Dayton-area briefs

Dayton

Volunteers sought for golf tourney Aug. 5

The Dayton Area Chamber of Commerce will hold its 13th annual golf tournament Aug. 5 and needs players, sponsors and volunteers to help. Hole watchers, runners, committee members, coordinators, reservationists, check-in persons and bag-stuffers are needed.

Call 246-3687, 883-3313 or 246-7009.

Chamber to hold breakfast

A networking "business and breakfast" meeting will be Tuesday from 7:30 to 8:15 a.m. at Legado at the Dayton Valley Country Club, 51 Palmer Drive, Dayton. This is a chance to network with other chamber members and enjoy a continental breakfast.

Call 246-7909.

Carson City

Local author to read from book at railroad museum

Families and the public are invited to attend a free program by author Ellen Hopkins as she reads from her book "Tarnished Legacy," a nonfiction story for children about Virginia City's Comstock Lode, at 7 p.m. Wednesday at the Nevada State Railroad Museum. For information, call 687-6953.

Virginia City

Musicals play at Piper's

"Cathouse Afternoon," a bawdy, original musical by Will Rose, is running at 7 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays at Piper's Opera House in Virginia City.

Call 847-7150, 847-0433, or go to www.redroseonline.com.

"Ol' Plumbottom," also by Rose, is a hip-hop original musical with a mine-safety theme, will be the Saturday matinee.

There will be two half-hour shows at 1 and 2 p.m.

Pasta and politics in the park Saturday

The Storey County Democratic Central Committee will hold a meet-the-candidates spaghetti feed, from noon to 4 p.m. Saturday in Miners Park, Virginia City.

Candidates to be on hand include Dina Titus, candidate for governor; Ross Miller, candidate for attorney general; state Assembly candidate Cathylee James; Storey County Commissioner John Flanagan; Storey County sheriff candidates Bob Del Carlo and Stephen Bloyd; and Storey County commissioner candidates Bill Sjovangen and Nick Nicosia.

Call 847-9518.

Lincoln exhibit traces slavery's evolution

A traveling exhibition opening at the Historic Fourth Ward School Museum opening Saturday traces Abraham Lincoln's gradual transformation from an antislavery moderate into "The Great Emancipator," who freed the slaves in 1863.

"Forever Free: Abraham Lincoln's Journey to Emancipation" will be on display until Oct. 20.

"Forever Free" draws upon original documents in the collections of the Huntington Library and the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History.

Call 847-0975.