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NEWS/ The Charlotte Post
February 22, 1996
Community Notes
• Retired educator
Elizabeth Randolph will
receive the Whitney M. Young
Jr. award by the Charlotte-
Mecklenburg Urban League
March 12.
Randolph will receive the
award at the Omni Charlotte
Hotel from her nephew,
Baltimore mayor Kurt
Schmoke, as part of the third
annual Whitney M. Young Jr.
award dinner. Randolph
served more than 50 years in
education, including stints as
associate superintendent of
curriculum for Charlotte-
Mecklenburg Schools, princi
pal at University Park
Elementary School and
teacher at West Charlotte
High School.
For tickets or table reserva
tions, call the Urban League
at 376-9834.
• The N.C. NAACP Kelly
M. Alexander Sr.
Humanitarian Award
Banquet will be held March
16 at the Sheraton Imperial
Hotel in Research Triangle
Park. U.S. Senate candidate
Harvey Gantt will receive the
Humanitarian Award and
Fred Rasheed, the NAACP’s
director of economic develop
ment and interim administra
tor from 1994-95, will receive
the Charles A. McLean
Distinguished Service Award.
Banquet tickets are $50 and
can be purchased by calling
(910) 275-0851.
• The Wesley Heights
neighborhood will throw a
Bob Marley birthday bash for
a greener community Sunday.
The party/benefit will be
held at the Pterodactyl Club,
1600 Freedom Drive. Doors
open at 8 p.m. and donations
are $5 at the door. Reggae
bands will play from 9 p.m.-
until closing. Proceeds will go
to the Wesley Heights commu
nity to help develop a green
way for the neighborhood.
For more information, call
342-3400 or 334-1537.
• The Westside Political
Action Committee will hold
a candidate endorsement
forum Saturday. The forum
will be held at 9 a.m. at St.
James United Methodist
Church in the northwest cor
ner of Freedom Drive and
Interstate 85. West Charlotte
residents can meet candidates
who have endorsed Westside
PAC objectives and to hear
their general platforms.
• The Local Organizing
Committee of the Million
Man March and Present
Day Ministries continue its
African American History
Month lecture series through
March 1.
A presentation, “Where Do
We Go From Here: Chaos or
Community,” will be held
Friday at 7 p.m. at Present
Day Ministries, 2730
Rozzelles Ferry Road. On
Sunday, the presentation “Dr.
Martin Luther King Jr. and
Minister Malcolm X: Were
Their Struggles The Same?”
will be given by Ahmad
Daniels. Also, “The Harlem
Renaissance and Today” will
be presented by Frank Creft.
Panelists will include N.C.
NAACP President Kelly
Alexander, Bob Davis of tbe
Black Political Caucus, Pastor
James Ephraim of McClintock
Presbyterian Church and
JoAnn Stevenson Jenkins of
the Drug Education Center.
On March 2, “The Nile
Valley Civilization,” resched
uled from Feb. 2, will be pre
sented. For more information,
call 393-5474.
• Charlotte Latin School
is testing next month for
minority scholarship appli
cants.
Testing for two four-year
scholarships sponsored by
Cogentrix Energy Inc. will be
held March 16.
office at 846-7207. Testing can
be arranged for a date other
than March 16.
Applicants must be entering
ninth grade in the fall to be
eligible. For more information,
or to make an appointment,
call the school’s admission
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relations assistant who grew
up in Southside Homes.
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involve former housing
authority residents from all
walks of life, “not just the ones
with degrees in hand and jobs
making $80,000-$90,000 a
year.
“We want just families that
moved up and got good jobs at
Lance or are a mechanic or a
nurse or an administrative
assistant making a decent liv
ing. Who moved from depen
dence to independence. People
from up and down the eco
nomic ladder.”
The alumni association, once
it organizes, will decide what
it wants to do and what pro
grams, if any, it wants to
undertake, he said.
Possibilities include adopt
ing families to mentor and
helping teach residents how to
run businesses and about get
ting further education and
training.
“There are so many
needs...but the laborers are
few. We need tutors. We need
scoutmasters. Ninety percent
of the families in public hous
ing are headed by females.
“They could have picnics in
the summer. And a formal
banquet, with presentations
and awards. The key is kind
words, words of encourage
ment. A lot of families need to
feel good about who they are.
It would be such a great bene
fit to families we serve.”
Barber said he sees the
alumni association letting cur
rent residents know “we didn’t
just show up at NationsBank
or running our own business.”
“There were a lot of people I
can remember growing up
who were afraid to dream.
Who were afraid of being dis
appointed,” he said. “The
biggest challenge out there is
to rise above lower expecta
tions. Mentors are important.”
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Youth fast
for others
By Herbert L. White
THE CHARLOTTE POST
A group of Charlotte teens
plan to go without food so that
others can eat.
The Fighting Back Youth
Council will hold a World
Vision Famine Friday and
Saturday. The goal is to go 30
hours - from 11:59 p.m.
Thursday to 6 a.m. Saturday -
without food. Students from
South Mecklenburg, West
Charlotte East Mecklenburg
and Myers Park high schools
will meet at the McCrorey
YMCA on Beatties Ford Road
Saturday during the last
stages of the fast. The object is
to bring attention to the plight
of America’s - and Africa’s -
hungry children.
“We’ve never done anything
like this before,” said Monicka
McKee, 18, the council’s
trainee advisor. “We’ve always
wanted to do something for
kids who are hungry.”
Fasters can donate money or
canned goods to join the effort.
Organizations can donate $10;
individual students $1 and two
canned goods. Proceeds will go
to Loaves & Fishes and hunger
relief for children in Somalia.
When fasters gather at the
YMCA Saturday, they’ll'
abstain from food, relying on
fruit, juice and water to get
through the day.
“Juice and fruit should hold
you, I hope,” McKee said.
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