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Community section B so Sports, Religion and Classifieds JUNE 2s, 2012 Community Calendar Atkins cookout The Atkins High School Class of 1970 will hold its annual cookout at the Triad Park in Kernersville (Colfax exit off 1-40 East). The event will take place at Shelter #4 on June 30 beginning at noon. For more information, contact Malcolm Lewis at 336-725 9098 or Carolyn Miles McWillis at 336-725-0220. M&F Community Day Mechanics & Farmers Bank at 770 Martin Luther King Jr. Drive will hold Community Appreciation Day on Saturday, June 30 from 9 a.m. - 1 p.m. There will be food, door prizes, health screenings, Winston Salem Fire Department public education activities, fun for the kids and more. A shred ding event, during which the public can dispose of old bills, financial records or con fidential and personal docu ments without risking expo sure to identity theft, will take place from 10 a.m. - noon. Foster care/ adoption Open House The Children's Home will be hosting an informational Open House for adults inter ested in Foster Care or Adoption on Tuesday, July 3 from 5 - 6:30 p.m. The event will be held in the cafeteria on The Children's Home campus at 1001 Reynolda Road. For more information, contact Marc Crouse at mcrouse@tchome.org or 336 721-7652. Breakfast fundraiser The Outreach Alliance for Babies will host a Flapjack Fundraiser at the Applebee's at 1990 Griffith Road on Saturday, June 30 from 7:30 - 10 a.m. Breakfast is $7 per person. For more information, call Phyllis Sample Bonds at 336-972-3228 or email out reachal I iance @ y ahoo .com. Youth summer league The Kernersville Mavericks is seeking sixth and seventh grade boys for its Summer League Basketball. For more information, visit: www.leaguelineup.com/kvill emavs or call 336-462-1538. Beach trip The Funtime Group will sponsor a trip to Myrtle Beach, S.C. on Saturday, Aug. 4. There is a fee for transportation. For more information, contact Cynthia Huntley at 336-767-0105 and leave your name and phone number. Columbia Heights/ Anderson reunion The 1962 Class of Columbia Heights/A. H. Anderson Senior High School will hold its 50th Class Reunion from July 13-July 15 at the Anderson Center and the Clarion Sundance Plaza Hotel & Spa. Contact Shirley Bates Hairston at 336-784 9424 or Marian Webb Jones at 336-767-2489 for more information. You may also send an e-mail to ch_ander sonshs62classreunio@hot mail.com. Photos by Layia Garms Ashley Brown plays "Michael Jackson: The Experience" with teens at the MLK Center. City offering nighttime summer program for teenagers Above: Teen bailers enjoy Teen Night at Polo Park. Right: Danny Harris, 15 (left) and Stefonz Carter play a Kinect boxing game as Jake Woods, 13, looks on. Teen Night participant Jasmine Williams. ???m?? ' Jake Woods plays XBOX Kinect with Ashley Brown. BY LAYLAGARMS THE CHRONICLE The City of Winston Salem kicked off Teen Night at three recreation centers on June 22. The program, which fea tures activities such as bas ketball, ping pong and a chance to play on the Xbox Kinect game system, is the city's answer to the waning a 11 e n - a a n c e theMIX, its once popular teen event, has seen in recent years. "The first year, we Scott Johnson nan to actually stop toiks from registering because attendance was so large," Denise Scott-Johnson, assis tant director of the city's Recreation and Parks Department, said of theMIX, which was launched in 2008. "We were over the 700 mark." TheMIX, which drew droves of teens to the Hanes Hosiery Community Center on Reynolds Boulevard, where it was held on a week ly basis, experienced a rapid ly shrinking attendance in subsequent years, Scott Johnson said. "The last year it just seemed not to be the same interest," remarked the 35 year city employee. City officials speculated that the spike in gas prices might have been a contribut ing factor in theMIX's fall from grace, Scott-Johnson said. They opted to host sim ilar programs at three recre ation centers - Polo Park, 14th Street and Martin Luther King Jr. - in hopes of making it more accessible to local kids. The centers were chosen as locations for Teen Night because they already offer late night programming during the week, Scott Sec Teen Night on B2 I 111 1M ii >1 'if 'I hi Hi >[iTil t illJiiliLI nM7B7laWBT^BTrl I III 1 ?. v I \J ?? h* hp U _ ? J"B? tii<M>1iB!>? 111 ? I IH'i li'H Jt ? "' ^s<i I iTllt tli^U tf nttiil^r t ^rrTT'r'^fflH^B^^winiliTiTYiVr^^BBM^^B ? ^B^? Mlllr|^li^|^BT I 1 Ilk B| Hawaii J^^HI^HBPB^H SKq bliaii^ia^b ry ? 111t' m^b ??o> yug^imshum^iL!^^ Bi ~
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