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Office of the Mayor
NEWS RELEASE
October 14,2011
1:00 PM
Contact: Mikki Dobski, Director of Communications&Special Projects, 235-5855 or 876-1564
Oct. 23 celebration set for All-America City designation
A community celebration of South Bend's All-America City designation will take place at 3:30 p.m.
Sunday, Oct. 23 at the Palais Royale, 105 W. Colfax Ave. Admission is free.
The event will feature a live performance by the Pathfinders Drum Corps of the Berean Seventh-day
Adventist Church in South Bend as well as brief presentations by each of the three award-winning
projects. The Pathfinders Drum Corps,which mixes drumming and movement and is directed by Herbert
Henley Jr.,was featured in two public performances during the 2011 All-America City Awards in Kansas
City,Mo.
South Bend was selected June 17 as an All-America City for 2011,winning the nation's oldest and most
prestigious community award,often described as"a civic Oscar."A national panel of jurors chose South
Bend and nine other cities from among 26 finalists.
South Bend's application highlighted three projects, and its 60-member delegation included
representatives of each of these groups:
• Revitalization of the Northeast Neighborhood, in which neighborhood residents,the City of South
Bend,the University of Notre Dame and other key partners redeveloped the area near campus. (This
effort recently received the National League of Cities' 2010 Gold Award of Municipal Excellence.)
• Transformation of the former Engman Natatorium, a public facility that was a landmark of
segregation, into the Indiana University South Bend Civil Rights Heritage Center,into a symbol of
hope and opportunity as part of the city's museum campus.
• Development of 2120 STARS,a grassroots effort among a coalition of parachurch agencies,
student volunteers and others to create a peer-to-peer intervention effort to reduce high-school
dropout rates.