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Thursday October 30, 1997
Around Charlotte
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1623 Carmel Road, 10 a.m.
• Saturday
Mecklenburg County Chemical
Dependency Center, 100
Billingsley Road, 10:30 a.m.
Amethyst Treatment Center,
1716 Sharon Road West, 7 p.m.
For ages 13-20 only.
For more information, call 319-
1625.
Thursday
•Community Forum, “Twelve
Points of Truth,” Fighting Back
OfBce, 1500 N. Tryon St., 7 p.m.
Presenter, Judy Carter.
Women’s Association will have its
annual holiday canned food drive
at the Panther-Raider game at
Ericsson Stadium. Fans attend
ing the game should bring canned
or non-perishable food items with
them. Volunteers will be at each
gate to collect the items. For those
not attending the game, dona
tions can be made at Rhodes
Furniture stores through Nov. 7.
The Salvation Army will have
red kettles set-up at the game for
those who wish to make monetary
donations.
tives, PTAs, parents and other
interested persons are invited to
attend. In addition to a overview
of such issues as maintenance
and school supplies, there will be
breakout groups to discuss specif
ic needs of elementary, middle
and high schools. For more infor
mation can Susan Lindsay, 537-
2269.
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Saturday
•Concert, Carolina Pro Musica,
10 a.m. International House, 322
Hawthorne Lane.
•Charlotte Celia Sprue meeting,
Carolinas Medical Center, third
floor dining room 1,1:30 p.m. For
more information, caU 336-3493
or 588-6842.
•Meeting, Independence Chapter
of the American Business
Women’s Association, Holiday
Inn, Independence, Independence
Boulvard at Eastway Dr. 6:15
p.m. Guest speaker, Paula
Decarbo of ReMax Master
Associates.
'Thursday
Simday
•The Carolina
Panthers
•Charlotte East Community
Partners wiU discuss the needs of
schools in east Charlotte at 7 p.m.
at Garinger High School.
Principals, business representa-
•African American art historian
Lizzetta LeFalle-CoUins will kick
off Davidson College’s Ethnic
Studies Lecture Series with a look
at the cross-cultural influences of
art in history.
LeFalle-Collins’ lecture will
examine a Mexican movement of
the 1920s and 1930s in which
artists created murals that pub-
Ucly glorified common workers,
the indigenous population and
their contributions to Mexican
history. Several Afiican American
artists, including Charles White,
Elizabeth Catlett and Hale
Woodruff, spent time in Mexico
studying the movement, reflected
in their subsequent art works.
One of the foremost students of
the style was John Diggers of
Gastonia, a student of Charles
White.
‘Drumbeats’ warmly received
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down letters were positive.”
Lambert says the uniqueness of
his book made it easier to publish.
“My book is unique because it
deals with AfHcans and Africa as
it relates to Americans,” Lambert
sajfs. “Some publishers might not
have found that interesting, but it
worked for others.”
Lambert is currently at work on
his second novel, which once
again delves into the problems of
AfHcans in America. This time,
he’s writing about Cinque, the
Sierra Leonian slave who led the
successful revolt of the Amistad.
‘T think having been a pub
lished author, I will definitely be
able to be published,” Lambert
says. “The first book I had to learn
as I went along.”
'This book won’t take as long, he
says. Lambert started earlier this
year and hopes to finish in late
1998.
Drumbeats from Kabala is
available at Barnes and Noble,
Newsstand International, Border
and The Heritage House.
Child care on Clinton agenda
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care for their workers.
A national registry of child-care
workers with criminal records, an
idea mentioned in the past by first
lady Hillary Rodham Clinton, will
not be proposed, according to
administration officials who
spoke on condition of anonymity.
Officials expect the conference
to set the stage for Clinton’s State
of the Urion speech next year,
when he is expected to highlight
child care. His administration
also plans to include some initia
tive in next year’s budget propos
al.
Advocates say thejfll be watch
ing.
“The proof is in the pudding,”
said Marian Wright Edelman of
the Children’s Defense Fund,
which has child care at the top of
its 1998 legislative agenda. “A
White House conference, in and of
itself, won’t lead to much.”
Generally, the federal govern
ment has only a small role in child
care. One program provides about
$3 biUion, mostly to help low-
income parents pay bills. States
are responsible for setting stan
dards, enforcing them and adding
any other money for subsidies.
But across the states, the prob
lems in child care are many,
including wide variations in qu^-
ity and inconsistent regulations
that sometimes go unenforced.
Workers are paid an average of
just $6.89 an hour, and they come
and go quickly. Nationally, about
one-third of workers leave each
year. And a forthcoming study by
the Famihes and Work Institute
found that in Florida, a state with
above-average retention, just 2
percent of teachers remained
after four years.
The bottem line, according to a
recent University of Colorado
study, is that 12 percent of cen
ters provide less than minimal
quality care, and only 14 percent
are rated good.
Meanwhile, it’s expensive. A
typical family wiU spend nearly
^,000 a year on child care. The
poorest end up spending 25 per
cent of their income.
The problem cuts across class.
Middle-class parents may be able
to afford child care, but worry
whether centers and homes are
safe.
For mothers trying to come off
welfare and into low-wage jobs,
the question is how to pay. &me
subsidies are available, depend
ing on the state, but even those
who qualify have the same quali
ty concerns.
‘It’s probably the worst feeling
in the world,” said Kim Noyd of
Menomonie, Wis., who stepped
trusting centers after her 6-year-
old daughter told her that a work
er had touched her in a sexual
way.
Meanwhile, the working poor
are often caught in the middle.
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