• THE SPRINGFIELD NEWS-SUN wants to increase the frequency of "Your Turn" columns, which give readers a chance to submit commentaries for the Opinion Page. They welcome submissions from Wittenberg faculty and staff. Columns could be on a writer’s area of academic specialty or on other subjects of general interest. "Your Turn" columns are edited to fit the newspaper’s style and for length (no more than 600 words). If a piece needs substantial editing, the writer will be given a chance to rewrite the article or to review the revisions to ensure the column’s meaning has not changed. If published, a column should be accompanied by a headshot of the writer and a one-sentence description of who the writer is. For information about "Your Turn" columns, call Steve Schlather at 328-0376, or e-mail him here .
• CULTUREFEST 2006 will be held from 11 a.m.-7 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 16, at Springfield City Hall Plaza. Sponsored by the City of Springfield and Clark County, the multicultural festival aims to promote intercultural understanding. To volunteer, call Nancy Flinchbaugh at (937) 324-7696.
• THE 11TH ANNUAL MIDWEST FESTIVAL OF FIBERS, "A Wool Gathering," will be held from 10 a.m.-7 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 16, and 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 17, at Young's Jersey Dairy. The event is free and open to the public.
• THIRD THURSDAY will be held from 5:30-8:30 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 21, at the Springfield Museum of Art. Billed as an evening filled with art, music, food and networking for community professionals, the monthly event is $6 for non-members and free for members. For more information call 324-3729.
• A GERMAN-STYLE OKTOBERFEST, the first-ever for the Springfield Kiwanis Club, will be held from noon-10 p.m., Friday-Saturday, Oct. 6-7, in Veterans Park. The festival will include rides, games, a spooky family movie, and German food, drink and music. The event is free and open to the public.
• THE WESTCOTT HOUSE FOUNDATION began a Fall Lecture Series on Sept. 14. Each lecture in the series will be held from 7-8:30 p.m. in the Bayley Auditorium of the Barbara Deer Kuss Science Center. On Thursday, Oct. 12, Jack Quinan, curator of The Darwin D. Martin House in Buffalo, N.Y., and founder of the Frank Lloyd Wright Building Conservance, will give a talk titled “Frank Lloyd Wright: Inside Out; Outside In. Breaking the Box in Buffalo, New York." On Thursday, Nov. 9, Simine Short, scientist and writer, will discuss “The First to Fly? Scientific Research and Experimentation Leading to the Events of 17 December 1903.” For each lecture, admission is free to students with valid IDs, $10 for Wright House Foundation members, and $15 for non-members.
