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THURSDAY, MARCH 7, 1996
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Jhaquavia Funderburk - age 5
Mother - Alvito Funderburk
School - Bethlehem Center Head Start
Church - Flintridge Baptist Church, Pageland, S.C.
Favorite Food - Fried Chicken
Favorite Color - Red
Favorite Television Show - Living Color
Favorite Music Group - TLC
Favorite Role Model/Relative - Kenneth Funderburk, an
uncle who died in 1993.
Hobbies - going to movies and reading with her brother,
Chaz, age 6, and sister, Jhaquena, age 7.
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PHOTOS/JAMES BROWN
Head Start program gets new center
Shemise Earl and
Laquisha Morris, both
age 4, play in a new
$800,000 Headstart cen
ter which opened this
year with federal, city
and private financing on
Norfolk Avenue, near the
Bethlehem Center.
The Head Start pro
gram serves 790 pre
PHOTO/JAMES BROWN
school children at 11 sites
in Charlotte.
The Head Start pro
gram is now taking appli
cations for the 1996-97
school year. Low income
families should register
three- and four-year-old
children born between
Oct. 16,1991 and Oct. 16,
1992.
Limited slots are avail
able and priority is given
to four year olds.
Head Start also serves a
limited number of dis
abled children whose
family incomes may
exceed the low income
guidelines.
The program hours are
8:15 a.m.- 3 p.m.
Extended day programs,
from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. are
available at the Lucy Gist
Day Care on Norfolk
Avenue and the Salvation
Army center at 534
Spratt Street.
For additional informa
tion call 371-7420,
371-7421, 371-7436,
371-7454 or 333-0203.
Steal Away” opens
“Steal Away Home,” a play about two young slave boys
who escape from a South Carolina plantation along the
Underground Railroad will be presented this weekend
and March 15-17 by the Children’s Theatre of Charlotte.
The play will show at 7:30 p.m. Fridays and at 1 p.m.
and 3 p.m. on Saturdays and Sundays.
The two boys, Amos and Obie, travel over 500 miles
along the Underground Railroad to join their father, a
freed slave living in Pennsylvania. They face danger
and adventure on the trip, a test of courage and faith.
The play is at times suspenseful, funny, warm and
touching, an uplifting celebration of the human spirit,
the power of faith, and the need to follow our dreams.
An interracial youth gospel choir will perform during
the production.
“Steal Away Home” was written by Aurand Harris
from the book by Jan Kristof. It will be directed by
Scott Miller, the Children’s Theatre’s artistic director. The
cast if made up of nine adults and six children.
The play is recommended for third grade through adult
audiences. Tickes are $8 and $5.50. All performances are
at the Children’s Theatre at 1017 E. Morehead St.
To order tickets, call 333-8983,10 am.-5 p.m., Monday
through Friday. For more information on the show, call
376-5745.
Science Bowl ‘96
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Eighth graders Michael Ingram (I.) & Blair Goff (r.)
Michael Ingram and Blair Goff, both Quail Hollow Middle School eighth
graders, confer during the Science Bowl competition last month. The
Quail Hollow team, which also includes Candace Wilson and Ron
Newson and coach Dorothy Douglas, won the tournament and with run
ner up, Kennedy Middle School, won expense paid trips to the national
Science Bowl competition in Detroit during Spring Break April 8-13. The
Science Bowl pits eighth grade teams answering questions in a timed
contest similar to the College Bowl television program. The winning team
members also won scientific calaculators and trophies and the members
of the third place team, J.T. Williams, won a $50 savings bond.
The competition was held at Hoechst Celanese’s Dreyfus Research Park
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PHOTO/CALVIN FERGUSON
Jamia Sturgis, age 3
African
Princess
Jamia Sturgis, 3, mod
els African attire during
fashion show by
“Gwendell Concerns
Fashion” during the
Caroltnas Association of
Black Women
Entrepreneurs awards
banquet. Louise Sellers,
chairperson of the West
Charlotte Business
Incubator, Teresa
Wright, president of the
West Charlotte
Merchants Association,
and CABWE president
Sylvia Grier were hon
ored during the Feb. 24
event at Renaissance
Place, 631 N. Tiyon St.
Sellers and Wright won
Spirit Awards, while
Grier won the Sister of
the Year.
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Donuts for Dads:
Men spend quality time with children
Justin Shaw, age 5, enjoys a story being read by his
father, Mark, during the “Doughnuts for Dads” day
activity at Plaza Road Pre-School on Feb. 22. Dozens
of fathers and grandfathers visited the school at
Anderson and The Plaza for the event, which was
sponsored by the school’s PTA.
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