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SATURDAY, MAY 25, 2019-THE CAROLINA TIMES - 9 Community Scene Clubs & Socials Durham Business & Professional Chain Please join the Durham Business & Professional Chain (The Chain) at its May 23, Business Awards Luncheon where we will honor six deserving Triangle business and professional people. The Chain is Durham’s leading African American business advocacy organization now in its eighty second year of service to the busi ness and professional community and it is with great pride that we recognize the accomplishments, abilities and talent of our honorees — Sondra Trice-Jones/Ultra Realty Inc. (New Business Award), Zweli Williams and Leonardo Williams/Zweli’s Kitchen (New Busi ness Award), Derris Batiste/ Endless Styles Shoe Boutique (Busi ness Achievement Award), Dr. Joan Packenham/National"Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (Business Achievement Award) and Robert Page/Page Realty (Business Longevity Award) .The Chain will also present its first Lifetime Achievement Award to Arnold “Kofi” Dennis for his unselfish and unwavering dedication to The Chain’s Rites of Passage Program. Lawrence and Artelia Scholarship Fund Seventh Annual Legacy Scholarship Luncheon - May 25 "Honoring Missionaries and Charitable Volunteers" The Lawrence & Artelia Perry Scholarship Fund (L&APSF) will sponsor its Seventh Annual Scholarship Fund Legacy Luncheon on Saturday, May 25, 2019, 11:30 a.m. at the Washington Duke Inn, 3001 Cameron Blvd., Durham NC. The Legacy Luncheon was established to honor persons in Durham and vicinity who walk in the pathways of faith, family, history, and love of the late Rev. Lawrence Perry and Mrs. Artelia Marsh Perry (the axiom of the Scholarship Fund). Honorees for 2019 are "Missionaries and Charitable Volunteers" who walk in the pathways of faith, family, history and love. The 2019 "Missionaries and Charitable Honorees are Mr. Lawrence and Mrs. Betty Brame, Jr.; Mr. Artillus "Art" and Mrs. Ann Breakfield, Mr. Maurice Darden, Ms. Zainab Hassell, Mrs. Dorothy D. Morrow, Mr. Travon Nicholson, Mrs. Gwendolyn Owens, Mrs. Marguerite Peebles, Mrs. Annetta Perry, Mrs. Ruby B. Moore, Mother Ruth Poole, Mrs. Veatrice White, Mr. Jesse W. Wilcher, Mrs. Evelyn Yancey and Ms. Fatimah Zalhhadin. The Lawrence & Artelia Perry Scholarship Fund (L&APSF), an IRS 501(c) (3) public charity, was established in 2011 to provide annual support for meritorious, needy students at Bennett College, Livingstone College, and North Carolina Central University. The 2019 Perry Scholarship Fund Awardees will also be presented and recognized. This year's scholarship goal is to award at least 13 high school and college/university enrolled students $1,000. each for a total of $13,000. Proceeds from the annual luncheon, corporation sponsorships, direct donations and sales of the book Artelia: Portrait of an African American Matriarch are the primary scholarship fundraising methods. The L&APSF Board of Directors invite you to join in this celebration by purchasing a luncheon ticket ($40.) or by purchasing an ad for the Legacy Souvenir Journal, Please mail check or money order to: L&APSF, P.O. Drawer 2131, Durham, NC 27702. Tickets may also be purchased online at (www.PerryScholarshipFund.com) by May 17. For additional information, please call (919) 908 -0153 or email: info@ PerryScholarshipFund.com Legacy Luncheon Co-Chairs are Ms. Stilwyn Perry Brown and Rev. Dr. Michael D. Page. Dr. Michael D. Page is the L&APSF Board Chair. Restoration under way on Nina Simone’s childhood home By Dillon Davis Asheville Citizen Times ASHEVILLE (AP) - On a day far in the past now, you might have heard the mellow tone of a piano emanating from between these walls on East Livingston Street. But that was a different day with a preacher’s family who have long since left this place. What you might hear today is hammering or the scrap ing of paint, all in service of a restoration project to pre serve the home and honor its most famous ex-tenant: the late music and civil rights icon Nina Simone. The nearly 90-year-old home where Simone grew up in Tryon, north of the city’s downtown, is being stabilized after years of neglect that nearly saw the structure be de molished. Workers from the National Trust for Historic Preservation’s HOPE Crew plan to spend much of May replacing and painting exterior siding on the 660-square- foot structure ahead of additional work on windows, inte rior and the roof. Tiffany Tolbert, a senior field officer for the National Trust, said it’s the start of a significant rehabilitation ef fort that ends with a strategy for implementing arts and culture programming into the home’s future. In that way, there’s still quite a bit of work to be done, Tolbert said. “They do want whatever the use will be to honor the legacy of Nina Simone,” she said. “But that can happen many different ways. With the Trust, we want to make sure the property is sustainable, that the use is sustain able. There’s a business part to look at as well. “I’d say everything is on the table is on the table until the data shows us it shouldn’t be.” . Simone, born as Eunice Waymon, lived in the home as a child, the sixth of eight children to parents Mary Kate Waymon and the Rev. John Devan Waymon. Her biogra phy from the National Trust notes it’s the home in which Simone took piano lessons for many years in addition to “experiencing racial discrimination that would shape her world view and social activism later in life.” Simone left Western North Carolina in the early 1950s to pursue music, what would be the start of a long and il lustrious career that left her regarded as one of the most influential artists of the 20th century. She died in 2003 at age 70. But her childhood home fell on hard times. It went years without an active- tenant and was the subject of sev eral failed redevelopment efforts, the latest of which was launched by former Polk County economic development leader Kevin McIntyre in 2005. He put the property up for sale in 2016 after running out of funding for the project. It was purchased for $95,000 in 2017 by four promi nent black artists: Adam Pendleton, Rashid Johnson, El len Gallagher and Julie Mehretu. They, in conjunction with the Nina Simone Project, the World Monuments Fund and the North Carolina African American Heritage Commission, have partnered with the National Trust to chart a path forward for Simone’s longtime residence. In the next month, Tolbert said plans for the home will begin to take shape. The National Trust is organizing a mid-May visioning workshop in Tryon with invited lo cal artists, project partners and preservation experts to discuss strategy. The session is not open to the general public. SINGER NINA SIMONE - COURTESY NINA SIM ¬ ONE WEBSITE Public input is being encouraged through a five-ques tion survey offering such options as a museum, an artist retreat, event space or residential use. “The reason we’re holding off on the interior is we want to know what the use will be,” Tolbert said. “How it is rehabbed internally will need to function for the use. Right now, we don’t know.” On a shaded portion of the porch during the morn ing of May 2, 20-year-old HOPE Crew members Javone McDonald and Jacenia Hawkins were scraping paint and reflecting on the experience. They are part of a pre apprenticeship program with the Schenck Job Corps Ci vilian Conservation Center of North Carolina, aimed at preserving black cultural heritage and learning skills in STEM related fields. Neither could name a Simone song having become re cently oriented to her work, but both said they hold her music in high regard, particularity with the influence of others in their families. “It means a lot,” McDonald said. “I haven’t done any thing like this. To me, it just means a lot to do something for somebody like that. It’s just an honor to do something like this.” “I feel like this place, it’s kind of like, inspiration,” Hawkins added. “Like you don’t have to be from some thing big in order to become what you are or what you want to be. It’s very nice.” Contact Us! E-mail: news@thecarolinatimes. com ads@thecarolinatimes.com 7 th Annual Lawrence & Artelia Perry Scholarship Fund Legacy Luncheon SAVE The DATE Honoring ^m 4*w Contributions to the L&APSF and proceeds from the Legacy Luncheon provide scholarships For students at our benefactor institutions. Mr. Lawrence Brame, Jr. & Mrs. Betty Brame Mr. Artillus "Art" Breakfield & Mrs. Ann Breakfield Mr. Maurice Darden Ms. Zainab Hassell Mrs. Dorothy D. Morrow Mr. Travon Nicholson Mrs. Gwendolyn Owens Mrs. Marguerite Peebles Mrs. Arnetta Perry & Mrs. Ruby B. Moore Mother Ruth Poole Mrs. Veatrice White Mr. Jesse W. Wilcher Mrs. Evelyn Yancey Ms. Fatimah Zalhhadin May 25, 2019 @ 11:30am Washington Duke Inn & Golf Club 3001 Cameron Blvd. Durham, NC 27705 ase tickets, place an ad in our souvenir booklet, or give a contribution: visit: www.PerryScholarshipFund.com email: info@PerryScholarshipFund.com or call: 919-908-0153 The Durham Chapter of Charms Inc. invites you to attend The Original Mad Hatter's Luncheon Honoring First Ladies Saturday, June 1,2019 11:30^-2:00^. The William and Ida Friday Center Chapel Hill, NC Bennett ■§/ NCCentral UNIVERSITY LIVINGSTON! (OLI LGI Luncheon 11:00 a.m. - 2:00p.m. For tickets Contact: Omega C. Parker - 919-544-3431 Rachel H. Green - 919-452-0795
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