October is Breast Cancer Awarenes  Month                                      

Puget Sound Susan G Komen
www.spkomen.org


Breast Cancer Program at Seattle Cancer Care Alliance
www.seattlecca.org

Seattel Youth Garden Works    www.sygw.org    (206) 766-9865

This Sunday Evening on Get in the Game Tony B’s guest are from Seattle Youth Garden Works. Colin Anderson, Farm and Youth Manager and Susanne Abiem, Lead Gardner discuss this innovative program that engages youth through hands on landscaping and garden to market projects.  The program, which is offered to homeless or disenfranchised youth, also pays youth ages 14-21 to participate in their training program.





The Adefua Cultural Education Workshop  www.planetafua.com 206-722-6602


                       

This Sunday evening on Get in the Game Tony B’s guest is from The Adefua Cultural Education Workshop. Afua N'Diaye, co-founder of Adefua Cultural Education Workshop discusses their African drumming and dance workshops, youth education programs and the Odunde Festival, which Adefua presents.  The Odunde festival, whose concept originates from the Yorba people of Nigeria, West Africa, celebrates the coming of another year for African Americans and Africanized people around the world.

Disability Awareness Month October 2009

Northwest Center www.nwcenter.org 206-285-9140

ONGOING Haunted house, 7-10 p.m. Thursdays, 7 p.m.-midnight Fridays and Saturdays, 7-10 p.m. Sundays, 7-10 p.m. Oct. 30, 7 p.m.-midnight Oct. 31, $12/Thursdays and Sundays, $13/Fridays, Saturdays and Halloween; no-scare, low-light Kids Day haunted house with costume contest, noon-3 p.m. Oct. 28, $5 or free with two cans of food for Food Lifeline, Renton Motorcycles, 3701 E. Valley Road, Renton (www.seattlehaunts.com).

Columbia City Theater.
Family-friendly trick or treating at participating businesses identified with orange
and black balloons, kids' costume contest at Geraldine's Counter, specials and
discounts at some venues, 3:30-6 p.m.; costume contest for ages 21 and older,
10:30 p.m. at Lottie's Lounge.

•  In her bold new production, THE SHIPMENT, Young Jean Lee and a cast of 5 talented African American actors create an unsettling terrain of well-trodden stereotypes that dare audiences to laugh as they consider their own preconceptions about race and culture.
  
  
  
  
  http://www.ontheboards.org/
  
  
  
  
  
  
  The trafficking industry generates $9.5 billion of revenue each year.
  
  
   Tony.B tackles the sensitive issue of child sex trafficking.  Dr. Lois Lee is the Founder and President of Children of the Night, the only private, non-profit organization of its kind in North America dedicated to rescuing children; girls, boys and transgenders (ages 11 through 17) from  prostitution nationwide. Dr. Lee has rescued over 10 thousand children and COTN is currently celebrating its 30th anniversary.
  http://www.childrenofthenight.org/
  
  
  Human Trafficking Facts: Human Trafficking is the fastest growing crime in the world It is second only to the sale in illegal drugs. This crime occurs in every country in the world and every state in the America.
  
  
• The United Nations estimates that 700,000 to 4 million women and children are trafficked around the world for purposes of forced prostitution.
   
• Traffickers include those involved in highly sophisticated networks of organized crime and may be as close to home as a relative to the victim. 
   
• Traffickers recruit women and children through deceptive means including falsified employment advertisements for domestic workers, waitresses and other low-skilled work.

• Dr. Debra Sullivan, President and Co-Founder of the Praxis Institute for Early Childhood Education, a college in Seattle that specializes in preparing people for early childhood and elementary education.
• Janice Deguchi, Executive Director of the Denise Louie Education Center which provides quality multi-cultural early childhood education services to children and their families.
• Sandria Woods-Pollard, City of Seattle Human Services Department Manager for Early Learning and Education Programs
• Stephanie McPhail, National Board Certified Kindergarten Teacher at Van Asselt Elementary School in Seattle.
• Marcella Taylor, Home Visitor for Atlantic Street Center's Parent-Child Home Program. A home based program that strengthens the parent-child relationship, promotes learning and language development and enhances social-emotional development.

This Sunday Evening on  Get in the Game - Pioneer Days Lake City Festival & Parade and the UMOJAFEST African American Heritage Festival and Parade!
 
Tony B shines a spotlight on our communities during the Summer of Festivals 2009.  Diane Haugen, Production Director of the Lake City Festival and Parade, discusses the long history of the Pioneer Days Festival, which is celebrating it's 67th year.  Haugen talks about the support and pride that the Lake City community has had over the years for the second longest running annual community celebration, besides Seafair, in the Northwest! WyKing, Director of the Umoja Fest African American Heritage Festival and Parade relates it's history.  WyKing talks about the events and attractions like the "Heal the Hood" basketball tournament and the carnival rides, as well as the youth employment programs integrated into the Umoja Fest..  
  
Lake City's Festival and Parade - Pioneer Days, and the African American Heritage Festival and Parade - Umoja Fest, are highlighted with comprehensive overviews of these “community pride” events.

This Sunday morning Tony B talks with WyKing, Director of Umoja Fest 2009 about the three-day event which runs from Friday July 31st - Sunday August 2nd at Judkins Park.  Haugen, Production Director of Pioneer Days is also the Executive Director of the Lake City Chamber of Commerce.  Haugen describes the 2-day event which takes place July 31st - Saturday August 1st, culminating in the Grand Performance Parade.