Cribbage Lite meets at 5:30 p.m. every Tuesday at International House of Pancakes, (IHOP). Call 201-7823 for details.

Fleet Reserve Association (FRA)

Branch 244 meets monthly at 7 p.m. on the second Wednesdays at the VFW Post #3981. All former, retired and active sea service, U.S. Navy, Marines or Coast Guard are welcome. Call 434- 0868 for details.

Friendship Force meets monthly at 6:15 p.m. on the second Thursday at the Red Cross Training Center. Call 260-4653 or visit www.thefriendship force.org for details.

Grand Junction Chess Club meets from 6:30 p.m.-11:30 p.m. every Mon- day in the Safeway Starbucks, 2901 F Road. Players of all abilities welcome. If you don’t have a chess set, we loan sets out at no charge. For details, visit www.jctchess.com.

Grand Junction Gem and Mineral Club meets monthly at 7 p.m. on the second Thursdays and 6:30 p.m. on the fourth Thursdays at 2328 Monument Road. Email grandjunctionrockclub@ gmail.com for details.

Grand Junction Newcomers Club

meets monthly at 9:30 a.m. the second Wednesdays at First Christian Church. Call 549-0439 for details.

Grand Junction Petroleum & Min- ing Club meets monthly on the third Thursdays for a social, dinner and speaker presentation. Visit www. grandjunctionpmc.com for time and membership information.

Grand Valley Pets Alive works to reduce pet overpopulation by funding

spay and neuter programs and meets monthly from 4:30 p.m.-6 p.m. on the third Wednesdays at Church of the Nativity. New volunteers welcome. Call 462-7557 for details.

Great Old Broads for Wilderness

will meet at 4:30 p.m. September 26 at the Unitarian Universalist Church, 536 Ouray Ave. Call 255-9900 for details.

Knitting Club meets monthly from 6:30 p.m.-8 p.m. on the fourth Tues- days at Community of Christ Church, 2880 B 1⁄2 Road in Grand Junction. Contact Naomi Barlow at 623-1455 or [email protected] for details.

Mt. Garfield Daughters of the American Revolution will hold their monthly meeting at 1 p.m. on Sep- tember 10 at the Whitman Education Center. The speaker’s topic will be “A Report from Continental Congress.” Contact Mary McFarlin at 242-7074 for details.

Not Going Quietly meets monthly from 1:30 p.m.-3:30 p.m. on the sec- ond and fourth Tuesdays at Two Rivers Center for Spiritual Living. This group is intended to create a space of empow- erment, grace, community and wisdom for individuals age 60 and older. Call 433-7799 for details.

Two River Sams/Good Sam RV Club

will meet at 1 p.m. Saturday, Septem- ber 10. For location, call 523-5625.

Vestafjell Lodge, Sons of Norway, meets at 1:30 p.m. September 12 in the west meeting room at Golden Corral. Call 245-5649 or 858-6702 for details, or visit www.vestafjelllodge.org.

Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW)

Western Slope Post 3981 meets month- ly at 5:30 p.m. on the first Wednesdays for a family style dinner and meeting at the Post Hall, 503 1⁄2 Florence Road in Grand Junction. Call 778-8242 for details.