THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1996, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Sunday, February 25, 1996 TAG: 9602230272
SECTION: VIRGINIA BEACH BEACON PAGE: 04 EDITION: FINAL
LENGTH: Short : 23 lines
The Virginia Beach chapter of Very Special Arts Virginia, a
nonprofit volunteer group that uses the arts to help disabled adults
and children find creative expression, recently completed a banner
that will hang in the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in
Washington. Disabled high school students like Netala Forbes, left,
and Damon Martone, who attend classes in the West Wing of Princess
Anne High School, recently painted self-portraits and signed the
banner. Very Special Arts is an international program started in
1974 by Jean Kennedy Smith. Chapters worldwide will be sending
banners to the center.
by CNB