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The Loon Foundation is hosting a monitoring symposium: a gathering of local citizen scientists, professionals, volunteers and curious community members for sharing and collaborating in the long-term monitoring of coastal aquatic biodiversity on the Sunshine Coast.

The Monitoring Symposium is Saturday, Sept. 21, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., at the Pender Harbour Community Hall. This event will showcase the diversity of species and environments currently being monitored, from sea birds, to shorelines to salmon. Guest…

As part of its 125th anniversary celebration, First Christian Church of Vallejo is holding a special event titled, “Even Jesus Was a Refugee” Immigration Symposium on Saturday from 9 a.m. until noon in its Fellowship Hall.

The church is asking the public to join “for a thought-provoking event discussing the topic of immigration through the lens of faith, history, law, and economics.”

“It can be difficult to navigate through polarizing topics, especially ones that shouldn’t be polarizing! So this is a great time for you and your organization to gain knowledge of how to effectively diffuse the rhetoric and learn to treat everyone as Jesus would have,” a news release states.

The panelists at the event are …

• Rev. Larry Love (Disciples Minister) discussing the Biblical…

The Bayou Preservation Association, a Houston-area nonprofit dedicated to the education and preservation of the region’s bayous, is holding its 19th annual symposium virtually Sept. 28-29.

The theme of the event, “The Cost of Doing Nothing—Opting for Resilience,” will focus on the building of “resilient, sustainable communities,” according to outreach and engagement manager for the BPA, Ryan Francisco.

Part of the two-day symposium will focus on an “action agenda,” covering the ways residents can become involved in regional resilience to climate-related changes to the bayous.

Hunt School of Dental Medicine – Health care professionals dedicated to care of cleft lip and palate came from across the country to El Paso in early November for a two-day National Symposium on the Primary Cleft Lip Deformity as part of their continuing education.

The symposium was hosted by Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center El Paso’s Hunt School of Dental Medicine and El Paso Children’s Hospital.

The 60 attendees included directors of cleft lip and cleft palate programs, surgeons, fellows and medical and dental residents.

Richard Black, D.D.S., M.S., founding dean of the Hunt School of Dental Medicine and co-host of the symposium, said surgeons and their teams from all over the country shared the latest techniques on cleft lip and palate repair and treatment in…