WON'T YOU TAKE ME TO...FUNKY TOWN!!!!

Go on...I DARE you not to start singing that favorite old disco tune when you hear the name of SL's newest kids-oriented region! Funky Town is on the Paradise Garden sim, and has many attractions that can keep kids busy and happy for hours on end!!! It's the brainchild of Kylei Benoir and Nicole McCallen, and this pair has been working nearly non-stop on the sim for the past week or so.

Rollerjamz is a kewl skating rink that should become a big hang-out. If you don't own a pair of roller skates, no worries--you can easily purchase a pair there. You can pick up a free T-shirt there too. Rollerjamz hosts kids parties, too; ask Kylei for more info on holding a big bash there.

Kidz Helping Kidz is a health clinic to the right of Rollerjamz. Now that the Sickeze HUD is catching on (like a cold!) with SL kids, we all need a place to get better! A staff led by Ms. Vernice Burks sets broken bones, gives cootie shots and offers physical exams. And after you try the Cootie Detector, trust me, you will WANT that inoculation ASAP!!!!

Bumper cars are close to the clinic, and there's a BIG ferris wheel at Funky Town too. A riding trail and an adoption agency are planned as well. There are several stores, including Nicole and Kylei's Troubled Monkey Inc and the return of Dharma's. Aura's, Patchlets and ShiNne'z CrEatiOn'z are there too. A lovely park with picnic tables (and food!), and a playground with SLopoly are in the center of the action.

There are five houses for rent on Funky Town. I live in one of them, and I love this kid-sized home! Two houses are left as I write this; come and check them out! (Paradise Garden 122, 192, 22)

WANT A PARENT? FIND ONE HERE!

There's a new business on the Starlight Starbright sim, and it's dedicated to bringing parents and kids together! Starlight Adoptions is a new adoption agency, and it features the same high quality that makes that sim a real standout in SL. There's a few especially nice things about this place that distinguish it from other agencies:
*The application is the most detailed I've seen in SL; it really seeks to give a prospective parent or son/daughter an idea of what the people in the panels are about. It provides more info than just a handful of questions and a photo. It also asks for the parents' real name, which is cool...you can then look up their profiles and read even more about them!
*Once a child registers at Starlight Adoptions and is invited into that group, he or she can buy a special New Kid Pack for 1L. It features stuffs like skins, hair and clothes, and you know it's got to be stylish and attractive since Babydoll put the package together! There are also some skins and outfits available for 5L each--such a deal!
*There's an arcade in the back of the agency with a Greedy Greedy game. I will repeat that. THERE'S A GREEDY GREEDY GAME AT THE AGENCY!!! This game is so addictive it's sick! Don't take my word for it...ask JoshuaMatthew Rossini and he'll tell you all about it! (Heeheehee!) Kids can hang out there and play Greedy, UNO and other games...it really is a nice new hangout spot for us.
*Orphans with nowhere to go can go sleepies in a treehouse or a moon house on the ground once they have signed up with an agency. You will have a bed of your very own, and be able to set your Home position to that site.
*I work there! I'm a Starlight Helper and will be at the site seven hours a week to help kids and grownups set up panels, answer questions, stuffs like that. Some nice kids are on the staff, so come by and say hello anytime! And if you know reputable grownups who want to adopt a child, or a child who needs a family, tell them to stop by! (Starlight Starbright 100, 226, 23).