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Pembroke, NC Robeson County
"Building communicative bridges in a tri-racial setting"
Miss Lumbee Notiv. Am.rlcan
First Runner Up Cultural
To MISS Indian Set.ln Baltimore
USA
The reigning Mitt Lnmbee Nahir Loddear, wot
selected at firtt runner-up last meek m the Mitt Indian
USA Pageant. The pageant it an annual event and it
tpontored by the National Indian Heritage Foundation, a
Washington bated organization that addrettet it suet and
concerns relating to Native American People.
Co-hosts of the pageant were Princess Pale Moon,
Chairman of the American Indian Heritage Foundation
and Claude AJcint, tlar of the hit thorn "Lobo" The
tl contestants were judged m areas of tribal knowledge,
personal interview, traditional drett, contemporary
dress, traditional talent and modern talent.
Nahir will receive a Si, 000 scholarship at firtt place
winner. Chenoa Bah Stillwell wot crooned Mist Indian
USA.
Nahir it the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Denzel R.
Loddear of Pembroke. She it the granddaughter of Mrs.
Vixhan Loddear.
Nahir extends her gratitude to the community for their
financial support and their encouragement.
Hie third Annual National Native Cultural Arts
Festival, scheduled to coincide with Thanksgiving, will be
held in Baltimore City's Festival Hall and the Marriott
Hotel, November 19-25, 1990.
Sponsored and organized by the Baltimore American
Indian Center, the Festival will offer special events for
children, an art show, drum and dance contests,
American Indian food, crafts and demonstrations.
Monday-Wednesday of Thanksgiving Week (November
19-21) will be open to the public but will target school
children.
School children will be invited to: Sample American
Indian food and drink, view demonstrations and exhibits
of Native American arts and crafts, dancing and regalia
(dance outfits).
Featured also for the school children will be
demonstrations of American Indian be ad work, pottery,
basketry, patchwork and wood carving, as well as story
telling. Large models of American Indian villages and full
size tipis will be on display. Educational packets will be
available for teachers. Children will also be able to have
their faces painted for a small fee.
Booths in the hall will sell food, drinks, and souvenirs
as well as exhibit and sell American Indian art and craft
items.
A Pow Wow will start on Friday, November 23. Events
for each day (Friday-Saturday) will include a grand entry,
special entertainment, dance contests, social dancing,
drumming contests, and inter tribal contests. Native
Americans from across the United States and Canada will
be participating. The Aztec daneers will be In attendance.
Over 910,000 in prize money will be paid to drum and
dance contestants.
On November 22-2S, the Baltimore American Indian
Center, inconjunction with the festival, will sponsor a
juried art show at Baltimore's Marriott Hotel. Over $8,500
in prise money will be paid to contestants. Admission to
the Native Cultural Arts Festival will be $4.00.
In addition to the admission fee, a voluntary donation of
a can of food is requested to assist in the preparation of
Christmas food baskets for the needy by the Baltimore
American Indian Center.
Budget Study Group to
Meet with Representatives
Hie Robeson County Budget Study Group will meet on
Saturday at 9 a.m. at the O.P. Owens Agriculture
Building. Members of the Robeson County Board of
Education, Board of Commissioners and members of the
Legislature for the district will meet with the group. Many
issues will be dealt with relative to the upcoming county
budget
Interested persons are urged to attend this important
meeting. Richard Math is serves as chairman of the group.
Citixen input is encouraged.
PINEY GROVE
HAPPENGINS
Piney Grove Elementary School recently held it* annual
Harvest Festival which was a great success. The winners
| far Prince and Princess were Adam Bowen, son of Mr.
| and Mrs. Steve Bowen and Nicole McNeill, daughter of
Ms. Edith McNeill. Ms. Miriam & Mob* is their second
grade teacher.
The king and queen were Heath Barnes, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Melton Barnes and NUdu Chavis, daughter of
Mr. Ricky Chavis and Ms. Janice LocUear. Mist Betty C.
McNeill is their sixth grade teacher. These winner* will
represent the school in parades and related events.
Sho>on above are the king and queen.
Principal Grady Loddear would Uke to thastk everyone
who helped to make this event a success. The funds will
k t>L M **td to *?*P provide tttrnhal tupptitt for itudonU.
New teachers are still in the making. Mrs. Connie Ivey She says she has been made to feel ??,?.. a ,
is getting first hand experience as she does her student the school. She looks with sreat antirin.V / " ^
teaching at Pln.y Grove Elementary School in the fifth gIMt forward to a
grade class of Mrs. Healen A. Carter. Mrs. Ivey says that classroom of her own. She will graduate December 14
har teaching experience is a pleasure and yet a challenge, from Pembroke State University.
MEETING THE CHALLENGE
OF TODAY'S YOUTH
byAtkaB. Stolon
The Robeson DSS Child Welfare Staff and the Juvenile
Court Counselors have always worked together as a team
when necessary in order to provide quality and indepth
services to children. However, in the wake of increased
social problems in families, the complexity of youth
problems and the decrease in economic resources, the two
agencies came together on October 29th for a mini
workshop to discuss problems of today's youth to, to
review the current role of each agency as mandated by the
North Carolina General Statutes, to evaluate their
services approcah and at the same time, gain new
knowledge, build new service directions and focus on how
the two agencies can continue to offer quality services to
kids and meet the challenge of today's problems.
Even though each agency works with youth in their own
special way, they both have a commmon mooring in the
use of the Juvenile Court The Juvenile Court is protectice
in nature. Judicial in function and social in determination.
It has the responsibility for protecting a child's right U>
physical, mental and moral development Both agencies
serve as an arm of the court 'n not only protecting the
rights of children, but in making sound decisions in
reference to their future. Because of the lihenss in service
function, it means that many times D6S staff. Juvenile
COurt Counselors and other human service agencies may
be working with the same child.
At the October meeting, both agencies could readily
identify with the stress, frustrations and fears that plague
the families and children throughout the United States
and the changing economic, social and educational forces
that challenge their resolve. The workshop ended with
a common understanding and commitment between the
two agencies in reference to meeting the challenge of
today's youth, better strategic planning and program
coordination.
Coffee, cups, sugar and cream were doanted by a local
business
REGULAR CULTURAL EXCHANGE
BETWEEN PEMBROKE AND BOLIVIA
' by Gene Warren
With a regular cultural exchange program between
Pembroke and Bolivia being discussed, 30 pieces of art
work from Cochabamba, Bolivia, in South America are
now being exhibited through Dec. 14 from 8 a.m. to 5
p.m. each weekday in Pembroke State University's Native
American Resource Center.
Hie exhibit is entitled "From the Heart of South
America" and features the work of 12 contemporary
artists of the Quechua and Aymara Indian Nations of
Bolivia.
The pieces are invarious media, including oil,
watercolor, batik, pencil, lithography and acrylics. Hie
exhibit is being shown at only three places in this state.
Hie exhibit came to PSU from Durham and will go next
to Tryon, NC. It may also go to Washington, D.C. for the
month of February. It will be in in no other state.
It is all part of the Partners of the Americas national
program, a non-profit organization seeking to encourage
exchange between the U.S. and Latin America. The
exhibit is also supported by a grant from the U.S.
Information Agency under the auspices of the Fulbright
Hayes Act of 1961 and by American Airlines.
"North Carolina is linked with Cochabamba in the
central area of Bolivia, Utah is linked with La Paz, capital
of Bolivia. Arkansas is linked with Santa Cruz in the
eastern part of Bolivia," said Jessie Cannon, chairperson
for arts and culture, N.C. Partners of the Americas.
"We sponsor exchanges in all different areas: sports,
agriculture, health, everything you can think of to have
exchanges. We pay for the travel of those participating in
the program, which is those volunteering to come up here
or go down there," she said.
"When this program was discussed between Bolivia
and North Carolina, it was suggested that FVmbroke
would be an excellent place whh which to establish an
exchange or link." said Cannon.
"After all, mos tof the people in Bolivia are Indians.
They have a real linkage up here at Pembroke, so that's
whenw e began to talk about having an art exhibit at
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ran Drone.
From this. Cannon said, "I'd like to see someone who is
a truly typical Indian artists from here go down there. We
would pay their travel expenses. They would volunteer 10
days of their time and live with families in Bolivia."
It has been pointed out to Cannon that there are many
fine Native American artists in the Pembroke area.
Cannon said the idea behind this exchange program is
to exchange information. "Unfortuantely," she said, "a
lot of people on the outside everywhere think all Indians
are reservation Indians. They have this stereotyped idea
of Native Americans." Such an exchange program will
help correct this misinterpretation, she said.
Cannon gave an example of the cultural exchange
involving Seldon Durgon, a potter who has a studio at
Cedar Creek Gallery 25 miles north of Raleigh near
Creedmoor. "She went down (as a representative of
North Carolina) to Bolivia and gave workshops for two
weeks and helped them learn about some of the
techniques of pottery here and, of course, she learned
about their kinds of pottery techniques," she said.
"Another example is two of the musicians from there
coming to N.C. and performing. People who had never
had any interest in Bolivia were fascinated by their music
because it is so different," noted Cannon.
From all of this came the information that the Bolivians
were very interested in learning about North American
Indians--and thus the possible start of a regular exchange
or link with Pembroke, an area where some 40,000 Native
Americans live.
Those interested in volunteering for such an
exchange should contact: Jessie Cannon, chairperson for
arts and culture, N.C. Partners of the Americaa, 4004
Forestdale Dr., Durham, NC27712, or telephone Ms.
Cannon at her office in Raleigh at (919) 787-8066.
Jettie Cannon...Of the N.C.
Partner* of the America*.
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To Subftcrtbo Coll:
Tkit painting entitled "POrton," a woter color bp
Gerordo Zurita of Boktna, it one of 30 art workt from
Bolivia now on exhibit through Dec. H at Pembroke State
l/nivenitg's Motive American Resource Center.
Receives Certificate of
Appreciation
E>ma N. McWilliams has received a letter and
certificate of appreciation from the Secretary, Department
of Healtha nd Human Services in recognition of
outstanding contributions to the Federal reeponse in the
aftermath of Hurricane Hugo and the Loma Prieta
Earthquake in California. Mrs. McWilliams coordinated
and consolidated the expenses incurred by the agencies of
the Public Health Service with the Federal Emergency
Management Agency and the Department of Defense.
Mrs. McWilliams is the Chief, Financial Management
Branch. Office of the Assistant Secretary tor Health.
Public Health Service. Department of Health and Human
Services. She is a graduate of Pembroke High School and
the American University. School of Government and
Public Administration. She has been with Office of the
Assistant Secretary for Health for the past 20 years and
ahs received numerous awards over the years. She is the
daughter of the late Edward N. Oxen dine and the late
Flora "Bell" Oxendine. She grew up in the Harpers Ferry
area and now resides in Silver Spring, Md.
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NCA Technical Meeting Planned
the ??..inlily dinner and technical meeting of the on "Pitting Liberal Arts Sludenu> Into Professional
Fayetteville Area Chapter of the National Association of Accounting education. "
Accountants will be held on Tuesday, November 20 at Professional accountants, collegiate business students
0:20 p.m. at the Holiday Inn on U.& Hwy 15 401 in and guests are invited to attend the monthly meetings of
Laurinburg, NC. Mr. Pete Pressor, a CPA and assistant the Association. For reservations or information contact
professor at St. Andrews Presbyterian College will speak reorganns Simpson at 488-8511.
PLans Baazar
Ashpote Center United Methodist Women of Rowland
will sponsor s Bazaar, barbecue and chicken plate sale
November 16-17 at Ash pole Center United Methodist
Church. The plate sale will begin at 11 a.m. until 9 p.m.
nates will be 64 each. Craft display will open at 8 a.m.
Ashpole Center United Methodist Church is located in
front of South Robeson High School. Proceeds from the
sale will got toward the building fund.
Rev1va1
at Ashpole
Ashpole Center United Methodist Church at Rowland
will hold a revival November 18-80. The Rev. Jerry Lowiy,
pastor of First United Methodist Church will be the guest
speaker. Special singing each night Services will begin at
7 p.m. on Sunday night and 7:80 p.m. Monday and
Tuesday nighta. The pastor. Rev. Bill James Loddear,
invites the public to attend.