Professional Secretaries Monthly Dinner Meeting The Internet is a terrific source of information. It can show you people and places you've never seen before, and put gargantuan amounts of information quite literally at your fingertips. However, if you can't figure the darn thing out, it's about as useful as a clod of dirt. Professional Secretaries International hopes to inform the Internet-illiterate tonight at their monthly meeting. In a one-hour program entitled "Unleashing the Power of the Internet," Vince Lott of Internet Services will discuss the history of the Internet and what its future might hold. He'll take you on-line and show you some of the Internet's capabilities. And most of all, he'll try to persuade you to get on-line yourself. 5:15 p.m., networking begins; 6 p.m., dinner; 6:45 p.m., program. Holiday Inn Select, 2712 Southwest Freeway. To make dinner reservations, call 853-4272. Free, Internet program; $18, dinner.

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Samaritan Ministry Workshop Facing another's grief over illness and death can be overwhelming, so much so, in fact, that many of us find ourselves muted by embarrassed ignorance. St. Dominic Diocesan Center is offering a seminar to churches and their members in an effort to teach volunteers how to comfort the grief-stricken. Three different types of grief will be addressed during the six-hour workshop: anticipatory grief that happens during times of illness; shock grief that occurs during the time of a funeral; and finally, lingering grief that hangs on during times of bereavement. The workshop is open to all denominations, and churches can send up to ten volunteers for the day. A lunch is included in the workshop price. 9 a.m.-3:30 p.m. St. Dominic Diocesan Center, 2401 Holcombe, (281) 589-8729. $200 for up to ten members of the same church.