Wild and crazy professional wrestling seems to have an enormous number of fans who enjoy the antics that appear to equate with the sport. Hebron Middle School staff is wilder and crazier than most, and on Friday, you can treat yourself to an evening of pro wrestling featuring the Acme Champion Wrestling team, along with the first-ever “Teacher Battle Royale” when teachers will wrestle each other to the finish. That itself will be a giggler.
The evening begins at 7 p.m. in the Hebron Middle School gymnasium and continues until 9:30 p.m. Tickets are $8 and can be purchased at the door.
I am always impressed with the ideas staff and students come up with to raise dollars for specific causes. This fundraiser will be used for a mentoring program, which pairs seventh- and eighth-grade students with sixth-graders so their first year in the middle school setting will be a positive and pleasant one.
The mentoring motto is “No one sits alone.” In the cafeteria, at a convocation, or any school event, every sixth-grade student will have a friend, thanks to this program. Boy, there’s a lesson to be learned in that for all of us.
I’m going to the wrestling match incognito so my daughter, Carol, doesn’t embarrass me when she is pinned by her opponent, or even worse, sees me laughing — especially because she is predicting to be the staff wrestling champ.
Come join the fun. A guaranteed fun night is promised by the staff.
After a fun night at Hebron, head over to Chesterton on Saturday and join Frontline’s annual Hooked on Art Live Street Art Festival held at Thomas Centennial Park on Broadway. You can even be a part of the art by entering the chalk art competition.
Or maybe it will be just a great day to check out all the art and artists, listen to the variety of music, do some of the interactive activities or fill up on the delicious home-cooked meals and desserts served up by several church groups. The festival will be from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., so you can stay all day or just for an hour or two while you are helping Frontline Foundation continue to help those addicted to drugs turn their lives back to positives.
Most of us, at some time in our lives, are chasing dreams, hoping to some day have them come true. For Denise Babjak, her dream was and is always making the lives of kids with Down syndrome or other special needs a little fuller, a little better and a lot happier and more fulfilling.
When Chasing Dreams was in its infancy, a few parents joined Babjak’s group, but now it has blossomed, and no one could be happier about it than all those involved in this blessing.
Babjak would like nothing better than if residents with a Facebook account would go to the Crown Point Community Foundation page and post Chasing Dreams as their favorite nonprofit. The winning agency will receive a gift of $1,000. If Chasing Dreams is the winner, 100 percent of the gift will go to programs that motivate children educationally, physically and socially, Babjak says. It will only take you a minute to vote, but the effects for children will last for years.
For more information on Chasing Dreams, call 219-299-9049 or go to [email protected]. The winner will be announced Sept. 30.
A special thank-you goes out to so many who had such kind comments on the column about Brandon and the Valparaiso and Michigan City football teams. It really is a joy to tell you about the neat teens who surround us — and they are in the majority. Now I hope you have a great day because you deserve it. Thanks for reading. Fly your flag.
Lorrie Woycik is a freelance columnist for the Post-Tribune.
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