Briefs

CLINIC

Free diabetes tests

available around town

The American Diabetes Association will be having free screenings throughout the month of November at various Smith's supermarkets.

The tests require a finger prick and results are available within a minute. Children can be tested as well as adults. Those wishing to be screened should not have eaten within two hours of the test. Testing at each location will be from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the pharmacy area. The following is a list of dates and locations: today and Nov. 29, 850 S. Rancho Blvd.; Friday and Nov. 21, 3850 E. Flamingo Road; Tuesday, 2540 S. Maryland Parkway; Nov. 17, 450 N. Nellis Blvd.; and Nov. 28 and Dec. 1, 830 S. Boulder Highway.

Eye screenings will also be done by appointment at three local locations: The Buzard Eye Institute, 7135 W. Sahara Ave., 362-3900;

Nevada Eye & Ear, 2598 Windmill Parkway, 456-4000; and Shepard Eye Center, 8467 W. Lake Mead Blvd., 731-2088, Ext. 3000.

For more information, call the American Diabetes Association at 369-9995.

LECTURES

Professor to discuss

Mexican issues at UNLV

The changing image of Mexican Americans will be the topic of a university forum lecture at 7:30 p.m. Thursday at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

Vicki Ruiz, a professor of history and the director of the Chicano Studies Program at Arizona State University, plans to use a series of images to explain the cultural transformation that occurred for Mexican immigrants between 1920 and 1950.

The presentation is scheduled to take place at the Marjorie Barrick Museum of Natural History on the UNLV campus.

The lecture series is free and open to the public. For more information about the series call 895-3401.

Engineers to offer

insight at UNLV

A series of engineering education lectures are scheduled to take place at UNLV.

Bruce Kramer, acting director of the division of engineering education for the National Science Foundation, is scheduled to speak Monday on the the popularity of engineering education in the United States.

Randall Kolar, a professor of civil engineering and environmental science at the University of Oklahoma, is set to give a lecture Nov. 20. Kolar plans to discuss a new engineering curriculum that lets engineering students take a simulated piece of undeveloped land and design a city on it during their course of study.

"The Sooner City Project" is a design project where students develope their engineering skills while designing simulated water supply, transportation systems, and steel and concrete structures for their city.

Both lectures are free and open to the public. Each lecture is from 3 to 4 p.m. in the Thomas T. Beam Engineering Complex, Room B-178.

For more information about the series, call the College of Engineering at 895-3699.

RELIGION

Mosque to host

interfaith conference

The National Conference for Community and Justice is scheduled to offer an interfaith forum at the Jamia Mosque, 4720 E. Desert Inn Road, on Sunday from 7 to 9 p.m. Ways of Death and Dying, a discussion of martyrdom, suffering, euthanasia, and suicide is the selected topic for the forum.

Members of several local religious organizations are scheduled to present their views to members of the public. Scheduled speakers include Carolyn Anderson-Stewart a catholic chaplain at St. Rose Dominican Hospital, Abdul-Azziz Eddenbbarah, Chaplain Richard Smith from the Nathan Adelson Hospice, Perry Cordill a pastor from the Unification Church, and Mark Ravanbakhsh a member of the Baha'i faith.

The forum is free and open to the public. For more information on this forum and others in the series, call 387-6225.

CELEBRATION

Veteran's Day events

scheduled at Sun City

The traditional Veteran's Day celebration at Sun City MacDonald Ranch, 2020 W. Horizon Ridge Parkway, is scheduled for Saturday.

Festivities begin at 10:30 a.m., with the Las Vegas Brass Band providing musical entertainment. War memorabilia will be on display, including flags from all of the armed services, a World War II Jeep with gun trailer, uniforms, weapons and photographs.

The celebration is free to the public.

The public is also invited to the Veteran's Day dance, which is scheduled for 7:30 p.m. Saturday at the Desert Willow Community Center. Admission is $11.11 per person.XXXXXX

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