The Grassroots Prevention Coalition of Clark County, a program of Community action of Southern Indiana, Inc., invites youth of all ages and their parents to attend the first ever "Drug-Free Youth Festival and "2^nd Annual Joe Lear Walk from ‘Tragedy to Triumph’," at Jeffersonville’s RiverStage, at the Overlook on the corner of Riverside and Spring.
    The events begin on Saturday, August 12, at 4 p.m. and attendance is Free! There will be games, door prizes, live music, along with the walk, which begins at 7 p.m. Food and luminaries, in memory of a loved one, will be available for purchase.
    The purpose of this event is to raise awareness in the community on the dangers of drug use and the benefits of living a drug-free life, provide a safe and drug free event for our youth, and raise money to support the Joe Lear Scholarship Fund. The first Joe Lear Scholarship was awarded this past May, to a Jeffersonville High School senior.
    Joe Lear was a senior at Jeffersonville High School when he suddenly suffered a stroke. The cause of his untimely death was found to be complications and damage as a result of prior drug use. Joe had been clean for six months when he died.
    Gather your friends and family for a day to remember Joe and show your commitment to living a drug-free life - today, tomorrow, and forever!
    For more information, please contact Fabrienne English at 812-288-6451, x 129.

    Sellersburg Celebrates! has announced the dates for the 2006 festival in August. The weekend event will start on Thursday, August 24 and continue thru Saturday August 26, this is a change from the traditional Friday- Sunday schedule. This is the 17^th year for the community festival. Art in Speed Park will remain on its regular days of Saturday and Sunday, August 26 and 27.
    "We are looking forward to expanding the weekend festival to include Thursday." said Bob and Sara Hauselman, co-presidents of the Sellersburg Celebrates! committee. "Our goal is to offer family focused events for all four days instead of just three as we have in the past. The activities are still being finalized, but we hope to offer a major musical act at the conclusion on Saturday night."
    The location of events will remain the same this year, utilizing two of Sellersburg’s parks to welcome more than 30,000 people to both festivals. Sellersburg Celebrates! will be held at the Silver Creek Township Park which is located on Fern Street, off of Utica Street.
    Art in Speed Park will be in Speed Park, located on Hwy. 31 just past Silver Creek High School. Group entertainment will be featured under the gazebo which was built last year.
    "Several of the activities that were successful will return to this years festival like the Balloon Glow on Friday night, the car show,(not sure where that will take place) on Saturday, and much more ," said Hauselman. "Committees are working diligently to plan these events."
    The committee is also adding a fine crafts section to the festival. The fine crafts will be added to the Sellersburg Celebrates! line up in Township Park.
    For more information or to register your organization for the event, log onto Sellersburg Celebrates! website at www.sellersburgcelebrates.com or call Sellersburg Celebrates! information phone at 812-786-3098

    If you haven’t taken advantage of these wonderful offering at the Carnegie Center for Art and History (CCAH) in New Albany, then you’ve been missing out! The Carnegie Family Fun workshops have been a great success and these drop-in classes are the perfect was for families to spend their Saturday mornings together. All ages have a chance to look around the galleries and are led by CCAH staff as they create art related to the exhibits or an upcoming holiday.
    Summertime means sticky Kool-Aid fingers, wet dogs escaping from their baths with the hose, lightning bugs, and those not a cloud in the sky days when your head’s so hot you can smell your shampoo.
    At our July 8 workshop, we will be making sun visors so that you can give our eyes a break on those glaring sun-drenched days. Each participant will cut our a visor shape from craft foam using a template and then decorate it using his or her choice of pre-cut foam shapes, paint pens, fake flowers, beads, glitter, glue and more. Once the visor has dried, you will take a curly shoelace (it looks like a spring) and insert each end of it into the ends of the "arms" of the visor ( you may have to make a little cut in the foam to get the ends of the shoelace inserted). And then your sun visor is ready to wear.
    The workshop is free and open to the first 50 participants; advance registration is strongly recommended but not required. Young artists must be accompanied by and adult and everyone should come prepared to get creative and messy.
    The Family Fun workshop will be on Saturday, July 8 from 10 a.m. noon at the Carnegie Center, located at 201 East Spring street in downtown New Albany.
    For more information you can contact CCAH at 812-944-7336. The Family Fun workshop is sponsored in part by Tri-Kappa, the Rotary Club and the Carnegie Center for Art and History.

    The Carnegie Center for Arts and History is offering several art classes for children in July. Something is difference this year, the class fees are much less expensive than in the years past. That’s great news for parents, fun and educational art classes for kids at a very low price.
You and Me and Art Makes Three:
   This popular pre-school class emphasizes the process of art as a sensory experience for young minds and little hands. This class is designed for children accompanied by a parent or guardian, and for those that have enrolled before, don’t worry, they are new activities each session. All materials will be provided. There will be two sessions, they are as follows:
   Session 1, Fridays July 14, 21, 28.
   Session 2, July 25, 27, 27.
   Both sessions are from 10 to 11 a.m. for ages 2 to 5, the cost per session is $7.
Art History is Your History:
   Students will learn about two different artists, art movements, or types of art each day and create works in style of each using what they have learned. All materials will be provided. The session is as follows:
   July, 10, 11, 12, 13, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. for ages 8 to 11, the cost is $18.
   The maximum enrollment is each class is 12 students. You must pre-register for all classes. Registration is on first-come, first-serve basis and confirmed only after payment in full. Class fees are due upon registration. You will receive registration confirmation by phone or e-mail.
   You can print out a registration from the following website, www.carnegiecenter.org (under classes) and return it with your information and check (payable to the Carnegie Center for Art and History) 201 East Spring Street, New Albany, IN 47150, ATTN: Summer classes. Or you can drop by in person, Tuesday through Saturday, 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. and pay with cash or check.
   If you need more information call 812-944-7336.