Network Newsman to Return Home to Speak at Youth Center Fundraiser

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"We do bring in young people from the center to hear the speaker," she said. "This is to be a community event, so we want children there, we want families there, as well as public officials and other individuals," she said.

[Rachel Ashburn Mallory] said, "This is probably one of Columbus' best kept secrets, and we don't want to keep it a secret anymore."

The center's success isn't measured solely by how many participants went on to local and national acclaim, such as Griffin, Tavares, Johns or Olympic gold medalist Michael Redd, but rather by the huge number of Ashburn Center kids who stayed in school and, in some cases, became the first in their family to earn college degrees, [Keith Neal] said.

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Network Newsman to Return Home to Speak at Youth Center Fundraiser

CNN correspondent Joe Johns, who has presented news to the nation, will bring a message back home in Columbus on behalf of a youth cente...

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