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NEWS
The Pendulum
CD highlights talent, helps community
Margeaux Corby
Reporter
Tomorrow, the Koury Business Center
will host the CD launch of “Christmas
Cheer: From Alamance County Musicians.”
The CD project highlights the talents
of local musicians and provides support
for Alamance County’s less fortunate
children and elderly adults during the hol
iday season.
“Christmas Cheer: From Alamance
County Musicians” is an album compiling
the vocal and instrumental talents of local
artists.
All proceeds go to the Christmas Cheer
of Alamance County charity.
The CD is $15 and available for pur
chase on-line at http://www.christmascheer-
alamance.org. It will also be sold at the
release party which is from 5:30 to 8:30
p.m. Friday.
There will be no admission charge and
the launch is being promoted as a night of
festivity for a great cause.
“This is a way for students to make con
tributions to the local community for the
holiday season,” said Thomas Arcaro, direc
tor of Project Pericles.
Christmas Cheer is a nonprofit agency
dedicated to helping the children and elder
ly of Burlington and Alamance County. For
more than 75 years, this organization has
provided children and their families with
toys, Christmas dinners and clothing.
The agency also provides the elderly
with new or gently used books, school sup
plies and even Christmas trees.
Dawn Sternal, director of Christmas
Cheer, emphasized that the agency “offers
the opportunity for people to plug into the
spirit of the holiday and gives to those who
have less then they do.”
Christmas Cheer works to combine
efforts of other local service agencies
involved in similar holiday giving.
“It is a chance to touch the lives of a
child and elderly person, a person in need,”
Sternal said.
Senior Audio Producer Bryan Baker
recorded the CD at Elon University’s sound
studio. Baker, involved in several service
events and trips around the world, wanted
involvement in something that helped his
hometown community.
“I wanted a project with lots of local
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Information Table
10:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.
Mosely Student center
Information Session
5:00 - 6:00 p.m.
Mooney Resource Room 111
musicians involved in it,” he said.
Through the Pericles Service Sabbatical
Program, Baker was able to undertake the
project. The Service Sabbatical allows uni
versity employees with two or more years
of employment to work full time for a com
munity organization and take a break from
university responsibilities.
Baker relieved himself of university
duties in July to work on recording and con
tinued polishing up the CD throughout the
school year.
The Sabbatical program, “provides role
models for students,” Arcaro said. “You
learn more outside the class then inside the
class because everyone is your teacher”
Of the local artists contributing to the
album, several are Elon alumni, faculty and
staff. When doing a community-based proj
ect “naturally a lot of local people would
include alumni and staff,” Arcaro said.
The CD features holiday music in genres
like jazz, country and rock. According to
Baker, “it is a very eclectic album with a lit
tle bit of something for everyone.”
Contact Margeaux Corby at
pendulum@elon.edu or 278-7247.
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there basic school supplies are necessary.
Although the Guilford County School’s
Web site predicted the school will take
about two years to rebuild, the Guilford
County Board of Education approved a
course of action to place students back in
school.
Juiom-s and seniors began schooling at
GTCC Greensboro Campus Nov. 8, while
freshmen and sophomores will start Nov. 14
at the former site of the North Carolina
School for the Deaf.
Edwards said an account has been creat
ed for all incoming money so students do
not need to deposit into their own account
and then create a checking account.
Donations or supplies can be dropped off
between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. at the Kemodle
Center, Moseley Campus Center desk,
Moseley 230.
Contact Andie Diemer at
pendulum@elon.edu or 278-7247.
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