Free pap smear, breast exam

Free Pap smear tests and clinical breast exams are being offered from 8 a.m. to 12 p.m. Jan. 28 at the Northeast Louisiana Cancer Institute, located at 411 Calypso St. in Monroe.

The services are being offered by appointment only.

Women who are sexually active or over the age of 18 may participate and are encouraged to have an annual Pap test.

The exams are sponsored by the Louisiana Cancer Foundation and the Northeast Louisiana Cancer Institute.

For more information, or to schedule an appointment, call Donna Nolan at 327-1953 or 1-800-393-2029.

Tickets available for Imani Winds

The Louisiana Tech Concert Association will present Imani Winds at 7:30 p.m. Jan. 24 in the Howard Center for the Performing Arts.

Tickets are available Monday through Friday from 1:30 p.m. to 4:45 p.m. in the Howard Center for the Performing Arts Box Office. 

Tickets will also be sold at the door the night of the performance.

Prices for adults are $15, and tickets for children are $7.  

Tech and Grambling students can purchase tickets for $3 with a valid student ID.

For more information, contact the Howard Center for the Performing Arts Box Office at 257-3942.

February marks end of card drive

Now through the end of February, bring any outdated or used Christmas cards to the office of the history department, located on the first floor of George T. Madison Hall, to benefit St. Jude’s Children’s Research Hospital. 

The card drive is sponsored by the Tech chapter of Phi Alpha Theta International History Honor Society. 

Patients at St. Jude use the old Christmas cards to cut and paste together new ones. 

For more information, contact Annette Owen, history department secretary, at 257-2872 or history@latech.edu.

 

ANS faculty, staff roll out red carpet

Outstanding faculty and staff nominations for the College of Applied and Natural Sciences are now being accepted. 

Award nominations can only be submitted by an ANS faculty member or instructor/lab supervisor.

Four awards are available for faculty and are based on outstanding service, outstanding instructor of upper and lower level courses and outstanding instructor of research teaching.

Applications are available from department offices or can be printed from the ANS homepage at www.ans.latech.edu.

Send all completed nomination applications to Brenda Calahan, administrative assistant for the dean of ANS, to Box #5 before Jan. 27 by 5 p.m.

Awards will be given out at ANS Day in April.

For more information, contact Calahan at 257-4287.

Symphony to hold annual concert

Shreveport’s Symphony Orchestra will hold its 14th Annual People’s Concert at 7:30 p.m. tomorrow at the Shreveport Civic Theatre, located at 600 Clyde Fant Parkway in Shreveport.

Admission is free with a ticket. The free tickets are available at the following locations in the Shreveport-Bossier  City area: the Shreveport Sun, located at 2224 Jewella Ave.; County Market Grocery Store, located at 3709 Greenwood Road or 6363 Hearne Ave.; Garland’s Super Sounds, located at 7720 Linwood Ave.; Gospel II Go, located at 3655 W College St.; and the Shreveport Symphony’s Box Office, located on the 4th floor of the Strand Theatre Building and all Goodwill stores.

For more information, visit the symphony’s Web site at www.shreveportsymphony.com, or contact Scott Green, executive director, at 222-7496, Ext. 40.

Opera workshop salutes Broadway

The School of Performing Arts and Opera Theatre are presenting “Opera Workshop: Salute to Broadway” at 7:30 p.m. tonight through Saturday in the Stone Theatre in the Howard Center for the Performing Arts.

Admission is $8 for adults, $7 for children and $4 for students with a valid Tech ID.

The workshop is a salute to Broadway musicals of the 1950s.

The performance features Tech’s singers and dancers for an evening of selections from the most famous musicals of the ‘50s, including “Once Upon a Mattress,” “Paint Your Wagon,” “Li’l Abner,” “Guys and Dolls” and “Damn Yankees.”

The Stone Theatre Box Office is located in the lobby of Howard Center for the Performing Arts, and is open Monday through Friday from 1:30 to 4:45 p.m.

For more information, call David Wylie, director of the Opera Workshop and associate professor of music, at 257-4109 or the Stone Theatre Box Office at 257-3942.