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CEDAR GROVE PARENTS CONCERNFD Head Start Officials Eye Expansion Plan BY TERRY POPE Head Start officials were to meet with community leaders in Bolivia Tuesday night to discuss ways to ex pand services to Brunswick County's pre-school age children. Richard Green, executive director of Four-County Community Ser vices of Laurinburg, outlined for a group of about 30 parents at Cedar Grove Monday the Head Start pro gram's goals for 1992-93. Four County operates three Head Start programs in Brunswick County. One site eyed for a possible cen ter is the Pincy Grove Community Building at Bolivia, the former Brunswick County Schools alterna tive education center. The federal Head Start program, launched in 1965, provides children age 3 to school entry from low-in come families with education and health care to help them break the cycle of poverty. Some parents say ihey don't like the proposed changes. Head Start plans to expand ser > i v^n. ? \ >w ?e ^ 1 \ STAFF PHOTO BY TERRY POPE FOUR COUNTY Community Senices Executive Director Richard Green (right) talks with Linda and Abdul Green of Supply, no rela tion, following a meeting at the Cedar Grove Head Start Center Monday. m LIMITONE COUPON PER PERSON 1 We Honor Other Video Poker Coupons i OPEN: 24 Hours 7 Davs A Week THE JOKER POKER and CHERRY MASTER Aio DONUT HOLE 4309 Mineola Drive Little River, sc 803-249-8005 We Give Away Over $700 In Cash -MORE CHANCES TO WIN Weekly Cash Drawing ? Daily Cash Drawing ? High Hand of Week FREE FOOD ON SUNDAYS - MUST BE 18 YEARS OLD PLAY THE REST-THEN COME BACK TO THE BEST FREE REFRESHMENTS FOR OUR PLAYERS Offer Good With This Coupon Only $10 FREE PLAY $10 FREE PLAY a ?May b* cancelled without notice m FURNITURE WAREHOUSE Mf""* OF BRUNSWICK COUNTY, INC. On Long Beach Rd. In Southport Fill your home with beauty 100% Financing ? FREE DELIVERY ? Open Mon.-Sat. 10-6 Quality furniture for every room at prices you won't believe! Bedding ? Dinettes ? Lamps Rockers 'Recliners ? Sleeper Sofas & More vices from four days to five (lays a week at all sites. In the process, however, it will re duce the number of children served at the Cedar Grove center by half. Beginning in July, instead of 40 children receiving two days a week service. 2i) children will receive five days a week scrvicc. It is an attempt to increase contact time with teach ers and volunteers, said Green. Some parents have criticized the move. They say a questionnaire ask ing parents if they would like fivc day-a-wcck scrvicc at Cedar Grove did not mention that the number of children would be cut in half. "We discussed that it should have been on there," said Green. "I'm ad mitting that we were not forthright with that. It wasn't done intentional ly. I object to die insinuation that there's some coverup involved. There's been some mistakes made, but it wasn't done intentionally." Four-County hopes to open anoth er center in Brunswick County with additional expansion funds from the ? ? suiic. It is been negotiating lor space for a center in the Lcland area. The Cedar Grove Center's com mittee said its top priority is to move the Cedar Grove Head Start program to the larger Piney Grove building in Bolivia and to expand services to SO children live days a week there, said committee President Lynnc Wicg man. Second on its priority list, said Ms. Wiegman, is to expand the Cedar Grove ccntcr to accommodate 40 children five days a week. There will be 2% children cut from Four-County's Head Start pro grams in for the 1992-93 year, she said, some of whom will be in Brunswick County. "There's another benefit to that which is very positive," said Green ol the proposal to cut enrollment at the Cedar Grove site. "We increase con tact time. What we propose to do is increase contact time by 60 percent." The plan will have to be approved by the Head Start regional office in Atlanta. "Whal happens to the other 20?" asked Carolyn Frink. policy council chairperson at ihc Cedar Grove cen ter. Marian Mclvin, sccrctary of the Cedar Grove committee, said she supported the five days a week pro gram because she wasn't aware that it meant cutting the number of chil dren served in half. While 40 chil dren are being served at the center, there are at least 90 in the communi ty identified as in need of services, she said. "I think a lot of other parents felt the same way," said Ms. Mclvin. "What we're saying is it's better lo serve 40 children two days a week than 20 five days a week." Of the live counties served by Four-County, Brunswick County has been picked to benefit from ex pansion, said Green. He was to meet with community leaders, including Bolivia's Franklin Randolph and Brunswick County Four-County Board of Directors member Roscoc Butler Tuesday in Bolivia. Randolph said he has complained for years that Brunswick County was being "short-chanced" when it came to Head Start services and Unit he has asked Four-County to open live centers in the county. Presently there arc three programs with centers in Cedar Grove and Long wood. A center in the North west community was closed recently and children served in that region are being bused to a center in Armour, in neighboring Columbus County. "It's high time Brunswick County be brought up to standards," said Randolph. "This is what I am holding to, and this is what I am fighting for.' Four-County receives funding to serve 1,013 children in five coun ties, or an average of S3.400 per child. "It is my hope that we may be able to expand," said Green. "We're getting more careful consideration as we ask for more dollars to get our enrollment back up. It's definite that we're going to get another center." THE BRUNSWICK HOSPITAL WOULD LIKE TO TAKE THE OPPORTUNITY ON DOCTOR'S DAY 1992 TO RECOGNIZE ITS MEDICAL STAFF FOR THEIR MANY CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE CITIZENS OF THIS AREA. THEY HAVE TOUCHED MANY LIVES IN A POSITIVE WAY. Alan Brown, M.D. 4- V? o 1 >-v-\ r\l r\ rrt r WpiltilCUlllUlU^y Stephen J. Candela, M.D. Orthopedics John J. Caulfield, D.D.S. Ural & Maxillofacial Surgery Irvin W. Cavedo, M.D. Radiology Ely J. Craiy, M.D. Ophthalmology David A. Forsberg, M.D. Radiology Timothy P. Gibble, M.D. Internal Medicine Thomas M. Gilbert, D.M.D. Endodontics Ronald P. Glinski, M.D. Urology Robert E. Hassler, M.D. Obstetrics/ Gynecology Edward Hayes, M.D. Urology Harry L. Johnson, Jr., M.D. Emergency Medicine Abdulaziz G. Khakee, M.D. Psychiatry Mushtaq H. Khan, M.D. General Surgery/General Practice Samuel Kirtley, M.D. Family Practice Edward D. Lance, M.D. Family Practice B.L. Langston, III, M.D. General Practice Mark A. Lizak, M.D. Otolaryngology/Facial & Plastic Surgery Charles J. Locke, M.D. General Surgery Robert G. Martin, M. Ophthalmology Michael D. McCullough, M.D, Radiology Marc Melser, M.D. Urology Daniel K. Messner, M.D. Ophthalmology Gregory Mincey, M.D. Ophthalmology James V. Mulholland, M.D. Pediatrics Julita Orli, M.D. Psychiatry Edward L. Proctor, Jr., M.D. Pathology Gustavo Rodriquez, M.D. Obstetrics/Gynecology Gary D. Ross, M.D. Internal Medicine Skip Sallee, M.D. Radiology Charles Savarese, M.D. Family Practice Daniel Shapiro, M.D. Anesthesiology A. Patrick Soisson, M.D. Obstetrics/Gynecology Kendall H. Suh, M.D. Emergency Medicine Richard H. Tardell Emergency Medicine George W. Tate, M.D. Ophthalmology Michael W. Wilkerson, M.D. Internal Medicine Eugene W. Wood, M.D. Pathology Brent Wright, M.D. Obstetrics/Gynecology JJ . THE BRUNSWICK HOSPITAL HWY. 17/SUPPLY, NC/9 19-754-8121
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