The Way to Happiness and Hard2Guard Help Youth "Be Competent" at the Long Center

Clearwater, FL, March 29, 2016 (Newswire.com) - ​​On Saturday, 26 March, The Way to Happiness Association Tampa Bay partnered with basketball coaching group Hard2Guard Rising Stars and basketball coach, Dyimond Johnson, on a free basketball camp for over 150 youth and parents and the Long Center. The camp was open from 8:30am to 2:30pm for kids and teens aged 7 – 17 years old.

Five coaches from the Hard2Gaurd group trained two separate age groups, 7 – 12 years and 13 – 17 years old, on basketball techniques and drills in the Long Center’s gymnasium. Attending parents were able to watch from the second floor. Drills began at 9:30am with the younger group and was followed by certificates, an Easter egg hunt and refreshments in the courtyard of the Long Center’s main entrance.

​Schenique Harris from Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office and mother of Dyimond Johnson, organized the event. Volunteers from the community as well as The Way to Happiness Foundation Tampa Bay assisted in setups and handing out refreshments. The Way to Happiness also donated over 150 candy-stuffed easter eggs for the egg hunt. Special prizes were given out to two lucky kids who found a golden and silver egg.

Founded in 2004, Hard2Guard is a premier basketball organization focusing on training and coaching. Its founder, Coach Chris, has over 25 years of experience in coaching and playing basketball. Hard2Guard’s mission is to help young players achieve their goals in basketball through better coaching, training and regular events and tournaments.

“These types of camps help kids to be more competent, so they can achieve their dreams,” said Tanja Cranton, the Executive Director of The Way to Happiness Foundation Tampa Bay, “One of our missions is to help families become more competent as based on a Precept in The Way to Happiness book. That is our motivation for helping organizations like Hard2Guard.”

The Way to Happiness book is a common-sense guide to better living, written by L. Ron Hubbard. The book contains 21 precepts applicable by anyone to improve their life and the lives of others.

The Way to Happiness Association engages in community outreach and partners with like-minded organization to bring about better morals in the society. Their Tampa Bay headquarters opened in July 2015, located at 33 N. Fort Harrison Avenue in downtown Clearwater. The center holds regular events and activities based on the 21 precepts, such as “Take Care of Yourself”, “Be Competent” and “Set a Good Example”. The center is open to the community. For more information, or to find out about upcoming events, please contact the center at 727-467-6961.

The Way to Happiness

The Way to Happiness book was written and published by L. Ron Hubbard in 1981 as a nonreligious, common-sense guide to better living. Its purpose is to help arrest the current moral decline in society and restore integrity and trust to humankind. It is available in 112 languages, with some 115 million copies distributed in 186 nations. The campaign to distribute the book has been embraced by more than 257,000 groups and individuals and is supported by the Church of Scientology. It holds the Guinness World Record as the single most-translated nonreligious book and fills the moral vacuum in an increasingly materialistic society. For more information visit www.thewaytohappiness.org