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Everyday Hero Robert Johnson is the Executive Director of AMIkids. 2011/09/05 More Info St. Pete Beach -- Seventeen-year-old David Wheeler says his life wouldn't be the same without Robert Johnson. The teen nominated Johnson as an

Young men at AMIkids West Florida are providing community service! Each year, they work to clean-up the waterfall at Falling Waters State Park. This famous waterfall goes down a hole about 60 feet deep, and from time to time trash that has fallen into the hole is removed. To get to the trash, AMIkids students had to rappel down into the hole. Then a bucket was lowered, filled with trash and hauled up. That was the easy part. The hard part was getting out of the hole. For that they used a special rock climbing device with ratchets that inch-wormed them back up.

AMIkids brought together more than 100 Louisiana and Florida students to celebrate WAT-AAH!'s Move Your Body 2012 at Loyola University in New Orleans on May 3rd. To their surprise they even had a few special guests join them! Marques Colston, Pierre Thomas and Roman Harper of the New Orleans Saints and Bruno White from SWC were on hand to join in the festivities. The kids and athletes took part in WAT-AAH!'s "Let's Move! Flash Workout" Anniversary Celebration, supported by the First Lady Michelle Obama, 16-time Grammy Award winner, Beyoncé and the National Association of Broadcasters Education Foundation (NABEF) .

Tony Dorsett enjoyed a brilliant career as a collegiate and NFL running back, but the former Dallas Cowboys Hall-of-Famer now has set his sights on helping troubled South Carolina kids get an opportunity to become responsible and productive citizens within their local communities. Registration is now being accepted for the 6th Annual Tony Dorsett AMIkids Celebrity Golf Classic that will be held Saturday, May 19, at True Blue Golf Plantation in Pawleys Island, S.C. All proceeds from the event will go toward funding for a much-needed new AMIkids facility in the Georgetown, S.C., area.

The Tampa Bay Business Journal has announced AMIkids as a finalist for the 2012 Nonprofit of the Year Awards. Honorees will be recognized at the awards luncheon on Thursday, June 21st. The Tampa Bay Business Journal will be publishing the 2012 Nonprofit of the Year special section featuring all of the finalists in the June 22nd issue of the Tampa Bay Business Journal.

Board Royal Caribbean's Allure of the Seas for "Getting on Board for Kids" this June. Find out more information at the "read more" link below. Get your tickets today!

In NFL CHARACTERS UNITE, Coach Dungy introduces a group of ex-offenders from Abe Brown Ministry to the students at AMIkids and asks them to break into pairs. The ex-offenders then share their stories with the kids, in an attempt to educate them that making smart decisions now can save them a lifetime of pain. Coach Dungy walks amongst the groups, adding insight to each of the conversations.

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AMIkids Donaldsonville is bringing together job-seekers, businesses and area colleges for a Job and Education Fair from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday at the Lamar-Dixon Expo Center gym in Gonzales. The job fair will provide companies, such as NUCOR S

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WAT-AAH!, the first line of functional bottled water for kids, and NFL superstar, Marques Colston, recently joined forces to bring awareness to the national epidemic of childhood obesity and to promote healthier lifestyle choices. Colston, wide recei

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WAT-AAH! Presents Saints' Marques Colston at Rouses' Grand Opening and Honors AMIkids SOURCE WAT-AAH! NEW ORLEANS, Nov. 28, 2011 /PRNewswire/ --WAT-AAH!, the first line of functional bottled water for kids, and NFL superstar, Marques Colston, r

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Members of Louisiana's Legislative Black Caucus received the National Legislative Appreciation award from AMIKids, Inc. at their annual Board of Trustees event in Tampa, Florida. Approximately three hundred board members, directors and supporters of

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Fulford and Boyce speak at Optimist Club October 20, 2011 Board member Wayland Fulford and Executive Director Ron Boyce presented at the Marianna Optimist Club meeting on Oct. 18.  They outlined the achievements of AMIkids West Florida and fielded ma

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| Trevor Burmeister was ready to fulfill his Army Reserve duty a year from now in Afghanistan, and when the army decide to add another year to his active duty, beginning today , he said "OK." Burmeister, 32, is a teacher at AMIkids, an alternative

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] Olympic diver Sara Hildebrand got a lesson from teenagers in trouble with the law. Hildebrand partnered with Team USA and BP as part of a program that serves 9,000 teens in the juvenile justice system in nine states. And last week she dove into

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JUNO BEACH — AMIkids Palm Beach recently announced leadership changes at the local program with the appointment of Michelle Miller as the new executive director of AMIkids Palm Beach and Rick Sartory being elected as a new volunteer board chairperson

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MANATEE -- A former dropout risk who turned his life around at Lakewood Ranch High School has become, at 19, the youngest student to serve on the Florida Board of Governors for the state university system. Michael Long grew up in Sarasota but move

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South Carolina State will play host to the four-day AMIkids Summer Challenge Event May 23-26. The event, which is being conducted on the S.C. State campus for the third straight year, affords youths from eight states - including South Carolina -

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The final stanza of his poem, titled "Growing Up," summed it up this way: The sun never shines; the stars never glow. Now, I keep my head down, so my tears will not show. Teacher Sandi Constantini is pleased with the way her students e

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By BOB PETCHER,rpetcher@breezenewspapers.com New Orleans Saints defensive tackle Anthony Hargrove is a Super Bowl champion. But the road to this ultimate sports achievement had many bumps in it, including a drug suspension in 2008 and more than a

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NFL free agent Hargrove teaches from example Port Charlotte graduate Anthony Hargrove, who played defensive lineman for the New Orleans Saints last season, speaks about his troubled past to a group kids at AMI kids facility in Fort Myers Beach on