In brief: Community input on new park sought

SPOKANE VALLEY – Spokane Valley residents are invited to attend a community meeting on the design and construction of a new park in Greenacres. There will be discussions on the community’s vision for the park, determining a planning process and brainstorming ideas for the funding and construction of the park. The City of Spokane Valley owns eight acres of land northwest of the intersection of Long Road and Boone Avenue.

The meeting will begin at 7 p.m. Wednesday at Greenacres Christian Church, 18010 E. Mission Ave. Residents also can complete an online survey to give their opinion about the park. It is available at www.neighborhoodlink.com/N_Greenacres/home.

KIX annual egg hunt Saturday afternoon

RIVERFRONT PARK – Radio station KIX 96 will host its annual Easter egg hunt in Riverfront Park on Saturday at noon for children age 10 and younger.

Participants are encouraged to arrive at early at the Looff Carrousel to get directions for the right egg hunting areas in their age group, including ages up to 2 years, 3 to 5 years , 6-7, and 8-10, to look for approximately 5,000 plastic eggs with prizes.

For more information, call (509) 242-2400.

Free eye exams for ‘working dogs’

SPOKANE – Registration starts today to schedule a free eye exam for qualifying guide dogs, handicapped assistance dogs, detection dogs, and search and rescue dogs.

The exams, from May 1 through 16, are sponsored by the Animal Eye Clinic of Spokane and American College of Veterinary Opthalmologists.

Registration forms are available online at www.ACVOeyeexam.org. Working service dogs must be certified by a formal training program or organization or currently enrolled in a formal training program. Specific service dog groups are listed on the ACVO Web site.

Icelandic banks will be topic of lecture

WHITWORTH/ SPOKANE COUNTY – Whitworth University will offer a Great Decisions Lecture, “Iceland in the Global Financial Crisis,” by Hjalmar W. Hannesson, next Thursday at 7:30 p.m. in the Robinson Teaching Theatre in Weyerhaeuser Hall.

Icelandic banks were hit the hardest by the global financial crisis. When all of the major banks collapsed, it posed significant challenges for the government and society in Iceland.

For more information, call (509) 777-3270.

Whitworth’s 2010 Endowed English Reader David Daniel, author of “Seven-Star Bird” and director of the undergraduate creative writing program at Fairleigh-Dickinson University, will join the English department for an evening of poetry on April 9 in the Robinson Teaching Theatre in Weyerhaeuser Hall at 7:30 p.m.

Both events are free and open to the public.

For more information, call (509) 777-3253.