Registration for tutoring services at Good Counsel Learning Center is now open for fall semester.
Continuing a tradition of 57 years, the Learning Center tutors students K-12 in reading and math, as well as adults in writing, English as a second language and citizenship. The center is in the classrooms at St. John’s Episcopal Church, 302 Warren St.
Hourly sessions for youth and adults in reading and math begin the week of Sept. 16, with students attending two or three hours each week.
Registration is available online at www.gclearningcenter.org. For more information, contact Sister Dorothy at 507-389-4229 or director@gclearningcenter.org.
Zero Waste plans park event
Electronics recycling and repairs and a clothing swap are some of the opportunities for participants in Zero Waste Day in the Park slated noon to 3 p.m. Sunday at the pavilion in Sibley Park, 900 Park Lane.
The free event is sponsored by the community organization Mankato Zero Waste. Food will be on hand. Activities include face painting and live music. Information about reducing, recycling and energy savings will be provided.
Participants in the event’s mending clinic need to provide the necessary items for repairing clothing items.
For more information, go to Mankato Area Zero Waste’s facebook page link:
facebook.com/events/499928639053517.
Lecture to focus on electrochemistry
Minnesota State University’s 34th Leonard Ford Lecture 11 a.m. Wednesday will feature two presentations about electrochemistry. The free events are open to the public.
University of Iowa chemistry professor Johna Leddy will give a technical talk at 11 a.m. titled “Magnetoelectrocatalysis” in Centennial Student Union’s Ostrander Auditorium. The talk will address subjects such as electromagnetic theory.
Leddy’s 7:30 p.m. general talk “How to Change the Energy Distribution of the Planet? Electrochemistry” will be in Trafton Science Center. She will discuss how electrochemistry is used to refine aluminum and generate chlorine and its potential changing the energy distribution of the planet.
The Leonard A. Ford Lectureship is sponsored by MSU’s Department of Biochemistry, Chemistry and Geology.