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Today

Policy Coordinating Committee: Noon. County Commissioners' board room, fourth floor, Courthouse, 217 N. 27th St.

Free program "Pre-diabetes." 1:30 p.m. Billings Clinic, Room BC-2 lower level.

Walk and Talk with the Doc. 5:30 p.m. Start from main lobby, St. Vincent Healthcare. Free.

Yellowstone County Board of Planning: 6 p.m. Fourth floor, large conference room, Parmly Billings Library.

Senior High Orchestra concert. 7 p.m. School auditorium. $5, adults;$3 students; free with Golden Age Pass.

"Holiday Festivities" presentation: Noon. Courthouse meeting room, #105, 217 N. 27th St. Presented by Bernie Mason, MSU/Yellowstone County extension agent. $1.50, includes food tasting and recipe booklet. No reservations required. 256-2828.

Upcoming

Veterans Day celebration and Community Covenant signing ceremony. 10 a.m. Wednesday. Armed Forces Reserve Center, Gable Road. U.S. Army and Billings United Veterans Council host. Ceremony continues at noon at Yellowstone County Veterans Cemetery in Laurel.

"Trying to Get Pregnant?" 7 p.m. Wednesday. Billings Clinic conference center. Free. Pre-registration requested; call 255-8440.

"Climate Change - A Positive Point of View": 10:30 a.m. Thursday. Lewis and Clark Room, Student Union Building, Montana State University Billings. Linda Dismore Swift, Ph.D., presents. Hosted by Billings Conservation Roundtable and Montana Conservation Voters. Free.

Veterans Assembly: 9 a.m. Thursday. Will James Middle School gym. Area veterans invited to participate. 10 a.m., Blackhawk helicopters land on football field.

Travel film "Tibet - A Light in the Darkness." 7:30 p.m. Thursday. Lewis and Clark Middle School. $7. Helps support local Kiwanis service project which benefit youth.

National Town Hall on Autism: 9 a.m.-3:30 p.m. Friday. MSU Billings Downtown, 208 N. Broadway Ave. Register online at http://shortlinks.pluk.org/autism-forum, or contact Connie VonBergen, 672-0912, connievb@bresnan.net, or contact PLUK, 255-0540, info@pluk.org.

AARP Driver Safety Program. 1-5 p.m. Nov. 17. Mansfield Health Education Center, St. Vincent Healthcare, 2900 12th Ave. N. 237-8787 to register.

AAUW program: 11:30 a.m. Saturday. MSU Billings Student Union Building. Program: Glenda McCarthy on "Teaching Indigenous Children in Australia - How I Helped Achieve Significant Improvements in Their Success Rates." Lunch reservations: 652-5474, downingn@rocky.edu. Community invited.

News

Sunset Memorial Gardens veterans' flags: In honor of Veterans Day, the staff at Sunset Memorial Gardens is decorating veterans' gravestones with flags. If you notice your loved one is missing a flag, call 656-6350 and give the name.

Support groups

* Note: Closed meetings are for those seeking help only. At open meetings, those seeking help may bring support people or the public may come for more information.

Alcoholics Anonymous groups:

At 6:30 a.m.: Open That Group at Elks Club, 934 Lewis; Brown Baggers Open at St. Stephen's Episcopal Church, 13th St. W. and Crawford.

At noon: Closed at 2439 Grand; Brown Baggers Closed at St. Stephen's Episcopal Church, 13th St. W. and Crawford; Closed 204 Group and Open Downtowners at 17 N. 31st; Closed at 848 Main, Suite 8; Closed at 1801 Broadwater.

At 5:30 p.m.: Sunlight of the Spirit at First Christian Church, 522 N. 29th; Closed Brown Baggers Women's at St. Stephen's Episcopal Church, 13th St. W and Crawford.

At 7 p.m.: Closed Traditions Group at Friendship House, 3123 Eighth Ave. S.; Open at Irma House, 421 S. 33rd; Closed Women's Unit at Main Square Plaza, 2225 Main St.; H.O.W. Group Talking Circle at St. Patrick's Co-Cathedral, northside, 215 N. 31st.

At 8 p.m.: Closed at 2439 Grand; Closed at 510 Cook; Closed 204 Group and Open Downtowners at 17 N. 31st; Closed Recovery Group at 1002 10th St. W., Suite 4.

Al-Anon groups:

At 5:45 p.m.: Newcomers at First English Lutheran Church, 1243 N. 31st.

At 8 p.m.: Recovery Group at 1002 10th St. W., Suite 4; Recovery Al-Ateen at 1002 10th St. W., Suite 4.

Narcotics Anonymous groups:

At 6 p.m.: New Freedom Group at 2757 Phyllis Circle.

Other support groups:

At 11:30 a.m.: Grief Group at First Baptist Church library, 218 N. 34th.

At noon: Overeaters Anonymous at Peace Lutheran Church, 1301 Ave. D; Getting Through Grief at Billings Clinic conference center.

At 1:30 p.m.: Care Giver at RiverStone Health-Hospice, 711 Central.

At 2 p.m.: Bereavement at Rocky Mountain Hospice Bereavement Center, 2110 Overland Ave.

At 6 p.m.: Parents Learning and Nurturing Together at Family Tree Center, 2520 Fifth Ave. S.; Breaking Through the Silence: Women Abused as Children at YWCA, 909 Wyoming.

At 6:15 p.m.: TOPS No. MT 485 at Heights Baptist Church, Hilltop and Garnet.

At 6:30 p.m.: TOPS MT503 (Take Off Pounds Sensibly) at Casa Village main clubhouse, 443 24th St. W.; Hurting Men and Women at Hope Alliance Church, 645 Howard; Anorexics and Bulimics at Rimrock Foundation, 1231 N. 29th St., Room 106 (use north door); Mended Hearts at Billings Clinic conference center; Healing Circle Cancer at Center for Health and Healing, 90 Poly.

At 7 p.m.: Open Gamblers Anonymous at Western View Apartments, 2604 Phyllis; Domestic Violence at Angela's Piazza, 420 Grand; AFSP Survivors of Suicide at 1004 Division, Room 306; Bereavement at Rocky Mountain Hospice Bereavement Center, 2110 Overland Ave.; NICU Parents at Maternity Conference Room, St. Vincent Healthcare; Endometriosis at Marillac Hall classrooms, St. Vincent Healthcare; Diabetes at American Diabetes Association, 3203 Third Ave. N., Suite 203 (use Third Ave. entrance)