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downtown
Bands, films, food at Dry River party
Volunteers from the Dry River Radical Resource Center, 740 N. Main Ave., are organizing an anniversary party with bands, films and food to be held from 5 p.m. Saturday through Sunday.
"Who would have thought from our little meetings in the park years ago that we'd now have this awesome, successful space of our own? It's really exciting," longtime volunteer Josh Banno said in a press release.
Dry River is a community space known for its rock music shows, film screenings, free classes and activism.
"It first opened its doors in November 2005," Steev Hise, another volunteer, said in a press release. "To commemorate that, we are having a two-day extravaganza featuring a variety of bands, both local as well as touring acts from as far away as the UK."
Hise's new documentary about Dry River, "Radical Resources," will also be shown.
The event will start with a potluck dinner on Saturday and continue through the night as a slumber party, then pick up again with more bands throughout Sunday.
"The celebration will join the All-Souls Procession and then conclude with more bands Sunday night starting at 9 p.m.," Hise said.
The event is open to all ages, free, "although a donation to help support the center is encouraged," Hise said.
For more information about the center, visit its Web site at www.dryriver.org.
central
Visit Edge High by park Wednesday
Edge High School's Himmel Park campus, 2555 E. First St., will hold an open house from 4 to 7 p.m. Wednesday.
Visitors can meet individually with teachers, learn about the freshman academy and the senior trip, and view Edge's "green" building renovation plans.
A special open house for Edge's new English as a Second Language program will be held from 3 to 5 p.m. Edge High School has initiated a program of intensive ESL, which specializes in instruction for new arrivals in the United States who speak little or no English. The program also can accommodate local high-school-age students with basic or limited English.
East side
Vantage West group paints two homes
Members of Vantage West Credit Union's Employee Association painted the homes of East Side residents and fellow members Ronald and Betty Cowley and Mary Sullivan on Oct. 13.
The project was part of a statewide credit union sponsorship of Together We Paint, "an initiative made up of community-conscious organizations who care enough about their communities to fund a series of volunteer community beautification and improvement projects," Jill Casey Figueroa, communications director for Vantage West, said in a press release.
Together We Paint is spearheaded by the 56 credit unions of Arizona, which contributed financial and volunteer resources to improve the lives of those in need.
"The project recipients had to meet certain low-income criteria," President Angie Buchanan of Vantage West Credit Union Employee Association said.
They were invited to speak to a selection committee about their life situations. "Not being able to turn one away, we asked for more employee volunteers to paint both homes," Buchanan said.
● Compiled by Angela Soto. Call 573-4142 or e-mail asoto@azstarnet.com.
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