Friday, March 12, 2010

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WHEN & WHERE: March 16, 5:30 to 7:00 p.m. Idaho State University Pond Student Union, Bengal Theater

HOW: Free and open to the public.   

WHO: - Following the film our speaker will engage the audience in Q&A and a “talk back” session.

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Submitted by the Idaho Falls Arts Council

    IDAHO FALLS — Building upon the success of the downtown Idaho Falls art bench project, a new committee is seeking artists and craftspeople who wish to construct “Art You Can Sit On” which will be located on the Snake River Greenbelt.  The 20 new sculptural seats or artistic benches will welcome visitors to walk the Idaho Falls Snake River Greenbelt and discover a beautiful resting place where art interfaces with nature....

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ISU Institute of Rural Health’s Ann Kirkwood Named to Serve On National Substance Abuse/Mental Health Steering Committee  

POCATELLLO – Ann Kirkwood, senior...

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Free for ISU students and their families, $10 per family or $3 per person.

 

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     POCATELLO – Idaho State University Interim Dean of the Kasiska College of Health Professions Stephen Feit has been awarded the Lifetime Achievement award by the Idaho Counseling Association for 2010.  Feit is also a professor of counseling and former chair...

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Submitted story Ryan Pelton, widely regarded as one of the world’s best Elvis tribute artists, will perform in Blackfoot March 10 and in Idaho Falls March 11.

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BOISE, Idaho — After long and emotional debate, Senators on Friday voted 21-13 to allow pharmacists, nurses and other health-care workers to opt out of providing assistance for abortions, stem-cell therapy, emergency contraception or end-of-life care, if they tell their employers first the procedures violate their conscience.

    The measure now goes to the House, where a similar bill aimed at giving pharmacists conscience protections passed 48-21 last year before stalling in the Senate ...

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Old Town Pocatello First Friday Art Walk  March 5, 2010

Plan to spend Friday night in Historic Old Town! Galleries and local businesses will have new artwork on display....

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“Old Town Pocatello” and “City’s Budget Process” to be Discussed

Mayor Brian Blad invites citizens to join him tomorrow, March 2, 2010 for “Calling City Hall,” the Mayor’s monthly call-in program. The show will begin at 6:30 p.m. and is aired live on Government Access Television, Channel 11. Mayor Blad’s guests this month will be Jay Reeves, Chairman of the Old Town Merchants Committee; Dave Swindell, Chief Financial Officer, City of Pocatello; and City Council...

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Storytimes For The Week of March 1, 2010, to March 5, 2010, Are Cancelled

 

Storytimes are cancelled at Pocatello's Marshall Public Library, 113 S. Garfield Avenue, for the

week of March 1, 2010, to March 5, 2010.  The Storytime Lady had a change in her schedule and

will not be available.  Library staff apologizes for any inconvenience to its patrons.  Storytimes

will resume the week of March 8, 2010.

 

Please contact Kathryn Poulter at 232-1263 ext. 22 if you have any questions.

            Pocatello – Idaho State University anthropology Research Professor Herbert Maschner has co-edited the book “The Northern World, AD 900-1400,” released in December 2009....

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 POCATELLO – Idaho State University students will be gathering at 1 p.m. March 12 in the Pond Student Union to produce a “lip dub” of the Beatles song “Revolution.” This event was originally planned to occurred March 5, but the time and place have been changed to March 12.

In a nutshell, a lip dub is a lip-synching music video tour of a college campus. Through a survey offered on the ISU Facebook page students picked “Revolution.” The completed video will...

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    POCATELLO — A consultant’s feasibility study shows construction of a large multiuse events center in Pocatello could...

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              POCATELLO – “Only connect,” wrote author E.M. Forster in 1910. Now, 100 years later, that is still vital advice for these times.

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First place is the photo of Pebble Creek by qwertyuiop. Congrats, you have won a $50 gift card to Fred Meyer!

Second place is the panned photo of a chariot race in Afton,...

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Theme is ‘The Middle East,’ David Meyer to Keynote

 

Pocatello – Idaho State University’s 39th annual Frank Church Symposium running March 3-5 will be on the theme “The Middle East,” and will feature David Meyer delivering the keynote address “Terror, Nukes, Land, and Peace: U.S. Foreign Policy toward the Middle East in the Obama Administration.”

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Pocatello – The Idaho State University Health Fair 2010, set from 7 a.m. to 1 p.m. March 18 and 19, will feature more than 50 learning centers on a variety of health issues.

Examples of services offered at the fair include everything from body-fat screenings and tests of grip strength, to nervous system evaluations and home health and hospice information. Other learning centers will provide blood pressure readings, a medication brown bag for participants to bring in their medicines and ask pharmacy students...

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Free Information Session Scheduled March 15, 2010

  

Pocatello’s Marshall Public Library, 113 South Garfield Avenue, will host a program

about living wills on Monday, March 15, 2010 from 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon.  

 

Roberta Wold, Alliance Home Health...

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The Pocatello Zoo is accepting applications from adults interested in volunteering at the Zoo, and

there is something for just about everyone!  There are positions available in education,

marketing/public relations, construction, maintenance, grounds, events, and in zoo keeping.  Those

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Pocatello, ID – The Idaho State Civic Symphony will be holding its second annual Family Concert on Thursday, March 4th at 7 pm.  Pre-concert activities will be starting at 5:30 pm.

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POCATELLO – The Idaho State University Bengal Dancers recently returned from the United Spirit Association (USA) Collegiate Championship held in Anaheim, Calif., where they finished third in both the Open Dance and Hip Hop categories....

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