PUT ON YOUR DANCING SHOES
You’ve gotten square with Uncle Sam, and now
it’s time to party. Local peace-and-justice organizations host a Tax
Day fundraiser to benefit the Springfield Peace Camp for Kids. The event
starts at 6 p.m. Friday, April 15, at the Abraham Lincoln Unitarian
Universalist Congregation, 745 Woodside Rd. Music is provided by elevator
shoe unaffected. The suggested donation, $15, covers hors d’oeuvres
and nonalcoholic drinks, and a cash bar will be offered for peaceniks who
need to drown their sorrows.
DUMP THE JUNK — LEGALLY
Here’s a rare opportunity to get rid of
household hazardous waste materials: From 8 a.m.-3 p.m. Saturday, April 16,
take your dangerous wastes to a collection site at the Illinois State
Fairgrounds (enter gate 11). Used motor oil and antifreeze, old gasoline,
pesticides, insecticides, garden and hobby chemicals, spent household
batteries and fluorescent bulbs, paint thinner, and similar wastes will be
accepted.
GARVEY BENEFIT SALE EXTENDED
The Marcus Garvey book and record sale, which was
scheduled to end today, will continue through this Saturday, April 16, in
Building L on the UIS campus. The hours are 9 a.m.-7 p.m. Bruce Iglaur,
founder of Alligator Records in Chicago, has donated 50 blues tapes for the
sale. They’re available for $3 each on a first-come, first-serve
basis. The sale, which benefits the Marcus Garvey School of Human Rights,
includes movies, computer games, cassette tapes, and nearly 1,000 LPs.
A CREDIT TO HIS PROFESSION
Jon Lieberman, Sinclair Broadcast’s worst
nightmare, gets a nod from his peers for speaking out. Lieberman, former
Washington bureau chief (seen locally on Sinclair’s WICS, Channel
20), was fired after publicly criticizing his company’s decision to
air an anti-John Kerry documentary. He later blasted the company for
dictating stories: “I felt like I was part of a propaganda arm”
[see Paul Schmelzer, “Puppet masters,” March 10]. He’ll
pick up a special professional citation when the 2005 Payne Awards for
Ethics in Journalism are handed out next month by the University of Oregon
School of Journalism and Communication.
This article appears in Apr 14-20, 2005.
