Around the Peninsula

Marriage, family enrichment offered

Happy Families will hold an eight-week “Love and Respect” marriage enrichment program at 6:30 p.m. Sundays beginning today at Peninsula Grace Brethren Church on Kalifornsky Beach Road. Classes will feature a DVD presentation with discussion time immediately following.

Free child care is provided. For more information, call 262-5663.

Birders flock together

Keen Eye Peninsula Birders will meet today at Marlow’s On the Kenai. The featured speaker will be Todd Eskelin, biologist with the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge. Eskelin will give a demonstration on bird banding.

For more information and the meeting time, call Linda Story at 262-9031 or e-mail her at woodybrd@alaska.net.

After school clubs offered

Good News clubs will be held Tuesday at Soldotna Elementary and Aurora Borealis Charter School and Thursday at Kalifornsky Beach Elementary, Cook Inlet Academy, Mountain View Elementary and Sears Elementary. Clubs meet immediately after school for one hour. Children are taught moral values and character qualities through lessons, games and songs. Prizes and snacks also are available.

Volunteer leaders are screened for child protection. Parents are welcome to attend and responsible for transportation afterward. Permission slips are available at the schools. Clubs are sponsored by Child Evangelism Fellowship. For more information, call Phyllis Yankey at 262-9605.

Swim lessons make a splash

Levels one through three American Red Cross swim lessons will be held from 5:10 to 5:50 p.m. Tuesdays and Thursdays, beginning this week through March 27 at the Kenai Central High School pool.

The cost of admission is $40 per person and preregistration is required. For more information, call 283-7476.

PFLAG to meet

Parents and Friends of Lesbians and Gays will meet at 6 p.m. Tuesday. For more information and the meeting location, call 283-4678.

New Rotary club forms

The Kenai River Rotary Club will meet at 7 p.m. Tuesdays at Nikko Garden Restaurant at 36100 Kenai Spur Highway in Soldotna.

For more information on the new group, call Nancy at 953-0495.

What’s in a name?

Gregory Weissenberg will speak about the history of Russian place names on the Kenai Peninsula at 7 p.m. Tuesday at the Kenai River Center on Funny River Road, as part of the Winter Speaker Series.

The event is free and open to the public; refreshments will be served. For more information, call Jan Yaeger 260-5882, ext. 238.