About Kim Smith

Age: 21
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Stories by Kim

	World-class coach awaits gymnastics event here By Kim Smith, 4, Chris Lee, 4, Aaron Shakelford, 4 Gymnastics, Bela Karolyi says, "is a beautiful, challenging sport." Karolyi ought to know. He's coached Mary Lou Retton and Nadia Comaneci, and he'll be in Indianapolis in September to coach Kim Zmeskal in the World Gymnastics Championships _ the final qualifying competition for the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain. The Romanian-born Karolyi also was in Indianapolis last month to hel
	Older people more likely to recycle By Schmieka Carpenter, 14, Kim Smith, 4 Fair poll shows aluminum cans are by far most popular recyclable Children's Express wanted to know approximately how many people in Indianapolis recycle and which age groups are more active in their recycling. This summer we polled 135 people at the Deer Creek Fair in Noblesville about recycling. Seventy-eight percent of the people said that they recycled. Of this group 59 percent of people be
	Kids who care starting clubs to save planet By Kim Smith, 4, Tracey Miller, 11, Chris Gilmartin, , Timothy Ward, , Matt Fultz, These are the words that a class at Allisonville Elementary School in Indianapolis tries to live by. Children's Express, curious about how third-graders could save the Earth, interviewed these children late last spring. We found that they upheld the Kids for Saving Earth promise by recycling their discards and using recyclable products, educating adults and children about environmental concer
	She doesn't talk down to kids By Shawn Odle, 14, Kim Smith, 5 Oprah Winfrey has words of wisdom for both teens and adults. BLACK HISTORY MONTH This profile is a Children's Express effort to place a positive focus on prominent blacks who are helping to make the "dream" come true. Oprah Winfrey takes kids seriously. The TV talk show host told Children's Express she thinks: Fifteen-year-olds should be allowed to vote. "If you could vote at the age of 16 or 1
	Baby-sitting course teaches job is life-death responsibility By Kim Smith, 4, Aaron Shakelford, 4, Matt White, For more information about classes and locations, call (317) 355-4888 or write to 1500 North Ritter Avenue, Indianapolis, Ind. 46219. The Safe Sitter program, founded after a needless death, provides training in first aid, rescue breathing and children's behavior at various ages. A child needlessly dies because an adult baby sitter didn't recognize that the child was choking. The baby sitter
	Competing in contest on Constitution a class act By Kim Smith, 5, Sarah Furimsky, Is the government taking away our rights? This was the question Congress wanted to answer when it created the National Competition on the Constitution and Bill of Rights in 1987. Congress wanted to make sure that citizens were informed, so they would know when their rights were being violated. This contest was designed for high school students, who study the Constitution and the Bill of Rights