. For info, call 903-796-2192. LINDEN: FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH OF LINDEN offers a recovery support group at 4 p.m. weekly. The discussion balances Biblical teaching and a 12-step philosophy in a program that addresses drug and alcohol addiction. The church is located at 105 W. Graham in Linden. Call 903-756-5517. Events may be submitted to [email protected]. Notices are not guaranteed to run, according to space available. Please send at least one week ahead of the event. Deadline is 3 p.m. Thursday.

Events may be submitted to [email protected]. Notices are not guaranteed to run, according to space available. Please send at least one week ahead of the event. Deadline is 3 p.m. Thursday.