Community briefs for July 24, 2001

Tuesday, July 24, 2001 | 8:27 a.m.

Donors can help save many lives

United Blood Services, 6930 W. Charleston Blvd., offers the following scheduled blood drives. For more information, call Michelle Keanini at 228-8400:

Wednesday: 11 a.m.-4 p.m., Culinary Union Training Center, 707 E. Fremont St.

Thursday: 7 a.m.-7 p.m., Merck-Medco, 6225 Annie Oakley; 8 a.m.-1 p.m., DOE Yucca Mountain Project, 1551 Hillshire Drive.

Friday: 8 a.m.-1 p.m., Southwest Gas, 5241 Spring Mountain Road; 2-8 p.m., Eisenberg/Kahre Elementary School, 7770 Delhi.

Saturday: 8 a.m.-1 p.m., LDS Black Mountain Arrowhead Chapel, 801 Arrowhead St.; 9 a.m.-2 p.m., Spring Valley Library, 4280 S. Jones Blvd.; 8:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m., St. Elizabeth Ann Seton, 1811 Pueblo Vista Way.

July 30: 10 a.m.-3 p.m., St. Rose Dominican Hospital/Siena, 3001 St. Rose Parkway; and 6-11 a.m., Young Electric Sign Company, 5119 S. Cameron St.

Host families needed to house visitors

Educational Merit Foundation, a nonprofit student exchange organization, is seeking volunteer host families for high school students from Europe, Japan and Korea.

The students will arrive in August to attend local public schools for one or two semesters and are eager to experience life in America. They speak English, have their own spending money and medical insurance, and expect to share their host family's daily life, including household responsibilities.

For more information, visit the group's website (www.emfusa.org) or call Marie-Claude Dijoud at (972) 495-3868 or (800) 467-8363.

A multicultural job fair

will be 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Wednesday at the Community College of Southern Nevada, 3200 E. Cheyenne Ave. RSVP by calling 651-4620.

Camping World will celebrate its 35th anniversary

Thursday through Sunday at all of its locations. Call (800) 628-6753 for more information.

The Metro Police Laughlin substation

is organizing a rubber tube rafting trip from Laughlin to Needles on Aug. 18 for children of Laughlin and Searchlight, as well as other programs for students 12 and under and teens. For more information, call the Laughlin substation at 298-2223.