Featuring adult students in Forsyth Technical Community College's Basic Skill and High School Completion Programs. Name: Anna Shore Age: Over 65 FTCC Program: Adult Basic Skills ' Highest grade completed before coming to FTCC: 8th Grade Last School Attended: Segregated one room schoolhouse Family: 4 children Employer: Self-employed Reason for returning to school: improve Teading and spellings. ? Why dropped out: Wasn't learning r You wouldn't know it to talk to her and you probabh wouldn't believe rue after you did. but Anna Shore never learned to read very well. " Her perfect grammar, without any accent, would make you believe that ? she has received college training and probably grew up somewhere out side of the south. But she didn't c Thc oldest of four children. Shore grew up on a farm in Lew iss ille. She attended a segregated, one-room school house that was held in a local church, but where she says that she didn't learn very much. In fact, by the time she was in her late teens, she was still in the 7th grade and was too embaiVassed by her age to go on to Carver High School. Over 50 years later. Shore is back in school at Forsyth Tech. Two years ago. after losing her husband and mother a few months apart, she decided that it was time to go back. "I could have gone back and taken painting or some craft, but I wanted to learn to read better and especiall> improve my spelling," said Shore. "Many of my friends were very surpmed when I told them 1 did not have much education and was going back to school." remembered Shore. One of the reasons that she had fooled so many people for so long is that her aunt and mother were both teachers and were always making sure , thai she used correct grammar. "_V~Her lack of education hurt her both as amflther and in rhe job mar-? ket. wh^je she was able to hold domestic or basic laborer type jobs. "I wofcld TiSve loved to have been a nurse. Also it hurt that I. couldn't help mv children with their schoQLw'ork and couldn't read to them much." said Shore. Due to the extended family. Shore says, that her children did very w ell in school and now hold good jobs. - - - Shore has started to reach two of her goals which are to be able to read her Bible and the newspaper better. "I would love to finish high school aKo. but 1 think that is a long way off." said Shore. Shore spends four mornings a week at Forsyth Tech's West Campus, part of the time in a classroom and pan in a computer lab. Last October after two months experience with a computer, she spoke at the computer lab's official dedication ceremony in front of business and school repre sentatives. There she told how the computer lab helped improve her skills while making learning fun. PARENTING AND THE AFRICAN -AMERICAN CULTURE Thursda> . ~ OO-lo V 00 p.m , v Beginning Fcbruar> 4, 199? Huuugh March 1 1. 1993 ' ^ LOCATION: *1 ' Ivy Arms Apartments. Conference Centei 1115 East Second Street. Winston-Salem INSTRUCTOR: Dolores Smith This course is a series of seminars that covers specific topics dealing with parenting and the African -Am eric an culture. Topics covered include discipline, extended family support s> stems, environmental and other ecological systems that impact on the African- American family. In addition, supplemental articles and role pla\s ore used to enhance the class experience. CH1LDCARE PROVIDED $25 PER PARTICIPANT FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE AVAILABLE CALL 748-9029 EOR REGISTRATION AND ADDITIONAL INFORMATION PARENT ENRICHMENT PROGRAM SOU WrNO-RTHWEST BLVD ? WINSTON SALEM. >'C 27105 ? 919-74i-??2? NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING REZONING OF PROPERTY CITY OF WINSTON-SALEM The Board of Aldermen will consider requests to amend the City of Winston-Salem Zoning Ordinance by rezoning property as shown below: DATE: February 1, 1993 TIME: 7:30 p.m. PLACE Board of Aldermen Chamber, City Hall 1 Petition of the City ot Winston Salem Historic District Commission lor properly owners in the proposed West End Historic Overlay District: property bounded by West End Boulevard, Broad Street, Chatham Road, and Plum Street on the north Peters CreeK and Sunset Drive on the west: Business Interstate 40 on the south: and Fourth "Street. Burke Street, Fourth and One-Half Street, Fifth Street, Broad Street. Sixth Street, and Buxton Street on the east: from R 1, R 2. B 2 and B 3 to R 1 (HO>. R 2 IHO). B 2 (H). and B-3 H(HO)-.W 1804. 2 Petit on of State Farm Mutual Automobile Automobile Insurance Company; prop erty located on the east side ol University Parkway approximately 230 feet south of Home Road and on the southwest side ot Home Road approximately 269 feet southwest ol University Parkway; trom R 4, B 3 and B 3 S (Ollices; Medical. Dental or Related Office^ and Eating Establishments) to B 3. W 1805. 3 Petition of Sidney E Overby. S E Overby, Jr., and Jakay W & Minnie Ervin; property located on the south side of McCreary Street approximately 150 feet west of Glenn Avenue; from R 4 to B 3 S (Motor Vehicles, Repair or Storage; and Warehouses. Bulk Storage) W 1806 ? . ? *! 4 Petition ol Billy G. & L-nda T Hauser tor property owned by Landmark Communications, Inc . property located on the north side of Sprague Street between ThomasvUle Road/NC 109 and Urban Street; Irom B 3 S (Oifices; and Printing or Btndingi to B 3 S (Offices; Services; and Stores or Shops. Retail). W 1807 5 Petition ui Beulah S and Hal C Mathis and First Assembly ol God; properly locat ed on the northeast side if University Parkway between Long^prive to the north and Palm Drive to the south from R 4 to R I S (Dwellings Multi Family). W 1802. Pror to the hearing, interested persons may obtain any additional information which is mi the possession of the CityCounty Planning Board in that office at the City Hall on weekdays. 8 00 a m. to 5 00 p m Interested citizens will be given an opportunity to be heard All requests for appropriate and necessary auxiliary aids and services must be made withm a reasonable time prior to the hearing, to Angela I Carmon. the City's ADA Coordinator at 727 2056 or 1 800 735 8262 for Voice to TDD or 1 800-735 2962 for TDD to Voice t. ^ THIS MEETING WILL BE BROADCAST LIVE ON CITY TV-33. Marie Matthews. Secretary to the Board of Aldermen Beware Of House RepairRip-Off It seems very strange that in spite of all the radio and television and newspaper warnings, thousands of people in America each year lose their homes and spend their lifetime savings paying for mistakes they made in choosing fraudulent home repairmen. People seem bent on allowing perfect strangers to come into their homes and talk them into putting on new roofs, building new driveways, building new brick walls and doing other fraudulent repairs. The homeowners wake up to find that the deadbeats have taken their money and given them a 10 cents job, or taken their money and skipped town and done no work at all. In a recent Associated Press release, it was reported that much of 40 billion dollars spent each year on honu: improvements goes for unnecdcd, defective or exorbitantly priced products. The Consumer Federation of America said in tfie study done for the Department of Housing and Urban Development that: Home repair*; are second to automobiles as the largest source of consumer complaints. In dollar terms, home improvement frauds are far more costly today. They typ ically involve more than SI. 000, and at times, tens of thousands of dollars. The consumer group said such problems received little attention and called for a federal investiga tion to find out precisely how much is now being lost through improve ment fraud. The Consumer Federal of America said the problem seems ?1ST/=?/A i/ws/ CORPORATION BORROW BUY OR BROWSE 7*2H I INIVERSITY PARKWAY ' '<">1 -LEGE PLAZA CENTER MONOAY-tATl/ROAY ? M - SUNDAY 14 to be growing wojse and worse. If you have an elderly relative living alone, be sure that you warn him or her not to talk to strangers about doi?g_ repairs on the home, unless some other member of the hear well, the man might go through the motions of performing such an operation, for which he charges hundreds or thousands of dollars. Naturally, you cannot see what is pumped beneath the ground HOME ECONOMICS By JoANNE J. FALLS Home Economics Extention Agent The first municipal universi ty in the United States was the University of Cincinnati in Ohio. iTTfTT family is present. Some elderly people have paid people hundreds of dollars to do jobs that could have been done cheaper with a reputable company. These are some other practices discussed in the recent study: ? In the state of California, lien sales contracts are a great problem. Fraudulent contractors write into sales contracts a fine-print provision for a lien on the house it payments are missed. The holder of the lien can foreclose on the property. ? In other instances, basement waterproofing by soil injection has become a problem. This involves pumping clay or a chemical into the ground under pressure in the pre tense of sealing the walls against water leakage. A person will show up pretending to have the equip ment for this operation. He might be in a closed-in truck, which the homeowner thinks contains a lot of equipment. For the elderly, who cannot see well and often cannnt and must take his word for it. The next big rain usually tells the story, but the man has left town, leaving no name and no forwarding address.In having repairs done on ^your home, be sure to choose a reli able company with an office in this area. Beware of strancers! iPkylli IS ? & Palm, Tarot Card and Crystal Readings ^ vfr Personal Advisor Helps through all ft ft proolems 01 life Call Today for an vY Appointment ^ >768-1611 ft 4802 Country Club Rd. ft \ * (Across from Pizza Hut) DIFFICULTY IN URINATION? Trouble urinating? An enlarged prostate may mean you have BPH - benign prostate hyperplasia. One out of three men over 45 have It. If you are over 45 and: ? have trouble urinating ? urinate often ? stop and start several times while urinating ? have trouble delaying urination ? 4 YOU COULD HAVE BPH. If you do have 8PH, you may b? able to take part In a J8 month clinical research trial for an investigational drug. Patients who qualify will receive tree physical exams, blood and diagnostic testing, and medication. Medical supervision provided by a board-certified uroloqist. For more information please call PIEDMONT RESEARCH ASSOCIATES at 919-659-8394. ^STASIA FURS HYATT WINSTON-SALEM PHONE 725-8303 - - J Be surrounded hv elegancc . . . fox. leather. lynx, sable or mink. Anatasia Furs provides free appraisals and monogramtning plus a guarantee on every purchase. Ask about our easy finance plan. 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