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V Dr. Robert L. Albright
Will be the keynote speaker
at the annual luncheon and
' eefing of the Mecklen
| Council on Adolescent
:y (MCAP).
_it is president at
Johnson C. Smith Univer
sity and an MCAP board
member.
The noon affair will
be held February 2 in the
united Way Auditorium,
<,*#1S. Brevard Street.
I Open to the public, the
luncheon will focus on se
veral matter?, according to
•aiecutive director Bar
bara Zeigler. “We will be
thanking people in the com
munity who have been sup
portive of MCAP and its
many programs,” Zeigler
pointed out. She also men
i/boned the retiring board
members of MCAP will be
recognized as well as the
new board members.
MCAP is a non-profit
' organization
was established in
I in I960. Zeigler
the purpose of
mi«tt9ffis tojwnttC,
i informant and edu
assistance system
*gy, school officials
community organiz
. such astnescouts.
£„“We create prevention
levities for unwanted
adolescent pregnancies,''
Zeigler continued. Two pro
grams which MCAP organ
ized recently include “It’s
O.K. To Say No,” and
“Let’s Talk.” Both of the
cooperative programs
were discussion topics in
schools and also received
media exposure to inform
the entire community.
MCAP works with large
groups who have direct
communication with ado
lescents. Another project
initiated by MCAP is “I’m
Askable.” The “I’m Ask
able” campaign was en
forced by physicians who
through posters, pamphlets
and pins revealed to their
patients they were avail
able for questions about
human sexuality.
Adolescent pregnancy is
a problem nationwide, but
especially among black
teens. One researchist
stated, “The single most
important problem con-,
fronting the black com- •
munity today is adolescent
parenting.’’
If you would like to know
more about how you can
tele
phone Zeigler at 375-6880;
or write P. O. Boc 39009,
Charlotte, N.C. 28235.
Checks for $6.50 to attend
the MCAP luncheon should
be in the MCAP office by
January 27. '
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Calling Police
; for police service
ranked in priority
depending upon the
urgency. ‘
1. Certain suspicious ac
tivities you may report to
them will require im
mediate or emergency re
sponses. In those cases,
they dispatch patrol cars
as quickly as possible.
2. Sometimes, however,
they may designate your
call as “routine” which
means that a police car
may not arrive until about
an hour later. They do that
in some non-emergency
situations to enable them to
provide quicker responses
in the more serious inci
dents.
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plaints may be taken by
telephone, and don’t re
quire that a patrol car be
dispatched. For Instance, if
your bicycle is stolen, you
can give your report to a
police officer by phone. In
those cases, call the non
emergency number,
374-2351.
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In this case, it is the
reverse that’s true. Meck
lenburg County’s Agricul
tural Extension Service
has helped 452 families get
weatherization materials
from Duke Power, and has
simplified the process.
“Duke Power bad a fan
tastic idea,” says Phil
Haas, extension chairman.
“But it just wasn’t work
ing the way it should. Duke
allocated about |7 million
for the purchase of wea
therization material and
let customer* know about
It. But customers had to fill
out a form, submit it to
Duke to see if it met the
qualifications, and then
they had to go back and
pick up the materials if
approved.”
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tension agent in charge of
the project - says now
families can get the mate
rial quickly.
“We saw an opportunity
to work throughout 45
community organizations
to help families who needed
the material, but didn’t
necessarily fit into the low
income requirements, get
the weatherization pack
age,” says Waymer “We
trained a task force to go
out into the community - if
it met the requirements -
audit the homes there, and
decide how much material
would be needed to weath
erize the community.”
The project has been suc
cessful. by Waymer’s
standards - 452 families are
now enjoying lower fuel
bills thanks to the weather
ization efforts begun by the
Agricultural Extension
Service in late October.
This is the moot prac
tical, cost-effective way of
energy conservation,” says
Haas. "When you’re talk
ing about $70 per home in
materials on the average —
you can recoup that in
energy savings in a couple
of months.”
An impact study has
been done, according to
Waymer, that shows just
how much you can save by
covering your windows in
plastic, installing door
sweeps, caulking and put
ting gaskets over your
electrical outlets.
“The study shows that if
you beat with oil or elec
tricity, you can save
*900-1310 per beating sea
son by weatherizing," says
Waymer.
He says 4,644 window
kits, 993 door weatheriz
ation kits, 2,414 tubes of
caulk, 963 door sweeps, and
874 outlet gaskets have
been distributed through
the community group wea
therization project.
Haas says the beauty of
the plan is that the com
munity groups work to
gether to weatherize their
homes after extension
agents train them._
Volunteers have already
been at work county-wide
dodging drafts and plug
ging holes. Waymer says
the most recent one was in
the Sterling community.
Groups in Cornelius, Hunt
ersville, Mallard Creek,
J.H. Gunn, Biddleville
Five Points, Matthews,
and Crestdale have suc
cessfully completed their
neighborhoods.
If your community or
ganization is interested in
the weatherization pro
ject, call David Waymer
Sr. at 374-2561 for details.
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