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Here’s a cool thing that has been confirmed today. Anyone who knows me, knows I have a deep love and appreciation for the City League and all of its great coaches and athletes, past and present. I’ve been working on getting a League 42 donation from Darren Dreifort and Mike Pelfrey, in my opinion the two finest pitchers in City League history and both graduates of Heights High. I believe they are the two best pitchers in Wichita State baseball history, too, and that is a long list. Today, we’ve been able to finalize a financial commitment from Darren and Mike over the next five years. This makes me happy and thankful.

We're less than an hour away from Jaslyn Alexander speaking to our kids and families about the importance of passion in day to day life. It's part of our Passion Project initiative and we begin at 1 p.m. inside the Leslie Rudd Learning Center, 1212 E. 17th. There will also be a drawing for a $50 gift card to Angelo's. Please come by.

Our fourth installment of the Passion Project happens tomorrow (Saturday, Dec. 2) and we'll welcome Jaslyn Alexander to the Leslie Rudd Learning Center at 1 p.m. Jaslyn is a singer/dancer/actress and a Heights High grad. She performs regularly in Wichita and is building a remarkable career in a field she has long been passionate about. Her goal is to make the theater accessible to others in the African-American community and you'll want to hear her message. We ask that you arrive at the Rudd Center, 1212 E. 17th, no later than 12:45. Jaslyn's program will last 45 minutes to one hour and will include a question and answer period. We also have a $50 gift card to Angelo's to give away to one of our attending families. Please support the Passion Project by coming to hear our speakers.

We have a brand new page for our Bright Lights Education Enrichment Program, designed by one of our educators, Nathan Anderson. This is really exciting and I ask that all of you follow this page for updates and news from Bright Lights. Our second trimester of learning begins next Monday, Dec. 4, with Chitra Harris and Nathan at the helm. Please give Bright Lights a follow.

https://www.facebook.com/brightlights42

Bright Lights by League 42 Growing math and literacy skills for League 42 Kids

Hey, everyone. Nominate League 42.

Happy National Day of Giving! ❤️

Wichita is truly blessed with so many incredible nonprofits and we want to show our gratitude towards the tireless work they do for our community. This year Wichita SCHEELS is giving back $30,000 and we want your help deciding which organizations to donate to! Click the link below to submit a nonprofit nomination and let's start giving back to our amazing city!

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You have until December 8th to nominate a nonprofit!

NOTE: Watch out for SPAM pages. SCHEELS will NOT ask for any credit card information.

I have four tickets to the Wichita State-RIchmond game Wednesday night at Koch Arena, tip at 6:30. You must be a registered League 42 family. First to respond here, and promise to attend, gets the tickets. But make sure you can attend.

Because the roads aren’t great, we’re not doing our skills clinic today with Billy Hall. He’ll be doing skills clinics instead on Dec. 26 and 27 at the Rudd Center from 5:30 to 7 both nights. The 26th will be for League 42 players ages 5-9, while ages 10-14 are set for the 27th. We hope to see you then.

For now, tomorrow’s skills clinic with Billy Hall at the Rudd Center is still a go. We will reevaluate tomorrow morning at 9.

Here’s a really good hitting instructor talking about hitting. Please have your players watch this video.

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Reminders on this day after Thanksgiving:

* We have a skills clinic with Billy Hall and his group Sunday at the Leslie Rudd Learning Center, 1212 E. 17th. This is for League 42 registered players only. We'll welcome our 5-9 year-olds at 1 and they will be in session until 2:30. At 3, our 10-14 year-olds will take over the field until 4. This is a great opportunity for our players.

* Our next Passion Project speaker is singer/actress Jaslyn Alexander and she will be with us at the Rudd Center at 1 p.m. on Saturday, Dec. 2, to talk about her passion and how it has played a big part in her life and success. You won't want to miss this one, or really any of our speakers. They have all been great and Jaslyn has a lot to talk about.

Please do your best to support League 42 by attending our events. Thanks to all of you.

Happy Thanksgiving to everyone in League 42. We’re thankful for all of you, especially the kids who help make this endeavor so enjoyable and rewarding. We are all about the kids. Kids, kids, kids. Thank you, kids.

Yesterday, Megan Miller, from Rawlings/Easton, dropped off 20 new bats at the Rudd Learning Center. This is the third year in which Megan and Rawlings have helped us and we’re so thankful. And today, the day before Thanksgiving, Dan Shepler from Baseball Savings brought us four new bats and 15 new gloves. So thoughtful and so great. We always are in need of baseball equipment so please get with me if you would like to donate. Or just stop by 1212 E. 17th from 10-4 Monday through Thursday. We appreciate our supporters and our community.

Today, we're unveiling two new logos for two of our exciting programs, Bright Lights and the Passion Project. Thanks to Tyler Frisbee, Toni Gaston and Bill Gardner at Gardner Design for coming up with these great concepts. They fit exactly what we were hoping to convey with these initiatives.

A League 42 update on a rainy Monday.

* We're taking a two-week break from our Bright Lights Education Enrichment Program and will begin our winter session on Monday, Dec. 4. We still have a spot or two available for math enhancement and we will be running this program with a slight tweak. Instead of two sessions (4:15-5:15 for math, 5:15-6:15 for literacy), we will be condensing into one session from 4:30 until 5:45. Chitra Harris and Nathan Anderson are outstanding educators and have made differences in the kids they have worked with so far. So have our tutors, including a strong group of Rudd Foundation scholars. We're excited about Bright Lights and will unveil a page all its own in the near future.

* Our baseball rosters are nearly complete and will be out to our coaches no later than Dec. 10. After that, coaches will contact families to confirm participation and to move forward with teams. We have five divisions: Lancer, nine teams; Bruin, 10 teams; Monarch, 10 teams; Dodger, 10 teams; Veteran, seven teams. That's an all-time high of 46 teams and nearly 600 players. Baseball continues to be our foundation, but we have been able to build programs on that foundation, including Bright Lights, The Passion Project, Bats and Badges and Full Count, a financial literacy program we'll be unveiling soon.

* We have a Billy Hall skills clinic this Sunday, Nov. 26. Our youngest kids, ages 5-9, will participate from 1 p.m. until 2:30, followed by our 10-14 year-olds from 3 until 4:30. There is no cost. We will have some of Billy's helpers here, too, along with two players from the Wichita State baseball team, outfielder Jaden Gustafson, from Maize; and left-handed pitcher Michael Mulhollon, a Wisconsin native. You'll be entering through our north doors for this clinic and please have your kids in baseball gear with their equpiment.

Our next Passion Project speaker, coming up on Saturday, Dec. 2 at 1 p.m., inside the Rudd Learning Center, is actress and singer Jaslyn Alexander and we're excited about that.

Jaslyn is 29 and is a native of Wichita and a graduate of Heights High. She’s been a professional performer for the last 13 years. During her career she has been featured in multiple live theatres including Mosley Street Melodrama, the Crown Arts Collaborative, Wichita Children’s Theatre, Roxy’s Downtown and Music Theatre of Wichita. In fact, some of her favorite roles have been as Dorothy Gale in The Wiz (Roxy’s Downtown), Effie White in Dreamgirls (Crown Arts Collaborative) and Sophia in The Color Purple (Roxy’s Downtown).

Jaslyn is on a mission to help bring more diversity on stage in the music theatre community by encouraging those in her community to advocate for themselves as performers, as well as inspiring others to be performers themselves.

Her message will inspire because Jaslyn has passion. We look forward to hearing her presentation in 13 days. And our League 42 kids who attend will be entered into a drawing for a $50 gift card to Angelo's

Our speaker today for the Passion Project was Angelica Beccera, an architect with GLMV in Wichita. And she was outstanding. Her message was heartfelt and sincere and filled with passion. Our kids and parents were enthralled with everything she said. She talked about overcoming the odds and reaching for her dreams and making it all come true. It was an inspirational message and that's what the Passion Project is all about. Inspiring. I really hope our families will latch on to this program and support it in the coming months and years. We're working really hard to get impressive people in front of our kids to talk to them about passion. Our next speaker on Dec. 2 is Jaslyn Alexander, and you can hear her message at 1 p.m. at the Leslie Rudd Learning Center. Jaslyn is passionate about the theater and regularly performs here and in many other places. Please put this on your calendar and attend. And thanks again to Angelica for delivering a powerful message.

A reminder to please bring your kids to the Leslie Rudd Learning Center tomorrow at 1 p.m. to hear our Passion Project speaker, Angelica Becerra, an architect with GLMV here in Wichita. I'm really looking forward to hearing her talk about passion and her life and career. Plus, we'll have a drawing in which one of our families will win a $50 gift certificate to Angelo's. I look forward to a good crowd tomorrow afternoon.

Here is a message from Chitra Harris, our education director, regarding the second trimester of our Bright Lights Education Enrichment Program at the Leslie Rudd Learning Center. We are finishing our first trimester today and we heartily thank the volunteer tutors, especially the Rudd Foundation Rudd Scholars, who give their time to help kids learn. We can't wait for our second session, which begins Dec. 4. Here is Chitra's message.

Dear Parent/Guardian

As the Bright Lights Enrichment program evolves to better serve our students, we have changed the time that they will spend at the Leslie Rudd Learning Center.

Both Math & Literacy tutoring in the Winter session, will run concurrently from 4:30 pm to 5:45 pm for the Mon/Wed group & the Tue/Thu group.

The first 15 minutes will be for snacks & warm-up activities, so if you child is 15 minutes late, he/she will go straight to the lessons planned for their enrichment.

We are full for the literacy sessions in our second trimester, but do have openings for 5th, 6th, 7th and 8th graders in math literacy. If interested, please reach out to Chitra at [email protected]. These sessions are highly beneficial to those who enroll.

If you are interested in indoor workouts with our instructors through Dec. 21, please enroll. We do have limited spots, but there are openings. I'm providing the link. We have Tuesday and Thursday available for indoor baseball.

Skills Camp – L42 Participants – League 42 Skills Camp – L42 Participants FREE LEAGUE 42 BASEBALL SKILLS CAMP: (L42 ONLY) Each Tuesday and Thursday session will cover a wide variety of baseball skills: throwing, catching, hitting, pitching, fly balls, ground balls, and base running. Spots are limited, and you must register. Make sure you r...

We are having a coaches meeting this Saturday at 2:30 at the Rudd Center, 1212 E. 17th. If you are interested in helping coach a team, please attend. We will be going over a lot of things at this meeting, which should last around one hour. I would love to see a bunch of you there. We are especially in need of assistant coaches for some of our 46 teams in five age groups. We still need 1-2 head coaches for our T-Ball Lancer Division. Coaches are gold and you would get to work with the best kids in baseball, League 42 kids.

Earlier today, League 42 was presented with a check for $9,300 after another successful season for our Home Runs for Charity partnership with the Wichita Wind Surge and Fidelity Bank. For each home run hit by the Wind Surge at Riverfront Stadium during the 2023 season, the team and the bank made a combined donation of $100 to League 42. We are beyond appreciative for this recognition and can't wait for baseball to start again and for home runs to fly out of Riverfront. For the Wind Surge, of course. Not the other guys. No one benefits from that.

Our speaker this Saturday for the Passion Project is Angelica Becerra, an architect with GLMV here in Wichita. I'm really looking forward to hearing her talk about passion and her life and career. Here is some of her story:

Born in Tijuana, Mexico, in a shed like house. My father was a bus driver, and my mom a housewife. My entire childhood, because of lack and my desire for the most popular toys, I created my own toys and became creative and arristic. My parents immigrated to the United States after my father lost his bus and
could not find employment, first my father and later my mother. Once they settled, with a steady employment and a place to live, they returned and brought us with them. During this time there was a time I found myself needing to seek my first place of work, as a salesperson at a Mexican Curio store, I was too young to work, so my employers asked me to say I was related to them. During these few months, I escaped being kidnapped for sexual prostitution. My parents brought us with them. In Junior High I got
to take a graphic design class that opened up the notion of becoming an architect. I went to San Bernardino High School, in California. It was there where my desire to become a career professional developed, with the encouragement of the teachers at my school. My parents had submitted paperwork to become
legal in the United States early on, but unfortunately hired the wrong person to help them and the
wrong paperwork was submitted, pushing us back 22 years to receive a permanent residency. Because of
this I was not able to receive any financial assistance and therefore could not receive an education past high school. I attended adult education classes, where I took, photography, printing, typing, and others. My first real job was at a plastic bottle manufacturer, I then obtained work at a welding products manufacturer in line production, but then promoted to shipping and receiving. But my desire for having an education had not died, and I now was able to pay for one or two classes out of my own salary. I enrolled at Chaffey Community College, but because they did not have an architectural program, I was studying graphic design. I was about 25 years old when I was diagnosed with Juvenile rheumatoid arthritis, and I had suddenly become really handicapped. School came to a halt, I tried returning later, but I had not gotten much better and had to quit again. I was hired at Fleetwood Homes as a sales receptionist, and this helped because not having heavy physical work helped me lessen the pain. I had given up on my dream, but I had loved learning, so I joined the International School of Ministry (bible school) as I had the desire to become closer to God. I was then hired to be an office manager at a small construction company. Shortly after, I became salesperson for a mobile home company. But three years later, the market crashed
and I took a job as a VP Assistant at a mobile home park management company. It was while I worked there that I remembered that my heart was not in what I was doing for a living. I now had a US permanent residency and decided to return to school, and I joined New School of Architecture+Design in San Diego. I asked my employer to allow me to live in one of their properties in San Diego, and offered to sell mobile homes for them while I went to school. I graduated from Newschool of Architecture+Design in 2019 and began looking for employment in architecture. GLMV’s hiring representative saw my resume and portfolio online and sent me an offer for employment, which I happily accepted. Getting to where I am now has been a ride, but I believe that I am where I need to be.

We're excited to announce that the one and only Billy Hall will lead a baseball skills clinic for League 42 registered players on Sunday, Nov. 26, at the Rudd Center, 1212 E. 17th. We'll have two age groups: 5-9 from 1 until 2:30 and 10-14 from 3 until 4:30. Added bonus: There will be a group of Wichita State Baseball players here, too. Billy, of course, is a former Shocker standout second baseman and one of the finest instructors in our fair city. There is no cost for the clinic but please bring your baseball gear and be ready to learn.

Interested in coaching in League 42? We have needs for two head T-Ball coaches in our Lancer (5-6) division. And we are always in need of assistant coaches at all levels. Please get back to me if you or someone you know is interested.

Also, we have our next three guest speakers lined up for The Passion Project and we're excited about all of them. We'll be giving away a $50 gift card to Angelo's in a drawing at all three sessions, too. The Passion Project happens every other Saturday at 1 p.m. inside the Leslie Rudd Learning Center, 1212 E. 17th. We strongly encourage attendance as our first two speakers have been outstanding, informative and interesting.

Saturday, Nov. 18 - Angelica Becerra, associate architect, GLMV Architecture
Saturday, Dec. 2 - Jaslyn Alexander, Wichita actress, singer, dancer
Saturday, Dec.16 - Ella Baccus, Wichita artist

We have four tickets from a donor for Thursday night's Wichita State men's basketball game against Western Kentucky. It tips at 6:30 p.m. at Koch Arena. First to respond here gets the tickets and you MUST use them. Thanks. As with all of these offers, we reserve for League 42 families.

League 42 will also be renting our indoor baseball facility to outside individuals, teams and organizations during the fall/winter months. I'm including a link here and please follow it for instructions on how to reserve one of our spots.

Facility Rental – Non L42 Participants – League 42 Facility Rental – Non L42 Participants Requests for camps and rentals are only viewed during the hours of 10 AM to 4 PM, Monday-Thursday. You will receive an email with further instructions, once your request is approved or denied. Rentals, if approved, require a non-refundable payment within 24 h...

As promised, we're providing a link for our League 42 families to register for our indoor baseball training area during these less-than-warm winter months. There is no charge and we're doing this online. Jaclyn Evans, our administrative assistant, will be keeping track of this. We'll have instructors at the facility.

Please read the instructors. This is for our players in the Monarch (9-10), Dodger (11-12) and Veteran (13-14) age groups only. We're going to start this Thursday evening, Nov. 9.

We look forward to getting our kids in our facility to work on their baseball skills.

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See you today at 1 p.m. to listen to lifelong aviator Charles Lloyd speak about his lifelong passion for airplanes. The simple act of passion can ignite so much for kids. This is installment two of The Passion Project at it happens at the Rudd Learning Center, 1212 E. 17th North. Please attend.

On Monday, we'll have an exciting announcement on making our indoor baseball facility available to League 42 players a couple of evenings each week. We'll also be renting out our indoor baseball facility to outside organizations, teams and individuals. Expect news on this Monday, as well as a link for how to register. Mike Gehrer and Chad Vulgamore will be leading this effort, along with some area college players. There will be no charge for League 42 players.

Also, please remember to get your kids to the Leslie Rudd Learning Center tomorrow (Saturday) at 1 to hear aviator Charles Lloyd talk about his childhood passion, airplanes, and how he turned that into a fun and exciting career. This is part of our Passion Project series in which we bring in speakers every other week to talk to our players about passion and its importance in their development and life. Please arrive by 12:45 for this and expect to be here no longer than 2 p.m. We are excited about this initiative and want our families to get behind it.

Charles Lloyd, a lifetime aviator who developed a love and passion for airplanes as a child, is our guest speaker Saturday at 1 for our second installment of The Passion Project at the Rudd Center, 1212 E. 17th. Please bring your kids ages 8 and older. This is a great program designed to inspire kids and make them think about passion and the role it can play in their lives. Charles is really excited about this opportunity and I want to make sure we have a good crowd. It’ll last no more than one hour and will benefit your child. Promise.

Our second Passion Project speaker, Charles Lloyd, is a long-time and retired aviator. He developed a passion for flying at an early age and turned it into an exciting career with lots of adventures. He'll be talking about his life and times this Saturday at 1 p.m. at the Leslie Rudd Learning Center. The session should last 45 minutes to one hour and we encourage you to have your kids attend. We are bringing in a different speaker every other week and we're excited about this program and think it will be a long-term benefit to those who engage. Listening to successful people talk about how they got to where they are almost always centers around passion. That's certainly the case with Charles.

Upcoming speakers include:

Nov. 18 - Open
Dec. 2 - Jaslyn Alexander, Wichita actress, singer, dancer, performer.
Dec. 16 - Ella Baccus, Wichita artist who has done so many exciting projects in town, including being a part of the Jackie Robinson Pavillion at McAdams Park.

Last night at the Rudd Center, we held our second Bats and Badges event with the Wichita Metro Crime Commission. It was a Trunk or Treat Spectacular with lots of games, candy, food and fun. We are so happy to have this partnership with area law enforcement and first responders and our kids are literally eating this up. We had a bunch of them here last night, along with many members of the Wichita Police Department (including the Chief), Sedgwick County Sheriff and Wichita Fire Department. Thanks to Sharon Van Horn and the Wichita Metro Crime Commission, Inc. for their hard work and dedication to this project that is designed to enhance relationships between law enforcement and kids. And our volunteers were great, too. A special thanks to Jaclyn Evans, Chitra Harris and Nathan Anderson for their work and dedication to making this the best event it could be. We'll be doing more of this kind of stuff in the future, so stay tuned.

Thanks to Paul Suellentrop from WSU Strategic Communications for doing this story about the collaboration with the Rudd Scholars on our Bright Lights Education Enrichment Program.

“It’s so beautiful to see how Rudd Scholars influence the little kids. And I’ve seen the Rudd Scholars being influenced by the little kids.”

⚾ 📚 Wichita State’s Rudd Scholars pitch in to help League 42 with academic enrichment through a program that supplements what students are doing in local schools. wsu.news/WSURudd Rudd Foundation

So you're (probably) not going to hear from me for a few days. I'll be in Kansas City until likely Friday for a medical procedure. I won't have a laptop but I will have a phone. Thus the word "probably." In the meantime, have a great week and thanks for your support of everything we do in League 42. And we do a lot more than we used to, huh? Bright Lights, The Passion Project, Bats and Badges, Full Count (to come). Have a great week and enjoy the rain and cooler temps.

Our next Passion Project speaker is Charles Lloyd, a lifelong aviator. He will be at the Leslie Rudd Learning Center at 1 p.m. on Saturday, Nov. 4, to talk to our players and families about his passion, flying airplanes. He's done it for many decades. Here's more about Charles.

"My passion for aviation stared with a fascination for drawing airplanes in the first grade at Elyton School in Birmingham, Alabama. Sitting on the back row in Ms. Galdon’s Homeroom, I would cup one hand in front of my drawing so she could not see what I was doing. Fat chance, she knew exactly what I was doing.

"Here is the road to the passion becoming a reality."

Private Pilot License 1955

Auburn University BS Mechanical Engineering 1957

Marine Officer 1957-1960 (My dream of flying in the Marines came to a screeching halt failing the flight physical. Left-eye astigmatism)

University of Alabama 1962, MS Mechanical Engineering

Process Engineer, DuPont, five years

Large Scale Computer Sales Representative, IBM, 12 years

Cessna Aircraft

Citation Sales Rep
Director Citation Used Aircraft
Assistant to CFO to coordinate International Finance

Raytheon Aircraft
Director Used Aircraft – Turbine & Pistons Aircraft
Airline Transport Pilot with Multiple Citation ratings
Certified Flight Instructor Single and Multiengine Airplane and Instrument


Captain NetJets Aviation, seven years)
Ortega Aviation Frasca Simulator Instruction

Charles turned that early fascination with airplanes into a career in aviation. And he'll be here to speak more about that in less than two weeks. We hope you'll be here, too.

It's a good time to be a part of League 42. We have started some programming that involves education, passion, instilling relationships between first responders and kids and we'll soon introduce a financial literacy opportunity. Our Bright Lights Education Enrichment Program is going great with two remarkable educators, Chitra Harris and Nathan Anderson. This weekend, we welcomed our first speaker for The Passion Project, Wichita State women's tennis coach Colin Foster, and will have another session on Nov. 4. Our Trunk or Treat Halloween activity, part of our Bats and Badges campaign in conjunction with the Wichita Metro Crime Commission, is coming up next Monday, the 30th, from 5:30-7 at the Leslie Rudd Learning Center, 1212 E. 17th. We ask that you support our programming as you support our baseball league. We're one big, happy family here and our objective, our total objective, is to help kids. We do appreciate your support.

The Passion Project is an exciting new program for League 42 and today we welcomed our very first speaker, Wichita State women's tennis coach Colin Foster. Colin talked to around 35 kids, parents, and grandparents about the importance of passion in his life, from his time as a high schooler in a Chicago suburb to his career as a college tennis player at Purdue and for the past 14 years as the head women's coach at Wichita State. Colin was great as he told stories and took a lot of questions from our players and adults. I was proud of our folks as they asked some great questions and everyone, I believe, enjoyed the interaction.

Our next Passion Project speaker will be retired aviator Charles Lloyd, who will share his personal stories related to his passion for flying, which was born shortly after he was born, really. He will tell our folks about how the thought of flying airplanes was on his mind constantly at a very young age and how that interest and passion became a career.

Charles will speak to our group on Saturday, Nov. 4, at 1 p.m., also at the Leslie Rudd Learning Center.

Thanks again to Colin Foster, who will forever be our first Passion Project speaker.

I'm excited about The Passion Project, a new League 42 initiative meant to inspire our kids. Our first speaker is Wichita State women's tennis coach Colin Foster, who will be at the Leslie Rudd Learning Center tomorrow (Saturday) at 1 p.m. to talk to kids and parents about passion. Simple, straightforward, and, we hope, inspiring. Colin will speak and converse with our players for one hour. I strongly urge you to attend. We'll be doing this every two weeks and I'm having a blast working on our speaker's list. If you have ideas or recommendations, get with me. And I hope to see a good number of our folks tomorrow at the Rudd Center.

As you know, League 42 has become more than baseball. But let me assure you that baseball will continue to be the center of our universe and its popularity with our families continues to grow as we are already full (except for T-Ball, we have a handful of openings in our 5-6 division).

But our initiatives are many now that we have a building of our own, and a grand building at that. The Leslie Rudd Learning Center at 1212 E. 17th is a hub of activities for us.

* Saturday, Oct. 21 - Our first Passion Project speaker, Wichita State women's tennis coach Colin Foster, will address our players and families at 1 p.m. We suggest arriving by 12:45. Colin will talk specifically about passion and its importance to our well-being as kids and adults.

* Monday, Oct. 30 - We're having a Trunk or Treat activity at the Rudd Center from 5:30 until 7. There will be no classes that day. This event is in conjunction with the Wichita Metro Crime Commission and many area law enforcement and first-responder groups. We are looking for parent volunteers to assist with this event. Please contact Jaclyn at [email protected] to volunteer.

* And our Bright Lights Education Enrichment Program continues to flourish under the leadership of Chitra Harris and Nathan Anderson. Our second trimester, for which we're currently taking applications, begins on Dec. 4. Here is more information. Please contact Jaclyn, Chitra ([email protected]) or Nathan ([email protected]) if you would like to know more.

Enrollment forms for the Bright Lights Winter Sessions at League 42 (December 4 – February 22) need to be filled out and returned to the Rudd Learning center by Thursday November 9th, If you have not turned one in already. You will then be informed via email if your student is in the session or on a waiting list by Thursday November 16th. Spots are filling up fast so please choose ONE of the appropriate choices being offered.

_____Math Monday & Wednesday

(4:15-5:15 grades 5- 8 only)

_____Math Tuesday & Thursday

(4:15-5:15 grades 5- 8 only)

_____Literacy Monday & Wednesday

(5:15-6:15 grades K- 6 only)

_____ Literacy Tuesday & Thursday

(5:15-6:15 grades K- 6 only