ACADEMY TEACHES TEENS ABCS OF GROWING UP.Byline: Peggy Hager Staff Writer LANCASTER - John Ward is a man with a mission to educate today's youths on what to expect in life and how to succeed. As founder and director of Omega Youth Academy, Ward is concerned with seeing that teen-agers don't end up in jail. To accomplish this, Ward used as his objectives four cardinal principles The Four Cardinal Principles (Chinese: 四項基本原則, pinyin: sì xiàng jīběn yuánzé) were stated by Deng Xiaoping in 1979 and are the four issues for which debate was not allowed within the People's Republic of China. - manhood MANHOOD. The ceremony of doing homage by the vassal to his lord was denominated homagium or manhood, by the feudists. The formula used was devenio vester homo, I become you Com. 54. See Homage. , scholarship, perseverance Perseverance See also Determination. Ainsworth redid dictionary manuscript burnt in fire. [Br. Hist.: Brewer Handbook, 752] Call of the Wild, The dogs trail steadfastly through Alaska’s tundra. [Am. Lit. and uplift - which he learned from his college fraternity. From these concepts Ward developed the program that he uses for his main program, Omega Boys to Men Workshop, which is geared toward sixth-grade to 12th-grade African-American boys. This program teaches male developmental skills the teens will need to be successful men in society. The course lasts two months with classes three hours a day for eight Saturdays. ``Basically, we see a lot of kids going to prison,'' Ward said. ``Maybe we can't stop them from going in a certain direction, but we can remove the idea that they didn't know.'' Which is why he takes kids on prison tours, to show them where they don't want to be. Organized three years ago, Omega Youth Academy offers social and academic seminars and workshops throughout the year for teens to expand their ideas of what is possible. Certificates of completion are awarded to students who successfully complete the workshops and seminars, which are open to both boys and girls boys and girls mercurialisannua. throughout the Antelope Valley This article is about the Los Angeles County region. For the census-designated place in Wyoming, see Antelope Valley-Crestview, Wyoming. The Antelope Valley and take place at Agape agape In the New Testament, the fatherly love of God for humans and their reciprocal love for God. The term extends to the love of one's fellow humans. The Church Fathers used the Greek term to designate both a rite using bread and wine and a meal of fellowship that included Community Church's Faith Fellowship Hall A fellowship hall is a large room in a church building where certain activities in the church building are done, such as certain dinners ,breakfasts, meetings,or workshops etc. It gets its name from the fact that the people there at the church building are giving fellowship. , 45313 Beech beech, common name for the Fagaceae, a family of trees and shrubs mainly of temperate and subtropical regions in the Northern Hemisphere. The principal genera—Castanea (chestnut and chinquapin), Fagus (beech), and Quercus St. ``We want teen-agers to consider a future of more than just sports,'' Ward said. On Aug. 18 and 19, a group of 21 teens attended an aviation workshop that included trips to the Edwards Air Force Base's flight line and to Fox Field in Lancaster for flights in Cessna and Cherokee four-seat planes. Students in the workshops were tested on what they learned. Eighteen students completed the aviation course, which was open to both boys and girls. ``It was real fun, kind of scary at first, but you get used to it,'' 13-year-old D.J. Watts, a student at Piute Middle School, said of his turn flying the plane. ``I learned about how airplanes fly and how they work and how they function. The best part was probably the flying part.'' Watts was one of the top students at the aviation workshop and had the second-highest test score. He first became involved with the academy when he attended the Omega Boys to Men Workshop. ``It was teaching us how to be more successful when you reach manhood,'' Watts said. The teens also visited with a pilot and an air traffic controller at Fox Field. ``Some kids were so encouraged, now they want to fly,'' Ward said. Ward started the academy with the idea ``if no one's going to help me, then I'll do it myself.'' Fortunately for Ward he has been joined in his endeavors by Ron Willis
Together the nine men offer teens a wide variety of learning experiences they might not ordinarily or·di·nar·i·ly adv. 1. As a general rule; usually: ordinarily home by six. 2. In the commonplace or usual manner: ordinarily dressed pedestrians on the street. be exposed to. The nonprofit A corporation or an association that conducts business for the benefit of the general public without shareholders and without a profit motive. Nonprofits are also called not-for-profit corporations. Nonprofit corporations are created according to state law. Lancaster based program is funded entirely by Ward and his friends. Inquiries on the program have been received from as far away as Washington, D.C., and New Jersey. The only problem is Ward hasn't figured out a way to export the program to other communities. Coming in November will be seminars that focus on teens' special interests and help them with public speaking, feedback and research. More information on the Omega Youth Academy can be found on its Web site, www.omegayouth.org, or John Ward can be paged by calling (661) 224-8187. CAPTION(S): 3 photos Photo: (1 -- color) Pilot Mark Dickerson, left, poses for Isaac Marston, Alexis Brooks and Jamila Marston of Omega Youth Academy. (2) Mark Dickerson prepares to fly with, left, Isaac Marston, Jamila Marston and Alexis Brooks. (3) JamilaMarston puts on her seat belt with help from pilot Mark Dickerson, while Isaac Marston and Alexis Brooks wait. Jeff Goldwater/Staff Photographer |
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