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Registration is still open for a one-day grant writing workshop next week at East Central University. The Fundamentals of Grant Proposal Writing will be offered either Oct. 5 [MONDAY] or Oct. 6 [TUESDAY]. The program will be the same each day.

The cost is $147 per person. The instructor, Robert Bradley, has conducted workshops for state and national conferences, government agencies, non-profit organizations and universities.

A recital of clarinet music dedicated to East Central University's Centennial, as well as the centennial of the birth of the famous clarinetist Benny Goodman, will be performed Monday [SEPT. 28] by Dr. Mark Hollingsworth, chair of ECU's Music Department.

The recital is free and will begin at 7:30 p.m. in the Ataloa Theatre in the Hallie Brown Ford Fine Arts Center.

The Hallie Brown Ford Fine Arts Center at East Central University will be dedicated at 4 p.m. Friday [SEPT. 25] in a ceremony in the center's Ataloa Theatre.

A one-day grant writing workshop will be held twice in October at East Central University in Ada.

Participants can choose either Oct. 5 [MONDAY] or Oct. 6 [TUESDAY] to learn how to write winning proposals in the Fundamentals of Grant Proposal Writing workshop. The program will be the same each day.

Phyllis Danley Kunze, long-time CEO of the East Central Credit Union in Ada, has been named executive director of the East Central University Foundation Inc.

Veterans with more than 180 days of active duty service or a service-related disability can apply for six weeks of training for five green job certifications through the Veterans Workforce Investment Program (VWIP) at East Central University.

The next astronomy viewing with telescopes will be Tuesday [SEPT. 22] at East Central University. The public can view the moon and Jupiter from 8 to 8:30 p.m. at the ECU Observatory.

Viewers should park in the Physical Plant parking lot northeast of the football stadium and walk 100 feet up a hill to the observatory. The viewing will be cancelled if it is cloudy or raining.

Student musicians, singers and dancers will be the first performers on the giant stage of the Ataloa Theatre at 7 p.m. Sept. 25-26 [FRIDAY-SATURDAY] in East Central University's new Hallie Brown Ford Fine Arts Center in a show full of music, 100 years of university memories, innovative costumes and authentic fashions, even a 1930's wool bathing suit.