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Families, Parks and Recreation
Press
Releases
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
Contact:
Heather Allebaugh
407.246.3423
Victoria Shade 407.246.4318
Madeline Wehle (NBA) 212.407.8284 or mwehle@nba.com
Mayor Dyer, NBA Cares,
Orlando Magic and Toyota Project Rebound Celebrate the
Opening of the “Green” Basketball Courts at the John H.
Jackson Community Center
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Mayor Buddy Dyer, the NBA, Toyota, and the
Orlando Magic will unveil two refurbished
basketball courts at the John H. Jackson
Community Center. Mayor Dyer will join Orlando
Magic Community Ambassadors Nick Anderson and Bo
Outlaw to dedicate the new courts, followed by
an exhibition game with the City of Orlando’s
Parramore Kidz Zone basketball team. The center
is located in the Parramore community, where
both the City of Orlando and the Orlando Magic
has been committed to revitalizing for the past
several years. The courts were refurbished using
recycled materials.
Parramore Kidz Zone
youth will play in a scrimmage game coached by
Anderson and Outlaw after the opening ceremony.
Modeled after the Harlem Children’s Zone,
Parramore Kidz Zone launched by Mayor Dyer in
2006, employs creative outreach to engage a
critical mass of Parramore’s children and
linking them to positive opportunities,
including pre-kindergarten education, parenting
education, health care, mentoring, tutoring, and
constructive activities when school is out.
Funds for the newly renovated basketball
court were donated to Orlando Community and
Youth Trust, Inc., a non-profit organization
that fundraises for the City’s Families, Parks,
and Recreation Department to provide facilities,
scholarships, programs and activities that are
not regularly part of the department's allocated
funds. Projects and activities funded by the
Orlando Community and Youth Trust, Inc. enhance
the quality of life for the people of the
community living in the City of Orlando.
Now in its second season, Toyota Project
Rebound is a community initiative established by
the NBA and Toyota Motor Sales, U.S.A. The
program includes 21 hands-on community service
projects that will be hosted by NBA, WNBA, and
NBA Development League teams, and will include
court refurbishments, the creation of Reading &
Learning Centers, and other Legacy Projects
providing youth safe places to live, learn, or
play.
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WHO: |
Mayor Buddy Dyer
Nick Anderson, Orlando Magic
Community Ambassador
Bo Outlaw, Orlando Magic
Community Ambassador
Linda Landman-Gonzalez,
Magic VP of Community Relations and Government
Affairs
David Steele, Magic play-by-play
announcer and MC
Bob Duffin, Southeast Toyota
Parramore Kidz Zone Youth
Rodney Williams,
City of Orlando Recreation Division Manager
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WHEN:
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Thursday,
July 23, 2009
• 10:00 a.m.– opening
remarks
• 10:30 a.m. – PKZ basketball
scrimmage game coached by Orlando
Magic Community Ambassadors Nick Anderson and Bo
Outlaw
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WHERE:
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John H. Jackson Community Center
1002 Carter
Street
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