• The next meeting of the San Ġorġ Preca Group will be held on Friday at 6.30 p.m. at the MUSEUM headquarters at Blata l-Bajda (entrance next to Preca Library). Young couples and mature adults are especially invited.

• The Association of Lyceum Past Students (ALPS) is organising a summer barbecue at Il-Pjazza at the Corinthia San Ġorġ Hotel, St George's Bay, on Friday at 8 p.m. Tickets at €25 include a welcome drink, wine and water during dinner. For booking, call Robert Ferrante on 2144 4570 or 7960 3622 or Alex Borg on 2138 6812 or 9988 8579.

• Youth Reach, a youth community within Attard parish (www.youthreachmalta.org), is planning a blood donation activity on Saturday at 10 a.m. at the Blood Donation Unit, Gwardamanġa. For more information, call the Malta National Blood Transfusion Service on 2206 6201 or 7930 7307, e-mail nbts@gov.mt or visit www.blood.gov.mt.

• The committee of St Catherine Band Club Youth Section, Żurrieq, will be organising a barbecue at Pretty Bay, Birżebbuġa on Saturday, with transport leaving Żurrieq bus terminus at 5.30 p.m. Tickets can be bought from the bar of the band club and also from Gejta Farrugia. For more information, call 7964 7018.

• The Maltese-American Association will be celebrating the 234th anniversary of US independence next Sunday with a buffet lunch at the Seabank Hotel, Għadira Bay, Mellieħa, at 12.30 p.m. Americans and Maltese-Americans and their guests are welcome. For more information and to book call Dar l-Emigrant, Castille Place, Valletta, on 2122 2644, 2123 2545 or 2124 025.

• A quiz night will be held at the Talk of Town Café, at The Palace hotel, Sliema on June 30 at 8.30 p.m. For more information and bookings call 2133 3444 or e-mail business@thepalacemalta.com.

• Maria Assumpta Girls Secondary School Ħamrun will be organising their 50th anniversary reunion concert, 'School Aid', on school grounds on July 1 at 7.30 p.m. Performers include Renato, Freddie Portelli, Natasha and Charlene, Georgina, Ira Losco, Fabrizio Faniello, Josephine Ebejer Grech and JAMM Band. There will also be fire jugglers, face painting and food and drink stands. Fee is €2 for adults and €1 for children and proceeds are in aid of underprivileged children being cared for by religious communities and the Maria Assumpta Benevolent Fund. There will also be free parking. For more information call 2122 5376 or 2123 8905 or e-mail assunta.gss@gov.mt.

• A day's outing in aid of the Little Sisters of the Poor will be held at the Radisson SAS Golden Sands Resort and Spa, Għajn Tuffieħa, on July 7 from 10 a.m. The private bus leaves Sta Lucija at 9 a.m. For booking call Blanche Martin on 2133 0387.

• The Centre of Ignatian Spirituality is holding a workshop in Maltese on the Intensive Journal from July 11 at 6 p.m. to July 16 at 5.30 p.m. at Mount St Joseph retreat house, Tarġa Gap, Mosta. It will be facilitated by Fr Reno Grech, SJ. The Intensive Journal comprises a structure and techniques aimed at helping people gain a deep personal knowledge of themselves so as to grow more fully. It leads users through a set of structured written exercises that help draw the many parts of their life together into an integrated whole, including events in their history, people who matter to them, their body and work, society, their dreams, images, emotions and beliefs . For more information, call 2141 6916, 2276 0000 or e-mail info@mtsjoseph.org. Application deadline is June 28.

• The Malta Hospice Movement is holding two fundraising events on July 14 and September 10. The first is a barbecue at the Grand Hotel Excelsior, Floriana, and the second is a midnight walk in Buġibba. For more information, call 2144 0085 or visit www.hospicemalta.org.

• St Venera Scout Group will be celebrating its 35th anniversary this year. To commemorate this, a reunion for all former members will be held at the group's headquarters on September 18. All former members, leaders, group council members and members of ladies' committees are asked to send their contact details by e-mail to oldboys.svsg@yahoo.com or join the Facebook group 'Old Boys of Mt Carmel College Scout Group/St Venera Scout Group'.

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