Clark County nonprofits celebrate record-breaking fundraiser

Legacy Grove Park’s walk­ing paths now dou­ble as an open-air trib­ute to women in sci­ence. The International Women and Girls in Science Walking Tour fea­tures 16 out­door pan­els spot­light­ing glob­al female sci­en­tists and runs through mid-March in hon­or of the United Nations’ obser­vance on February 11. Anna Campomanes, who coor­di­nates pro­gram­ming at the 30-acre park, cre­at­ed the exhib­it as part of the venue’s “walk­ing exhibits” series. These self-guid­ed instal­la­tions deliv­er edu­ca­tion­al con­tent to casu­al visitors—especially...

Students and staff at Baker Intermediate raised more than $9,000 in just 10 days dur­ing their annu­al DanceBlue Mini Marathon to sup­port the fight against pedi­atric can­cer. The fundrais­ing effort con­clud­ed with an all-day marathon event where stu­dents and fac­ul­ty par­tic­i­pat­ed in orga­nized dances led by the school’s DanceBlue team. The event com­bined cel­e­bra­tion and pur­pose, as par­tic­i­pants danced in hon­or of chil­dren and fam­i­lies impact­ed by cancer. 

This album fea­tures Neil and his usu­al char­ac­ters record­ed from 1974 through 1977. All of these songs were new to me, and many of them I will nev­er for­get. Give it a lis­ten; I think you will like much of this album. 

I have seen many sto­ries recent­ly about folks leav­ing orga­nized reli­gion and choos­ing a dif­fer­ent spir­i­tu­al path due to what I call “reli­gious trau­ma.” These sto­ries are impor­tant and need to be told, but I want­ed to add a slight­ly dif­fer­ent nar­ra­tive to the mix.