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Announcements February 2013

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ANNOUNCEMENTS from Feb. 5, 2013:
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Dianna Davis announced that the Charlotte African American Festival scheduled for Feb. 23-24 at Independence High School is seeking performers, volunteers and vendors. Info is on their website.

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Louise Woods announced a meeting about the streetcar on Wednesday, Feb. 6 at 6:30 p.m. in Gambrell Auditorium on the Johnson C. Smith University campus, 100 Beatties Ford Rd.

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Zack Hill announced that political activist and academic Angela Davis will be at Davidson College on Tuesday, Feb. 12 to present the annual Warn Lecture. The free public lecture will be at 8 p.m. in the Duke Family Performance Hall on campus. No reservations are required. Davis is an emerita professor at the University of California at Santa Cruz.

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Zack Hill announced that a computer training class for seniors continues on Saturdays from 1-3:30 p.m. at Ivory Baker Recreation Center, 1920 Stroud Park Court off Oaklawn Avenue.

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Zack Hill left a flier for the West Charlotte High School Class of 1968 reunion, a seven-night Caribbean cruise beginning Sept. 15. See flier for details.

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LaWana Mayfield left word that inclement weather had forced postponement of a District 3 City Council meeting on Saturday, Jan. 26 (Announcements, Jan. 15). She said she would announce a rescheduled date soon.

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Michael Sexton sent in a message that the Domestic Violence Advocacy Council invites the public to a march to raise awareness of domestic violence, in response to the first domestic violence homicides of the year involving Derrick Antoine Teasley, 32, and Shakendra Nicole Covington, 22. The march is Thursday, Feb. 7 at 12:15 p.m. at Trade and Tryon Streets.

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Blanche Penn passed along this flier about the public showing at the Wallace Pruitt Recreation Center from Feb. 18-23 of displays on Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad, along with material showcasing African Americans' many inventions.

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ANNOUNCEMENTS from Feb. 12, 2013:

Zack Hill announced that Sign of the Times and the James Brown Band would perform during the 13th Annual Black History Concert at 7 p.m. Friday, March 29 and Saturday, March 30 at West Charlotte High School Auditorium, 2219 Senior Dr.

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Brandi Williams announced three dates for Project L.I.F.T. sessions: a parent summit on advocating for special-needs children at 6 p.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 19 at Johnson C. Smith University, 100 Beatties Ford Road; a Black History Brain Bowl on Saturday, Feb. 23 at 9 a.m. at West Charlotte High School, 2219 Senior Dr.; and a kickoff event for the One Laptop Per Child program on Tuesday, Feb. 26 at 10:30 a.m. at Druid Hills Academy Cafetorium, 2801 Lucena St.

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Carlos Gladden announced a God is Love Valentines Concert on Saturday, Feb. 16 at 7:30 p.m. at Derita Baptist Church, 2835 West Sugar Creek Rd. Admission is $25 for couples, $15 per single and $5 per child. Info: Gladden by e-mail.

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Jackie Edwards Walton announced that Faith CME Church will host free GED classes at 457 Wellingford St. off North Tryon near Sugar Creek Road in the Hidden Valley neighborhood on Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays from Jan. 22-May 3 from 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Info: William Royster at 704-596-6517 or 704-597-8249 or by e-mail.

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Ken Koontz announced that he would have CDs available for $10 each after the Feb. 19 Forum depicting 2013 Inaugural activities and great speeches from the 2012 presidential campaign.

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Betty Howell Gray sent in a copy of the program from a Jan. 31 reception for Supt. Heath Morrison and a statement on behalf of the National Alliance of Black School Educators about CMS goals.

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Maddy Baer sent in a link to the new Quality of Life Study, which has online a way to sort a variety of data about individual neighborhoods. Click here to access the study.

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Robert Hillman sent in a flier for a college prep event sponsored by the Chris Canty Foundation Saturday, Feb. 23 at 8:30 a.m. at Johnson C. Smith University, 100 Beatties Ford Rd.

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Announcements from Feb. 19, 2013:

Lucy Bush Carter announced that the Friendship Gardens mobile market will be able to take EBT cards when it returns in March to the Transit Center with affordable, fresh local vegetables.

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Zack Hill announced the Northwest School of the Arts theater program, chosen last fall to perform The Color Purple at the University of Nebraska in June, has $60,000 left to raise to finance its trip.

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Zack Hill announced that a computer training class for seniors will continue on Saturdays from 1-3 p.m. at Ivory Baker Recreation Center, 1920 Stroud Park Court off Oaklawn Avenue.

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Ursula Douglas, noting a rally last week to respond to Gov. Pat McCrory's opposition to Medicaid expansion, invited Forum participants to contact legislators "to make sure the most vulnerable people in our community get the health care that they need."

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Kimberly Hubbard announced that the Joseph Girls Foundation will hold an open house on Saturday, April 27 from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. at their offices at 516 E. 15th St. at 15th and North Davidson Streets in NoDa.

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Ken Koontz announced that he had completed $10 DVDs of the Democratic National Convention and the 2nd Obama Inauguration.

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Pamela McCarter sent in an announcement of a Career Day to mark Black History Month, on Saturday, Feb. 23 at 1 p.m. at the Beatties Ford Road Regional Library, 2412 Beatties Ford Road. Young people will "be able to meet successful African American professionals from various fields and ask questions about how they chose their current profession and what it took to get to where there are now." Speakers include Captain Denise Bridges, CMPD; Richard Devayne, reporter for WCNC News; Palmer Dupree, Longs Funeral Home; Fly Ty, Radio Personality; Orgire McCoy, Beatties Ford Road Hardware; Rob McMannen, videographer with News 14; James Mitchell, City Council member; Nooma Monika Rhue, JCSU director of library services; Monique A. Sutton, CPNP, University Pediatrics; T. Michael Todd, lawyer; Alex Harris, Fire Department. A flier in Word is here.

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Tahira Stalberte sent in an announcement of three CMS town hall meetings on budget priorities and to allow the public to speak directly with members of the 22 task forces convened in January by Supt. Heath Morrison. The town halls will be Feb. 27 at E.E. Waddell Language Academy, 7030 Nations Ford Rd., Charlotte; March 4 at North Mecklenburg High, 11201 Old Statesville Rd.; and March 11 at Butler High School, 1810 Matthews-Mint Hill Rd. All will be 6-8:30 p.m., open with a 45-minute budget discussion led by Morrison, then continue with small groups focusing on the task forces. A flier is here.

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Ledger Morrissette sent in an announcement of a free panel discussion on the Emancipation Proclamation, its constitutionality and legacy, and the 13th Amendment, on Saturday, Feb. 23 from 2-4 p.m. at the UNCC Center City Building, 320 E. 9th Street, in the 2nd floor auditorium. Panelists are UNCC history professors Dr. David Goldfield and Dr. Cheryl Hicks, and Charlotte School of Law professor Dr. Scott Broyles.

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Reginald Johnson sent in an appeal for donations to help support 75 5th-graders and 15 chaperones from Thomasboro Academy on a planned trip to Washington, D.C. from Feb. 27-March 1. The itinerary is here. Items needed, that can be dropped off at the school at 538 Bradford Drive, include chips, juice boxes, water, cookies, first aid kits, underwear, socks, toothbrushes, toothpaste, kleenex and hand sanitizer. To make a donation, contact La-Tonya Millhouse at 980-343-6000 or Reginald Johnson at 704-433-5657.

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Announcements from Feb. 26, 2013:

Carlenia Ivory passed out a flier with dates, the first being Wednesday, Feb. 27, for CMS town halls about the 22 task forces preparing parts of a revision of the CMS strategic plan. She added two additional dates in April, which have been marked on the flier.

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Blanche Penn announced that 3,000 people attended the recent African American history exhibit at Wallace Pruitt Recreation Center. She said the Center would take Bruns Avenue Academy students to the Bahamas this summer.

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Gyasi Foluke announced that he would address black males at the Males Place, 2845 Beatties Ford Rd., Wednesday night, Feb. 27, at 6 p.m., and will conduct a seminar at the Unity Christian Center for three churches in Greensboro on March 9.

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Beverly Irby announced that an American Cancer Society cancer research project is looking for healthy African Americans ages 30-65 to join a 20-30 year monitoring project to study how lifestyle factors affect cancer. See what county officials and County Manager Harry Jones said at the Feb. 19 commissioners meeting about the study. More information is online here.

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Ledger Morrissette passed along the Winter 2013 edition of The Link, the quarterly newsletter of the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Community Relations Committee.

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