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? v -- Page 8, Portland Observer, January 29,1986 Patrick Ewing: new hope of the NYKnicks Trail Blazers visit schools in reading fitness program Portland Trail Blazers Stove Colter and Kiki Vandeweghe handed out special prizes today to the top fifth and sixth grade classes in the B lazer/A V IA Read ing Fitness Program. winning sixth grade class a, South Ridge Elementary in Ridge field. WA. The Blazers visited her class of 23 students, who read a total of 204.965 pages; the student average was 8,912 pages. Open to fifth and sixth grade students in Multnomah. Wash ington. Clackamas und Clark counties, over 3.400 students participated in the Reading Fit ness program. Classes with the highest number of pages read per student in each grade wore determined winners. AVIA Vice President of Sales. Mike Elliott, and Portland Trail Blazers Executive Vice President Harry Glickman were on hand to congratulate the students. Colter and Vandeweghe handed out two Blazer tickets to each class member und teacher for the sold-out Blazer game against At lanta Hawks, 3 p.m Sunday. Feb. 16. The winning class will receive special recognition at the game. "I'm thrilled to see the accom plishments of those kids who par ticipated in Reading Fitness," says Steve Colter. Chairman of the B lazer/A V IA BASIC program. "W o want to help students get excited about reading for plea sure—at home and at school." "To develop a love for reading, we need to encourage kids to read all the time By providing positive incentives, we re motivating our youth to experience the joys of reading," Colter says. Individual Trail Blazer players visited the 18 runner-up schools throughout the day Ian. 21 to hand out mini-posters and book marks and congratulate the stu dents. The Blazers and AVIA Athletic Footwear provided lesson plans and classroom tools, including a reading entry chart to make par ticipation easy for teachers and students. They also established a 24-hour hotline to answer ques tions. Betwoen Oct. 21 and Nov. 21. studunts recorded daily the total number of pages they read. “ALWAYS TAKE YOUR BEST SHOT m i ■ item Colter and Vandeweghe visited tho winning fifth grade class taught by Dave George nt Edward Byrom Elemnntary in Tualatin. With 25 students, the class road a total of 94.656 pages; the average numlier of pages read per student was 3.786. Karen Stolberg teaches the Although the New York Knicks are banking $31 2 million on Patrick Ewing hoping he will bring the glory back to the Big Apple, the shy 23-year-old says, "I don’t consider myself a savior." The Now York Knicks are banking on Patrick Ewing, the 240-pound. seven-foot man who led the Georgetown Hoyas to an NCAA Championship and the Olympic Busketball Team to the gold, relates the February Ebony. Although Ewing is reportedly being paid $31.2 million for a ten-year contract to bring the glory back to New York basket- bull. and although his Big Apple fans are dubbing him “St. Pat rick." Ewing says he can’t make any promises. The solf-effacing 23-year-old says. "1 don't con sider myself a savior." One promise the Georgetown University graduate did make was to his mother. “ I promised my mother before she dual (in 1983) that I would graduate on time, and I’m proud to have fulfilled that promise." the fine arts major says. Unlike most professional ath letes. Ewing is a private person who drives a Chevy, eats at fast-food restaurants and at one time planned a career as a pro fessional artist before his family moved to the United States from Jamaica. * INIA SLIMS VI You've come a long way, baby Students received 50 bonus points if they checked out books from a community library. Each week, students summarized in writing the pages they read. A total number of 3.437 stu dents in more than 100 schools participated, including one deaf class. Altogether, they read 3.687.329 pages. Each student who joined in the Reading Fitness program receives a unique Blazer /A V IA bookmark. Part of a throe-pronged scho lastic program called BASIC (Bla- zer/A VIA Scholastic Improvement Concepts), the year-long program covers reading, improvement and writing. Tho year AVIA expanded its involvement with tho Trail Blazers by signing Mychal Thompson and Kenny Johnson. who joined Stevo Colter in wearing AVIA shoes. L 'I v* ‘ -iyr«iMs V S * " Si lM s I ■ I 1 j ■ Menthol and Lights Menthol Menthol 14mg tar 0 9 mg nicotine — lights Menthol 8 mg H i 0 6 mg nicotine av per cigarette FTC Report Feb 85 SURGEON GENERAL’ S W ARNING: S m oking By P regnant W omen May R esult in Fetal Injury, Premature Birth, And Low Birth W eight. C Pfcehp M u t i n lew IMM» 4S • . I? 1
