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Article: Empress staffers help with basketball clinic
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- The Sun - Homer Township - Lockport - Lemont (IL)
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- April 1, 2009
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A youth basketball clinic Saturday featured players from the Chicago Sky WNBA team and was the first of several sports-training events planned by the Unity Community Development Corp.
It's also the first of a number of volunteer projects being taken on by Empress Casino employees who are temporarily out of the casino business since the March 20 fire.
Wayne Smith, recreation director for Unity CDC, said he also has plans for a football clinic in June with NFL players participating. Other sports clinics will fccus on baseball and golf, he said.
Empress employees have joined in as one of their first volunteer efforts ...