July 26

Wednesday evening the Community Adoption Center holds a free discussion for people who are interested in adopting a child. This is at the Northstar Counseling Center in the Fifty-five Oaks Office Center, 700 Rayovac Drive at 6:30. Call 833-5881 for details or to register.

Briarpatch seeks volunteers to work with teens in crises, either by answering the crises line, providing emergency shelter, or acting as family counselors. Some positions may require training. Call 251-6211 for details.

The Respite Center is a safe place for kids, ages birth to fourteen, whose families are under stress or in crisis. Volunteers are needed to play with kids four hours a week. Training is required. Call 244-5730 for details.

WORT is looking for volunteers. With a whole host of opportunities itfs easy, fun and rewarding to put in as much or as little time and energy as desired. Specifically they are looking for receptionists and Insurgent Radio Kiosk readers for Wednesday. Call Glenn at 256-2001 for details.

Today through August thirteenth the Olbrich Botanical Gardens presents "Blooming Butterflies." It is a display of a variety of different kinds of butterflies from Wisconsin and the Southern United States in every stage of life. This is at 3330 Atwood Avenue. Call 246-4550 for details.

Through September the Williamson Street Art Center presents "Fabrications". It is a celebration of Madisonfs one hundred and fifty years in cloth. These are "Fabric Collages" by Sharon Kilfoy made from artifacts collected from the "Community" and "sewn at sewing bees in Madison". It is at 1020 Williamson Street. Call 256-8878 for details.