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NEWS/ The Charlotte Post
February 1,1996
Community Notes
393-5474.
Edelman comes to Charlotte meeting
• Mecklenburg County is
looking for people to appoint
to several boards.
Positions are open on the fol
lowing boards, which are
accepting nominations by Feb.
12:
Community Relations
Committee; Data Processing
Advisory Board; Juvenile
Services; Library Board of
Trustees; Nursing Home
Community Advisory Board;
Nursing Home Community
Advisory Board and Storm
Water Advisory Committee.
Nominations will occur on
Feb. 20 and appointments will
be made on March 12.
Application forms can be
picked up at the Government
Center, 600 East Fourth St.
• Save The Seed will intro
duce its Class of 1996 to man
hood Feb. 11.
The group will hold its rites
of passage celebration at
Nations Ford Baptist Church,
7410 Nations Ford Road.
Informal dress or African
attire are appropriate, and
admission is free. For more
information, call 376-7283.
•Retired educator
Elizabeth Randolph will
receive the Whitney M. Young
Jr. Award from the Charlotte-
Mecklenburg Urban League
next month. The award will be
given March 12 at the Omni
Charlotte Hotel at a black-tie
affair.
Randolph, who retired as
associate superintendent in
charge of curriculum of
Charlotte-Mecklenburg
Schools in 1982, taught at
West Charlotte High for near
ly 40 years and was the first
principal at University Park
Elementary.
The Whitney M. Young Jr.
Award is presented annually
to an individual who has
made exceptional contribu
tions to furthering equal
opportunity for African
Americans. Baltimore mayor
Kurt Schmoke, Randolph’s
nephew, will make the presen
tation.
For more information on the
ceremony, call 376-9834.
• The Self-Help Credit
Union is offering small busi
ness loans to women- and
minority-owned enterprises.
Loans will be made for start
up operations as well as estab
lished businesses.
For more information, call
333-4748 or 376-6778 from 9
a.m.-5 p.m. Monday through
Friday.
• Charlotte-Mecklenburg
Fighting Back Project is
sponsoring a free grant writ
ing seminar Tuesday.
The seminar will be held
from 6:30-8:30 p.m. at Cluster
2 and 5 Resource Center, 1514
N. Tryon St. Anne Porges of
the Arts & Sciences Council
and Lynn Otzman of the
United Way of the Central
Carolinas will conduct the
workshop, which is open to all
neighborhood residents. For
more information or to pre
register, call 336-8630.
• The Carolinas
Association of Black
Women Entrepreneurs will
honor three of its members
later this month at its first
sisterhood celebration.
Louise Sellers, Teresa
Wright and Sylvia Grier will
be honored Feb. 24 at
Renaissance Place, 631 North
Tryon St.. Sellers, chairperson
of the West Charlotte
Business Incubator, and
Wright, president of the West
Charlotte Merchants
Association, will receive the
Spirit Award. Grier, president
of CABWE, will receive the
Sister of the Year honor.
• Two free tax planning and
preparation seminars will be
given Saturday.
The seminars will be beld at
Sartor-Wilson Insurance
Service, 3800 Monroe Road,
Suite A, 10 a.m. and noon.
Michael Bronson of
Greensboro will be the guest
lecturer.
For more information, call
333-7031.
• Raymond C. Perry, a
long-time Wake County com
munity activist and correc
tional administrator, was
installed as district director of
the N.C. Association of
Alphamen.
Perry was
Perry
elected at the
Alpha Phi
Alpha
Fraternity
District
Convention in
Fayetteville in
November.
Perry is
responsible
for overseeing
operations and events involv
ing graduate and undergradu
ate Alpha chapters across the
state. Since 1987, Perry has
served as director of the
Central Area, which includes
Raleigh, Durham and Chapel
Hill.
• West Charlotte High
School will sponsor two meet
ings for parents and students
Wednesday.
Sophomore PSAT Parent
Night will be held at 6:15 in
the cafeteria. And workshop,
“Financing for College,” will
be held at 7 p.m. in the cafete
ria. Curtis l^alen will be the
facilitator.
• Marian Wright
Edelman, president and
founder of the Children’s
Defense Fund, will be the
keynote speaker at the
Charlotte-Mecklenburg
Education Foundation’s annu
al meeting Feb. 7.
The meeting
will be held at
Edelman
the Charlotte
Convention
Center ball
room from
7:30-9 p.m.
Tickets are
$25. For more
information,
call 335-0100.
• A Central
Piedmont Community College
group will celebrate black her
itage next month.
CPCC’s Council of the
Southern Regional-
Conference on Black
American Affairs will host
its celebration Feb. 15 at
11:30 a.m. at Pease
Auditorium on the Elizabeth
Avenue campus. The Rev.
Frank Madison III, senior
pastor at Bethel AME Church
in Baltimore, will be guest
speaker. A reception will fol
low.
• A CPR class will be held at
Central Piedmont
Community College Feb.
Saturday.
The college will conduct the
class from 9 a.m.-noon at
Taylor Hall gym on Elizabeth
Avenue. Instructors are certi
fied by the American Heart
Association. Registration is
$10 and can be sent by check
along with participants’ name,
address, telephone number
and Social Security number to
Central Piedmont Community
College, David Brown, HPER
Department, P.O. Box 35009
Charlotte, N.C. 28235.
Registration is limited to the
first 200 people to enroll and
ends Wednesday. For more
information, call 342-6555 or
342-6937.
• Hidden Valley Optimist
Club will sponsor a trip to
Atlantic City, N.J. in April.
The trip costs $174 and
includes tips, taxes and two
casino trips. All money raised
supports community and
youth activities. Deposit of
$120 is due by Feb. 15.
For more information, call
379-0235.
• National Council of
Negro Women Inc.
Charlotte
Section will
host its
annual broth
erhood din
ner March 2
a t
McDonald’s
C afe teria,
2810 Beatties
Ford Road.
Guest speak
er will be
U.S. Senate candidate Harvey
Gantt
Gantt. Donation is $20 and
benefits NCNW’s community
service projects. For more
information, call 536-0941.
• Hoechst Celanese and
Johnson C. Smith University
will recognize leaders who
make contributions to the
community March 29.
The Circle of Honor
Awards Ceremony will be
held at the Sheraton Airport
Plaza Hotel. In addition to
recognizing community
involvement, JCSU will pre
sent the Rufus Patterson
Perry Award to recognize a
graduate for his or her work
in the community and on the
school’s behalf. Tickets are
$50 for individuals, $100 for
benefactors and $125 for
patrons and must be pur
chased in advance. For more
information, call June
Sanders Grayson at 378-1025.
• Focus on Leadership
Inc. is seekipg nominations
for its annual Unsung Heroes
Awards.
The awards are given to
African Americans in
Charlotte-Mecklenburg who
have shown dedication and
commitment in:' arts; busi
ness/entrepreneur; community
service; education; human ser
vice; media; personal achieve
ment; politics; religion and
youth. The deadline for nomi
nations is March 3.
For more information, call
Cynthia Sifford at 561-3043.
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• The Charlotte Local
Organizing Committee of
the Million Man March and
Present Day Ministries will
sponsor an African American
History Month lecture series
in February.
The series, held each Friday
at 7 p.m. at Present Day
Ministries, 2730 Rozzelles
Ferry Road, will consist of
presentations, panel discus
sions, question and answer
sessions. Topics include: “The
Nile Valley Civilization”
(Friday); “The Holocaust of
Enslavement” (Feb. 9); “The
Resurgence of the ‘60s” (Feb.
16) and “Where Do We Go
From Here: Chaos or
Community?” (Feb. 23).
For more information, call
• Nominations are being
sought for the annual Police
Community Relations
Awards. The awards recog
nize officers and work teams
from Charlotte-Mecklenburg
Police who have contributed to
the improvement of police-
community relations.
Nominations may be made
by citizens in the patrol area,
Charlotte-Mecklenburg School
personnel groups, fellow offi
cers or their superiors. To
nominate an officer, write the
Charlotte-Mecklenburg
Community Relations
Committee, 600 East Trade
St. Charlotte, N.C. or call the
committee at 336-2424.
Deadline for nominations is
April 1.
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