| Assam govt launches free cancer treatment scheme
Assam government today launched free cancer treatment facilities, including chemotherapy and anti-cancer drugs, at Dr B Barooah Cancer Institute here. Launching the scheme, chief minister Tarun Gogoi said that it was a part of the state government's endeavour to improve the healthcare system through a slew of initiatives undertaken in the past couple of years. "The scheme of providing anti-cancer drugs to the patients will give them much-needed relief as the treatment is very expensive", he said. The chief minister said that with the availability of chemotherapy drugs free of cost in the Cancer Institute equipped with the state of art technology, the patients need not go outside the state for treatment. "It is indeed heartening to note that patients who had gone outside the state for treatment has returned to the Cancer Institute for further treatment and the government will continue to help develop the institute into a well-equipped one for cancer treatment, research and training," he said.
Spring Galas Are Signed, Sealed, Delivered
Spring is the busiest season for fund-raising events, buoyed by good-and-getting-better weather, the fun of lighter and brighter garb, and the longer daylight hours. There's no better indicator of the impending gala-whirl than the bulk of invitations filling up mailboxes in the last week or two, perfectly timed, it seems, to be opened by New Yorkers returning from vacation and, as the nonprofits hope, craving company. Sifting through invitations is both an art and a science. Some are just too pretty or eye-catching to ignore; they don't look like invitations as much as miniature magazine covers, artworks, or advertisements. Others rely on more conventional techniques to get the information across, plain and simple. One pet peeve I have is that invitation designs often bury the date of the event, giving prominence instead to its venue or honorees.
Museum and gallery events
Art Museums & Institutions African American Museum 701 Arch St.; 215-574-0380. www.aampmuseum.org. Statements: Expressions of Humanity - Work by 6 artists exploring identity within & beyond the African-American community. Closes 3/30. $8; $6 children & seniors. Tue.-Sat. 10 am-5 pm, Sun. noon-5 pm. Barnes Foundation 300 North Latchs La., Merion; 610-667-0290. www.barnesfoundation.org. Work by Matisse, Van Gogh, other impressionists & post-impressionists. Guided Garden Tours of the Arboretum - Tours may be canceled due to inclement weather. $10 (reservations required). Fri.-Sun. 9:30 am-5 pm. Brandywine River Museum Rte. 1 & Rte. 100, Chadds Ford; 610-388-2700. www.brandywinemuseum.org. Elihu Vedder & the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayam - Display of Vedder's original designs for the popular book. Closes 5/18.
Tallahassee artist featured at Tifton Museum Exhibit
An exhibit of the work of a Tallahassee artist who has been featured at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., will be featured March 27-April 9 at the Tifton Museum of Arts and Heritage. Eluster Richardson will display his art as one of several events of the annual Arts in Black Festival, which continues through this weekend. Tallahassee artist featured at Tifton Museum Exhibit Staff reports TIFTON — An exhibit of the work of a Tallahassee artist who has been featured at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., will be featured March 27-April 9 at the Tifton Museum of Arts and Heritage. Eluster Richardson will display his art as one of several events of the annual Arts in Black Festival, which continues through this weekend. .
Volunteers - March 24
The United Way of Summit County Volunteer Center recruits and refers volunteers to area nonprofit organizations and other groups required to incorporate volunteer programs for accreditation. The following organizations need volunteers. For details about these and other volunteer opportunities, contact the Volunteer Center, 90 N. Prospect St., Akron, from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. weekdays at 330-762-7601, Ext. 5512, or http://www.uwsummit.org. ACCESS Inc.: Volunteers needed 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. April 29 to help with Project Homeless Connect, a one-stop shop for delivering services to homeless people. Minimum age: 18. Akron-Canton Regional Foodbank: Volunteers needed 4 to 8 p.m. March 24 and April 28 to sort and repack donated food. Minimum age: 18, 12 with adult supervision.
The 'fix-it guy' arrives in Shakespeare land
By his own reckoning, Shakespeare & Company's new managing director, Nicholas J. Puma, is not a Shakespeare guy. Stocky but firm and carrying himself with the faintest hint of a Jimmy Cagney swagger, Puma, a Queens, N.Y. native, sounds like he just stepped out of an episode of "The Sopranos." He self-effacingly quotes his wife, Linda, as saying that the height of his sense of culture is The Allman Brothers Band. "I'm just a blue-collar guy," Puma says, only partly tongue in cheek; a blue-collar guy who has made his money in the white-collar world of New York law and accounting. He worked as chief accountant for the 125,000-member New York City Council of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME), director of finance and administration at the school and museum of the China Institute in America, chief financial officer for Helen Keller International, controller for Dance Theatre of Harlem, and seven years as pension and investment manager for Chadbourne and Park, a law firm at 30 Rockefeller Plaza, where he was known, he says, as "the little fix-it guy." So, what's this New York University (1974)/Potomac School .
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