Golf outing to benefit ataxia

The 2005 Talarico Ataxia Open will be held at the AH Blank Golf Course on Saturday, featuring two celebrity golfers, Bobby Hansen and Ross Verba, and comedian Willie Farrell as Master of Ceremonies.

Over the past three years, the Talarico family has raised funds through this event for the National Ataxia Foundation. Ataxia is an often-fatal, degenerative neurological disorder that affects an estimated 150,000 Americans. It has no cure.

Registration begins at 11 a.m., followed by a shotgun start at noon, a cocktail hour at 5 p.m., pasta dinner at 6 p.m. and a live auction and raffle at 7 p.m. The cost for golf and dinner is $125 per person, with additional dinner guests costing $25 per person.

Auction items include the chance for two people to be extras on the television
show "ER"; six days and seven nights at a three-bedroom condo in Costa Rica; airfare and two nights stay at the Palms Hotel in Las Vegas; a pool table; makeup tattooing; a signed guitar by U2; autographed memorabilia by sports greats such as Michael Jordan, Larry Bird and Mike Ditka; and more.

To register or for more information on hole sponsorship, call 289-0966.

Visit the comic marketplace

The Iowa Comic Book Club, the creator of Iowa's only comic book convention, is hosting a Comic Book Marketplace on Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Best Western Inn, 5055 Merle Hay Rd. in Johnston. Dealers from the Midwest will be on hand with 20 tables of comics and comic-related collectables and merchandise.

Admission is free, as is parking. Tell the Marketplace organizers that you read this in Cityview to receive a free comic (one per person). For more information, visit www.iowacomicbookclub.org.

Author's Des Moines visit rescheduled

The Des Moines Public Library's AViD Author Series has been finished since the spring. However, with the Pope's passing dominating newspaper headlines at the time, a free presentation by popular journalist and author Cokie Roberts had to be rescheduled. The presentation will instead be tonight at the Hoyt Sherman Place Theater at 7 p.m. Seating is on a first-come, first-served basis.

"DU Lunch"speakers set

With Drake University back in session, so, too, is the university's "Let's DU Lunch" speaker series. Mary Andringa, co-chief executive officer of Vermeer Manufacturing, a company in Pella that specializes in machines and products used to build and maintain the world's infrastructure, will start off the series at 11:30 a.m. on Wednesday, Sept. 7, at the Iowa Events Center.

The series will continue on Oct. 5 with David Stark, executive vice president and chief operating officer for the Iowa Methodist Medical Center, and Nov. 2 with Jeff Chelesvig, president and chief executive officer of the Civic Center of Greater Des Moines.The cost is $15 per luncheon or $36 for all three. Reservations are recommended by calling 271-3848 or by e-mailing alumni.rsvp@drake.edu. CV

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