Inner-City Games to expand events

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Tuesday, Jan. 14, 2003 | 9:16 a.m.

Actor and fitness legend Arnold Schwarzenegger swung through Las Vegas Monday to promote a new partnership between the Inner-City Games and the Boys & Girls Club.

The Inner-City Games -- which has traditionally offered weekend and summer activities such as swimming, volleyball and basketball -- will be expanded to include computer classes, art, dance and music, said Jackie Locks, executive director of the programs for Greater Las Vegas.

Many of the activities will be offered at the Lied Memorial Boys & Girls Club of Las Vegas, as well as area schools, Locks said.

Schwarzenegger, who is national chairman of the Inner-City Games, said by teaming up, the two organizations will be able to provide more safe, after-school sports opportunities for children.

"Study after study shows that the afternoon hours between 3 and 6 p.m. are the danger zones for children," Schwarzenegger said in a statement. "But when they're invovled and engaged in after-school programs that they want to go to, there is a huge drop in crime, drug use, teen pregnancy and an improvement in grades, graduation rates and self-esteem."