Chose to Move Health Festival

Join us at the 4th Annual Chose to Move Health Festival at the Doolittle Community Center, 1940 N. "J" Street, a joint effort of community organization such as Community Partners for Better Health, Lutheran Social Services of Nevada, University of Nevada Cooperative Extension, City of Las Vegas Department of Parks and Leisure Services, Nathan Adelson Hospice, Southern Nevada Health District, and 100 Black Men Las Vegas Chapter.

This will be a full day event with guest speakers, physical activities for the community and children and participation from local agencies. We will have exhibits / information tables for health care professionals, community health care groups and volunteers.

The Choose and Move Health Festival will focus on how you can help eliminate and prevent risk factors for cardiovascular disease, enrollment for the Nevada Checkup Program and physical fitness activities. What the risk factors are for diabetes, hypertension and obesity.

Make sure that you reserve the date, September 8, 2007 from 10:00 AM to 3:00 PM.

For further information or if you would like to be a part of this great event, please contact:
Charlotte Watkins @ 639-1730 ext.16 or email:charlotte@lssnv.org
Cassandra Cotton @ 796-315 or email:Ccotton@nah.org

Elisabeth von Trapp Performs Concerts to Benefit Lutheran Social Services of Nevada

Elisabeth von Trapp's earliest memories are the sounds of music. Born to a rich musical heritage, Elisabeth is the granddaughter of legendary Maria and Baron von Trapp, whose story inspired The Sound of Music.

Elisabeth will be performing two concerts which will benefit Lutheran Social Services of Nevada. Elisabeth's concert repertoire ranges from Bach to Broadway, Shubert to Sting. Tickets are $15 per person.

Free will offering will be collected during the concerts which will help the people LSSN serves, many who are homeless here in Las Vegas.

• Friday, October 19th, 7:00 PM at Community Lutheran,
  3720 E. Tropicana Road, Las Vegas.
  Emcee, Kendall Tenney, KVBC News 3.
  
  
• Saturday, October 20th, 7:00 PM at First Presbyterian Church,
  1515 W. Charleston Blvd, Las Vegas.
  Emcee, Maria Silva, KVBC News 3.

"Build a Bike" event hosted by CISCO

On Wednesday, August 15th at 11:30 a.m. something very special was about to begin for four very excited young people. The mood was "EXCITEMENT", "ANTICIPATION" and a bit of "NERVOUSNESS". You see, these youth are clients of our Supportive Housing Program and they were selected to participate in a "Build a Bike" event hosted by CISCO at Mandalay Bay Event center.

When we arrived at the event center, we were directed to our orientation room to meet with Ms. Cindy and her staff. They made us feel quite welcome. We took pictures, got our security badges and name tags that were essential in this event. They were important because they were color coded to match our team and our bike. You can imagine our surprise when we discovered that all of our team members were Korean nationals, who spoke little to no English. What a challenge...but we were up for the task and the kids were thrilled to participate in not only a multi-cultural but a multi-national event.

We were then taken to a huge room where there were squares taped off with bike parts. The mat colors matched the color coding of our various name tags. We went to our particular colored mat and waited for the entrance of our team members. When they came in we were ready to go.

We couldn't start to build our bike until we got the go ahead from the director in charge. By the way...the bike parts in front of us may or may not be ours. The trick was to first find all our bike parts somewhere in the room (talk about teamwork!). We definitely had to work as a team to get the bike built which is what the event was all about. I think we accomplished this and speaking on behalf of the children that participated, we cannot begin to express our shared appreciation and utter delight. The event was wonderful and the bikes were so greatly appreciated. When the bikes were delivered later that evening, all the kids immediately rode around their house to test out their new treasures.

Sometimes a simple "THANK YOU" just doesn't seem adequate to express the way that our children felt about their experience and the memories that they will carry from this day for the rest of their lives. On behalf of the youth of Lutheran Social Services and our Supportive Housing Program we say...
THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU!