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Announcements February 2006

ANNOUNCEMENTS from Feb. 14, 2006:
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Next week at the Forum: Tommy Robinson on blacks in the history of the visual arts.
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Dr. Gyasi Foluke encouraged attendance at tonight's school board meeting, which he said would include a vote on a military magnet program. He said he was suspicious that the program was designed to deal with the effects rather than the causes of problems students face.
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Charlotte Housing Authority CEO Charles Woodyard encouraged people to participate in next Monday's public hearing on the Authority's proposal to redevelop the Live Oak site it owns behind the SouthPark Burger King. The public-private project would ensure the continued presence of low-income housing in the neighborhood.
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T.B. Haynes asked for more information about a law school opening in Charlotte, and encouraged those who had received in their Observer a brochure about pandemics to save the brochure. "You may need it," he said.
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Richard McElrath encouraged attendance at tonight's school board meeting in the Government Center at 6 p.m. The board is expected to erase from its vision statement the commitment to "ensure that Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools becomes the premier urban, integrated school system in the nation...."
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Geraldine Brisbane said to see her for tickets to the Feb. 24 dance and silent auction that is a fund-raiser for Brisbane Academy scholarships.
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Rodney Moore invited people to attend the United Agenda for Children town hall meeting on health care reform to be held this Saturday, Feb. 18, at 8:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. at the Harris Conference Center, 3216 CPCC West Campus Drive off Morris Field Drive.
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Louise Woods said the school board tonight would also have before it two motions by Kaye McGarry to endorse all recommendations of the Gantt-Bessant Task Force. The former school board member observed that rather than a blank endorsement, "it's up to the school board to study" the recommendations "and do what's best for children."
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Laura McClettie announced that she would have more information next week about a Feb. 23 fund-raiser for Sen. Beverly Earle's re-election campaign.
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Attending Tuesday's Forum was longtime Charlotte leader Jim Polk. Regular Mary Brooks stood to say that she was the first person Polk hired in 1965 when his now well-known entrepreneurial streak found its first outlet in an insurance agency. "I should have stuck with him," Brooks said. "If I had I would be rich now and out on the golf course." Continuing the teasing, Sarah Stevenson observed that Polk probably learned to play golf from Stan Brookshire, whom Polk helped as the then-Charlotte mayor undertook to peacefully desegregate Charlotte restaurants in the early 1960s.
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Sarah Stevenson announced that at Sunday afternoon's meeting of the Black Women's Business Caucus, Andrea Huff would be installed as president and County Commissioner Valerie Woodard would be installed as vice president. Outgoing President Mattie Caldwell will be honored at the 3 p.m. meeting at Greenville Neighborhood Service Center. Stevenson said the meeting would mark "a real historic revitalization" of the group and install in leadership "young women to carry on what we've been trying to do for a long time."
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A large number of questions and comments pushed Tuesday's adjournment to 10:15 a.m. -- well into the 10 a.m. meeting hour of the seniors group that often uses the Center's space after the Forum closes. That led Sarah Stevenson to suggest that it might become necessary to open the forum at 7:30 a.m. rather than 8 a.m. "Let's think about that," she said.
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Blanche Penn passed on an announcement of a Black History program this Saturday, Feb. 18, at 2 p.m. at the West Charlotte Recreation Center, 2401 Kendall Dr. Featured: Drills of Hope Band, R.I.Z.E, Black Pearl Ice Dance, and Trivia. Also appearing will be Hallie Zaunders, 99, who spoke briefly to the Forum on Feb. 7.
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Neil Carroll passed on an announcement that the Central Park District II Advisory Council will meet on Monday, Feb. 20 at 6:30 p.m. at the McColl Building, 721 N. Tryon St.
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Michael Sexton passed on an invitation from the Coalition of Women United to Stop the Killing to participate in a march from Frazier Park to Marshall Park on Saturday, Feb. 25, beginning at 11 a.m. Info: 704-333-6471. --
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Tuesday Morning Breakfast Forum

ANNOUNCEMENTS from Feb. 21, 2006:
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Next week at the Forum: Trailblazers Leonard R. (Deacon) Jones and Andrea Huff on breaking color and gender lines in the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department.
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Park and Recreation's John McClelland announced Saturday's Black History Quiz Bowl at Freedom Park at 1 p.m. Students from seven schools will be participating.
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Ethie Watermann announced a silent auction and '70s dance at the Levine Museum this Friday, Feb. 24 from 6:30 p.m., to benefit the Brisbane Academy scholarship fund. Admission is $20.
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Laura McClettie announced a fund-raiser for the campaign of N.C. Rep. Beverly Earle for this Thursday from 6-7:30 p.m. at the home of Johnnie Collins at 4409 Meridian Dr. in Hyde Park.
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Deacon Jones announced that Pam Grundy, who has a young child, said she looked forward to returning to regular attendance at the Forum after her husband's early-morning teaching ends and he takes back child-care duty during Forum hours.
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Rodney Moore announced that the NAACP would meet this Thursday, Feb. 23, at 7 p.m. at Weeping Willow AME Zion Church, and that the group's statewide midwinter meeting is Saturday in Raleigh at First Cosmopolitan Baptist Church.
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Andrea Huff announced that the Black Women's Caucus would meet this Sunday at 3 p.m. at the Greenville Center on Spring Street for installation of officers and honoring outgoing president Mattie P. Caldwell for 10 years of service. All are invited to this free event, and there will be good food.
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T.B. Haynes congratulated Richard McElrath on being named to a committee studying school construction needs, and Rodney Moore for attending a Citizens Health Care Working Group.
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Housing Authority CEO Charles Woodyard thanked members who attended Monday's public hearing in support of a rezoning for redevelopment of the Live Oak public housing site near SouthPark. He asked for help making the Housing Authority's case to two new members of City Council: Anthony Foxx and Michael Barnes. The Live Oak petition is scheduled for a vote March 20.
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Mary Brooks said members not present for last weekend's performance by RIZE at the West Charlotte Recreation Center missed a great event. "It was fantastic."
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Robin Bradford sent in an announcement of Little Rock AME Zion's Pre-CIAA "Heritage Weekend" this Saturday, Feb. 25, from 10 a.m.-4 p.m. at the church at 7th and McDowell Streets. Activities include "Spoken word, Drummers, Story Tellers, African Dancers, Guest Speaker will be Rev. Dr. Sheldon Shipman of Greenville Memorial AME Zion Church. A 'Market Street' set up with various vendors. E.E. Waddell High School & West Meck High School Gospel Choirs will be performing and an array of fun filled events throughout the day." African attire invited for 10 a.m. Sunday service "featuring the Rev. Dr. David Lee Varick of Memorial AME Zion Church, New Haven, Conn. Immediately following the service there will be a 'Heritage Feast' representing our 'Down Home' culinary 'Heritage.' All are welcome."
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Thomas Moore sent in a schedule of Black History Month events at the Charlotte Museum of History, including "Museum by Moonlight," this Thursday, Feb. 23 from 5-9 p.m., the first in a weekly series continuing through May. "Special African-American experience tours of the American Visions of Liberty & Freedom exhibit will be given throughout the night. Regular Museum admission; free for Museum members."
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Laura McClettie called in an announcement that the Urban League would be honoring all legislators at a gathering this Wednesday, Feb. 22, at 6 p.m. at the League's Fifth Street offices.
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at the West Charlotte Recreation Center, 2222 Kendall Drive, Charlotte, NC
down the hill from West Charlotte High School.