Spokane calendar

Today

Free home improvement workshops – Offered at Home Depot stores this month. Workshops include: “Power Tools 101: You Can Try it Before You Buy it,” Tuesdays at 7 p.m.; “You Can Measure and Install Window Treatments,” Thursdays at 7 p.m.; “You Can Install Laminate Flooring,” Fridays at 7 p.m.; “You Can Get Organized,” Saturdays at 10 a.m.; “You Can Measure, Cut and Install Molding and Trim,” Saturdays at 2 p.m.; and “You Can Have Fun with Color Faux,” Sundays at 2 p.m. Call (800) 430-3376 or visit www.homedepot.com for more information.

EWU African American Heritage Celebrations – continues today through Friday at Eastern Washington University, Cheney. Films and lectures each day from 10-11 a.m. in the JFK Library auditorium. For more information, contact Carol Vines at 359-2898.

Upcoming

Spokane Authors and Self-Publishers meeting – “Research Writing and Assembling a Book,” presented by Don Johnson, Byron King and Marla Hyder, Thursday, 11:30 a.m. at Old Country Buffet, 5504 N. Division. Contact Jan Loehr at 489-7078 or e-mail mysticgranno1@earthlink.net for more information.

Humanist Focus Group meeting – Saturday, 8 a.m. at the Old Country Buffet, 5504 N. Division. Dr. David Bowling will give a presentation on cosmology. Breakfast is available for $7. For more information, contact Ross Woodward at 448-2516, e-mail rjwoodward@omnicast.net, or visit www.AmericanHumanist.org.

Eastern Washington Genealogical Society meeting – Saturday, 12:30 p.m., Spokane Public Library, 906 W. Main. Carolyn Olafson will present a program on family history centers. Contact Shirley Penna-Oakes at 276-1740 for more information.

Spokane Community College Asian New Year Events – Events include Thai dancing, New Year traditions and origami lessons, next Tuesday to Feb. 10, 11:30 a.m., in the SCC Center for the Humanities, second floor of the college’s Learning Resource Center, Building 16, 1810 N. Greene. Chinese New Year events will be held Feb. 12 in the Lair Student Center, Building 6, including a Chinese Cultural Fair, 1-5 p.m., and cultural performances at 2, 3:30, 4 and 5:30 p.m., with Chinese fashion, martial arts and opera. Also on Feb. 12, Chinese New Year banquets will be hosted from 6:30 p.m.-midnight at King Yen Restaurant, 3004 N. Monroe, and Peking North Restaurant, 4120 N. Division. Tickets are $1/cultural fair, $8/cultural fair and performances, $20/cultural fair, performances and banquet, or $30 for VIP tickets to cultural fair with preferred seating at the performances and special banquet menu. For more information contact Susan Butler at 533-7473 or e-mail subtler@scc.spokane.edu.

Geology lecture – “The 2002 Denali Fault Earthquake: Uplift and Origin of the Alaska Range,” presented by Dr. Charlie Rubin, geology professor at Central Washington University, next Tuesday, 7 p.m., Lair Student Center Auditorium at Spokane Community College, 1810 N. Greene. Contact Andy Buddington at 533-8017 for more information.