The SO-COOL (School’s Out-Camp of Organized Learning), sponsored by Centre Rotary Club is now being held each weekday, Monday through Friday, from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m., at the National Guard Armory in Centre next to Centre City Park. The SO-COOL program began several years ago as a way to offer constructive activities for those children too old for baby sitters but not quite old enough to be left on their own. For more information, call the Cherokee County Chamber of Commerce office at (256)927-8455. The Cherokee County Public Library’s Quilting with Rebecca Meadows will be held from 10 a.m. to noon. For more information, please call 256-927-5838. Children’s Story Time, featuring fun with stories, songs, crafts and more will be held from 9 a.m. until 10 a.m. and 3:30 p.m. until 4:30 p.m. at the Cherokee County Public Library. The Cherokee County Public Library, 310 Mary St., Centre, Ala. holds an art class from 3:30 p.m. to 5 p.m. for children ages 8-14 with Instructor Cloud Farrow. Children must provide their own 8 x 10 sketch pad and charcoal pencils. Call the library at 256-927-5838 for further information. Celebrate Recovery Program of Piedmont drug rehabilitation program meets each Thursday at 5:30 p.m. at New Beginning Church at 401 Anniston Ave. Dinner is available and dessert if furnished.

According to Cherokee County Sheriff Jeff Shaver, Narcotics Unit agents from Cherokee and Dekalb Counties thwarted a possible drug deal near Little River National Preserve Tuesday, June 18. Agent Will Clark, assigned to the Cherokee County Sheriff’s Office Narcotics Unit by the Centre Police Department, along with Dekalb County agents observed a vehicle matching the description of the suspect’s turning into a parking lot and attempted to stop him, Shaver said. The suspect fled, striking Agent Clark’s vehicle in the process, and continued onto Alabama Highway 35 at a high rate of speed with officers in pursuit. The suspect turned onto County Road 15 and attempted to flee on foot into a wooded area but was quickly apprehended. Damian Christopher Ingram, 21, of Cedar Bluff is charged with fleeing and attempting to elude law enforcement officers, second degree possession of marijuana, second degree criminal mischief, possession of drug paraphernalia, and conspiracy to commit a controlled substance crime, Shaver said. Ingram is currently being held at the Cherokee County Detention Center awaiting a bond hearing, according to Sheriff Shaver.