Community news briefs for February 18, 2000

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Friday, Feb. 18, 2000 | 10:22 a.m.

Raelians deliver theology presentation

"Today's Science, Extraterrestrial Intelligence and Religious Studies" will be presented 7 p.m. Wednesday in the Clark County Library, 1401 Flamingo Road, by the Raelian Religion. Call 393-7300.

Civil rights topic of Church of Christ forum

The First Congregational United Church of Christ is celebrating Black History Month with an open forum beginning noon Sunday in Gudmunsson Hall, 1200 N. Eastern Ave.

The forum will feature people who were involved in the civil rights movement of the 1960s.

Participants will include Eugene Collins, president of the Las Vegas Chapter of the NAACP, Jessie Wilson, a sanitarian and food handler instructor for the Clark County Health District, who marched with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and Rev. Lionel Starkes, an Episcopal priest and one of the first African American students to attend the then all-white Florida State University in 1963. Call 642-2220.