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Minorities to suffer most from County's planned library cuts By YVETTE N. FREEMAN Community News Editor The Forsyth County Manager's 1992-93 budget plan will cut 13 positions from the public library system ? nine of which are cur rently filled by minorities. In Graham Pervier's budget proposal, eight of the 13 positions would reduce the number of operat ing hours at each of the county's libraries. The remaining five posi tions to be eliminated would come from the Children's Outreach and Homebound and Institutionalized Departments. Shirley Baskerville Rodgers, president of the Friends of the East Winston Library group, says asking the public library system to sustain such drastic cuts is not fair. "The library hires approximately eight percent of all county employees and the county is asking them to take one-third (of the cuts). Thirty-eight employees would be eliminated from the county payroll. The pro posed budget is asking that the library sustain one-third of those cuts. We don't think that's fair," said _ Rodgers. ? According to the proposal, which was sent out to library offi ? cials this past weekend, This year almost all employees scheduled to be eliminated will be minority employees. All five employees scheduled for REF in the Outreach Programs will be minority employ ees, because all seven employees are now minority employees. Of the remaining eight employees, these will be mostly clerical employees which consists of about one-half minority employees." If the proposal is approved by the county commissioners, the elim ination of those positions would cut about 10 hours of operation from each library, including at least two evenings during the week. Because of last year's budget cuts, the East Winston library is currently only open two nights per week, in addi tion to its da/Ttme hours which were also cuL Nearly all outreach programs would also be cut, including the Jail Library, and the Homebgund and Institutionalized Department which serves 200 individuals who are served by car because they are unable to come to the library. The Children's Outreach Department would come to an end as well. That department serves 30 daycare centers on a weekly basis with books and programs, as well as afternoon centers in the communi ties of Happy Hill Gardens, Belview, and North Hills, and the Salvation Army Boys and Girls Clubs. Children attend those <?enters for reference books, materials and homework assistance. "We're wondering why these cuts can't come from other areas," said Rodgers. "What it's doing is cutting back our youngsters. It's cut ting back our elderly, entrepreneurs and job seekers. , Those are some of the places that they go; services that are avail ably to the public. We're on the edu cational end of it, and we feel that if people take advantage and they have been taking advantage of uti lizing the libraries, they're going to need additional staff." She recommended that resi dents speak out before the plan is adopted on June 22. "They need to get in touch with their county com missioners or send a letter to or call Graham Pervier or Wayne Willard, and to the Hall of Justict, and let them know how they feel about the cutbacks as they relate to the library," she suggested. Form letters are available at the East Winston library for residents to fill out and send to voice their opin ions about the cuts. However, Rodgers emphasized that one of the best ways to let the commissioners know how residents feel about the budget cuts, is to Nation of Yahweh leader convicted BY AACHAEL WARREN ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER MIAMI (AP) _ The religious movement founded by Yahweh Ben Yahweh will survive and prosper while he serves a prison term of up to 20 years for murder-conspiracy, his followers said Friday. "They've taken our spiritual leader away physically, but his spir it shall always remain with us," said Uriah David Israel, the national ambassador of the group. "We'll build bigger and better real estate holdings and empires than we did before," he said to loud apptatise from dozens of while r robed sect members. "We're going to do this again. There's nothing to stop us." Yahweh, who is originally from Enid, OK., and six others who helped build an $8 million empire of hotels and stores, now face sen tencing for conspiring to create a criminal group of killers and arson ists within the Miami-based sect in the 1980s. Jurors acquitted seven others Wednesday and deadlocked on counts against two of the Yah weh members accused of plotting 14 murders, two attempted killings and the firebombing of a city block. Four of the Yahweh- members whom the jury either acquitted or deadlocked on now face first degree murder charges in state court Corrections . >asBSi isaii -iM week's articleentitled in Star holds banquet'! itave read: P.WJ> Birden 54 grandcMMtfn. ? Also, in the articie'Memo rial Day Service* we misiaken?| ly published Henry Wilson's title its Comrader instead of C^rade, and omit kids from drowning , but he's not a Li Verleeta Wooten found several new stars , but she's not an astronomer. And Ivan Neal put a lot of fires , but he's not a firefighter. These are teachers . But to the kids they reach , they're heroes. BE A TEACHER. BE A HI Call 1-800-45-TEACH. APuMeamof R^chforttwPow* TMi PuMMtton Photos Rohm Sachs TEACH attend the budget hearing scheduled major attendance is needed to makflp get And I guess our message to the for June 8 at 7:30 p.m., at the Hall a statement to the commissioner* community is "Speak up. Speak out. of Justice, on the sixth floor. "I that we want them to reassess Speak now," said Rodgers. think that's the place where very before they adopt the proposed bud 1 * ? mm =5 SSSSSSSSSSSs LUBRICATION & OIL CHANGE Check fill fluids 10 R. Safety Inspection Regular i ! [_ ? CoodwI^WT/W Filter Extra FRONT BRAKE JOB Semi-Metallic Pads and Imports Extra v Good only 4/7/92 SAVE $100 LIFETIME AGREEMENT PACKAGE ? Lifetime Alignment ? Lifetime Balance ? 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