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Light of Chance, Inc.
May 16, 2012
Light of Chance, Inc. kicks off an online fundraising campaign today for its new after-school arts program, Breathe, through the popular crowd-sourcing platform, Indiegogo.
Breathe seeks to cultivate creativity while providing a positive environment for youth to express themselves, engage in important issues and experience personal and social transformation through the arts. Students will engage in [...]
Light of Chance, Inc.
May 9, 2012
Jontae Minor, a fifth-grade student at Pride Elementary, has gained songwriting and singing skills through class instructors L’Mer Owens and Dewayne GoLightly.
His concentration never wandered nor did his voice crack while in the recording booth performing a solo part for a song the class wrote, entitled “Too Young.”
Light of Chance, Inc.
May 2, 2012
Breathe, Light of Chance’s community-based youth development program, will host its first showcase at 6 p.m. Monday, May 14th at the Rosenwald-Smith Multi-Cultural Center in Madisonville.
Light of Chance, Inc.
April 6, 2012
With Get Set Go, children participate in both traditional and nontraditional physical exercises such as zumba, aerobics, kicking, dance and yoga. They also learn new and healthier ways to eat and prepare food. Logan would like to see Get Set Go change lives and dispel myths that healthy foods cannot also be tasty.
“We listen to what the kids want,” Logan says. “We try not to make it like school. We make it real interactive.”
“I’m learning with the kids,” he continues. “We’re learning and growing together.”
Light of Chance, Inc.
February 12, 2012
Gracie Rice is worried about her grandson.
It’s not as safe to let children run around with their friends as it used to be, the Bowling Green woman said, so her grandson doesn’t get the type of exercise that children got years ago.
“He stays in the house a lot. It’s causing him to gain weight,” she [...]
Light of Chance, Inc.
February 12, 2012
During this age of technology where children spend more time playing video games, listening to music on their ipods and interacting through social networking websites, rather than engaging in physical activity, it’s no wonder that kids these days aren’t quite as physically fit as the children of yesteryear.
In 2008, Eric Logan considered adding a wellness [...]
Light of Chance, Inc.
July 21, 2011
Amy Sherman remembers when she first learned about the Aspire, a Weekend of Revitalization event from former classmate Eric Logan, executive director of Light of Chance, which presents it.
“I read up on the event,” the Madisonville woman said. “From the first day, I was hooked.”
Light of Chance, Inc.
July 13, 2011
It’s around 3 a.m. on a weekday in Bowling Green, KY. Although some of the city’s residents have just reached the halfway mark in their night shifts at businesses like Walmart, Kroger, Waffle House and Denny’s, most of the people in the city are lying comfortably in their beds, lost in their slumbers. However, there [...]
Light of Chance, Inc.
June 26, 2011
Bowling Green, KY (June 24, 2011) Light of Chance, Inc. will host its annual Aspire, a Weekend of Revitalization event, July 23rd- 24th in Bowling Green, KY. Aspire is a community-wide weekend celebration aimed at empowering and uniting people from different economic, cultural and ethnic backgrounds. The weekend will consist of a teen summit, a [...]
Light of Chance, Inc.
June 9, 2011
Light of Chance Inc. will host its fifth annual “Aspire Weekend” in Madisonville from Friday through Sunday.
Aspire Weekend is a revitalization event sponsored by the city of Madisonville and Carhartt Inc., that will kick off with a family-friendly cookout from 4 to 8 p.m. Friday at the Dr. Festus Clayborn Park.
This weekend’s event is aimed [...]
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