March 26, 2013 That huge medal on display in the West Charlotte Recreation Center? Forum participant Ken Koontz hauled the thing into the Forum meeting today, with facility manager Calandra Barnes in tow. In the video below she explains the award honoring the work of the entire Mecklenburg County ... Continue Reading →
Fullwood, Thomas present at TEDx conference on ‘Giving Back’
March 24, 2013 Valaida Fullwood and Charles Thomas talk about their 400-page, hardback "Giving Back" not as a coffee table book but as a daunting mission, one that was shaped directly by their own life experiences. Their presentation Feb. 15 to the TEDxCharlotte conference about their experience ... Continue Reading →
Ken Koontz’s Obama Era DVDs
March 23, 2013 Longtime television journalist and Forum participant Ken Koontz covered both presidential inaugurations of Barack Obama. From his reporting and footage of inaugural activities and the Democratic National Convention held in Charlotte in 2012, Koontz fashioned two DVDs of historic ... Continue Reading →
Belk’s community involvement, education efforts
March 19, 2013 Nicole Dean of Belk's talks about the retailer's community involvement and education efforts. ... Continue Reading →
Health initiatives of the Junior League of Charlotte
March 19, 2013 Whitni Wilson-Wertz, president of the Junior League of Charlotte, describes group's program for youth health. ... Continue Reading →
Doing right by children in crisis
March 19, 2013 Principal. Minister. Counselor. Doctor. Police officer. Judge. Probation officer. Lots of specialists can be involved with a family whose child is in emotional turmoil. Listen as some of the experts describe the "System of Care" that it takes to succeed for the good of the child, ... Continue Reading →
Malachi Greene says thanks
March 12, 2013 Malachi Greene rose this morning at the Tuesday Morning Breakfast Forum to thanks all those who have prayed, called and phoned during his recent illness. His comments on the video below explain the illness, which involved prostate cancer that metastasized into his spinal column. ... Continue Reading →
Music can engage children in education
March 12, 2013 Jazz singer Toni Tupponce is program director of A Sign of the Times of the Carolinas. She was at the Forum to promote a March 29-30 presentation at West Charlotte High School with the musicians of the James Brown Band and A Sign of the Times. But seated between two ... Continue Reading →
Rose explains Charlotte Learning Academy charter plan
March 12, 2013 Stacey Rose is a former principal of one N.C. charter school (Kennedy, initially serving Elon Homes residents). And now she is the applicant for a state charter to open Charotte Learning Center in Charlotte in 2014. The Los Angeles native visited the Forum today as a ... Continue Reading →
Head of Title 1 elementaries in CMS’s Central Zone
March 12, 2013 Dr. Nicole Priestly is executive director of CMS Central Zone Title 1 elementary schools. The South Carolina native had a lengthy teaching career, and was an administrator in the Maryland district Heath Morrison was in before going to Arizona, then to CMS. Below are video clips ... Continue Reading →
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