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CALENDAR OF EVENTS DO-IT-YOURSELF LANDSCAPE The Glen Eden Pilot Perk will be offering t one-night lendscspe maintenance course. Topics to be covered include lawn seeding, weed control, pruning, insect and disease control, planting and transplanting. The class will be held on Tuesday, April 2ft, from 7-10 p.m. The cost Is $18 which covers handouts and reference material. Pre-registration Is requbed by April 17. For further Information call 786-6833. FAMILY DAY On Sunday, April 30, the grounds of Mordecai House on Mimosa Street will come alive with colonial crafts, activities and music. A family event sponsored by Artsplosure, the United Way and Mordecai House, this free afternoon of events will take place from 1-8 p.m. Highlighting the music presentations will be a 2 p.m. concert and a 4 p.m. concert by Gemini. JOINT RECITAL The public is invited to a Joint Senior Recital by pianists Helena Manigault and Marlon West at the North Carolina Central University Music Building Auditorium at 4 p.m. Sunday, April so. Admission Is free. PUBLIC HEARING The Raleigh City Council win hold a public hearing on Tuesday, May 2, to hear citizens’ views on the proposed Community development activities for the 1909-90 fiscal year. The hearing will be held at 7 p.m. in the City Council Chamber, Raleigh Municipal Building, 222 W. Hargett St. The Community Development Department expects to receive $1.9 million in revenue, which includes a $1.3 million federal community development block grant. Proposed expenditures include $809,498 for rehabilitation work, $308,703 for acquisition of property, $110,000 for developers’ incentives for a multi-family housing project, $88,000 for relocation expenses, $31,000 for demolition work, $21,680 for property maintenance, $87,808 for contingency funds and nearly $715,000 for program management. CANCER AWARENESS “Advances in Cancer Treatments” will be the topic of the next lecture in the Rex Cancer Awareness Series Tuesday, May 2, from 7-0 p.m. at Rex Cancer Center, 4420 Lake Boone Trail, Raleigh. For information, call 782 8099. The lectures are free of charge. FICTION CONFERENCE Mystery, science fiction and romance writers will hone their skills at the second annual Away With Words Fiction Conference, May 8-7. This $88 weekend event at the Crabtree Marriott Hotel will include a tour of the SBI, workshops on writing and selling, editor and agent appointments and book signings. For registration details, call 1-596-2097 or 542-2163. MAKE PERIOD JEWELRY Making Mother’s Day gifts will be the emphasis at the Museum of History’s “Saturday at the Museum” workshop series Saturday, May 6. From 10:30 a.m. to noon, in a “Yesteryear’s Jewelry” workshop, participants will create old-fashioned jewelry from bits of ribbon, dried flowers and beads. Connie Belton, crafts instructor, will lead participants as they make pins suitable for wearing or for giving as Mother’s Day gifts. For inspiration, Ms. Belton will provide illustrations of period jewelry. The workshop is designed for ages 6 and up. Admission fee is $5 for materials. For details and registration, call the museum at733-38S4 in Raleigh. AUDITIONS FOR “FENCES” Auditions for August Wilson’s “Fences” will be held May 8-9 at 7:30 p.m. at 107 Pullen Road. The Tony Award-winning Broadway play will be directed by David Wood and opens June 10. This is a contemporary drama, with a seven-person, all-black cast. Please prepare a one-minute monologue. For details, call 755-0058. SMALL BUS1NE8S WORKSHOP President Bush has designated May 7-13 as Small Businees Week 1909. The SCORE chapter of Raleigh will hold a workshop, “How to Start and Stay in a Small Business,” at the McKimmon Center in Raleigh on May 13 from 8:15 a.tt. to 3:30 p.m. The 320fee includes coffee and Danish snacks, a buffet luncheon and program instruction materials. Obtain registration forms at Wake County banks, public library branches, Chamber of Commerce offices and the North Carolina Department of Commerce, or call SCORE at 868-4739. Registration closes May 7. Lawyer Saya Physician Racial Climate Victim CHICAGO, 111. (AP)—The lawyer for a physician convicted 21 years ago of killing his wife says his client was the victim of the ‘‘anti-black climate,” but the attorney who pro secuted the case says that argument ignores the facts. Dr. John Marshall Branion, now 63, was tried for the murder of hjis wife one month after Dr. Martin Luther King’s .assassination sparked rioting in Chicago’s black community in April 1968. The jury had 11 whites and “one timid black woman,” contended An thony D’Amato, a law professor at Northwestern University who has taken the case on a pro bono basis. “This is potentially one of the big gest, most scandalous cases in American law,” D'Amato said in an interview last Thursday. “I’ve never in my life seen a case of provable in nocence such as this." * But Patrict Tuite, the assistant Cook County state’s attorney who prosecuted the case, said uiti-black fading was not a factor in tlfc convic tion. “There was stronger anti-police bias in Chicago at the tlmd than anti black feelings,” he said. “He [Bu nion] had a better chance to show that there was a police conspiracy against him. Law and order senti ment is stronger now than it was A filmmaker and a journalist want to tall Branion’s story, but they have been denied interviews with the in mate tty Illinois prison officials. Documentary filmmaker Michael Niederman said he believes officials an afraid of another case like that portrayed in “A Thin Blue Une”-the documentary film that led to the release of convicted murderer Ran dall Adams in Texas. Nie Howell, a spokesman for the state Department of Corrections, said the refusal was based on concern for the security of Branion and the fact that the journalists want to observe Branion for a day-long or week-long P^*We’re concerned about the safety of (he Inmate,” Howell said. “Whan get publicity, other inmates tend to look negatively upon that, and that causes a concern for their Branion, who was King’s physician in Is serving a*)-to 36-year sentence at the state penitentiary in Dixon for the December 1987 slaying of his wife, Donna. “Of all the months in 1968 the worst one for a black to go on trial for murder would have to be right after Dr. King’s assassination,’’ said Niederman, whose previous documentary, “Voices from Nor thern Ireland,’’ has aired on the PBS network. “And that’s .when his trial was." D’Amato said Branion’s defense at torney failed to interview or call as witnesses 90 people who could have shown that he was not home but ex amining patients at a hospital when his wife was shot. Cook County Circuit Court Judge Reginald Holier, who presided over Branion’s trial, has since been Jailed on extortion charges stemming from the Operation Grey lord federal probe of corruption in the county court system. “The climate was very anti-black at that time,” D’Amato said. “(The jury] thought the state wouldn’t be bringing charges if he wasn’t guilty.” But Tulte, now in private practice, said Branion’s attorney had the op portunity to present witnesses, call ing the attorney, Maurice Scott, “a very good black attorney.” “I’ve seen Branicn’s petitions,” he said. “They ignore a lot of facte that did him harm, [Uke] the gun and bullets, the girlfriends, the call to his sister-in-law to take his wife to lunch [the day of the slaying], something he had never done before.” Branion fled the country in 1971 after losing an appeal, and was cap tured in Uganda. COMPLETES COURSE Army Reserve Pvt. Telia Y. Whitley, daughter of Barbara P. Whitley of 798 Smlthdale Drive, Raleigh, has completed an Army food service specialist course at Port Dix, NJ. .. The course trained personnel to prepare and nerve food in large and small quantities. Students received training In baking, Bald kitchen operations, and the operation of an The private is a 1999 vadimte of Athens Senior High School. Raleigh. Artsplosure To Celebrate 10th Anniversary Artsplosure, the Raleigh Arts Festival, Is offering up a rich variety of experiences and surprises. This spring, Artsplosure will celebrate its 10th birthday and all are invited to the festivities. Beginning on April 28 will be Art sploeure’s opening ceremonies and with Artsplosure will be the Greater Raleigh Weekend presenting the Four Tops with the North Carolina Symphony. Artsplosure will enliven Its city for 10 continuous days and will end with a grand finale during the Weekend Celebration May 6-7. The festival encompasses the Italian Family Day at the North Carolina Museum of Art, the tradi-. tional visual and performing arts at the Mordecai Historic Park, children's performances during lun chtime on the Fayetteville Street Mall, the National Opera Company presenting “Cinderella,” local and : national visual artists who will display and sell their works for two days, and the list goes on... children's activities, a food court... and it gets better... on the weekend of May 6 and 7 look for Mike Cross, for he will be performing for all of Raleigh. For more information or to volunteer, call 890-3196. About 51 percent of newspaper readers are women, according to the Newspaper Advertising Bureau. Fifty-eight percent of female readers and 62 percent of male newspaper readers read more than one newspaper a day. Modern Apartments For The Elderly CEDAif Crest NEW LIFE CENTER 1111111111^11! OMrytOMtonwr Mi. 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