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3A NEWS/Vie Qntone Thursday, September 22, 2005 Cyclists ride for an MS cure Continued from page 1A not know when it will strike, what symptoms they will have, when it will get worse or better, or if they will become permanently dis abled. Valerie Saddler PhD, a communications professor at \\^nston-Salem State University for over 20 years, had no idea that she would be stricken with the disease. “I found out that I was diag nosed with MS on Valentine’s Day this year,” she said. “It’s very overwhelming. I was very independent and teach ing iny classes. Then you become dependent on other people. It is a real challenge and it has its up and down days. Going back to work after a year off has helped. I eiyoy seeing the students and faculty” said Dr. Saddler. MS occurs less frequently in African-Americans than in Caucasians, but African- Americans t^id to have more a^ressive forms of MS. A new study, supported in part by the National MS Society, found other differences as well. African-Americans are at higher risk for disability They are also more likely to develop “opticospinal MS,” where the disease is restrict- Condom touted as rape deterrent Continued from page 1A groups call the device ‘’medieval” and ‘barbar ic”. They disagree with Ehlers that her device empowers women Chantel Coop^, Director of Rape Crisis Cape Ibwn, believes ‘’Rapex” may make women more vulnerable to violence and murder. °Ifs not pro gressive at all, this is like a chastity belt. We need to understand that the safety of women is Storm survivors to fight insurers By Roderick C. Willis AFRO NEWSPAPERS BILOXI, Miss. - Hurricane Katrina left thousands of peo ple along the Gulf Coast of Mississippi homeless, jobless and with a sense of helpless ness and abandonment. Daniel Netter and his fami ly are among them. The 87- year-old, now a patient in Biloxi Regional Hospital, is a veteran of World War n and was stationed in England, North Africa and Italy ‘’I thought Hurricane Camille was bad,” said Netter, ref^ring to the 1969 storm that struck the (X)ast. ‘1 never thought Td ever see a hurricane as powerful as that one, but Hurricane Katrina was a storm like no other. I’m glad to be ahve and Tm ^ad my family is safe.” Last year, Netter’s wife died. So his daughter, Sharlotta Evans, and her children moved in to take care at him. She also remem bers Camille. ‘’Camille was a terrible hur ricane, but this one was worse. We lived in a four-bed- room brick home and Katrina destroyed everything. The frrst floor is about 12 feet to the ceiling and the water totally covered the house. We evacuated to one of my father’s places past Jackson [Miss.] to escape the raging wind and the surge. When we came back to the house sever al days later, it looked like everything in the house had been turned upside down. We lost everything. The power of the wind and rain even cracked some of the bricks.” Hurricane Katrina also caused people to lose their lives and livelihoods. Two of Evans’ daught«:s worked at one of the city’s casinos, which are built on baizes next to hotels. Katrina’s 150- mile per hour winds, as well as a tremendous storm surge, lifted the casino fix)m one side of Hi^way 90 to the other. Takiyah Brown, one of Evans’ dau^ters, hopes she will be called back to work when they repair the casino, but no word has been given as to Thank You Charlotte for your support in the Ttiesday, September 27, 2005 Primary, VOTE Susan Burgess City Council @ Large Susan BURGESS cm Council I® Lfifioc YOUR VOICE ON CITY COUNCIL For information call: 704-333-2874 Paid for by the committee to elect Susan Burgess City Council @ Large Qienda fKorton ^Manning's... 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Ehlers expects to market her device next year. One condom will sell for 1 rand or approxi mately 16 cents. when that might be. ‘’I’m firustrated at the level of help we are getting down here in Mississippi. We would be better off going to another state. People we know who evacuated to Ifexas, Florida and Georgia are getting help before we are,” Evans said. ‘It’s like the federal govern ment has forgotten all about ^^sissippi and is concentrat ing only on New Orleans. Don’t get me wrong: I know those people need help, too. But it looks like we got noth ing. ‘’ She said seven days passed before they received food. ‘’The Red Cross was hand ing out ice and that’s it. Senator IVent Lott is sup posed to be a friend of President Bush, but nothing has happened. Bush came down here and made a speech, but whole towns are wiped out and people need help,” Evans said. ‘Teople are waiting in the hot smi for hours for vouchers, only to be told they only had 400 for 2,000 people in. line.” THE CHARLOTTE POST (USPS 965-500) is pub lished weekly for $40.00 per year by the Charlotte Post Publishing Co.. 1531 Camden Rd. Charlotte, NC 28203-4753. Periodicals postage paid at Charlotte, hJc. 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