Monday, September 24

Get up, get into it, get involved

Got an itchin' for some rabble rousing or other civic involvement? Here goes:

Holy Hispanic Heritage Month! A slew of events this week:
PBS Documentary and Panel Discussion: The New Americans, Thompson School District Administration Building, 800 S. Taft Ave., Loveland, 613-5775. Tuesday, Sept. 25, 5:30-7:30pm.

Film and discussion: Soldados: Chicanos in Viet Nam, Fort Collins Public Library, 201 Peterson St., Fort Collins, 419-8944. Wednesday, Sept. 26, 7pm.

Women at Noon Brown Bag Luncheon: Latina Panel, Lory Student Center Room 228, CSU Campus, Fort Collins, colostate.edu. Wednesday, Sept. 26, noon-1pm.

Meanwhile...

For Monday, Sept. 24:
Dr. Sylvia Earle will give a presentation, "Sustainable Seas: The Vision, The Reality," with at the Lory Student Center Cherokee Park Ballroom, CSU Campus, Fort Collins, 4-5:30pm.

Fort Collins City Councilman Kelly Ohlson will host a District 4 and community meeting starting at 6pm at the Senior Center, 1200 Raintree Drive. Call 416-2447.

On Tuesday, Sept 25:
The Governor's Blue Ribbon Transportation Panel comes to the Windsor Community Rec Center, 250 11th St., from 9am - 4pm.

Coloradoans Against Resource Destruction (CARD) will hold a town hall meeting about proposed uranium mining in Northern Colorado, at the Canyon West room of the Lincoln Center, 417 W. Magnolia St., Fort Collins, 7-9 pm.

Jarid Manos, executive director of the Great Plains Restoration Council, will give a reading from his new book, Ghetto Plainsman, at Matter Bookstore/Bean Cycle, 144 N. College Ave., Fort Collins, 7pm. FREE.

On Wednesday, Sept. 26:
A panel discussion on fallen shock-jock Don Imus, "Racism in Journalism?" at the Lory Student Center Room 230, CSU Campus, Fort Collins, 1pm. 491-1781.

"Corporate Profit and Greed: How Health Care in America is killing the economy," a presentation by Dr. Glenn Pearson at Harmony Library Community Room, 4616 S. Shields St. FC, 7-9pm

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