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Kids: Win $15 gift card from Changing Hands Bookstore Students who either live in Chandler, Gilbert, Queen Creek or surrounding areas or who attend area schools can win $15 gift cards from Changing Hands Bookstore, thanks to a partnership between the bookseller and the SanTan Sun News. This ongoing, monthly promotion awards a $15 Changing Hands gift card to every youth whose article, story, poem, essay, editorial, book review, photo or illustration is chosen to be printed in the SanTan Sun Kids Opportunity section, while supplies last. The Kids Opportunity section is printed in the Youth Section of the first paper of the month, each month. The best news is that even though only one to three submissions are printed per month,
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all good submissions are held in a file to be printed in future issues. So if an entry doesn’t win this month, it could win next month—or even the month after that. To enter, visit SanTanSun.com, click on Youth and then on Student Writer Permission Slip to download a submission-permission slip. Complete the form and have a parent sign it so the paper has permission to print the entry and the author or artist’s byline. Then, email the submissionpermission slip and writing or artwork to news@SanTanSun. com as a Word file, if writing, or JPEG, if art, or pasted into the email.
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DEDICATION: Chandler Unified School District has named the court at Chandler High’s Austin Gymnasium in honor of Joe Partain. Partain was a highly successful basketball coach, achieving the most wins in Chandler boys’ basketball history (202), receiving three state championships, including one at Chandler High in 1984, and sending numerous athletes to play collegiate basketball. The dedication will be at 7 p.m. Fri., Jan. 3, prior to Chandler High’s boys’ basketball game vs. Mesa. Submitted photo
Snedigar Recreation Center hosts kids’ winter break camps Parents still have time to register their children ages 5 to 12 in a winter break camp at Chandler’s Snedigar Recreation Center. Camp sessions are held Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays the weeks of Dec. 23 through 27 and Dec. 30 through Jan. 3, 2014, with facilities closed Christmas and New Year’s days.
Full- and half-day sessions are available. Full-day sessions run from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. and cost $103 for Chandler residents and $140 for nonresidents; half-day sessions are from 7 a.m. to noon or 1 to 6 p.m. and cost $70 for residents and $95 for nonresidents. Full-day campers must bring their own lunch each day, and all campers are
encouraged to bring a snack. The camp is run by qualified staff who will engage kids in sports, games and arts and crafts. Snedigar Recreation Center is at 4500 S. Basha Rd. in Chandler. For more information, contact Susan Richardson at 480-782-2641 or susan.richardson@ chandleraz.gov.
Winter intersession camps are also hosted by Chandler’s Tumbleweed Recreation Center and Environmental Education Center at Veterans Oasis Park; view the Break Time recreation guide for complete details at chandleraz.gov/breaktime.