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LIFESTYLES/ The Charlotte Post
January 18, 1996
• Around Charlotte
•The Charlotte
Mecklenburg Chapter of
Las Amigas Inc. will spon
sor its 13th annual Black
History Oratorical Contest
Feb. 11.
The con
test is
open to all
students
in grades
5-12.
For more
_ information,
contact Johnsie
Young at 568-1514.
•The Adult Care and
Share Center Inc., 6709
Idlewild Road, will sponsor its
first Adult Care and Share
annual Graduate Chapter
Fraternity
Basketball
Tournament
at Cochrane
Middle
Two hundred years ago,
black children and their par
ents who lived in the southern
Jubilee 5:30 p.m. Feb. 7 at the
Omni Hotel.
For more information, con
tact 535-2720.
•Phi Beta Sigma
Fraternity, Charlotte Alifmni
Chapter will host its fourth
School, 6200 Starhaven Drive,
7 p.m. Feb. 2-3. The tourna
ment will feature the alumni
brothers of Alpha Phi Alpha,
Omega Psi Phi and Kappa
Alpha Psi.
Donations will benefit the
fund scholarships of the
Sigma Beta Club, a youth
component of Phi Beta Sigma.
For more information, con
tact Darryl Tyson at 554-0375.
•"Braids, cornrows, hair
wraps and dreads: A
History of Black Personal
Adornment in Coiffure" will
be the subject of a workshop
at the main branch of the
Public Library 7-9 p.m. Feb. 8.
For more information, call
336-6228.
• Museum of York County
will present “Follow The
Drinking Gourd” in February.
Milton Road. For more infor
mation, contact Darryl Louder
at 568-5644.
•The Uptown Shelter,
1210 N. Tryon St., will have
orientation for volunteers Jan.
25. The shelter needs dona
tions of towels, deodorant,
socks, underwear, T-shirts
and toothbrushes.
Come home to Charlotte’s African
American newspaper
Subscribe to lEljf (Cbarloltr IPoSt at 376-0496
U.S. were slaves who usfed the
Big Dipper, which looks like a
drinking gourd, to guide them
to freedom to the north.
Slaves in Alabama and
Mississippi taught their chil
dren a special song about the
Big Dipper; the words provid
ed a “secret code” to find the
way north.
The program will be shown
at 11 a.m. on Saturdays and 3
p.m. on Saturdays and
Sundays in the Settlemyre
Planetarium. The 30-minute
program is suitable for chil
dren and parents.
For more information, call
(803) 329-2121.
•The Beta Nu Lambda of
Alpha Phi Alpha
Fraternity Inc. meets 7 p.m.
every second Monday of the
month at Weeping Willow
AME Zion Church, 2200
All announcements
for "Around
Charlotte" must be
postmarked, faxed
or hand delivered
to The Charlotte
Post no later than
5p.m. each
Monday.
Jhe Children's Home Society
of North Carolina
invites anyone interested in adopting:
•African-American children
•School-age children (8 years and older)
•Brothers and sisters
•Children with physical, emotional or mental
disabilities
to attend an informational meeting
Tuesday, January 23, 1996
7:00 - 8:30 pm
at the Community Meeting Room
3rd Floor, Food Court Area
Eastridge Mall (New Hope Road at 1-85)
Gastonia, NC
If you would like more information, please cal
1-800-304-6580 or 1-800-632-1400.
Your family can make a difference in a
child's life.
Juveniles into
crime at early
ages today
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committees who come up with
tall stacks of research. In the
end, nothing is done.
Fordice, however, should not
let his cynicism about legisla
tive efforts filter down to law
makers themselves and possi
bly erode any positive efforts.
This so-called “national
change of heart" has to start
somewhere.
Some people are already sin
gle-handedly trying to make a
difference.
Take Frank Melton, a
Jackson television station
executive who sat in on
Smith's meeting. Melton has
taken a personal interest in
some of those troubled stu
dents. He knows where they
live, where they go to school -
and he lets them know he
cares.
A 17-year-old who has lived
on the streets referred to
Melton last week as his
“angel."
• Another is Rep. Frances
'Fredericks, D-Gulfport, who
^as worked with a court pro
gram in Harrison County that
Bhe would like to see expand
ed. Youths take part in court
■proceedings against fellow
kids in trouble, serving as
jurors who determine their
punishment.
• The youths get a taste of the
criminal system before they
are in it themselves.
Fredericks said lawmakers
ivho have been working with
children have a big challenge
in making those who have not
done so “understand the chil
drens' dilemma.”
Rep. Alyce Clarke, D-
Jackson, is another one
known for getting outside the
Mississippi Capitol halls to
see what the real problems
are. She is the chairman of a
juvenile justice subcommittee
that will look at preventive
measures.
Clarke is hoping lawmakers
approach the issue this year
with open minds.
In the past, she said, “most
of the preventative things
have been looked at as soft on
crime."
Smith and Warren have also
vowed this year to do more
than talk.
They both bemoan the bud
get crunch that will leave few
extra dollars for new pro
grams.
Warren said he hopes law
makers are “willing to put
their money where their
mouth is."
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