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Article: Network newsman to return home to speak at youth center fundraiser
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- Call & Post
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- September 24, 2008
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CNN correspondent Joe Johns, who has presented news to the nation, will bring a message back home in Columbus on behalf of a youth center in his old neighborhood.
Johns will speak at the annual J. Ashburn Jr. Youth Center Inc. Speaker's Award Banquet at 5 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 5, at Villa Milano Banquet and Conference Center, 1630 Schrock Rd.
The event is intended to raise money for the center, which has served young people on the West Side for 46 years, and to bring in speakers whose accomplishments and contributions to society inspire youths, said Rachel Ashburn Mallory, chairman of the board.
"We do bring in young people from the center to hear the speaker," she said. "This is to be a ...