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CAROLINA INDIAN .VOICE
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VOLUME 29 NUMBER 5 THURSDAY. JANUARY 31, 2002 ? "" 25c Per Copy
Lavern S. Oxendine
elected Social Work
State President
Raleigh, jVC?NASW-NC (National
Association of Social Workers/North
Carolina) is pleased to
announce that Mr Lavcrn S Oxcndine
became the new President
of NASW-NC with an office in
Raleigh. NC Mr Oxendine has
served NASW-NC in elected state
wide board positions for the previous
five years Having served
as President-elect for one year, he
will serve as President for two
years. In addition, he serves as a
member of the National Delegate
Assembly in Washington. DC. for
the National Association of Social
Workers In addition, the National
President appointed Oxendine to
serve in a national leadership role
with the National office in Washington.
D C. on their Personnel
Policies Committee He is a member
of various NASW-NC committees
such as the Diversity and
Legislative committees He even
serves as the NASW-NC board's
pleasure as a member of the Political
Action Committee on Elections
and nominations in statewide
North Carolina Government elections.
Oxendine lias been a guest lecturer
at UNC-Pcmbroke since 1989 and
serves on the Social Work Advisory
Board for the University of
North Carolina at Pembroke. He is
a clinical social worker and the
ClinicaLDircctor of Farflily Alter
natives. Inc.. where UNC-Pcmbrokc
places many social work students
in field placement annually.
Oxcndinc is a consultant for the
Home Health Div ision of the Robeson
County Department of Public
Health He is President of the Safe
Schools and Drug-Free Advisory
Board and Project Graduation for
the Public Schools of Robeson
County and is also the President
of the Area Community Interagency
Council for Southeastern
Regional Mental Health Center
representing Robeson. Columbus.
Bladen, and Scotland Counties He
serves on the Executive Board of
the Outdoor Drama "Strike at the
Wind." the Adv isory Board for the
Communities in Schools of Robeson
County Charter School: the
Board of Directors for the Palmer
Prevention Program. Inc.; the
United Way of Robeson County
Budget Allocation Review Council;
and is an advisor for the UNCChapcl
Hill Satellite MS W Program
and the University of South Carolina
at Columbia MSW Program.
He is a member of the North Carolina
Society for Clinical Social
Workers
Oxendine. 43 years old. lives in
Lumbcrton, NC. He receiv ed his
BSW degree front Western Carolina
University and MSW degree
from Our Lady of the Lake University
of San Antonio. Texas .
Over 200 Attend Annual Banquet of
Pembroke Area Chamber of Commerce
Over 200 business leaders and friends gathered on January 26 at the
Chavis University Center at UNC-Pembroke for the annual banquet
and awards program of the Pembroke Area Chamber of Commerce.
The guests enjoyed touching presentations by business and civic leaders
in Pembroke and honored Howard Brooks and Healthkeeperz as
the 2002 business of the Year.
A large delegation of friends and supporters of Healthkeeperz (formerly
Pembroke Drug Center/ TLC Home Health Care Agency) attended
to honor Howard Brooks and family. There business was established
in 1967 as Pembroke Drug Center. Members of the Brooks
family commented on the hard work, the challenges, and the recent
growth and expansion of the business. Healthkeeperz is a health care
service provider with more than 375 employees. The company had a
ground breaking ceremony Sunday at the site of new office facilities
off Highway 711 east of Pembroke.
The banquet attendees also enjoyed a very moving presentation by
Tony Norniand. CEO, of COMTech, the Carolina Commerce and Technology
Center, on the American experience of several families as they
survived the challenges of war. He spoke of the horrors and miracles
that soldiers endure on the battlefield as they struggle to support their
comrades in arms.
A large delegation from the Pembroke VFW Post attended to participate
in the program "A Salute to America". Arthur Shull. Quartermaster
for the Pembroke VFW Post, and a past state commander spoke
on the man activities of the VFW organizations and the needs of veterans
in the state and nation.
Special entertainment was provided byJammi Lowry, Miss Lumbee
2001-2002 and Teresa Cummings, Vice President of the Pembroke
Chamber. Ron Brown, Treasurer of the Pembroke Chamber was presented
the Harry West Locklear President's Award for outstanding
volunteer service to the PACC. Brown has served as an officer in the
Pembroke Chamber on over 5 different years under various chamber
administrations.
The officers of the Pembroke Area Chamber of Commerce include:
President. Ben Jacobs: Vice-President, Teresa Cummings; Treasurer,
Ron Brown: Secretary, Angela Revels; Executive Director, Brian
Brooks.
Lumbee River EMC Sponsors
"Help a Needy Friend"
Lumbee river Electric Membership Corporation plans to distribute
funds collected for their "help A Needy Friend" program in February.
Due to the generosity of participating Lumbee River EMC members,
this is the eighth consecutive year that assistance will be given to help
pay the electric bill of those members experiencing a crisis or emergency.
The "Help A Needy Friend" program collects funds throughout the
year to provide assistance with payment of electric bills during the
month of February. Besides fund-raising events hosted by employees,
members can volunteer to donate an additional $0.50 of $ 1.00 on their
electric bill to help support^he program. Each year, the limited funds
are distributed to Lumbee River EMC members in Cumberland, Hoke.
Robeson and Scotland Counties who meet the Crisis Intervention Program
Guidelines.
Applications for Cumberland County Residents will be taken at the
Lake Rim Office on Wednesday, February 6, 8:30 a.m.- 4:30 p.m.
Applications will be taken for Hoke County Residents at the Red
Springs Office on Thursday, February 7, 8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Applications will be taken for Robeson County Residents at the Red
Springs Office Monday. February 18. 8:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.; Tuesday,
February 19, 8:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. and Wednesday, February
20, 8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Applications will be taken for Scotland County Residents Tuesday.
February 12, at the Laurinburg Office 8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Applications for "Help A Needy Friend" funds arc accepted during
various dates and times for each county served by Tumble River EMC.
Eligibility requirements must be met to qualify for funding and appropriate
supporting information provided during the application process.
It is strongly suggested that interested members visit their local office
to obtain eligibility requirements as soon as possible or prior to February
1st and to obtain the specific information required for distribution
of the funds in the county which they live. Applications are accepted
until funds for that county are exhausted.
The children and workers of the Saddletree Day Care were the recipients of an early Christmas. The
Saddletree Community Center provided each citild and worker with a present on Wednesday, December
19,2001. The saddletree Day Care is located in the Saddletree Community on Mount Olive Church
Road. Ms. Rhonda McNeill, Administrator Secretary for the Saddletree Day Care, and A Ivina Blanks,
President of the Saddletree Community Center, made the presentations to each child. Saddletree Church
of God provided entertainment through the use of its Puppet Ministry.
Last week we began a review
of the several voyages to North
Carolina which were sponsored
by Walter Raleigh in the 1580s.
We saw that the first trip (1584)
resulted in the report by Barlowe
that Roanoke Island would be a
good place for a colony, and that
the second trip (1585) set up a
colony under Lane which failed
alter one year. Lane and most of
his men were rescued on 19 June
1586 by Sir Francis Drake, who
was on his way from the West
Indies to England. Hostilities
between the colonists and local
Native Americans, and the
devastating epidemic diseases
brought by the colonists, had set
the stage for further troubles at
Roanoke.
The third expedition was sent
by Raleigh with the intention of
bringing relief to the colonists of
the second voyage. It had been
thought that this re-supply
mission would set sail earlier than
it did, but the first part of this
expedition did not leave England
until the spring of 1586.
However, by the time these first
ships arrived at Roanoke Island
around the 23rd of June, Drake
had already picked up Lane and
his colonists and was on his way
back to England with them. By
mid-July, Grenville arrived at
Roanoke Island with the second
(and more substantial) part of this
expedition. He explored the area
looking for Lane's missing
colonists, and was eventually
told by a local Native American
that Lane and his men had
departed with Drake. Grenville
left either fifteen or eighteen men
at Roanoke Island (accounts
differ), and returned to England.
Thus the third expedition
essentially proved to be a wasted
effort, and most of the food and
supplies which had been
intended to relieve Lane's colony
were brought back to England
unused.
Lack of communication
among the various ships, and
between England and the colony,
obviously confounded the
situation. In the view of the
English court the apparent failure
of this colonizing effort may not
have inspired a great deal of faith
in Walter Raleigh. It certainly
gave political ammunition to his
enemies ai court.
Nevertheless, Raleigh
planned a fourth major
expedition. This time he would
send women and children along
with the male colonists, and would
put these one hundred and fifty
souls under the governorship of
John White. Raleigh's intention
was to have them establish a
permanent colony at Chesapeake,
where a deep water harbor was
available and where perhaps a new
start could be made with the
Native Americans.
White and his colonists left
England in April of 1587, and
arrived at Roanoke Island in July
to return Manteo and Towaye to
their home. He was also looking
for the men left by Grenville the
previous year. Local Native people
reported to White that Grenville's
men had either 6ecn killed or had
disappeared. It is at this point that
things seem to have taken their
most fateful turn for the soon-tobe-Lost-Colonists.
Instead of following
Raleigh's instructions, Simon
Fernandez (the pilot of the
expedition) told White and his
colonists that he would not take
them to Chesapeake; they would
have to remain at Roanoke.
Because of the prior hostilities
between English and Native
people, as well as the epidemic
decimation local Native
Americans had experienced,
Roanoke Island was possibly the
worst place these colonists could
have been left.
It could be that this colony
was destined to fail from the
beginning. In fact. Lee Miller
has argued (in her book Roanoke)
that this predestined failure was
the work of Francis Walsingham.
Raleigh's rival at court. Whether
intentionally or not, it did fail.
Already running short of
supplies by August, White was
forced to leave his daughter and
her new family and the other
colonists, and return to England
for re-supply.
Sometime between August
1587 and the fifth expedition,
Virginia Dare and rest of these
colonists vanished. The fifth
Raleigh voyage was delayed until
March of 1590, whether because
of the English war with Spain or
because of Walsinghain's
conspiracy to foil Raleigh's plans,
or both. Inanycase, when the fifth
voyage arrived at Roanoke Island,
the only clues White could find as
to the whereabouts of the
colonists were the carved word
"Croatoan"and the letters "CRO."
They were clues which would lead
White to no good result, and this
fifth Raleigh expedition ended
when White returned to England
in October of 1590.
The efforts of Walter Raleigh
to establish a colony in the "new
found land" had failed. In 1602
and 1603 he would send other
voyages to find the missing
colonists, but to no avail. By
November of 1603, with his
defender Queen Elizabeth I dead
and King James I in her place,
Raleigh would be convicted of
high treason and sentenced to the
Tower of London. His world had
certainly changed. But the world
had been changed even more
drastically for the Native
Americans of North Carolina.
For more information, visit
the Native American Resource
Center in historic Old Main
Building, on the campus of The
University of North Carolina at
Pembroke (our Internet address is
www.uncp.edu/nativemuseum).
Lumbee Tribal Council to meet Each
Third Thursday night at 6 p.m,.
Tribal Council to meet on third
Thursday night
The Tribal Council of the Lumbcc
Tribe will meet every third Thursday
night at 6 p.m. (it the tribal offices
located on the Union Chapel
Road.
The community is encouraged to
attend these meetings The Tribal
Council has recently hired new
staff persons in addition to Dr.
Ruth Dial Woods, acting tribal administrator.
Patrick Bullard. comptroller.
Ruth Locklcar. office manager
and Billy Brooks. Housing
Director
The council provides time at the
end of each meeting for community
comments. According to
Tribal Chairman, Milton Hunt, the
meeting time was changed from
Saturdays until Thursday nights
to accommodate tribal members
and attempt to make the meetings
as convenient as possible in order
to encourage tribal membership
participation.
The tribal offices arc open from 8
until 5 each day and staff is available
to assist with your needs For
additional information, contact Dr
Woods at 521-7861,
Referendum on
Tobacco Grading
Giles B Fluyd. ( inini\ Executive
Director ol I lie Robeson/Scotland
f"'""1 Service Agones, said ihc
I SA w ill be eondueiing a referendum
on mandators grading ofiobacco
at all tobacco buying stations
1 he referendum penod ssill
be at March 11-15.2002 "Thisreferendum
will be on the mandators
use of LSD A tobacco graders
at all tobacco busing and delivery
stations whether company
delis cry stations, stabilization
warehouses or traditional tobacco
warehouses." Floyd said
If a majority of producers soling
tn the referendum fas or the mandatory
grading of the flue-cured
tobacco. USD A will ensure that
their tobacco is graded at the time
of sale for t he 2(K)2 and subsequent
marketing years
Floyd said that ballots will be
mailed to tobacco farmers prior to
the referendum.
What's Happening Calendar
United V\as of Robeson county
ssill hold a planning meeting on
March 18. 2002 at 7r00 p.m. at O.
P. Owens Agriculture Building.
C ountrs C lub Road. I he event is
to plan the annual campaign's
kickoff event. "BROADWAY
COMES IO I OWN". Thismeettng
is open to the public. Anvone
interested in participating in this
upcoming event should plan to attend.
All age groups that want to
participate in a musical number
should contact the Robeson
C ount\ United Way office prior to
March 18 by calling 739-4249.
Robeson County
Public Library
Quiz Bowl
I he twentieth annual local Public
Library Quiz Bow!, sponsored
by the Robeson County Public Library
and cosponsored by 7 he
University of North Carolina at
Pembroke Admissions Office, wil/
be held in the Moore Hall Auditorium
ai UNCP on Thursday. January
31 at 7:00 p.m. This is an academic
competition among high
schools with the goals of sti7rtulaiing
young adult Interest in the library.
supporting academic excellence.
and prov iding public recognition
for academic achievement.
7 here are three levels of competition
in the Public Library Quiz
Bowl: local, district and state. The
local quiz bowl winner will advance
to the district competition
to be held in March in Scotland
County.
There are six high schools competing
in this year's Robeson
County Public Librarv Quiz Bowl
Fairmont High School. Flora
Mac Donald Academy. Lumbcrton
High School. Purnell Swett High
School. Red Springs High School
and St. Pauls High School.
A Call For Poems
Write a poem and win the
SI.000.00 grand prize!
Hollywood's Famous Poets Society
is sponsoring a new poetry
contest, open to everyone. There
is no entry fee.
To enter send one poem of 21
lines or less: Free Poetry Contest.
PMBI26. 1626 N. Wilcox Ave.
Hollywood. CA 90028 Or enter
on-line at www.famouspoets.com.
A winner's list will be sent to all
entrants.
"1 his is our big contest of the
year." says F.xecutive Director
Mark Schramm. "We trust our
prizes w ill encourage new poets to
share their talent." The deadline
for entering in February 28.2002.
Poems Sought in Contest
From Pembroke Area Poets
A S1.000.00 grand prize is being
offered in a new poetrv contest
sponsored by Celestial Arts,
free to everyone. A whopping
S50.000.00 in prizes will be
awarded during the coming year!
Even if you have never entered
a competition before." says
Poetry Editor Michael Thomas,
"this is your opportunity to win
big. Even if you have written only
one poem it deserves to be read
and appreciated. Beginners are
welcome!"
To enter send one poem 21
lines or less: Celestial Arts. PO
Box 1140. Talent. OR 97540. Or
enter on-line at
www.frcecontest.com.
Be sure your name and address
is on the page with your poem.
T he deadline for entering is February
18. 2002.. A winner's list
will be sent to all entrants.