The 2025 Amphitheater summerlong music festival features an 11-show lineup, promising a crowd-pleasing mix of country, rock, pop and soul tribute performers at the 2,500-seat Amphitheater on Thursdays at 7:30 p.m. No parking is allowed in front of the Amphitheater on St. Andrews Drive along the southbound lanes. This is a tow-away zone on Thursdays during Amphitheater season. On Amphitheater

The Saturday Morning Dance Club hosts two dance classes every week in Clubhouse 6 (second floor). For July the classes are: waltz at 9 a.m., followed by foxtrot at 10 a.m. The cost for two classes is $15. One class is $10. The class participants vote on new dance topics every month. Prior dance experience is not necessary and partners are not required. For more information, contact Howard Small

The Creative Writers Club will meet Friday, July 25, at 1 p.m. in Clubhouse 3, Room 1. This month, the Photo Arts Club photographers who submitted images and the writers who interpreted them will have a chance to meet and talk about both forms of art. The club is looking forward to meeting the artists and hearing information about their photos—and seeing their reactions to the writers’ interpretation

There will be no general membership meeting in July or August. Club meetings will resume in September. The Genealogy Library will be open at its usual hours for members to utilize for their research: Monday through Friday from 1-4 p.m.; Saturday from 11 a.m.-2 p.m.; closed Sunday. It is located near the Clubhouse 3 lobby and features computers for genealogical research. People interested in

Meetings for the Atherton Ward are held at 6500 E. Atherton St., Long Beach. Sacrament service is held every Sunday at 10:30 a.m., followed in the second hour by Sunday school on the first and third Sundays and Relief Society and Elders Quorum meetings on the second and fourth Sundays. Primary classes for children are held every Sunday during the second hour. Members who are unable to attend

Many people love to sing the patriotic songs that unites people in the mutual love of country. But this year, there is a sadness that casts a shadow over the state of the nation. Believers must first go to the word of God for perspective, like in Psalm 33:12, “Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord” and in 2 Chronicles 7:14, “If my people who are called by my name will humble themselves,