Junior Fillies camp scheduled for Saturday

The Denton High School Junior Fillies clinic is set for 9 a.m. to noon on Saturday at Denton High School, 1007 Fulton St. The clinic is offered to girls ages 3 to 13 who are interested in dance and drill team activities, and it raises funds for the Fillies Drill Team.

The entry fee is $25 per person until Monday and $28 per person after Monday. The fee covers tuition, a T-shirt and certificate of participation. Clinic participants will perform their routines for parents during a high school football game on Friday, Oct. 10.

For more information, call 940-369-2000.

UNT opera gala slated

The University of North Texas opera gala “L’amour,” an evening of romantic opera highlights, is set for Saturday, Oct. 18 and will feature students from UNT Opera, the UNT Symphony Orchestra and alumna and mezzo-soprano Lauren McNeese.

The evening includes a dinner featuring a performance by McNeese and emeritus piano faculty member Bob Rogers, followed by the concert of UNT vocal talent and ending with a champagne reception with more music from Rogers.

The concert features arias and scenes from Carmen, La Bohème, Le Nozze di Figaro, Der Rosenkavalier, The Mikado, The Rake’s Progress, Madama Butterfly, Die Zauberflõte and La Traviata.

Proceeds from the event will fund music scholarships. The wine reception begins at 5:45 p.m., with dinner and a private program at 6:15 p.m., the concert at 8 p.m., and a champagne reception at 9:45 p.m. in the UNT Murchison Performing Arts Center.

Tickets cost $20 for the concert only, $50 for the concert and postconcert champagne reception, and $100 per individual or $180 per couple for the dinner, concert and champagne reception.

For tickets or more information, call 940-369-7802 or visit www.thempac.com.

Ann’s Haven offers free hospice volunteer clinic

Ann’s Haven Visiting Nurses Association needs hospice volunteers in the Denton area who want to help terminally ill patients and their families.

An 18-hour course in volunteer hospice care will be held over three consecutive Saturdays, from 8:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. on Oct. 4, Oct. 11 and Oct. 18 at Ann’s Haven, 501 S. Carroll Blvd., Suite 201 in Denton.

Direct care volunteers provide emotional support, caregiver relief and assistance with errands.

Bereavement volunteers help comfort grieving family members, co-facilitate grief support groups and assist with monthly luncheons.

Administrative volunteers help with clerical duties and other support activities.

There is no cost to attend the training. Refreshments will be provided, but volunteers are requested to bring a sack lunch.

To register, or to receive more information, call 940-349-5900 or e-mail hudsong@vnatexas.org.

Father of slain ‘Journal’ reporter to talk at UNT

Dr. Judea Pearl, father of slain Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl, will speak at 6:30 p.m. Monday, Oct. 20 at the University of North Texas as part of “Daniel Pearl World Music Days,” honoring the reporter and musician who was kidnapped and killed in Pakistan in 2002.

Pearl’s speech, “Carving a Dialogue between Muslims and Jews,” will be in the Lyceum of the University Union, one block west of the intersection of Welch and West Prairie streets. The lecture is free. A question-and-answer session and book signing will take place after the speech.

In addition, the UNT College of Music is dedicating all of its concerts during the month of October — more than 100 in all — to Daniel Pearl World Music Days, a network of concerts across the globe to promote tolerance and humanity through music.

For a listing of related events at UNT, visit www.music.unt.edu/danielpearl.

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