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The Voice of the Black Community
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CIAA BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT
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PHOTOacURTIS WILSON
Johnson C. Smith University’s pep band gets down during the Golden Bulls’ 65-54 win over Bowie State in the second round of the women’s
bracket Smith plays Elizabeth City State in the semifinals Friday at 1 p.m.
Visitors give host thumbs-up
on hospitality and amenities
But parking a concern to some
By Cheris F. Hodges
cherisJuydgest^ thecharlotteposiicom
Charlotte’s first round of
hosting the CIAA has been
a hit with fans.
Dorothy Winston and
Donna Herndon, both from
Ralei^, have been in the
Queen City since Monday
and while they miss the
convenience of the tourna
ment being in their back
yard, both women said
they’re having a ball
“We’ve had a great time
here, everybody is so
firiendly,” Winston said “We
think it’s going to get even
better because the guys are
playing fWednesday).”
Despite some visitors’
grumbling about parking-
its cost and lack of avail-
ability-
Hemdon said that hasn’t
been a problem.
“We get here early and we
stay all day,” Winston said.
Getting to uptown eariy is
something that fans and
workers are doing. Yosheka
Whitfield of Charlotte said
she knows that on
TTiursday and Friday she
needs to leave home 30
minutes early
“Parking is always a
See NEW/3A
Livingstone College’s Kimone Jones looks for
an open teammate in the Blue Bears’ 69-64 loss
to Virginia Union Monday.
Charlotte exceeds expectations
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Charlotte Sting head coach Muggsy Bogues
(second from right) posed for photos with CIAA
ball persons Alana Frost, Alex Pitts and Ashley
Frost
Etiquette instructor Ebony
Moore-Roacti (left) teaches
finer points of social skUlsl B
By Herbert L. White
kerb.whited thet-harhaepostrom
Ralei^ who?
Charlotte’s first three
days as a CIAA tourna
ment host have gone
beyond the league’s expec
tations, delivering on its
pledge to make the event
more fan-miented
After six years in North
Carolina’s capital dty, the
CIAA moved to Chariotte
after an intense bidding
war. With corporate and
government support, the
league’s board of directors
voted to move last year.
“Things have gone very
smoothly beyond our expec
tations,” said Jeffrey
McLeod the league’s assis
tant commissioner and
director of football and bas
ketball championships.
“This is clearly going to be
one of our best events , peri
od We’re very happy and
very pleased”
Basketball is king at the
CIAA but the tournament
is the hub of social, profes
sional and academic events
that are expected to draw
more than 120,000 visitors
uptown. From Monday’s
kickoff pep rally to recruit
ing sessicsis sponsored by
corporations and federal
agencies, the CIAA has
something for everyone.
In recent years, the tour
nament has become a mag
net for entertainment and
sports celebrities. This year
is no exception with scores
of A-list parties and con
certo across the city
That’s what the league
was looking for when it
selected Charlotte, McLeod
said And next week, league
officials will start figuring
ways to top it
“Everybody has stepped
forward whether it’s the
arena folks, the city the
local media has been out
standing covering it,”
McLeod said
#•01
tlMnners
mil
tonery
B/ack businesses see
games as a boost to
their bottom line
By Eric Bozeman
FOR TliF. aiAKLOTFE POST
Liz and Linton Williams can’t wait
for the North Carolina Education
Lottery to start.
The owners of Mr. Jim’s Pizza on
West Boulevard are among the first
Charlotte entrepreneurs to have a
lottery machine installed in their
business. Tb the WiUiamses, the
machine enables the African
American community to be more self-
sufficient.
‘T don’t see it as a negative thing,”
Liz said. ‘T look at it as an improve
ment in the community I want it
equally spread around, so they don’t
go somewhere else to buy them I
wanted to make sure we had a
machine on this aide of town, because
some of the other business owners
may not be able to pass the applica
tion process.”
The lottery commission has begun
taking approximately 5,600 applica
tions finm merchants across the state
Please see BUSINESSES/6A
the box
NEWS, NOTES & TRENTfS
More N.C.
teens are
kicking butts
By Eric Bozeman
FOR WE aiARiX)m: post
Fewer N.C. teens are smoking,
according to a trust fund that
tracks tobaco) use in the state.
Lieutenant Governor Bev
Perdue said there are 27,000
fewer smokers in middle school
and hi^ school than in 2003,
Perdue, along with members of
the North Carolina Health and.
Wellness THist Fund, met with
local health officials at Carolinas
Medical Center to announce the
findings.
“North Carolina kids are catch
ing the wave that tobacco is yes
terday’s cool,” Perdue said
Tliesday
More than 6,000 middle and
hi^ school students fixim 177
schoob within 79 school districts
participated in the survey The
annual rate of decline in 1999-
2003 was 1.425 percent, but fium
2003-2005 the rate of decline in
middle schoob was 1.75 pwcent.
The hi^ school decline was 1.075
percent annually However, the
rate erf* decline finm 2003 to 2005
was 3.5 percent. Perdue said the
Rease see BLACK TEENS/2A
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