Jan. 20, 2015 Steve Johnston made a short presentation at the Forum today to present the material in the slides at right and below, to update participants on growth in attendance, growth in total recipients of the Forum's e-mails, and to report a downturn in the donations that pay for coffee ... Continue Reading →
Conference aims for motivational impact on middle-school males
Jan. 20, 2015 Betty Howell Gray was back at the Forum Tuesday to promote a February conference aimed at improving academic achievement. Education experts and inspirational speakers dominate the daytime activities on Feb. 12-13. A free community meeting is planned on the evening of Feb. ... Continue Reading →
Sandra Clory on Tai Chi class
Jan. 20, 2015 Sandra Clory rose at today's Open Forum to discuss a Tai Chi class she will be teaching at Myers Park Baptist Church in February. More on the class is here. ... Continue Reading →
H. Allen Smith keynotes Growing the Dream Awards Luncheon
Jan. 17, 2015 Dr. H. Allen Smith inspired the creation of Charlotte's Growing the Dream Awards ceremony in 2014 when he was an area superintendent under Heath Morrison. Then he was gone. Saturday, he was back from the Oakland Unified School District in California where he is chief of schools, to ... Continue Reading →
Goal: 80% of 3rd-graders reading well by 3rd grade
Jan. 13, 2014 Johanna Anderson, executive director of the Belk Foundation, is still weeks away from a formal announcement of a communitywide effort to improve reading. But she was at the Forum Tuesday to outline some of the scope of the planning that's already been done; to reassure people that ... Continue Reading →
The outlook for 2015
Jan. 6, 2015 In an impromptu presentation, elected officials serving at the local and state levels offered comments about the issues they expect to be dealing with this year. Predictably, many of the issues revolved around money. But there was also talk about jobs, the homeless, education, the ... Continue Reading →
Primerica services outlined
Jan. 6, 2015 Desmond Wiggan, an investment adviser representative with Primerica, addressed the Forum Tuesday. He was introduced by Doris Taylor. Contact information for Wiggan is here. [A video of the presentation that was posted here earlier has been removed at the company's request because of ... Continue Reading →
Christmas Party 2014
Dec. 16, 2014 The video below is a shortened version, with audio, of the 2014 Year in Review video that was displayed without sound during the party. ... Continue Reading →
FAA reportedly reducing noise impact zone around airport
After City Council member announced that FAA staff would hold workshops tonight and Wednesday near the airport to take citizen comment about noise issues, council member LaWana announced that news back from the FAA was that noise abatement areas would be reduced, not enlarged, on account of quieter ... Continue Reading →
Beatties Ford Road median: An exploration
Setting aside thoughts of tinsel and holiday errands still beckoning, participants in today’s Forum engaged in a review of a nearly three-year controversy over 800 feet of a mile-long road widening. Beatties Ford Road was a once-sleepy two-lane road bisecting the westside African-American ... Continue Reading →
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