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Call Councilman Sam Coleman at 641-5168 for more details or e-mail him at Learn how to save a life, get CPR certification CPR training is offered from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. tomorrow and every Tuesday at the CPR Training Center, 821 Fesslers Parkway. Students receive a two-year CPR certification from the American Heart Association upon completing the class. The cost is $35.

Call 256-1818 to register, or send an e-mail to Classical guitarist to play at downtown library The Main Library will have a at 7 p.m. tomorrow as part of its classical guitar series. Ana Vidovic, who has won first prizes in the Fernando Sor competition in Rome and the Albert Augustine International Competition in Bath, England, is scheduled to perform. The concert is free. The downtown library is at 615 Church St.

For more information, call 862-5753. Nonprofit explains ins, outs of international adoption LIONS HEAD Catholic Charities, 30 White Bridge Road, will hold a public information meeting about international adoption from p.m. April 4. The meeting is open to all prospective parents including single people of any religious, ethnic or racial background. Steps to international adoption will be discussed, and a question-and- answer period will follow.

For more information, call Julie Bolles at Catholic Charities, 352-3087, ext. 266. For additional information about the adoption services of Catholic Charities or any of the many other programs of Catholic Charities, visit www.cctenn.org. Southeast Davidson NewsNotes Southeast Davidson edition Pages 1-2: Southeast Davidson news Pages 3-6: News from other neighborhoods To our readers Davidson A.M. is a news and information supplement to The Tennessean dedicated to covering neighborhoods.

The Southeast Davidson edition focuses on stories from neighborhoods in the southeast portion of the county. Call 2598089 with story ideas and suggestions. Bellevue Southeast East North West Published Monday-Wednesday Friday By ERICA RODEFER For Davidson A.M. With schools putting so much emphasis on academics, learning through imagination and creativity can get pushed aside. But that the case in Teacher of the Year Christina kindergarten class at Granbery Elementary School.

think that children are hurried a lot more now. Ward said. just not enough time for the basic things like Ward makes sure her students get more than just required skills by encouraging them to interact with each other in learning centers, which are stations where students work in groups toward developing a specific skill. rarely are all 22 of us doing the same Ward said. Ward complements the typical math, reading and writing centers with centers that encourage the students to be creative and imaginative.

pretend center is a really popular center, where they act out stories that read or they use puppets to act out their own stories or little Ward said. are dolls there and books for them to read to the dolls. There are menus, phone books, and pencil and paper so they can play These activities help the children develop important language and social skills, Ward said. And while other kindergarten teachers may be opting out of this type of teaching to incorporate more academics into the curriculum, Ward said she feels both are important to a development. still have the pretend center because very much literacy and language, and children need to know how to use their lan- Students learn more than just required Teacher ofthe Year lets children use play to apply skills BILLY KINGSLEY STAFF Granbery Teacher of the Year Christina Ward uses stations where her kindergartners work in small groups.

rarely are all 22 of us doing the same BILLY KINGSLEY STAFF Some of the winning posters, books and bookmarks created by students at Apollo Middle School. By KAREN JORDAN StaffWriter Everyone at Apollo has a story. That was the name of a schoolwide contest recently held at Apollo Middle School. To kick off the weeklong event, students were entertained by a professional storyteller who involved the students in the acting out of a story. Students were then encouraged to write stories or design bookmarks and posters depicting some of their favorite stories.

really enjoyed the storytelling part, and I think what really got them fired up to do said Apollo principal James Briggs. Teachers in the school looked at each entry from each grade level before selecting the winners, said librarian Billie Jean Marcin, who organized the first annual contest. Eighth-grader Roshni Patel won first place for a bookmark she designed featuring pictures of the cartoon character Arthur. I was little, I loved said the 14-year-old. watch it every Patel now has a new sketchbook, which she is using to pen more pictures of that favorite cartoon character as well as Harry Potter.

Fifth-grader Rocio Flores took home a first-place prize for her bookmark, too. The English Language Learner student said, through an interpreter, that she decorated hers by drawing a horse similar to one she read about in one of her favorite books. Briggs said one of his goals is to help raise the reading test scores of students at Apollo. wanted to bring the attention to he said. definitely saw a benefit to it.

It just shows how in-depth you can go into Some first-place winners also received $5 bills, journals and books, Marcin said. Storytelling kicks offcontest at Apollo Middle School Please see GRANBERY, Page 2 By KAREN JORDAN StaffWriter far from business as usual at Harding Mall. With and signs sprinkled around the shopping center, it is clear that change is on the way, including the possibility the mall may give way to a Wal-Mart Supercenter. Yuri Cunza, president of the Nashville Area Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, which is housed in the mall, said the news of its closing came out of the blue. just kind of took us by Cunza said.

really knew exactly when the whole thing would close He said he received a letter explaining the chamber would need to vacate its offices by the end of the month. The chamber will temporarily relocate to Mid-Town Plaza on West End Avenue where newspaper, La Noticia, is located, he said. With about 150 members, the organization held meetings in its offices and also was planning to have a job fair at the mall in May, Cunza said. The notice of the mall closing also took Shaku Amin, who owns the Baskin-Robbins on the exterior of the mall, by surprise. While she heard rumors, mall management mostly kept her the she said.

just a matter of Amin said. the last minute, hard Amin is relieved that she has found another location. A flier posted on the door of Baskin- Robbins informs customers of the soon-to-be new location at 3919 Nolensville Road in the Elysian Fields Shopping Center. It should open by mid- April, she said. Other businesses are faring better with the news.

The International House of Pancakes, at the intersection of Nolensville Road and Harding Place, plans to stay open. one of the few that gets to said Kathy Brewer, an IHOP manager. New Country Buffet next door also may stay open. While a new Wal-Mart Supercenter in the neighborhood would probably mean direct competition for the Big Kmart across the street, the company does not see it that way. not uncommon for us to have competitors Kmart spokesman Stephen Pagnani said.

Kroger has two stores in the vicinity. One is just a mile away Harding Mall merchantsseeknewhome Closing could bring Wal-Mart Supercenter to neighborhood Wal-Mart hearing A public hearing on the proposed Wal-Mart Super- center is on the agenda at 4 p.m. at Metro Planning Commission meeting at the Howard Office Building, 700 Second Ave. S. PHOTOS BY BILLY KINGSLEY STAFF Although the sign says space available, Harding Mall may soon be torn down to make way for a Wal-Mart Supercenter.

Tenants have until the end of March to be out of the Mall. South East DAVIDSON BUSINESS THE CHANGING RETAIL LANDSCAPE Apollo Middle students who received awards for their bookmark designs are, from left, Roshni Patel, eight grade; Kyle Bowden, sixth grade; Brent Rodriguez, seventh grade; and Rocio Flores, fifth grade. SUBMITTED PHOTO Apollo student awards Winners were awarded for each grade level in three different categories. The children who won in the bookmark category are Rocio Flores Kyle Bowden Brent Rodriguez and Roshni Patel A special category was created for computer-generated bookmarks; that award was given to Ernesto Gonzalez The children who won in the poster category are Dhruv Patel Huda Kohin Amy Vilayhong and Manychanh Kittirath The students who won in the category are Justin Killough Huda Kohin David Miner and TianaShannon Shaku Amin, owner of the Baskin Robbins that has been at Harding Mall since the opening, is planning to reopen in mid-April at the Elysian Fields Shopping Center. Please see MALL, Page 2.