Celebrations: Parade plans under way for Art Tougeau 2002

It’s time to start dreaming up ideas for art that moves around on wheels.

Deadline is April 25 for entries in Art Tougeau 2002, the seventh-annual wheeled art parade, which begins at noon May 4.

Past entries have used roller blades, skateboards, bicycles, lawn mowers, shopping carts, wheelchairs  anything a participant can imagine, as long as it can maintain the parade’s 5-mph pace.

The parade will begin at South Park and head north down Massachusetts Street toward the Kansas River Bridge. Participants will meet at 10:30 a.m. behind the Trinity Lutheran Church parking lot near 12th and Massachusetts streets.

A $15 entry donation is requested, but children’s entries are free. Fully paid entrants will be eligible for prizes and trophies. Awards presentations will immediately follow the parade.

For more information and an official entry form, contact Charles Jones at 841-4598.

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 Seminar: Fair housing to be topic of meeting scheduled at KU

Fair housing will be the topic of a seminar Friday at Kansas University .

The seminar runs from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. in Alderson Auditorium of the Kansas Union.

Topics will include good credit, financial issues for low-income families, the Kansas landlord-tenant act and creating a budget.

The event is sponsored by the Lawrence Alliance, KU Black Student Union, Off-Campus Living Resource Center and the KU African Students Assn.

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 Movie premiere: Animal activist film to make Kansas debut in Lawrence

A film about a construction-worker-turned-animal-activist will make its Kansas debut today at Liberty Hall.

The award-winning film “The Witness,” which documents how a construction contractor from a tough Brooklyn, N.Y., neighborhood becomes an impassioned animal activist, will show at 7 p.m. today, 1 p.m. Saturday and 1 p.m. Sunday at the theater, 642 Mass. Admission is $3.

The premiere is sponsored by Animal Outreach of Kansas, a nonprofit animal advocacy group based in Lawrence.

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 Schools: Central fund-raiser sets $12,000 collection goal

Central Junior High School launched its annual fund-raiser Wednesday and set a collection goal of $12,000.

Students gathered for an afternoon assembly to kick off the project. Collections start today and run through April 12.

Money gathered by students will help fund student programs, computer equipment purchases and other special needs.

Prizes will be awarded to individuals and teams for their fund-raising efforts.

The school’s FunRun will conclude the drive at 2 p.m. April 12 at Central, 1400 Mass.

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 Gasoline prices: Pump Patrol seeks best deal

The Journal-World has found a Lawrence-area gasoline price as low as $1.32 at the Citgos at Ninth and Iowa streets and 920 N. Second St.

If you find a lower price, please call us at 832-7154. Be prepared to leave the name and address of the business and the price. Or go to www.ljworld.com/section/gasoline to join our Pump Patrol board.