In brief: Art classes for children start soon

Thu., April 5, 2012

CLIFF/CANNON – The Corbin Art Center, 507 W. Seventh Ave., will have classes for children ages 2 through 13, beginning April 16. Registration is required.

Classes include:

Little Leonardos, for ages 3-5. Begins April 16 and runs for six weeks. The class is from 9:30-10:30 a.m. Mondays. Cost is $45 per person.

Mom and Me Make Art, for ages 3-5. Begins April 16 and runs for six weeks. The class is from 10:30-11:30 a.m. Mondays. Cost is $45 per person.

Art Exploration, for ages 7-13. Begins April 16 and runs for six weeks. The class is from 4-5:30 p.m. Mondays. Cost is $49 per person.

Mom and Me Science Exploration, for ages 2-4. Begins April 18 and runs for six weeks. The class is from 9:30-10:30 a.m. Wednesdays. Cost is $45 per person.

Drawing Basics, for ages 6-12. Begins April 18 and runs for five weeks. The class is from 4-5:30 p.m. Wednesdays. Cost is $45 per person.

Enchanted Adventure, for ages 3-5. Begins April 19 and runs for six weeks. The class is from 9:30-10:30 a.m. Thursdays. Cost is $45 per person.

To register and for more information, call (509) 625-6677 or visit www.spokaneparks.org.>

Adoption event ran out of animals

SPOKANE COUNTY – Local shelters and pet rescue organizations were able to find homes for 184 pets during a free pet adoption event last weekend, said Spokane County Regional Animal Protection Service director Nancy Hill. “We probably could have adopted out more animals, but we ran out,” Hill said.

Running out of animals is a nice problem for an adoption event to have. The event at Subaru of Spokane was spearheaded by SCRAPS and organizers hoped to adopt out 222 pets. “It was a great collaborative effort,” Hill said.

Though hugely successful, the event was logistically challenging, Hill said. “It was crazy wild,” she said. “The first two hours of the event were slightly controlled chaos. There were so many people there. It was very encouraging to see people come out.”

Japan’s tsunami topic of lecture

SPOKANE COUNTY – Physicist Rich Wolfson, a physics professor at Middlebury College in Vermont, will present the 2012 Science and Society Lecture, “Nuclear Energy: An Environmentalist’s Perspective,” on Monday in the Robinson Teaching Theatre in Weyerhaeuser Hall at Whitworth University at 7 p.m.

Wolfson’s lecture will focus on the tsunami in Japan and the subsequent meltdown at the country’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, as well as the rewards and risks of nuclear energy.

Admission to the lecture is free. For more information, call (509) 777-4243.