• Volunteers needed to paint Hope Globes

The Hope Globe is an Upstate South Carolina charity that was created to provide emotional support for children at Prisma and other hospitals of the Upstate.

The charity is currently looking for volunteers to paint globes and raise awareness, and the group is also asking for donations of any kind — furniture, appliances, cars, etc. — for its online thrift store. To find out more about the charity, visit thehopeglobe.com or contact the group at thehopeglobe@gmail.com or (864) 247-0702.

• Black history event set at DPO Ministries

Divine Purpose Outreach Ministries and Pastor Tim Sutton invite all to the ministry’s annual black history program on Feb. 16 at 10 a.m. Dinner will be served immediately after the program.

Divine Purpose Outreach Ministries is located at 103 W. C Ave. Ext. in Easley (Simpson community, in the old Struggles Restaurant building).

• WPO offers chance at monthly fellowship

The Widowed Persons Organization (WPO) organization is not a grief therapy group, but it does provide an opportunity for widowed persons to come together, make new friends and share conversation and food while finding a new beginning in life. The group meets on the second Saturday of every month at 1 p.m. in the fellowship building of Lakeview Baptist Church on Mauldin Lake Road in Pickens. For more information, call (864) 850-1987 or (864) 878-6215.

• Beginner sewing lessons offered

The women’s department of the Church of Jesus Christ the Lamb of God is offering beginner sewing lessons on the third Sunday of each month at 3 p.m. All supplies are furnished. For information, call Donna Anderson at (864) 420-9489 or Peggy Demay at (864) 898-1588. The first project will be a pillow case for Family Promise.

• Library board announces meetings

The Pickens County Library System Board of Trustees recently announced its 2020 meetings and locations schedule.

The next meeting will be at 6 p.m. March 19 at the Sarlin Library, located at 15 S. Palmetto St. in Liberty. The remaining meetings will be:

• May 21, 6 p.m. at the Hampton Memorial Library, 304 Biltmore Road in Easley.

• July 16, 6 p.m. the at Hampton Memorial Library, 304 Biltmore Road in Easley.

• Sept. 17, 6 p.m. at the Village Library, 124 N. Catherine St., in Pickens.

• Nov. 19, 6 p.m. at the Central-Clemson Library, 105 Commons Way in Central.

• Pack 51 scouting for new Cub Scouts

Do you want to be a Cub Scout? Cub Scout Pack 51 meets every Tuesday night at 7 p.m. at Grace United Methodist Church in Pickens. Cub Scouts is open to all youth in 5K to fifth grade. Boys over 11 years old are eligible for Boy Scouts, which meets on Monday nights at the Troop 51 Scout Hut in Pickens. Those interested are urged to contact Perry Gravely at pickenstroop51@gmail.com.