Park district notes

By Roy Logan, program coordinator

[September 13, 2011]  Attention all junior high students! Join us for our Xbox 360 Split/Second Tournament. Play against your friends to see who will have the best game! We've picked Saturday, Sept. 17, at 1 p.m. to start. We'll enjoy snacks, pizza from Little Caesars, sodas and plan tons of fun. Cost is $3 per player and you MUST preregister at [e-mail]. This tournament will be limited to the first 14 gamers to register, with a minimum of six. This event is sponsored by Family Video and Little Caesars.

We are planning an awesome fall kickoff. Join us on Saturday, Sept. 24, for an evening wiener roast and hayrack ride in Memorial Park. We'll play some fun lawn games, enjoy the company of others in our community, and who knows, maybe make a new friend or two. Come out to the park around 4 p.m. and enjoy the smells of a great wood fire. After the lawn games, we'll roast some dogs and go for a hayrack ride. Of course, it's not a wiener roast without s'mores! You bring a lawn chair and we'll provide the fun. Cost will be $3 for youth 10 and under and $5 for age 11 and up.

We are excited to offer a Home Schooled P.E. program. Grades K-5 will meet on Thursdays from 1 to 1:45 p.m. Junior high through high schoolers will run from 2 to 2:50 p.m. Our kickoff day will be Sept. 22. We will have six-week sessions, take a week off and then resume another six-week session. Plans are to take a Christmas/New Year's break and then end with the conventional school year. Each six-week session will be $25 for the first child and $15 for each additional sibling.

In their own words, meet our instructors.

"My name is Brenda Tate, and I am 22 years old. I graduated from Lincoln Christian University with a bachelor's degree in psychology, and while working on my undergrad, I had the opportunity of being involved with activities for kids. I have held different jobs such as camp staff, little kids' soccer coach, and I assisted Amy Brisbin in the home school P.E. program which was held at Lincoln Christian University. I also had the opportunity of doing an internship on the east side of Indianapolis, and it involved working with inner-city kids of low social-economic status. I enjoy sports and working with kids and look forward to combining the two by leading the new home school P.E. program. "

I also want to introduce you to Brenda's assistant.

"My name is Jason DeVillez and I am a junior at Lincoln Christian University. I am currently pursuing a degree in business administration after transferring in the spring of 2010 from Purdue University. Throughout my childhood, sports and exercise were always constants as I played every sport possible and even ran daily for fun. My experience working with kids has mostly been limited to working and teaching at various Vacation Bible School programs and helping with the home school P.E. program run by Amy Brisbin last year at LCU. I currently play soccer for LCU and look forward to sharing my passion for sports through this new program."

We ask that you please call the park district at 732-8770 and ask for Roy in order to preregister. Or you may email us at [e-mail]. We want to be sure we have the right amount of staff on our kickoff day!

[Text from file received from Roy Logan, Lincoln Park District]