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SAFETY

Photos ID kits offered for area children

Farmers Insurance, in cooperation with the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department and Las Vegas Fire Department, is hosting a digital identification event from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturday at the Wal-Mart parking lot at 2310 E. Serene Ave.

The event is part of an effort to provide parents with personal digital safety identification kits for their children should the youngsters become lost or missing.

Parents will be able to obtain free, standardized high-quality digital images of their children and a fingerprint kit. They also can sign up for a free copy of the Home Organizer software program to store their digital photos.

The Home Organizer is a program designed to raise awareness of child safety and provide parents with a tool to aid law enforcement authorities in the search for a missing child.

For more information, call Matt Heifner at 501-7203.

HONORS

Candidates sought for arts award

Nominations are being accepted through Feb. 24 for the George Sidney Award and induction into the Nevada Entertainer/Artist Hall of Fame.

The George Sidney Award honors individuals in all areas of the arts and entertainment, including dance, music, architecture, comedy, art, theatre, film and writing. The award was named for legendary director George Sidney, who was the first inductee into the Nevada Entertainer/Artist Hall of Fame.

All nominations will be reviewed and selected by the Dean's Advisory Board. The fourth annual Nevada Entertainer/Artist Hall of Fame award ceremony will be held on Sept. 21.

To request a nomination form, e-mail Wendy Nelson at wendy.nelson@unlv.edu or call 895-4292.

CELLULOID

Archive to host evening of shorts

UNLV's Short Film Archive will host the first weekly screening of An Evening of Festival Shorts with a Valentine's Day program at 7:30 p.m. today in the Flora Dungan Humanities Building, Room 109, on the UNLV campus.

The event is part of the ongoing short film screening series. Included in this screening will be "La Milpa" by Patricia Riggen, winner of a Student Academy Award. Also showing is "Do You Love?" by Scottish director Jim Roberts. Finally, "George and Rosemary," an animated film from David Fine and Alison Snowden, also will be shown.

The weekly An Evening of Festival Shorts screenings are free. For more information, call 895-3547.