South Bend, Indiana; July 16, 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.

ABE

▪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.

July 16—“Mind/Body Connection” with Katherine Dick.

▪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

Silver Hawks Take to Road: The Hawks (15-10) were idle last night. They travel to Wisconsin tonight to begin a 3-game series with the Timber Rattlers. Starting time for all three games is 8:05 p.m.

MLB All-Star Game; AL 4, NL 3 (15): Justin Morneau scored the winning run in the 15th inning on a sacrifice fly by Michael Young as the AL won for the 12th straight time.

It was the final All-Star game in New York's "House That Ruth Built" which will be replaced by a new ballpark next season.

Boston's J.D. Drew was named the MVP; Drew hit a game-tying 2-run homer in the seventh inning.

Geovany Soto and Kosuke Fudodome went hitless in two at-bats. Carlos Zambrano pitched two innings, giving up one hit and striking out one. Ryan Dempster struck out three batters in one inning of work.

MLS Scores: No games scheduled.

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

Indy Attorney to be ND AD: Notre Dame has scheduled a 12:30 p.m. news conference today to announce the hiring of Indianapolis attorney Jack Swarbrick as the school's new athletic director.

Swarbrick, 54, is a 1976 ND graduate. He was president of Indiana Sports Corporation from 1992-2001; during that time the NCAA offices were moved from Kansas City to Indy.


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