Cardinal Cross Country Run & Health Fair
The event is scheduled for April 13 at Santa Cruz Catholic School in Buda and will include a 1K kids’ race at 7:45 a.m. and a 5K run/walk at 8:15 a.m., which will take participants through Historic Stagecoach Park. A Health Fair is also scheduled from 8-11 a.m. that will feature community service providers as well as local vendors, a free health screening, bounce houses, face painting and entertainment. Participants may register at the school or online at www.healthfair.sccstx.org through April 13.
Author of Swamplandia! to speak this month
Karen Russell, a graduate of Columbia University’s MFA program, will speak at the Katherine Anne Porter Literary Center at 7:30 p.m. April 19. She published her first short story collection, St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves, in 2006. Russell achieved critical acclaim for her debut novel Swamplandia! which was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize and won the New York Public Library’s 2012 Young Lions Fiction Award; was included in The New York Times’ “10 Best Books of 2011.” Her second short story collection, Vampires in the Lemon Grove, was published in February 2013 and became a national bestseller. Russell will also speak at the Wittliff Collections at the Alkek Library at Texas State University. The events are free and open to the public.
Pie lovers’ paradise in Wimberley
Do you make the best pies around? If so, enter them in the 23rd Annual Pie Social contest hosted by the Wimberley Institute of Culture. Or just come out to enjoy the pie, food, drinks, face painting and bounce house. Music will be provided by The Distractions. There will also be a raffle for a Miranda Lambert autographed guitar, an antique saddle and a quilt. The social takes place from 11 a.m.-2 p.m. April 13 at the Winters House by the Community Center on RR 12 in Wimberley. Download a pie entry form at www.wimwic.org.
Texas State spring musical, Urinetown, is Tony Award-winning good time
Texas State University’s Department of Theater and Dance will present the spring musical, Urinetown, directed by Kaitlin Hopkins. Urinetown is the Tony Award-winning tale of greed, corruption, love, and revolution in a time when water is worth its weight in gold. In a Gotham-like city, a 20-year drought has led to a government-enforced ban on private toilets. The citizens must use public amenities, regulated by a single malevolent company that profits by charging admission for one of humanity’s most basic needs. Amid the people, a hero decides he’s had enough, and plans a revolution to lead them all to freedom. Inspired by the works of Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill, Urinetown is a humorous satire in which no one is safe from scrutiny. Show times are 7:30 p.m. April 16-21 and 2 p.m. April 21 on the main stage of the Theatre Center. Contact Texas State theater department for ticket prices.
San Marcos Heart Walk
The American Heart Association is the largest voluntary health organization working to prevent, treat and defeat heart disease, stroke and other cardiovascular diseases. These diseases, the Nation’s No.1 and No.4 killers, claim more than 813,804 American lives a year. The San Marcos Heart Walk takes place on April 20 at Texas State University. Registration begins at 8 a.m., walk at 9 a.m. Call Glenn Huschka at (512) 338- 2422 for more information.
Sign up for $500 worth of health screenings
At HealthCheck, Hays County’s largest health screening and fair, community member can take advantage of more than $500 worth of valuable health screenings and services for just $45. More than 70 vendors are scheduled to appear at the event, and more than 20 additional free health screenings and assessments will be available. HealthCheck will take place from 7 a.m. to 3 p.m. April 18 at the Embassy Suites Hotel, Spa and Conference Center in San Marcos. There’s still time to register for the event and attend an upcoming blood draw. For more information, please call (512) 753-3818.
