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Decatur, Illinois, Sat Page D4 Calendar lights! i I Today Fun with 'class' "MEXICAN ART BEFORE COLUMBUS," and "AFRICAN TRIBAL ART," Ewing Museum of Nations, Illinois State University, Normal, ongoing exhibits. Hours: 12:30 to p.m. Tuesday, Thursday. Saturday and Sunday (when school is in session). Free.

Registration for classes presented by the Junior Welfare Association in cooperation with Millikin University is today. Popular classes from years past including painting, pottery, Easter egg coloring, flower pressing, drawing and modeling will be offered again. Also 15 new classes are scheduled. Classes meet from March 19 through May 12 and are taught at the Carriage House, 125 N. Pine St.

and other locations in Decatur. Instructors are Junior Welfare members and professionals. Most class fees are $5 or less. Registration will be from 10 a.m. to noon today at the Carriage House, 125 N.

Pine St. Personal checks will be taken. More classes may be added if a course fills. For more information, call 422-8413. "NEW PAINTING: INTO THE '80s," European and American neo-expressionism.

Krannert Art Museum, Champaign, through Sunday. Hours: 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Tuesday and Thursday through Saturday, 10 a.m. to 8 p.m.

Wednesday, 2 to 5 p.m. Sunday. Free. The Oak Ridge Boys Duane Allen, Joe Bonsall, Bill Golden and Richard Sterban will return to Bra-den Auditorium at Illinois State University, Normal, for the first time since 1981. The Sunday show times are 3 and 7 p.m.

Tickets are $6.50, $9.50 and $12.50. Call (309) 438-5444. -The Grammy award-winning group averages about 200 personal appearances a year, ranging from top hotels to fairs and fundraisers. One of their more famous numbers is the still popular "Elvira." "CREATIONS AND INTERPRETATIONS," photography exhibit by Gary Carter of Alexander, Lincoln College Little Gallery, Lincoln, through Friday. The.exhibit includes mainly black and white images.

Hours: 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday and by appointment Free. glass, 1 to 5 p.m. Friday and March 17, Glass Studio.

Gregory and Adelaide streets, and metal, 1 to 5 p.m. Friday and March 17, Room 46, CVA. CVA hours: 9 a.m. to 9:30 p.m. Tuesday, 9 a.m.

to 4:30 p.m. Wednesday through Friday, 1 to 4:30 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. Closed Monday. Free.

CHILI SUPPER, Friendship Center for Older Adults, Clinton, 4: 30 to 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $2.50 from members or at the door. USAC RACING, indoor midgets and quarter midgets. Prairie Capital Convention Center, Springfield. 5 p.m.

today and noon Sunday. Tickets are $8 adults, $4 children 1 1 and younger, $13 for a pit pass, today; $4 adults, $2 children and $6 for a pit pass Sunday at the Center box office. For ticket information, call 5242. INTERNATIONAL DINNER, sponsored by Mount Zion Chapter of American Field Service. Mount Zion High School cafetprium, 5: 30 to 8 p.m.

Tickets are $4 adults, $2.50 students at Mount Zion State Bank, GHIdorn Savings Association and AFS area chapter representatives. Children 6 and younger admitted free. Proceeds will be used for a short term exchange trip to New York. For more information or tickets, call 864-3275 or 864-4002. PAUL TURNER SARGENT PAINTINGS, Eastern Illinois University's Tarble Arts Center collection.

Bicentennial Art Center and Museum, 132 S. Central SL, Paris, through March 17. Hours: noon to 4 p.m. Tuesday through Friday, 1 to 4 p.m. Saturday and Sunday.

Closed Monday. Free. CLASS OF 79 ALUMNI EXHIBITION, Merwin Gallery. School of Art, Illinois Wesleyan University, Bloomington, through March 18. The works of Sherri Buck, Joe Camel, Marjorie K.

Kouns, Corkie Neuhaus, Paul Punke, Brian Simpson, Brian Sullan and William Whitehurst will be featured. "Figurative Work," Wakeley Gallery, through March 18. Works by Decatur artists Marvin Klaven, Jim Schietinger and Ted Wolter will be featured. Hours (both galleries): 1 to 4 p.m. Monday and Wednesday through to 4 p.m.

and 7 to 9 p.m. Tuesday. Free. "SPRINGFIELD PHOTOGRAPHERS," works by 11 Springfield area' photographers, Illinois State Museum, Spring and Edwards streets, Springfield, through March 181 "African Ail," and "Artist Collect," Main Gallery, through April 8. "Folk Tools: Useful and Otherwise," Decorative Arts Gallery, through April 15.

Museum hours: 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Saturday, 1: 30 to 5 p.m. Sunday. Free.

LIONS CLUB TRAVEL AND ADVENTURES SERIES, MacArthur High School auditorium, 7:45 p.m. Jim McDonald -will narrate the travelogue "Ireland Footloose and Fancy Free." Tickets are $3 adults, $2 children if available. For ticket information, call George Keller at 877-1837. DENNIS BETTIS, singer. New Salem Country Opry, Petersburg, 8 p.m.

Tickets are $4. For reservations, call (309) 244-8894 or 632-2630 after 5 p.m. weekdays or anytime Saturday. JUANITA HOWELL, singer, Lakelanders Country Opry, Danceland Road, 8 p.m. Tickets are $4 adults; children younger than 12 admitted free.

For reservations, call 875-2044 weekdays or 423-3536 after 4 p.m. Saturday. "LAST OF THE RED HOT LOVERS," Neil comedy, Sunshine Dinner Playhouse, Ramada Inn, Champaign, through March 24. Hours: 6:30 to 7:45 p.m. buffet dining and 8 p.m.

show, Wednesday through Saturday; 4:30 to 5:45 p.m. buffet dining and 6 p.m. show, Sunday. Cost: $14.50 Wednesday and Thursday; $15.50 Friday and Sunday, $16.50 Saturday; students with ID and senior citizens 62 and older, $12 on Sunday. A luncheonmatinee will be 1 1:30 a.m.

March 21. Cost is $11. For information and reservations, call 359-4503. MARK TWAIN IN PERSON, a serious-humorous lecture with Richard Henzel. Little Theatre-on the Square, Sullivan, 8 p.m.

today and 2 p.m. Sunday. Tickets are $8 adults, $5 students at the Little Theatre box office. Group rates are available. For credit card orders, call 728-7375.

TREGERWATTS DUO, Artists' Concert Series presented by the Amateur Musical Club of Peoria, with Charles Treger, violinist, and Andre Watts, pianist, Peoria Civic Center Theater, 8:15 p.m. Tickets are $11, $13 and $15 at the Civic Center box office and Ticketron outlets. MARCEL MARCEAU, mime artist, Peoria Civic Center, Peoria, 8 p.m. Tickets are $11.50, $13.50 and $15 at the Civic Center box office and Ticketron outlets. For credit -card orders, call (800) 322- 6493.

"DUCKS," exhibit of North American ducks, geese and swans, Dickson Mounds Museum, near Havana, through March. Museum hours: 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily. "THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST," Guthrie Theater production of Oscar Wilde's play, Sangamon State University Auditorium, Springfield, 8:15 p.m.

today and 2 p.m. Sunday. Tickets are $9, $11.50 and $12.50 for today's performance, and $8, $10.50 and $11.50 for Sunday's performance by calling 786-6160. FACULTY RECITAL, KempHHMHHHHBiMH Recital Hall, Illinois State University, Normal, 8 p.m. Free.

"TRADITIONAL ILLINOIS CRAFTS," University Historical Museum, Williams Hall, Illinois State University, Normal, through April 22. Hours: 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Tuesday through Friday, 12:30 to 4:30 Saturday and Sunday. Closed Monday.

NATURAL SCIENCE COLLECTION HIGHLIGHTS, geological and ecological exhibits. Lakeview Museum, 1125 W. Lake Peoria, through April 8. "American Glass 1770-1910," plates, cruets, sugar bowls and decanters, through April 8. Film: "Death of the Dinosaurs," 2 p.m.

today and Sunday, 7:30 p.m. Wednesday. Rim admission is $1.75 adults, 90 cents children. 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Tuesday through Saturday, 7 to 9 p.m. Wednesday, noon to 5 p.m. Sunday. Free. OILS, PASTELS AND CERAMICS, works by Springfield artists Mauri Formigoni and George Lowry, School of Medicine, South-.

ern Illinois University, Springfield, through April 22. Hours: 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. weekdays. Free.

BAND CONCERT, Eastern Illinois University Concert Band, Dvorak Concert Hall, Charleston, 3 p.m. Free. mi HWn ORGAN CONCERT, organist Marianne Webb, professor of music at Southern Illinois University-Carpondate. Free' Methodist, Church, Greenville, 4 "THE UNIVERSE OF DR. EINSTEIN," a program on the inner workings, thoughts and desires of Albert Einstein, Planetarium, Felmley Hall, Illinois State University, 7 p.m.

Free. TOUR DE FORCE, with spe PANCAKE AND SAUSAGE BREAKFAST, sponsored by the Warrensburg Lions Club, lllini Park pavilion, Warrensburg, 7 a.m. to 1 p.m. today. The breakfast will be held in conjunction with a Community Auction.

'I. HOME SHOW, sponsored by Central Illinois Home Association. Hickory Point 10 a.m, to 9 p.m. today and noon to 5 p.m. Sunday.

Exhibits, displays and building trades representatives will be featured. Free. MAPLE SYRUP TIME, Lincoln Memorial Garden and Nature Center, 2301 East Lake Drive. Springfield, 1 to 4 p.m. through Sunday.

Demonstrations of maple syrup production from tapping trees to the finished product. Free. cial guest Golden Earring, Prairie Capital Convention Center. Springfield. 7:30 p.m.

Re 3 p.m.- A freewill offering will be taken. OAK RIDGE BOYSl See highlights NATIONAL INVITATIONAL CRAFTS EXHIBITION, Center for 4he Visual Arts Gallery, Illinois State University, Normal, through April 8. Clay, fiber, glass and metal works are featured. Lectures: Glass, 9 a.m. Friday, Room Hall; fibers, 10:30 a.m.

Friday, Room 401, Stevenson. Hall; clay, 9 a.m. March 17, CVA Rotunda and metal; 10:30 a.rg. March ,17. CVAJtotunda.

Work- shops: Clay. 1 to 5 p.m. Friday and March 17, Room 130 CVA; fib- ers, 1 to 5 p.m. Friday and March 17, Rooms 48 and 52. CVA: served seats are $11 and $12 at the Center box office, Co-Op Tapes Records; The Record Room, Lincoln; Rene's Drug Store, Taylorville and Ticketron outlets.

For credit card orders, call 528-. 5242. SYMPHONY State University Symphony Orchestra, Braden Auditorium, ISU, Normal, 8 p.m. Free. HANDBELL FESTIVAL CONCERT, sponsored by Eastern Illinois University Student Chapter of the American' Guild of Organists, Eiu-Charleston.

4 p.m. Free. Workshops and mass rehearsal will begin at9am. ft..