Healthy Kids Day set for Saturday
SPECIAL TO THE CHRONICLE
Central Family YMCA
will host Healthy Kids Day on
May 10, from 11 a.m. to 1
p.m. at Hanes Park to cele
brate making fitness fun.
Healthy Kids Day features
games, prizes, healthy food
options and many types of
entertainment. The YMCA
will host the free event to
raise public awareness of
healthy lifestyle choices. The
rain location will be the
Central Family YMCA, locat
ed at 775 West End Blvd.
There will be fun activities
for the entire family, such as
Major League Baseball Pitch,
Hit and Run; bounce houses;
field games; face painting;
educational activities; arts
and crafts; and competitions
for free prizes. including a
bike.
Performers will include DJ
Jake Lookabill; the Boss
Drummers; Dancers Edge; Y
Steppers, an all-maje step
team; Family Fitness demon
strations; and the Jazzy
Jumpers, the 2007 AAU
National Champion jump rope
team. The first 300 children
will also receive free T-shirts.
Exhibitors will share ideas
for safe, healthy family fun.
The Winston-Salem Police
Department will do free fin
gerprint identification cards
for children ages 5 to 15.
Cyclesafe.org will sell chil
dren's bike helmets for $5
each. Other exhibitors include
the Forsyth County Public
Library, the Winston-Salem
Fire Department, Kidfit,
Ronald McDonald House,
Best Health. Camp Hanes and
more.
Healthy Kids Day is an
annual event hosted by
YMCAs across the nation.
YMCA Healthy Kjds Day is
part of Activate America, a
YMCA public health initia
tive. By celebrating health
and wellness of young people
through a variety of fun,
physical activities, YMCA
Healthy Kids Day encourages
kids and families nationwide
to stay active and healthy.
To find out more about the
Healthy Kids Day, visit http ://
ww.ymcanwnc.org or contact
Whitney Levens at
w.levens@ymcanwnc.org.
An attendee holds his young
daughter.
Latham
from page B7
years ago. Het^son,
Alexis, is in first grade this
year.
"I like to help, I like to
share with the people, with
the parents and with the chil
dren," she said of her motiva
tion to get involved "I feel
good; I like for (Alexis) to
share with the other kids, and
he likes it.'*
Working on the Cinco de
Mayo planning committee has
been a learning experience for
Educator JoAnn Lewis.
"It's been interesting; it's ?
been fun," she "said.
"Everybody has come togeth
er as a community to help out
so the staff has been real
receptive, everybody has
helped out."
The demographics of the
school, which was once pre
dominantly white and black,
have changed dramatically in
the past five years, says
Lewis, who has tayght at the
school for more than a
decade. The school has
worked with its changing pop
ulation, and makes an effort to
embrace every culture that is
reflected in its student body,
shecsays.
Veronica Murillo's three
children attend Latham. The
Guadalajara. Mexico native
has been in the country 17
years. She first visited
Winston-Salem 12 years ago
and says she also remembers a
very different population.
"I came here 12 years ago
and it was no Spanish people
at,all - if you see one face that
was Hispanic, you were so
happy to see a face," she
recalled. "Now it's been a lot
of different than it was ... a
lot of Hispanic people, not
just Mexican, a lot of different
Hispanic people (live here)."
It was the first Cinco de
Mayo celebration for
Principal Celena Clark, who
took over leadership at the
school just this year.
"We try to celebrate all of
our different cultures that we
have here at Latham," Clark
said. "If (parents) feel wel
comed to the school, then
they're going to be more
involved in their child's edu
cation."
Embracing the varied her
itages of the student popula
tion is an important compo
nent in fostering their aca
demic growth, she contends.
"That's very important for
our students to see, that not
only are we concerned about
their academics, but we're
also concerned about making
this feel like home," stated
Clark. "We all learn from
each other; it's all about what
we bring to the table and w?
find out what we have in com
mon, not what's so different,
but what we have in com
mon."
Principal Celena Clark,, center, with her mother, Belinda
Clark, and her daughter , Carlynne Mack.
Photos by Layla Farmer
A couple from Grupo Azteca perform.
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