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Riverside's Deaf Awareness Week begins Sunday | Local News | PE.com | Southern California News | News for Inland Southern California
A family picnic Sunday at Riverside's Villegas Park will kick off the city's annual Deaf Awareness Week, which runs through Sept. 25.
As home to one of the state's two schools for deaf students, Riverside has a larger than average population of deaf and hard-of-hearing people.
Deaf Awareness Week is a joint project of the mayor's model deaf community committee, the Center on Deafness - Inland Empire, and the California School for the Deaf, Riverside.
With a whole week of events to bring the deaf and hearing communities together, "We think it's unlike any other city in California," Mayor Ron Loveridge said.
Other events include a pizza and football night, free hearing tests, a softball game, and demonstrations, stories and songs in sign language.
The deaf school is very involved in the week's activities and will be giving tours of new student cottages that opened this fall, school spokeswoman Laurie Pietro said.
"We are just trying to mainly let Riverside people know we are here and what we have to offer," she said.
Loveridge said the model deaf community committee originated around 1998 after he met with officials at the Inland Empire deaf center.
"I went there and said, 'My goodness, we need to open this up and have the community understand and participate and respect' " its deaf residents, he said.
"The model deaf community was looking for ways to integrate more effectively the hard of hearing into the ... economic life, social life of Riverside."
One mark of success may be a first-time program that placed deaf students in internships around the community this summer.
Pietro said about two dozen students worked and learned through jobs in hospitality and home renovation.
Reach Alicia Robinson at 951-368-9461 or arobinson@PE.com
Deaf Awareness Week
The annual event in Riverside invites hearing and deaf residents to meet and mingle.
Sunday: family picnic, 11 a.m. - 5 p.m., Villegas Park, 7240 Marguerita Ave.
Monday: football and pizza, 5-9 p.m., Big Cheese Pizza Co., 3397 Mission Inn Ave.
Tuesday: hearing screenings, 3-6 p.m., Center on Deafness - Inland Empire, 3576 Arlington Ave. Suite 211
Wednesday: open house, 10 a.m. - 1 p.m., California School for the Deaf, Riverside, 3044 Horace St.; tour of Fox Performing Arts Center at 4 p.m.
Thursday: stories in American Sign Language, 3-5 p.m., Arlington library, 9556 Magnolia Ave.
Friday: songs in sign language, 6-8 p.m., Riverside Plaza, 3545 Central Ave.
Saturday: softball game, 7 p.m., Andulka Park, 5201 Chicago Ave.
A family picnic Sunday at Riverside's Villegas Park will kick off the city's annual Deaf Awareness Week, which runs through Sept. 25.
As home to one of the state's two schools for deaf students, Riverside has a larger than average population of deaf and hard-of-hearing people.
Deaf Awareness Week is a joint project of the mayor's model deaf community committee, the Center on Deafness - Inland Empire, and the California School for the Deaf, Riverside.
With a whole week of events to bring the deaf and hearing communities together, "We think it's unlike any other city in California," Mayor Ron Loveridge said.
Other events include a pizza and football night, free hearing tests, a softball game, and demonstrations, stories and songs in sign language.
The deaf school is very involved in the week's activities and will be giving tours of new student cottages that opened this fall, school spokeswoman Laurie Pietro said.
"We are just trying to mainly let Riverside people know we are here and what we have to offer," she said.
Loveridge said the model deaf community committee originated around 1998 after he met with officials at the Inland Empire deaf center.
"I went there and said, 'My goodness, we need to open this up and have the community understand and participate and respect' " its deaf residents, he said.
"The model deaf community was looking for ways to integrate more effectively the hard of hearing into the ... economic life, social life of Riverside."
One mark of success may be a first-time program that placed deaf students in internships around the community this summer.
Pietro said about two dozen students worked and learned through jobs in hospitality and home renovation.
Reach Alicia Robinson at 951-368-9461 or arobinson@PE.com
Deaf Awareness Week
The annual event in Riverside invites hearing and deaf residents to meet and mingle.
Sunday: family picnic, 11 a.m. - 5 p.m., Villegas Park, 7240 Marguerita Ave.
Monday: football and pizza, 5-9 p.m., Big Cheese Pizza Co., 3397 Mission Inn Ave.
Tuesday: hearing screenings, 3-6 p.m., Center on Deafness - Inland Empire, 3576 Arlington Ave. Suite 211
Wednesday: open house, 10 a.m. - 1 p.m., California School for the Deaf, Riverside, 3044 Horace St.; tour of Fox Performing Arts Center at 4 p.m.
Thursday: stories in American Sign Language, 3-5 p.m., Arlington library, 9556 Magnolia Ave.
Friday: songs in sign language, 6-8 p.m., Riverside Plaza, 3545 Central Ave.
Saturday: softball game, 7 p.m., Andulka Park, 5201 Chicago Ave.