City officials will partner with a community organization to host a workshop aimed at those interested in opening a small business.

The city of Las Vegas and the National Coalition of 100 Black Women will present the event on opening your own business from 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Feb. 23 at Las Vegas City Hall, 495 S. Main Street.

The event will include information from the city’s Business Licensing Department, Economic and Urban Development Department, Nevada Secretary of State, and SCORE, a nonprofit association dedicated to helping small businesses get off the ground.

For more information, email ncbwedc@gmail.com.

Some of Clark County’s finest young poets will square off Tuesday for the chance to win a scholarship.

Thirty students selected from more than 1,000 entries across Clark County will perform their finest poetry recitations in the Poetry Out Loud semi-finals. The participants represent 15 local schools, and the winners will advance to the Nevada finals in Reno on March 16 to compete for a $1,000 scholarship and $1,000 for their school’s literary programs.

Poetry Out Loud encourages kids to learn about poetry through memorization and recitation. The state winner will compete at the national level in Washington D.C. for $50,000 in scholarships and school prizes.

The event takes from 3:30-5:30 p.m. Tuesday at the West Charleston Library Theater, 6301 W. Charleston Blvd.

A monument dedicated to the civil right movement will be unveiled later this month at Palm Downtown Mortuary.

The event will take place at 11 a.m. Tuesday, Feb. 26, and will feature the Civil Air Patrol’s Color Guard, as well as performances by the Las Vegas Mass Choir.

The Garden of Dreams is intended to help educate about and mark the struggles and successes of the journey toward equal rights.

Each year, Palm Downtown Mortuary and Cemetery will reward a local student showing a “demonstrated commitment to community service and the ideals of freedom, equality and justice” with a scholarship to be used at a Nevada institution of higher learning.

The Garden of Dreams physically incorporates the struggles and successes of the civil rights movement with several unique features.