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Hog Heaven returns

Hog Heaven Big Band will return to the Dahmen Barn Saturday, March 27 from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. The band has played at the Barn since its grand opening in October of 2006. Admission will be $8 for a couple, $5 for a single and free for children under 12. Complimentary dance lessons may be enjoyed beginning at 6 p.m.

Clubs & Youth Groups

Relay for Life

Whitman Relay for Life will celebrate their kick-off next Thursday, March 25, at an annual fund raiser at 7 p.m. at First Baptist Church in Colfax.

Theme for the celebration is “Imagine a World with More Birthdays. We’re making it happen.”

A variety of events are planned with ice cream sundaes as a start. New and returning relay team members are invited to participate.

The American Cancer Society Relay for Life will be July 9-10 at the Colfax High School track.

For more information call Deana Leinweber or Gwen Nolan in Colfax.

Births

Kjack girl born

A daughter, Lyla Simone, was born March 9, 2010, at Whitman Hospital and Medical Center in Colfax, to Melissa and Aaron Kjack. Maternal grandparents are Bob Morton, Lamont and Gail and Eric Jacobson, Spokane. Paternal grandparents are Buzz and Maribeth Kjack, St. John, and Marilyn Huntley, Spokane. Great-grandparents are Howard and Bonnie Bircher, St. John and Bev Hale, Mesa, Ariz. Weighing seven pounds, two ounces at birth, the baby joins one sister, Olivia, 4.

Son born

A boy, Emmett James, was born March 10, 2010, at Whitman Hospital and Medical Center in Colfax, to Michelle and Robert Crook. Maternal grandmother is Lennore Huff, Coeur d’Alene. Paternal grandmother is Laura Crook, Spokane. Weighing eight pounds, six ounces at birth, he is the couple’s first child.

On campus

ART

“Slag, The Anti-Art Glass”, will be featured at the University of Idaho’s Prichard Art Gallery in downtown Moscow, Feb. 24 to April 10.

MUSIC

Seattle composer Wayne Horvitz will present his oratorio “Heartsong of Charging Elk” March 27 at 7 p.m. in WSU’s Kimbrough Music Building, Room 101. The oratorio for four voices and 10 chamber instruments is based on James Welch’s 2000 novel “The Heartsong of Charging Elk” It tells the story of an Oglala Sioux who was hospitalized in 1889 for broken ribs and influenza in Marseilles, France, while touring with Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show. After the show moved on, Charging Elk recovered, but was left stranded in the French city, unable to speak French or English.

Horvitz will travel to Pullman with his musicians and a conductor. He will provide a short lecture and answer questions about the oratorio,

A native of New York who now resides in Seattle, Horvitz is an internationally known keyboardist, composer, and producer.

The event will also bring to campus Kathryn Shanley and Raymond J. Demallie, who are experts on James Welch and on Black Elk, who did travel with the Wild West Show and actually was stranded in France. He eventually made his way to England and then back to his home on the Great Plains. They will speak at 5:30 p.m. March 27 in Kimbrough 101. Professor Shanley is a professor of Native American studies at the University of Montana. Demallie is chancellor’s professor of anthropology and adjunct professor of folklore, director of the American Indian Studies Research Institute at Indiana University.