The Chronicle
Community Focus
Winston-Salem Greensboro High Pointo
section C The Choice for African American Whs February 1, 2001
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Community
Calendar
Church to celebrate Founder's Day
St. James African Methodist Epis
copal Church (AME) will celebrate its
annual Founder's Day on Sunday, Feb.
11, during the 11 a.m. worship service.
Everyone is invited to come and wit
ness this experience.
The speaker for the occasion is the
Rev. Daniel Wesley Jacobs Sr. He is
the administrative dean of Turner The
ological Seminary at The Interdenomi
national Theological Center in Atlanta,
Ga. His education: Morris Brown Col
lege in Atlanta, bachelor of arts - cum
laude - philosophy and religion/sociol
ogy. He is chairperson of the Board of
Christian Education for the Sixth Epis
copal District of the AME Church.
Rev. Mary F, Peterson is the pastor.
Patricia M. Phillips is the chairperson
with Mrs. Mona Lovett as co-chairper
son. The theme is "Looking at the
Past, Setting a Course for the Future."
The celebration will start with the
Praise Team (The People Movers).
The combined Unity/Men's Choir will
bring the music. Sis. Carolyn Scales will
lead prayer. Rev. James Acolatse will
introduce the speaker, followed by a list
of other church participants and
lunch. Everyone is asked to wear
African attire.
The Young People will express
themselves at 4 p.m. with "Black Histo
ry, An Evening Of Talent." Youths
from around the community have been
invited to participate.
UNCG to host cultural arts, forums,
and dances for Black
History Month
GREENSBORO The Office of
Multicultural Affairs at The University
of North Carolina at Greensboro will
sponsor the following events for Black
History Month:
Feb. 3, 7 p.m., Aycock Auditorium,
"North Carolina Challenge Step
Show" presented by the Rho Beta
Chapter of Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity
Inc. Admission will be charged. Tickets
are available through the University
Box Office.
Feb. 10, 9 p.m.-l a.m.. Cone Ball
room of the Elliott University Center
(EUC), '70s and '80s ball sponsored the
Neo Black Society (NBS).
From 8 p.m.- 2 a.m., The Painted
Plate, a ball sponsored by Alpha Phi
Alpha Fraternity and Alpha Kappa
Alpha Sorority. Admission will be
charged.
Feb. 17, 11 a.m.-4 p.m.. Cone Ball
room, an African-American Cultural
Festival featuring an arts and crafts
area for children, vendors, music,
African dancing and fun. This event is
free and open to all ages of the public.
Feb. 27, 6 p.m., Virginia Dare
Room, Alumni House, NBS poetry
and oratorical contest open to the pub
lic. The topic is "Fulfilling the Deferred
Dream" and the deadline to apply is
Feb. 17.
Feb. 28, 6 p.nt.. Alexander Room,
EUC, political forum "Are We Still on
the Auction Block?"sponsored by NBS
and co-sponsored by the African
American Studies Department.
For more information on these
events, contact Multicultural AfTairs'at
334-5090.
Libertarian meeting
The Libertarian Party of Forsyth
County will meet Wednesday, Feb. 7, at
7:30 pm. South Fork Recreation Cen
ter, 4403 Country Club Road, Win
ston-Salem. The program will be a
viewing and discussion of the ABC
News program "Are We Scaring Our
selves to Death?"
The program examines how gov
ernment regulations intended for our
safety and well-being come about, and
what the unintended consequences of
these regulations can be. The meeting is
free and open to the public. Refresh
ments will be served and door prizes
awarded.
For more information, call 768
8127.
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I Junior Leaguers share plans for Children's
Museum of Winston-Salem
BY FELECIA P. MCMILLAN
| COMMUNITY CORRESPONDENT
By 9 a.m. on Saturday. Jan. 27, a long
line stood waiting at the door of the Win
ston-Salem Junior League's "Adventures
Through Reading" Read to Me Festival.
This fourth annual event attraeted more
than 2,000 children, parents and care
givers to the M.C. Benton Convention
Center for a reading explosion.
Upon entering the festival, characters
from childhood stories greeted attendees
as they milled around the floor. Students
from Summit School portrayed Cinderel
la (Courtney Jackson), Aladdin (Jay
Godfrey), The Dragon (Jason Howland),
Madeline (Caroline Cox), Curious
George (Max Freeman). Dopey (Chris
Kierstead), Bashful (Drew Kennedy) and
Sneezy (Michael Gordon), among others.
They also assisted with face painting and
the create-a-book stations.
More than 150 volunteers hosted the
various booths, exploration stations, face
painting areas, create-a-book booths,
play stations and reading aloud corners.
Loy McGill. president of the Winston
Salem Junior League, and Ann Aber
nethy, chairman of the Read to Me Fes
tival, saw this year's event as another
great success.
"This Read to Me Festival is a cele
bration of reading, and it is our gift to the
community," said McGill. "We hope kids
of all ages will come and enjoy stories
read, acted out, created their own books
and experience all the joys that surround
reading."
"So many families look forward to
this free event each year because children
and their parents learn about reading to
children, and there is such great enter
tainment." said Abemethy. "Our whole
focus is read-to-me placement at schools
during intersession. Breakfast Buddies
and other programs."
The Junior League offers its services
at a variety of Forsyth County locations:
Best Choice Center. Easton Elementary
School. Camp Carousel, Hand to Hand
Parenting Center. Kids Cafe. Project New
Start at the YWCA, Hanes Mall (Story
time) and Weed and Seed Initiative's
Summer Youth Academy. The festival is
sponsored by the Winston-Salem Junior
League, the Smart Start Forsyth County
Early Childhood Partnership, and
Kaplan.
Read to Me is a parental influencing
program that encourages parents and
care-givers to read to their children at
least 15 minutes each day. This shared lit
erary experience has many benefits,
according to McGill.
"This beautiful 15 minutes strength
ens the parent/child bond, creates values
based background knowledge to use
when approaching life, provides a reading
role model and conditions parents/care
givers and children to associate reading
with pleasure." she said. "Reading
research confirms that regardless of sex,
race, nationality or socioeconomic back
ground, students who read the most, read
the best, achieve the most and stay in
school the longest."
Furthermore, McGill noted that this
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Left to right: Kamille Landingham; Christine Belcher, teacher at Downtown Elementary |
School; Susan Conger, chair of Children's Museum, look on as Ashleigh Bumbrey and 1
Ben Ziglar design a model of the museum.
Peggy Park, director of Children's Museum at Old Salem, demonstrates the clay tile I
shingle designs as roofing to Kayla Caldwell.
Heather McCutcheon of the Central Library tells a story as the lively audience partici- I
pates in a call and response.
At left, Cinderel
la (Courtney
Jackson) greeted
the chairman of
The Read To Me
Festival, Ann
Abernethy.
All photos by
Felecia P.
McMillan
At left: Loy McGill,
president of Tri
League, and Ann
Abernethy; chair of
The Read To Me Festi
val, address Janice
Ramadan's Brownie
Troop 1 187 from
Goler Memorial AMC
Church.
Stephanie Sanders-Pratt helps her son Damon create an animal book whife Jo Ayn
Stovall helps her son Avery design a book about a scooter.
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Librarian storytellers conduct a role play of "The Billy Goats Gruff"
using youths from the audience.
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