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SHOPPER NEWS
A free youth day at Mill Race Park in the heart of downtown Battle Creek will offer everything from lessons
on how to paint a mural to chalk art to ice cream Wednesday, Aug. 14 from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. as part of Color
the Creek, being held Aug. 12-16. (Shopper News file photo by Shelly Kehrle-Sulser) story continued on page 2Christina Khim is the new executive
director of the Burma Center. (Shopper News
photo by Shelly Kehrle-Sulser)Color the Creek returns Aug. 12-
Christina Khim is new Burma
Center executive director
SHELLY KEHRLE-SULSER
Executive EditorA woman who knows what its like to
run for her life from her home country due
to the violence of a military coup, to be a
refugee for more than two years in another
country and then to become a United
States immigrant can relate to the people
she’s helping in her new job as executive
director of the Springfield Burma Center.
Now a United States citizen, for-
mer Burma Center Associate Director
Christina Khim assumed the leadership
position at the Burma Center July 8, suc-
ceeding Executive Director Tha Par who
now works at Truth, Racial Healing &
Transformation, a program of the W.K.
Kellogg Foundation.
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