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Community Sect,on b Also Sports, Religion and Classifieds January 27, 2011 l\ 6 Community Calendar Atkins information session The Concerned Citizens for Educational Accountability and Achievement is inviting the public to an event designed to tout the many advantages of Atkins Academic and Technology Magnet High School. The event will be held on Monday, Jan. 31 at the school, 3605 Old Greensboro Rd? at 6 p.m. Principal Joe Childers will share his vision for the school . Aggie Nights The N.C. A&T State University Twin City Alumni Chapter of Winston Salem will holds its 26th Annual Aggie Nights event on Monday, Feb. 7 at 7 p.m. at the Embassy Suites, 460 Cherry St. High school stu dents. parents and college stu dents interested in transferring are invited to attend to learn about A&T's degree options, financial aid programs and meet alumni and current faculty and students. In other Aggie news, the Twin City Alumni Chapter will meet on Wednesday, Feb. 2 at 7 p.m. at the Winston Lake YMCA on Waterworks Road. Call Carolyn Kerns at 336-624 3669 if you plan to attend. Black Chamber breakfast The Winston-Salem Black Chamber of Commerce will meet on Saturday, Jan. 29 at 9:30 a.m. at the Golden Corral at 4965 University Parkway for its First Annual Founder's Day Breakfast. Charter members, past and current members are asked to attend. Contact Randon Pender for additional informa tion at 336-575-2006. Chili fundraiser Salem Kitchen and Riverwood - a nonprofit pro viding professional horse-relat ed activities for children and adults with special needs - have partnered to raise funds for the program by selling white chick en chili, as well as regular meat and vegetarian versions. Order forms are available at www.riverwoodtrc.org. Chili needs to be picked up at Salem Kitchen on Feb. 5. For more information, call 336-922-6426. East Ward meeting An East Ward Town Hall Meeting hosted by Council Member Derwin L. Montgomery will be held at United Metropolitan Missionary Baptist Church, 450 Metropolitan Dr., on Saturday, Jan. 29 at noon. Adoption Open House The Children's Home, 1001 Reynolda Rd., will host a Foster & Adoptive Parent Open House on Tuesday. Feb. 1 from 5 - 6:30 p.m. Attendees will learn about "traditional, thera peutic, respite and foster-to adopt parenting." RVSP if you can attend by calling^66-721 7699 or emailing Lcoleman @ tchome .org . East Winston Neighborhood Association meeting The East Winston Neighborhood Association will hold its first meeting of the new year on Thursday, Jan. 27 at 6 p.m. The meeting site is 1612 E. 14th St. in the UWF Learning Center. For more information, contact Marva Reid at 336-725-8830. Photos b\ Todd Luck Kimberley Park's fourth grade girls make some noise in a contest to see who can yell "Scholars make dollars" the loudest. Big Eagles Teach Little Eagles How to Soar Above: Principal Dr. Amber Baker with th* first five students ar the school to score four points by read ing. Right: NCCU Alumni Association Winston Salem President Sylvia Squire and Regional Vice President Sam Cooper. NCCU Alumni adopt Kimberley Park for MEAC reading program BY TODD LUCK THE CHRONICLE The Eagles of North Carolina Central University are teaming up with the Eagles of Kimberley Park Elementary School for this year's "Read with MEac" program. This is the third year the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference (MEAC) and Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Schools have sponsored the community reading program. The partnership was formed when the MEAC signed on to play its Annual Basketball Tournament in Winston-Salem at the Lawrence Joel Veterans Memorial Coliseum. The 2011 MEAC Men's and Women's Basketball Tournament will be held March 7-12. Read with MEac pits local fourth graders in a friendly reading competition. The school that reads the most books between Jan. 10 and Feb. 14 will be crowned the winner of the competition. The MEIAC is asking alumni associations of NCCU Alum Chris Martin pumps the students up for Read with MEac. its 13 member schools to serve as cheerleaders for young readers. With eagles as their mascots, Kimberley Park and Durham 's NCCU figured they would make a perfect pair. More than a dozen members of the local NCCU Alumni Association visited Kimberley Park's fourth graders last Thursday to encourage students to read their hearts out. Principal Dr. Amber Baker introduced her school to the NCCU alumni. Kimberley Park's student population is 100 percent minority and most of the students come from low income households, but Baker proudly boasted that her kids have defied the odds. The school has reached No Child Left Behind's Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) goal for two Sec Kagles on B2 Kimherley Park Elementary School's fourth graders are ready to take on the ME AC reading challenge. FOR SUBSCRIPTIONS CALL (336) 722-8624 - MASTERCARD, VISA AND AMERICAN EXPRESS ACCEPTED
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