-ART Ronald McDonald House Charities of Columbia’s 3rd Annual Art with A Heart Show will be Thursday, August 26, 5:30 p.m., 701 Whaley. Tickets are $15 per person or $25 per couple. 254-0118.

McKissick Museum will hold its 16th annual gala, “Summertime… and the art is good lookin,” 7:30 – 10 p.m. Friday, August 20. 777-7251 or visit www.cas.sc.edu/MCKS/

-BACK–TO–SCHOOL South Carolina Criminal Justice Academy will host its first “Cram Da Van” event. “Cram” back to school supplies into a van located at 5400 Broad River Road through August 27, 7 a.m.–9 a.m. and 11 a.m.–2 p.m.

Upper Cervical Health Centers of America is launching “Operation Bookbag,” a school supplies drive to benefit underprivileged children from our community, through August 31. In return for a book bag donation, each person will receive One free Office Visit and A Certificate Of Health to give to a friend or family member for a free office visit. Drop off filled bookbags to the Upper Cervical Health Centers of America office, 140 Wildewood Park Drive, Suite A. 736-3700 or www.uppercervicalcare.com.

-CHURCH/CHARITY First Presbyterian Church will hold lunch service each Wednesday in Jackson Hall at 1324 Marion Street. Lunch 11:30 a.m. –12:15 p.m. followed by a program until 12:50 p.m. Hot meal $6; soup and salad $5. Free parking. 799-9062.

SEED Faith Ministries Fellowship will present Annual Feast of Tabernacles “Restoring the Tabernacle of David” September 22–29, 7 p.m. nightly, Saturday at 10 a.m., and Sunday at 3 p.m., 3905 West Beltline Blvd, Ste 22. 667-4878.

St. James Church, Wheeler Hill, 413 Henderson Street, will celebrate its 139th anniversary and is also holding a Youth/Teen Summit August 27. 799-3645.

-DANCE Carolina Ballet company auditions will be held Saturday, August 21, CMFA ArtSpace, 914 Pulaski St., for ages eight and up. $10 cash audition fee. Registration 1 p.m., auditions 2 p.m. 771-6303.

Auditions for Carolina Ballet’s “The Nutcracker” will be Sunday, August 22, CMFA ArtSpace, 914 Pulaski St. $10 cash audition fee. Registration 1 p.m. – please arrive 30 minutes prior to audition time. Audition times: children ages 3–5, 2 p.m.; boys ages six and older, 2:30 p.m.; girls ages 6–8, 3 p.m.; girls ages 9–11, 4 p.m.; girls/ladies ages 12 and older, 5 p.m. Girls/ladies must wear black leotard, pink tights, pink ballet slippers/pointe shoes, slick ballet bun, light makeup. Boys/men must wear white leotard or T–shirt, black bike shorts, white socks, white shoes, or black tights and black shoes. 771-6303.

-FOOD Columbia’s Congaree Vista is hosting its third annual epicurean event to give the Southeast a taste of its award–winning restaurants, 2 p.m.–7 p.m., Saturday, September 25, Congaree Vista, in and around the Gervais Street corridor. www.vivalavistasc.com, www.VistaColumbia.com or 269-5946.

-HISTORICAL BungalowFest, A Tour of Earlewood Homes & Gardens will be Sunday, September 12, 1–6 p.m. beginning on the front porch of 2901 River Drive across from Reformation Lutheran Church and ending at the Surrender of Columbia Monument at Beaufort and River Drive. Tickets are $10 in advance and $15 the day of the event and can be purchased at First Citizens Bank North Main Street Branch or online at earlewood.org.

History of Forest Acres, presented by Historic Columbia Foundation in partnership with the city of Forest Acres and Forest Acres Retail Merchant Association will be held Wednesdays, September 15–29, 6 p.m.–7:30 p.m., Forest Acres City Hall, 5205 Trenholm Road, www.HistoricColumbia. org, 252-1770, ext. 24, or email reservations@historic columbia.org.

-LIBRARY Richland County Public Library will host Forgive and Forget, a fine Amnesty Week, August 22–28. To receive a “Forgive and Forget” ticket, bring in a new or gently used book to donate to the Friends of RCPL along with overdue items. Visit any of RCPL’s 11 locations and all fines and fees will be forgiven. 929-3441 or www.myRCPL.com

-MARKETS Forest Acres Farmers Market is held every Wednesday on the roof at Richland Mall, 3 p.m.–7 p.m. forestacressc.net

-MEETINGS Columbia Parkinson’s Support Group meets the third Sunday of every month, 3 p.m.–4 p.m., Lexington Medical Park Auditorium. www.columbiaparkinsonsupportgroup.org

Columbia’s Crossroads Career Network meets Wednesdays, 8:30 a.m.–10 a.m., in RM 269, Eastminster Presbyterian Church. www.crossroadscareer.org.

South Carolina Association of Taxpayers will meet August 21, 10 a.m., 4001 Rosewood Drive, (Prime Financial Services). 748-9198.

-MUSEUM “Pirate Night at the State Museum,” will be Friday, August 20, 6–10 p.m. 898-4952 or www.southcarolinastatemuseum.org

-MUSIC Congaree New Horizons Band will hold new member enrollment August 23, 7 p.m., USC Band Building, 324 Sumter Street. No prior musical experience is necessary. No auditions. People with prior musical or band experience are encouraged to participate. 777-1501, jlane@mozart.sc.edu, or www.congareeband.com

-PETS Midlands Association of Pet Sitters will host Susan Markham of Veterinary Pet Insurance, Monday, August 23, 9:30 a.m., Suggs and Kelly Law Firm Vista Room, 500 Taylor Street. 240-3452.

Gold Valley Parties Fundraiser to Benefit The Humane Society will be held Monday, August 23, 5:30–7:30 p.m., Blue Marlin, 1200 Lincoln Street. RSVP to Katy Renfroe, krenfroe@humanesc.org

-REUNIONS US Navy Reunion, USS Leyte CV–32, All Ships Company, Air Groups and Marines will be September 29 through October 3, North Charleston, SC. Le Grande W. Van Wagenen, 43 Frederick Place, Parlin, NJ 08859. 732-727-5993 or email leyte1956@aol.com

-SPORTS Run Wild Cross Country Festival will be Saturday, August 28, beginning at 8 a.m., Sesqui State Park, Columbia, 556-6295, StrictlyRunning.com, or http://www.rnh.richland2.org/~gbelka/Cross%20Country% 20Webpage/RunWild.html

Columbia Regional Sports Council will welcome the Woodcreek Classic to The Members Club at Woodcreek, Monday, September 6–12. Woodcreek, 301 Club Ridge Drive Elgin, SC 29045.

The 2nd Annual Vista Charity “Nite Owl Ride,” a unique 12–hour cycling event at night over the historic Gervais Street Bridge between Columbia and West Columbia in the heart of the Vista, will be held Friday, September 17 at 8 p.m. through Saturday, September 18 until 8 a.m., to benefit Children’s Chance, a local cancer charity that helps South Carolina children with cancer www.niteowlride.org or 727-9662.

Palmetto Health Foundation’s 20th Anniversary Walk for Life and New 5K Race for Life will be Saturday, October 2, Finlay Park. Proceeds will benefit Palmetto Health Breast Center. Runners must register online as no paper registration option is available except for the morning of the event. palmettohealthfoundation.org or 434-7275.

Lexington Kiwanis Children’s Charities 5K race will be August 21, 7:30 a.m., Lexington Town Hall. Online registration at www.strictlyrunning.com

Palmetto Boxing will host the first “Thursday Night Fights” at the Township Auditorium August 26, 7 p.m., 1703 Taylor Street, 708-4745

-SUPPORT GROUP NAMI Mid–Carolina, The National Alliance on Mental Illness invites individuals with a mental illness to participate in Connections support groups. 733-9592. www.namimidcarolina.org

Double Trouble, a group for mental illness and substance abuse, meets Fridays, 6:30 p.m., 427 Meeting Street, West Columbia. 727-4631. GriefShare will hold a 13–week seminar and support group for people grieving the loss of someone close, beginning Wednesday, August 25, 6 p.m., Christian Counseling Center of First Presbyterian Church, 1500 Lady Street. 779-1995, ext. 1027.

-THEATR E Town Theatre will hold auditions for Irving Berlin’s

White Christmas Sunday and Monday, August 29 and 30, 7 p.m., 1012 Sumter Street. All roles are open. A complete description of roles can be viewed at www.towntheatre.com. 799-2510.

-VOLUNTEERS Free To Breathe Midlands Lung Cancer Walk is seeking volunteers for its planning committee. Work with other lung cancer advocates to plan the festivities surrounding the 2nd Annual Free To Breathe Midlands Walk/Rally in November. 920-6913 or scagainstlungcancer@gmail.com

Personal Touch is celebrating its 20th anniversary and is holding volunteer training. The application deadline for the upcoming volunteer schedule is August 27. The training courses will be held 6 p.m.–9:30 p.m. September 16, 20, 23, 27, and 30. For more information about volunteering or to request an application, visit PalmettoHealth.org.

Rolling Readers, a non–profit children’s literacy organization, seeks volunteers to read aloud or tutor reading to children. 733-READ, email rollingreaders@sc.rr.com, or www.rollingreadersonline.org

Adopt–A–Waterway Cleanup hosted by Friends of Harbison State Forest will be Saturday, August 21, 9 a.m. front parking lot of Harbison State Forest (5500 Broad River Road) and travel to the launch via shuttle. Registration required, 749-7986.

-WORKSHOPS Carolina Encouragement Center (CEC), in partnership with the Greater Columbia Chamber of Commerce, will provide a business training workshop for entrepreneurs with small, minority, women–owned, and disadvantaged businesses, “The Game Plan for Business Success: Start–Up,’’ Thursday, August 26, 8:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m., CEC Training Center of the Gervais Professional Suites, 1815 Gervais Street suite N. To register call Deborah Aiken, 931-8881, by 2 p.m., Wednesday, August 25.

South Carolina Association of Community Action Partnerships, Inc. will host 2010 Asset Building Institute’s “Building Economic Security” Thursday August 26, Embassy Suites Hotel & Conference Center, 200 Stoneridge Drive. 888-771-9404.

Midlands Technical College will host Training and Human Resources Networking Expo September 17, 8 a.m.–12 p.m., MTC’s Northeast Campus. www.astdmidlands.org.