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I ? A a >y- A ^fc> m m 4* * ^L >^!>, 'a Os o te t -? H ,-. - v ^fc. vj y :?? QSL^Mmmamk^,t ng,> ^9BH '? .%;??? J / S |j '< . ' * Mmi* j foj v \^.' , . S ? ^^mb^ofcAj QDri2E0RRf ^5(2eiS2R ? % * I* I ki '<:' | | || ?' jfc i ? ?*sJ* ' si ' ^ 't 3 "Building communicative bridges In a tri-raclal setting" *s : ?, , ?{ " ? VOLUME 20 NUMBER 21 ^__[_ THURSDAY. MAY 27. 199)3 25c per copy ?~??m?m~mmmmmmm^mmmm.m~mm?l______________________________________ DENNIS LOWERY Honored at Military : Acadamy in SC - Quiet Corey Mack Hunt, a freshman at Camden Mili tary Academy in Camden. South Carolina, has been identified as a recipient of an homsarv award recogni mathematics program at Montana State University. Over I4.0UU high school students bum across the United States are nominated annually for recognition asa Who's Who recipient, but only five percent of all nominated candidates receive this honorary award each year. Asa Who's Who recipient. Cadet Hunt s biography will be published in the IW2-V3bouk. Who s Who Among High School Students. From July 25 thruugh August 13. Cadet Hunt will participate in a three week residential mathematics program on the campus of Montana State University with uppioximuteiy 3(1 othei high school sophomores trum across the United States. Sponsoted by the Ameri can Tndian Science and Engineering Societv with a grant trum Lilly Endowment. Inc. and the hosting univeisuy. the program is designed to prepare high potential Ameri can Indian students tot entrance into mathematics, engi neering and science bused disciplines at the college level through comprehensive learning experiences at univer sities across the nation. Throughout the I9V2-V3 school term. Cadet Hunt has maintained academic honors as well as recognition for exemplary self discipline and leadership The son of Luretta Hunt. Cadet Hunt is an active youth member of Branch street United Methodist Church in Lumberton and a former student of Femtxokr Middle School. I "X5REY MACK HUNT Local Student Serves as Page * Stephanie Kay Revels is a page ft* the House of -Representatives appointed by Congressman Rose Rose :said, "Stephanie is the daughter of Caiolyn and Earl k .'Revels. Stephanie came to Washington DC on January 131. and will leave June 12.IW3". Home fur Stephanie lis Pembroke North Carolina where she attends South 1 Robeson High School. A junior she plans tu further her education at the University of North Carolina in Chapel ;Hill where she will study law. I ; "Keeping God first in everything I do makes the difference in my life." Stephanie said. She is a great student-athlete and has made honor roll all her life. Hillary Holmes Ransom, was recently crowned "Little Miss Cumberland County Indian Princess. I993-*M". Competition was held in three categories. sportswear. Party wear and Native American Regalia. She is the seven year old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Mike Ransom of Favettevilie. and the granddaughter of Mr. and Mrs. Normie Holmes of Lumbeiton and Mi. and Mrs. Erytle Ransom of Pembroke. Hillary is a second grader at Alma Eason Elementary School, a member of Snyder Memorial Baptist Church and dances under the direction of Ms. Chailotte Hume. Billy Mills Comes To Robeson The Public Schools of Robeson County. Title V Indian Education Project and Pembroke State University Chap ter of A1SES are co-sponsoring a performance by Billy Mills, a LakoU Sioux Indian who shocked the world with a victory in the I O.UUU meter run at the Tokyo Olympics in 19b4 Today, the Gold Medalist is among the must dynamic speakers on the platform. Mill, raised on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in south Dakota will be appearing at Giverts Perioimmg Arts Centei at Pembroke State University May 2h. at 7:30 PM. The public is invited and admission is free. Local performers from area high schools will be: Lorna McNeil. MissNC National Talent; Kenda Bird. Jr. Miss Lumbee 1993. and Adrenna Lock tear. Jr. Miss Lumbee IUU"? Plate Sale For Bone Marrow Fund Indian Solidarity. Inc.. has established the Native American Bone Marrow Transplant Fund. The Fund will be used to defray medical expenses involved in the Bone Marruw Transplant procedure. All donations are tax deductible. A plate sale will be held on Friday. June 4.1993. at the Pembroke Town Park from 11 a.m. unti' Proceeds will go into the Native American Bone Mamr Transplant Fund. Chicken and barbecue plate will be available for S4.U0 each. Tickets are on sale from members of Indian Solidarity. Sam Kerns and Cliff Sampson are co chairmen of the plate sale. A drawing will also be held in the afternoon and some lucky ticket holder will win a color television. Dennis Lowery Selected Entrepreneur Of The Year Award Winner Owe 1973 No vwnber morning stands out m the memory uffMnit.NC native.DennisLummy. Hisyearsnt dreaming and hard work seemed aboutio fail apart Two months into the bunch ?t ht* fledging business, Cuuti nentui Indtuttial Chemicals inc.. he got a call at home thai one of Ins drive** hud an accident. He *uys in a frantic attempt to fat to the plant, he backed out uf Ms driveway into amstier cat. tnjuiing thai tirtvei. When he showed up at wort hours Uneiu police officers wan there to serve turn a summon*, a much target company had sued him fur breach uf contract. "I picked up the summons and went into the plant." Lower? remembers. "I climbed up una drum uf chemical, aad I sat in the durk and cried and cried and cried. I thought there wan no way out.' Two hours later when he wan all cried out. Lower) got mad. then determined. "1 washed my face and called all my employees, five or six at the tune." he says, "and I told them we were going to win. and that we would sell mure and perform better than everyone else.' Hard work and determination paid off Lowery On May 13 the Charlotte. NC Chamber awarded him its 1993 ENTREPRENEUR OF THE YEAR AWARD. He was picked from a field of 2ft nominees for the award which recogni|ptf annual sales of $59 million and Ift7 employees While he is proud of his ethnic heritage. Dennis Lower) thuae whoeltiibuie his wnnieeakhby'ww W hb Lumbee Indian eays being a minority opined some iloot* and made introductions. Beyond that, however. Lowery says the major factors in the gmwtffflf his buehtem purtfotio.ure marketing strategies and an emphuxis on employee's welfare. A lack of capital has never hindered the Charlotte entrepreneur. He started in sales at age seven, shining shoes, and helped support humelf by washing cars, from fifth grade through college. He was graduated from Pembroke State College (now Pembroke State Univet sity) in 1964 and came to Charlotte with $17 in his pocket. He worked ui the pharmaceutical industry fur two years, and then tor pine year in the chemical industry. It was during hw years asu sales representative and sales manager for twoofhiscutreut competitors that Lowery decided to start a distribution company to tap markets he says were nut being touched. Lowery. along with Bob Elliot, formed Industrial Chemicals. Inc. I now Continental Industrial Chemicals. Inc.iin 1975 with SIS.UUU. of their own andahsmfrum the Small Business Administration The loon was well earned. Lowery applied lot it P times, and was turned down the fine In. He asked tot $ IU0.1JUU The V45.U0U he finally gut tided him over for the first two and a half months. By then, the SBA was willing to talk real bust ness-the firm* safes in nstiret month were SHKLUUl. The company * been in the Mack ever since. The Charlotte-bused corporation has I.lUU customers in 52 stales and three foreign countries. The firm repackages and distribute* industrial chemicals such as jet-fuel additive, anti-freeze. de-tcmg fluid and chemi cal* used m cosmetic*. Continental delivers chemicals in drums, tank trucks, rail cars and sometime* barge* Among itscustumersare DuPont. R J. Reynolds. Owens Cuming. General Tin. Uniroyal. and Union Cmbidr In addition n? three plant she* on Hovi* Road In NraHmmi Charlotte, end a nniionnl rated division tm Cram?inn Blvd. as Cruwn font. CtClcmiumty owns and opera? distribution center* in Chssrerfitid. V*. and Ore euv the. X. CoMiiKnuii Induxtrtttl OMHBh'niti tx ttic Uif ?txt NmHvc American owned corporation w the Untied Siwm. ac cording to the North Cendinn cummtasiim of Indian Afttits. Lam year tha company was isakt J fDdi in sale* * in dw North Carotin* IUU ptugnun of privately held corporations. Lowery currently bold* interest in two other contpe which operate* out of Spertsnhitcg.SC end NACOKa subcontracting wennwchd firm located in Chattels. Early due year. Lowery stepped down as President of CICI end became Chief Enaimtive Officer of the Cunti neninl Group, a holding company which overaeee opera tions of the collective corporations. The Continental (Intup im spies seven ftciiiiiff with a total of 233.UUO sq.ft. and operates with 34 pieces of equipment which include tank tracks, trailers, buses and ahurt tracks. Of the 167 people employed by the corporations. 70 percent are women who hold 63 percent of dte sales and managerial positions. Collective annual sales of die CiMtnaenial Group are >39 million, and collective assets exceed $14 million. Lower s buwnem acwmpii* arents have not gone un noticed. In IV7K he was named Smrdflusiness Person of theTbwby EHfaUta Wn American Aauociatioa. A year later, he received North Carolina's Small Business Pern* of the Yew award, and was named Tar Heel oftheVyeek" by THE NEWS AND OBSERVER. In I WO he swrs a finalist for Entrepreneur of The Year ha North Carolina. He currently serves un several curpunne buards and holds membership at au I merouM busineas organization* In IVtW Lowery formed the now defunct business arm of Metruiias Native American AasuciWiuu. The group helped develop Indian-owned businesses, especially through counseling tbetr owners. Lowery still counsels Indian owners ot small businesses. Perhaps Ms greatest contribution to community bus been through bis involve ment with youth. He cuntuMuliy reminds yuungpnople that their ethnic heritage, coupled with hard wtuk, can become a strength in overcoming sue ad and economical prejudices against them. Lowery works with the Churtutte-MeckJeaburg school system s Indian Educution Program. a federal project of the U.S. Office ot Indian Education. Pra the past 15 years, he has worked with the program which spraasas aa annual Careet Day at Central Piedmont Community College, where he often speaks, he yean. Lowery has quietly given financial assistance towards the education of youth attending college at Ms Alma Meter and on [whose Board of Trustees he served as Chairman fhan IV87-K*. Lowery says thai to ran a buwddtt lixiay. um has to have aroud map drawn out "My first concern here at The Continental Group is bow we service customers". By any standard of measure. Lowery has accomplished the impossible in stretching $17 into nulla ms over s period of two decades. ? I- i $3 . | ' _? * Strawberry Festival The Eastern Carol mi T uncarora Nation wilt celebrate it's annual Strawberry Thanksgiving on June S. IV93 (Saturday) at the Sovereign Nation in the Prospect Community. The Strawberry Thanksgiving is celebrated each year when the strawberries come off. It is cel ebrated on all the Six Nations reserves, to thank the Cieai?* fur the berries that he gives to his children. Events this year will include; Social Dancing (Iroquois) by the T use antra Kau-Ta-Noh Society Social Dancers. a LaCrotwe Team, art* and craft* by Tuscan** and Seneca craft* people, games I vuHeybali. grease pule, etc.I. food including plenty of *U aw berries. and aw berry drink. Tbe festival w open to the public wnh a special invita tion to all our Mexican Indian friend*. Craft booth* will open at about KMX) a.m. For mure information celt I(9I9> 521-4955.52I-X534. or 52I-N97S. Applications Available For Junior Miss Lumbee Pageant Application* will be available lor the Junior Mm Lumber Pagean beginning June I. IW. The age category m 13 to 15 yeanofape. Contestant* must be 13 | by (Xtober I. IW Contestant* can ma be 16 before November 9. IW3 The fua 15 application* returned with the regiNtratioa < fee will be accepted. Registration fee is $75.00 < The pageant will be held October 9. IW at 7:30 p.m i f sit the Givetw Hrtdrmmf ArN CeMct ??the FVmbn** State Untverwty uanpuv KJmtmmm will be SJ p* penun. Applicant** may be itoaMol ai tbe Ada* EJauww 3ffke m tVmbii A*. NC Qae>ni*t? aw> be tbreueJ fc> Vfamr<?eC1uii*ai*21 -*602 ?w Gladys Freeman at 521 1462 Applicant* tleadimr * inly 16. IWV I - _Lj<M
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