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NEWS The Charlotte Post
October 3, 1996
JCSU opens Saturday Academy
By Herbert L. White
THE CHARLOTTE POST
Johnson C. Smith University
has been selected to give middle
school students a taste of college
life throughout the school year.
JCSU will open one of three
Saturday Academies, a state-
funded program for at-risk stu
dents. The other programs are
at N.C. Central University in
Durham and East Carolina
University in Greenville.
Saturday Academy is a state
program that intends to provide
opportunities and inspiration to
middle school students in 27
counties involved in the Support
Our Students initiative. The
academies will operate each
Saturday throughout the school
year, providing students within
a 75-mile radius of each school a
chance to experience life and
learning in a college environ
ment.
“Saturday Academies will help
inspire our SOS students to
work hard and set high goals for
themselves,” said Gov. Jim
Hunt in announcing the pro
gram. “By putting together with
university teachers and stu
dents, these academies will
teach SOS kids what it takes to
get to college and inspire them
to do their best in school."
SOS, proposed by Hunt and
approved by the General
Assembly in 1994, operates at
115 sites in 52 counties. The
program provides 6,000 stu
dents with after-school services.
including mentoring and tutor
ing from adult volunteers, clubs
and communi
ty service
activities. The
Smith curricu
lum offers
academic
enhancement,
physical fit
ness, personal
growth, and
cultural
enrichment.
Students from
Catawba, Davidson, Gaston,
Iredell, Lincoln, Montgomery,
Richmond, Rowan, Union and
Mecklenburg counties are eligi
ble.
The academies are an expan-
Hunt
sion of SOS designed to improve
students’ academic performance
by providing enrichment, social
opportunities and mentoring.
The program is funded by a
$125,000 Governor’s Innovative
Program grant awarded to the
N.C. Commission on National
and Community Service by the
Corporation for National
Service. Each site will receive
$34,000 to administrate its local
program, but will depend heavi
ly on volunteer support from the
university and the community
to help the academy succeed.
For more information on
Saturday Academy at Johnson
C. Smith, call P. Moses Thomas
at 378-1007.
Neighbors oppose
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“We are going before commissioners to present our concerns,”
Atwater said. “There is a public hearing on whether to have a
moratorium.”
Commissioners are considering a change in zoning rules giving
neighborhoods more notification about projects planned near
them, even when current zoning permits such projects.
The same concerns were expressed by north Mecklenburg resi
dents living near a proposed rock quarry on Mountain Island
Lake. The two neighborhood groups have met to discuss mutual
concerns.
County commissioners are considering whether to call a mora
torium on similar new projects and are seeking a way to buy the
rock quarry site to prevent its construction.
When the Hoskins Road area was re-zoned for industrial use,
the North Pointe Business Park was developed there. Residents
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