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African-American receives Mary Kay pink Cadillac BY TODD LUCK THE CHRONICLE Jodria Bufford has received the ultimate Mary Kay reward, a pink Cadillac, for her success selling the beauty brand's popular cosmetics. Buford said that she's the first African-American woman in years to get a Mary Kay pink Cadillac locally. Bufford, an Independent Senior Sales Director for Mary Kay, received the pink Cadillac SRX on Thursday, Oct. 8 at Flow Cadillac. Mary Kay sales its cosmetics through its 3 million Independent Beauty Consultants world wide and offers incentives such as career cars when they reach certain levels of success, with the pink 1 Cadillac being the top ! incentive. Bufford has built a successful sales unit, that's had as many as 130 women in it at one time. May Kay career cars are for both personal and professional use. They're replaced with a new car every two years based on the level of success the salesperson is at. Buford said she plans to keep her pink Cadillac. She said it's a prestigious symbol of the hard work of her sales unit. "It really is a trophy on wheels," she said. Bufford said that before she started with Mary Kay in 2010, she would've never dreamed she'd be selling cosmetics for a liv ing. "If anyone had ever told me someday you will eave your jod ana you win >ell lip gloss, I would have old them they were out of heir mind," she said. Buford was a mortgage sanker and Realtor when ihe joined Mary Kay to relp out a fellow Realtor ivho was selling the brand's :osmetics as a side job. She quickly discovered how nuch money she could make and earned her first Mary Kay career car in her first year. By 2012, she was :arning as much selling osmetics as she did work ing for Self-Help Credit Union, so she decided to do May Kay full time. Having worked in law mforcement and banking, Bufford said she felt she ivas an unlikely beauty :onsultant. "1 wasn't a girly girl. I tad a law enforcement Photo by Todd Luck Jodria Bufford is with her new Mary Kay Pink Cadillac, a prestigious honor the cosmetic company gives to its top sales people. background, so I didn't wear makeup until 1 started selling Mary Kay and 1 said 'How am I going to do that?"' she said. "But what 1 found was there are more women like me than there are 'glamazons,' and some body that doesn't intimi date them, they can sit in their kitchen or at their din ing room table and discuss what look they want to achieve or what areas they would like to improve." Bufford said it's the personal connection with clients that keep them com ing back to their beauty consultants, who get to know them and their beau ty needs. It's the type of relationship that's hard to find in a store.isle. That's the key to Mary Kay s suc cess, she said. "The product is won derful, but it's the relation ship tied with the product that makes it different," she said. Currently there are 6,032 Mary Kay career cars on the road nationwide and about 1,318 of them are Mary Kay pink Cadillacs. Statewide youth council conference centers on service BY TODD LUCK THE CHRONICLE Teens from youth coun cils from around the state learned about service dur ing the State Youth Conference held this past weekend in Winston Salem. About 100 teens repre senting nine cities attended the conference. There are 22 youth councils across the state. They vary in size and function, but are typi cally associated with city or county government and involve civic engagement. The Winston-Salem Youth Advisory Council (WSYAC) advices the city on matters pertaining to youth and does an annual community service project. The members are selected from local high schools. Winston-Salem Human Relations Director Wanda Allen-Abraha, whose the High Point Youth Council, was among the youth council teens help ing with Winston Salem/Forsyth County Schools' anti-bullying walk on Saturday morning at BB&T Ballpark. "I love seeing what we do, how it impacts others," she said. "Just helping today at the ballpark we saw people get happy because we were there to support them and their event." Ashlyn Mann and Andrea Mattox, co-chairs of the Thomasville Area Teen Council, also helped with the walk. Like all youth councils, community service is a big part of what their group regularly does. "It helps us help our community. We all love to give," said Mann. "We'd all rather give than receive, all of us." Other service projects sons. "I like working with people from different back grounds," she said. "1 go to Salem Academy and, yes, we have a really diverse :ommunity but it's all over the world. I don't really get to see diverse life in Winston. Now I feel like I've diversified myself in Winston, in the people I've met, the people who I know now and the friendships I've formed." Walk is designed to aid heart group SPECIAL TO THE CHRONICLE The 2015 Tang le wood Heart & Stroke Walk is scheduled Saturday, Oct. 17 at Tanglewood Park, 4061 Clemmons Road, Clemmons. The event schedule is as follows: Parking opens at 7:30 a.m., opening cere monies start at 8 a.m., the 1 or 4-mile walk begins 9 a.m. and tent festivities begin at 9:30 a.m. and last through 11:30 a.m. The walk is free. Walkers are eligible for a Heart Walk T-shirt once they have raised a mini mum of $100. "Walk with friends, family, coworkers or strangers you'll bond with along the way. The 1 angle wood Heart & Stroke Walk is a 1 or 4 mile pet-friendly walk route," organizers say. For more information, contact Sonja.Seeloff@heart.org or visit www.tanglewood heartwalk.org. The Heart & Stroke Walk is the American Heart Association's pre miere event for raising funds to benefit heart dis ease and stroke research and prevention education in the community. The Heart & Stroke Walk is designed to pro mote physical activity and heart-healthy living for the entire family. _ Researchers point to the need to fund the vital research and programming that addresses heart disease ana stroKe in women ana minorities The Walk is the American Heart Association's premiere event for raising funds to save lives from this coun try's No. 1 and No. 5 killers - heart disease and stroke. Designed to promote phys ical activity and heart healthy living, the Heart & Stroke Walk creates an environment that organiz ers say is fun and reward ing for the entire family. Participation will help raise even more in the fight to save lives. The American Heart Association is the largest voluntary health organiza tion dedicated to defeating heah disease, stroke and other cardiovascular dis eases. "I like working with people from different backgrounds." -Isabella Rieco, chair department oversees the local youth council, said the conference gives the WSYAC a chance to share with other councils. "What we're doing is having our students here locally to showcase to the other cities from across the state what they've been doing to serve the commu nity." said Allen-Abraha. Different cities with youth councils take turns hosting quarterly statewide conferences. The teens arrived Friday evening (Oct. 9) and left Sunday morning. They spent Saturday morning doing community service projects and then gathered at Winston Square Park to discuss what they learned. They also painted on the Youth Expression Wall, a wall in the park that youth can paint on, which was created as a service project by the local WSYAC sever al years ago. Jewel Tillman, chair of I of WSYAC, on Saturday included vol unteering at the Habitat Restore, Twin City Stage and the Goler CDC com munity garden at the Downtown Health Plaza. Isabella Rieco, chair of WSYAC, said the service projects helped expose the teens to issues they didn't know existed. "It really opened their eyes and we really came together, all the different councils from across North Carolina, to get this stuff done," she said. Rieco said the local council is very active local ly and its last community service project was creat ing a series of public serv ice announcements called "Just Do You" that encour ages teens to make healthy choices. Naomi Aaron, who is also on WSYAC, she said enjoyed helping with the conference. She said being part of a youth council has helped broaden her hori Have an Opinion? Let US Know lettenQwhrmidttm October 15 2015 Dear Ministry Partners, Family, Friends and Mount Sinai Congregants: __ Profoundly privileged to commemorate 100 YEARS of Christian ministry and community servio October 4, 2015, the MOUNT SINAI FULL GOSPEL DELIVERANCE CENTER embraced family ar friends who converged from diverse locales across the nation for the grand celebration. Deep! grateful and honored, we tender unpretentious thanks to the bishops, pastors, city officials, busine: partners, family and friends for your presence and patronage. A formidable foundation is monumental to an enduring legacy. Hence, we pay homage to t) dedicated and prayerful men and women who, 100 YEARS ago, did so much with so little I bequeath us such a rich and Messed heritage. We reverently acknowledge the Bishop H. D. WMso (1915-1976) who carved out churches from tent meetings and brush arbor revivals, and the Bishop, L. Hlnes (1976-1995), the 20th century Avant-Garde General and ecclesiastical paradigm who, uncfc a divine mandate, formatted tire blueprint for Mouot Sinai-a viable 21" century ministry. And to you, the Congregants of Moont Sinai, uniquely gifted, committed and compassions parishioners who perpetually distinguish your selves as shining lights, I thank you for the pleasure < your company on this God-ordained path. Your assiduous productivity in this 100* Celebration ar all our endeavors vehemently conveys your allegiance to Kingdom touchstones and to o< amalgamated mission, "to communicate and celebrate the transforming love of Jesus Christ. " As a continue the journey together, I know we will build an even stronger and more vibrant Church ar community, by God's grace. Thank you, my co-laborers, for the marvelous "joy" to serve as yo\ Pastor. , . .... I May the unrestrained blessings of our faithful God rest upon you all, now and in times yet to come; this is my prayer. Multiplied Thanks, 1 ^ S Reverend Yvonne H. Mines Senior Pastor m--.... :... .. . .-a-'. ?
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