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FLAGPOLE BUREAU OF INFORMATION is Flagpole's Community Calendar for the Athens/Clarke County area. If you know of something that people should be aware of, let us know. Submit information by the Wednesday prior to the publication date, to: FBI FLAGPOLE MAGAZINE P. 0. BOX 1027 /ATHENS, GA 30G03. Classes/Learning/ Events Self-defense. The Rape Crisis Cen ter will hold a three-session sell-detense class Wednesdays, April 10,17 and 24, from 6-8 p.m. at the Police Department Training Room, 3035 Lexington Rd. To register or for more into, call 353-1912. Solo. First United Methodist Church’s singles group, SOLO!, will meet Thurs day, April 11, from 7-9 p.m. at the church. Guest speakers Tom and Lacy Camp will discuss the Samaritan Counseling Center. For more info, call 543-1442. Eggs & issues. The Athens Area Chamber of Commerce will host an Eggs & Issues Breakfast special Thurs day, April 11, at 7:30 a.m. at UGAs Geor gia Center for Continuing Education. Members of the newly-lormed Commu nity Safety Task Force will focus on com munity safety. Judge Steve Jones will lead a panel discussion with Nancy Zechella of Safe Campuses Now, Asa Boynton of UGA Public Safety, Anne Shepherd of the Downtown Council and Frank Platt of the Athens-Clarke County Police. WGAU 1340 AM will carry the program live from 8-9 a.m. Tickets are $11 Chamber members, $12.50 non members. Call 549-6800 for more into. Brown bag. Catherine M. Jones, As sociate Professor, UGA Department of Romance Languages, will speak on ■Rape, Redemption and the Grateful Dead" Friday, April 12, at 12:10 p.m. in Tate Center Room 141 as part of the Women's Studies Program's Brown Bag Lunch Talks. Call 542-2846. Healing touch. The American Holis tic Nurses Association will sponsor a Level I Healing Touch Workshop April 12-14 at Athens Regional Medical Cen ter. Call Brenda Sloan at 770-725-2291 for more info. Bird walk. Sandy Creek Nature Cen ter and the Oconee County Audubon Society will help host the third in the spring series of Bird Walks Saturday, April 13, at 8 a.m. at the State Botanical Garden of Georgia. Part'cipanls don't have to be experienced bird watchers for this program, which is designed for adults and families with older children. Free and open to the public. A few pairs of binoculars will be available. Call 613- 3615 for more info. Red clay. Environmentalists and plan ning directors will participate in an ex amination of land use planning in North east Georgia during the eighth annual Red Clay Conference to be held Satur day, April 13, from 9 a.m.-4:15 p.m. at The Classic Center, 300 N. Thomas St. Guest speakers and local government officials will discuss legal tools for pro tecting natural resources at the local level, the connection between land use decisions and transportation, ecosystem management and preserving the rural character of Georgia 316. Informal ques tion and answer sessions will also be held. The conference is open to the pub lic: $2 students and professors, $5 gen eral public and $60 attorneys seeking continuing legal education credit. International talent. Join the Inter national Services and Programs (ISP) Office and UGA’s various international student organizations for International Talent Night Saturday, April 13, at 8 p.m. in the Fine Arts Auditorium. Students from around the world will showcase music, dance and fashion. $5 adults, $3 students/children. For tickets, contact Rikke Helen Kasse at 357-1557, or email missbox@music.cc.uga.edu. Tickets are also available al UGA's International Coffee Hour Fridays from 11:30 a.m.- 1:30 p.m. at the Memorial Hall Ball room. For more info, call Saehee Chang at 542-1557. Rock and gem. The Athens Rock and Gem Club will have its annual spring show Saturday, April 13, from 9 a.m.-4 p.m. at Sandy Creek Park's Community Building. Free, but park entrance fees apply. The show will feature demonstra tions of cutting cabachons, final steps in making jewelry, flint knapping, gem trees, interior carving, silver smithing, stone carving, toe rings, tumbling stones and wind chimes. Visitors can pan for gold. For more info, call 549- 8082. Romanian orphans. Michael Rutter, one of the world's most prominent re searchers in the field of child psychia try and child psychology, will discuss tiow Romanian orphans have been af fected by severe physical and emotional neglect Monday, April 15, at 2:30 p.m. in UGA's Tate Center's Georgia Hall. Free and open to the public. For more info, call Rex Forehand at 542-1806. Trees. The State Botanical Garden of Georgia will host “A Tour of Trees" Wednesday, April 17, from 9a.m.-3 p.m. Guides will lake participants on a lei surely lour of trees al the Garden and on UGA's North Campus. Bus transpor tation and lunch will be provided. $1f Call 542-1244 for more info. Land use. The League of Women Vot ers and the Slate Botanical Garden of Georgia will host "Untangling Land Use and Zoning Terms and Policies’ Thursday, April 18, at 7 p.m. in the Garden's Calloway Building. Kathy Zickert, an Atlanta attorney regarded as an expert in land use and zoning mat ters, will be among the guest speak ers. Bring your questions. For more info, call Carol Jones (353-1923) or Burt Sparer (353-2855). Landscape architect. Stuart 0. Dawson, a landscape architect, will lec ture on "Sports Facilities: Magnets for Urban Enhancement" Friday, April 19, 4-5 p.m. in the Law School Auditorium. A reception will follow on the ground floor of Caldwell Hall. For more info, call 542-8292. Cherokee. Cherokee genealogy expert Martha Redus will present her seminar "Cherokee Genealogy: From Family Folklore to Proven Ancestry" in the Ath ens-Clarke County Library auditorium Saturday, April 20, from 10 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Redus is a professional genealo gist, lecturer and teacher specializing in Cherokee research. She writes a gene alogy column for Dreamcatcher, the quarterly publication of the Native American Center of Georgia. She is a member of the Cherokee Nation of Okla homa and has ancestral lines in Geor gia, North Carolina, Tennessee and Oklahoma. The seminar is free. Call the library's heritage room at 613-3650, Ext. 350, for more info. Canoe. Learn how to canoe Saturday, April 20, at 10 a.m. at Sandy Creek Park. The class will cover basic strokes, safety precautions and skills for flat water. Af ter the class, participants will canoe on Lake Chapman. $5. Preregistration is required. Call 613-3631 for more info. Garden tour. Jeff Lewis, Director of the State Botanical Garden of Georgia, will host a tour of the new International Gar den Saturday, April 20, at 9 a.m. Call 542-1244. Earth banner. Everyone’s invited to How DlD’JA MAKE OUT AT THE PLEA iMakket, kids? Some art tried To rip^ 05 OPE..HE TRIED TO SELL us a MONET FOR * Burl checked the Sl&NATuRE AHD tT SAID 'MA.neT. we chewed Him OUT e-ooDlwt CAP find a new Clown OIL FoR the FoTER. Media Services, Inc. 0*0 : mountain bike rage Mountain bike racing returns to the Twilight with a'^street race, a time trial and a crfta#,- covntry event. Time trial races for men asMl\wotoe begin Sat. at 10AM. The top forty rideraOqE'Sf for the $1 000 Fat Tire Criterium SaturdagsnJLght On Sunday, Hawkes Creek Farm will host the Cros Country event. The course is.a*technical 4 mil Enjoy FRESCA. Come downtown and enjoy FRE&fiA TWILIGHT 96 Activities including music, food, and world class bicycle racing. And Don't miss the TWILIGHT SPORTS SHOW at the Classic Center. aprii presented by Register foR thEse FRESCA TWILIGHT events today! TWILIGHT in-liiffe skate W .. \ , - • Athens third annual in-line skate ra<^e wili- be Saturday May 13. There ni^aictwo -separate 10K races for women and men, The.Vi' ■*** v ' *•*' is at 7:30JPM and .the miis is IF' ‘ US. in-t¥he skat4" teams will y. ' preR tieg “«*! WNGCtef - T' X istration books on's Bicycles on April lO, 1996 Memorial Park’s Bear Hollow Wildlife Trail Saturday, April 20, from 1-3 p.m. to decorale a "We All Need the Earth" banner for Earth Day. The banner will be displayed on Zoo Day. For more info, call 613-3616. Plant sale. The Stale Botanical Gar den ol Georgia will have its Spring Plant Sale Salurday, April 20, from 8 a.m- noon in the Garden's upper parking lot. Horticulture staff will be on hand to an swer questions. Trees, shrubs, herbs and Mowers will be sold. Call Shirley Hartzler at 542-6132 for more info. Thrift sale. The SOUTHreWORKS Thrift Sale will be Salurday, April 20, from 8 a.m.-2 p.m. al the 1902 OCAF Center at the end of School Street in downtown Watkinsville. Proceeds will help fund the Oconee Cultural Arts Foundation's upcoming Southworks '96 Arts Festival. "When artists, musicians and actors clean out their closets and garages, the results could be fascinat ing!" For more info or to donate, call 769-4565. Springiest. Young Harris College in Young Harris, Ga., will host Springiest '96 Saturday, April 20, from 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Area artists and craftspersons will exhibit and sell their work. Mountain music, food and activities will be pro vided by student organizations. Admis sion is free fo all events. The college and Young Harris is on Hwy. 76 between Blairsville and Hiawassee. For more info, call 706-379-3111, Ext. 5118. Amy Tan. Amy Tan, author of The Joy Luck Club, The Kitchen God's Wile inti The Hundred Secret Senses, will speak at UGA's Tate Center's Georgia Hall Wednesday, April 24, at 7:30 p.m. $3 students, $5 non-sludents. Drama/Theater Adam & Eve. University Union's Per forming Arts Forte Series will present "The Diaries of Adam and Eve," adapted from the writings of Mark Twain, Thurs day, April 11. at 8 p.m. in the Fine Arts Theater. Tickets are $4/$6 students/$15/ $18 non-studenls. For more info, call 542-6396. Glimpse. Stephanie Astalos-Jones will give two solo theatrical performances entitled "GLIMPSE the amazing human condition" Salurday, April 13, al 8 and 10 p.m. at Ihe Lyndon House Art Cen ter, 293 Hoyt SI. $9 general admission; $7 students, artists, senior citizens. For more irilo, call 613-3623. Storytelling. Shirley Carmichael, an actress, stand-up comic, day laborer and sign language interpreter, will present "Spring Madness' Sunday April 14, al 3 p.m. in Athens-Clarke County Library's small conference room. A workshop on body language will follow. Call 613-3650 lor more info. Blow your hom. The Boston Theatre Company's John Arnold stars in Ihe Masters Hall Players' production of Neil Simon's “Come Blow Your Horn" Thurs day and Friday, April 18and 19, at 8:15 p.m. and Salurday. April 20, al 2:15 p.m. and 8:15 p.m. al UGA's Georgia Center. Tickets are $10.50 advance, $14.75 at Ihe door. Call 542-9464 or 542-2613 (or reservations, more info or details about the buftels that precede each show. Jungle Book. Athens Creative Theatre presents “The Jungle Book" April 18- 21 (7:30 p.m. nightly; 3 p.m. matinees Saturday and Sunday) in the theater in Memorial Park. $5. Call 613-3628 for reservations. Honor guard. Atlanta native Mark Mobley will perform his autobiographi cal monologue ‘Honor Guard" al the Morton Theatre Thursday, April 25, at 8 p.m. The monologue is a 90-minute look at a Southern boy’s journey lo manhood. Admission is $5 at the door; proceeds go lo Project Safe and Ihe AIDS Coalition of Northeast Georgia. Mobley is studying at Ihe University of Georgia as a fellow in the Pew Chari table Trusts' National Arts Journalism Program. For more information, call Pat Allen at 549-3730. Government Meetings Board of Tax Assessors, Wednes day, April 10, 9 a.m., Courthouse Room 280 CEO & Commission, work session on Olympic budget, Wednesday, April 10, 4:30 p.m„ 6 p.m. Courthouse Room 550 Personnel Board, Thursday, April 11, 5 p.m. Courthouse Room 180 Board of Education, Thursday. April 11,7:15 p.m., Main Office, 500 College Ave. Athens PanAthenic Festival Com mittee, Monday, April 15, 4 p.m., Courthouse Room 550 Lyndon House Art Foundation, Monday, April 15.5 p.m., Lyndon House Classic Center Authority, Tuesday. April 16,4:30 p.m., Ramada Inn CEO and Commission, agenda set ting, Tuesday, April 16,7 p.m., City Hall Commission Chamber
