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NEWS / The Charlotte Post
Thursday, March 26,1998
Around Charlotte
Continued from page 2A
• The Kushite Institute for Wholistic
Development continues its series of
community forums at 7 p.m. at
Fighting Back Office, 1500N. Tryon St.
This weekts discussion is ‘The Feather
and Fetters of Life: That which Lifts
Us Up And That Which Pulls Us
Down.**
• The NAACP will meet at University
Park Baptist Church, 2400 letter Are.,
7 pjn.
• The League of Women Voters will
host a forum to discuss charter public
schools at 7pm. The forum, which will
be held at Community Charter School,
926 Elizabeth Ave., will include a panel
discussion featuring representatives of
local charter schools and tour of
Community Charter. For more informa
tion, call 542-0297.
• Landscape contractor Pat Linton
will lead a workshop on improving gar
dens at 7 pm. in the Main Library's
Virtual Library, 310 N. Tryon St.
Friday
• The Junior Scientists Club will
meet at 4:30 p.m. in the West
Boulevard Branch Library, 2157 West
Bled. Tiffemey White, director of out
reach at Discovery Place, will lead stu
dents in hands-on science activities and
experiments.
Saturday
• The Paget Foundation will hold a
patient information meeting for Pagets
disease sufferers and their families.
The meeting begins at 9 am. and will
be held at the Sarah W. Stedman
Center for Nutritional Studies, 1300
Morreene Road, Durham. Pagets one of
the most common bone diseases in the
US., causes severe pain and deformity.
For more information call (800) 23-
PAGET.
• Family and Friends of Inmates, a
new support group, meets at 10 am.
each Saturday at Fighting Back, 1500
N. Tryon St. The group is sponsored by
Energy Committed to Offenders. For
more information call 374-0762.
• Family Story Time for preschoolers
begins at 11 am. at the Main Librar^s
Childrerts Library, 310 N. Tryon St. At
2 pm., family movies will be shown.
• The West Boulevard Branch
library, 2157 West Bled., continues its
showing of “Eyes on the Prize II:
America at the Racial Crossroads,** at
11 am.
• The West Boulevard Branch
library8 Saturday Day Book Club will
meet at 1 pm. to discuss works by
African American authors. The library
is located 2157 West Blvd.
' • Funday in the Park, a weekly out
door activity for families, will be held at
Morgan Street Park, 500 Baldwin Ave.
The event begins at 1 pm.
, • The Queen City Drill Classic will be
field at Grady Cole Center. Competition
and opening ceremonies begin at 8:40
dm. High school RtyiC squads from
Vuginia, North Carolina, Georgia and
Tkrmessee will compete for prizes in 13
cedegories. For rruore information call
343-6900.
Sunday
• Funday in the Park will be held at
W^terly Hills Park, 3900 Amerigo St.
atl pm.
Monday
• “A WotTKois Comfort,** a four ses
sion self improvement workshop {con
tinues at the West Bouleixtrd Branch
library, 2157 West Blvd. The workshop
bkginsat7pm,andisbasedon‘‘SacTed
Pampering Principles,** the best-selling
noTirfiction work by Debrena Jackson
Gandy.
• Frances Homer, a physuxd educa
tion instructor at Centred Piedmont
(immunity College, will show women
how to relax during a stress workshop
at North County Regional Library,
16500 Holly Crest Lane, Huntersville.
The workshop begins at 7pm.
Tbesday
• SrruUl business serrtinar series con
tinues at the Main Library, 310 N.
Dyon St. with a workshop on leged and
tax consideratUms. The semirtar begins
at 6:15 p.m.
• “Safety First: A Self Defense
Workshop for Women** begins cd 7 pm.
at the West Boulevard Branch Library,
2157 West Blvd. Warren Graham, safe
ty and security C(x>rdinator for the
Public Library will lead the interactive
worksfup.
Wednesday
• Metrolina AIDS Prtyeet will fudd
an organizational meeting for “Guess
Whefs Coming to Dinner 1998** at
Cosmos Cafe, comer of Sixth and
College streets. More than 4,000 are
expeided to participate in the event,
which will be held May 16. Benefit din
nerparties are held throughout the city
and €d the end of the evening, partici
pants will gather at the Atrium at Two
First Union Center, for a dessert cefe-
bration. Last year*s “Guess Whb*s
Coming to Dinner** raised more than
$100,000 for MAP, a non-profit organi
zation which provides support and edu
cational services for people living with
AIDS. For more information call 333-
1435 or 375-5163.
• “Soul Dance,** a Building Bridges
Program sponsored by the Afro-
American Cultural Center and the
Public Library of Charlotte
Mecklenburg County, will be held the
first three Wednesdays in April at the
West Boulevard Branch Library, 2157
West Blvd. Classes are open to children
age 6-12 and begin at 4 pm.
Ib register, call 336-6802.
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