October 30, 2004: Headlines: COS - Ethiopia: Sports: Tennis: Service: The Hour: Arthur Goldblatt took up tennis while in the Peace Corps serving in Ethiopia, trading tennis lessons for English lessons with the national champion tennis player
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October 30, 2004: Headlines: COS - Ethiopia: Sports: Tennis: Service: The Hour: Arthur Goldblatt took up tennis while in the Peace Corps serving in Ethiopia, trading tennis lessons for English lessons with the national champion tennis player
Arthur Goldblatt took up tennis while in the Peace Corps serving in Ethiopia, trading tennis lessons for English lessons with the national champion tennis player
Arthur Goldblatt took up tennis while in the Peace Corps serving in Ethiopia, trading tennis lessons for English lessons with the national champion tennis player
Tennis master, healthy walkers win bouquets
November that awaits us, in the words of Sir Walter Scott: "November's sky is chill and drear, November's leaf is red and sear." It will be preceded by the hobgoblins and witches this weekend as October fades from view.
Along with the chill windy precursor of the month comes our weekly awards to the good, the bad and the otherwise in the Greater Norwalk area and beyond.
Our first bouquet goes to a local attorney who makes a great case for youngsters on the tennis court.
Arthur Goldblatt took up tennis while in the Peace Corps serving in Ethiopia, trading tennis lessons for English lessons with the national champion tennis player. Back in Norwalk running a legal aid office, he became acquainted with the youngsters living in the city's housing projects. Nine years later, he founded Norwalk Grassroots Tennis as a summer program in the projects.
Today it is a year-round program and involves more than 300 youngsters. But they're not just learning how to play tennis; they are improving themselves and as they become empowered, it filters into other phases of their lives.
At 70, Goldblatt shows no signs of slowing down. In fact, he's busy raising money for the program's $70,000 budget. Federal funding ran out in 2002.
To the youngsters, he's known as Coach Art; he's actually much more than that.
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