Regional briefs for Thursday, Feb. 19

The Olympian • Published February 19, 2009

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Lacey

Name for new magnet school recommended

North Thurston district officials have recommended to the board that a new magnet school be called Aspire Performing Arts and Academics Middle School.

The new school will focus on performing arts and is scheduled to open next fall. It will serve sixth- through eighth-graders and will put an emphasis on drama, dance and music. The school will house the district's middle school program for gifted students.

The magnet school will be at the current location of Horizons Intermediate School.

The district is scheduled to decide on the recommendation March 2.

Olympia

Museum open house part of anniversary

An open house at the Bigelow House Museum is set for 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday as part of the celebration of Olympia's 150th anniversary.

Re-enactors portraying Daniel and Ann Elizabeth Bigelow, as well as Susan B. Anthony, who visited Olympia in 1871, will appear. Also, local authors James S. Hannum, Nellie Robertson and Jim Kainber will appear.

The Bigelow House Museum is at 918 Glass Ave., Olympia. For more information, call 360-753-1215.

For more information on the city's upcoming 150th anniversary events, go to www.ci.olympia.wa.us/events/150.

Dead Prez rapper to speak at Evergreen

Hip-hop artist M-1 of the group Dead Prez will give a talk at 4 p.m. today at The Evergreen State College Longhouse.

The talk is presented by the Evergreen chapter of Hip Hop Congress. Tickets are $2 for students and $5 for nonstudents and are available at the college bookstore. The title of his lecture is "Which way forward? On to the next offensive, a dress rehearsal for the revolution."

The lecture comes a little more than a year after an altercation between concertgoers and police following a Dead Prez show on the campus. People leaving the concert surrounded an Evergreen campus police car after someone was questioned in connection with a fight inside the venue. A Thurston County Sheriff's department car was overturned after law enforcement from other agencies arrived. Eight people, including seven students, were charged with felonies in connection with the incident.

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