Bridge club open to all
ELYSBURG - Bridge play at Ralpho Township Public Library ended in a four-way tie with the following partners, Alice Pensyl and Dave McCormick, Sharon Leisenring and Elizabeth Johnson, Nancy Booth and Mina McCormick and Jay Leisenring and Cory Kramer.
All are invited to play bridge from 7 to 9 p.m. Tuesdays at the library. Bob Reed, of Shamokin, also provides some instruction before play begins for those interested in improving their skills.
Call the library at 570-672-9449. There is no cost to join the group.
Program on health care planned
LEWISBURG - Susquehanna Valley Progressives will present a free public forum, "Beyond ObamaCare: America's Health Care," from 6:30 to 8 p.m. Thursday, May 14, at the Union County Library, 255 Reitz Blvd.
Dr. Arno Vosk, a retirement emergency physician and former faculty member of Pennsylvania College of Technology in Williamsport, will discuss the downfalls of the current health care system and how, even under the Affordable Care Act, individuals are still uninsured and health care pharmaceutical and medical corporations are making exorbitant profits off of America's sick.
Vosk is now a volunteer medical examiner for Physicians for Human Rights Asylum Network, based in Cambridge, Mass., and an adviser to the Penn Human Rights Clinic at the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine.
Susquehanna Valley Progressives is a nonpartisan organization.
Soroptimists to meet
SUNBURY - The Soroptimist International Club of the Snyder, Union and Northumberland Counties Inc. will hold its regular monthly dinner meeting at 6 p.m. Wednesday, June 3, at The Packer House, Third Street. Installation of new officers and induction of new members will be held.
The club is an international volunteer service organization for business and professional women who work to improve the lives of women and girls in local communities and throughout the world. Any person who is interested in volunteering and becoming a member to contact any club member or by calling Diane Savidge at 570-837-2532 or dmsavidge@gmail.com.