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WBT Seeks Woman Of The Year Nominations Children Set By Susan Ellsworth Post Staff Writer The 31st Annual Conference on Exceptional Children and A Very Special Arts Festival will be held Nov. 15-16 at the Radisson Plaza and the Charlotte Civic Center. Two thousand educators. Darents and agency personnel are expected to attend the annual meeting sponsored by the Division for Exceptional Children, State Department of Public Instruction. Guest speakers at the opening session on Thursday at 7:30 p.m will include Jean Kennedy Smith, national chairman of the Very Special Arts Festival and the late President John Kennedy’s sister; Dr. Wilson Riles, State Superin tendent of Education in California; and Dr Craig Phillips, N.C. State Superintendent or Public Instruction. Highlights of the conference will include James Longmire, a blind graduate student from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro presenting a musical performance, and a group of deaf students from Gaston County dancing at the opening session. These deaf students represented the state in Washington, D.C. recently at th« National Very Special Arts Festival. Both sessions will feature meetings on topics relevant to educators and parents of children jfith special needs. ^ Art work by handicapped children from through-obt North Carolina will be displayed. EeamMctkm Crew Will Be Pemianendy Assigned This year, from late October to mid-January, the Charlotte Sanita tion Division will provide curbside leaf collection service by vacuum trucks. As a way of improving service, leaf collection crews will be perm anently assigned to areas of the city, and will as usual, make more than one collection in neighbor hoods. By permanently assigning crews to areas, Sanitation can more more accurately forecast where collections will be made, giving Charlotte citizens more advance notice of pick-ups in their areas. Citizens are reminded: 1. leaves placed in bags will be collected each Wednesday during regular curbside trash collection on Wednesday - no boxes, please 2. Piles of leaves to be collected by vacuum trucks should be free of limbs . stones and other debris as they can cause breakdown of vacuum equip ment. 3. please keep piles of leaves out of the street; not only is this a traf fic hazard, but it is also against the law . 4. leaves made good mulch and ^pmpost for plants aroungd your TC>me; you may want to keep some of your leaves for this purpose. The City’s Landscaping Division uses large amounts of the leaves collect ed to mulch and fertilize landscap ing projects around Charlotte. To find out when vacuum leaf col lection will be done in your neigh borhood, check local newspapers or listen for information on local radio and television stations citizens needing iniormauon or assistance with the leaf collection service should call the Sanitation Division’s “Leaf Central” number, 375-LEAF Summer And Smoke Tennessee Williams' “Summer and Smoke" will be performed by the Festival Stage Company Nov ember 15-18,20-21 at 8:15 p m. , and November 17 at 2 p m at Charlotte Country Day School Representing the haunting tra gedy of life and love in a small south ern town, "Summer and Smoke” P" are $5.50 and $8 50 each for turday performance. Tickets e purchased at Spirit Square y through Friday from 9 a m. n. The 1979 recipient will be chosen by 22 of the formerly honored wo men during a secret session at the station during the first week in Jan uary The winner will be honored at a Dresentation luncheon WBT usually receives 10 nomina tions a year, according to spokes person Mrs. Marion Costner The maximum ever nominated was 23 and the minimum was six. Previous recipients of the award mclu. Martha Evans, Char lotte's first woman to serve on the City City council and also elected to the House of Representatives; Mrs. Jac queline Hariston, selected for her creative contributions to the com munity as assistant professor of music at Johnson C. Smith Univer sity; Mrs. Edyth Winningham, pro fessor Emeritus of political science at UNCC. She forged closer ties between the University and the community; and Mrs. Sarah Bryant, founder of the Greater Charlotte Chapter of Planned Parenthood. "An overwhelming consideration, Ms. Costner said, " is what was added to life in the area” because of the nominee’s efforts. Frozen Fruiit . Home-frozen fruit packed with dry sugar thaws slightly faster than that packed in syrup. Both sugar and syrup packs thaw faster than unsweetened packs. The Charlotte Medical, Dental and Phar maceutical auxiliary will sponsor work shops for children through the Gethsemane Enrichment Program - its service project for 1979-80. Under the leadership of presi dent Vivian Williams, the auxiliary will sponsor a career day, tips on dating, and white gloves program of etiquette. Twenty five wives and widows of local physicians, dentists, and pharmacists, who comprise the auxiliary sponsor these annual comm unity service projects. The Gethsemane Enrichment Program aims to improve the student's academic skills and to build his self-image,” according to Mrs. Gibbs. This program offers children help with school, organized sports, and exposure to the performing arts. Doctor’s wives tutor students, will buy tickets for 20 to attend this year's production of the "Singing Christmas Tree" at Oven’s Auditorium and provide a clothing closet. Having the theme "Community Involvement,” the auxiliary holds an annual leadership luncheon for six grade students and a fashion show to raise money for scholarships Five hundred children participate in the program at the five sites. The headquarters is located at Gethsemane AME Zion Church on Campus Street, with Rev. George Battle Jr, serving as the executive director. Mrs. Adelaide Hunt is the program director. Although the program bears the name of the church, it is a separate entity funded through the city's Community Development Program and the U. S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare Three GhnHotteans Attend NER\ Board Meeting President, Betty Moore, Char lotte Memorial Hospital, Secretary Curtis Jemigan, York General Hospital, and District Education 'Chairman James Stroud, Char lotte Memorial Hospital, were de legates to the Fall Board Meeting of the Middle Atlantic District, in October. The local delegates met with delegates representing nine other chapters of N.E.H.A., the District Officers, and National Represent ative, to discus and plan future and past activities of the association Peggy Stancell, Leigh Memorial Hospital, Norfolk. Virginia, is Governor and presided over the two day meeting. A workshop on conservation of energy in hospitals was conducted prior to the business session. "‘Primadonnio Anti* Twin telephone* Is On Display Photography combined with tech niques of painting entitJpd "Pri madonnic Anti-twinklephone” will be on display in the lobby of Spirit Square from November 16 through December 15. Ena Whisnant, pre sently employed as a technician for WSOC-TV News, is the artist This exhibit is the artist s first one-woman show. By Susan Ellsworth Post Staff Writer If you know a woman whose achievements draw favorable attention Jo Charlotte Mecklenburg, WBT radio invites your organi zation or club to nominate her for the station s 25th Annual Woman of the Year Award. To make nominations and get fur ther information on eligibility requirements and necessary forms, contact WBT at 374-3562. State Conference * On Exceptional Only Calvert Extra makes a mixed drink soft. Calvert Extra mixes up into deliciously smooth drinks. \ I his blend of aged whiskies neither J overpowers the mixer nor I gets lost in the drink. Soft Whiskey does I what any whiskey does, only softer. I The Soft Whiskey I Calvert Extra L
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