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Learn the Fandango, dance at Royal library

CHERYL SCHWEIZER | Hagadone News Network | UPDATED 10 years, 4 months AGO
by CHERYL SCHWEIZERColumbia Basin Herald
Senior Reporter Cheryl Schweizer is a journalist with more than 30 years of experience serving small communities in the Pacific Northwest. She began her post-high-school education at Treasure Valley Community College and enerned her journalism degree at Oregon State University. After working for multiple publications, she has settled down at the Columbia Basin Herald and has been a staple of the newsroom for more than a decade. Schweizer’s dedication to her communities and profession has earned her the nickname “The Baroness of Bylines.” She covers a variety of beats including health, business and various municipalities. | May 6, 2016 6:00 AM

ROYAL CITY — The North Central Regional Library is sponsoring a series of lectures in the Columbia Basin in May.

Yesenia Hunter will talk about – and demonstrate and teach – fandango dancing at 4 p.m. on May 11 at the Royal City Public Library, 136 Camelia St.

“Fandango and the Deliberate Community” will be outdoors, so there will be ample room to dance. Visitors are encouraged to bring lawn chairs or blankets.

Antonio Gomez will talk about the intersection of cultures in 14th- and 15th-Century Spain. “Saffron and Honey: Muslims, Jews and Christians in Medieval Spain” is scheduled for 7 p.m. May 11 at the Ephrata Public Library.

Author Jack Nisbet will talk about artist and sculptor Leno Prestini in a lecture at 6 p.m. on May 24 at the Moses Lake Public Library. Prestini worked from the late 1920s to the early 1960s, focusing on the Inland Northwest.

Nisbet also will talk about his new book, “Ancient Places: People and Landscape in the Emerging Northwest.”

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