!!!!!!!!!! COME ONE, COME ALL !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The Annual Spring Art Show is Friday , June 8th.
Check out the amazing display from the Art Studio's 2011- 2012 collection.
Join us for a BBQ dinner from 4-7 , create some art and make some friends.,,,
Our theme this year is CONNECTIONS . We are stonger and have more choices when we reach out and connect....what a great idea to celebrate!!
Wednesday, April 11, 2012
Look Where We Started By Tyrone Woodward
Look where we started, in the land of the lost and the broken hearted
Look where we started, will we be friends until the end? Look where we started
When you walked up to me, I look back on my memory
Look where we started, in the land of the lost and the broken hearted
Look where we started, will we be friends until the end? Look where we started
Of all the lovers in the world, who knew where they'd find their girl? Look where we started
In the land of the lost and the broken hearted
Look where we started, will we be friends until the end? Look where we started
You're the best love I've had in my life, one day I will make you my wife
Look where we started, in the land of the lost and the broken hearted
Look where we started, will we be friends until the end look where we started
Just like Jack and Jill, will make it up the hill, look where we started
In the land of the lost and the broken hearted, look where we started
Will we be friends until the end? Look where we started
You take my hand and I'll be your man
Look where we started, look where we started, look where we started
Look where we started, will we be friends until the end? Look where we started
When you walked up to me, I look back on my memory
Look where we started, in the land of the lost and the broken hearted
Look where we started, will we be friends until the end? Look where we started
Of all the lovers in the world, who knew where they'd find their girl? Look where we started
In the land of the lost and the broken hearted
Look where we started, will we be friends until the end? Look where we started
You're the best love I've had in my life, one day I will make you my wife
Look where we started, in the land of the lost and the broken hearted
Look where we started, will we be friends until the end look where we started
Just like Jack and Jill, will make it up the hill, look where we started
In the land of the lost and the broken hearted, look where we started
Will we be friends until the end? Look where we started
You take my hand and I'll be your man
Look where we started, look where we started, look where we started
Tuesday, April 10, 2012
Changing Our Lives By Tyrone Woodward
What has changed my life most has been my long term educational goals. I Tyrone Woodward graduated from Simon Gratz High School, in 1972. It was the greatest twelve years of life and it all ended with our graduation ceremonies being held at the newly built Spectrum, in South Philadelphia. I was then hired as a general laborer, along with ten other Simon Gratz grads by Gulf Oil Company. Unfourtunately, not only I but, all ten of us from Simon Gratz, who were hired permntly by Gulf Oil Company, were fired before the end of the summer of 1972. I'd like to say that I got into the wrong group of people but, that would be far from the truth. I was one of the leaders who would come to work late and leave early. One of those who got cought smoking marijuana in the company's oil tanker. It was all our faults and we made our 1972 grauduating class of 928 look very bad. That will forever be a personal dark spot on my employment record.
I then held jobs as a Child Care Worker, a Speech & Hearing Techncian, also a Security Gurad, a Dishwasher and a C.N.A. In 1987, with one son and my daughter on her way after just two years of marriage, I returned to school and became a Certifided Nurses Assistant. Those six months of study at the Philadelphia Career Institute, were also a highlight in my educational history..I worked non-stop in the nursing field for four years before going to jail for simple assult. After I came home I did very little or nothng living mostly off my wife. After doing temporary work at Labor Ready, Centrix, and Unique, I received a Certificate in Customer Service from a six month school called Imagineers. Those were some of the things I did from 1991 to '97. From 1997 to 2003, I worked for Parkway Corporation, in the Customer Service Department. During that time I enterted Community College of Philadelphia, in 2001 and received an Associates Degree in 2004, majoring in Behavioral Health & Human Services.
Upon graduation from C.C.P., I became a Junior at Alvernia University. Ready to receive my Bachelor of Arts degree in Human Services in 2006, I was sentenced for another three years for simple assult on a security guard and groping a female classmate. I was dismissed from school just six credits shy of graduation. It took two years for me to be found guilty. I returned home in April of 2011, and am now back in school trying to prove what has already been proven, that education can change your life.
In December of 2012 I plan on having two B.A.'s, one from Lincoln University, in Human Services, and one in Business Administration/Marketing, from Strayer University. At that ime I plan on starting a Boxing Magazine for all true fighters. At that time I won't be done. I plan on going on to get my Masters Degree in Sports Management and then my Ph.D in the same field. My long term educational goals have changed my life since high school for the positive.
I then held jobs as a Child Care Worker, a Speech & Hearing Techncian, also a Security Gurad, a Dishwasher and a C.N.A. In 1987, with one son and my daughter on her way after just two years of marriage, I returned to school and became a Certifided Nurses Assistant. Those six months of study at the Philadelphia Career Institute, were also a highlight in my educational history..I worked non-stop in the nursing field for four years before going to jail for simple assult. After I came home I did very little or nothng living mostly off my wife. After doing temporary work at Labor Ready, Centrix, and Unique, I received a Certificate in Customer Service from a six month school called Imagineers. Those were some of the things I did from 1991 to '97. From 1997 to 2003, I worked for Parkway Corporation, in the Customer Service Department. During that time I enterted Community College of Philadelphia, in 2001 and received an Associates Degree in 2004, majoring in Behavioral Health & Human Services.
Upon graduation from C.C.P., I became a Junior at Alvernia University. Ready to receive my Bachelor of Arts degree in Human Services in 2006, I was sentenced for another three years for simple assult on a security guard and groping a female classmate. I was dismissed from school just six credits shy of graduation. It took two years for me to be found guilty. I returned home in April of 2011, and am now back in school trying to prove what has already been proven, that education can change your life.
In December of 2012 I plan on having two B.A.'s, one from Lincoln University, in Human Services, and one in Business Administration/Marketing, from Strayer University. At that ime I plan on starting a Boxing Magazine for all true fighters. At that time I won't be done. I plan on going on to get my Masters Degree in Sports Management and then my Ph.D in the same field. My long term educational goals have changed my life since high school for the positive.
Children of the World
There's been many times when older adults in many parts of our country see children playing, black and white, and immediately think it's wrong But, what I'll try to convey in my story today, is that the children seem to know more than us. There's been Polly's and Billy's holding hands, and Billy's and Johnny's playing together, since time began. It seems when they get older, like the message I've told yah, things begin to change the way they veiw each other. And the two who were friends in the past see the broken glass put down on the ground from their forefathers and it changes their feelings towards each other. As a young boy I was always told by both my mother and father to be kind to my fellow man and I say it again since my time began, I've always been that way.
So to young ones I say, remember to pray and love one another as you love yourself. And, keep in mind to always be kind and your days will surely be longer. For we have proven that it's within our youth that the future of the world belongs. And, if one day we do meet, I can say to you on the street when we look at each other face to face, that indeed we both helped turn the world around and we can be proud as we say out loud, that we are Children of the world.
And every boy and girl from Pennsylvania to California, can say that they truly believe that it's the "Content of their character and not the color of their skin" that has changed the world that Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., dreamed of and it will be that world that we'll find ourseleves in. And, if not in my lifetime, hopefully in your, race relations will change in this country. Not just for me but, for Orientals, and Mexicans, and Puerto Ricans, too. Will all be free and there won't be a racial clash. When all can say, that the division of races is now a thing of the past.
By
Tyrone Woodward
So to young ones I say, remember to pray and love one another as you love yourself. And, keep in mind to always be kind and your days will surely be longer. For we have proven that it's within our youth that the future of the world belongs. And, if one day we do meet, I can say to you on the street when we look at each other face to face, that indeed we both helped turn the world around and we can be proud as we say out loud, that we are Children of the world.
And every boy and girl from Pennsylvania to California, can say that they truly believe that it's the "Content of their character and not the color of their skin" that has changed the world that Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., dreamed of and it will be that world that we'll find ourseleves in. And, if not in my lifetime, hopefully in your, race relations will change in this country. Not just for me but, for Orientals, and Mexicans, and Puerto Ricans, too. Will all be free and there won't be a racial clash. When all can say, that the division of races is now a thing of the past.
By
Tyrone Woodward
Thunder & Lighting
Thunder & Lighting, to little children can be most freighting
Cause they don't know what's causing all this fear
The thunder & lighting is all they hear
You know it's strange the way children find
The litttle things that upset their minds
Like day and night, wrong and right
They since the fear in the atmosphere
When are we gonna teach them right?
To love each other black or white
Thunder & lighting, to little children can be most freighting
Cause they don't know what's causing all this fear
The thunder & lighting is all they hear
You know it don't take long for spearks to burn
When they get older they began to yearn
Cause Billy's got a brand new toy
And Johnny's the one they call the ghetto boy
When are we gonna teah them right?
To love each other black or white
Thunder & lighting, to little childern can be most freighting
Cause they don't know what's causing all this fear
The thunder & lighting is all they hear
The thunder & lighting is all they hear
The thunder & lighting is all they hear
By Tyrone Woodward
Cause they don't know what's causing all this fear
The thunder & lighting is all they hear
You know it's strange the way children find
The litttle things that upset their minds
Like day and night, wrong and right
They since the fear in the atmosphere
When are we gonna teach them right?
To love each other black or white
Thunder & lighting, to little children can be most freighting
Cause they don't know what's causing all this fear
The thunder & lighting is all they hear
You know it don't take long for spearks to burn
When they get older they began to yearn
Cause Billy's got a brand new toy
And Johnny's the one they call the ghetto boy
When are we gonna teah them right?
To love each other black or white
Thunder & lighting, to little childern can be most freighting
Cause they don't know what's causing all this fear
The thunder & lighting is all they hear
The thunder & lighting is all they hear
The thunder & lighting is all they hear
By Tyrone Woodward
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