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Eat to give

Now through October, a portion of the proceeds from the sale of Better-For-You Dreyer's Grand Light Ice Cream — the specially marked ones with a pink ribbon on the carton — will go to the National Alliance of Breast Cancer Organizations to support the organization's educational programs that encourage women to seek early detection.

And here's food for thought: Breast cancer is the most common form of cancer in women in the United States today. One out of nine women in the nation will develop breast cancer in her lifetime. Information: www.dreyersbetterforyou.com

Return to Manzanar

Copies of the 1976 TV movie "Farewell to Manzanar" will be distributed to every California public school and library to teach students about the internment of more than 120,000 Japanese Americans during World War II.

Universal Studios will produce about 10,000 video copies of the film, which co-stars Mako and Pat Morita. The Civil Liberties Public Education Project of the California State Library will help distribute them.

The Manzanar War Relocation Center, in the California desert, was one of the internment camps the U.S. government established for Japanese Americans during the war. Last year, the federal government appropriated $4.2 million for exhibits for a visitors' center and improvements at the site.

Six commissioned artworks — three each by Carol Bennett of Kaua'i and Don Dugal of Honolulu, both of whom exhibit often here and on the Mainland — were dedicated at the Hawai'i Convention Center recently and are worth a visit when you're in the neighborhood.

The works are situated in water-fountain niches, and thus were limited in size and format to fit their sites. The water theme has been incorporated into the compositions, in bold paintings of water subjects on glass by Bennett and in elegant depictions of plantlife executed on aluminum panels by Dugal.

These works join commissioned artworks in the Convention Center by 17 other local artists. The building is open weekdays 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. unless a closed event is taking place.