Community
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Community
Calendar
Columbus Day golf event
The Columbus Day Golf
Classic is on Monday, Oct. 13
at Winston Lake Golf Course.
The event will benefit the
American Postal Workers
Union's Support Our Troops
Program.
Registration starts at 9 a.m.
with a 10 am. tee off. The
event is captain's choice, 4
man teams. The cost is $35 per
person for pre-registration and
$70 the day of tournament.
Mulligans ace $5 with a maxi
mum two per person. It is
$100 to sponsor a hole-recog
nition sign. The first-place
prizes are Callaway Mini
Looper Golf Bags. Contact
Lisa at 336-682-9107 to regis
ter or for more information.
AARP meeting
The Forsyth AARP
October Chapter will have its
next meeting on Tuesday, Oct.
14 from 9 - 10:30 ajn. at
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University in the Anderson
Conference Center Main
Dining Room. The program's
title is, "Scams, Fraud and
Identity Theft," and will be
presented by the Better
Business Bureau's David
Darlrymple.
All AARP Chapter
Programs are open to the pub
lic. Persons age 50 and older
are invited to join and become
active with the local chapter.
For additional information,
contact Nancy Hall at 336
765-2215 or nancap
py@msn.com.
NAACP to interview those
who want offices
The Winston
Salem/Forsyth County Branch
NAACP will hold interviews
with those interested in run
ning for an executive office or
as a member of the Executive
Committee. The interviews
will be held from 6 - 9 p.m. on
Wednesday, Oct. 15 at the
Branch Office, 4130 Oak
Ridge Dr. Candidates must be
a NAACP member in good
standing as of April 1 , 2008.
For more information, call
Coe Fields at 336-723-0547.
Mt. Tabor Class of '88
reunion
The Mount Tabor High
School Class of 1988 will hold
its 20th reunion Saturday, Nov.
29 from 7-11 p.m. at the
Winston-Salem Prime in the
Downtown Marriott Hotel.
There will be a cash bar,
hor d'oeuvres, a DJ and cock
tail attire is required. The
event is $40 per person, before
Oct. 31; $50 before Nov. 15
and $60 per person cash at the
door. For questions, contact
tabor88reunion@yahoo.com;
Mail payment to MTH
Reunion, 1959 N. Peacehaven
Road, Box 270, Winston
Salem, NC, 27106.
There will be a reunion
family event on Saturday, Nov.
29 from 10 ajn. - noon at the
Children's Museum, 390 S.
Liberty St.
Trip to Bayou Classic
A trip is being planned to
New Orleans for the Bayou
Classic from Nov. 27 - 30.
The game will be between
Southern University and
Grambling State. For further
information, call Robbie Allen
at 336-788-9649, Clevell
Roseboro at 336 -671-1259 or
Charlene Roseboro at 777
8150.
Ben Bendor leads students in a lively presentation.
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Math and fun don't usu
ally go hand in hand.
Arithmetickles is chang
ing that by visiting schools
across the country. The num
bers-based, high energy per
formance that gets students
to participate in various math
games was in town last week
visiting three elementary
schools. Last Friday's show
at Easton Elementary had
students racing to the stage
to take part in the fun as their
classmates cheered them on.
Ben Bendor, who created
the show with his wife,
Sandra, more than 11 years
ago, was part ringleader, part
Bob Barker as he led the kids
in Arithmetickles. On the
stage, Bendor lets students
use made up names and often
spins outrageous stories
using them as characters.
Along the way he asks them
questions that require some
simple math - such as how
much an item costs if it is on
a half-off shelf. There was a
quiz show at the end where
kids answered math ques
tions to claim squares on a
giant tic-tac-toe board. The
audience hummed the
"Jeopardy!" theme song as
players contemplated the
answers.
Bendor is one of four
"hosts" that do
Arithmetickles shows across
the country. He says no mat
ter how good a host is, it is
not he or she that makes the
show exciting for students.
The kids, he says, like seeing
their classmates on stage and
in action.
"Kids ... admire it and the
reason is not me or the other
hosts. I mean we are nice,
Easton teachers get involved in the action.
but they see their friends and
their teachers on stage," said
Bendor, who says the show
evolved from games he and
his wife played with their
own kids.
For their part, teachers
were called to the stage to
perform mock television
shows to demonstrate every
day uses of math. While the
students gave the show high
marks for its excitement and
candor, teachers were
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A student con
templates her
answer as one of
her classmates
gets anxious to
answer the ques
tion himself.
Kids voice their support for their classmates from the audience.
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