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Home For The Holidays Event To Be Hosted For Dallas ISD Parents

11 Dec 2009

The event is sponsored by Tennell Atkins, City of Dallas Councilmember, District 8 and Dallas Cowboys Pro Bowl Safety/Philanthropist Ken Hamlin

DALLAS–Tennell Atkins, City of Dallas Councilmember, District 8 and Dallas Cowboys Pro Bowl Safety/Philanthropist Ken Hamlin will host a Home for the Holidays event for 26 Dallas Independent School District families on Tuesday, Dec. 15, at 9:30 a.m., at the Flag Room in Dallas City Hall, 1500 Marilla St.

Families from Gilbert Cuellar Sr., Kleberg, and Martin Weiss elementary schools, and Maynard H. Jackson and D.A. Hulcy middle schools, will be receiving gifts and/or gift cards for the holidays, and will have the opportunity to meet and greet Dallas Cowboy Ken Hamlin.

"Dallas ISD is pioneering a college readiness warning system and we are proud to lend our support to it," in announcing a $3.77 million grant.


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