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Boxing for books


Members of Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity met with Reading Railroad participants at the Margaret N. Perry Children’s Center to promote Pike Fights XVI. The event, to benefit Weakley County Reading Railroad, is slated for 7 p.m. April 8 in the Skyhawk Fieldhouse.

The event includes 10 to 12 bouts of three one-minute rounds each.

All of the participants are UTM fraternity members. Tickets are $8 for general admission or $10 for ringside seats. Tickets will go on sale March 21 at the information desk in the UC.

Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library sponsors the reading program, which provides a free book each month to Weakley County participants from ages birth to 5 years old.

Anyone interested in the Weakley County Reading Railroad program, may contact a library in the county. Johnny Vincent is chairman of the Weakley County Reading Railroad.

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Pictured with UT Martin Chancellor Nick Dunagan, far right, are Pikes, from left, Brian Patterson, Pike Fights coordinator, Andrew Jennings and Jonathan McAnulty; and Reading Railroad participants, Reese Newbill, Davin Merritt, Matt McMillan, Ben McMillan, Emma Newbill, Serenity Harrell and Elizabeth Mehlhorn.