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It"s finally here -- well, almost. Beginning in September, Women's Times will devote an entire page to your local events.

Whether it's a weekly or monthly meeting for a club, an event geared toward women or just an event you want area women to know about, you can list it in Women's Times.

The Women's Times calendar will appear the first Sunday of every month. Entries must be received by 4 p.m. the last Monday of the month to appear in the following month's calendar.

To list your event in the calendar, call Women's Times Editor Kara Covington at 981-1162, e-mail kara.covington@thedailytimes.com, or mail them to PO Box 9740 Maryville, TN, 37802.

Area realtors to hold fashion Show

The Women's Council of Realtors will hold a fashion show themed "An Evening to Remember: Havana Nights" 7 p.m. to 11 p.m. Aug. 17 at The Foundry in Knoxville.

Dinner, dancing and music will be provided. Tickets are $50. For more information, call Anita Russell at 984-1111.

Women's Equity Foundation gets nonprofit status

The Women's Equity Foundation, a supporting organization of the American Association of University Women Maryville branch, has been granted tax deductible, nonprofit status from the Internal Revenue Service.

"This is an exciting and important milestone for both the AAUW Maryville branch and the Women's Equity Foundation. The branch has enjoyed enthusiastic support from the community for our educational efforts, and now we can broaden our monetary support even more by being able to accept tax-deductible charitable contributions," said Harolyn Ropp, Women's Equity Foundation president.

For more information, visit www.discoveret.org/aauwmvil.com.

Judge orders college to reinstate women's sports

A federal judge ruled July 25 that Slippery Rock University intentionally discriminated against its female student-athletes by eliminating the women's swimming and water polo teams and ordered the school to reinstate the two women's teams immediately.

The president of Slippery Rock University in Pennsylvania, Robert Smith, cut three women's and five men's sports teams in January, saving $350,000 in an attempt to make a dent in the $2 million deficit in the university budget.

Field hockey was one of the three women's sports initially cut, but was reinstated after lawyers for the students informed the school of their intentions of challenging the cuts under Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972. The sports were reinstated on the grounds of sex discrimination.

State law could turn abortion providers into murderers

A new memo released by a South Dakota State Medical Association lawyer concludes that under the changes to the state's homicide laws in 2005, abortion providers could be charged with murder should the recently passed abortion ban take effect.

South Dakota's homicide law was altered in 2005 to make the premeditated killing of "any unborn child" first-degree murder. However, the state currently has other laws that make providing abortions legal, despite this provision of the homicide law. If the abortion ban passed in March takes effect, then it is possible that abortion providers could be charged with first-degree murder under the homicide law, in addition to being charged under the anti-abortion law, according to the Kaiser Daily Women's Health Policy Report.