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Report: Black motorists more
likely to be stopped, searched
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo.-
Black motorists were 40 per
cent more likely to be
stopped by Missouri law offi
cers than white, motorists
last year-a percentage virtu
ally unchanged from 2002,
according to a report
released Thursday by
Attorney General Jay Nbcon.
Black motorists also were
80 percent more likely to be
searched than whites, the
report found.
The annual report is the
fourth since Missouri began
tracking traffic stops under
the state’s racial profiling
law, enacted in August 2000.
Statewide, law enforce
ment officers made almost
1.4 million traffic stops last
year, conducted more than
105,000 searches and made
74,000 arrests, the report
found.
Nixon warned that statis
tics alone neither prove nor
disprove that racial profiling
exists.
“Analysis of the data-par-
ticularly the data supplied
by individual law enforce
ment agencies-has proven to
be a springboard for con
structive dialogue between
the agencies and the com
munities they serve,” Nixon
said.
The report includes data
from 616 law enforcement
agencies. Gov. Bob Holden
could withhold state funding
from 56 agencies around the
state that did not meet the
reporting deadline, Nixon
said.
We’re Always
on line
www.thecharlottepost.com
Culinary school feeds needy, teaches job skill
By Cheris F. Htxlges
chcria.hodges&thecharlott€post.com
The Community Culinary
School of Charlotte has been
moving people from welfare
to the workforce while serv
ing the hungry.
The school provides food
service job training for people
who are chronically unem
ployed, according to a release.
With food from the
Community Food Rescue,
students at the culinary
school are trained to prepare
nutritious meals. The meals
are then .served to homeless
people and other people in
need through the Friendship
Trays program. Over 700
meals are distributed to the
ill, elderly and homeless
daily.
“We’re a three-prong group
that works against hunger,”
said the school’s executive
director, Linda Vogler.
Culinary students take
classes for 12 weeks, where
they learn professional food
preparation, sanitation and
joh seeking skills. The school
is one of the few job-training
programs that offers the
option of day and evening
classes.
Vogler said the school also
offers life programs that
work on self-esteem, teaches
students how to save money
and teaches a strong work
ethic.
Students are recruited
from social services agencies,
homeless shelters, halfway
houses, the couTt system and
work release programs.
“Some of them come in and
have food experience and
those students move through
the program faster,” Vogler
said. “And some don’t have
experience.”
Vogler added that having
prior experience in the food
industry is not a require
ment.
Since 1998, the school has
graduated over 275 people
and has a 98 percent place
ment rate. Graduates of the
school have gone on to work
in local restaurants, country
clubs and retirement centers.
One thing that sets gradu
ates apart from other job
seekers is that they receive
sanitation certification from
the National Restaurant
Association.
“We don’t have a problem
placing the students,” Vogler
said. “In Charlotte there are
about 8,000 entry level (food
service) positions.”
Fitness helps aging and aged
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she could move with ease.
She then began daily trips to
the gym to work on her
upper body. Those initial vis
its were difficult. “It was
friistrating,” she said. “In the
beginning, all I could do was
cry and keep moving.”
But each visit to the gym,
she’d focus on doing what
she could and then try to do
a little more. “If I could get
10 movements in a day and
then do one more, that was
an achievement,” she said.
“There is a cycle of pain that
you can let yourself get into
because you’re not only suf
fering physically, but going
through that mental
anguish as well. But you
have to stay away from that
cycle.”
For the next three years,
Edie stuck to it, visiting the
gym, walking, working and
willing her body to do what it
was once capable of -and it
paid off.
“The doctors told me that if
I wasn’t so determined. I’d be
in a wheelchair right now,”
she said. “I didn’t let it con
trol my life. When you get
sick, that should be an
encouragement to exercise.
If you’re healthy, you want to
work at keeping that good
health.”
Edie’s passion for fitness
continued to grow over the
years, so much so that she
took courses to get certified
to teach others how to stay
fit through avenues like yoga
and aerobics.
By 1999, Edie felt in con
trol of her life again.
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Male
teachers
a rarity
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
NASHVILLE, Tenn. -
Bridgeforth Middle School
students get an unusual
experience when they go to
Mike Luke’s science class.
They probably won’t see
another male teacher for
the rest of the day. That’s
’ because Luke is one of just
a few male teachers at the
475-student school in Giles
County.
“I’ve had a few male col
leagues. It stays steady :
just a handful at any
time,” said Luke, who has
been teaching for 27 years.
“Some have to leave. We’re
not refilling the ranks as
fast as they retire.”
Giles County is not
alone. Across Tennessee,
14,500-or about 21 per-
cent-of the state’s 68,000
public school teachers are
male. The percentages are
usually lower in elemen
tary and middle schools,
and higher in high schools.
“We do need more men,”
said J.B. Smith, principal
of Bridgeforth, in Pulaski.
“Many times, these chil
dren are without men in
the home. Men are needed
as role models,”
A National Education
Association survey shows
only one out of every five
teachers is male, a 40-year
low. Specific information is
not available for
Tennessee because the
state does not track teach
ers by gender each year.
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