Community
section B so Sports, Religion, Obituaries and C lassifieds October 1 , 2009
Community
Calendar
Seniors Fall Festival
The 4th Annual ^Seniors
Fall Fun Festival for ages 50
and up will be held on Oct. 12
from 10 a.m. - 1 :30 p.m. at the
14th Street Recreation Center,
2020 N.E. 14th St. There will
be fun, fellowship, health
screenings and prizes. The
admission fee of $3 includes a
light meal. Call 336-727-2X91
for more information.
Author to visit
Author Jennifer Bean
Bower will visit the Lewisville
Library, 6490 Shallowford
Rd.. on Oct. 8 at 4 p.m. The
Friends of the Lewisville
Library is hosting the writer,
who penned "Winston-Salem,
Tales of Murder. Mystery and
Mayhem." Bower was award
ed the Willie Parker Peace
History Book Award in 2008.
The event is free and open to
the public. For more informa
tion, call 336-703-2940.
Big Four Dance tickets
Tickets to this year's Big
Four Dance will be on sale
from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the
parking lot of the Winston
Mutual Building, 1225 E. 5th
St.. oh the next two Saturdays
(Oct. 3 and Oct. 10). Tickets
are $25 each or $250 for a
table. EnVision and Signature
Sound?, will provide entertain
ment. Manard "Busta" Brown
will serve as emcee. The Big
Four Dance is Oct. 24 at 9 p.m.
at the Benton Convention
Center.
To obtain tickets at other
times, call Judy Brown at 336
767-1487 or Linda Davis at
336-767-2714.
Diabetes support groups
Novant Health hosts regu
lar support groups for people
with Type I and Type <2
Diabetes. The groups are held
at 6 p.m. at 1900 S. Hawthorne
Road. Suite 504. and are free
and open to the public. Type I
group meetings are on
Tuesday, Oct. 20; and
Thursday, Dec. 17. Type 2
group meetings are Sept. 3 and
Nov. 19. There are guest
speakers for each meeting.
Substance abuse help
If you or a family member
is struggling with substance
abuse HELP is a phone call
away. The Twin City Area
Narcotics Anonymous
Helpline can be reached at
800-365-1035 or online at
www.tcana.org. For meeting
schedules and additional infor
mation for this 12-step
Recovery Program, please call
the number or visit the Web
site.
Disability awareness fair
Monarch-Forsy th
Industrial Systems. 650 North
Highland Ave., will host a dis
ability and health awareness
fair on Friday, Oct. 2 from 9:30
a.m. to 2:30 p.m. The event
will be held at in conjunction
with National Disability
Employment Awareness
Month. The fair is designed to
inform the public about local
agencies that provide physical
and mental health services as
well as to educate about the
vital contributions people with
disabilities make.
For more information, call
1-800-230-7525 or go online
at www.MonarchNC.org.
Antonio Jons Jr. and J ana Miller sit by Chris Paul as he reads.
Photos by Todd Luck
Chris Paul unveils his new book.
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Senior Services' Richard GottLieb accepts a contribution.
From Whence He Came
NBA star returns home to give back
BY TODD LUCK
I HI CHRONICI K
Chris Paul kicked off his
annual weekend-long series
of fundraising and commu
nity service events last
Friday at the Ken Carlson
Salvation Army Boys &
Girls Club on Reynolds Park
Road.
T^ie New Orleans
Hornets star point guard
returns home each summer
to give back to his home
town and to host events that
raise money for his CP3
Foundation, which supports
the efforts of local nonprof
its.
"Today is always a spe
cial day because we get an
opportunity to give back to
the community, to give to
kids, to different families
who need it; it's always a
great day," Paul said on the
first day of the jam-packed
weekend, which also includ
ed a celebrity bowling tour
nament, a youth basketball
clinic and a gala that paid
tribute to his former Wake
Forest University coach, the
late Skip Prosser.
The first order of busi
ness at the Boys & Girls
Club for Paul was presenting
checks, on behalf of the
foundation, to the Special
Olympics of North Carolina,
the Make a Wish Foundation
of Central and Western
North Carolina and Senior
Services' Meals on Wheels
program.
Paul then turned his
attention to the kids at the
club. He read his recently
released children's book,
"Long Shot: Never Too
Small to Dream Big," to a
group of students from local
elementary schools and a
daycare. The book recounts
how a young Chris Paul tried
out for a basketball team
even though everyone said
he was too short to play
hoops. Even today, as a six
foot-tall adult, Paul is still
relatively short for a pro bas
ketball player. Paul said it
took more than two years to
complete the book.
"It was hard work ...
much harder than basketball
will ever be," he said.
The throngs of children,
seated on the floor around
the NBA star, were trans
fixed as Paul read to them.
They were full of questions
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Chris Paul and West Forsyth students put together HeroBoxes.