Saturday, June 13, 2009

Arkansas Olympics Part 1

By Mara Hernandez-Capili

The Olympics is an event held where countries all over the world participate to stand up for their countries pride. But these medals represent pride of the countries who participate; they do their best to train and show the whole world about their skill and talents. Of course medals are won Gold for the top winner second has silver and third has bronze.

They give our elderly an outlet to show that despite their age they still have innate pride and them and this can be showcased in forms of games and sports. This is the main cause of the Arkansas Senior Olympics it is just one of the groups that has been organize to make events particularly games and form into an Olympics activity specially catered to our elders. They have a lot of games that are shared by its participants; examples are 3 on 3 basketball, archery, bowling, golf, tennis and even weight lifting.

For recreational events they have basketball shooting, daisy air gun, the standing long jump, the one mile mixed relay and many more; all to promote camaraderie between the elderly of the State of Arkansas. Also this is to promote the betterment of the health of our old folks. And to give them time to mingle around and build relationships with each other.

They are governed with a good group of board of directors and executive staffs who help promote the vision and mission of the group. Actual achievements are actually made by the participants of the Arkansas Senior Olympics. They have Frances Barger who achieved the 2006 Glenn Cunningham Track Award for showing outstanding performance in the track events in national and state games. This organization showed a lot of support to our elderly and helps them show that despite their age they still have it. - 2361

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