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2A NEWS/ The Charlotte Post Thursday, August 21, 199^ on the . WaH Stewart Program for job skills • Super Fly special...Hear Charlotte attorney James Ferguson is recovering from a recent heart attack. The esteemed barrister, who has made a career of winning civil rights cases, is making his way back with all deliberate speed. No big deal, he told friends, who are rightly con cerned. Yo, Jim, take it easy for a while. Justice needs aU the friends she can get. • Agony of da feet...One of Fly’s favorite foils, WPEG news maven Sheila Stewart, is headed to sick bay. According to Stewart, she is having surgery on her feet to get rid of bxinions and a few corns. Any way, Sheila wfll be out for about a month recovering and adjusting to her maizeless dogs. Get well soon, homey. Oh by the way, why did comedian and Friday morning Breakfast Brotha guest Sinbad and Lori “sister- girl-friend-producer” Mack have to bust Sheila so bad about the “Boomerang feet?” Mack quipped that Sheila’s were the hammer toes that so turned off Eddie Murphy in the movie. Hey, Sheila, you want Fly to buzz over and light in Lori’s morning java? She’s certainly one to talk. After all, have we seen her sans clogs? • You betta head fo’ tha ' Rockies...Denver Broncos tight end Shannon Sharpe and his paramour caused quite a stir leaving Ericsson Stadium a cou ple of weeks ago. Sharpe, who played his college football at his- torically-black Savannah State, and his “friend,” who was quite blonde and tan, prompted some kinda commotion among fans who apparently aren’t used to see ing that kind of Salt N Pepper affection unless it’s Kevin Greene and Lamar Lathon after a quarterback sack. Fly ain’t one to gossip, but it was amusing to no end, seeing all those folks - black and white - staring with open mouths while the uair was all hugged up at the players’ exit. Asked one spectator, “don’t he know this ain’t Colorado?” Apparently not. • Cary Mitchell, Charlotte clothier to the NBA stars, had a special guest at last Saturday’s Charlotte Sting-Houston Comets WNBA game: Detroit Pistons star Grant Hill. Cary showed Mr. Good Guy around emd he dropped by to autograph stuff for Sting players after the game. The way Charlotte whupped up on Houston, the ex-Dukie should’ve asked for their Jsme Hancocks. At any rate, look for Mr. HiU and sev eral WNBAers in a new series of McDonald’s commercials. And Cary, lemme put a bug in ya ear. Hook me up with a Fly suit, my man. • Hallowed be thy cam paign... Leonard “Preacherman” Harris isn’t well-known today, but bee-Ueve you me, he’s gonna be tomorrow. See, the Preacherman is running for the highest office in Charlotte (no, not CEO of NationsBank - that’s Hugh McColl’s gig). Harris wants to be mayor, and he’s angling for a shot at Republican champion Pat McCrory. Hizzoner is straight- laced and won’t provide much drama dming election season, but Preacherman’s another stoiy. For starters, he’s the first convict (at least in a court of law’s opinion) to run for local office in many moons. Second, he’s on a mission from God. Seems like the Heavenly One told Preacherman to run for mayor and put Charlotte on the path to glory. Fly figures the GOP must be thanking God, too. It’s not every day elections get hand ed over this easily without spend- ^ ing a ton of money. Continued from page 1A with the Urban League program two years ago. She said one of her students compared the computer training to having two Super Bowl tickets, but running out of gas or having a flat tire on the way. The life skills portion of the program helps ensure the ticket holder gets to the game. Miller said. Some students had years of work experience and had been downsized out of jobs, others had inconsistent work histories and some had no job experience at all. “The hard skills are taught in the classroom environment,” Miller said. “The person can have a great proficiency level, but if they don’t know how to write a resume, how to conduct them- Mcdonald Continued from page 1A state employment taxes had not been paid for them. The employees said they had been told two weeks ago the restaurant would close down at the end of August, but were then told of this week’s closing Simday afternoon in an employee meeting with McDonald’s widow, Eunice McDonald. Several were angry, saying they are forced to bring check stubs as they filed for unemployment ben efits. “She thinks she had a bunch of fools working for her,” said former selves in interview or how to dress they wfll never get a chance to use those job skills. “If they get pass the interview and get the job, if they don’t have work ethic, time management and interpersonal skills, they wfll not be able to retain employ ment.” Student Joyce Pendergrass, 49, said the program helped her recover after being laid off three times in four years. Pendergrass worked at National Gypsum for 17 years when she was laid off. Her husband, Woodrow, took medical retirement last year. “I wanted the life skills,” said Pendergrass, who worked as an account clerk and data processor. “I had been out of job market so long. It helped me to understand cashier Geraldine Clawson, who worked at the restaurant 14 years. “They (Employment Security Commission officials) are saying they are not showing where she paid any taxes at edl. They were taking $36 a week out of my check for hospital insurance and when I tried to get a prescription filled I fovmd out I did not have any insurance.” Evelyn Crawford worries that she won’t get unemployment ben efits. “None of the employees can draw unemployment,” Crawford said. ESC officials would not com- what the market is like now, com pared to when I started in 1972. What employers are looking for, what kind of people they actually need in the job market.” Pendergrass overheard her daughter and a friend talking about the Urban League program several years ago. “I was working and doing well then,” she said. “When I got laid off and tried to get back into the job market using skflls I had used for 20 years, I was not qualified I was not as proficient. “What this program gave me is my stimulus to continue after suf fering the layoffs. 'That really crushes your self-esteem. 'The Urban League is helping me get back so I can concentrate on what I need to do.” ment on the employees com plaints. Eunice McDonald, who had been running the complex, could not be reached for conunent. ESC manager Sherwood Southerland said employee filings are confidential. ESC takes employees’ information and finds out if any benefits are available. 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Holly-Huntersville Rd. • Charlotte 391-9570 Farrakhan coming to Charlotte Continued from page 1A “We’re looking for afacflitythat will allow anywhere between 2,500 and 3,000 people to be a part of the meeting Minister Farrakhan is going to have,” Robert Muhammad said. “At times he has spoken two to three times in one city,” Robert Muhammad said. “The minister wfll also be coming to address a national day of absence. We’ll once again remove ourselves from school, work and shopping. It wfll Beating draws protests Continued from page 1A taken to the station house, officers sodomized him with a plunger in a bathroom while shouting racial slurs at him. As a result, the precinct commander has been transferred and 12 officers pulled off active duty as the investiga tion continues. Officers Charles Schwarz, 31, and Justin Volpe, 25, were indict ed Friday on charges of aggravat ed sexual abuse and first-degree assault. Both face up to 50 years in prison if convicted. Police Commissioner Howard Safir told the CBS Evening News he beheved other officers were involved. “We have one or more individu als or more, at least two, maybe four, maybe five pohce officers who committed a crime,” he said. “They’re criminals.” Outside the precinct, police Chief of Patrol \^bur Chapman said: “The relationship between the pohce and the community has been fractured," he said. “But we’re going to work very hard to restore the faith of the communi ty in the 70th Precinct.” One protester was carrying a blown-up picture of 'Volpe with the words, “Devil in a blue suit.” Volpe allegedly used racial slurs while assaulting Louima, and Schwarz allegedly held the 30- year-old man down. Louima remained in an inten sive care unit Saturday, recover ing from a tear to his colon and a laceration to his bladder. 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