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LIFESTYLES / The Charlotte Post
SEPTEMBER 5, 1996
Around Charlotte
•The City of Charlotte is
seeking applications from
neighborhood organizations
for grants to improve commu
nities. The deadline for appli
cations is Sept. 16. For more
information, contact Shirley
W. Stevenson at 336-2349.
•The Charlotte Writers Club
announces its annual article
contest, open to residents of
North Carolina, York and
Lancaster County, S.C. Non
fiction works of 750-2,000
words should be submitted by
Sept. 16. For more informa
tion, contact Donna Emmary
at 332-1889.
•Interested in singing the
National Anthem at Charlotte
Hornets games? Auditions will
be held Sept. 24 from 9-4 p.m.
at the Hornets Training
Center in Rock Hill. For more
information call, 357-0252,
Ext. 4866 or 4855.
•Charlotte-Mecklenburg
Schools and UNC Charlotte
have teamed up to offer a col
lege engineering course for
high school students. For
more information, contact
Lisa Troutman at 547-2213.
•Duke University’s
Certificate in Nonprofit
Management Program will
begin in early September at
UNC Charlotte. The program
offers practical training for
people in the nonprofit sector,
churches or government agen
cies. For more information,
contact Dana Bradley at 547-
3941.
•Partners in Hope, a pro
gram of Crisis Assitance
Ministry, will present
Education for Partnership:
Information & Training
Sessions for People Interested
in becoming Partners in Hope
volunteers on Tuesday and
Sept. 24 from 7-9 p.m. at
Crisis Assistance Ministry.
For more information, call
371-3001, Ext, 124.
•The Charlotte Repertory
Orchestra will hold auditions
this month for all instru
ments. Orchestra programs
will include classical and con
temporary music. For more
information, call 532-5320, 10
a.m. to 8 p.m.
•The Alzheimer’s
Association Caregiver Support
Group will meet Tuesday at
noon at the Adult Care and
Share Center, 6709 Idlewild
Road. The facilitator will be
Jane Moore of Adult Care and
Share. For more information,
call Moore at 567-2700.
• The Lockwood
Neighborhood Assoiciation
will meet at the Fighting Back
Cluster II Resource Center,
1500 North Tryon St., on
Monday at 7:30 p.m. The
guest speaker will be Jane
Burts of the Charlotte
Organizing Project.
•Applications are currently
being accepted for the Today’s
Young Woman Leadership
Development program spon
sored by Class Project 2000.
The program, which provides
lessons in life skills and com
munity services will run from
May 1997. For more informa
tion, call Theresa Williams
Bethea 382-0294.
•Johnston Memorial YMCA,
3025 N. Davidson St., will pre
sent a free lecture on first
time home buying Monday at
6:30 p.m. For more informa
tion, call 333-6206.
•The Mecklenburg County
Parks and Recreation
Department will hold is annu
al two-person catfish tourna
ment on Saturday at 2 p.m. at
Ramsey Creek Park on Lake
Norman. The entry fee is $35
per team. For more informa
tion call, Steve Fraher at 896-
9808.
• The United Way will kick
off its 1996 campaign with a 5
kilometer fun race at 8 a.m.
Saturday. The race will begin
at the United Way building at
'fliird and Brcvanl .‘■treet
•Winston-Salem State
University will invest Alvin J
Bchexnider as its 10th chief
administrator on Friday at 2
p.m. in Kenneth Williams
Auditorium on campus. For
more information, call (910)
750-3153.
•The Plyler-Forbis reunion
will be held Sept. 14 from
noon to 5 p.m. at Pleasant
Grove Church Campground in
Mineral Springs. For more
information call Brenda Plyler
at (919) 467-1939.
•Arthritis Patient Services,
a United Way Agency, will
begin a new group for young
arthritis and chronic pain suf
ferers and their significant
others. The group will meet
today at 7 p.m. at 801 Baxter
St., Suite 404. For more infor
mation, call 331-4878.
•The Carolinas Association
of Black Women
Entrepreneurs Inc. will be
taking orders for Christmas
and Kwanzaa holiday cards to
benefit their business loan
fund. For more information,
call 391-7446.
• • •
CABWE will host a car wash
and business market expo on
Saturday at the Amoco West
Boulevard Grocery, 1601
Remount Road.
•Presbyterian Hospital will
sponsor a Grocery Store Tour
Sept. 12 at 7 p.m. Leading the
tour will be a registered dieti
cian who will teach partici
pants how to read labels and
make the best nutritional
choices. For more information,
call 384-4119.
• • •
Presbyterian and the
Central YMCA will also offer
a 15-week lifestyle and weight
management program.
Orientation will be Friday at
noon at the Central YMCA on
Morehead St.
•Friends and Supporters for
Harvey Gantt for Senate will
host a fall promenade fashion
show and a Buck Long pro
duction on Sunday at the
Charlotte International Trade
Center, Palmetto Ballroom.
Tickets are $20. For more
information, call 376-3293.
•Portraits of Color Inc., will
offer a comprehensive cultural
arts and development pro
gram for children and youth
ages 5-18. The program will
begin Sept. 23 and la.st 12
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.$75 per discipline. For more
information, contact Pamela
Phifer, 535-3633.
•Pat Grigg, director of the
Mecklenburg County Women’s
Commission, has been award
ed a public service award for
outstanding accomplishments
in the area of equal opportuni
ty by the National Association
of Public Sector Equal
Opportunity Officers Inc.
Grigg was awarded the honor
during the recent NAPSEO
annual conference at the
Adam’s Mark Hotel.
Grigg, a 21-year employee of
the county, has been director
of the Women’s Commission
since 1990.
• • •
The Women’s Commission is
beginning its annual HERO
program, a counseling group
for children 6-13 who have
Graham attacks racism
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where they had stolen the
wagon.
“I will never forget it,” he
said. “I was only 4.”
That experience, and the
memories of being ostracized
by his African American
peers in junior high school,
led Graham to adopt the
stance he has and to seek to
expose racism.
“(Blacks students) called
me an oreo,” he said. “They
made fun of the way I
talked.”
Graham found humor the
best way to cope. And laugh
he did. He developed a keen
intellect and a sharp, occa
sionally derisive, sense of
humor. In “Member of the
Club,” he conducts his own
personal survey of how he
was treated in fancy restau
rants. In spite of his gold
credit cards and $600 suits,
he did not find one restau
rant where he was treated as
equal. There was always
something different about
his experience.
“I didn’t go into it because I
wanted special treatment,”
he said. “I just wanted to be
treated as an equal.”
He also didn’t mean to
cause a stir when he outed
several prominent African
American thinkers and lead
ers who have married
whites.
He is still surprised by the
number of whites and blacks
who were offended by the
chapter in the book that
dealt with interracial dating.
“I am not against interra
cial dating,” he says
adamantly. “But I do not like
it when black men say they
do not find black women
attractive. That is evidence
of our self-hatred.”
Powe honored with award
continued from page 9A
Stroud to enrich the lives of
the children in the area. It is
through the foundation that
Powe has reached the most
people.
She combined her work with
girls through The National
Association of Negro Business
and Professional Women’s
Clubs youth division and ASF.
“I feel the need to reach out
to girls from less affluent
homes,” Powe said.
Recently Powe took a group
of ASF girls to NANBPWC’s
annual convention.
‘T believe in exposure for
children,” she said. “I want
them to get a taste of the
other side of life.”
Powe says she will continue
to help others and continue to
Moonshine a dying art form in mountains
continued from page 9A
made remedies that called for
corn liquor were replaced by
modern medicine.
Today, court records on
moonshining cases are rare.
The last cases in both Jackson
and Macon counties related to
“non-tax paid alcohol” were in
1990, and the federal Bureau
of Alcohol, Tobacco and
Firearms- descendants of the
federal revenue agents -
closed its Asheville office in
1983. By 1990, the number of
witnessed domestic violence in
the home. The program is
funded by a Governor’s Crime
Grant and is free to partici
pants. For more information,
call 336-3790.
•The UNC Greensboro
Alumni Association will spon
sor “Friday at Five,” an after-
work event in Downtown
Greensboro on Sept. 13 at 5
p.m. Admission is $3.
•The Metrolina Food Bank
will host “Hunger’s Hope Golf
Tournament” at Providence
Country Club Sept. 16.
Registration begins at 11 a.m.
Tee off is scheduled for 1 p.m.
Proceeds from the event will
benefit the Food Bank’s distri
bution of grocery items to
more than 400 food assistance
programs in 17 counties.
•The Tuesday Morning
Breakfast Forum will meet at
McDonald’s Cafeteria, 2810
Beatties Ford Road. The dis
cussion topic for the session
will the Charlotte-
Mecklenburg School System,
and feature new superinten
dent Eric Smith. For more
information, contact Sarah
Stevenson at 392-9503.
•The Oaklawn Community
Improvement Organization
will hold its annual picnic on
Saturday from 2-6 p.m. at the
corner lot of Orvis Street and
Russell Avenue.
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fight for opportunities for chil
dren. Her own childhood,
shadowed, by segregation and
Jim Crow, instilled in Powe
the importance of service. She
i.s especially touched to receive
the award named for Shadd, a
fellow West Charlotte gradu
ate and close friend.
“I didn’t have it easy as a
child,” Powe said. “No black
people did.”
It’s got a new roof and a
sun porch overlooking the garden.
This is the house.
stills destroyed statewide was
only 18.
As many of the old greats of
the moonshine trade die off,
they are taking with them the
knowledge of how to “make a
good run," scholars and local
residents say.
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