Help from Cavaliers Players Anthony Parker and Jawad Williams on How to Take Care of the Environment Special Reading Timeout at Cleveland Clinic Courts Includes Tour of the Facility
Fifty Students to Take a Lesson from “The Lorax” with Help from
Cavaliers Players Anthony Parker and Jawad Williams
on How to Take Care of the Environment
Special Reading Timeout at Cleveland Clinic Courts Includes Tour of the Facility
to Learn How the Cavs Have Put Going Green into Practice
Wednesday, November 4th at 4:00 p.m.
WHAT: Cleveland Cavaliers guard Anthony Parker and forward Jawad Williams will take time after practice to read to 50 students from the Douglas MacArthur Girls’ Leadership Academy and Kenneth Clement Boys’ Leadership Academy in a Green-themed Read to Achieve event. The children will learn a lesson from a mythical creature from the Dr. Seuss book, “The Lorax,” about the importance of taking care of the environment.
In “The Lorax” a forest is destructed when the greedy Mr. Once-ler cuts down all the Truffula Trees to make thneeds, despite warnings from a shortish, oldish and brownish Lorax to take care of the environment instead of always taking from it.
Following the Reading Time Out, the students will get a tour of the Cleveland Clinic Courts to get a firsthand look on how being environmentally responsible is a big part of the Cavaliers organization. Cleveland Clinic Courts manager David Painter will show the children the Cavs have heeded the lesson of the Lorax – there are no greedy Mr.
Once-lers nearby!
As they walk the halls that the players roam, they’ll see the magic lights that turn on and off when no one’s in the room, see that the players drink out of cups made out of corn and eat from plates made of sugar cane and learn the lake behind the courts isn’t for fishing, but actually helps the nearby streams and rivers!
WHEN/ Wednesday, November 4th from 4:00 – 5:00 p.m.
WHERE: Cleveland Clinic Courts
6101 Brecksville Rd.
Independence, OH 44131
Read to Achieve, presented by Time Warner Cable in association with CollegeAdvantage529 Savings Plan and Outback Steakhouse, is a year-round campaign designed to help young people develop a life-long love for reading and encourage adults to read regularly with children. The program reaches thousands of elementary, middle and high school students in Northeast Ohio through reading time-outs, book drives and donations and the construction of Reading & Learning Centers.
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