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VOLUME 26 \r\jBER 50 THURSDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1999 THE.\TY-FIIE CESTS
Pembroke Area Chanber of
Commerce Annual Dinner
PEMBROKF.--The Pembroke
Area Chamber ofC ommerce u ill hold
its annual banquet and awards dinner
on Saturday. J an. 22 in the Chavis
University Center on the campus of
L'NCP.
State Senator David F. Weinstein
(D-Distriet 30) is the guest
speaker. The chamber's Business
of the Year will be recogni/ed and
the new directors will be installed.
The reception begins at 6:30 p.m.
followed b> dinner at 7. Reserved
corporate tables are SI 50. Individual
tickets are S20. To make reservations,
call Diane Jones. 521-6175:
Bob Reising. 521-6485: F.rnestine
Bulifant. 521-2433: or Don Gersh.
521 -6330. beginning Jan.3.
Job Corps Provide North Carolina
Employees With Trained Workers
ATLANTA -- In North Carolina, Job Corps if filling the need for
qualified, ready-to-work employees by providing their students with upto-date
training in a variety of fields.
"The Job Corps program focuses on providing employers with graduates
ready for the workforce," said Job Corps Regional Director Nlelvin
Collins. "Students learn all the terminology, techniques, social skills and
safety procedures widely practice in their fields."
There are four Job Corps centers in North Carolina ? Kittrell Job Corps
Center, Oconaluftee Job Corps Center in Cherokee. Schenck Job Corps
Civilian Conservation Center in Pisgah Forest and Lyndon B. Johnson Job
Corps Civilian Conservation Center in Franklin. These centers regularly .
graduate students prepared for entry-level positions, with training in the
following careers: automotive repair, bricklay ing, business retail, carpentry.
cement masonry, child care, clerical occupations, culinary arts, facilities
maintenance, home health aide, landscaping, painting, plastering and
welding. . .'
Job Corps works with employers who regularly need specially trained
employees in fields taught by its centers. Programs are often tailored to
fit the specific needs of learning in their trades.
"It's a win-win situation for everyone involved," Collins said. "Students
receive excellent training, and employers feel confident about
getting an employee who is ready to work.""
Job Corps works with employers to keep training up-to-date. Through
a program called School-to-Work, students with most of their training
completed are able to gain on-the-job training before graduation.
Employers in North Carolina who need employees in the fields offered
by Job Corps should cal I (800) 662-7948.
Theatre Arts student at Purnell Swett High School under the direction of
Steve Tyner recently performed "The Lottery," an adaptation of Shirley
Jackson. The story is a dark look at how tradition can he taken to the extreme
when it is allowed to continue unchecked in a civilized country.
Music of Andrew Lloyd Webber
to be presented at UN CP
Surrender to the music that has
thrilled millions all over the world
as The Givens Performing Arts
Center on the campus of The University
of North Carolina at Pembroke
presents the national tour of
the theatre event of the season. The
Music of Andrew Lloyd Webber on
Friday. January 14 at 8:00 pm.
Since bursting onto the Broadway
scene som<Ttwcnty years ago.
Tony. Grammy and AcademyAward
winning composer. Andrew
Lloyd Wehber has brought to the
stage some of the biggest musical
blockbusters of our time. With a
cast and orchestra of over 30, this
musical celebration of one of the
world's most famous composers
features excerpts from such hits as
Cats. The Phantom of the Opera,
Evita, Jesus Christ Superstar as
well as newer'works such as Sunset
Boulevard and Whistle Down the
Wind.
Tickets to The Music of Andrew
l.loyd Webber are S28. S26 and S8
for children and students. For tickets.
reservations or more information.
call the GPAC-UNCP box
office at (910) 521-6361 or 1-800367-0778.
Free training
workshop for
teaching English
The Robeson County Church &
Community Center is sponsoring a
FRF.F. training workshop to train
volunteers to teach English to nonnative
speakers. No knowledge of
Spanish necessary! Come and see
just how easy it is to teach your
language to others!
Training sessions will be held at
the Hoke County Reading I .itcracy
Council. 125 West Elwood Ave.
RAEFORD, NC* 28376 on January
31st and February 2nd, 2000, from
6-9 pm. Attendance at both sessions
is required for certification.
For more information and to
register, please call the Church &
Community'Center at 738-5204.
Basketball Camp
Applications arc now being
evaluated by The Ten Star All Star
Basketball Camp. Boys and girls
ages 7-19 chn apply. Players arc
selected by Invitation only. Past
participants include: Michael Jordan.
Tim Duncan. VinccCarter, Jerry
Staekhouse. Grant Hill. Bobby
I lurley, Antawn Jamison. Christian
l.acttner. Tom Gugliotta, and Trajan
l.angdon. Camp locations include:
Raleigh. NC. Boiling Springs. NC.
Riverside. CA. Babson Park. PI..
Atlanta. OA. Champaign. IL. Fort
Wayne. IN,' Atchison. KS.
Georgetown. KY. Northficld. MN.
Rochester. NY. North Canton. OH.
Commerce. I X, Farmville. VA. College
Basketball Scholarships are
possible for the most advanced players.
For and evaluation form call
(7M) 372-86 {0 AN YTIVJE.
EMC's Employees Participate in
Company's Christmas Care Program
Luthbee River EMC's employees gathered on December 14,1999, for
a chance to give back to- their community through the employee's
Christmas Care program. This year I.REMC was able to assist 210
families with food boxes, gift certificates to Piggy Wiggly and toys.
Funds for this annual event are donated by employees throughout the
year. Donations are also made by local political civic leaders. The
Employee's Association coordinates the donations and the buying of
food and toys as well as the application process.
Jo Jo Hunt
Mrs. Eva Thomas
Become a literacy
tutor with free
training workshop
One in ever> three adults in
Robeson Counts cannot read.
Become a literacy tutor and help
turn someone's life around.
The Robeson County Chureh &
Community Center is holding a
FREE- 12-hour training workshop
for everyone who is interested in
becoming a certified Laubach literacy
tutor.
DATES: JANUARY 25 & 27.
FEBRUARY l& 2. 2000
TIME: 6:00 - l);00PV1
PI ACE: ROBF.SON COUNTY
CHURCH & COMMUNITY CENTER
210 EAST 15th ST. LUMBERTON
ALL FOUR SESSIONS ARE
NEEDED FOR CER FIFICATION.
If y ou enjoy reading, and have a
couple of hours free every w eek, we
need you!
For more information or to register.
call 738-5204
In Loving Memory of
Betty "Jo Jo" Hunt
by Betty Jo Hunt (written at age 15) JUSTME
1 screamed out. "Here 1 Come." on March 12,1950, at about 3:15 A.M. Dur
Murray Kinlaw had just delivered this beautiful baby to Mr. and Ms. Alton
Hunt of Route 3. Fairmont, North Carolina. The stork came almost a month
late. 1 was supposed to be a sweet little Valentine Day's heart, but the coming
of March wind must have blown the stork off course. This happy event took
place at Thompson Memorial Hospital in Lumberton. North Carolina.
Daddy had once had a girlfriend named Betty, and Mama had a boyfriend
named Joseph, who is the Uncle of my friend at school. Also, my father's
mother, who lived with my parents at the time of my birth and until 1 was almost
eight years old. was named Josephine. Therefore, I was named Betty Jo Hunt.
Daddy has always called me "Jo Jo" and Mama calls me Bet.
My parents brought me home about three days after my special delivery.
They haven't been able yet to run me away. We live nine miles south of
Lumberton on U.S. 301. We have a small restaurant and gas station. Because
of this business, we don't have much home life: We rarely get to do anything
together except on Sundays when the store is closed.
Mama, who is Ms. Eva Jones Hunt, is forty-one years old. She is very
attractive even though she is a little overweight. She has glasses as do both my
father and I. Mama quarrels with me, but 1 suppose I deserve all I get. She is
a very clean woman and I am thankful to her for keeping me fairly dressed.
Mama is a very hard-working homemaker. She works at the store all day and
then cleans and mends things at the house at night.
Mama was unfortunate in that she was unable to receive an education. She
almost completed the seventh grade at Prospect High School, but she had to
drop out before the end of the year and she had to begin housekeeping and
trying to help out with the three younger boys. Mama is from a family of six
children. I have four uncles which are Thermon, Luther. Stacy and Bracey. My
one aunt is in Texas. I have cousins going to Johnson High in Austin, Texas,
Prospect High, and Fairgrove. Uncles Bracey and Thermon and Aunt Eunice
" have six children each. Uncle Stacy has only one son and Uncle Luther has
three sons.
Mama came from a big family, but I think she is the best of the whole
"bunch".
Daddy is fifty-nine years old. I can put more trust in Daddy to help me solve
my big problems.
Daddy is an Fieldworker for the Manpower Improvement Through Community
Effort ("MITCE) program. He has had this job since June. I think he
I enjoys his job because he has always been happy in helping others. He contacts
| the people and gets the case history. He also gets surplus food for the people
who do not qualify for a job.
Daddy went to school at Joe Branch School, a little country one-room
schoolhouse which is now used as a packhouse for tobacco. He also went to
some little school near Fairmont. 1 le said that he had to walk about six or seven
^ miles every morning and afternoon to Joe Branch School. Daddy finished
school which was only to the tenth grade then. (Boy. wouldn't that be "dandy"
now!)
Daddy had done every kind of job from laying crossties on railroad tracks
to driving two charter busses we used to have and making hamburgers at the
store. He has even done steam fitting, ever what that is.
Daddy had three brothers. They all arc dead now except Uncle Jake. He
lives in a trailer home in our back yard now. Uncle Jake was in Franklin D.
Roosevelt Veteran's Hospital in Montrose, New York for about a year. He *
came home in February on this year. I only have a few cousins from Daddy's
family.
I have no brothers or sisters of my own. but Dorothy Mae (Uocklear) I lunt
seems like a very dear sister to me. She has been helping us in the store now
for about five years. She is married and has a little baby girl, whose name is
Beverly Sue. and she is the cutest and sweetest baby ever. Dot's husband is in
Illinois working and she lives with us during the week. On the weekends, she
goes home to see her parents and baby. She can barely stay away from Bev,
biaher parents are so attached to that little sweetheart until they won't let Dot
bring her to spend some time with us. However, this hasn't discouraged us from
a constantly pleading with them to let her come.
My father's parents. Mr. and Ms. Issac Hunt, arc both dead. Grandfather
died in 1939 at the age of fifty-nine of pneumonia. Grandmother, who 1 called
"Ma" just like Daddy did. died February 25. 1958 of a second stroke and
hardeningofthc arteries! Ma had the first stroke four years previous to this and
was an invalid for the entire four years. I don't remember very much about her
before her illness except she would pick the bones out offish for me to eat. but
I remember a great deal about her having to lie in bed.
? My mother's parents. Mf. Jasper Jones and Ms. Sam Oxendine, are
divorced. They are both living and are remarried.
Autobiography of Jo Jo Hunt (Age IS)
This autobiography written by Hetty Jo Hunt is loving reprinted here in
loving memory of her short life. She went to be with Jesus on December 31,
1996. This is reprinted by her mother, Mrs. Eva Thomas and her step father,
James W. Thomas.
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