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Page 12A ' THE CHARLOnC POST - Thursday, July 6, 1989 Word! News For Young Post Readers Melissa Presented In Senior Piano Recital The senior piano recital of Me lissa Elaine Hendricks was re cently held at the Afro- American Cultural Center. A 1989 graduate of South Mecklenburg High School. Me lissa has been a student of Ms. Elberta D. Gordon for seven years. She has regularly partici pated In the annual piano com petitions sponsored by the North Carolina Federation of Music Clubs and has received consistently superior ratings. The recital program Included selections by classical and mod em composers'as well as a selec tion from the "Gordon Suite," a series of pieces composed by Ms. Gordon as tributes to her family members. Melissa played the trumpet at South Mecklenburg and was also In the wind ensemble. She was the 1989 recipient of the Emily Cannon Social Studies Awards. Summer Youth Program To Begin At The Afro Center The Afro-American Cultural Center is sponsoring a five- week summer youth program to begin July 18, continuing through August 18. The program Is open to youths ages five - 12 years. It will consist of two dally ses sions Tuesday - Friday every week. The morning session will be held from 10 a. m. - 12 noon and the afternoon session from 2 - 4 p.m. Session topics will Include: African-American History, tast African Culture and Lari- guage, Arts & Crafts. Jazz Mu sic Workshops (history and Instrumentation), Children's Films, Self-Expression games and role playing. Drama Workshops and Storytelling. The Arts & Crafts workshop and the Jazz Music workshop will have limited enrollment. Parents Interested In these sessions should register their children no later than July 10. The cost of the program Is $1 per child, p>er session. Reg istrations begins July 5. For further Information on Afro-American Cultural Center's Summer Youth Pro gram. please call (704) 374- 1565, Monday - FYlday, 10 am. - 6 p.m. Elaine Hendricks The daughter of Rev. and Mrs. A. Rudolph Hendricks. Melissa will enter Spelman College In Atlanta in the fall. She plans to major in music. RECREATION On The Move! Park Sites Bruns Avenue • Mondays & Wednesdays 11:30 a.m. - 2:45 p.m. Tryon Hills • Mondays & Wednesdays 3:30 p.m.-6:15 p.m. Morgan Park • Tuesdays & Thursdays 11:30 a.m.-2:45 p.m. Solomon Park • Tuesdays & Thursdays 3:30 p.m.-6:15 p.m. Sterling School Park • Fridays 11:30 a.m.-2:45 p.m. Abbott Park • Fridays 3:30 p.m.-6:15 p.m. For more information, caii 336-2584 Pool f Family Programs On Sundays In July At Children's Library The Children's Library at the Main Library, 310 North Tryon Street, will present programs for the whole family every Sunday In July at 2 p.m. On July 9, Mark West and his :Str1ng Beings" — or mar ionettes —- will perform. Some magical movies of Walt Disney will be featured on July 16: "Tugboat Mickey," 'Test Pilot Donald," and "Winnie tire Pooh and a Day for Eeyore." Appalachian Fold Crafts and Stories will be by Susan Pflug on July 23, and Shorty the Clown will help cele brate National Clown Week on July 30. All programs are free and opien to the public. For more Information, call the Children's Library, 336-2409. Registration Is open for NCNB National Bank's "Learn To Swim" program offered free at Revolution Park pool this su- mer. Sponsored by NCNB and taught by Mecklenburg Aquatic Club staff and swimmers, the first "Learn To Swim" sessions began Tuesday and will continue through July 7. Registration remains open for session two, offered from July 18 through July 28, and session three, available from August 1 through August 11. Those Inter ested should visit Revolution Pool or telephone 336-2652 be tween noon and 5 p.m., Tuesday through Friday. "NCNB, the City of Charlotte and the Mecklenburg Aquatic Club wanted to provide a .quality learn-to-swlm program that anyone could afford to attend," said James R. (Jim) Leavelle, Charlotte city executive for NCNB. "Aquatic safety is such an Important part of life, we are happy we could help make this program a reality." The City of Charlotte Parks and Recreation Commission Is host for the classes, all of which are taught at the city's Revolu tion Park Pool. 1201 Remount Rd. The classes are primarily for children three years of age and older but also are available for teenagers and adults. Classes are offered four days a week — Tues day through Friday — and there are three alternative times: 10:15- 10:45 a.m.: 10:45- 11:15 am.; and 11:15- 11:45 a.m. Classes Include water adjust ment. progressive beginner learn to swim, a stroke clinic and general water safely. Word! is The Charlotte Post's section for young readers. We're interested in receiving news of youth achieveinent, events and also arti cles, poems or illustrations created by young people. Please send submissions to: Word! c/o The Charlotte Post, P.O. Box 30144, Char lotte, N.C. 28230. For more Information, callJalyne Strong, at 376-0496. Black Teen Beauty Pageant Teens across the nation will be competing for college schol arships, gifts and awards in Atlanta on October 14, 1989. Contestants will be chosen at large to represent their prospective city or state, they will travel to Atlanta and par ticipate In the finals. Thirty- three cities wUl be represent ed. "Celebrating youth, beauty and talent" is what organizers promise will be the largest grand teen beauty pageant ever to take place in America. The age range Is 14 years to 19 years and the youths will convene In Atlanta for the na tional televised finals. For further Information call the national headquarters In AUanta, (404) 872-8018. ACROSS 1. Olve over 5. Monk's hood 9. Sports 10. 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LAST WEEK'S RNSWERS 1. J.T. Shutten 2. Jefferson Dauis 3. Cicely Tyson 4. Junior 5. Claude McKay 6. Let It Be r/ie DEBUNKER By John Harvey Fur bay, Ph.D. THERE ARE NO CANALS OR SEAS ON ^^,^5 72 ' V£N,N GREAT NEWS, SARGE—YOU'VE BEEN CLEARED ON THAT CHARGE OF ' POLICE BRUTALITY' ! " Modern telescopes have brought Mars close enough to shatter some of the early ideas about this planet. The dark blotches once considered seas have been observed to change color and contour and are no longer thought of as sea^ The “canals” proved to be nothing but rows of irregular spots, which appeared as continuous lines through the older telescopes They are natural for mations of the soil similar to hills on our* earth. 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