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• The Missions Office of Valletta requires teachers, ex-teachers and students to promote the missions in schools, a number of volunteers to animate during Missionary Village activities from October 24 to 27 and participants in Mixja għall-Missjoni on...
• The Missions Office of Valletta requires teachers, ex-teachers and students to promote the missions in schools, a number of volunteers to animate during Missionary Village activities from October 24 to 27 and participants in Mixja għall-Missjoni on October 17. Call Lisa Pace on 2123 6962, 9999 1979 or e-mail lisa@missio.org.mt.
• The Friends of the Little Sisters of the Poor are organising their annual cruise tomorrow. The Fernandez will leave Sliema at 8 p.m. and head towards Vittoriosa. Call 7944 4135 or 7933 8651 for more information and bookings.
• The next MIR prayer meeting will be held on Tuesday from 7.30 to 10 p.m. at St Pauls’s Bay parish church. All are welcome to attend these monthly Marian spirituality meetings, which consist of the reciting of the Rosary followed by Mass and adoration. Priests are available to hear confessions. Instead of collecting money, those attending are asked to bring foodstuffs for Fondazzjoni Suret il-Bniedem, a Franciscan org-anisation that cares for the homeless.
• Kummissjoni Djoċeżana Żgħażagħ will be launching the preparations for World Youth Day in Mġarr Square on Friday from 8 p.m. Mass will be celebrated by Archbishop Paul Cremona, followed by a concert featuring several Maltese artists. For more information call 7928 9301.
• Pre-school spinal checkups for children will be held at the Chiropractic Care Centre, St Julian’s on August 17. Call for an appointment on 2138 4144.
• Dar l-Emigrant is organising a day out to Verdala Palace, followed by lunch, on August 19 from 9.30 a.m. For more information call 2122 2644. All are invited, especially Maltese migrants who are here on holiday.
• The Living Ability Not Disability (Land) Group will be holding a fundraising barbecue at the Le Lagune Terrace restaurant at the Seabank Hotel, Mellieħa on August 28 at 8 p.m. People willing to offer gifts or hampers to be won in the raffle should contact Jeanesse Abela by sending an SMS on 7982 8787.
• The Malta Hospice Movement is holding a fundraising midnight walk in Buġibba on September 10. 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’ committee 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’.