Clay 4 Cancer offers classes
Offered through the Washington Regional Cancer Support Home and funded by the Walmart Foundation, Clay 4 Cancer is a program for cancer survivors regardless of the stage of treatment.
Offered Tuesday and April 23, a four-hour class will guide artists in making a unique scarf using mixed media, block printing and embellishments. Class time is 6 to 8 p.m. both days.
Registration is required.
Classes are at the Community Creative Center in the Nadine Baum Studio, 505 W.
Spring St. in Fayetteville.
Information: (479) 521-8024.
AARP teaches driver safety
The AARP Driver Safety Program is a nonprofit, all volunteer monthly class that helps seniors learn to drive safely.
It is designed for drivers older than 55. There are no tests, and participants receive an automobile insurance discount for three years.
AARP members pay $12 and others pay $14.
The class is from 8:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Monday at the Fayetteville Senior Activity and Wellness Center, 945 S. College Ave. in Fayetteville.
Information: Ralph Ellis at (479) 871-9117.
Health fair set
in the Highlands
In partnership with the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, the Schmieding Center in the Highlands is hosting a Health Tune-Up from 1 to 4 p.m.
Tuesday. Admission is one nonperishable food item.
The community is invited to visit with a variety of vendors on topics such as home fire safety and glaucoma, get glucose screenings and speak to representatives with Village House, Schmieding Center, Branchwood, Life Line, Project Lifesaver, AARP driver safety, Curves and others.
The health fair will take place at Highlands Church, 371 Glasgow Road in Bella Vista.
Information: (479) 855-2277.
AnimalPalooza
runs with dogs
The D.E. King Equine Program at the University of Arkansas will host its annual Dash4Cash 5K and 1 mile dog walk beginning at 8 a.m. Saturday at the Pauline Whitaker Animal Science Center.
The dog walk and running events will be $25 per participant. Participants will receive T-shirts and goodie bags. There will be unique prizes for winners and an obstacle course for dogs.
Registration is at race.wizard.com.
Information: (479) 236-4768.
4-H shoots for education
The Washington County 4-H Foundation is hosting Shooting for Scholars from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday at the Washington County Sheriff’s Office, 1155 Clydesdale Drive in Fayetteville.
It’s an event consisting of shooting competitions, live and silent auctions and educational exhibits to raise funs for youth development programs and scholarships.
There will be a free climbing wall, ATV safety lessons and many other educational opportunities.
Lunch will be $5; skeet simulation is $10; archery shooting competitions is $25 per adult and $10 for youth;
and BB gun competition for those less than 18 years of age is $5.
Information: (479) 444-1755 or visit shootingforscholars.org.
Book sales aid library
This week is National Library Week. In honor of the week, Barnes and Noble Booksellers in Rogers is hosting a book fair both online and in-store from 6 to 8 p.m.
Wednesday.
The store will donate aportion of the net proceeds from the book fair to the Rogers Public Library. Gift baskets courtesy of Northwest Arkansas Events Unlimited will be raffled during the fair.
Information: (479) 629-4975.
Red Cross needs blood
The Red Cross supplies 40 percent of the nation’s blood. Blood drives are held throughout the country yearround.
TONTITOWN 1-6 p.m. Monday at Tontitown Blood Donation Center, 250 Industrial Circle East.
Information: (501) 614-4420.
Blood Center seeks donors
The Community Blood Center of the Ozarks provides 38 area hospitals with life saving blood donations.
Drives are held throughout Northwest Arkansas each week.
FAYETTEVILLE 3:30-8:30 p.m. Wednesday at Good Shepherd Lutheran Church, 2925 Old Missouri Road ROGERS 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Tuesday at NWA Mercy Family YMCA, 5211 Village Parkway 2-6 p.m. Friday at Olivewood Apartments, 1006 N. 31st No. 3 SPRINGDALE 1-5 p.m. Wednesday at Career Academy of Hair Design, 346 E. Robinson Ave.
8:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m.
Thursday at Springdale High School, 1103 W. Emma Ave.
9-11 a.m. Friday at TruTrak Flight Systems, 1500 S. Old Missouri Road
Information: (479) 957-5290.
Immigration issues
topic for forum
Immigration Legal Issues: Recent Developments is the topic of a talk by professor Elizabeth Young, director of the Immigration Legal Clinic at the University of Arkansas School of Law. She will speak at 6 p.m. April 24 in the Fellowship Hall at First United Presbyterian Church of Fayetteville, Arkansas.
The program is sponsored by the League of Women Voters of Washington County and by the First United Presbyterian Church. A question-and-answer period will follow.
Dinner is available for $6 per person at 5:30 p.m.
Reservations: Required for dinner by calling (479) 442-4411 by noon on April 22.
Abortion debate
set at university
University Programs will host an abortion debate at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday in the Arkansas Union ballroom at the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville.
Guest speakers Mary Hallan-Fiorito and Katie Stack will be defending their stances on abortion. A question-and-answer session will take place afterwards.
Hallan-FioRito is an attorney and executive assistant for the Roman Catholic archbishop of Chicago.
Stack is a writer, speaker and advocate with a background in community organizing, abortion care and reproductive health advocacy. In 2010 she shared her own abortion experience on MTV’s 16 and Pregnant special “No Easy Decision.”
Admission for general public is free and contingent upon seating availability.
Information: (479) 575-5255.
Kids get chance to celebrate mom
Children will have the opportunity to plant and decorate something special for mom this Mother’s Day at the sixth annual Blossoms & Bows May 11 at the Bella Vista Library, 11 Dickens Place.
The free event, which willbe from 10 a.m. to noon, is sponsored by the Bella Vista Village Property Owners Association, Nature’s Calling and the library.
Participants will be able to decorate a flower pot and make Mother’s Day cards inside the library. Children will then plant blooming flowers in that pot to take home to their mothers. In addition, children can make a craft.
The event is open to children of all ages and will take place whether rain or shine.
Information: (479) 855-1753.
Architecture lecture slated
Michael Manfredi will present a lecture titled “Inhabiting Topography” at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday at Hembree Auditorium (Agricultural, Food, and Life Sciences Building, Room 107E) on the University of Arkansas campus in Fayetteville.
Manfredi is cofounder of Weiss/Manfredi Architecture/Landscape/Urbanism, a multidisciplinary design practice based in New York.
Known for the integration of architecture, art, infrastructure and landscape, the firm won the American Academy of Arts and Letters Academy Award for Architecture, AIA New York’s Gold Medal, and the Architectural League of New York’s “Emerging Voices” award, acknowledging the distinct vision of the firm.
The work of his firm hasbeen presented and exhibited at The Museum of Modern Art, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Design Centre in Essen, Germany, the National Building Museum, and the Louvre Museum.
The public is invited to attend this lecture, which is presented by the Fay Jones School of Architecture. This is the Charles Thompson Memorial Lecture, sponsored by Cromwell Architects Engineers.
Admission is free, with limited seating.
Information: (479) 575-4704 or architecture.uark.
edu.
Business plan class offered
The Arkansas Small Business and Technology Development Center presents “How to Write a Business Plan and Business Financing Options” from 4 to 8 p.m. Thursday at the Don W. Reynolds Center, Walton College, Room 202, at the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville.
Free samples will be provided of business plans and a workbook. Cost is $35 for Business Plan from 4 to 6 p.m. and $30 for Financing Options from 6 to 8 p.m.
Register: (479) 575-5148 or sbtdc.uark.edu.
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