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LIFESTYLES / The Charlotte Post
Thursday, May 15, 1997
Around Charlotte
News of note
•The Bethlehem Center Head
Start Program is accepting
applications for the 1997-98
school year. Parents are urged
to register their preschool chil
dren bom between Oct. 17,1994
and Oct. 19, 1996 as soon as
possible. Older children will
receive priority.
The program accepts children
of families whose incomes fall
below poverty level. Spaces are
also open for children with spe
cial needs from families of all
income levels. For more infor
mation, call 376-9401 or 371-
7420.
•The City of Charlotte is
accepting application from
neighborhood based organiza
tion for community improve
ment projects. The deadline for
small grant applications is
Friday.
Two workshops are scheduled
to help with the application
process.
•May 20,6 p.m. Old City Hall,
600 East TYade Street
•May 27, 6 p.m. Greenville
Center, 1330 Spring Street
Attendance at one pre-applica
tion workshop is required. For
more information, contact
Shirley Stevenson, 336-2349.
•Blood screening at
Community Health Services,
1401 East 7th St. For more
information, call 375-0172.
Saturday
•The National Coalition of 100
Black Women of Greater
Charlotte wdll sponsor “Suit Up
for Success,” a clothing drive
with the Charlotte Housing
Authority’s Self-Suffiency
Program. Professional attire,
including men’s and women’s
suits and shoes, are needed. No
bags of clothing wiU be accepted.
Clothing should be dropped off
from 8 a.m.-3 p.m. at the Afro-
American Cultural Center, cor
ner of 7th and McDowell
streets. For more information,
call 391-2600.
•Alpha Kappa Alpha will
sponsor Graduate Greek
StepFest at 7 p.m. at Grady
Cole Center. Proceeds wiU bene
fit charity. For more informa
tion, caU 541-5748.
•Carolinas Association of
Black Women Entrepreneurs
will sponsor a money manage
ment seminar at 11 a.m. at the
Government Center, 600 East
4th St. For more information,
caU 333-1690.
•The Links will present a
demonstration on New Orleans
cuisine featuring chef Michael
DeVidts of the New Orleans
School of Cooking. The event
will be held at 10 a.m. at the
Adams Mark Hotel, 555
McDoweU St. Tickets are $40.
•Guess Who’s Coming to
Dinner, sponsored by the
MetroKna AIDS Project, begins
at 8:30 p.m. at the First Union
National Bank Atrium. The
event will include desserts
donated by more than 50
restaurants and caterers.
Admission is $15.
Sunday
•The Fiber Artist’s Guild wUl
meet at the Charlotte Art
League, 1517 Camden Road at 2
p.m.
Sunday
•'The Charlotte-Mecklenburg
Black Political Caucus wUl meet
at 7:30 p.m. at First Baptist
Church-West, 1801 Oaklawn
Ave.
'Tuesday
•Caregiver Support Group
will meet at 7 p.m. at Adult
Care and Share, 6709 Idlewild
Road.
Wednesday
•Carolinas Association of
Black Women Entrepreneurs
wUl present a seminar on devel
oping a business plan at 7 p.m.
at Government House Hotel,
600 East 4th St.
The deadline for
Around Charlotte is 5
p.m. Monday.
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“I had three bones broken,”
she says. “I feU right on that lit
tle rug over yonder. 'That’s been
a while ago. But I’m better now.
Ain’t that something?”
There are some things she
can’t forget. Like the day 16
years ago when her husband,
Isaac, died.
She and Isaac traveled eveiy-
where, she says.
“Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,
Washington - I don’t know
where all we didn’t go,” she
says. ‘T loved to travel.”
Isaac was almost perfect,
Roseboro says.
“He was good - what you caU
a real man,” she says. “He used
to caU me Mooks...I wanted him
to be like I was and I was a
lucky woman.”
One evening Roseboro came
home from work. Isaac was sit
ting on in a chair with his head
in his hands.
“I asked him if he was OK,”
she says. “He told me he didn’t
feel good.”
When he wasn’t better by
bedtime, Roseboro took him to
the hospital. He stayed there
three days.
“I went by Saturday and he
was sitting with his head down,”
she said. “I stayed with him a
while, but I didn’t want to
aggravate him, so I told him I
was going home and I loved
him. 'That was on a Saturday.
Sunday morning the nurse
caUed and told me he was gone.
He was a Christian man. So I
don’t worry about him. I know
he’s in heaven.
“From then on, I didn’t many
no more. I took company. But it
didn’t mean much. I didn’t care
to be married again.”
Now, Roseboro spends much
of her day on her screened front
porch.
She’s visited regularly by her
brother, the Rev. L. D. Parker,
74, and sister Henrietta Davis,
73.
“You know, they’re just
babies,” she says with a laugh.
Sometimes Roseboro just sits
and listens to the sounds of the
children playing across the
street. Sometimes she sleeps.
Much of the time she gives
advice on everything from men
to marriage.
“I didn’t nm arotmd with Dick,
Tom and Harry,” she says. “Td
advise these young girls not to
either. When you get to be 100,
you know lots of things.”
She doesn’t worry about the
little things, thoirgh. TTiey don’t
matter much.
“If you live right, the Lord
takes care of you, you know
that,” she says. “AU my days I
made myself what I was sup
posed to be...I’d been a lady aU
my life. Ain’t that something?”
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Medical bill errors
favor hospitals
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“We had one client whose
insurer denied her claim for a
heart operation, saying it was
not a covered service,” Brown
said. “It turns out the hospital
has miscoded it. The insurer
thought it was a sex-change
operation.”
Cordova and Brown are
among a handful of entrepre
neurs throughout the country
who have launched bill-review
businesses that aim to spot and
reverse errors in doctor and hos
pital invoices.
'They don’t charge for the ser
vice unless an overcharge is
foimd. 'Then, the consumer pays
a contingency fee equating to
half the savings.
However, many medical-
review firms won’t check bills
that are for less than several
thousand dollars because there
wouldn’t be insufficient profit
for the review team to bother.
Experts recommend that con
sumers make sure that they
study their bills and request
detailed versions if the charges
are lumped together. 'They also
suggest that consumers make
sure hourly charges are reahs-
tic.
They recommend contacting
the insurer before seeking treat
ment to find out what is cov
ered.
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"The Man Who Sold Hot Dogs'
I'd like to share a story that a very loyal customer recently
shared with me, about the man who sold hot dogs.
There was a man who lived by the side of the road and
sold hot dogs.
He was hard of hearing, so he had no radio.
He had trouble with his eyes, so he read no newspapers.
But he sold good hot dogs.
Fran Farrer,
Advertising & Marketing Director
He put up signs on the highway telling how good they
were.
He stood by the side of the road and cried "Buy a hot dog.
Mister."
People bought
He increased his meat and roll orders. He bought a big
ger stove to take care of his trade.
He finally got his son home from college to help him out.
But then something happened:
His son said: "Father, haven't you been listening to the
radio? There's a big depression coming on. The Europe
an situation is terrible. The domestic situation is
worse."
That made his father think: "Well, my son's been to col
lege, he reads the papers, and he listens to the radio, and
he ought to know."
So the father cut down on his meat and roll orders, took
down his advertising signs, and
no longer bothered to stand on the highway to sell his
good hot dogs.
Sales fell fast, almost overnight
"You're right son," the father said to the boy. "we cer
tainly are in the middle of a great depression. There just
isn't any business."
Laverne
Bob
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