There a lot of things that happen in Ypsilanti and Ann Arbor.
I recently missed Mr. Ginsberg, when he spoke at EMU.

In response to that lost opportunity I have entered this
item for local events to be listed.

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"Children of Night - Women of Light
by Sora Seiler Vigorito

Mengele Twin and Holocaust Survivor to speak on her
courageous journey.
Sunday, February 13, 1994 at the Michigan Union, Pendleton Room, 7 p.m.
Donations $3.

Liberated from Auschwitz at age 4-1/2, Sora Vigorito is the
youngest known survivor of Josef Mengele's Nazi medical 
experiments on twins.

The talk is sponsored by Ann Arbor's Chabad House.
Info - Esther at 99-LEARN

City of Ypsilanti is having elections for city counceil
on Monday 
February 20th.  
Don't forget to participate by VOTING!

Ypsilanti is having School Board Elections on Monday
March 7th.

Gov. Engler is having his next "special election"
on Tuesday March 15th.  That makes the second
year in a row for financial wast on special elections.

You know, I have no idea why Ypsi couldn't have the School Board elections
the same day...

They're probably using the municipal election precincts for the special
election (actually, they're both special elections, but I mean Engler's 
election).  School districts need to use different voting places, since 
school districts don't always go along other political borders.

I have not noticed that I needed to vote in a different site in the 3.5 years
I've lived in the Ypsi school district.  Maybe I'm just lucky...

I have had to vote at different sites for school
elections when I lived in Ypsilanti Township.

don't they sometimes combine sites when a smaller turnout is expected?

Has anyone gone to see the Art Train?  I gather the current exhibit is
about the history of transportation.  It's parked over there by North Main
street and is open weekends, right?

If they haven't changed it from last year I was a guide on it then.  It
was a pretty cool exhibit.  Go see it, if you haven't already.

How much does it cost?  When is it open?  How long is it in 
Ann Arbor?

Ypsilanti School Board Elections ar June 13th.  Does anyone 
know who is running?

I'm not sure who is running in Ypsi, but the Ann Arbor ones are the same
day.  I'll enter an item on that in the next day or so.

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Once a NewYorker, always a NewYorker.

Do you subscribe to the local paper?

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Is their accuracy on elections like it is on grex?

Heh.

Subscribing to the Ann Arbor News would be a way to keep yourself
informed.  It's far from perfect, contains a lot of fluff, and it's too
bad that it's a monopoly, but they do cover local news, including big
spreads before each local election, featuring summaries of the
candidates' positions and sample ballots.  I know of no practical way
to keep systematically up-to-date on local issues and events without
reading the News.

Does the League of Women Voters prepare anything for their members, apart
from what they issue publicly?

Re <earlier item>:  The Artrain has left for a midwest tour for the time
being.  There's a cute caboose parked over there, though, that's for
sale.

SAY! Grex should buy the caboose, and move the hardware into that!
Think of it - can move it any time we wanted. Park it in Steve's (pick
one) driveway, for instant attention. No rent!

Well, lets wake up this old item.
Saturday January 18th 10am-4pm Ann Arbor's Monster Record and CD Show
$3 admit , Lots of records, tapes, cds, posters, etc. I've scored some
real gems there, like my Jackie Gleason record with the Dali cover for
only 5 bucks. 

Also, that same night, at 8pm at Angell Hall Aud. A (UM campus) The UofM
Hearing Impaired Students Services for Students w/ Disabilities (whew)
is showing SPACE JAM. Open captioned. For only $2. 

Chinese New Year! Lion dance/parade Saturday, Feb. 8, at 1pm Near Champion
House restaurant on Liberty St. Paper cutting demos at Generations on Main
St. from 1-3pm. Check A2 News for details. Maybe scott knows more?

According to the Observer's calendar, the festival is sponsored nby the Main
Street Area Association. THe new year wil be the year of the Ox.
Collected Works, 317 S. Main St. is another site for the calligraphy and paper
cutting demos.

The Chocolate festival at  Matthaei Gardens is the same date and time.
there's a $5 charge. There will be chocolate making demonstrations, and
sculpting, and taste samples, and more.

Feb 16, Sunday at Beth Israel Congregation, 2000 Washtenaw, open to the
public, there will be a panel of experts discussing and answering questions
on the medical, ethical and practical issues surrounding Organ donation.
(see http://www.hvcn.org/info/bethisrael/organs.html)

I was *in* the lion dance parade, mainly carrying half of a large drum.

Ypsilanti Heratige Festival this weekend. Music , food, world famous
rubber ducky race down the Huron river, and a real polo match. Grab the
blankets and a shaker of gin and head on down!

U-of-M vs. Ohio State soccer game. At the Michigan soccer field on S.
State street. 1pm Sunday, 21st. FREE admission! Free givaways. 647-1246
for info.

Remember, it may be football to you, but it's "soccer to me."

The Romanovs Collect at the UM Museum of Art

You know, I really, really wanted to see one of those Fabrege eggs, but they
didn't send any along.

The brochure was enlightening and helped pull the selections together.

Along with the collection there was supposed to be a series
of lectures given by a distinguished professor and
curator from The Hermitage.  But when he arrived at Detroit
Metro Airport customs (or immigration) denied his entry 
because the professor had listed his status as teacher.
Somehow this was the wrong category.  He called the museum,
they were frantic and said he shouldn't move that attorneys
were on the way.  They got there within the hour and he
was already on a plane back to Russia.

Last I heard the lectures had been cancelled.

I was struck by the similarities between  Nicholas 1 and President Bush:

" Nicholas completely lacked his brother's spiritual and intellectual breadth;
he saw his role simply as one paternal autocrat ruling his people by whatever
means were necessary. Having experienced the trauma of the Decembrist Revolt,
Nicholas I was determined to restrain Russian society. A secret police, the
so-called Third Section, ran a huge network of spies and informers. The
government exercised censorship and other controls over education, publishing,
and all manifestations of public life. In 1833 the minister of education,
Sergey Uvarov, devised a program of "autocracy, Orthodoxy, and nationality"
as the guiding principle of the regime. The people were to show loyalty to
the unlimited authority of the tsar, to the traditions of the Russian Orthodox
Church, and, in a vague way, to the Russian nation. These principles did not
gain the support of the population but instead led to repression in general
and to suppression of non-Russian nationalities and religions in particular.
For example, the government suppressed the Uniate Church in Ukraine and
Belorussia in 1839."

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