LAFAYETTE, Ind. — On Saturday, September 6th, learn about and taste new and heirloom produce varieties, taste ripe fruit at peak, and sample cheeses, meats, etc. as vendors cook, grill and provide samples of their produce and products. Enjoy the aroma and grab a sample as you browse through the Lafayette Farmers’ Market area.

A local chef will be demonstrating healthy cooking tips using foods available at the Market. The Lafayette Flute Choir will also be performing from 9:00am-11:00am.

The Market, located in Downtown Lafayette on Fifth Street between Main and Columbia Streets, is open on Tuesdays and Saturdays from 7:30am – 12:30pm and on Thursdays from 4:00pm-7:00pm.

Ride the free trolley to visit our downtown merchants while also learning about community history. Tour guides will be on board the Wabash Trolley Line to share tales of Old Tippecanoe during free 30-minute tours. Trolleys depart from 5th and Main Streets at 9:40 am and 10:40 am.

In the evening, from 6:00pm until Midnight, pedestrians can “Mosey Down Main Street” for live music, dancing, arts and crafts, local fare, and sidewalk sales.

For more information, contact Jane Ness at the Lafayette-West Lafayette Development Corporation at 765/742-4044

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Vegetable growers and master gardeners can tour plots by wagon and compare different varieties of pumpkins and sweet corn at the Sept. 9 twilight meeting in Wanatah, Ind., at the Pinney-Purdue Agricultural Center.

The Pumpkin and Sweet Corn Twilight Meeting will begin with registration at 6 p.m. EDT (5 p.m. CDT). Participants will have an opportunity to look at synergistic and supersweet sweet corn varieties, powdery mildew resistant pumpkin varieties and the cucurbit downy mildew sentinel plot.

“We have done some different things with our plots this year,” said Liz Maynard, Purdue University Cooperative Extension Service vegetable crops specialist. “This is the first year we have sprayed for powdery mildew in only half the pumpkin plots, so growers can see a difference.”

During the wagon tours, Rick Foster, Purdue Extension vegetable and fruit crops pest management specialist, will discuss insect management in sweet corn and give an update on corn earworm. Dan Egel, Purdue Extension plant pathologist, will point out various diseases in the fields, and participants will have the chance to see symptoms and ask questions. Maynard will highlight the different varieties in plots and discuss production methods and weed management strategies.

Registration is due by Sept. 2 and costs $5, which can be paid at the door and includes dinner. If the weather permits and the sweet corn is ready for harvest, participants will be able to taste some of the different varieties from the plots at dinner. Those interested can register by contacting Maynard at (219) 785-5674, emaynard@purdue.edu. Registration for those wanting to receive private pesticide applicator recertification credit (PARP) is $15.

Pinney-Purdue Agricultural Center is located at 11402 S. County Line Road. More information is available online at http://www.hort.purdue.edu/fruitveg/events/PumpkinTwiliteTour08.pdf. For additional questions, contact Maynard.

The meeting is sponsored by Purdue Extension and the Northwest Indiana Commercial Horticulture Program, a part of Purdue’s Department of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture.

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Stand-up comedian Lewis Black will perform as part of his Comedy Central Live “Let Them Eat Cake” tour at 8 p.m. Sept. 7 in Purdue University’s Elliott Hall of Music.

Purdue’s Student Concert Committee is presenting the performance, which is produced by Live Nation.

“Lewis Black is one of the most prolific and popular performers working today,” said Laura Clavio, Purdue Convocations assistant director and Student Concert Committee adviser. “He executes a brilliant trifecta as stand-up comedian, actor and author. Black’s live performances provide a cathartic release of anger and disillusionment for his audience. A passionate performer who is more an angry optimist than mean-spirited curmudgeon, he’s perfected expressing what the rest of us cannot say in polite company.”

Receiving critical acclaim, he performs more than 200 nights a year to sell-out audiences throughout Europe, New Zealand, Canada and the United States. He is one of few performers to sell out multiple renowned theaters including Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, the Brooks Atkinson Theatre, New York City Center and the MGM Grand in Las Vegas. In 2007, Black received a Grammy award for “Best Comedy Album” for “The Carnegie Hall Performance” stand-up CD released by Comedy Central Records.

In 2006, Black had a breakout year as an actor. He co-starred with Robin Williams in Barry Levinson’s “Man of the Year” (Universal Pictures), appeared as “the fake dean of a fake college” in Steve Pink’s “Accepted” (Universal Pictures) and as the harried airport manager in Paul Feig’s “Unaccompanied Minors” (Warner Brothers). In addition, he lent his voice to the role of “Jimmy” in Bob Saget’s parody, “Farce of the Penguins” (Thinkfilm).

In August 2007, he was the first stand-up comedian to perform in concert at the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles. In December 2007, he was part of the Joint Chiefs of Staff’s Christmas Show – along with Robin Williams, Kid Rock, Lance Armstrong, Ronan Tynan and Miss USA Rachel Smith – that entertained U.S. troops in Iraq, Afghanistan, Kuwait, Qatar, Spain and Italy.

In the midst of a rigorous touring schedule and several TV appearances, Black’s first book, “Nothing’s Sacred” (Simon and Schuster, 2005) debuted on “The New York Times” Best Seller List. He recently released a second book (Penguin, June 2008) titled, “Me of Little Faith.” It is a humorous exploration of religion and faith in which he examines how the rules and constraints of religion have affected his life and the lives of us all, Clavio said.

“His hilarious experiences with rabbis, Mormons, gurus, psychics and even the joy of a perfect round of golf give Black the chance to expound upon what we believe and why – in the language of a shock jock and with the heart of an iconoclast,” she said.

Tickets for Lewis Black are $42.50 for the general public and $30 for Purdue and Ivy Tech students and children under age 19; prices include a facilities fee.

Tickets are available at the Elliott Hall of Music and Stewart Center box offices, at (765) 494-3933, and through Ticketmaster at (765) 743-5151 and Ticketmaster.com.

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — A Sept. 5 conference at Purdue University will focus on challenges and solutions in the health care industry.

The sixth annual History, Ethics, Human Rights and Innovations in Healthcare Symposium, titled Challenges and Solutions: Building a Better Future, will take place from 8 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. in Stewart Center’s Loeb Playhouse.

Purdue’s School of Nursing and the College of Science are sponsoring the conference, which will feature a variety of world-renowned speakers and a poster session.

Registration for the conference is free for Purdue faculty, staff and students and $50 for the general public. Registration includes a boxed lunch. Those interested in attending need to register by Monday (Sept. 1). Registration for the event will begin at 7:30 a.m., and a welcome and introductions will follow at 8 a.m.

Cynthia Connolly, an associate professor at the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing, will be the first speaker, with a talk titled “TB Or Not TB? Fighting the ‘White Plague’ in America’s Children.” Her book, “Saving Sickly Children: The Tuberculosis Preventorium in American Life, 1909-1970,” was published this spring. Connolly’s current research focuses on the history of nurses and AIDS.

At 10 a.m., Dr. T. Berry Brazelton and Ann Stadtler, both of Harvard Medical School, will speak about “The Touchpoints Approach: Strengthening Families, Building Communities.”

Brazelton, considered to be one of the foremost authorities on pediatrics and child development, founded the Brazelton Touchpoints Center at Children’s Hospital Boston in 1993 to mobilize communities around children and families in order to bring relationships back into health care and to transform child care into family care. He is the author of more than 200 scientific papers and chapters and 40 books.

Stadtler is one of the original faculty members and curriculum developers at Brazelton Touchpoints Center and is the director of site development and training. She was a primary care nurse practitioner in private pediatric practice before joining Brazelton at Children’s Hospital Boston.

Three School of Nursing faculty, Julie Novak and professors Clara Richardson and Jenny Coddington, completed the Touchpoints training at Harvard with Brazelton and Stadtler and have created a training site at Purdue University. Participants who are interested in future local Touchpoints training will have the opportunity to sign up at the conference.

Following lunch, Scott Serota, president and chief executive officer of the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association, will speak on “Health Policy and the Future of Healthcare.” He earned a bachelor’s degree from Purdue and was named a distinguished alumnus of the College of Science in 2006. He holds a master’s degree in health administration and planning from Washington University School of Medicine. He is a founding member of the National Business Group on Health’s Institute on Healthcare Costs and Solutions, and a board member of the Council for Affordable Quality Healthcare and the National Center for Healthcare Leadership.

The Purdue School of Nursing and College of Science also are accepting posters that focus on innovative programs in health care. They will be on display throughout the conference. For information about submitting a poster, contact Clara Richardson in the School of Nursing at richarcj@purdue.edu by Monday (Sept. 1).

Nurses who attend the conference will receive 4.5 contact hours from Purdue University Continuing Nursing Education, which has been approved as a provider in continuing education by the Indiana State Nurses Association.

For information or to register for the conference, contact Roxanne Martin in the School of Nursing at (765) 494-4003 or martinrj@purdue.edu

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. –– Purdue Employees Federal Credit Union (PEFCU) invites the Greater Lafayette community to attend a no-cost seminar called “Identity Theft. Who’s got your number?” at 6 p.m., on Tuesday, September 9, at the PEFCU Financial Mall located at 1551 Win Hentschel Blvd. in West Lafayette.

One in five consumers fall victim to some kind of identity theft each year. The results can be devastating: damage to one’s credit report, average monetary losses of $1,200 or more, and nearly 30 hours of personal time spent to resolve the issue. Attend this seminar and learn ways to fight fraud from local experts who work in PEFCU’s Risk Department.

Tips will be provided on the following:

• How to protect yourself from identity theft
• How to identify fraud scams
• What to do if you are a fraud victim

This is a no-cost seminar and is open to the public. Complimentary refreshments will be provided. Seats are limited. Reserve your spot by Friday, September 5, by calling 765.497.7455, emailing rsvp@purdueefcu.com, or registering at www.purdueefcu.com under “Events Calendar”.

Founded on the Purdue University campus in 1969, Purdue Employees Federal Credit Union (PEFCU) boasts assets exceeding $500 million and serves more than 56,000 members nationwide.