Senior Citizens Club to meet Thursday

ORANGE — The Orange Senior Citizens Club plans to hold its regular monthly business meeting at 1 p.m. at the Orange Senior Center, 62 Cheney St., on Thursday.

All members are invited to attend, and guests and new members are always welcomed. Any local resident 50 or older is eligible to become a club member. Dues are $5 per year and will be payable at this meeting. The agenda includes minutes of the March 2 meeting, the treasurer’s report and committee reports.

The Program Committee has scheduled a special presentation, “Grow Great Gardens Q and A,” presented by Deb Habib, of Seeds of Solidarity. The program is free and open to the public.

Light refreshments and beverages will be provided.

St. Mary’s Women’s Club of Orange celebrating its 100th anniversary

ORANGE — St. Mary’s Women’s Club of Orange is celebrating its 100th anniversary this year and will mark the occasion with a special club meeting on Tuesday, April 11, at 6:30 p.m.

The meeting will be open to the public, and will feature a slideshow celebrating the club’s history, with photos from the past 50 years.

Catholics in Orange began celebrating Masses in private homes around 1881, and St. Mary’s Parish was founded in Orange in 1903, with an altar on the stage in Orange Town Hall. Later, the former Fraternal Hall on School Street was purchased and used as the church from 1904 until the current church at the corner of Congress and Cheney streets was built in 1953. Women of the parish formed the club in 1922 “to do welfare work, and to promote … spiritual and intellectual advancement.”

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