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SPECIAL APPEAL

Mentors Needed for Wynnton’s Arts Academy

One Columbus has teamed up with Big Brothers/Big Sisters to provide mentors for the Arts Academy at Wynnton Elementary School. There are nearly 400 youngsters PreK through 5^th grade who could use positive adult contacts and one-on-one support in several settings at the school. You may even get to eat lunch with them! 

Positive mentoring experiences have proven to be an effective tool to help young people overcome the risk factors that can lead to problems such as educational failure, dropping out of school and involvement in delinquent activities.

To give at least an hour a week can pay enormous dividends to the kids, to the school, the families involved and to the mentors themselves.

Send your name and how best to contact you to onecolumbus4@msn.com or call me.   After a brief orientation, you will be matched with a child and you are on your way.    

 

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 11

The Race Relations Breakfast – UPTOWN will be held at Ruth Ann’s next Wednesday at 7:30 AM The UPTOWN event is held the second and fourth Wednesday of each month.

If you did not receive a separate notice about this and wish to be notified, please email us or call.

 

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 17

Dialogue  Group beginning date changed

We asked you to register on our website for the Fall Dialogue Group with the expectation of starting our 5-series meetings on Tuesday, October 10. We have had to move our starting date one week later to Tuesday, October 17, 2006. The location will be the Trinity Episcopal Church down town. To those of you who have received confirmation of your participation, please note the date change.

There is still space in this Dialogue Group however, so register on the website or call me or Berrien Zettler at 706-324-6363.

 

THE 1^ST ANNUAL U.S.ARMED FORCES DAY OF DIVERSITY 2-MILE RUN/WALK sponsored by Frank Goodman’s Columbus Forward will be held Saturday, October 7 8:30 AM to 10:30 AM. at Cooper Creek Park.