Tidbits 4/20

• The Clayboard - SunflowerSD at the Clayboard posted a picture of a billboard for Clay's Pala concert. She says its on Mesa Blvd. between 163 and I-15. Great advertising for Clay!
• Access Hollywood - in case you missed this yesterday ... This is from the Access Hollywood News Desk:

  AIKEN-AIDE: We have not seen Clay Aiken much since his days on the "American Idol" stage, but he has quietly been working as a UNICEF Ambassador since 2004. Today we heard that Clay was visiting women and children in Afghanistan on his first trip to the country. He spent five days traveling in the central region and focused his trip on education. He also visited clinics where he administered a polio vaccine to a newborn baby. While there he launched a campaign to raise $100,000 in 10 days to support UNICEF's lifesaving programs in Afghanistan and topped it in the first 7 days with $139,778.

• Scholastic - In an recent issue of Scholastic which talks about the upcoming Idol Gives Back, there is a picture of Clay on the left side of the page. Click under the picture and it will take you to an interview with Clay concerning his UNICEF work. Under the picture it says, "Clay Aiken's Mission, Educating others about saving the lives of children." Click on that to go to the interview, part of which says:

  Name one small way and one big way you help to promote UNICEF.
  
  One small way I help is by encouraging people to support UNICEF. Every penny counts! UNICEF uses the money it raises to help improve kids’ lives around the world. It doesn’t take much money to help a child live a better life.
  For instance, just $2.50 provides a child with school supplies for an entire year. More than 121 million kids around the world are not in school. UNICEF gives school supplies, trains teachers, and rebuilds schools that have been destroyed in disasters. And just $17 immunizes one child for life against six killer diseases. Many kids around the world don’t get the shots they need to protect them from dangers like measles and tetanus. UNICEF saves more than two million kids’ lives every year through immunization and medicine.

  
  Eleven Images - There are three new images of Clay from the recent Stephen Curtis Chapman concert up a Eleven Images.
• Lycos 50 - Clay jumped from #16 last week up to #12 for the week ending April 14, 2007. Under Clay's name, they have written, "If I was invisible..." Clay has been in the Lycos 50 for 198 weeks now.
• ExperienceLA - event listing for Clay's LA concert.
• Charlotte Observer - lack of buzz on this season's idol?

  Clay Aiken vs. Ruben Studdard pitted two men who offered very different styles and excited fans on all ends of the spectrum.
  
  Executive producer Ken Warwick acknowledged this week that the class of 2007 maybe isn't the most sparkling, particularly when compared with last year's finalists.
  

• UNICEF updates from:
• There Was A Man
• Hobbies
• ConCLAYve
• Southern Girl
• Something That Really Happened
• Carolina On My Mind - reflecting on the Virgina Tech tragedy and staying optimistic with the UNICEF fundraiser.