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NEWS/The Charlotte Post
January 11,1996
Community Notes
King parade to take new route
The West Charlotte
Merchants Association will
hold its Martin Luther King
Day Parade Jan. 15.
The parade is being held in
conjunction with the city’s
King Day celebration,
Charlotte-Mecklenburg
Community Relations
Committee and Alpha Phi
Alpha fraternity.
The parade will begin at 10
a.m. at West Charlotte High
School after 8:30 a.m. lineup.
The parade has a new route
this year.
The procession will start at
10 a.m. at West Charlotte
High School on Senior Drive.
The parade route changes at
the fork from Trade Street to
Fourth Street at the Gateway
Center; onto Fourth Street,
right on Graham Street to
Stonewall Street passing
Carolinas Stadium. The
parade will finish at the New
Charlotte Convention Center.
Grand marshals are mayor
Pat McCrory and Charlotte-
Mecklenburg Schools Vice
Chair Arthur Griffin.
For more information or to
participate in the parade, call
Teresa Wright at 347-3412.
• Patricia Russell-
McCloud will speak at a
Martin Luther King event
Jan. 15 at Winthrop
University.
Russell-McCloud will speak
on “Vision 2000: Celebrating
the Ideals of Dr. Martin
Luther King Jr.” at 3:30 p.m.
at Byrnes Auditorium. The
event is free.
Russell-McCloud served as
chief of the complaints branch
of the Broadcast Bureau and
senior managing attorney for
the Federal Communications
Commission.
• The Magic School Bus,
featured in the award-win
ning, best-selling books by
Joanna Cole and Bruce
Degen, will visit the Public
Library of Charlotte and
Mecklenburg County from
Jan. 18-21.
Scholastic, which publishes
the Magic School Bus books,
and Scholastic Productions,
Inc., which brings the Magic
School Bus to life through a
television series seen locally
on WTVI and in home videos,
are sponsoring a 1996
“Traveling Magic School Bus”
interactive road-show
throughout the United States.
The bus will feature books,
CD-ROMs, video games,
videos of the TV shows, sci
ence demonstrations and
other interactive experiences
for young people.
During its stay in Charlotte,
the Magic School Bus will
visit four libraries with pro
grams which will he free and
open to the public. The Bus
will stop at Belmont Center
Public Library, 700 Parkwood
Avenue, on Jan. 19 from 2:30-
5 p.m.; University City
Regional Library, 301 E.
Harris Blvd., 9:30-12 on Jan.
20; Scaleybark Library, 101
Scaleybark Road, 2-5 p.m.
Jan. 20; and Main Library,
310 N. T^on St., Jan. 21 from
2-5 p.m.
The library will also present
the Magic School Bus at
Cornelius, Oaklawn and Lake
Wylie elementary schools on
Jan. 18-19. School visits will
be for students only.
For more information about
the Magic School Bus visit tp
Charlotte, call the Youth
Services department at 336-
2070.
• Stop The Killing will
sponsor a teen candlelight
vigil Sunday at 5 p.m.
Teens from The Crusade and
Fighting Back will unite at
the Fighting Back office, 1120
Beatties Ford Road, to call for
an end to violence. Candles
will be lit for teens and young
people who have been mur
dered since 1988.
“There are only a few that
are doing bad, but that few
makes all of us look bad,” said
Artis Johnson, 13. “It’s time
we started as youth working
to make a better tomorrow.”
“I’m sick of the senseless
killings and people not speak
ing out until it happens to
their loved one,” said 18-year-
old Monicka McKee, who will
join with other young people
to call for an end to violence.
Both will speak at the rally.
For more information, call
James Barnett at The
Crusade at 333-6471, Victoria
Ross at 336-8630, Artis
Johnson at 398-0236 or
Monicka McKee at 364-7396.
• The Grier Heights
Economic Foundation will
hold a ribbon-cutting and
open house to present its first
new homes Jan. 18.
The "New Beginning Of
Homes-Phase I" presentation
will take place at 11 a.m. at
2809 Mamey Ave. The GHEF
is a community-based organi
zation that provides housing
for low- to moderate-income
families and individuals.
A local organization is chal
lenging fraternities to become
Big Brothers.
Big Brothers/Big Sisters
African American
Recruitment Task Force
issued the challenge to the
graduate fraternities Alpha
Kappa Alpha, Kappa Alpha
Psi, Omega Phi Psi and Phi
Beta Sigma to recruit black
men as Big Brothers for 60
boys waiting to be matched.
The challenge, which coin
cides with Black History
Month, will end April 15.
Prizes will be awarded to the
fraternity that recruits the
most men who complete the
orientation process and indi
viduals who recruit the most
men.
Big Brothers must be at
least 21 years old and live or
work in Mecklenburg County.
For more information, call
377-3963.
• Leadership Charlotte is
looking for participants in
Class XVIII.
Twenty-five individuals will
be selected to the nine-month
program, which will be held
from September to May 1997.
People interested in partici
pating must complete an
application and return it with
a $25 processing fee to
Leadership Charlotte, WTVI
Center, Suite A, 3242
Commonwealth Ave.
Charlotte, by Feb. 15. All
applications will be notified in
May. Tuition is $1,000 and
partial scholarships are avail
able.
To request an application,
call 344-8448.
• Looking to land a new job?
Free information is available
at the Public Library.
Free information from
employment experts will be
available at job search semi
nars on Wednesdays this
month. The first is "Preparing
For The Job Search" with Jeff
Sechrist of Central Piedmont
Community College. Later
seminars will include success
ful interviewing, creative self
marketing, and job resources
on the Internet.
The programs are sponsored
by the Public Library and are
free. Registration is not
required. For more informa
tion, call 336-6228.
• A best-selling author will
be the featured speaker at
events celebrating Martin
Luther King Day in Hickory.
Mark Mathabane, a South
Africa native, will keynote the
community worship service at
3 p.m. Jan. 14 at Friendship
Baptist Church and a convoca
tion at 10 a.m. Jan. 15 at the
Belk Centrum at Lenoir-
Rhyne College.
Mathabane is author of
"Kaffir Boy,” "Kaffir Boy in
America" and "African
Women: Three Generations."
Mathabane and his wife, Gail,
will discuss "Healing the
Racial Divide" at a 1 p.m.
forum.
• The American Heart
Association will hold
Community CPR Day Feb. 3
at Central Piedmont
Community College.
Registration will be held at
Taylor Hall starting at 8 a.m.
The course will run from 9
a.m. until noon. Anyone age
16 and older is eligible to par
ticipate. Registration fee is
$10 and should be paid in
advance.
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NAACP state election results unclear
Woodard
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Alexander has refused to seat
any new officers pending a
decision on whether a new
election will
be held.
Alexander
said this
week that
Mary Reid,
who lost the
youth advi
sor race to
Pettis, filed
the com
plaint, alleg
ing ineligible
youth dele
gates were allowed to vote.
Only 22 votes were cast in the
youth election.
“We conducted an internal
investigation,” Alexander said.
“As a result of our investiga
tion we found that a number of
people were
offered dou
ble ballots.
Sometimes
adults got
youth ballots
and some
times adults
got two bal
lots. More
votes were
cast than
registrations.
“The president of the of the
youth and college division at
time of election was overaged.
Gina Pettis was supposed to
have graduated out. At the
time of the election she was 27
years old. She had qualified
some voters in her position as
president. Voters she qualified
may not be properly eligible to
vote.”
Linda Robinson Gaines ,
treasurer of the
Charlotte/Mecklenburg
branch, chaired the election
supervisory committee and
said, in a letter to Penn, she
too was concerned that the
election had been unfair.
Woodard said the election
was held properly. “I feel that
the election will stand as is
because as a result of the con
sistency of the outcome, it was
clear that the State
Conference was anxious to
make a change,” she said. “The
election supervisory committee
as a whole was competent and
efficient. They were able to
check and balance each vote
while dictating the order of the
election. This procedure was in
a manner that would caution
against frivolous teimpering of
the ballots.
Penn held a hearing at the
state NAACP headquarters in
Greensboro on Dec. 30. He told
The Post that he is following
organizational procedure and
would make a recommenda
tion on the validity of the com
plaints to a committee of the
NAACP national board. That
board will make a final deter
mination as to whether a new
election would be held.
Picket and Woodard said
Wednesday they are sure the
election results will be upheld.
“I feel certain his findings
will be positive that the elec
tion will be validated,” Pickett
said. “There may have been
some mistakes made, but we
had been told this was one of
the better elections, as far as
security.
“People were very meticulous
in making sure that only those
who were supposed to vote,
voted. From what I know
about it, it was one of the bet
ter elections. They were using
a computer system and it
probably took more time that
it normally would have.
Hoyle, who decided not to
seek re-election as third vice
president, said there are sev
eral changes she wants to
make as treasurer.
“I would like for the branch
es to always review the budget
before they have to vote on it,”
Hoyle said. “I’d like to mail it
to the branches and allow
them to share them with the
local and have some input.
Alexander
"It took a long time to vote, but people were very meticulous in making sure
that only those who were supposed to vote, voted. From what I know about it,
it was one of the better elections. They were using a computer system and it
probably took more time that it normally would have.
-Pickett
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Diane Hollenbach at 531-
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“All our funds come from
locals. If the locals are going to
earn the money, they should
have some input in how its
spent. Being a former branch
president, I know fund raising
would be easier. I know what
people are saying at all levels.
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Hoyle said the state organiza
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get, which was approved in
December by the previous execu
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She said he has told Penn she
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review that budget, if and when
it is seated.
“I have confidence we will be
seated,” Hoyle said. “That’s one
of my questions. Do we move on
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NAACP has been closed this
week, which may delay any rul
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