South Bend, Indiana; July 17, 2008

Announcements

Hall of Fame Enshrinement Festival: The College Football Hall of Fame Enshrinement Festival will be July 18 and 19 with Joe Paterno, Doug Flutie, Chris Zorich, and the entire class of 2008.

Events will include the Enshrinement Grand Parade in downtown South Bend starting at 9:30 a.m. Saturday and the FanFest--featuring the Hall of Famer Flag Football Game-- Saturday from 10 a.m.-4 p.m.

Talent Show: Sign up now for a talent show for guests age 21 and under. The sign-up sheet is on the ABE bulletin board in the first floor lounge.

Silver Hawks Tickets: All ticket requests must go through the development department. In addition, the Silver Hawks are unable to accommodate requests on short notice. If a guest is interested in attending a game please contact Jacqueline Kronk.

Artistic Newsletter: Are you an artist, poet or writer? Place submissions for the Artistic Newsletter in Emily Pickerill’s box. Express your talents and ideas by participating. Start submitting as soon as possible.

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▪Positive Life Skills Class: Wednesdays, 9-11:30 a.m. PLS is a walk-in self-empowerment program for Starting Over graduates and new guests. It is open to anyone (even staff). Receive a new key chain when you have attended all eight sessions.

▪Beginning Computer Classes: start July 11. Fridays, 10-30-noon for four sessions. Sign up in ABE.

▪ABE Incentives: Students will be given a card to be initialed during each walk-in class attended. Once a student has attended 10 walk-in programs, cards can be redeemed for prizes.

▪Math Study Sessions: Mondays, 3-4 p.m., and Thursdays, 6:30-7:30 p.m., SOSH room.

▪GED Essay Writing Class: Are you working on your GED? Do you need to write an essay or refine your writing skills? Then join us for the Essay Class, Wednesdays, 3-4 p.m.

▪Submit Your Poem: If you like to write poetry in your free time, this is your chance to be a published author! Submit a poem to any staff member in the ABE room and it may be published in the next ABE Newsletter. Also, we will hopefully start another Poetry Jam in the Fall; let us know if you are interested.

▪The Write Stuff: (Note: The Write Stuff will not be meeting during the month of July but will be taking sign-ups.) Are you the only person who can read your handwriting? Come join us on Tuesday afternoons from 2-3 p.m. to learn writing that will look great on job applications, love letters, and everything else.

▪Writing: Wednesdays, 3-4 p.m., ABE. Improve your basic writing skills under the guidance of a trained instructor.

▪Creative Writing: Starts June 12. Thursdays, 6-7 p.m.; open to everyone.

▪Save Your Files: If you have any files on the hard drives in the ABE computers, you need to save them to a disk or flash drive. The hard drives are going to be cleaned out by August 1.

Herald Sports

Timber Rattlers 4, Silver Hawks 1: The Hawks (15-11) were held to three hits.
Taylor Harbin scored the only South Bend run. He led off the fourth with a double and was singled home by Sean Coughlin.

The Hawks remain a game behind Lansing; the Lugnuts lost 8-1 to Peoria. Dayton is creeping up on the leaders with a 14-12 record, two games behind Lansing.

Starting time for tonight's second game of the series is 8:05 p.m.

MLB: No games scheduled; All-Star break.

MLS Scores: No games scheduled.

WNBA Scores: Liberty 77, Sun 71; Silver Stars 97, Mercury 87.

Weather

Today High 92 Low 70 Partly Cloudy
Fri High 90 Low 70 Partly Cloudy
Sat High 86 Low 65 Chance Storms
Sun High 85 Low 65 Chance Storms
Thu High 83 Low 65 Chance Storms