CEDAR FALLS — The Human Rights Commission continues to plan ways it can become a more helpful known agency in Cedar Falls.
Volunteers feel the enthusiasm is high as the commission’s membership takes shape, progress is made with its structure and goals and — perhaps most importantly — a full-time, paid diversity, equity, and inclusion specialist is closer to joining the city’s staff in support of the commission and other agencies throughout the city.
“We’ve got this great group now, and we’ve got things in order, so we’re ready to rock and roll come January,” said Sonja Bock, the newly elected chair.
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Greater Lawrence Family Health offering COVID-19 vaccines for ages 5+ and flu vaccines for ages 3+.
9 a.m. — 1 p.m., Dr. Albert B. Consentino School, 685 Washington Street
HAVERHILL: Saturday Artist Workshop
2nd and 4th Saturdays of the month
Set up your easel, work at a table, on your lap, or on the floor. Young and old enjoy the camaraderie and support of fellow artists. Bring your own materials; chairs and tables are available.
9 a.m. – 12 p.m., Greater Haverhill Arts Association, behind the First Church of Christ on Bradford Common
A $5 contribution is requested and appreciated
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FALL FESTIVAL: Longue Vue House and Gardens, 7 Bamboo Road, New Orleans, is making plans for sugar-fueled fun during a Fall Fest from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 29. Trick-or-treating will make sweet work of harvest crafts and lawn games. Tickets are $10 at longuevue.com/events.
FORESTIVAL: A Studio in the Woods will present “FORESTival: A Celebration of Art and Nature” from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 12, at 13401 Patterson Road in Lower Algiers. Shamarr Allen, Sabine McCalla and Wayne Singleton & Same Ol’ 2 Step will perform. Children can build clay forests, and Tulane University scientists will lead walks in the woods. FORESTival is the only time that A Studio in the Woods is open to the public. Suggested donation is $15 per adult. Visit www.astudiointhewoods.org.
JEAN LAFITTE SEAFOOD FESTIVAL: The Jean Lafitte Seafood Festival will be Nov. 11-13 at Jean Lafitte Auditorium, 4953 City Park Drive, Jean Lafitte. Visitors can enjoy live music, Louisiana food, swamp tours, kayak rentals, carnival rides and an art walk. There’s also a wine walk through the town’s Wetland Trace. For updates, visit www.townofjeanlafitte.com.
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JURASSIC QUEST: All things dinosaur will be celebrated at Jurassic Quest, Oct. 28-30 at the Pontchartrain Convention & Civic Center, 4545 Williams Blvd., Kenner. Hours are from 9 a.m….
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Tuesday, May 10, 2022, struck me as a rather sad day in Statesville’s history. It was on May 10 that the last of the furniture and other boxed-up items were moved out of the Statesville Record & Landmark building at 222 E. Broad St. The Record & Landmark had occupied the building near downtown Statesville since October 1956. Iredell County’s first newspaper was the Iredell Express, started by Eugene B. Drake in December 1857. For the first time in 164 years, there is no city newspaper office in Statesville.
During the COVID pandemic, the Record & Landmark office had been closed to the public as had many businesses across the country. The paper was still published, but the editors, reporters and other staff members worked from home creating the paper electronically before it and the Mooresville Tribune were printed at the Winston-Salem Journal location.
Having proven that the paper could be published more efficiently and at a lower cost, Lee Enterprises decided to continue having the paper published with much of the staff working from home. Lee Enterprises owns the Statesville Record & Landmark, Mooresville Tribune, Hickory Daily Record, Morganton News Herald, Marion McDowell News, Concord Independent Tribune, Winston-Salem Journal and Greensboro News & Record.
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The Lexington Farmers Market will host its first-ever Farm Fest from 4 to 10 p.m. Oct. 1 at Bull City Ciderworks in Lexington. Admission is free.
With a $5 wristband, kids and adults can play a variety of fun, farm-inspired games sponsored by local businesses, including Lexington Farm and Garden, CrossFit Hog Town and Sink Farm Equipment.
Attendees can also enjoy live music by the folk-country band Vandergrift. Farmers market vendors and community supporters are donating many items for raffle baskets and a silent auction. Bull City Ciderworks will release a new cider made with Lexington honey, and $1 from every pint purchased at Farm Fest of the new cider or of the Off Main cider will be donated to the market.
In addition to the main event, a gourmet dinner featuring local meats, vegetables and baked goods will be created by Chef Michael Morefield of Rustic Roots. The 30-seat Farm to Table Dinner requires a separate ticket, which is available online for $50 per person.
Be sure to check official websites, Facebook pages or contact numbers to make sure scheduled events are still happening.
COMMUNITY EVENTS
CARDEN CIRCUS:Acrobats, aerialists, animals, daredevils and clowns will be among the performers at the Carden International Circus when it presents five shows Sept. 23-25 at the Pontchartrain Convention & Civic Center, 4545 Williams Blvd., Kenner. Tickets are $10 for children and $25 for adults at www.spectacularcircus.com.
CRAFT FAIR: Archbishop Chapelle High School’s 24th annual craft fair will be held from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sept. 24 on the campus at 8800 Veterans Memorial Blvd., Metairie. With over 300 vendors, it will be the largest to date.
WHITE ELEPHANT SALE: Munholland United Women in Faith will be raising money for its mission partners with a white-elephant sale from 8 a.m. to 1 p. m. Saturday, Sept. 24, at Munholland United Methodist Church, 1201 Metairie Road. Clothing is not part of this sale, but there will be plenty of items for home and yard.
PLANT GIVEAWAYS: Two plant giveaways are coming up.
Keep UNO Beautiful and the Native Plant Initiative of Greater New Orleans will hold a plant giveaway beginning at 9 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 1, at the UNO Administration Building, 6650 Milneburg Road, New Orleans. For more information, contact Carol Lunn at (504) 280-7155 or [email protected]
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Vacation can take people to all kinds of new and interesting places.
Some people have a goal of visiting all 50 states and try to visit a new one each year or two. Some people have a bucket list of baseball stadiums they want to see or national parks they want to visit. I even know someone who loves to visit historic libraries that were built by Andrew Carnegie, and he goes to see them all across the country.
Some people are “genealogy tourists,” and they visit locations where they can conduct family research. They may visit cemeteries of their ancestors and make rubbings of headstones. They may drive hundreds of miles to scroll through microfilm at a small-town newspaper. They may also visit a library to pore over city directories, yearbooks and other archives.
The Norfolk Public Library often welcomes these traveling family researchers. Genealogists from as far away as Washington and Arizona have looked through the library’s materials, scouring for birth announcements, addresses and obituaries to complete their family trees.
Several years ago, the library worked with the Norfolk Daily News to get all the newspaper’s archives into a digital format that was easily searchable. The new digital archive was available in the library and greatly reduced searching time. Instead of scrolling through rolls of microfilm, the researcher simply had to type…
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SPECIAL NOTE
SPORTS REGISTRATION: Danville Parks and Recreation’s registration period for youth football and cheerleading is now open until Aug. 5. This season’s offerings are available for children ages 5-12. Flag football is for children ages 5-6, and tackle football is for children ages 7-12. Registration for football is $35, and registration for cheerleading is $40. Additional fees may apply. Sports officials are also needed. Those with relevant experience are encouraged to contact 434-799-5214. Those interested in registering for football and cheerleading may do so by calling 434-799-5214 or by signing up online at playdanvilleva.com.
TODAY, JULY 12
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SENIORS ON THE MOVE: The senior citizen’s program at the Cherrystone Missionary Baptist Association, 5551 Tom Fork Road, Ringgold, meets every Tuesday from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. to play bingo and dominos. Also, there’s a computer awareness class from 10 to 11 a.m. and 1 to 2 p.m., senior exercise from noon to 12:20 p.m. with lunch served from 12:20 to 1 p.m. All seniors 60 years and older are welcome. For additional information, call Frances Garlin at 434-822-6453, Barbara Williams at 434-713-5271, and for computer awareness and exercise, Kathy B. Ramsey at 434-251-0379.
“The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle” is my favorite cartoon series. It was on network television from 1959 through 1964. Fortunately, it still lives on various television venues. R&B appeals to both kids and adults. Rocky is a flying squirrel, and Bullwinkle is a moose. Their nemeses are Boris Badenov and Natasha Fatale, spies for The Fearless Leader. The show also features the less-than-brilliant Dudley Do-Right of the Mounties and his archenemy Snidely Whiplash, and Fractured Fairy Tales, and Aesop & Son, both featuring alternate interpretations of those classics. Then there is Peabody’s Improbable History with a bespectacled, professorial, talking canine assisted by his pet boy, Sherman. The pair visit various famous past events and personages using the time-traveling device Peabody invented: the WABAC machine.
Another version of a WABAC machine was recently unveiled. Unlike Peabody’s, this one is real and anyone with an internet connection can use it. This is the 1950 U.S. Census released to the public on April 1, 2022, 72 years ago after it was completed. Why 72 years? Because Congress made that length of time law in 1978. Why 72? The answer is — no one really knows.
At any rate, 72 years ago this month, about 140,000 census takers, or, officially, enumerators (ordinary Americans who volunteered, were trained and got paid), fanned out across the country and began knocking on the doors of some 46 million American houses and apartments and personally contacted some 150.7 million people (including Native Americans, albeit on separate Indian Reservation schedules). It was the last house-to-house census. Subsequent ones have…
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