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• (Sept. 17) FW: 500th Anniversary of Protestant Reformation
• (Sept. 18) East End Youth Center Program
• (Sept. 19) Upcoming Citizenship Clinic
• (Save the Dates: Sept. 22 & 23) September Infant Mortality Conference
• (Save the Date: Sept. 23) FW: Community Anti Bullying Rally!!!
• FW: September 2017 Eblast of YMCA of Greater Dayton
• FW: Meet this year's judges and finalists of Dayton Literary Peace Prize

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From: Interfaith Forum of Greater Dayton
Subject: 500th Anniversary of Protestant Reformation

 

The Interfaith Forum of Greater Dayton will offer a presentation and discussion on the topic, "The 500th Anniversary of the Protestant Reformation: Lessons and Opportunities for Interfaith Relations" on Sunday, September 17 from 3:00 to 5:00 PM at Christ United Methodist Church, 3440 Shroyer Road, Kettering.

Presenters will be Dr. Scott Kisker, Professor of Church History at United Theological Seminary and Ms. Carolann Cannon, a frequent presenter on Christian faith topics at the University of Dayton Osher Lifelong Learning Institute.

Light refreshments will be served and the event is free and open to the public.

 

 

From: Arthur Gadson
Subject: After School Program at the East End Youth Center

Our after school program for grades 7th - 12th will start at East End Community Services, on September 18, 2017

 

 

From: Melissa Bertolo
Subject: FW: Citizenship Clinic Flyer

Please share the clinic information with anyone you know who may be eligible to naturalize. The clinic is free and provides an eligibility screening and consultation with an immigration attorney, assistance completing naturalization application, and assistance completing the fee waiver, if eligible.

 

From: Cheryl Scroggins
Subject: September Infant Mortality Conference

September is Infant Mortality Month. The health of children is an indicator of overall population health. The infant mortality rate is too high for white and black infants in Ohio and Montgomery County. This is a major health issue for our community and we are working to Save Babies!

The Dayton & Montgomery County Infant Mortality Task Force presents "Everyone Should Turn One" Infant Mortality Conference", on September 22 (8:00 am – 4:30 pm) and September 23 (9:00 am – 3:00 pm), at the Dayton Convention Center, 22 E. 5^th Street, Dayton 45402.

The conference is FREE, including breakfast and lunch will be provided.

The conference is for WOMEN and MEN.

The slate of speakers includes Senator Charleta Tavares, Dr. Arthur James, Dr. Andre Harris, Dr. Marc Belcastro, Angela Dawson, Director of the Ohio Commission on Minority Health, Johnnie "Chip" Allen on Addressing Root Causes, Calvin Williams on Fatherhood, Deborah McMullen on Dealing with Loss and Grief, and many other exceptional presenters and panelists.  There will also be many health and community resource vendors.

RTA will provide free bus rides with a special ticket.

For more information or to register, go to www.infantmortalityconference.eventbrite.com, or call Angie at (937) 224-3696.

 

 

From: David K. Greer
Subject: FW: Community Anti Bullying Rally!!!

Community Anti Bullying Rally

Free community event
Hosted by: Speak Out Dayton and Make A Sound



*If interesting in having a booth or volunteering at this event
please contact Lydia Bullock ms.lydiabullock@gmail.com

 

 

From: David K. Greer
Subject: FW: September 2017 Eblast

'Friends & Family Weekends' are back! You can bring friends and family members for FREE the weekend of September 8-10 and the weekend of September 22-24. As a bonus, if they join that weekend, we will waive their joiner's fee! Please note, ages 16 and younger must have an adult with them. Y members must accompany guests.) Go to www.JoinTheYToday.com for details. The Y. So Much More Than a Gym! Now Hiring Childcare Staff We are NOW hiring child care positions across our communities. We are looking for individuals with a conservative, careful, and cautious approach to work. Strong follow through, leading by example, and communication that is reserved, factual, formal and sincere is a must. And most importantly, someone who wants to help kids grow up healthy, happy and strong, with a focus on safety, health, social growth and academic enhancement.  For more information contact Mackenzie Resor at ymcachildcare@daytonymca.org Do you Have a Will?  Wills and Trusts Week 2017 Don't have a will? Do you have questions about how to begin or update your own estate plan? Stop by one of our presentations the week of September 25-30th.    Take steps to protect those you love with a new or updated estate plan. Through proper planning, the legacy of love and care that you leave for your family and friends can be encouraging and even inspire.   During the presentations, our local estate planning attorneys will answer questions regarding estate taxes, probate expenses, trusts, guardianship of minor children, and selection of personal representatives. They will also outline steps on how to create or update your will or trust and other information to consider. For more information click here. Diabetes Prevention Program   Transform Your Life  "I have lost 24 pounds in the first four months; it's been a long time since I have felt this good!  I have improved my health and lowered my A1c!", Program Participant.  For just a little over a dollar a day you can redefine your health and transform your life. Are you looking for a lifestyle change to improve your health and well-being in a small group environment? The YMCA's Diabetes Prevention Program could be for you.  Helping participants change their life by achieving 7% weight loss and increasing weekly physical activity. What you will get from the program: ·A trained lifestyle coach   ·Group support   ·Accountability   ·Encouragement   ·Weekly Weigh-ins To see if you qualify, call Ali Schulze at 937-223-5201 or aschulze@daytonymca.org. Classes start at the Kleptz Y Sept. 16th and the South Y Sept. 28th! Free Membership with program enrollment and participation! *Medical Mutual of Ohio (OPERs) and some United Health Care plans cover the program.   Downtown YMCA   Rock Steady Boxing at the Y Rock Steady Boxing gives people with Parkinson's Disease hope. The program enables people with Parkinson's Disease to fight their illness by providing non-contact boxing fitness classes that improve their quality of life. CLASS TIMES: Mon 9-10:30am & 5:30-7pm Tue & Thur 8:00am-9:30am Wed 9-10:30am & 5:30-7pm Kleptz YMCA  Swim a Mile at the Y Set your goal and go for it! Get yourself in amazing shape when you "Swim Miles at the YMCA" starting September 11 at the Kleptz Y. Come swim laps anytime during the day and track how far you go. It only takes 36 laps to reach a mile. 25 miles is 900 laps, 100 miles is 3,600 laps, 200 miles is 7,200 laps, 500 miles is 18,000 laps and the illustrious 1,000 miles is only 36,000 laps.    You'll reach your goal before you know it, and you can earn a free T-shirt each time you hit a new milestone of 25, 100, 200, 500 and 1,000 miles! Proudly wear your T-shirt out and about to show all that you have accomplished.  No counting seconds or minutes; take your time and swim those laps.    For more information contact Liz Miller at lmiller@daytonymca.org    Note: Check the pool schedule for open lap swim lane times. KLEPTZ Swimming Team                    We will be holding a TRY IT! swim for students who would like to join the KZY Trident Swim Team. Come and swim September 11, 12 or 13; 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. If you are interested in joining the team please attend one of the sessions. A parent meeting will be held September 5, 2017, at 6:30 pm at the Kleptz YMCA for more information on the team.     Just show up BETWEEN 5:30 AND 6:30 p.m. during the TRY IT! period on any one of the three days. Your Child will be asked to demonstrate their ability to swim four competitive strokes. The evaluation usually takes 15 minutes. A member of the coaching staff will evaluate your child and give you feedback once the evaluation is over.   You should bring goggles, towel, and cap if necessary.    For more information contact Liz Miller at lmiller@daytonymca.org.   Preble County YMCA  6th Annual John & Eleanor Hake Memorial Golf Outing Register NOW for the 6th Annual John & Eleanor Hake Memorial Golf Outing! Registration will begin at 8:00 am with a shotgun start at 9:00 am. We will have lunch at 1:30 with awards and drawings to follow at 2:30 and a wrap up of our event at 3:00 pm. Contact the Preble County YMCA to register and for more information 937-472-2010. Preble County Health Fair   Join us at the Preble County YMCA on September 21 from 10 am- 2 pm for our FREE health fair. We will have free food and prizes and giveaways. We will also have stress awareness, Diabetes awareness, Breast health and awareness, and Heart health. Join us for FREE health screenings as well.  Walgreens will be at our health fair to offer Flu Shots for $25.99 Special Thanks To Our Mission Partners The YMCA of Greater Dayton is grateful to Kettering Health Network, Dayton Freight, McGohan Brabender Senior Solutions, and Bill LeBoeuf & Bob Blommel for their willingness to support the Mission Work of the YMCA.  Being a Mission Partner of the YMCA represents an organization's belief in giving back to the community through the charitable efforts of the YMCA. Our thanks go out to these valued companies for their willingness to enrich the lives of others through partnering with the YMCA of Greater Dayton. Want to support the YMCA? The YMCA of Greater Dayton's Annual Campaign ensures that no one is denied the opportunity to share in the YMCA experience due to an inability to pay. Click the button below to learn more. Learn more about the YMCA's Annual Campaign and How to Donate

 

 

 

From: Dayton Literary Peace Prize
Subject: Meet this year's judges and finalists

Dear Readers, This is an exciting time of year for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize: the announcement of the finalists in fiction and nonfiction for 2017 and the recognition of our final judges. Each year, our first readers winnow over one hundred nominations down to the six books in each category that best fit our guidelines (see Nomination Guidelines on our website). Our final judges, award-winning writers with international reputations, working in Oxford, England; Singapore; and here in the U.S., are now considering the finalists to determine the winner and runner-up in each category. Their decisions will be announced in early October. The powerful finalists will lead the reader to a better understanding of our world. Consider adding them to your fall reading lists.   Meet our Judges   Robin Hemley   Gish Jen   Alan Taylor   Helen Thorp   Robin Hemley is the author of twelve books of nonfiction and fiction, and has won numerous awards for his writing, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, three Pushcart Prizes in both fiction and nonfiction, The Independent Press Book Award, an Editors Choice Award from The American Library Association, State Arts Council grants from Washington, North Carolina, and Illinois, The Ohioana Library Association Award, and fellowships from the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, The MacDowell Colony, and Read more...   The author of six previous books, Gish Jen has published short work in The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, and dozens of other periodicals and anthologies. Her work has appeared in The Best American Short Stories four times, including The Best American Short Stories of the Century. Nominated for a National Book Critics' Circle Award, her work was featured in a PBS American Masters' special on the American novel, and is widely taught. Read more...   Alan Taylor is an award-winning author and teacher. He taught in the history department at Boston University from 1987 to 1994. Since 1994, he has been a professor at the University of California at Davis. In 2002 he won the University of California at Davis Award for Teaching and Scholarly Achievement and the Phi Beta Kappa, Northern California Association, Teaching Excellence Award. Read more...   Helen Thorpe is an award-winning journalist who lives in Denver, Colorado. Her first book, Just Like Us: The True Story Of Four Mexican Girls Coming Of Age In America, was published in 2009. It won the Colorado Book Award and was named one of the best books of the year by the Washington Post. Read more...   Our Finalists   Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning author Annie Proulx's most ambitious and epic work ever, a dazzling feat of imagination and research ten years in the writing—a violent, bloody, magnificently dramatic novel about the forming of the new world over 200 years ago.   In City of Thorns, Rawlence interweaves the stories of nine individuals to show what life is like in Dadaab, the world's largest refugee camp, sketching the wider political forces that keep the refugees trapped. Lucid, vivid, and illuminating, City of Thorns is an urgent human story with deep international repercussions, brought to life through the people who call Dabaab home.   From a former marine and Yale Law School graduate, a powerful account of growing up in a poor Rust Belt town that offers a broader, probing look at the struggles of America's white working class.   A riveting, kaleidoscopic debut novel: a story of race, history, ancestry, love, and time that traces the descendants of two sisters torn apart in eighteenth-century Africa across three hundred years in Ghana and America.   In Perfume River, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Robert Olen Butler traces the legacy of the Vietnam War through the dramatic portrait of a single North Florida family struggling to confront the past. It is a profound and poignant book that echoes the American experience and the lives of so many affected by war.   Sly, funny, intelligent, and artfully structured, The Fortunes by Peter Ho Davies recasts American history through the lives of Chinese Americans and reimagines the multigenerational novel through the fractures of immigrant family experience.   In The Hundred-Year Walk, Dawn MacKeen alternates between her grandfather Stepan's courageous account of surviving the Armenian genocide of 1915, drawn from his long-lost journals, and her own story as she attempts to retrace his steps, setting out alone to Turkey and Syria, shadowing her resourceful, resilient grandfather across a landscape still rife with tension. Their shared story is a testament to family, to home, and to the power of the human spirit to transcend the barriers of religion, ethnicity, and even time itself.   Written with the exquisite beauty for which Kao Kalia Yang is renowned, The Song Poet recounts the life of her father Bee Yang, a Hmong refugee in Minnesota, driven from the mountains of Laos by American's Secret War. Above all, it is a love story—of a daughter for her father, a father for his children, a people for their land, their traditions, and all that they have lost.   Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, the #1 New York Times bestseller from Colson Whitehead, a magnificent tour de force chronicling a young slave's adventures as she makes a desperate bid for freedom in the antebellum South.   From award-winning author, Patricia Engel, The Veins of the Ocean follows the riveting story of one young woman's devotion to her brother on death row and the journey she takes toward a freer future. Set along the vibrant coasts of Miami, Havana, and Cartagena, this novel explores the beauty of the natural world and the solace it brings to even the most fractured lives.   Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist David Wood offers a groundbreaking examination of a pervasive yet poorly-understood experience among our soldiers: moral injury, the violation of our fundamental values of right and wrong that so often occurs in the impossible moral dilemmas of modern conflict.   A Pulitzer Prize–winning reporter's gripping account of one young man's path to murder—and a wake-up call for mental health care in America.   Our 12th annual gala event is sold out, and will take place November 5, 2018. Please click to see our upcoming 2017 public events.

 

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