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Urban American Outdoors' Summit Weekend

Urban American Outdoors had its 1st Annual Urban Outdoor Summit, Sept. 24-26, 2010 at the Holiday Inn SE in Kansas City with partner Kansas City, Missouri Parks & Rec.  The event started off with a continental breakfast and prayer given by Rev. Modest Miles. A UAO Film presentation set the tone and the Master of Ceremonies was Roy Hobbs who introduced UAO host Wayne Hubbard and Mark Bowland, Community Service Manager of Parks & Recreation to give opening remarks and welcomes. Mark Bowland then continued on with his presentation of the Kansas City Parks and how special they are to families in Kansas City. This was followed by footage of our beautiful First Lady Michelle Obama's speaking on her "Let's Move" program. The program is about getting our children healthy with better food choices and physical exercise. Next speaker Corey Paris who is Urban American Outdoors' Director of Youth Outreach. Corey Paris is also the Johnson County Community College Student President who has high political aspirations which was very apparent by the thought provoking speech he gave on how to reach his generation and get them involved.  He made many valid points to parents on how the young people of today think and why they think the way they do. He is definitely a leader for our future. The morning sessions then wound up with plenty of fresh food, questions, answers and networking.

We had a very special luncheon where recipients received Urban American Outdoors' Perspective Award.  The Perspective Award is an award given by UAO to celebrate the Outdoor Lifestyle and it's participants who believe that "Outdoors is for Everyone" and has worked passionately regardless of conventional thought to shares this ideology. Winners for the award were David Wyatt, Arthur Bronson, Sabrina Thompson and Carl Price Jr. All the winners had worked tirelessly over the years with little or no recognition of their dedicated services and all were sincerely appreciative of the acknowledgment.

 After the celebration and food it was back to business opening up with our Anglers Panel which consisted of Arthur Bronson, Sabrina Thompson both of the International Federation of Black Bass Fisherman and Onji Jordon of the Fishers of Men based out of Chicago. This was a very thought provoking panel on their individual triumphs and trials of being black in the outdoors. Arthur Bronson spoke on trying to get major sponsorships to compete in the Bass Tournaments and how we are often excluded in the big money purses. He also spoke on how back in the 80's he was in talks with BET television about getting his TV show on their Network to no avail. Still today BET is still peddling negative images to our youth and to the world globally about black life that consist of a small percentage of how most of us live. Our children never see black teachers, doctors, regular whole families, outdoors programs or happy endings. The Network is owned by Viacom.

Next we had our own live Action Hero retired Major Samuel Morgon who for over two decades kept America safe. Some Samuels's impressive military accomplishments included Airborne School, Ranger School, Special Forces, SERE and the list goes on. Today he is owner of his own company, writer and spoke about his experience as a young person in the outdoors with his family which led him to a very successful career in the military in his adult life. Following Samuel Morgon was Outdoor Specialist David Wyatt who talked about his time with the Missouri Dept. of Conservation and about it is time for us to not look to other people to mentor our children but it is up to us to mentor us. Everyone in the room was in full agreement with Mr. Wyatt's dynamic presentation. At this point Mr. Terence Gunn unexpectedly gave special recognition to Wayne Hubbard and Candice Price for their outreach and support for the F.L Schlagle High School Marching Band for when they made their trip to Washington D.C. to perform for President Obama.

  After a quick break everyone was ready for Arletha Bland Manlove lead ombudsman for the Green Impact Zone presentation. She brought pertinent information in regards to all the wonderful things that is and will be going on in the zone. She spoke on the sustainability, urban gardens, rain gardens and environmental concerns that effect not only our lives here in Kansas City but globally.

At this point Roy Hobbs introduced the UAO Panel with Wayne Hubbard, Candice Price and Chef Kevin Kimbrough. We show a segment of the show and talked about Urban American Outdoors and our spin off show Urban Soul Wild with Executive Chef Kevin. Urban Soul Wild takes you on a healthy soulful culinary journey with cooking segments of fresh garden vegetables, wild game, fish or chicken, and anything Kevin and Wayne can come up with. The audience really got into the food segments and questions were asked about healthy cooking.

The Summit was coming close to ending but everyone was anticipating the featured Documentary, "The Father of Turkish Hockey, The Glenn Brown Story" which was produced by Urban American Productions. This doc is the unique story of how Amateur Hockey was first bought to the Country of Turkey, in fact brought there by a Black Man, Glenn Brown. Glenn Brown grew up in Michigan playing hockey and when he was old enough he enlisted in the military. When he was stationed in Turkey in 1983 he took his game with him and started teaching a group of young men the game of Hockey. Over the next 20 years Glenn was instrumental in getting the sport recognized as a major sport in Turkey and was given the title as the Father of Turkish Hockey. The doc has already won awards and there is talk about later making it into a movie. After the story was watched Glenn who was in attendance was given a long standing ovation. It was so heartfelt and long overdue. Everyone loved the Summit and to cap off the evening we all went to Gates Bar BQ, one of our Sponsors and broke bread together.

Day two of the Summit was Urban Outdoor Day which we dedicated to the youth. We had a Proclamation for this day from the Mayor and support from many who had attended the Summit. We had a Kids Fishing Derby and clinic, STEM activities, The Kansas City Spartans, ladies football members, Xcalibar Outdoor Sportsman Team and the F.L. Schlagle Marching Stallions with Music Director Reggie May and staff came to perform a whole set for us. Executive Chef Kevin Kimbrough of Urban Soul Wild TV show came and performed his culinary magic on the grill. The Kids had a great time and many told us they will be ready for our next event.

To finish up the Summit weekend, Sunday we had a special Chiefs Tailgating party with our Executive Chef Kevin Kimbrough and Host Wayne Hubbard for our cooking show, Urban Soul Wild. Staying close to our theme we had Duck, Wild Hog, Chicken Wings, fresh urban garden vegetables and made homemade Cobblers on the grill which were unbelievably delicious. Of course we filmed and it will be aired at a later date.

All in all, the entire Urban Outdoor Summit was a success and with the new friends and alliances that were formed, the Summit will return next year bigger and better.

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