Are you ready to SWEAT with Fitness expert Laurent Amzallag? JC's personal trainer, Laurent, is hosting a HUGE

fitness event, "Spring Sizzle," that will include a fashion show, acrobats and fitness tips that may change your life.  Everyone will

be gathering at 700 Water Street in SE, DC. There is a $20 cover charge.

Here are the details:

-Saturday May 19th from 6 p.m to 8 p.m.
-700 water street SW (close to the fish market. In the old Zanzibar club
-Dress to sweat
- open to people of all ages.(no alcohol is being served). Only juices and fitness drinks and healthy snacks.

The show will feature:

- an awe inspiring acrobatic show just like "cirque du soleil"
- a fashion designer will do a fashion show of her latest swim wear
- A celebrity chef will demonstrate one of his favorite recipes.
- A "surprise musical performance
And the core of the show will be the YaLa dance workout led by Laurent with light show.

It will make you burn a bunch of calories while you have the time of your life:)
-Free "cat" eyelash extensions
- Free healthy drinks by Neuro drink and Izzy.
- Free PopChips (our official sponsor)
Like I mentioned, It will benefit Children's hospital. It's a great program for a great cause.
Thank you so much for being able to plug it on your program and website. Can't tell you how much I appreciate it.
Big kisses from your favorite trainer
Laurent

The winners joined JC Hayward in the lobby of WUSA9′s “Broadcast House” at 4100 Wisconsin Avenue.

The boarded a private bus (sponsored by Chariots for Hire) and drove to Arena Stage together, where they enjoyed a dinner together, at the “Catwalk Cafe, before the show.

Here are the photos of the winners and JC Hayward from Wednesday night:

On Saturday, April 28, 2012, the Maine Avenue Ministries honored JC Hayward with an induction into “The World Hall of Love” at a special luncheon at Howard University in Washington, D.C. The lunch marks the Thirteenth World Spiritual Service Leadership and Scholarship Awards, which “celebrates those who use their lives to help others, their communities and the world to become a better place to live and share wholesome relationships that demonstrate love.”

For more information on the ministry, please visit www.maineavenueministries.com or contact Dr. Mary E. Ivey at (202)686-1216.

Here are photos from the Expo’s Luncheon! Bon Appetit!

God’s Perfect Timing is available at WestBow Press www.westbowpress.com and www.davidcaruth.com

Book Signing

May 19^th, 4:30 p.m

Sankofa Books

2714 Georgia Ave., NW

Italians in DC Festival

May 20th 2012

2pm-9pm

Woodrow Wilson Plaza e Aria Pizzeria & Bar

 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW

On a Friday afternoon, Keena Bass pots plants with her daughters inside the auditorium of Martin Luther King, Jr. Elementary in Ward 8.  The plants will be donated to a local senior center.

 Bass volunteers as a parent leader.  The after-school activity will be the first service project for some of the children in the Anacostia community.

 ”It’s real important in this neighborhood, because if they’re not into an after-school activity, they will getting into the wrong things,” she says.

 Bass says she attended a parent workshop one night at her daughter’s school, and came out “impressed.” She has volutunteered with Turning the Page ever since.

 ”It makes me feel good. It makes me feel like I’m doing something for my kids and with them,” Bass explains. Her daughter Kalia is a first grader at Martin Luther King, Jr. Elementary School.

Turning the Page launched 14 years ago to support reading time between parents and their children. Today the organization runs workshops and after-school activities in the District’s public schools and works with over 500 families.

“[W]hat we’re trying to do is help the parents really add that value, which we know they can add, and they really are critical parts of school improvements and we’re just helping them to find that voice,” says Jason King, Executive Director of Turning the Page.

Donna Stewart is a strong voice within the parent leaders. She just won a parent-of-the-year award. 

Turning the Page has taught her how to help with homework for her seven children including one with special needs.

“We go back to Turning The Page, they have workshops on math and science and reading…[the workshops] will help me to understand when they bring me those homework packages or those problems that I’ve never seen or know, I want to know, how to help them,” says Stewart.

Stewart has volunteered for over six years. Now she says her adult daughter is a parent leader.

“She always talk about how much she’s learned. How much she’s read with her daughter in her belly…how we build our library. And her daughter is very, very smart.”

*The Gannett Foundation has made a donation to Turning the Page.

Turning the Page
1010 Vermont Ave N.W.
Suite 915
Washington D.C. 20005
mail@turningthepage.org

Phone: 202.347.9841
Fax: 202.347.9845

On 9NEWS NOW at Noon, JC speaks with  Kelsi Faley and Maddie Bishop who have been part of the project.

The walk will raise funds for wells in Burkina Faso, one of the poorest countries in Africa. Because of the continuous drought, women and small children walk miles daily to find clean water with which to bathe, cook and drink. Over the  past 8 years, teens have raised over $240,000 and built 26 wells in Africa.

Details and registration can be found here.

Get the global picture for Walking for Water.

To see an inspirational video about Walking for Water by Devon Bowles  click here.