Alright! The Chronicle came bearing wonderful news this morning and I was more than happy to receive it!
Ms. Layla Farmer covered our World AIDS Day "Hoops for Awareness" event earlier this month. Yes, the same event that I've been posting about. You'll just have to excuse me and all of my excitement, but we have worked very hard to get our organization to where it is. Keeping in mind that we still have a very long way to go. HIV & AIDS will out live me but if I can put a dent in its backside, then I'll die happy!
At any rate, the article came out in today's edition of The Chronicle and we are truly tickled pink about it. (Ticked pink being a figure of speech, of course. The last time I resembled pinkness was at birth.) But anyway, Ms. Layla did a wonderful job, especially given such short notice AND it snowed throughout the entire event AND it was a Saturday afternoon. Fabulous!
Just a couple of our major supporters did not get a plug due to time restraints, but Domino's Pizza and Pepsi Ventures supplied all the food and drinks. (Well, except for the cakes. We bought those from Costco.) Miss Latina --Lizbeth Villa from WSSU was in the house representing! POSSE from the Forsyth County Health Department were on site to offer confidential testing. Many of our other contributors are listed on the Sponsor page of the organizations website. http://www.thepowerofteens.org/ If we've left anyone off the list, PLEASE except our apologies and inbox me the information.
To read the article you can pull it up at http://www.wschronicle.com/
We have plans for more fun and educational events in 2011, so please check back often. If you think you would like to volunteer with us, then let us know because we could certainly use your help. It is afterall designed with the community in mind and so we would love to work WITH the community as much as possible to make every event a huge success!
