• Rowan Redbuds Garden Club, 1 p.m. Thursday, Stanback Room, Rowan Public Library, 201 West Fisher St. “Holiday Decorations” by Pat Wayne.

• Thanksgiving Boston butt sale by North Hills Christian School. Order by Friday; pick up Monday at Helen Kelley Smith Gymnasium. $35; $10 for shredded. 8-ounce bottle of local barbecue sauce, $5. Coach Bowers, fabowers@bc-engr.com, or Coach Brannigan, abrannigan@northhillschristian.com

• Men’s fellowship breakfast, 9 a.m. Saturday, Fairview Heights Missionary Baptist Church, 704 Old Concord Road. Speaker: the Rev. Bryan C. Cunningham. Host pastor: the Rev. C. E. Marlin.