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i _; Fourth I By Bonita Hardin Special To The Port The Biddleville-Five Points Community Organi zation celebrated its fourth annual festival and parade on Saturday, October 19. Every year a festival is held in the Biddleville Five Points Par* Just be hind Gethsemane AME Zion Church on Campus« Street, where booths and exhibits are set upr £ Established in 1978, die organization as well as significant eco nomic developments in the Biddleville community. Traditionally, the parade and festival included BFPCO members, repre sentatives of the City Council, the Planning Commission, the JCSU marching band, local high school bands, and a repre sented band for the United House of Prayer. This year, however, the JCSU band was die only band in the parade session. i ne rngn-s topping Bulls led the way at 10:05 a.m. from the Bitsy Bounty Food Mart on Beatties Ford Road. Along the way, they woke up area mer chants and residents guid *t? “Where is this parade>*■ going? ” asked on onlooker while Mated in his parked^ car in the Northwest Jo- \ nior High School parking lot. As decorated vehicles in the parade cruised down Beatties -*ord£folks riedlytook to the streets. Gathering on front side walks, porches, and door steps, spectators waved at those in the parade line up V Attending the festival ss^arara. sfemlgs renowned men made the festival more significant Casually dressed. Mayor Gantt strolled alongside (fan parade greeting and. shaking hands of many in the community. He even had a chance to throw a'few football passes with area youth. ' ..;v~ ■ :#y Mayor Gantt mentioned that the Biddlevffle-Ftve Points community gets a good share JitoC money through the city to rebuild homes, as hephtyed with a ; seven-year-old who seemed to be very fond of his pre sence at the park t. Dr. Albright arrived much later than other local Hbpporters. However late, he delivered good news to Jhe ftiddleville rommadfr/,' Albright told about devel opmental plans for a retail opened University Place. He expressed that he would like to see a wider variety of entertainment brought to the area for more young people. Plans for the 20 acre site behind the uni versity, to be completed within three to five years, also include a movie the ater, boutiques, drug store*, homes, and town houses. Albright is working along with Louise Sellers, BFPCO president to hring the same quality of life to the neighborhood that most other neighborhoods have. Sporting of- entertain ment, Skip Murphy of WPEG certainly excited thecrowd when he arrived at the park, Entertainii^ the BFPCO festival for the first time, he said, “This festival is more personal than other activities I have attended because large crowds seem more hesitant to introduce themselves.’' Well, this was not the case among Biddleville resi dents who kept “Mr. Muf phy” busy signing auto graphs. Other entertainers were the John Rogers Expres sion and Joan Barnett, Lonnie Miller, and the Greater Charlotte Com munity Chorale, and The Anointed Ones, who rejare sent various community •..churches. xK* City Council' candidates and campaigners devoted their energies toward mak ing die festival a success ful one also. Beverly Neilson, excited campaigner for Herbert Spaugh Jr., City Council member, said that she loved Charlotte and that was why she participated in the festival. She also mentioned the importance of supporting those people like Spaugh who influence the quality of better living conditions in the area. Spaugh is responsible for housing in BFPCO. While posing for a pic ture with beautiful MUaT-• JCSU, Spaugh said that he was glad to bfc among this year’s enthusiastic turn out. City Council members in cluded Vic BeD, Richard Vinroot, Mike Stenhouse, and Minette Trosch J. W. Walton, director of -i—_ community development, said he looks forward to. continued partnership in expanding economic op portunity to provide safe and decent sanitary hous ing and continued econo mic development in Bid dleyille. The festival’s theme was ’*10 Years Strong And Moving On.'’ “It’s gotten better," said Gladys Strong, a member of the BFPCO planning com mittee, adding, “we plan to start working earlier for next year's festival.” , —- - Dr. Robert Albright .Attends festival Herbert Spaugh Jr. ...Responsible for housing Jay Walton .CD director request Line 597-1575 Sales Office 597-1540
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