SYMMES TOWNSHIP, OHIO NEWS – Talent show: Get a song stuck in your head

“A young man with a heart for his peers in Uganda.”

SYMMES TOWNSHIP, OHIO NEWS – On Friday night March 14th the curtain goes up at 7:30PM-at Loveland High School's auditorium for a talent show that will raise money for Invisible Children.

The show is organized by local high school students concerned about the war torn schools and the effects of a 20-year-long war on the children of Northern Uganda.

Thirty-eight Loveland High School students have raised $4,820.38 so far and hope to raise a lot more, to support Invisible Children's, Schools for Schools program. Click this link to see a video describing the program . The Schools for Schools program is designed to build a partnership between schools in the United States and schools in Northern Uganda. All proceeds from the talent show will go “specifically to former child soldiers and child mothers who are currently displaced orphans at Layibi Secondary School in northern Uganda,” according to Jake Potticary who is helping to organize the local talent show. Potticary describes himself as, “A young man with a heart for his peers in Uganda.”

The show will again be emceed by local comedian and inspirational speaker,Sally Baucke. Click here to hear some of Baucke's take on everyday life as a mother living in Loveland. “Sally Baucke is a stand-up comedian, emcee and keynote speaker with a wacky, clean sense of humor. She has been traveling around the Midwest brightening people's days for fourteen years.” Other acts include: singing, guitar, violin, magic tricks, beat-boxing, and the Napoleon Dynamite Dance.

Cost is $5 at the door with free baked goods, chips, and cold soft drinks (donations accepted). New, Invisible Children shirts designed by Loveland High School Junior Cullen Dyer will be on sale during intermission for $12 (short sleeve) and $15 (raglan sleeve).

Editor's note: If the past production of this talent show is an indicator, this will be a entertaining, feel good night (feeling good about making a difference). Yes, this is your old fashioned small town talent show, but the acts had to go through auditions, and I am certain you will be inspired, amused, and get your heart strings strung, at the acts on the stage of Loveland High School on March 14. Next day, “I've got a song stuck in my head” is a certainty.

Potticary is one of “This Year's Gold Heroes” featured on the School for School's web site, ”We can't say enough good things about this guy. Jake – nicknamed "townie" throughout Cincinnati because he's always doing IC screenings – is an incredible leader. He's gotten everyone at his school hooked on doing good because he believes it's truly essential to serve and love one another. While Jake has been incredibly successful at leading his Schools for Schools club and has done a ridiculous amount of fundraising, the heart and change we've witnessed in his life make him the kind of guy we're proud to have leading this program.”

Watch Potticary explain his drive to help the Invisible Children.