June 7, 2022 A looming grant application deadline set off a conversation at this morning's Forum about the community investment needed in African-American neighborhoods. And how those investments were not being made in sufficient quantities, even now, to overcome generations of private ... Continue Reading →
Facilitators visit tricked-out Belmont Center meeting room
March 22, 2022 Forum facilitators masked up and met this afternoon at Belmont Center, to examine room upgrades and map out plans for return to the building. A decision was made to resume in-person meetings at 700 Parkwood Ave. sometime after the May 17 primary election. With a new COVID variant ... Continue Reading →
Developer’s story plays out in Beatties Ford Road corridor project
Nov. 9, 2021 In other hands, a rundown strip shopping center might turn into a less rundown strip shopping center. In Chris' Dennis's hands, Chase Bank is a major tenant, a portion of the building has been set aside for a yet-to-be-announced art presence, and the South Carolina native who's been ... Continue Reading →
‘America belongs to all of us’
By Laura McClettie I am voting because I clearly understand that America belongs to all of us. When I vote I know my voice is being heard. It's an opportunity for me to participate in our democracy. I truly believe in the democratic process. I cast my vote for those that I ... Continue Reading →
Christmas Party 2016
Dec. 13, 2016 The Forum's Christmas Party included breakfast catered by Friendship Kitchen, the catering arm of meals-on-wheels Friendship Trays. It included song led by Yolanda Holmes and accompanied by Harold Dixon. It got people out of their chairs for Natheley McElrath's Take A Gift game. It ... Continue Reading →
Forum funds donated to Belmont neighborhood families in need
Dec. 13, 2016 At this morning's Christmas Party, Laura McClettie announced on behalf of the Grants Committee how excess 2016 donations to the Forum Coffee Pot Fund would be used. ... Continue Reading →
A surprise for the guy behind the camera
March 29, 2016 Participants in the Tuesday Morning Breakfast Forum pulled off a total surprise for the guy usually behind the camera as they celebrated Steve Johnston's 69th birthday. Referred to occasionally during the celebration as a person of few words, the record should show that the scribe ... Continue Reading →
C.W. Williams Community Health Center and the Affordable Care Act
Tuesday's presentation about the Affordable Care Act was long long long. It was a good primer in what's been involved in the first round of signing up uninsured Americans for health coverage under the 2010 law. It also came a day after a Charlotte Observer story laid out the leadership changes ... Continue Reading →