DAILY DIGEST

MONDAY

COMPASSIONATE FRIENDS OF TYLER, a support group for families who have experienced the death of a child, will meet 6:30 p.m. Monday, Dec. 15. For more info visit www.TylerTCF.org or call 903-258-2547.

THE DEEP EAST TEXAS AGGIE MOM'S CLUB will hold their annual "Swap til up Drop" Christmas Cookie Exchange on Monday December 8th, from 6:30 - 8:00 at the First Lutheran Church at 3901 Bill Owens Pkwy. Bring your favorite Christmas snack and an extra container to "swap" goodies with. For more information, call Kristi Koonce at 759-0118.

TOPS (TAKING OFF POUNDS SENSIBLY) meets Mondays 5:30-6:30 at St. Luke's UMC. For information call Linda Myhand 903-934- 6794 or Linda Brotherton at 903-258- 3463. Come join a group well known for losing and loving it.

GREGG COUNTY MASTER GARDENERS are involved in many community gardening and landscaping projects. A 10- week Master Gardener training course will begin Jan. 7, 2009. Cost to enroll is $100. Applications for training are due by Monday, Dec. 15. For complete schedule visit http://greggtx. tamu.edu/. For more info visit www.greggmastergardeners.org.

TUESDAY

PESTICIDE RECERTIFICATION SEMINAR will be held Dec. 2 and 4 at the Texas AgriLife Research and Extension Center at Overton. Registration for the program will begin at 7:30 a.m. each morning, with the program starting at 8:30. Training is scheduled to end at 2:45 p.m. Registration fee for either day is $25 and will include a catered a barbecue lunch. For info, call Dennis Smith, Gregg County Extension Office, at 903-236- 8429 or by e-mail at dg-smith@tamu.edu.

SATURDAY

HEARING LOSS ASSOCIATION, LONGVIEW CHAPTER, will meet Dec. 6 at Wesley-McCabe Methodist Church, 1115 S. Mobberly, at 10:30 a.m. The Christmas party will feature Christmas music, a a gift exchange, and a luncheon. Please bring a wrapped white elephant gift and a covered dish for the luncheon. Visitors welcome.

SUNDAY

MT. MORIAH BAPTIST CHURCH, 8316 West Goforth Rd., Kilgore, invites the public to attend their anniversary Nov. 30 at 3 p.m. The guest minister will be Rev. Thomas E. Jones, Associate Minister, Willow Springs Baptist Church, Longview.

KC THEATER DEPARTMENT will perform "A Christmas Carol" in Van Cliburn Auditorium 7:30 p.m. Friday-Sunday, Dec. 5-7, with matinees at 2:30 p.m. both Sundays. For ticket info, call 983-8126 or e-mail kbarber@kilgore.edu.

FYI

KILGORE COMMUNITY CRISIS CENTER is in desperate need of toiletries - soap, deodorant, shampoo, toilet tissue and pampers. If you would like to make donation please call 903- 984-3019

THE HUMANE SOCIETY OF NORTHEAST TEXAS (LONGVIEW) is looking for volunteers to help at the animal shelter. Participants must be at least 18 years of age and complete a volunteer application. For more information, contact Roxanne Hutson at 903-297-2170.

THE H.E.A.R.T. GROUP, a domestic sexual assault group for women, meets every Thursday from 6-7 p.m. at the Kilgore Community Crisis Center located at 905 Broadway. The public is welcome to attend. For more information call 903-984-3019

THE DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SUPPORT GROUPS meet each Thursday evening at 6 p.m. at 905 Broadway. For more information call 903-984-3019.

HELPING HANDS NEED VOLUNTEERS to work 3 to 5 hours once a week or once a month helping bag food for the families. Please call between 9-12 Monday through Friday at 903-984-1796.

THE ROY H. LAIRD FOUNDATION AUXILIARY is still taking paper back books in the gift shop. These books generate monies for scholarships for Kilgore Jr. College students who are enrolled in the medical field, and also to pay for prescriptions to the elderly.