LITTLE ROCK — Lamanpalooza
party set Aug. 3
Lamanpalooza, the Laman Library’s annual end-of-summer-reading celebration, will be from 5-8:30 p.m. Aug. 3 at the library, 2801 Orange St. in North Little Rock.
The Rockets musical group will provide entertainment at 7 p.m. Marshall Mitchell opens for the group with a concert at 5:30 p.m.
Lamanpalooza is free and open to the public, but patrons must have a valid Laman Library card to be eligible for prizes that will be given away. Library cards won’t be issued during the event. Laman Library isn’t a member of the Central Arkansas Library System.
Lamanpalooza will include children’s activities, community group booths and a 1,500-gallon aquarium from the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission, plus public safety personnel and equipment will be on hand for demonstrations.
Parking will be available at the North Little Rock High School-West campus.
Community center offers heat relief
The North Little Rock Community Center is available for North Little Rock residents who need to escape extreme heat conditions in their homes this summer.
The heat relief center will be in the center, 2700 Willow St., from noon-6 p.m. on days the temperature reaches 100 degrees or the heat index hits 105 degrees, as recorded by the National Weather Service.
Residents can phone the city’s “heat relief hot line” at (501) 340-5454 to see whether the heat relief facility is available that day.
American Legion celebrates officer
North Little Rock police officer Tommy Norman has received the American Legion Department of Arkansas Law Enforcement Officer of theYear Award.
The award goes to a law-enforcement officer in Arkansas “who has exceeded the duty requirements of his or her position and demonstrated a distinct pattern of community service coupled with professional achievement,” according to a news release.
As the state award winner, Norman is nominated for the 2013 National Law Enforcement Officer of the Year.
Laman to display Fay Jones’ works
A display of architect Fay Jones’ works will be on exhibit at Laman Library, 2801 Orange St., from Friday through Aug. 25
The exhibit, “Outside the Pale: The Architecture of Fay Jones,” is on loan from the Old State House Museum. It will also contain additional artifacts and objects from Special Collections at the Universityof Arkansas Libraries in Fayetteville.
“We chose to bring this exhibit to North Little Rock to help showcase our plaza’s gazebo that was designed by Jones in the early ’70s,” said Jeff Baskin, Laman Library’s executive director. “Most know of the significant contributions Jones made to architecture, but few know that we have a fine example of his work right here in our own community.”
Admission is free and open to the public.
Arkansas, Pages 15 on 07/22/2012