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EDUCATION

Back-to-school supply drive is under way

Sammy's Woodfired Pizza is teaming up with the Clark County School District School-Community Partnership Program to help children by providing supplies to begin the next school year. Sammy's will host a drive for new unwrapped supplies through Aug. 15 at both locations at 6500 W. Sahara Ave. and 4300 E. Sunset Road.

Each person who brings in a donation valued at $5 or more will receive a certificate for a free Messy Sundae.

EVENTS

Ranch to host a sandstone night hike

A Full Moon Sandstone Canyon Hike will be held tomorrow from 8 to 10 p.m. at the Spring Mountain Ranch State Park, 10 miles west of the Las Vegas Beltway on Charleston Boulevard. A park interpreter will guide the evening hike. Participants should meet at the tour gate 15 minutes before the hike begins.

The park entrance fee is $6 per vehicle.

For more information, call 875-4141.

Team In Training meetings planned

The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society's Team In Training program is signing up runners, walkers and cyclists for events that will take place in Maui, San Francisco, Tucson, Phoenix, Nashville, Vancouver, San Diego and Lake Tahoe.

Team in Training offers participants a four to five month comprehensive training program, coaching and travel accommodations to major races. In return, the participants help fight against leukemia, lymphoma and myeloma by raising funds to support blood cancer research, education and services for patients and their families.

The groups' upcoming informational meetings will be held: at REI tomorrow at The District at 7 p.m.; and at The Orleans Events Center Saturday at 2 p.m.

For more information, call 436-4220.

Stardust cast and crew celebrate five decades

The cast and crew members of all Stardust shows and members of the community are invited to attend a reunion honoring the performers, musicians and stars that appeared in the lounge shows throughout the hotel and Stardust ballroom.

The reunion will take place from 4:30 p.m. to 12:30 a.m. Sept. 10 in the Stardust ballroom.

Australia's "Thunder from Down Under" will be performing as well as original cast members from past Stardust shows. The Musician's Union will organize a band. Videos and photo boards also will commemorate past shows.

Tickets are $115-$125. Call 243-6329 or visit www.CastandCrewReunion.com or e-mail Louanne@castandcrewreunion.com.

VOLUNTEERISM

Mojave Max Project seeks tortoise speaker

The Red Rock Canyon Interpretive Association, the Bureau of Land Management and Clark County are seeking volunteers from the community and college interns to go into Clark County schools to teach students about the desert tortoise.

Volunteers must be 18 years old, able to provide their own transportation and able to commit to teaching one morning or afternoon per week between Sept. 4 and Nov. 10. Training is provided. No experience is necessary.

Call 258-7097 for more information.



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