Committed to Radiant Peace

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    ST. PETERSBURG -- As a project to promote greater peace awareness, a number of activities are scheduled for the St. Petersburg area for Peace Awareness Week, June 17-23, highlighted by an Open House on The International Day of Radiant Peace on June 22, and a Walk for Peace Saturday, June 23, through the downtown area.
    Coordinated by The Radiant Peace Division, the activities are designed to celebrate June 22 as International Day of Radiant Peace worldwide. Similar observances -- including Official Proclamations issued by various municipal mayors -- are being held elsewhere in the U.S. as well as in Austria, England, Germany, Greece, Italy, Japan, Sweden, and Venezuela.
    Locally, two major displays have been arranged to promote and exhibit artwork and essays by elementary school students from throughout the U.S. These students have participated in the past 10 years in annual nationwide Peace Education Awards projects. The displays feature banners, posters, decorated plates, color photographs, essay excerpts and other expressions of peace awareness by students in grades 1-12.
    One display is at the St. Petersburg Public Library, 3745 9th Ave. N., framing the entranceway into the library though June.
    The second shares exhibit space with "The Kennedy Collection," "The Cuban Missile Crisis" and a photographic tribute to Martin Luther King Jr. at the Florida International Museum, a Smithsonian Institute affiliate, 100 2nd St. N. This exhibit also runs through June 30.
    Other activities scheduled to celebrate June 22 as International Day of Radiant Peace include:
    *An Open House at the international headquarters for The Radiant Peace Division, a 21-year-old nonprofit organization. The International headquarters is located at 5601 Central Ave., and will be open to the public, with displays and refreshments, noon to 7 p.m. Friday, June 22. Ann Healy, the new Executive Director for the organization, will be on hand to host this event.
    *Benefit Days Fundraising project at Borders Books in Tyrone Square Mall June 22-24. All purchases on those three days accompanied by a special coupon will result in a 15 percent donation of the purchase price to the peace projects of the Radiant Peace Division.
    *Radiant Peace Walk, starting at 10 a.m. on June 23. Volunteers will walk for Peace beginning at City Hall, moving through BayWalk and continuing to Beach Drive NE and The Pier with informative handouts and free Peace Patches.
    For more information about these and other Peace Awareness Week activities June 17-23, contact the Radiant Peace Division, at 727-343-8212 or e-mail RadiantPeaceSite@netscape.net.