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 ANNOUNCEMENTS & MEETINGS

  • Alzheimer’s explained

“The ABC's of Alzheimer's & Dementia” will be held on Saturdays Jan. 17, 24, and 31, 9:30-11:45 a.m. at Lake Edge United Church of Christ, 4200 Buckeye Road. Free to public. Call the Alzheimer's Association at 232-3400 to register or for more information.

  • Choir rehearsals

The Martin Luther King Jr Community Choir will have two rehearsals: Tuesday, Jan 13, 7 p.m. and Saturday, Jan. 17, 11 a.m., both at Mount Zion Baptist Church. The actual performance is Monday, Jan 19, 5:30 p.m. at the Madison Civic Center, 211 State Street.

  • Local quilters

The Mad City Quilt Guild meets twice each month, on the first Tuesday afternoon at 1 p.m. at Tabor Oaks at Oakwood Village West, and on the fourth Monday at 7 p.m. in the Oakwood Village West auditorium. New members are welcome. For more information, call Guild president Rick Vollbrecht, 221-0246.

  • Civics Club luncheon

Ruben Navarrette Jr., a columnist and editorial board member for the Dallas Morning News, will speak to the Madison Civics Club at a luncheon meeting Saturday, Jan. 17. Navarrette will share insights on immigration policies, trade, the current relationship between Mexico and the United States, and their effects on economic justice. For more information, call 231-1995.

  • N. Fish Hatchery Road steering committee

The next meeting of the North Fish Hatchery Road Steering Committee will be Wednesday, Jan. 21, 7:30-9:00 a.m. at the Fitchburg City Hall, 5520 Lacy Road. Schreiber Anderson and Deb Ersland have been conducting various stakeholder and landowner interviews and have also compiled the comments from a Community Forum. For more information, visit the Web site at www.city.fitchburg.wi.us.

  • Socialist Potluck

The Socialist Potluck will be held Saturday, Jan. 10, 5:30 p.m. at the WilMar Neighborhood Center, 953 Jenifer St. Clarence and Julie Kailin and Judith Klehr will talk about their trip to Spain, and there will be a video of two Spanish war heroes. For more information, call 241-2829.

  • Dental care

An informative meeting on the status of dental care in Madison will be held at the Madison Senior Center, 330 W. Mifflin St., Friday, Jan. 9, 1 p.m. For more information, call 256-7626, 251-1634, or 251-6211.

  • Shabazz workshop

Shabazz High School students are holding curriculum training about Mound Bayou, Miss., for Madison teachers and community members. Mound Bayou is one of a few remaining historic Black townships founded by freed slaves after the Civil War.

• The Elementary Curriculum Workshop will take place Wednesday, Jan. 14, 4-7 p.m. at Shabazz High School, 1601 N. Sherman Ave.

• The Middle and High School Curriculum Workshop will take place Thursday, Jan. 15, 4-7 p.m. at Shabazz High School.

For more information, call Jane Hammatt Kavaloski, 204-2449.

  • MUM meeting

Brian Cain of Catholic Charities will be the featured speaker for Madison-Area Urban Ministry (MUM) Thursday, Jan. 15, 8:30 a.m. at Immanuel Lutheran Church, 1021 Spaight St. For more information, call 256-0906.

  • Brown Bag Lunch Series

As part of the Brown Bag Lunch Series, “Struggle For Justice: The Migrant Farm Worker Labor Movement” will be held on the fourth floor of the Wisconsin Historical Museum, 20 N. Carroll St., Tuesday, Jan. 20, 12:15 p.m. Suggested donation is $2 per person. For more information, call 264-6555.

  • Education grants

     Madison Community Co-op is offering 10 $1,000 grants to organizations or groups that work with students in grades preschool to 12 in the Madison Metropolitan School District area. Projects using grant money must foster leadership and community, serve low-income and/or minority students, or provide for largely unmet needs of students.

Application deadline is Thursday, Jan. 15. For more information, visit www.madisoncommunitycoop and click on GRANTS, or e-mail questions to mccgrants@yahoo.com.

  • MAFAAC conference

Volunteers are needed to help plan and organize MAFAAC's second annual conference on "Race and Education: Closing the Achievement Gap," scheduled for Saturday, April 24, at Wright Middle School. The first planning meeting will be Thursday, Jan. 8, 7 p.m. Contact Leila at 233-5566 or lpine@tds.net for details.

  • Preschool Spanish Club

Early childhood is an ideal time to be exposed to other languages. The Madison Children’s Museum’s Preschool Spanish Club offers an informal, child-friendly class setting that introduces children ages 3-5 to new languages through games, songs, and activities.

Winter sessions will begin Feb. 3. The fee is $40/member child; $60/nonmember (includes Museum admission each week). For more information or to register, call 441-3453 or e-mail annap@kidskiosk.org 

  • Free Trade and Military Interventionism

A public forum, “Free Trade and Military Interventionism,” will be held Sunday, Jan. 11, 1-3 p.m. in the main auditorium of First Unitarian Society, 900 University Bay Drive. The forum, which will include Ed Garvey, Donna Vukelich, and other speakers, has been organized in response to Oliver North’s visit to Madison on Jan. 13 and 14 as the keynote speaker at the “Madison Business Day” event sponsored by the Wisconsin Manufacturers and Commerce (WMC).    

There will also be a peaceful demonstration to protest North’s presence Tuesday, Jan. 13, 7-8 p.m. outside the Madison Club, at the corner of East Wilson Street and Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard., where the WMC is holding a fund-raising dinner in honor of North.

  • NAMI at Church Women United

Catherine Beilman, co-chair of the Public Policy Committee for the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill (NAMI), will speak  at the Church Women United forum Friday, Jan. 9, at Dale Heights Presbyterian Church, 5501 University Ave. Registration and coffee will be at 9 a.m., followed by the program at 10 a.m. For more information, call 663-8450 or 259-1258.