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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><span
style='font-size:32.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>1<sup>st</sup> Annual
Commerce Black Heritage Festival<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span
style='font-size:26.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>February 19th-20<sup>th<o:p></o:p></sup></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span
style='font-size:26.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>Be There if You
Care!!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style='font-size:26.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>Location:</span></b><span
style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> Martin Luther King Dr. Commerce, TX
75429</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>Schedule:</span></b><span
style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> Food, Games, Activities, Music,
Entertainment and more from 12pm-6pm<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>Wrist bands
are $1 which identifies your child as a member of the festival and allows them
to have privileges over those without a wrist band. Keep your wrist band for
access on both days. Parking is $1 per day. Table rentals are $6 per day (2
chairs included).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>Vending @
the Festival: </span></b><span style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>If you
are interested in vending during the 2010 Commerce Black Heritage Festival
please RSVP ahead of time by calling 469-774-4177 or email </span><a
href="mailto:leonard.g.jackson@gmail.com"><span style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>leonard.g.jackson@gmail.com</span></a><span
style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> (Cost $25 per day)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>The
objective:</span></b><span style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> To help
facilitate the extension of our culture into the Future by building bridges
between the Community and the University. We have formed this partnership
because both organizations feel that we need to be more proactive in helping to
facilitate the expansion of authentic Black culture into the future. So if you
are coming out, please do bring your children. There will be a host of
activities such as relay racing, bounce house, pony ride games such as
horseshoes, beanbag toss, card games, dominoes, bingo, breaking piņatas,
watermelon eating contest (try it with no hands!).Visits from firefighters and
police, with tours of the fire truck and police car. Face painting, hula-hoop
and limbo contests. Entertainment by a “house band”. Live rap
artist, DJ, art show, poetry reading, Black History Story Telling, Martin
Luther King Speech and much More.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>Sponsorship:
</span></b><span style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>The sponsors are
those who will support the Commerce Black Heritage Festival this year and for
many years to come. As you can see from the flyer we will have an ambitious
program of diverse events planned and we need money to carry it all off. If you
or your organization is interested in sponsorship opportunities, please feel
free to contact me.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>Volunteers:</span></b><span
style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> We need as many volunteers as
possible to make this event a success. Now is the time to raise your hand and
let me know if you are interested. Contact me to let me know how you would like
to give back to the community.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>We just
wanted to let you know where we were at with all of this right now so that you
could do your own planning. If your coming let me know and I will see your
there.</span><b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:blue'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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