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STAND, AC team up for environmental film festival

The environmental organization STAND and the Amarillo College Mass Communication Department have issued a call for submissions from amateur filmmakers for a new environmental film festival.

The Prairie Lands and Water Regional Film Festival will include divisions for high school and college students and a separate division for amateurs.

Producers of documentaries, features, animated films or videos no longer than 15 minutes are sought for the festival, which will air the films at the Washington Street Campus on Feb. 28 and 29.

Co-sponsors are the Amarillo League of Women Voters, Panhandle Groundwater Conservation District, Wildcat Bluff Nature Center and Ogallala Commons.

In the call for submissions, AC and STAND said filmmakers should "highlight the beauty, connections and challenges that everyone must understand in order to create a sustainable future for the region."

Entries are due on Jan. 31, 2008. Fees are $15 for high school and college students and $30 for all others. $500 awards will be made each for the high school, college, amateur divisions and for the directors' choice award.

For an application and rules, contact Prairie Lands and Water Regional Film Festival in care of STAND, 7105 W. 34th Ave. Suite E, Amarillo, TX 79109, by phone at 358-2622, by e-mail at stand@stand-texas.org, or by fax at 806-355-3837.

Giving Back to sponsor north-side cleanup initiative

A new nonprofit organization is spearheading another cleanup effort on the north side of Amarillo, with the 11-day effort having started Tuesday.

The work will continue through Sept. 22, the final and "big push" day, said Francetta Crow, who founded the organization Giving Back.

"We're asking everybody to be responsible for their own property," Crow said Monday, adding that means landlords are being asked to be part of the clean up.

The city of Amarillo will cooperate in the cleanup by providing dumpsters at the corners of 15th and Jefferson and 10th and Travis, she said.

Beautifying the north side has been a priority and the community has cleaned up Hughes Street from Amarillo Boulevard to 24th Avenue, Crow said.

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Posted: September 13, 2007