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3B LIFE/ Cgsrlotte Thursday. August 24, 2006 Bennett College sees results THE ASSOCIATED PRESS GREENSBORO — "nckets to a fundraiser for Bennett College featuring Oprah Wnfi«y and Maya Angelou sold fast in the first day of pub lic sale. The private school for blade women sold all 300 tickets available Monday bringing in more than $100,000 for the Oct. 20 event. Corporate sponsors can stUl purchase blocks of seats for between $25,000 and $100,000, officials said. The gala is part of college President Johnnetta Cole’s plans to leave office with the school on a firm financial footing. Bennett is in the midst of a $50 million fundraising cam paign co-chaired by Angelou and former Sen- Bob Dole. Bennett College was running a $2 million budget deficit and was on academic probation when Cole, the former prudent of Atlanta’s Spelman College, took over in 2002. Cole will retire fium the school’s presidency in June- On l/ie Net: Bennett College: http://wwwBennett.edu/ Your Life, Your Paper, p Your Post Prevent damage to your heart Continued from page 1B lates (or backs up) in the tis sues of the body Fluid that collects in the legs causes swelling or edema. Fluid that biulds up in the lungs (congestion), causes difficulty breathing, one of the key symptoms of heart failure, hence the term congestive heart failure. How can I prevent heart damage? Because hypertension had such a major effect on cardio vascular health, controlling blood pressure is critical! Control is more than simply taking blood pressure med ication. It means maMi^ sure that with, the medication your blood pressure is 140/90 mmHg or below. [If you have diabetes or kidney disease, yoiu- blood pressure should be 130/80 mmHg]. Blood pres- siire that is above the recom mended level can resialt in heart damage. A healthy hfestjde can also help prevent the complications of hyper tension. Healthy behaviors With shortage looming, army takes older recruits Continued from page 1B as he is of me today” said Robert DiUing, who wants to train as a combat medic. RusseU Pilling said he got to Fort Jackson at 11 p.m. earlier this summer—one hour before his 42nd birthday and the Army’s new deadline. “It’s been to\i^ physically but my com pany has been pretty supportive,” he said. Dining’s drill sergeant, Steven Proffitt, called the father “a real leader. He shows these kids how to do it.” Pfc. Kimberly Brown, 37, couldn’t resist cupping her 18-year- old son Derek Noe’s face in jubilation after theyd both been released fixim graduation formation. TOth five children to support, the work in the Army is wel come, she said. Her husband Robert, a retired Army first sergeant, supported her, she said, Noe is returning to finish his senior year in high school in Boone, N.C., while his mother goes to Fort Eustis, Va., to enter helicopter mechanic training. “They called me Mama’s boy’ but I knew they were just mess- ir^ with me,” Noe said of oth^s in his unit. “It never got to me. I’m proud of what she’s doing.” Where’s home for aU of Katrina’s displaced? THE ASSOCIATED PRESS DECATUR, Georgia-With riveting cadence, the pastor quotes fixm the book of Acts — assurance fiom the apostle Paul that only through tribu lation might disciples enter the kingdom of heaven. “I’m talking about real tests,” the pastor booms. “Every time you go through and you come out, you ought to thank (3od for confirma tion. 'The devil thought he was gonna take you out. But he couldn’t take you out.” At this, fi'om the fi'ont row of the congregation, Mary Ann Wiliams nods and smiles. She has been reflecting on tribulation—about the deluge fi’om Hurricane Katrina that wrecked her New Orleans home, about hra’ fi’ail moth er’s perilous passage to safety out of a hotel while the waters rose. She has been reflectii^ on wrangling with the govern ment for aid and on the strug gle, after she and five rela tives settled in an apartment in this Atlanta suburb, to be accepted here—not to be seen, in her words, as “dirty bums, thieves, robbers.” But mostly Mary Ann Williams, who is 50 and has vibrant red-orange hair, has been reflecting on this place, the Greater St. Stephen Full Gospel Baptist Church. Its New Orleans congregation displaced, it has sprouted up here, and is slowly growing. “I don’t know what people would do without God,” she says. They were called refugees, evacuees, the diaspora of Katrina—a million Mary Ann Williamses, rich and poor and white and black and Louisianans and hfississippians, scattered by the storm one year'ago. Their odyssey is a story of almost incomprehensible pro- indude consuming a diet rich in fiuits and vegetables, mod est (as opposed to high) salt intake, getting regular exer cise, limiting- alcohol, and not smoking. Remember, knowledge is powa', but it is what you do with it that makes all the dif ference. Contribution by Brenda Lxaham-Sadler, MD. For more information about the Maya Angelou Research Center on Minority Health, visit http://www.wfubmc£du/minority- health. Or, for health information call (336) 713-7578. Where do you find the leading orthopedic specialists? OFFICIAL TEAM PHYSICIANS OF THE With more than 70 highly skilled physicians serving your needs at convenient locations throughout the region, OrthoCarollna offers a level of expertise that comes from years of experience and decades of exceptional care in a variety of orthopedic specialty areas. From foot & ankle to hand... from spine to hip & knee.-.from shoulder & elbow to pediatric orthopedics to sports medicine...there’s only one name to remember; OrthoCarolina. Orthecarolina OFFICES CONVENIENTLY LOCATED NEAR YOU gallantytie. Charlene. Gastonia, Huntersville. Kings Mountain, Matthews, Monroe, Moorasville, PInevllle, Shelbji, Universit/ Week of 08/23/06 thru 08/29/06 portions. By late Jidy, the Federal Emergency Management Agency had doled out more than $4 billion in hovising assistance to the They were absorbed by Houston, where thedr sheer numbers made classrooms bu^ and created a some times uneasy tension, and by places Hke Middletown, Rhode Island, where about a dozen of Katrina’s kids will report for sdiool in the fall. Evacuees made their way to all 50 states, government records si^gest. Some were greeted with generosity others with suspi cion. Fights broke out at schools where students divid ed—New Orleans kids versus locals. Jiost weeks ago, a man was shot to death at a refl^ee trader park in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. The refugees tried, at a very basic human level, just to fit in. Consider the Collins family Fifteen of them in all, 11 of those grandchildren of the matriarch, Bessie Collins They got on a plane less than a week after Katrina and thou^t they were bound for San Antonio, Not even close; Salt Lake City Mormon coimtry Cold winters, mountains rather than the &fississippi, and few other black families Seven of the Collins kids are starting another year in the Jordan School District, in the suburb of West Jordan. Last year they were inundated by questions ftum other kids: Did you sleep on your roof? Why do you talk so fast? “We had never seen people ride skateboards. What’s he doing—he’s jumping in the air!” says Johnny Collins, 17. But they are, in their own ways, blossoming. 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