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NEWS/ The Charlotte Post March 7, 1996 Sight not needed to serve Continued from page 1A like to be handicapped with projects that take away senses or phyiscal activity for a day. Burris always points out that their temporary disability isn't forever, something she can't say for herself. "I have to stop the class sometimes when kids make comments like 'I wanted to be deaf or 'I wanted to have short arms,"' she said. "Nobody with a disability gets to choose that, and further more, you get to take this off when you leave. Mine is a con tinuing thing. I can't wake up one morning and say 'I can see today.'" Burris approaches her semi nars as a peer, especially with young people. Her strategy is to talk as one of the crew, albeit with a little more expe rience. "When I go in, I don't consid er myself just an educator but a motivator," she said. "I real ly like to go in to students as just another student. I try to use the language the students use to be on the level of the students as opposed to being someone there just giving them instruction. I'd rather talk to them than at them." Krystal Elijah, a Garinger freshman, said Burris' com munication skills paint a pic ture of how people can dis agree without becoming dis agreeable. "She gave like everyday situ ations that people fight over," Krystal said. "She made us see how they react to things and the way you should react to it." Burris' approach works so well because of her sense of humor, Garinger guidance counselor Brenda Jones said. It doesn't take long for Burris' jokes and down-home advice to sink in for her audience. Burris grabs everyone's atten tion from the moment she introduces herself with a rap. "That's all she needed to do to break that spell they have of not being open and real sen sitive and not asking ques tions," Jones said. "They just love her. Just give them 10 or 15 minutes of her talking." Burris also works to make life less restrictive to the blind, lobbying Charlotte restarants to provide braille menus and pushing city gov ernment to provide special transportation system for the visually-impaired. She is a proponent of a voucher pro gram similar to Raleigh's that allows the blind to buy a taxi ride 24 hours a day. "So many things are made accessible to people in wheel chairs, yet at the same time it's not made accessible to a blind person," she said. By Latora Meckler THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON - Seven men who plunged into a stormy ocean to save nine peo ple from a sinking ship were honored Tuesday, 100 years after the event. The rescuers were members of an all-black crew, and racial prejudice is blamed for the fact they received no awards in their lifetimes. The U.S. Coast Guard awarded each of the men of the Pea Island crew a posthu mous Gold Lifesaving Medal. “As the surf intensified and the wind howled, they risked their fives as they waded and swam out to the wreck," Capt. Warren G. Schneeweis read from the citation. “Again and again, the Pea Island Station crew went back through the raging sea, literally carrying all nine persons from certain death to the safety of the shore." The recognition might have never come had it not been for 15-year-old Kate Burkart of Washington, N.C., who read about the Pea Island crew being slighted because of their race and lobbied Sen. Jesse Helms and President Clinton to do something about it. “That someone would be denied something that was rightfully theirs because of the color of their skin is outra geous," said Burkart, who is white. “It's shameful." Stephen Rochon, a Coast Guard commander stationed in Baltimore, had tried for several years to get recogni tion for Richard Etheridge and his crew: Benjamin Bowser, Lewis Wescott, Dornman Pugh, Theodore Meekins, Stanley Wise and William Irving. Pea Island, located off North Carolina's Outer Banks, had the nation's only all-black life saving crew from 1880 to World War II. It was part of the U.S. Life Saving Service, the forerunner of the Coast Guard. The crew participated in sev eral dangerous rescues, but its most famous was on Oct. 11, 1896, when the crew - lashed together with ropes - swam into the ocean during a hurri cane to save the nine people aboard the sinking E.S. Newman. Descendants of the crew gathered at the Navy Memorial on Tuesday to relive the dramatic rescue. JCSU students help youngsters to learn Continued from page 1A floor when people talked to him. With some encourage ment from a SCALE member, he is now more responsive and has better self-esteem. That’s what volunteers like Michael Glover enjoy most about work ing kids. “I love for the kids to call on me when they need assistance with their homework,” he said. “I am able to be there for them.” The SCALE concept is grow ing. Salisbury’s Livingstone College plans a program simi lar to JCSU’s. The program has nine mem- '"Reading is very important, if it is started at a young age it will build up a child's vocabulary." # -Natasha Jones bers who work at two sites: Tarlton Hills and Mayfield. Each volunteer, who can receive $2,362 for repayment of school loans and graduate school, must complete 900 hours over two years in the program. SCALE members have a group of students they tutor and read to everyday. The members are only allowed two years in the SCALE program. Six are already on their second term. The volunteers stress the importance of reading to their students. “Reading is very important, if it is started at a young age it will build up a child’s vocab ulary.” Jones said. Every student is required to maintain a log that includes information on the names of books read, pages completed and the date read. A SCALE men;iber must sign the log to ensure that the child has read the book. SCALE has other projects planned, including on-campus literacy events. Support Our Students program and Time to Read, which are sponsored by local businesses and com munity organizations. Although the program is still in its infancy, the effects on children’s reading habits are evident. “The changes are remark able,” says Jeter. YMCA may manage Greenville center Continued from page 1A McCrorey YMCA, also a pre dominantly African African facility, is north of 1-85, so thy YMCA needs a new base site for the expanded program. Greenville residents say they want the chance to run the center themselves. “The community is empower ing itself,” said Thomas Sadler, president of the Greenville Neighborhood Association. “This is another case of bringing something in and shoving it down our throats.” Sadler said he met Monday with Gene Shipman, head of neighborhood redevelopment department about the city’s plans. “We left with understanding that that was going to be put on hold,” Sadler said. “They are privatizing. The city is try ing to get out of human ser vice programs. They are try ing to get private organiza tions to take it over.” Judy Mooney said the Y is making a greater committ ment to community develop ment and plans to establish a planning task force to study needs in the northwest area between Graham and Freedom. The Y is looking for sites to base programs, but to say it will “take over” a center such as Greenville “is very strong,” Mooney said. “We have been in conversa tion with the city about a partnership,” she said. “We are exploring storefront sites to begin to focus on the corri dor.” Neighborhood redevelop ment staffer Lynne Jones Doblin said the turnover idea is in the early stages. “The city managers office has referred the issue of how best to manage Greenville and Belmont centers to the coun cil’s City Within a City com mittee,” Doblin said. “That committee will be looking at the whole issue of how the centers should be operated. And, importantly, what process will be used to obtain community input. We have not identified all the options. “We are re-evaluating how we do everything,” she said. “How we do business.” Goblin said only Greenville and Belmont centers will be discussed at the March 25 meeting. “The YMCA is just one agency that might be interest ed, there may be others,” Goblin said. Sadler said people in the Greenville neighborhood did not know about thediscussions with the YMCA until a com munity development meeting last month. “We couldn’t embrace that program as it is,” he said. “We were not included in their process. I don’t know what they have to offer the commu nity. “We would like the opportu nity of doing something for ourselves, for a change,” Sadler said. “Who knows best about what you need in the community, but the communi ty. We hope that one day, even if we would get the center, to possibly work with the Y. They may have a program we would want one day. We intend to fully pursue our efforts.” But after Monday’s meeting, city officials promised to work with the community. “We were assured that the city would work with us to try and help us obtain that center, if at all possible,” Sadler said. “We will receive the benefit of some of his staff people to help us come up with plans we might have.” Mooney said the Y’s new efforts will duplicate its pro grams at Johnston YMCA, where outside agencies use the facilities to serve clients in the area. Braces For Children & Adults DR. PAUL A. McGILL, D.D.S., P.A. "Practice Limited To Orthodontics" (704)375-7005 1404 Beatties Ford Rd. Northwest Gateway Professional Center Suite 200 • Charlotte, North Carolina 28215 All-black crew honored by Coast Guard Number of assessments during year 14, Membership in good standing at close of books 180. 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