In the event, which will begin at 10:30 a.m. at the Boulder County Recycling Center at 1901 63rd St. in Boulder, participants register either as a Yogi (a yoga practitioner in the event) or a Sponsor (supporter-atlarge of event participants). Yogis set a goal for the day and gather pledges.

At 2:30 p.m., members of the Colorado Shakespeare Festival will read selections from Shakespeare's sonnets and monologues. The Boulder Renaissance Consort will play music as part of the CSF readings, and there will be an open mic after the reading for visitors to share their favorite Shakespeare lines.

The finalists are Ann Kling, assistant deputy director for public services at the Buffalo and Erie County Public Library in Buffalo, N.Y.; Valerie Maginnis, director of library and cultural services for the City of Mission Viejo, Calif.

The Arbor Foundation issues the Tree Campus USA designation to campuses that meet five requirements, including convening a tree advisory committee, creating a tree care plan, implementing a tree program, holding an Arbor Day observance and offering a service learning project.

Half of the proceeds from each 'Spaw' day purchase will be given to the Red Cross to support relief efforts related to the earthquake in Japan and subsequent tsunami. The other half of proceeds will benefit the World Vets volunteer organization, which works for animal relief efforts around the globe.

Scheduled activities include a buffet dinner, complimentary cocktails until 9 p.m., jazz music by the Dave Fulker Quartet, live and silent auctions, casino-style gaming tables, helicopter rides with Copter for a Cause (for a $75 per person donation) and Hollywood-themed fun.

Community radio station KGNU is holding its spring pledge drive until March 19 to support its non-commercial, independent, community radio programming for the Boulder/Denver region. Now in its 33rd year of operation, KGNU delivers news and public affairs and music programming from both its Boulder and Denver studios. KGNU operates with six full-time employees and more than 300 volunteers.

The U.S. Census Bureau announced on Feb. 23 that Boulder's official population count for the 2010 census is 97,385, a 2.9 percent increase from the 2000 population count. But city officials say Boulder's population is higher, around 103,600, and being undercounted could have financial impacts on the community.

CU has two payloads onboard NASA’s Glory Mission, a Taurus XL rocket that launched Feb. 23. The first, an instrument called the Total Irradiance Monitor, or TIM, will point directly toward the sun to measure both short- and long-term fluctuations in the sun’s energy output. These variations can influence long-term climate change on Earth, and this instrument is the most accurate ever made to study the energy output from the sun.

The Lafayette Public Library will be holding a children’s book sale next month to raise money for its summer reading program. Visitors will be able to sift through hundreds of children’s books, ranging in price from 50 cents to $3.