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Merchants’ Association Predicts “Renaissance” Of Northwest Corridor By Jalyne Strong Post Staff Writer Contributions totaling $100,000 and insightful comments by guest speak er Neal Pierce made at the second annual WtSl Trade-Beatties Ford Area Merchants Association ban quet marked the occasion as a land mark for the organization, signaling its plans for revitalization of the northwest corridor of the city are underway. The highly successful event netted the WTBFAMA cash, land, and service donations: Johnson C. Smith University gave two acres of land valued at over $50,000. NCNB made a contribution of $25,000. And the accounting company, Arthur Ander son & Co., offered accounting send Reagan Presents IBM Wkh Awand Washington, DC - President Reagan presented IBM an award for support of science and technology 's'"> programs at historically black colleges and universities at a recent White House ceremony. The September 19 White House ceremony concluded a two-day con / ference attended by presidents of 90 historically black colleges and universities. The conference high lighted government and corporate partnerships with the colleges. In 1985, IBM donated more than <250,000 to the United Negro College Fund (UNCF) for both general . operating funds and the Faculty Fellowship Program. The UNCF has been the recipient of support from 1 IBM since 19M Sl**'r Several black colleges, including Howard University - 4 Washington, D.C., Hampton University, ? ton, Va., Tuskegee Tuskegee, Al., and Fisk Un Nashville, Tn„ receive major | from IBM. In 1985, IBM dona tad more than <11 million to aid i tion programs and i In September , IBM lc employees to 30 historically Institutions of higher learning under the IBM Faculty Loan Program. Since the program began in 1971,700 ^ employees have been loaned to colleges, universities, education agencies and high schools with a significant focus on minority, han dicapped or disadvantaged students. Henry Frye To Address Black Ahnfini • .Grewubor« - Henry E. Frye of •n. Greensboro, the first black man to 'f be named to the SUte Supreme Court, will be the featured speaker at the UNCG Black Alumni Reunion Banquet, scheduled for 6 „ p.m. on Saturday, October 25, at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Frye became the second recipient of the Charles Duncan Melver Medal, which was presented to him on October 6 during UNCG’s Mth Founders’ Day The dinner will take place in the Alumni House on the day of UNCG’s Homecoming ’86 activities. Other , A activities planned for black alumni include: a pre-dinner social hour at 5 p.m.; a party following the dinner at Nirvana, a Greensboro night chib; and a worship service on Sunday, October 26, in the Alumni House wjth music by the Neo-Black Society Mass Choir. Black alumni also can enjoy other Homecoming ’86 activities ^__ I 1 I Charlotte tan«lt System I Chariots tanisif mmmmt 33»»36» ... . , F°r getting around Charlotte^ traffic headaches, the Charlotte lYansit bus has the car beat coming and going. Itpicks you up and tak« you anywhere you care^togo. East side. West side. All around town. And all for a mere 7DC one way in any direction. You can save on gas. Save on parking And save yourself the hassles of driving in Charlotte. For more information, call 336*3366. TWce the bus And take it easy _ Its ChariotteTlafflc. OrChariotlgitaiKft.__ ces worth $25,000 over a three year period. While these procurements will all go towards the WTBFAMA's Project Catalyst, the WTBFAMA. itself, made a donation of $5000 to a proposed business incubator for the Beatties Ford Road area. At the banquet, comments contain ed in Washington Post columnist Neal Peirce’s address elucidated the intent of WTBFAMA. A specialist on intergovernmental and urban af fairs, Pierce centered on economic development, expressly the WTBFAMA’s objective for the northwest corridor of the city of Charlotte in its Project Catalyst and business incubator endeavors. Pierce said, “Just because a community starts below the national income average that doesn’t mean it can’t become an exceptional com munity and just because the com munity starts without alot of jobs and opportunity, it doesn’t have to remain that way. I have seen the most depressed areas of the nation progress. Jt can be done.” These general statements hold special meaning for the Ttade St. Beatties Ford Road section in that it is an economically depressed , pre dominately black area. However, efforts by WTBFAMA such as this fundraising banquet and other activ ities have the goal of revitalizing this section through concentrated enter prise on the pvt of community citezens, area businesses, local gov ernment and private corporations. “A cooperative effort, drawiiy upon broad support is essential for an ambitious undertaking like Pro ject Catalyst,” concurred Pierce. to an audience consisting of many local Beatties Ford area Business persons, community members, poli ticians and Charlotte corporate re presentatives including high profile local citizens like Mayor Harvey Gantt, Congressman Alex McMillan and Commisioner Carla DuPuy, Pierce suggested that it is redundant to continually build in already thriv ing areas of the dty and "ignore perfectly sound useable, expandable areas like the Beatties Ford Rd. corridor.”- He warned, if Charlotte is to avoid becoming a “apd't city,” meaning a metropolis of half afflu ent and half poor, It will need many strategies including a spread of investment in deprived areas and neighborhoods. > ' «. Pierce applauded the efforts of the WTBFAMA in this direction giving \ » -V; , v which include a country picnic at 11:30 a.m. IftiTaylor Garden behind Elliott University Center; the 1 p.m. Homecoming parade; and the 2 prm. soccer match against the Charles ton (W. Va.) University Eagles. ■■■Mi&iSiSiiHMtf God said, "Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and loon not unto thine own understanding." Proverbs 3i5 W' jbM ftLuj tli nmiil •fi mi iny way* OvKitOWr edge him, and ho shall direct thy paths." Proverbs 3t6 No matter how high a man climbs ho still needs someone to look up to. Pray For America! a cneca ior fb.oot to go toward! the business Incubator for the WTBFAMA was given by Naslf Majeed to John Lewis, chairman >f the Charlotte-Mecklenburg — V . Citizens Forum. Hattie Leeper and Mayor Hravey Gantt (l-r foreground) applaud the transaction. Charlotte. : ■ » WTBFAMA president Nastf Majeed (c) presented the President's Award for oatstanding contribution, to the economic development of the northwest corridor to LdMso Sellers (I), president of Biddleville-Five Points Community Organisation and Eleanor Washington (r), prroldtinl of the University Park Improvement Association, "j > special notice of Johnson C. Smith University's participation in Project Catalyst and also praising Biddle ville citizen Louise Seiler’s concern far The future of the area. '“A neighborhood needs some tough act ivism, when . crucial decisions are being made,” he related. A great supporter of creative private-public partnerships for a community’s economic develop - ment, Pierce gave examples of how such alliances are positively work ing across the country. He suggested that this is the wave of the future; the only way the prosperity and growth of a city can be shared by all. Nasif Majeed, president of the WTBFAMA says his group Is a “vanguard of change, ambassadors for growth, marketing and develop rz—-■-:—»——— tog of the northwest corridor.” Sizing up the situation following the banqu et, Majeed deduces, “Right now we are in the first stages of laying the groundwork for growth and econom ic enhancement based on local busi ness and citizen input.” Already underway, for the area, reports Majeed, are 24 new bousing units to be constructed on Summit Ave. Also, a blueprint for the corridor is being designed by Dennis Frenchman of Lane, Frenchman & Compakjr, the business* responsible for designing University Place and the new Marketplace to downtown the charlotte POST With alt the news and facte about your community. 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