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Commerce Mentors Asked To 'Make The Knot' With Middle School Boys

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Commerce Middle School principal Dr. Shenequa Miller is organizing a mentorship program called "Make the Knot" in which local men will mentor Middle School boys.  They will each teach a boy to tie a necktie.  One organizational meeting has already happened, and the next meeting for mentors will be at 5:30 p.m. Thursday (November 8) in the Commerce Middle School library.  The mentors will meet the boys at 2:25 p.m., Wednesday, November 28. The Commerce Community Action Program (C-CAP) is a partner in the program, and Dr. John Ballotti of C-CAP also appears on this program.

John Mark Dempsey is the host of the public interest program The Blacklands Café from KETR News. Dempsey is also the play-by-play announcer for Commerce Tigers Football on 88.9 FM and on ketr.org.
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