4-THE CAROLINA TIMES - SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 2018
Deaths
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ERVIN LEE HESTER, SR.
! Ervin Lee Hester, Sr., 81, died Thur., Oct. 25. Eldest son of the
late Robert L. Hester, Sr. and Mrs. Earlene Ragland Hester Mann, He
was born on September 16, 1937 in Durham,
He was reared in Granville County, but moved back to Durham,
and graduated with the Class of 1954 from Hillside High School.
He completed his post- secondary education at Durham Technical
College, as well as continuing education at NCCU, where he later
became a guest lecturer.
Hester began an extensive career in broadcast journalism as an
Announcer and Salesman at WSRC radio. He later joined WTVD-
News 11 as the 1st African-American television News Anchor in the
Southeastern United States.
Predeceased by his wife of 50 years, Shirley B. Hester, he is sur
vived by children: Ervin L. Hester, Jr., Jeffrey E. Hester, Sr. (Tina),
Gwenerviere M. Hester, David V. Hester (Beverly), and, Rita H.
Pompey (Johnny). He is also survived by his fiancee Ann Hyman,
10 grandchildren, 12 great-children, and a host of other relatives and
friends. Hester’s service will be held at 12 pm on Fri., Nov. 2, at St.
Joseph’s AME Church. The family will receive friends one hour prior
to the service, (11:00-12:00) at the church.
Church News
Living Legacy Banquet
To Honor Mrs. Florine Roberson
Come celebrate with Mrs. Florine Roberson as she receives The
Western District Community Development Corporation Living Leg
acy Award on Fri., Nov. 2, at 7 p.m. at the Anderson Center on the
Campus of Winston-Salem State University (601 Martin Luther King
Jr. Drive, Winston-Salem, NC 27110). Tickets for this event are $50
and are available through the church office. Checks should be pay
able to Saint Joseph AME Church, 2521 Fayetteville St., Durham,
NC 27707. Or call 919-683-1379
Mt. Calvary UCC
MOUNT CALVARY UCC CELEBRATING 125 YEARS!
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Mount Calvary United Church of Christ is still “On the Move for
God” as we celebrate our 125th Birthday on Sun., Nov. 4! A year of
‘‘fun days,” fund raising events and fellowship will culminate with a
day of high praise to God for His favor to us!
The dynamic Reverend Michael Kithcart, Youth Pastor of Fisher
Memorial United Holy Church in Durham, will be the preacher for
the 11 am worship service and the Mount Calvary Mass Choir will
render music.
For the afternoon praise service at 4pm, the effervescent Rever
end Rodney Foxx, pastor of Children’s Chapel UCC in Graham, will
preach and his church choir will praise the Lord in song!
First Lady Mrs. Priscilla Cheek is Chairperson ofthis year’s cele
bration, with Mrs. Kenya Carter, Ms. Phyllis Hawes, Ms. Lisa Hicks,
Ms. Courtney McNair and Mr. Randy Marsh assisting.
We invite the community to join us for this great occasion because
many of you are also a part of Mount Calvary’s rich history of serv
ing God and His people! We are located at 1715 Athens Avenue in
Durham.
Antioch Baptist
Antioch Baptist Church and Abundant Hope Christian Church will
lost its Annual Fall Revival on November 5-7, at 7 p.m. nightly. The
juest evangelist will be Rev. Marcus Cosby, pastor of Wheeler Ave-
ine Baptist Church, Houston, Texas. Guest choirs nightly will provide
he ministry of music. The services will be held at Antioch Baptist
Zhurch, 1415 Holloway St. Michael D. Page and Mark A. Middleton
ire host pastors. The public is invited to attend.
New Jerusalem Baptist Cathedral
34Th Church Anniversary And Family And Friends Day
November 11
11:00 A.m.
Everyone Is Invited
John L. Caldwell, Pastor
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Former patient donates
$10 million to further
blood cancer research at
UNC Lineberger
The donor s gift advances research of deadly
leukemia, lymphoma and myeloma cancers
Chapel Hill - A former patient of the North Carolina
Cancer Hospital and a two-time alumnus of the Univer
sity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is showing his grat
itude to the center that helped him heal. A $10 million
gift from Etteinne “ET” and W. G. Champion “Champ”
Mitchell of New Bern, North Carolina, will create a new
fund supporting ground-breaking research in blood can
cer at UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center,
including lymphoma, leukemia and myeloma research.
“The Mitchells’ amazing generosity accelerates UNC
Lineberger’s research to help thousands afflicted by
blood cancer,” said Chancellor Carol L. Folt. “Lineberger
is working on a range of laboratory and clinical trials -
which are already showing great promise - to break the
code into a complex cancer that is challenging to cure.
Inspired by Champ’s life-saving personal experience with
our medical team, their support advances investigations
into the underlying cellular mechanisms of blood cancer
that can benefit thousands of people.”
Nearly every three minutes, one person in the United
States is diagnosed with blood cancer. In 2015, Champ
Mitchell was one of those individuals. Mitchell was
treated for stage 4 Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma at North
Carolina Cancer Hospital, the clinical home of UNC
Lineberger. Dr. Thomas C. Shea, the John William Pope
Distinguished Professor in Cancer Research, led a team
of clinicians that developed a treatment approach that
put Mitchell’s lymphoma into remission. The care he
received at the North Carolina Cancer Hospital inspired
the Mitchells to create the Champ and ET Mitchell Fund
for Blood Cancer Research. This fund will accelerate re
search, ultimately improving the lives of future patients.
“Every day, 151 fellow North Carolinians learn they’re
facing a daunting battle against a deadly disease. And I
know from personal experience, it’s not a fight you can
or should do alone,” said Champ Mitchell. “Between the
support of my family and an innovative, caring team of
physicians and researchers led by Dr. Shea at the North
Carolina Cancer Hospital and UNC Lineberger, we fought
my battle together. Today, my battle is won, but so many
others need partners to fight with them. ET and I believe
our gift can help the UNC Lineberger team bring all of us
closer to a cure than ever before.”
The American Cancer Society estimates that blood
cancers will cause more than 58,000 deaths in the U.S.
in 2018 alone. The Mitchells’ gift will further current and
future research conducted by Dr. Shea and other UNC
Lineberger faculty and teams that translate fundamental
knowledge into new avenues of therapy for one of the
deadliest forms of cancer. For example, as co-director of
UNC Lineberger’s Bone Marrow Transplant and Cellular
Therapy Program, Dr. Shea leads a research team that is
. studying how to reduce the risk of cancer relapse in pa
tients following a bone or stem cell transplant.
UNC Lineberger is one of only a select few academic
medical centers in the U.S. with the facilities, technol
ogy and personnel to develop, produce and deliver cel
lular immunotherapy. Cellular immunotherapy is a highly
promising field of cancer research and care that involves
genetically engineering a patient’s immune cells to recog
nize and fight the patient’s cancer.
Others on the UNC Lineberger team have already de
veloped a robust portfolio of clinical trials focused on
advancing cellular and other forms of immunotherapy
for Hodgkin and non-Hodgkin lymphoma, acute lympho
blastic leukemias and multiple myeloma.
“This is an exceptionally generous and visionary gift
from Champ and ET,” said Bill Roper, dean of the UNC
School of Medicine and CEO of UNC Health Care. “Ev
ery day researchers across UNC are working together to
make strides in developing new treatment options for pa
tients fighting cancer. Thanks to the Mitchells’ leadership
we will continue to accelerate our efforts to end cancers
Practical Bible Principles for Life
The Days of
Disappointment
Read: Psalm 121:1-2;
Genesis 27
By J. L. Caldwell, Pastor
New Jerusalem
Baptist Cathedral
In the words ofDr. Gardner C.
Taylor, ”We long to know what
to do in our hour of trials, when
dreams have faded .and hope
is gone. When children have
disappointed or a love has grown
cold. What Then? When health
is slipping away and taking with
it the joy of living. What then?
In disappointment’s valley, along
heartbreak highway, what cry
shall we raise?” Where is God
at a time of such sorrow? Even
Job pondered this question in
the mist of his sorrows. Job was
sorely disappointed, “I would
argue my case before His (God)
presence.”
For all of us, life does knock
us for a-loop from time to time.
No man, nor woman gets through
this life without walking through
the valley of disappointments.
Life is filled with these clouds of
sorrows and darkness.
We all must know by now,
since we were so anxious to leave
mama and daddy’s house, life is
filled with setbacks and failures.
Life is a series of partings. We
part from childhood. We part
from family roots. We part from
our first friends or they part from
us as the results of life’s demands,
the call ofjobs, marriage. This is
life! We plan, and our plans do
not work as we had hoped they
would. I have yet to see the
human being for whom all plans
work on schedule and according
to one’s wishes. Even in the
lowest disappointment in our
lives, our cry should never be,
“Well, I won’t try any longer.”
How soon we forget those bright
shining days God gave us when
all was going well as planned and
when we experienced life’s favor
on us. Now in times of sorrow, it
seems as though the light of the
sun has been suddenly shut and
replaced by a night without stars
or moon.
Somewhere in God’s patience
and plans of compassion, He
allows us to throw a fit of
disappointment, anger and
spitting out of hot words of
resentment toward life and
heaven, as well. God knows our
frame and He understands that
we are but dust. We can bring
any mood before God, so long as
we hold to our integrity of respect
and holiness to God. When all is
said and done, the ultimate issue
is our faith which makes us cling
to the fact that God is in control
and our statement of submission
to God should always be ,
“though You slay me, yet will
I serve You” (Job 13:15). How
often does the child of God fail
to include disappointment and
sorrow along within their faith in
their Christian walk.
When Esau discovered
that his father had blessed his
brother, Jacob, with the blessing
he should have received, Esau
held onto his hope that he would
eventually receive his rightful
blessing from his father, Isaac.
“Has thou but one blessing, my
father? Bless me, even me also,
0 my father.”
There are times in life when
the day seems hardly worth
living, when sorrow blots out
the sun so long we soon have no
recent memory of the sun ever
having shined.
We must never forget that
the Lord can still bless us in our
sorrow and disappointment. He
can make our bitter waters sweet,
and He can make cloudy days
into the brightest of days. He can
turn valleys of sorrow into sunlit
paths of joy. This God with
whom we deal will never leave
and never forsake. He is always
nearby. Our Calvary experience
may be lonely and painful, our
course rough and cruel, but God
can and will heal our hurts and
soothe our sorrows and turn our
grief into glad tidings. The God,
Who judges the earth, will do
right by His children in our times
of their sorrows.
Our victory over our sorrows
is near when we are able to say
through our tears, “Bless me
still, my Father in my sorrows
and in my troubles, and doubts.
Help me to hold on to my faith
THE CAROLINA TIMES
L.E. AUSTIN
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of the blood and ensure that North Carolinians have ac
cess to the most promising therapies available.”
“Champ and ET Mitchell have made an investment that
will greatly advance our ability to conduct laboratory and
clinical investigations into the underlying mechanisms
that make blood cancers so challenging to cure,” said Dr.
H. Shelton Earp, director of UNC Lineberger. “Our cel
lular immunotherapy studies have had notable success
in treating some blood cancers, but these are a complex
group of cancers that likely will require a number of treat
ment options - many of which have not yet been discov
ered. This gift will jump-start innovation and discovery.”
Champ Mitchell earned undergraduate and law degrees
at UNC-Chapel Hill and is now a retired lawyer and busi
ness executive whose career included serving as CEO of
Network Solutions. ET Mitchell, also retired, graduated
from the University of the South and served two decades
as a military intelligence officer.
The Mitchells’ gift supports For All Kind: the Campaign
for Carolina. The University’s historic $4.25 billion fundrais
ing campaign is inspired by the Blueprint for Next, Carolina’s
overall strategic framework built on two core strategies: “of the
public, for the public,” and “innovation made fundamental.”
Kenneth W. Edmonds
Editor-Publisher - 2002-
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