Area briefs

Arts center receives grant for bilingual play

The Lawrence Arts Center has received a $10,000 grant to support a bilingual play for young audiences.

The grant for development and touring of “The Magic Shoes of Pedro the Trickster” was awarded by the National Endowment for the Arts and announced by U.S. Rep. Dennis Moore, D-Kan.

The play, by Lawrence playwright Ric Averill, has been performed in Topeka and Mesa, Ariz. The grant will be used to make continuing improvements to the production and for future performances.

Ann Evans, director of the Lawrence Arts Center, will oversee the funding.

FEMA grants given to aid homeless

The Federal Emergency Management Agency’s Emergency Food and Shelter program will grant Douglas County agencies $47,962 to provide shelter, food and supportive services for people who are homeless and hungry.

Wyandotte County service agencies will receive $168,368.

Program grants are used for shelters, soup kitchens, food pantries and food banks, emergency utility payment programs and rent or mortgage assistance to prevent evictions or help people in shelters establish stable housing.

More than $2 billion has been granted by the program since it began 20 years ago.

Area residents to go on lottery show

Nick Rubio, Lawrence, Betty Ann Wilson, Tonganoxie, and Sulema Robertson, Osawatomie, are three of the 12 contestants who will compete in the Kansas Lottery Powerball Instant Millionaire Game Show.

The contestants receive a free trip for two to Las Vegas, where the show will be filmed at The Venetian hotel and casino. The shows will air April 17 through July 3.

Contestants were selected in a second-chance drawing from nonwinning $5 Las Vegas Millionaire and Instant Millionaire scratch tickets.

Each of the 12 are guaranteed at least $1,000 and people who play from home could win $100 to $10,000. The next drawing for contestants will be April 16.

For more information, visit www.kslottery.com, or call (800) 544-9547.

KU sets exam

Kansas University has announced the following final examination:

  • Donald E. Sloan, history of art, “Why not Revolution? The John Reed Club and Visual Culture,” 2 p.m. Jan. 21, 211 and 212 Smith Hall.