Community Calendar

The 5th Annual Philanthropy Week is hosted by the Murray State University Nonprofit Leadership Studies program, the Nonprofit Resource Center, the Department of Organizational Communication and Leadership, and the Arthur J. Bauernfeind College of Business.

Philanthropy week events take place in various locations around Murray.

Monday, April 14th: Empty Bowls Make Day
For Needline with the MSU Clay Club & Murray Art Guild
10:30 am - 1:30 pm @ MSU Campus Mall

Tuesday, April 15th: Darkness to Light
Child abuse prevention training hosted by Lotus
(Free for MSU students and community members)
6 pm - 8:30 pm @ MSU Curris Center, Ohio & Cumberland Rooms

Thursday, April 17th: Philanthropy Week Keynote Conversation
Dr. Elise Kieffer, Nonprofit Leadership Studies Program Director, will speak with Mrs. Donna Herndon. Donna has been a cornerstone in the Murray/Calloway nonprofit sector. Join us for this conversation looking back at those endeavors and accomplishments.
6 pm @ MSU Wrather Auditorium

Friday, April 18th: University Wide Box Dwellers Fundraiser
For HOPE Calloway
12 - 4 pm @ MSU Campus Mall

Friday, April 18th: Community Concert for Philanthropy & Donna Herndon Award for Civic Engagement Ceremony
Sponsored by Tap 216 and WKMS
4 - 6 pm @ MSU Quad

This is our LIHEAP Spring Subsidy program. This is for low-income clients in the Western KY Counties of Ballard, Calloway, Carlisle, Fulton, Graves, Hickman, McCracken and Marshall. You can receive a one time partial credit on your electric bill.

April Greeting Card Classes !!!

Make handmade cards for those you love this Thursday

$10 at the door! RSVP on the extension service's Facebook page.

Find locally grown healthy produce, fresh-cut flowers, proteins, baked goods, bourbon & spirits, handcrafted items & more! Every Thursday from 4pm-7pm and now every 2nd Saturday from 9am-12pm starting in May!

Dark Reads Book Discussion Group will meet 5:30-6:30 p.m. April 17 at the Alhambra Theater, 507 S. Main St. This month’s selection is “The Whisper Man,” by Alex North.

A limited number of copies are available for check out at the HCCPL Front Desk.

Dark Reads Book Discussion Group is for ages 21 older. Alcoholic refreshments will be available for purchase.

For more information, call 270-887-4262.

Meetings are held in the Council Chamber on the first floor of the Hopkinsville Municipal Center at 715 South Virginia Street. Meetings are broadcast live on YouTube and by tuning to City TV on Spectrum Cable Channel 376.

The popular Singer-Songwriter Night featuring Phillip Coleman and friends returns to Discovery Park on Thursday, April 17, 2025. Coleman’s special guests will be Tony Arata and Don Henry. The performances will take place in Discovery Park’s ATA Traveling Exhibit Hall with a cocktail hour at 6 p.m., followed by the show at 7 p.m.

Tickets are now on sale. A sponsor table is $1,500, while a premier tables are $2,500. Both sponsor level tables seat 10. Individual tickets are $50. Interested in sponsoring a table? Contact Bethany Brock at [email protected].

Dakota Moore will be speaking about small scale cover cropping for home gardeners on Thursday, April 17, at 6:30 pm at the Calloway County Extension Office meeting hall. He will discuss the benefits cover crops can have on soil health and easy ways to get started. It is free and open to the public. For more information call 270-753-1452.

Dot, Meg, Carol, and Ellie are back in Dot’s Northwoods cabin for Meg’s bachelorette party, but Meg and Sheriff Tom Lane have other ideas—a secret plan to elope at the cabin that night while everyone else is still out for the party. Carol and Ellie make similar secret plans to rendezvous with their respective men, Rick and Bubba, making the cabin a bit more crowded than Meg and Tom had anticipated.

Showtimes:

Thursday, April 17 @ 7:15 pm
Friday, April 18 @ 7:15 pm
Saturday, April 19 @ 7:15 pm
Sunday, April 20 @ 2:30 pm

Thursday, April 24 @ 7:15 pm
Friday, April 25 @ 7:15 pm
Saturday, April 26 @ 7:15 pm
Sunday, April 27 @ 2:30 pm

This legal thriller follows a corporate lawyer who uncovers a dark secret that links deformed cattle, mysterious sickness in humans, and one of the world’s largest corporations. Based on the real-life story of lawyer Robert Bilott, who took on DuPont for its toxic use of “forever chemicals” in the Ohio Valley. With the support of the Watershed Studies Institute and the Jesse D. Jones College of Science and Engineering Technology.