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Black HistoryFrom page B-1

Kids Opening Day From page B-1Kids Opening Day will mark the

first Sunday Kids Day promotion fromthe baseball organization of the season.During each Sunday home game, any kid14 and younger will receive a free pro-motional item, free rides on the Comer-ica Bank Carousel or the Fly Ball FerrisWheel, get their face painted and have achance to win a bicycle. And then thereis the traditional Kid Run the Basesafter the game.

In order to enter, a parent or legalguardian must submit a 250 word orfewer essay answering the question,

How do you and your child pledge tolive a healthy lifestyle this summer?Kids are allowed to write the essays, butit must be submitted by a parent or legalguardian.

The first Every Kid, Every Sundaygiveaway for children attending thegame will be a Kids Opening Day MagnetSchedule.

For more information, including offi-cial entry rules, and to submit a nomi-nation, visit tigers.com/kidsopeningday.The deadline for submissions is March22 at 5 p.m.

conquerers, to our more recent history

of activists, and playwrights, and entre-preneurs. To do that, we have to studyconsistently.

You have 11 months to study ourhistory, so that in February, you havesomething to celebrate, he said.

The delivery was harsh at times, butit was delivered from a place of love forDetroit and its people.

Anytime Ive been in Detroit andbeen in various communities, peopleare always authentic, Johnson said,Thats what I love.

The 28 Days speakers series is at thetop echelon of programs geared to notonly talking about Black history, but en-couraging us to create our own history

and control our own story. To do that,we have to talk about, learn about andcare about our history beyond the 28days in February.

Performer Elle Varner.

Jennifer L. Jones addresses the crowd.

By Amber Bogins

Feb. 16, at the Collegefor Creative Studies, Cam-eron Jenkins, a studentat North Farmington HighSchool, was awarded aGold Key Award for Excel-lence in Visual Arts. Everyyear, The Scholastic Artand Writing Program andthe College for CreativeStudies present Honor-able Mentions, Silver andGold Key Awards, Ameri-can Vision nominations,and Best of Show Portfo-lios awards to local areamiddle school and highschool students. TheGold Keys are given to themost outstanding piecesof artwork and writing inthe region.

Jenkins entered asculpture of a monkey

based on a Nazca line inPeru. The lines are simi-lar to crop circles due tothe magnitude of theirsize and the mysterysurrounding their cre-ation. They can only beseen from the sky. It isthat mystery and his loveof history and science

that inspired CameronJenkins award-winningsculpture.

Im really into Oopart(which are) designs madebeyond their time period.

No one know how they gotthere, Cameron said.

This is his second timeentering the ScholasticArt and Writing Awardsprogram. The Alliance forYoung Artists & Writersis a national non-profitorganization establishedin 1994 to identify, moti-

vate and validate the nextgeneration of young art-ists and writers. The Al-liance tracks the creativedevelopment of teenagersacross the country each

year through The Scho-lastic Art and WritingAwards program. It is thelongest running recogni-tion program for creativeyoung people in the coun-try.

This region alone on av-erage receives over 4,000pieces of artwork and 300portfolios, and approxi-mately 1,000 pieces aredisplayed at the Collegefor Creative Studies forexhibit.

Cameron is a talentedyouth with many skillsand interests, and as suchis exploring various fieldsof study for his college

education, including ani-mation, illustration andliberal studies. However,it is clear that his pas-sion is in the visual arts.He believes in thinkingoutside the box, an im-portant attribute for beingsuccessful.

Local high school studentreceives Golden Keys Award

An example of Cameron Jenkins artwork.

Cameron Jenkins