West metro briefs: Hennepin County honored for helping workers to bike

This spring, the League of American Bicyclists honored the county with a silver-level "Bicycle Friendly Business" award for its efforts to create a more welcoming atmosphere for workers who bike.

Hennepin County provides its employees with secured bike parking, reimburses them for biking expenses and hosts education events like Bike to Work Day, bike maintenance and winter biking classes.

The league also honored Minneapolis with a gold award and Ramsey County with a bronze award.

Last fall, Hennepin County also was recognized for its work on biking for residents and visitors, getting a silver-level "Bicycle Friendly Community" award from the league. The county has more than 670 miles of bikeway and claims that cycling accounts for 2.5 percent of all trips made in the county, more than double the national average.

KELLY SMITH

The seventh annual Camden's Concert, a fundraiser for cystic fibrosis research, will be held at 7:30 p.m. Monday at the Hopkins Center for the Arts, 1111 Mainstreet. An on-site auction will begin at 6 p.m.

Camden's Concert was launched by Dave and Linda Mona after their grandson, Camden Mona, was diagnosed with cystic fibrosis. To date, the concerts have raised more than $250,000 for research.

This year's concert will feature Jimmy Fortune, the former tenor voice of the Statler Brothers. Fortune performed with the group for 21 years and wrote several of its hit songs.

Tickets are $25, $50 or $100. For more information or to buy tickets, go to www.hopkinsartscenter.com. An online auction is open now at www.biddingforgood.com/camden.

JOHN REINAN

A drop box for disposal of prescription pills and over-the-counter medicines has opened in Golden Valley, the ninth one in Hennepin County.

The box, added by the police department in partnership with the Hennepin County Sheriff's Office and the county, is located at 7800 Golden Valley Road. All types of medicine, vitamins, supplements and pet medicines can be accepted there at all time.

Hennepin County's other drop boxes are in Brooklyn Center, Brooklyn Park, Edina, Maple Grove, Minneapolis, Minnetonka, Osseo and Spring Park. Go to hennepin.us for more details.

KELLY SMITH

A grand opening for a multimillion dollar expansion to the St. David's Center for Child & Family Development will be held July 20, with a free ribbon-cutting ceremony to be followed by a cocktail reception and self-guided tours.

The new addition, which has been in the works for four years, includes a children's mental health clinic, an autism day treatment center, a pediatric therapy clinic and an early childhood education center.

The 8.6-acre campus will have the region's first inclusive preschool playground integrated with a 2.5-acre school forest certified by the state Department of Natural Resources. To RSVP for the event, go to stdavidscenter.org/grand-opening.

With the fate of Robbinsdale's Terrace Theatre up in the air, a local film company plans to produce a documentary about it.

Red 23 Filmworks says that it's in production for a documentary titled "The Tower of Birdtown," a history of the 1,300-seat theater, and has launched a fundraising page to produce it.

With the theater's future uncertain, the film company decided to do the documentary about the 1950s-era structure, which has been closed since 1999 and may be torn down to make room on the site for a grocery store.

The city is holding an open house on plans for the site from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. on Wednesday at 4145 Hubbard Av. N. Beside the grocery store, the plans include a convenience store, coffee shop, gas pumps and a drive-through.