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Vol. 41
No.34
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Austin Says Goodbye to Legend
RAPPIN’
Tommy Wyatt
Welcome to
Austin,
Coach Strong!!
Unless you have been in
a coma for the last week, you
know that the University of
Texas has just hired a new
football coach to replace
coach Mack Brown.
The new coach is Charlie
Strong, former head coach
at the University of
Louisville. And while
Louisville is known as a
basketball school, Strong has
had at least 11 wins in each
of the last two seasons and
a number of other accomplishments. But, now he will
take on one of his greatest
challenges of his 31 year
coaching career. And that is
not just winning games for
The University of Texas
(UT), but he will also have
the challenge of making the
UT Boosters happy. And
that will be a greater chore
than winning games on the
field.
He has already had a
taste of that. Red McComb,
one of the universities strong
supporters has already come
out to criticize the decision.
And there are others waiting
in the wings. You can believe
that McComb is not the only
booster who is not happy
with the decision.
Coach Strong will be
under a microscope next
season. U T fans do not take
kindly to their school not
winning conference championships or lack of
consideration for the big
show. However, he will have
the support of President Bill
Powers and newly hired
Athletic Director Steve
Patterson.
Powers recently took on
the U T Board of Regents
who were threatening to
remove him and he won that
fight. He has also supported
Gregg Vincent in his support
of the minority communities
of the city who have long
been treated as outsiders in
the city. Under the leadership
of Powers and Vincent,
these communities are
beginning to feel like they
can give their full support to
UT.
Coach Strong will have
the full support of the Austin
community in his effort to
move UT back to the front
in both the Big 12
Conference and the National
Championship.
AUSTIN, TX - On
Christmas day of 2013,
Austin, Texas lost a Legend. Rev. Dr. Marvin C.
Griffin passes away at
the age of 90. For more
than 4 decades, Griffin
has been a leader in the
Austin community as a
Pastor, School Board official, and community
activist.
He was the pastor
of the historic Ebenezer
Baptist Church for 42
years. He was elected
to the Austin School
Board early in his career
in Austin. During his
tenure, he became the
first Black President of
the Board. He was a
community
leader
known for participation
in all areas of the community.
Under Griffin’s
leadership, Ebenezer
founded the East Austin Economic Development
Corporation.
Through this organization, much of the foun-
dation was laid for the
redevelopment of East
Austin. Ebenezer also
expanded it Day Care
and Child Development
center, built an office
building, and a Senior
Citizen Housing development. Griffin and a
group of East Austin
citizens formed the East
11th Street Village Association. This group
wrote the plans that
changed the zoning for
E. 11th Street that led to
the redevelopment of
the street and surrounding area.
He was a statewide
political activist. He
worked with the United
Political Action (UPO)
group on political campaigns. He was appointed by Gov. John B.
Connally to the Texas
Southern University
Board of Regents. Griffin was delegated to the
1968 Democratic National Convention in
Chicago.
January 10, 2014
INSIDE
Manor ISD places
1st in Texas scholar
attendance face off.
See EXCEL
Page 2
Inspiring speakers
commemorate
Dr. King’s legacy of
peace and unity.
See ORATORY
Page 6
Rev. Dr. Marvin C. Griffin
Griffin, a state and
national religious leader
was laid to rest on Saturday, January 4, 2014.
He was preceded in
death by his wife Lois
and daughter Gaynelle
Griffin Jones.
Griffin is survived
by two daughters,
Marva Griffin Carter
and Ria Griffin, and a
host of family members
and friends.
21 year vet O’Brien,
named head coach
in NFL franchise.
See TEXANS
Page 7
BEVO HOOKS STRONG
HOOK’EM UP - Texas president Bill Powers (left), newly hired Texas Longhorns head football coach Charlie Strong (centered)
and newly hired athletics director Steve Patterson (right) hold up the Hook’em horns sign at the end of Monday's press conference.
Strong is UT’s first Black head football coach in the school’s history. (Villager News)
By Shirley A. Hammond,
Villager Columnist and
Author
AUSTIN - Auburn
labors under the fact
that they have a mystery
coach, but UT-Austin
decisively announced
their new football coach,
Charlie Strong, in a
January 6th press conference. Strong hails from
Batesville, Arkansas
and most recently
served as coach at the
University of Louisville.
He is UT’s first African-
American
football
coach. UT alum, students and fans bleed orange, and it looks like
Strong feels that the
color holds significant
importance, as well.
During the conference
he said, “I don’t ever
want to look at it as being the first,” Strong
said. “I just want to look
at it as I’m a coach, and
that’s the way I want to
be treated.”
In more than eight
months, supporters and
skeptics alike will begin
to see what Strong is capable of as he hopefully
leads the team into resurrecting their championship status. To his
credit is Coach of the
year (twice). In addition,
his leadership of the
University of Louisville
program has resulting
in the posting of at least
11 wins in each of the
last two seasons, a pair
of Big East Conference
Championships, the status as the country’s
winningest teams, and
four straight bowl game
appearances with a 3-11
record.
Strong has amassed
31 years of collegiate
coaching, including defensive coordinator and
assistant coach positions. He was a finalist
for the Broyles Award
three times. In 1996, the
Broyles Award was established to recognize
the dedication and hard
work of the college football assistant coach.
A married man
with two daughters, it
See Bill Powers on
Charlie Strong,
page 2
LBJ
ALUMNUS
TURNS
AIRMAN
Air Force Reserve
Airman Danielle N.
Franco-Denmon graduated from basic military
training at Joint Base
San Antonio-Lackland,
San Antonio, Texas.
The airman completed an intensive,
eight-week program
that included training in
military discipline and
studies, Air Force core
values, physical fitness,
and basic warfare principles and skills.
Airmen who
complete basic training
earn four credits toward
Danielle N. Franco-Denmon
an associate in applied
science degree through
the Community College
of the Air Force.
Franco-Denmon
is the daughter of Margaret
and
Clyde
Denmon of Austin. She
is a 2005 graduate of
Lyndon B. Johnson
High School, Austin.
She earned an associate
degree in 2010 from
Austin Community College.
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THE COMMUNIQUÉ
UT President Bill Power on Coach Charlie Strong: “There Is No Question He’s A Winner!”
CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1
would appear that
Strong had exposure to
and knowledge of Texas
before he became a
coach candidate.
At the press conference held on Monday,
January 6 to announce
the hiring of this 29th UT
Austin head football
coach, he spoke after the
university’s athletic director and president offered their words.
After explaining
the benchmarks they established for head coach
candidates, athletic director Steve Patterson
stated, “So we’re excited to have Charlie
join us here. He meets
all those criteria, and we
look forward to many
years of success, hope-
fully with Charlie here
for the long haul.”
UT President Bill
Power followed with
similar words of affirmation. “Throughout
this process, it’s been
clear that we’ve been
looking for a coach who
can win, and Charlie has
shown that, but win
with integrity. That’s
what we’ve found in
Charlie. There is no
question he’s a winner.”
He spoke of Strong’s
amazing transformation
of the Louisville football program into a
championship team.
Added Power, “His talents as a coach are truly
evident. More important than that, he elevated the football pro-
and fortunate to be the
head coach here at the
University of Texas to
continue the tradition
built by so many great
coaches
including
Coach Royal and Coach
Brown. I can’t wait to
get started because at
the University of Texas,
I want to make sure that
we build and represent
the tradition and the history of this great
program. We will work
like its fourth-and-one
or fourth-and-inches
New UT Head Football Coach Charlie Strong
more than that and
gram while increasing foretold the future of make sure our Texas
graduation rates, devel- the Texas Longhorns Exes are so happy with
oping a culture rooted and mentioned his in- the product that we put
in academic success.”
sight into what he just on the field. A program
Strong, who gradu- signed up for and that has won four naated from the University whose footsteps he fol- tional titles, it’s time to
of Central Arkansas, lows in. “I am so thrilled put the program back
State Library and
Archives Open for
Research on
Second Saturdays
Manor Excel
Academy Wins High
School Attendance
Challenge - 1st in
Central Texas,
19th in U.S.
Additional Hours Begin January 2014
AUSTIN – Family
historians, scholars, students and others interested in what is behind
the ornate brass doors of
the Lorenzo de Zavala
State Archives and Library Building just east
of the State Capitol will
soon have more opportunities for discovery.
Beginning this Saturday, January 11, the
Texas State Library and
Archives Commission
(TSLAC) will expand its
hours of operation to
better accommodate researchers. The agency’s
three public service areas – the Texas State Archives, Texas Family
Heritage Research Center, and the Reference
and Information Center
– will be open from 9
a.m. to 4 p.m. the second
Saturday of each month.
Maintaining the official history of Texas
government, the State
Archivesincludes archival government records
dating back to the 18th
century, as well as
newspapers, journals,
books, manuscripts,
photographs, historical
maps, and other historical resources.
In addition to published resources in the
Texas Family Heritage
Research Center, users
have full access to the
popular genealogical
web resources including
Ancestry, Fold3 and
Heritage Quest.
The Reference and
Information Center
houses almost 2 million
federal and Texas state
agency publications.
“Many
people
want to access our
unique collections but
are unable to visit during our regular business
hours,” said State Archivist Jelain Chubb. “We
believe these additional
hours on the second Saturday of each month,
along with our quarterly Genealogy After
A sample from the Texas State Archives - This
original color design sketch by Peter Krag shows
the flag and seal for the Republic of Texas. It was
approved on January 25, 1839, and signed on the
top by Mirabeau Lamar, President of the Republic
of Texas; John M. Hansford, Speaker of the Texas
House of Representatives; and David Burnet, President of the Texas Senate. Image courtesy of the
Texas State Library and Archives Commission.
To learn more
about TSLAC’s collections and agency operations, please visit
www.tsl.texas.gov.
Questions concerning
Second Saturdays may
be
addressed
to
[email protected].
All are invited to follow
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Darrell Harris aspires to be a Hip-Hop artist
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ments and more from the E3 Alliance and Get many life challenges
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announce Manor Excel school difficult for them
Academy as the Central to succeed in. Through
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School winner of the and focused and effecGraduate for Más Fall tive support services,
Attendance Challenge. students are provided
Nationwide, Manor Ex- with the skills, recel Academy placed 19th sources and opportuniout of all participating ties they need to commiddle and high plete their high school
schools. The Challenge studies and set goals for
was a friendly ten week success after graduacompetition to rally stu- tion.
Manor Excel Acaddents to improve attendance and stay focused emy will be celebrating
on education. More than their accomplishment
135,000 students par- with a school-wide
ticipated nationally in lunch catered by Taco
the 2013 Fall Attendance Bell followed by live
D.J. school dance party
Challenge.
Manor Excel Acad- on Wednesday, January
emy is a state-of-the-art 8 th from 11:15 a.m. –
accelerated diploma 12:30 p.m. The School
program with a strong will also be accepting a
focus on providing sup- prize of $5000.
Manor High School
port for non-traditional
students to succeed and also finished 40th nationTEXAS-SIZED HONOR - Samantha Riddle is become college ready.
See HARRIS, page 5
crowned Miss Texas International 2013. (Arcus The student population
Dark programs, will
make our materials
more accessible to a
larger audience.”
Regular business
hours are Monday
through Friday from 8:00
a.m. to 4:45 p.m.The library is closed on most
federal holidays. Researchers using original
documents in the State
Archives for the first time
will be required to register and must present
valid photo identification and proof of current
address.
Search Begins for the Next Teen, Miss and Mrs. Austin 2014
Do your New
Year’s resolutions include becoming a
betteryou and making a
difference in your community? Have you ever
dreamed of one day
wearing a sparkling
crown and sash to put a
smile on a child’s face
and bring awareness to
a cause close to your
heart? The International
Pageant System recognizes ladies across the
state, from teens to
misses to married
women, for their accomplishments and their
desire to make a difference.
The search is on
and applications are
now being accepted for
the titles of Miss Teen
Austin, Miss Austin
and Mrs. Austin International 2014. These
on the national stage.”
The former football
player complimented
those who stood in the
same shoes in the past,
as well as those who
now share his status as
a coach in the Lone Star
state. He said, “Nationally, the Texas high
school coaches are
king. My staff and I will
be committed to closing
the borders on this great
state and making them
realize that this is their
program. We’ll recruit
with fire, and we’ll recruit
with
passion. We’re devoted
to making Austin the
state capitol for college
football as well as the
state capitol of this
state.”
women will have the
honor of representing
their area at the Texas
International Pageant to
be held at the Granville
Arts Center in the Dallas, Texas, area March
14 th -16 th. A new Miss
Teen Texas International, Miss Texas International and Mrs. Texas
International will be
crowned then, kickstarting a year unlike
any other for the lucky
ladies who will represent Texas, wearing the
most beautiful crown in
the Lone Star State.
“The Texas International system is something that dads and husbands can be proud of
their daughters and
wives participating in,”
said Rachel Hedstrom,
See WHO WILL BE,
page 5
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earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Business
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YOUTH BRIGADE
Youth of Today
Senior Project
take it easy my Senior
year," as well as "Everything seems pointless, I
know all this already." A
committee will study the
work completed at area
high schools, build a set
of qualities to build within
students, and brainstorm
Alon Rodgers
ideas. Meeting dates/
Hendrickson Highschool
times will be set to meet
There is more infor- the convenience of the
mation about the pro- team members. If your
posed Senior Year parents are interested,
Project. This is planned please tell them to conas the capstone project tact the principal, Devin
at
for graduation and will Padavil
begin next school year. [email protected].
Hawks varsity basThe mythical ailment of
"Senioritis" strikes some ketball team (10-10)
12th graders across the played in the Cedar
nation during their last Park Tournament last
year of high school. Re- week going two and two
gardless of the quality of and hosted Stoney
a student's school, some Point on New Years'
common symptoms of Eve. Our next home
"senioritis" include the game will be against
statements, "I am ready cross town rival the
to graduate and move Pflugerville Panthers
out of here," "I want to (15-5) on Jan. 7.
Hope of Tomorrow
Happy 2014
to do any work and not
have any obligations. I
could honestly have relaxed for another good
two weeks before going
back to school. The only
thing that is pushing me
to get through this semester is the fact that I’m
almost a senior.
Just one more semester and I will be one
Kiara Myers
step closer to being free.
Vista Ridge H.S.
It’s weird to think that at
This winter break this time next year I will be
was much needed! I applying to colleges and
spent basically everyday getting letters back. I just
sleeping in until 12:30 hope that this semester
p.m. and watching mov- goes by as fast as the
ies for the rest of the time. past one and that my
It felt so good to not have grades stay the same.
teacher how you are doing in science and they
will give you a grade on
your craftsmanship, the
effort you put into it and
originality.
Some Examples of
the projects that the students will be displaying is
how cheese rots, does
food coloring effect waters evaporation process, what are the effects
Zachariah Washington
when you mix baking
Cedars Academy
soda and vinegar and
At Cedars Interna- many more projects to
tional Academy we are come. That’s something
having a science fair that you don’t what to
when we get back from miss. I will see you
the break. It will tell your there!!!!
Imani Demps
Del Valle High School
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happy that Christmas
break is over because I
get to go back to school.
All of my days at school
have gone by very
quickly and it doesn't feel
like I have been in school
for four months.
Over my Christmas
break, I went to a lot of cities and even got a
chance to ride Amtrak
and Megabus. Christmas was great! I can't
wait for Christmas break
to come again!
Until next time, Go
Pease Bobcats
Second Semester
Cedars Science Fair
So this week we go
back to school, I'm ready.
I know the week after this
one we take finals and I'm
not prepared to do that
but I have to. I'm going to
try and do everything that
needs to be done so I can
pass. I hate being out of
school because when we
are in school we are one
step closer to the end of
the year. I can't wait until
next year.
Christmas 2013
year but my mother made
some because my dad
loves pork. He always
says, if you eat pork on
New Year’s Day, you will
live high on the hog for
the rest of the year.” I
don’t know about that. At
the beginnings of the
year people like to start
fresh with their diet and
exercise. They try to give
Averill Topps
up some bad habits like
Pease Elementary
Sarah Robertson
eating too much, smokPioneer Crossing Elem.
Christmas break is
ing and start a new
The New Year is hobby. I really don’t have finally over and it's back
here. I had a great Christ- any really bad habits to to Pease Elementary. To
mas and New Year holi- give up, but I will try read- tell the truth, I am kind of
day season. This year ing a little more this year
for Christmas we did and I try to do something
something different we I never done before like
had a fish fry instead of golf.
the traditional dishes with
Well, school starts
this week, holiday time is
friends. It was great!
For the New Year over. I am very happy
we had pork chops, about that because I love
black eye pea, cabbage school and I miss all my
and macaroni and friends. I hope this secheese. We really don’t mester will be a great
eat pork much during the one. Happy New Year!
One More Semester
I’m Ready
Black Registry
Happy New Year
Lanette Demps
Del Valle High School
“The function of
education is to teach
one to think
intensively and to
think critically.
Intelligence plus
character - that is
the goal of true
education.
- Martin Luther
King, Jr.
I hope everyone had
a great christmas and a
Happy New Year. I hope
the goals you want that
you succeed in. I hope
this year I pass alo my
classes with an 80 or
above I hope I stay in
color guard and do a
good jod in that. I wish
Everyone has a great
year.
Wesley Dickerson
Cedar Ridge H.S.
I am very excited to
start this next semester
even though I’m positive
I won’t be saying that
once I receive my first
project or essay. My first
semester in high school
was everything I expected and more. My
basketball team is doing
well, the football team
gave a good effort in the
playoffs, which was fun to
watch, and most of all my
grades fulfilled all expectations. I am very proud
to be able to truly say that
I like my school. My first
impression of Cedar
Ridge was fantastic, the
teachers and coaches
are nice and the school
itself is a great building
that is well mapped out.
This next semester
holds many new and exciting things for the rest
of the school year. I am
excited to do many things
this semester. For example I have my first
DECA competition in
February. DECA is my
school’s business club of
which I am a proud member. Also district play just
started in basketball so
hopefully we can bring
home the championship.
Although as they
school year goes on one
thing is always certain,
everything gets harder.
Even blow off classes
might actually be a surprise; it’s impossible to
know. Although it is crucial to stay calm because stress never does
any good. So I plan to go
into this next semester
calm, cool, and confident
and finish my freshman
year strong.
Oil companies hire a online
professor to teach Africans
how to drill for natural gas.
by Kimberly Jarrett
Beginning in February, students in
Mozambique will learn online from a Texas Tech
University professor how to drill for gas in the
Mozambique Channel between East Africa and
the Madagascar Island, according to a Jan. 3 report in THE JOURNAL OF BLACKS IN
HIGHER EDUCATION.
The report stated that oil companies leasing areas where “significant gas discoveries
have been found” hired the professor because
there are few petroleum engineers in the region.
The Indian Ocean borders the east of
Mozambique, and Tanzaia, Malawi, Zambia,
Zimbabwe, Swaziland, and South Africa border
it landside.
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YOUTH BRIGADE
National Forum For
Black Public
Administrators
Central Texas Chapter
ATX Youth Summit 2014
"A Celebration of Teen Creativity"
Join Women in Jazz and NFBPA, in partnership with Austin Parks and Recreation as they host
the Annual ATX Youth Summit. Members are
encouraged to spread the word to youth ages 717. Workshops will include: Born Again Bodies
Transformational Programs, Dance and Fit; Let's
Make a Film; Totally Cool/Totally Art Teen Art
Workshop; Women in Jazz Singers' Performance
Workshop; and Dancin' Jazzi Workshop.
To register, Visit: www.atxyouthsummit
2014.eventbrite.com Or call 512-258-6947
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across the state in every
grade. Each day our
students miss costs our
schools about $38 in lost
state revenue. Across
Central Texas, our
schools have been losing more than $91 million a year! That’s why
E 3 Alliance spearheaded a regional campaign to improve attendance starting in 2011.
Since the start of the
campaign,
Central
Texas schools have
saved more than $12M
in increased revenue
due to improved attendance.
“We are honored
and extremely proud of
our students,” said
Manor Excel Academy
Principal
Eduardo
Lozano. “Our team has
worked tirelessly to instill and promote a culture of attendance and
dedication to learning at
Manor Excel. Our students know that to learn
you have to show up
and show resilience and
commitment to learning. We are immensely
proud of their diligence,
discipline and focus on
good attendance. We
could not be more
proud!”
PV Mime
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place at Prairie View A&M on January 25. The
all day workshop will feature classes from children to adults at beginner to advanced level. There
will also be praise dancing and leadership classes.
On April 19 they will have their 10th anniversary celebration which will commemorate their 10
years of ministry at the university. Founders,
former participants and others who fostered the
furtherance of this ministry will be in attendance.
After the performance, Pastor Freeman
praised them for the amazing anointing they displayed and marveled at the way the performers
used their bodies to worship in this special way.
The cast showcased their well-practiced routines to a variety of praise and worship songs.
Many in the audience stated that they got turned
up as they watched them in routines of expressive
praise.
One Accord performed as a female duo.
Leader Shaleetha Jackson and another female in
the quad group rendered excellence in their praise
performance, as well.
The president of PV Mime is a junior majoring in biology and minoring in chemistry. He
stated that he wishes to become an anesthesiologist. Jaquan McIntosh hails from New Jersey, but
has lived in Texas for a number of years. He said
this is both his third year miming and his third
year as a believer.
He recalled that another member of the group
invited him to an open house event provided by
Breakfast and lunch included
Registration 8:00 - 9:00 am
Workshops start at 9:00, ages 7-17
Workshops:
· Born Again Bodies Transformational
Programs, Dance and Fitness
· Let's Make A Film
· Totally Cool/Totally Art Teen Art
Workshop
· Women in Jazz Singers' Performance
Workshop
· Dancin' Jazzi Workshop
Who Will be the Next to Wear the
Most Beautiful Crown in the
Lone Star State?
HARRIS WINS WORD
HIP-HOP CONTEST
ally, and one of
their students Darrell
Harris won the national
SAT word hip-hop contest.
A video of
Darrell’s winning rap
can be seen here: https:/
/getschooled.com/befamous/hip-hop-actwinners-round-one
Get Schooled, in
partnership with the
Taco Bell Foundation
for Teens, sponsored the
Challenge in districts
throughout the country
from October 7 to December 13, 2013.
Partnering with local
school districts and
backbone organizations
such as E3 Alliance, the
Challenge provided students with incentives
and fun, educational activities that engaged students while providing
college planning information and promoting a
peer culture that supports attendance improvement and academic success.
High absenteeism
has been a challenge in
Central Texas. Each
year, Central Texas students are absent 2.4 million days of school and
miss more days of
school than their peers
Saturday, January 25, 2014
from 8:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.
@ George Washington Carver
Museum and Cultural Center
1165 Angelina St., Austin, TX 78702
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director of Texas International and former
Mrs. Texas International
2012. “This is the kind of
system that rewards
women for who they are
and what they want for
themselves and their
families.”
No previous pageant experience is necessary, and there is no talent or swimsuit division. Married women
compete in interview,
fitness wear and
evening gown, where
they are escorted by
their husbands on stage.
Teen and miss contestants compete in interview, fitness wear and
evening gown, as well
as “fun fashion,” a category devoted to showing off their own personal style in an ageappropriate outfit of
their choosing.
“It’s all about cel-
ebrating women as they
truly are, and showing
a level of confidence as
they sparkle on-stage,”
said Hedstrom.
Mrs. applicants
must be married and
between the ages of 21
and 56 as of July 1, 2014.
Miss applicants must be
unmarried and between
the ages of 19 and 30,
and teen applicants
must be unmarried and
between the ages of 13
and 18 as of July 1, 2014.
The women selected as Miss Teen
Austin, Miss Austin
and Mrs. Austin will
serve as ambassadors
from the Austin area
with an official title and
sash. Other area titles
are also available.
The
women
crowned as Miss Teen
Texas International, Miss
Texas International and
Mrs. Texas International
2014 will each receive a
prize package valued in
the thousands of dollars
and the opportunity to
represent Texas at the
2014 Mrs. International,
Miss International or
Miss Teen International
Pageant in Florida in
July.
Mrs. Texas International 2013 Michelle
Berndt is a mom of two
and a fourth-generation
breast cancer survivor
who was crowned while
wearing a wig, a result
of her chemotherapy
and radiation treatments. She has spoken
across the southwest
and in the media about
her campaign against
cancer, and has been
featured in a documentary about her mission.
Miss Texas International 2013 Samantha
Riddle is an advocate
for heart disease awareness, and has lobbied
the Texas State Legislature, working closely
with the American
Heart Association and
serving myriad nonprofit causes, for which
she frequently makes
appearances. Miss Teen
Texas International 2013
Kylie Boyd is a student
at Texas Tech University, where she is also a
barrel racer. She has led
the Polar Bear Plunge at
Sea World of Texas, and
has shot forNational
Geographic magazine,
in which she will be featured later this year.
“The International
system allows women to
be at their best and to
chase their dreams,” said
Hedstrom. “It’s not about
fitting into an unrealistic
norm; it’s about helping
these women get to that
next level and do something meaningful and fulfilling. Competing is
about investing in who
they are, not trying to be
someone they are not. In
that, these girls find success.”
To request an application to represent
your area, please contact Rachel Hedstrom.
PV Mime and said it opened his eyes as to what
mime ministry is as opposed to theatrical miming.
He listed some of the benefits he gains from
participating, love, brotherhood, intercessory
Prayer, strength and humility, and a love for God
that has continue to grow
“Even when we don’t have our paint on we
are always ministering with our conduct and how
we live,” explained the 20 year old, who is believing by faith that he’s bound for the school’s Undergraduate Medical Academy.
For more information, or to donate to their
fundraising efforts, contact [email protected] or
visit www.pvmime.com.
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CITY ~ STATE ~ NATIONAL ~ WORLD
Now that the district line is set for the
Austin City Council,
there are numerous candidates who have declared their intention to
run for office. One of the
candidates running for
the Austin City Council
District 10 is Tina Cannon. Ms. Tina Cannon
is a partner at Napkin
Venture. Previously
Ms. Cannon served as
the CEO and the CoFounder
of
Pets
MD.Com that was acquired by another company. Furthermore she
served as the "Entrepreneur in Residence" at
Texas State University.
As the campaign
rolls out, Ms. Tina Cannon has already set
some core principles of
her campaign. Some of
the core principles as
stated by Ms. Cannon
are to enhance, "Many
growing local businesses and entrepreneurship; to ensure an
open and transparent
taxes and to impact
affordability issues; to
have city budget reviews; to promote affordable housing; to cut
wasteful spending; and
by Tsoke (Chuch) Adjavon
to have a building consensus among new district leaders." These are
some core principles
that she plans to elaborate on during the campaign.
Moreover, Austin
city council district 10
covers parts of Central,
North and North West
Austin area. According
to the census report,
District 10 is 86 percent
White; 2 percent Black;
9 percent Hispanic and
8 percent Asian." The
district includes neighborhoods like: Old
Enfield; and Bryker
Woods. Most Austinites
believe that the 10-1
Tina Cannon, contender for Austin City Council. plans offers the best
government; to increase servation; to protect our type of representation
financial accountability environment
and on the city county level.
at the City Hall; to fis- Austin’s unique culture; But now the question
cally have a responsible to repair our broken in- will people show up to
approach to energy con- frastructure; to reduce the polls.
Cannon Runs for
ACC District 10
Growing Ivorian Community
Good Hope
MBC 2014
Leadership
Conference
Please join Pastor
Michael Oyedokun, II
and church leaders at
Good Hope Missionary
Baptist Church for the
annual Leadership Conference on Saturday,
January 11, 2014.
Get ready for an
engaging learning journey as we discover the
art and science of effective communication.
The conference will begin at 9:00 a.m. and will
last until 2:00 p.m.
Lunch will be included
Mrs. Kobeman, Chantal Eldridge, and Mrs. Ndri at the Ivorian
and a donation of $5.00
Association New Year Eve event. Photo by Tsoke (Chuch) Adjavon
is encouraged. The
theme for the LeaderDuring this event, lies that are members of ship Conference is:
by Tsoke
the Ivorian Association the association. In addi(Chuch) Adjavon
Cultivating Christian
invited its members, tion, there are hundreds
Communication:
On New Year’s other African Diasporas, of other Ivorian living
"The Value of
Eve, the growing dignitaries, and poten- within the Central Texas
Knowing the Scoop"
Ivorian Diaspora held tial candidates running areas that include cities
an event that was meant for offices in Central like Waco, Killeen,
to build unity within Texas. Not only were Temple, Round Rock,
their community. In the Ivorian there, but there Pflugerville, Austin,
past 3 years, the nation were Africans of various Manor, and San Marcos.
of Ivory Coast has come countries such as Togo, In general, the African
out of a bloody civil war Cameroon, Guinea, Diaspora has been
that divided their nation Burkina Faso, and Nige- growing in Central
based on politics. More- ria. In addition, a poten- Texas due to the growover, this division was tial candidate like ing economy in the reEldridge gion.
reflected even within its Chantal
Moreover,
the
diaspora living in the showed up to the event.
1 Timothy 4:1 – 6; 1
United States. However For Chantal it was an Ivorian Diaspora has
now, the challenge of the opportunity to meet the been able to succeed Peter 3:13 – 16
Communication is
Ivorian Association is to ever growing Ivorian here in Central Texas.
continue to break the and African community Some members of the at the Heart of the MatIvoirian community are ter:
wall of division and to in Central Texas.
Encouraging othDuring the past de- business owners whose
unite all of its diaspora
that goes beyond politi- cade, the Ivorian com- businesses contribute to ers through the art of efcal belief or ethnic back- munity in Central Texas the tax base in Central fective communication
ground. So far, the has steadily been grow- Texas. Some members is important for a body
president of the Ivorian ing. According to the of the community are of Christians. And a
community has been president of the Ivorian professionals, while ministry is incomplete
bringing his community community, there are others are students in unless there is the presence of learning.
about 45 different fami- Central Texas.
together.
The Facilitator is
Lisa Pierce-Jones, who
Competition will take
works as a Corporate
place at the George
Trainer/Consultant in
Washington Carver
the Human Resources
Museum’s Boyd Vance
and Organizational DeTheatre on Tuesday,
velopment department
January 14, 2014 from
at TG.
The MLK Oratory 6:00 – 8:00pm.
FMI: 512.934.4601
MLK
Oratory
Competition
Texas
House
District
Voters
Will Cast
Ballot in
Special
Election
by Tsoke
(Chuch) Adjavon
On November 5,
2013 Central Texans
went to the polls to elect
a candidate to represent
the people living in the
their candidates at the
ballot box. For instance,
Democrats
chose
among Jade Chang
Sheppard, Rico Reyes,
and Celia Israel. In this
very much contested and
watched race, Celia Israel won. On the other
hand, the Republicans
chose Mike Van De
Walle.
Moreover, Governor
Perry has set the election
day of the Texas House
District 50 on January
28, 2014. The early voting period for this special
election is supposed to
be from January 20th to
January 24th and whoever wins will serve the
remainder of the State
Representative Mark
Strama's unexpired term.
In addition, each candidate will have to run
again in their own political party primaries.
Since both candidates Celia Israel
(Democrat candidate)
and Mike Van De Walle
(Republican candidate)
did not receive 50%, then
the race will go into a runoff. Moreover, the Texas
Celia Israel
northern parts of Travis
County which include
Jade Chang Sheppard
Rico Reyes
Pflugerville, parts of
North and North-West
Austin, and parts of
Manor. Democrats and
Republicans each had
the opportunity to choose
House District 50 is very
racially and ethnically diverse. Texas House District 50 is also considered to have various high
tech sector businesses
in Travis County. In addition it is considered to be
a swing district which
could be won by either
political party.
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Part of operating a
business profitably consists of managing your
tax reporting requirements correctly and
managing your tax bills
in the most advantageous ways. Non-compliance can, in some
cases, completely
cripple a business.
This class explores most common
tax situations that will
affect a small to medium size business.
You'll learn how to prepare and file taxes for
sales, payroll, franchise, federal income,
personal property, real
property, and non-Texas
returns. Taught by a University of Texas Adjunct
Instructor, the class
counts toward the sixcourse requirement to
get a Small Business
Success Skills Certification.
From 9 a.m. to 4
p.m. at the Entrepreneur Center. The is a
registration fee includes
light breakfast. Call for
more information.
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CLASSIFIEDS ~ PUBLIC INFORMATION
Bill O’Brien takes over the helm at the Houston Texans
By Terry Davis
Sports Media Caster
The Houston Texans after winning the
South division of the
American Football Conference (AFC) fired Gary
Kubiak after a going 211 this season. Defensive coordinator Wade
Phillips assumed the
title as interim head
with 3 games remaining
in the season.
Former Penn State
head coach and New
England Patriots offensive coordinator Bill
O’Brien was named the
third head coach in
Houston Texans franchise history by owner
Bob McNair, chief operating officer Cal McNair
and general manager
and executive vice president of football operations Rick Smith, it was
announced today.
O’Brien, who has
21 years of coaching ex-
perience at the college
and NFL levels, spent
the last two years leading Penn State to a 15-9
record. He was the Bear
Bryant, Maxwell Football Club and ESPN
National Coach of the
Year, as well as being
named the named the
Big Ten coach of the
year by the media and
coaches following his
first season at the helm
despite working under
extraordinarily difficult
conditions.
O’Brien took over
the head coaching duties from legendary
coach Joe Paterno, after
he was force to resign
after the Jerry Sandusky
scandal. From many
media reports and from
O’Brien himself, many
of the Paterno loyalist
never really accepted
him has the coach. Despite very hard NCAA
sanctions against Penn
State O’Brien was able
to be successful.
In O’Brien’s first
season at Penn State, the
Nittany Lions overcame
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Bill O'Brien (photo courtesy of USA Today SI)
heavy NCAA recruiting
sanctions, the transfer of
several key contributors,
a
four-year
postseason ban and the
negative attention that
came with it to post an
8-4 record. O’Brien also
served as offensive coordinator and directed a
unit that averaged 437.0
yards per game in conference play to the lead
the Big Ten and produced the conference’s
top rusher, receiver and
passer. O’Brien returned in 2013 to lead
the Nittany Lions to a 75 record and upset wins
against 18th-ranked
Michigan and 14thranked Wisconsin in the
season finale.
Prior to taking over
at Penn State, O’Brien
helped lead the New
England Patriots to a
pair of Super Bowl
berths in his five years
on staff with the team.
From 2009-10, O’Brien
served as quarterbacks
coach with the Patriots
before adding the duties of offensive coordinator in 2011. With
O’Brien directing the
offense in 2011, New
England led the AFC
with 32.1 points per
game and ranked sec-
World
Religion
Day
& The
Golden
Rule
the fellow man. In Christianity, the words, “Do
unto others as you
would have them do
unto you,” are found in
Luke 6:31. This scripture translates in Judaism to “What is hateful
to you, do not to your
fellow man. That is the
entire law; all the rest is
commentary.” Other religions have their own
versions of this verse or
maxim, and it is often
called The Golden Rule,
or the ethics of
reprocity.
In the United
States, the Protestant
faith (which includes
Christianity) is practiced by 61% with Roman Catholic following
at, 25% and Jewish at
2%. The remaining 12%
included those reporting to be followers of
another faith or none.
The
Protestant
movement was traced
back to Martin Luther,
who in the 16th century
is credited with publishing a thesis that included salvation, justification
and
ecclesiology.
According to the
World Religion Day
website, the aim is to
unite everyone, whatever their faith, by
showing us all that
there are common foundations to all religions
and that together we can
help humanity and live
in harmony.
The concept of
“world religion” is historically based on a subjective perception of
temporal or theological
importance, usually
from a Western, “Christian” (or at least
“Abrahamic”) perspective.
January 18, 2014
marks World Religion
Day across the globe.
The day was implemented in 1950 by the
Bahai faith. Their objective was to get followers
of the faith to observe
the day publicly wherever they might be.
While the celebratory
day encapsulates all religions, inarguably one
of the most common religious verses or quotes
across several religions
deal with treatment of
Austin Travis County
Integral Care is currently
seeking applications through
an open enrollment process
for each Request for
Application (RFA) shown
below:
· RFA for Non-Traditional
Community Based Support Services
· RFA for Licensed,
Certified Professional and
Counseling Services
The open enrollment process
begins January 6, 2014; the
deadline to submit an
application is April 7, 2014.
Please click on the link below
to download the RFA and
follow the submission
instructions in the RFA.
http://www.integralcare.org/
?nd=provider_rfa
If you have any questions
regarding the RFA, please
send an e-mail to [email protected].
ond in the NFL in total
offense (428.0 yards per
game) and passing
(317.8).
Quarterback Tom
Brady ranked second in
the NFL with a careerhigh 5,235 yards passing and wide receiver
Wes Welker (1,569
yards) and tight end
Rob Gronkowski (1,327
yards) both set career
highs while ranking first
and second, respectively, among AFC receivers. Gronkowski
also set an NFL singleseason record for tight
ends in 2011 with 17
touchdown receptions.
Brady was named NFL
MVP with O’Brien as his
position coach in 2010
after throwing for 36
touchdowns against
only four interceptions
and a league-best 111.0
passer rating. O’Brien
joined the Patriots’ staff
as an offensive assistant
in 2007 and was promoted to wide receivers
coach in 2008.
He began his
coaching career at his
alma mater, Brown University, in 1993 as a tight
ends coach before serv-
ing as inside linebackers
coach in 1994. O’Brien
spent the next eight
years at Georgia Tech,
rising from a graduate
assistant position from
1995-97 to assistant
head coach by 2002. He
coached the Yellow
Jackets’ running backs
from 1998-2000 and was
offensive coordinator
and quarterbacks coach
in 2001.
From
2003-04,
O’Brien served as the
running backs coach at
Maryland before taking
over as the offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach at Duke for
the 2005 and 2006 seasons.
Born in Dorchester,
Mass., O’Brien grew up
in the Boston suburb of
Andover and played
linebacker and defensive end at Brown from
1990-92. He graduated
with a double concentration in political science and organizational
behavioral management in 1992.
O’Brien and his
wife, Colleen, have two
sons: Jack, 11, and
Michael, 8.
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PROGRAMS ~ AWARENESS
Cover To Cover…‘Nothing to Lose’
By Terri Schlichenmeyer - Special to the NNPA from the New Pittsburgh Courier
“No” is definitely
not your favorite word.
You can’t stand to
hear it in any form. You
can’t stand to read it and
you very rarely say it.
You hate the word because it only means you
can’t have something
you want. That’s a word
you’ve removed from
your vocabulary.
So how far would
you go to get your
heart’s greatest desire?
In the new book “Nothing to Lose” by Angela
Winter, three friends
want what they want—
and they’ll destroy lives
to get it.
Sherise Robinson
was “demanding and
spoiled, and that was
the way she liked it.”
She’d grown up on in
Southeast D.C. and had
clawed her way to
where she was, working
with the man who
would surely be the
next President of the
United States.
Yes, she was at the
top of her game, but it
hadn’t been easy.
Sherise had slept with a
lot of men, both for revenge and for social position. It had almost cost
her marriage but she
and Justin had been in
therapy and were now
more in love than ever
before. Sherise only
hoped that would be
enough if, for some reason, the lid was ever
blown off the biggest
potential scandal of alltime.
It had been a long
year for Billie Carter, but
things were finally looking up.
She’d made a career-altering mistake at
her D.C. law firm, and
while the partners were
reluctant to fire her, she
knew they were relieved when she re-
have to work with her
ex-husband on a big
case. The first part
would be a piece of
cake. The second part
would almost ruin everything.
Erica Kent had discovered the truth about
her paternity by mistake. It was a bigger mistake to confront powerful Jonah Nolan about it
because now he wanted
to control her life, for
her own good, he
claimed. But Erica was
fully capable of making
decisions and finding
her own love. Wasn’t
she?
Oh, my. Where do
I begin?
Let’s start with this:
I fully believe there are
way too many characters in this book; eight
signed. After six months with strings attached. of them before you’re
of joblessness, though, Billie had to win over a even at the end of page
her old lawschool chum headhunter and, once three. Add in an exoffered her a plum job— she did that, she would tremely convoluted
tangle of infidelity that
ultimately matters little
to the storyline and
you’re off to a not-sogood start.
If it got better, I
would tell you. But I
can’t.
From this weak
opening, more characters are added: manipulators, alcoholics, liars,
sniping “girls,” not
much to like. The scandals are ho-hum, toss in
a silly faux-intrigue
story-with-a-story, and
it’s all quite hard to follow. No matter: I pretty
much stopped caring
long before the contrived ending is revealed.
There are better
books out there—some,
by author Angela Winters! but I just can’t recommend this one. You
may want to try “Nothing
to Lose” but I don’t see
anything to gain by it.
Number of
Black-Owned
TV Stations
Plummets to
Zero
By Joseph Torres and
S. Derek Turner
Special to the NNPA from
New America Media
affairs is the culmination of a trend that
started in the late 1990s
when Congress and the
Federal Communications Commission allowed massive consolidation in the broadcasting industry. This policy
shift crowded out existing owners of color and
ensured that it would
be nearly impossible for
new owners to access
the public airwaves.
Recent FCC actions (and
in some cases, inaction)
have only hastened this
decline in opportunities
for diverse broadcasters.
When Free Press
released its first report
on the state of TV own-
ership in 2006, we found
that there were only 18
African
Americanowned and operated
full-power commercial
TV stations – representing just 1.3 percent
of all such stations.
By December 2012,
those 18 had shrunk to
just five. And now
they’re all gone.
U.S. media – and barely
anyone noticed.
There are now zero
Black-owned and operWe just experi- ated full-power TV staenced a shameful mile- tions in our country.
This sorry state of
stone in the history of
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