Article: More than 100 Afterschool Programs in Ohio Celebrating Lights On Afterschool! This Week.

7,500 Rallies Nationwide Aim to Make Afterschool Programs Available to All

COLUMBUS, Ohio, Oct. 11 /PRNewswire/ -- Afterschool programs throughout Ohio will join 7,500 events around the nation celebrating the seventh annual Lights On Afterschool! Day, organized by the Afterschool Alliance and in Ohio by the Ohio Afterschool Network. California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger is Chair of Lights On Afterschool! again this year. Ohio Governor Bob Taft has declared October 12, 2005, Lights On Afterschool! Day.

The events will highlight three of the significant contributions that afterschool programs make to their communities: keeping kids safe and healthy, ...

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