N ews Briefs St. Paul parking enforcement
The St. Paul Police Department’s Parking Enforcement Unit receives many complaints each day about vehicles abandoned on city streets. Some citizens are not aware that there is a city ordinance prohibiting vehicles being parked on a street or alley for more than 48 hours. Vehicle owners who violate this ordinance are subject to a $33 parking citation. However, anyone can park up to 48 hours on the street, and it is not a violation to park in front of another person’s home. For more information on parking regulations, visit www.stpaul.gov; click government; then city charter & code; then search for parking.
Ordway receives Joyce grant
The Ordway Center for the Performing Arts received a $50,000 grant from the Joyce Foundation to commission
Your community news and information source African-American choreographer Uri Sands to create a new dance work inspired by the paintings of American-American artist Ernie Barnes. According to the foundation, Sands has performed as a principal dancer with Alvin Ailey for five years, and with the North Carolina Dance Theatre. His recent choreographic commissions include VocalEssence, Penumbra Theatre and Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater. Sands has several film and television credits and has taught dance extensively throughout the United States and Europe. He was awarded a 2004 McKnight Artist Fellowship, was a recipient of the inaugural Princess Grace Award in choreography in 2005, and was selected as one of “25 to Watch” in 2005 by Dance Magazine. In 2004, Sands and his wife Toni, also a former Ailey dancer, founded the St. Paul‐based dance com-
pany, TU Dance. The premiere performance of this work will be likely be performed by TU Dance during Ordway’s 2010– 11 season.
Saint Paul Almanac invites submissions
The publisher of the Saint Paul Almanac invites novice and professional writers alike to participate in the publication’s fifth edition. The annual publication features essays, poems, photos, maps, and listings of events, entertainment and cultural venues. Each writer whose work is accepted receives a stipend. Most selections are 650 words or fewer, with a small number being as long as 1,500 words. Submission deadline is Mar. 31. Multiple submissions are acceptable. Guidelines are available at www. saintpaulalmanac.com on the submissions page. Submissions are accepted by email at stories@saintpaulalmanac.com.
Serafimov Dental participates in Give Kids A Smile event
Dr. Lu Serafimov visited with Aaliya Hernandez during the American Dental Association’s seventh annual Give Kids A Smile program, hosted by Serafimov Dental Clinic in West St. Paul in early February. Eighteen children received free dental care at the clinic from 8 a.m.-noon, Feb. 5. The program is supported by clinic patients who donate a visit. Dental staff also volunteered their time and Jimmy John’s donated food. Give Kids A Smile activities nationwide highlight the ongoing challenges that low-income and disabled children face in accessing dental care. The overarching concept of the initiative is to unite the many charitable education, screening, prevention and treatment programs already in existence and have them offer as many services as possible on the same day.
Cherokee Park United Church invites you to a
Photo Exhibit and Film
Affirming Diversity Among Families The photo exhibit will be open at 4 p.m., Sat., Feb. 27. There will be a chili dinner, with a vegetarian option, at 5:30 p.m. The film will be shown at 6 p.m. and followed by discussion. No charge, but a free-will offering will be received. The art exhibit, meal and video are all open to the community. In Our Family is a museum-quality traveling photo-text exhibit about 20 families representing a breadth of diversity and family configurations, including adoptive and foster families, divorced and step-families, single parent households, multiracial families, families facing chronic illness and death, families living with mental and physical disabilities, lesbian and gay-parented families; interfaith families, multigenerational households, and immigrant families. This exhibit is designed for audiences of all ages, from early childhood to adults. In Our Family challenges stereotypes and
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For the Bible Tells Me So is Dan Karslake’s provocative, entertaining documentary, which brilliantly reconciles homosexuality and Biblical scripture, and in the process reveals that Church-sanctioned anti-gay bias is based almost solely upon a significant misinterpretation of the Bible. Through the experiences of five very normal, very Christian, very American families -including those of former House Majority Leader Richard Gephardt and Episcopal
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