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September 1, 2006
WETA MARKS HISPANIC HERITAGE MONTH
WITH A DOCUMENTARY ON
“RECALLING ORANGE COUNTY”
Mural in Santa Ana
(photo by Jim Bunoan)
A
documentary presents a modern travelogue in the
increasingly diverse Southern California County,
exploring themes of immigration and cultural
accommodation within the context of education
policy and politics.
From the Cinema Guild catalog: “Recalling Orange County” is
a personal and incisive look at the immigration debate through the
contentious recall of an immigrant rights activist in California and
the fierce conflict it sparked within the Latino community.
Once regarded as a wealthy, white, conservative enclave,
Orange County has become less predictable, less tidy, more diverse,
more interesting. In a word: Mexican. Filmmaker Mylene Moreno,
whose family moved there in the seventies, returned to reflect on her
youth as a daughter of immigrants and to see how much things have
changed. She discovered Orange County was in the midst of a furious battle, a divisive campaign to recall school district trustee Nativo Lopez from the Santa Ana Unified Board of Education.
A longtime advocate for undocumented immigrants, Lopez
angered many residents with his staunch support of bilingual education and his decision to build a school for children of recent
Mexican immigrants in an upscale neighborhood. The effort to remove Lopez from office, however, replete with charges of corruption (eventually dropped) and anti-Americanism, was started by a
group of second and third generation Mexican-American mothers,
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and though bankrolled by a multi-millionaire and onetime Republican candidate for Governor, drew much of its support from the
county’s more assimilated Latino population.
Incorporating interviews with current residents, including
Nativo Lopez and his adversaries, “Recalling Orange County” is a
fascinating chronicle of a political campaign that divided a community. The film attempts to understand the sources and repercussions of an at-times vitriolic battle, playing out in cities and towns
across the United States, over what it means to be an American.
The Documentary airs on WETA TV 26, Sunday,
September 3 at 1:30PM.
See page 12 for more on Hispanic Heritage Month
September 1, 2006
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Editorial
W
ednesday, the twenty-third of
April, was a perfect spring day.
If you had a chance to drive into
the countryside around the Washington
metropolitan area, you could see for miles
the wind moving through the tall green
grass like a comb through wet hair. A
sweater was in order, just in case you had to
move through areas where the sun was not.
Most Americans in these times of
uncertainty aren’t so much concerned about
what is politically correct as they are with
what is morally conscionable.
America’s views
are as varied
as the religions
that are practiced
in this country.
Regardless of how one might feel or
align oneself with the Bush administration,
there should be no doubt that every
American supports our troops who are not
only fighting in Iraq but also in Afghanistan,
the Philippines, and in countries of South
and Central America. And fighting does not
mean only guns and bullets, but also the war
against AIDS and other diseases.
The world
is in transition . . .
The downturn in the world economies
always gives rise to anxieties both nationally
and internationally. The rates of business
defaults and bankruptcies move one way or
another on the hinges of the economy.
To this writer it is important to
remember as the breeze combs the fruited
grains of the green wheat field now that
there is a decided need to comb our minds
of what America means to us. The yellow
ribbons that are so pronounced across
America in support of not only American
troops, one would hope, but also we hug (in
our minds at least) all the coalition troops
that are fighting alongside our military.
Every day
the world
is experiencing life
on the faces
of the dead . . .
And if there is a God in your heart and
in the lives of those barely living both
civilian and military who are living more on
hope than life . . . it is the total responsibility
of the people who care . . . the ones who tie
the yellow ribbons on trees and street lamps
on front porches and back doors and the ones
who also wear yellow ribbons on the left
sides of their minds. It’s their—no, its our—
responsibility to pull the cart by the handle
across a collective America that moves and
sometimes stands on stilled fruited plains,
waiting for the breeze of persuasion to either
move or push us off of our silence of
immobility:
Is war
the end
of the beginning?
We should remember that our
concerns are not closeted in ant houses but in
governments at all levels that provide health
and welfare for all in this American life.
The race for the next presidential
election has begun, and we as Americans
need to be ever vigilant that political parties
don’t package us like meat in packing
plants.
Courage is not
the sole domain
of the military . . .
Our soldiers fight for this country and
our freedoms mostly overseas, and the rest of
us are responsible for others’ freedoms here at
home through our United States Constitution,
Bill of Rights, and amendments.
Politics are inlaid in the American
psyche the way marble is on the surface of
a table. We need to make noises about our
country.
Every face
has a voice
be it audible
or sign language
but a voice . . .
We need
to use it
or
count on
losing it . . .
It’s important to delineate between the
breezes of spring, which comb our fields of
grain, and the hot air that often lingers like
stagnant cigar smoke in sunlit rooms . . .
—PDD
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September 1, 2006
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AROUND THE NATION
September 1, 2006
OP-ED
I
t is fitting that the most productive
nation on earth should have a holiday to honor its work. The high
standard of living that Americans enjoy
is hard-earned and well-deserved. But
the term “Labor Day” is a misnomer.
What we should celebrate is not sweat
and toil, but the power of man’s mind
to reason, invent and create.
Several centuries ago, providing the
basic necessities for one’s survival was
a matter of daily drudgery for most people. But Americans today enjoy conveniences undreamed of by medieval kings.
Every day brings some new useful
household gadget, or a new software
system to increase our productivity, or a
breakthrough in biotechnology.
So, it is worth asking: Why do
Americans have no unique holiday to
celebrate the creators, inventors, and
entrepreneurs who have made all of this
wealth possible—the men of the mind?
The answer lies in the dominant in-
TIME TO CELEBRATE
MAN’S MIND
Fredric Hamber
Special to The Metro Herald
tellectual view of the nature of work.
Most of today’s intellectuals, influenced by several generations of Marxist political philosophy, still believe
that wealth is created by sheer physical
toil. But the high standard of living we
enjoy today is not due to our musculature and physical stamina. Many animals have been much stronger. We
owe our relative affluence not to muscle power, but to brain power.
Brain power is given a left-handed
acknowledgement in today’s fashionable aphorism that we are living in an
“information age” in which education
and knowledge are the keys to economic success. The implication of this
idea, however, is that prior to the invention of the silicon chip, humans were
able to flourish as brainless automatons.
The importance of knowledge to
progress is not some recent trend, but a
metaphysical fact of human nature.
Man’s mind is his tool of survival and
the source of every advance in material
well-being throughout history, from
the harnessing of fire, to the invention
of the plough, to the discovery of electricity, to the invention of the latest
anti-cancer drug.
Contrary to the Marxist premise that
wealth is created by laborers and “exploited” by those at the top of the pyramid of ability, it is those at the top, the
best and the brightest, who increase the
value of the labor of those at the bottom. Under capitalism, even a man who
has nothing to trade but physical labor
gains a huge advantage by leveraging
the fruits of minds more creative than
his. The labor of a construction worker,
for example, is made more productive
and valuable by the inventors of the
jackhammer and the steam shovel, and
by the farsighted entrepreneurs who
market and sell such tools to his employer. The work of an office clerk, as
another example, is made more efficient by the men who invented copiers
and fax machines. By applying human
ingenuity to serve men’s needs, the result is that physical labor is made less
laborious and more productive.
An apt symbol of the theory that
sweat and muscle are the creators of
economic value can be seen in those So-
viet-era propaganda posters depicting
man as a mindless muscular robot with
an expressionless, cookie-cutter face. In
practice, that theory led to chronic
famines in a society unable to produce
even the most basic necessities.
A culture thrives to the extent that it
is governed by reason and science, and
stagnates to the extent that it is governed
by brute force. But the importance of the
mind in human progress has been
evaded by most of this century’s intellectuals. Observe, for example, George
Orwell’s novel 1984, which depicts a totalitarian state that still, somehow, is a
fully advanced technological society.
Orwell projects the impossible: technology without the minds to produce it.
The best and brightest minds are always the first to either flee a dictatorship
in a “brain drain” or to cease their creative efforts. A totalitarian regime can
force some men to perform muscular
labor; it cannot force a genius to create,
nor force a businessman to make rational
decisions. A slave owner can force a man
to pick peanuts; only under freedom
would a George Washington Carver discover ways to increase crop yields.
What Americans should celebrate is
the spark of genius in the scientist who
first identifies a law of physics, in the inventor who uses that knowledge to create a new engine or telephonic device,
and in the businessmen who daily translate their ideas into tangible wealth.
On Labor Day, let us honor the true
root of production and wealth: the
human mind. On Labor Day, we should
honor man’s mind, not men’s muscles, as
the real source of wealth and progress.
•
•
•
Fredric Hamber is a writer for the Ayn
Rand Institute in Irvine, Calif. The Institute promotes Objectivism, the philosophy of Ayn Rand—author of “Atlas
Shrugged” and “The Fountainhead.”
Contact the writer at media@
aynrand.org.
ONE YEAR AFTER KATRINA NEW IWPR REPORT
FINDS WOMEN EVEN FURTHER BEHIND
By Erica Williams
I
n honor of the first anniversary of
Hurricane Katrina, the Institute for
Women’s Policy Research announces the release of The Women of
New Orleans and the Gulf Coast: Multiple Disadvantages and Key Assets for
Recovery, Part II: Gender, Race, and
Class in the Labor Market. The report
provides a detailed analysis of
women’s economic well-being both before and after the devastation brought
by last year’s catastrophic storms. It
finds that while women in the area were
struggling long before Katrina came to
shore, their situations only worsened in
the storm’s wake. The report details
changes in women’s labor force participation, earnings, and presence in the
region following the storms. It uncovers a marked drop in women’s employment over the last year, low earnings,
and substantial wage gaps and high levels of occupational segregation across
both race and gender. The study provides detailed recommendations to address the region’s long- standing inequities as well as the new challenges
faced by women now struggling
valiantly to rebuild their lives.
Leading up to the anniversary,
IWPR released this report in dual press
conferences held simultaneously in
New Orleans, Louisiana, and Gulfport,
Mississippi. The press conferences
highlighted organizations actively
working to address the continuing needs
of women in the area, as well as notable
dignitaries, including Dr. Shanta Harrison Proctor, Executive Director of the
Louisiana Governor’s Office on
Women’s Policy, Louisiana State Representative Karen Carter, New Orleans
City Councilwoman Shelly Midura, and
Donna Yowell of the Mississippi Commission on the Status of Women. The
report has been featured widely in the
media including articles published by
the Associated Press, the Sun Herald,
and the Pulitzer-Prize-winning Times
Picayune and in news reports on New
Orleans’ WDSU Channel 6 News and
WWL Channel 4 Eyewitness News.
This report is the second in a twopart series published by IWPR that examines the effect of Hurricanes Katrina
and Rita on the region’s women. Part I,
Poverty, Race, Gender, and Class, analyzed poverty among women and people of color in the Gulf Coast more generally. It was released in October 2005.
REV. DR. DAVID EMMANUEL GOATLEY JOINS
NAACP NATIONAL BOARD OF DIRECTORS
T
he Rev. Dr. David Emmanuel
Goatley, Executive SecretaryTreasurer, Lott Carey Baptist
Foreign Mission Convention, has
been named a member of the National
Association for the Advancement of
Colored People National Board of Directors. Goatley was unanimously
elected to the Board during the 97th
Annual NAACP Convention held last
month in Washington, D.C.
Goatley, an ordained Baptist minister, oversees the administration and development efforts of Lott Carey, an international Christian relief and
development agency that has missions
in Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, Europe,
Oceania, North America and South
America.
Julian Bond, Chairman, NAACP
Board of Directors, said: “We are
proud to have Dr. Goatley on the
NAACP Board; he brings the same
compassion and respect for others to
our work that he does to his own.”
“It is a privilege and an honor to
serve on the board and be a part of an
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organization with such a rich and distinguished history,” said Goatley. “I
work in international settings and
have partnerships in 25 countries. I
believe I can make a contribution by
participating in policy level discussions. The NAACP is an inspirational
organization to people of color around
the world.” Goatley, 45, said he brings
with him an international network of
contacts that will benefit the NAACP.
The Lott Carey organization was
founded in 1897 by black Baptists
committed to foreign missions, especially in Africa. The Rev. Lott Carey,
born a slave in Charles City County,
Va. in 1780, purchased his freedom
and became one of the first American
and Baptist missionaries to Africa.
Later, he was named acting governor
of Liberia.
The organization recently held its
109th convention in Richmond, Va.,
where $450,000 was raised in one
evening to help launch new programs
in Rwanda, South Africa, Ethiopia
and Turkey.
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September 1, 2006
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AFRICA UPDATE
September 1, 2006
NO LIFE IN AFRICA WITHOUT . . .
bike to go home and
change. I did not tell
anyone about it until
after some time because I knew they
would laugh at me.
My father makes
sure that there is always at least one bike
at home; he prefers it
to a car because it does
not consume much fuel
and is efficient.
I left Africa last
September for greener
pastures, but when I return this year my motorcycle is waiting to
The boda boda is a popular mode of transport in Uganda
make rounds in and out
of the jammed, potn the new BBC competition for holed city roads.
Africa, listeners and readers deKENYATTA
scribe what they could not live
ROBERTS-KROMAH
without out on the continent.
Here entrants cannot imagine life
I cannot live without watching
without Nollywood movies, zippy Nigerian films, or Nollywood movies
boda bodas or a safe home.
as they are known I like them so much
because they portray exactly what hapSHIFAH NYIRANGOMA
pens in our African society; and not just
I cannot imagine life in Uganda what happens in the Western world.
without a boda boda - a motorcycle. In
Here are three examples:
the early 1990s, my father was an
•
No 1: How a mother-in-law will
agent for a motorcycle company in our
hate her daughter-in-law just bevillage. That was the time when coffee
cause she has not borne any chilwas at its highest boom.
dren; and how this will then lead to
Most of the roads in this area are inthe break-up of the unlucky couple.
accessible, so the only means of trans•
No 2: How blood relations will
port is a motorcycle. My dad even
hate—and envy—each other bebought one for my mother and all my
cause of greed.
brothers.
I did not have the chance to ride • No 3: How children are left to fight
among themselves for their parents’
one since I was in a boarding school,
wealth after they die
but I could not wait for holidays to ride
one of my brother’s bikes.
They also include many more inciMy love for bikes was encouraged dents that are common only in Africa.
during college life in Bangalore in India.
I admire the African dresses in
Everybody there owns a bike. People these movies and they also make me
park their cars in garages and only use laugh my worries away. I thank God
them over the weekends or for long trips. for the Nigerian film industry, and I
After I graduated and got a job in hope my country Liberia will improve
the city, jumping on a bike was the ob- at film-making too some day.
vious thing to do. My friends were not
RUTE ALEBACHEW ADEM
amused at first - a lady on a bike? But
Having fled from my violent huswith time they realized that it was one
of the most efficient ways of traveling band and cruel family in a rural village
in north-western Ethiopia, I experiin and out of the jammed city.
One day while heading to work on enced rape, harassment and forced sexmy usual bike, I fell off and soiled all ual intercourse with different people—
my clothes. I had to jump on the same young and old, rich and poor as well as
I
SOMALI RIVALS HEADING FOR TALKS
S
enior officials from Somalia’s interim government and its main rival,
the Union of Islamic Courts, have left for peace talks in Khartoum. The
UIC has controlled Mogadishu, the capital, since June, and has taken
control of much of south-east Somalia. The transitional government is confined to the town of Baidoa.
The long-delayed second round of peace talks is seen as the best chance to
break a deadlock in a country that has had no central government since 1991.
From the government side, a 16-member team led by interim government
speaker, Sharif Hassan Sheikh Aden, flew out of Baidoa on Monday on a special
plane, the BBC’s Mohammed Olad Hassan reports from the town. Before leaving for Khartoum, the speaker said that he was very optimistic about the talks,
which he said would lead to a “bright and better future for the Somali people”.
He added that, as neither the transitional administration nor the Union of
Islamic Courts, had “a hard-line attitude towards pacifying Somalia”, he was
confident that the two sides would resolve their differences.
A delegation from the Islamic courts is already in Khartoum, headed by
the executive leader, Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed.
East African diplomats have been trying for several months to bring the Islamists and the government together for talks. The issue of Ethiopian troops
in Somalia is likely to prove a thorny one, especially because the Islamic
courts union has just reiterated its demand that they withdraw from the country, our correspondent says.
Ethiopia supports the Somali government, though it has denied sending
troops to the country. The Islamic courts are opposed to the presence of an
African Union force in Somalia. It was rumored that an advance party of
Ugandan troops had arrived in Baidoa over the weekend, but the interim government spokesmen said they were not AU soldiers but a small group of
trainers, who had come to help improve Somalia’s fledgling police force.
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from police officers.
Then I worked as a child prostitute
waiting for my customers in the streets
of the capital, Addis Ababa.
In 1993 I was fortunate to meet
people who work in a Norwegian charity and who were ready to listen to my
life story and were ready to help me.
I am now living in Norway in a
two-roomed house rented from the
local municipality and I am getting a
college education.
I have experienced the difference
between homelessness and having a
home; the difference between darkness
and heaven; the difference between life
and death.
In a time when Ethiopia and other
African countries are being ravaged by
the HIV/Aids pandemic, I believe that
life without a house in Africa is like
having sexual intercourse without a
condom or travelling without a compass.
My house is now my husband, and
I could not live without it.
Nigeria movies make me laugh my worries
away
WAR CRIME CHARGE FOR CONGO REBEL
T
he leader of a Democratic Republic of Congo militia has become the first war crimes suspect to be charged at the International
Criminal Court.
Thomas Lubanga, who led the
Union of Congolese Patriots (UPC)
militia group based in eastern DR
Congo, is accused of recruiting child
soldiers.
International human rights groups
argue that charges of murder, torture
and rape should be brought against him.
The ICC was set up in 2002 to deal
with war crimes and genocide worldwide. Human Rights Watch (HRW)
and other international watchdog bodies welcomed the charges, but said
they did not go far enough.
“Enlisting, conscripting and using
children as soldiers in armed conflict
are serious crimes that should be condemned and appropriately punished.
However, much more is needed,” HRW
said in a statement addressed to the International Criminal Court last month.
“We believe that you, as the prosecutor, must send a clear signal to the
victims in Ituri and the people of the
DRC that those who perpetrate crimes
such as rape, torture and summary ex-
ecutions will be held to account,” the
statement said.
MORE CHARGES?
ICC deputy prosecutor Fatou Bensouda said the court had begun with
the charges related to child soldiers because evidence was available.
“This doesn’t mean the door is shut
to other crimes,” she told the BBC’s
Focus on Africa program.
“The office of the prosecutor is in
no way saying other offences were not
committed. But the quality of the evidence we have is also important.”
The Ituri region of eastern Congo
saw 66,000 deaths in six years of fighting between the UPC, based among the
Hema ethnic group, and rivals from the
Lendu ethnic group, partly for control of
Ituri’s large deposits of gold. Mr.
Lubanga was arrested in 2005 after nine
Bangladeshi UN peacekeepers were
killed in the volatile Ituri area. He
emerged as one of the most notorious
warlords in the civil war of the late
1990s. Soldiers under his command are
accused not just of murder, torture and
rape, but also of mutilating their victims.
In one massacre, human rights
groups say, Mr. Lubanga’s militiamen
Thomas Lubanga’s UPC has been battling
for control of Ituri’s gold
killed civilians using a sledgehammer.
At different times, the UPC was
backed by both Uganda and Rwanda DR Congo’s neighbors, which were
closely involved in its conflict.
The ICC has also issued its first arrest warrants for the leaders of
Uganda’s rebel Lord’s Resistance
Army, who are currently in talks with
the Ugandan government, which has
offered them amnesty. It is also investigating alleged war crimes in Sudan’s
Darfur region.
The existence of the court is
strongly opposed by the United States,
which fears its troops could face political prosecutions.
LIBYA AIMS TO BECOME A TOURISM PIONEER
L
ibya is aiming to position itself
at the forefront of African
tourism. This objective has become more evident with the country’s
participation at the upcoming TourismAfrica conference to be held this
September 19–21 in Geneva, Switzerland.
To establish its commitment to this
objective, Libya is promising to showcase its tourism offerings at the upcoming Geneva conference.
At the helm to help Libya accomplish its goal and make strong presence
at the TourismAfrica conference is
eTurbo Communications (eTC).
eTC, in cooperation with Expoforce, is organizing a new 150 square
meter stand for Libya, highlighting a
new era of tourism and image for
Libya.
In addition, eTC will serve as the liaison between Libya and the attendees,
including the media. As part of this
role, eTC will be organizing Libya’s
press briefings as well as other events
during the conference.
Emerging as prominent player in
Libya’s tourism industry is Suleiman
Abbout, owner of Sari Travel (in
Tripoli), who has steadfastly worked to
connect the vision of Libyan tourism
officials with the private industry. That
dedication from the beginning is now
facilitating the country’s entry to the
global travel and tourism marketplace.
Libya’s tourism industry in recent
years has been at the verge of becoming a major tourism player in the
global arena. In March this year when
Libya was the site of a total solar
eclipse, the country facilitated its
largest tourist-drawing event ever. For
the event, the Libyan government said
it has issued as many as 7000 visas for
spectators from 53 countries.
The event has helped generate interest in the Libya government to move
forward and expand the visibility of its
tourism industry.
Libya offers a vast array of tourist
lures. Its rich heritage dates back to the
beginning of humanity and boasting
proof of old world civilizations such as
prehistoric artwork and engravings in
rock shelter of Tadrart Acacus. Evidence was also left by the Phoenicians,
Greeks, Romans, Byzantines and Ot-
tomans in Libya. The country’s magnificent attractions include Sabratha,
Leptis Magna and Cyrene.
Tourists looking to enjoy Libya’s
beaches can take comfort in the fact
that the country has 1700 kilometers of
unspoiled beaches. In addition, natureloving tourists will find one of the
world’s most popular deserts in
Libya—the Sahara, where mountains,
oases surrounded by palm trees are
found.
Libya has also become a stop for
cruises. Currently, Oceania Cruises,
Travel Dynamics and Clipper Cruise
Line have added Tripoli in their itineraries.
Libya wants to boost its current
300,000 per year visitors to ten.
THE METRO HERALD
AFRICA UPDATE
September 1, 2006
COFFEE ‘KEY TO
RECONCILING RWANDANS’
ECSTATIC KENYAN WELCOME
FOR US SENATOR
T-SHIRTS
Sarah Hussein Obama gave her grandson
a tearful welcome
By Muliro Telewa BBC News,
Nyangoma Kogalo
U
S Senator Barack Obama was
received in his father’s rural
village of Nyangoma Kogalo,
in western Kenya near the shores of
Lake Victoria, like a long-lost king
who has returned home to claim his
crown. As the Illinois Democratic senator entered his family’s compound surrounded by both Kenyan and US security - his grandmother Sarah Hussein
Obama could not hold back tears of joy
as she hugged him.
It was Mr. Obama’s first visit to
Nyangoma Kogalo in Nyanza province,
where his father was born, since his
2004 election to the US Senate. Local
women, dressed in their colorful
clothes, sang and ululated as he used his
left hand to wave at them and held onto
his grandmother tightly with his right.
The security teams struggled to
keep uninvited members of the press
out of the compound, as Senator
Obama, followed closely by his wife
Michelle, two daughters and a niece,
walked towards his uncle’s house to
greet the family elders. But an old lady
in her 70s weaved her way through the
guards, grabbed hold of the politician’s
hand and only released him after he had
danced with her to the cheers and applause of several hundred people who
had made their way into the compound.
Thousands of other onlookers were
kept out of what the Obamas had said
was a private function.
Before Mr. Obama’s arrival on Saturday afternoon, his grandmother admitted to me that she usually had trouble communicating with him. “My
grandson does not understand Luo or
Kiswahili and I cannot speak English,
so I need a translator to talk to him,” she
said. But as he moved around the compound, he kept nodding to his grandmother saying, “Ero kamano” (meaning
in Luo: “thank you very much”).
The Luo tribe of his late father, who
are the majority in Nyanza province,
were celebrating in style.
They had printed T-shirts, mainly in
bright yellow, and one would have
been forgiven for thinking that Senator
Obama was conducting a presidential
campaign in Kenya.
In fact, although most of T-shirts
were emblazoned with the slogan:
“Welcome home Senator Obama”,
there were a few that read: “Obama for
President.” I asked those wearing them
if they wanted Mr. Obama, who is the
son of a Kenyan father and an American mother, to be president of Kenya or
the United States. “It does not matter.
If he becomes the president of Kenya,
fine! If on the other hand he wins the
American presidency, it is all right
too,” one of the young men quipped.
BEER CHEER
Earlier, addressing a public rally attended by thousands of people, Senator
Obama stated that he was a US citizen
and senator to the American people.
However, he said that he wanted to assist some young people from his father’s homeland to attain their goals.
“It is people of Nyangoma Kogalo who
assisted my father to achieve his academic goals,” he explained.
During his busy one-day tour of
Nyanza province, Mr. Obama publicly
went into a Voluntary Counseling and
Testing Kiosk, accompanied by his
wife, for an HIV test. After taking their
NIGERIA
SETS
APRIL
ELECTION
DATES
N
igeria has
announced
that elections to choose a
successor to President
Olusegun
Obasanjo and a
new national asPresident Obasanjo’s term in office ends next year
sembly will be held
on 21 April 2007. Voting for state governors and regional assemblies
will take place on 14 April. The Independent Electoral Commission
chairman said preparations for the elections were progressing well.
This could mark the first successful democratic transfer of power
from one civilian president to another since Nigerian independence in
1960.
President Obasanjo will have served two terms, the maximum allowed under the constitution, since being elected in 1999.
It is not clear who will be in line to succeed Mr. Obasanjo, who has
denied favoring any particular successor to the presidency. Vice-President Atiku Abubakar, who opposed moves to change the constitution
so as to allow Mr. Obasanjo a third term, is believed to be seeking the
nomination of the governing People’s Democratic Party (PDP).
Former military ruler Ibrahim Babangida - also a PDP member, and
seen as close to Mr. Obasanjo - has announced his intention to stand for
the presidency, though not necessarily on a party ticket.
THE METRO HERALD
Senator Obama’s HIV test results will be
sent to the US embassy
The coffee industry is improving community relations
C
Hundreds of people crowded into the
family compound to greet the senator
blood, the medical officers promised to
send the results of their HIV status
through to the US embassy in Nairobi.
Nyanza has one of the highest HIV
infection rates in Kenya, but most people are unwilling to go to the test centers to find out their status.
Mr. Obama also visited two schools
next to his grandmother’s compound,
both of which have changed their names
in his honor to Senator Barack Obama
Nyangoma Primary School and Senator
Barack Obama Nyangoma Secondary.
And although Mr. Obama’s Kenyan
tour has come to an end, the makers of
a local beer called Senator are still
reaping in the rewards of all the free
publicity. When people go into a bar
here, they simply ask for an “Obama”,
and the waiter knows what to bring.
offee is being used in Rwanda
to relaunch the economy as
well as heal old wounds following the genocide.
The Rwandan government is encouraging the creation of coffee plantations where people from both sides of
the ethnic divide work together. This
daily contact is seen as a means of
speeding up reconciliation by fostering
relationships and building communities.
Hutu militias killed some 800,000
Tutsis and moderate Hutus during the
1994 genocide. Aimee Umuhoza and
Beatrice Karigirwa are two of 100
women working at a coffee plantation
in the capital Kigali, picking and
cleaning beans.
UNDERSTANDING
Aimee, who lost both her parents in
the conflict, said she needs to work to
support her younger brother and sister.
While the pay is low, she says the
coffee plantation is playing an important role in uniting people. “I have
been here for two years,” she told the
World Service’s Outlook program.
“I can’t hate. Even those who killed
my parents later died so why should I
create more enmity by sowing hatred.
Here, we are friends because we have
the same problems.
ZIMBABWE
DEFENDS LACK
OF HOUSING
A
Zimbabwe government minister says there is no truth in a
report by Church leaders that
heavily criticized the state’s housing
demolitions last year. Church leaders
said in a report that almost nothing Thousands of dwellings were destroyed
had been done to house 700,000 peo- last year
ple who lost their homes and livelihoods in the demolitions.
Operation Murambatsvina, which the government said was a drive to
clean up cities, was also condemned by the UN.
Minister Didymus Mutasa said the church report was “absolutely not
true”. Asked how many new houses had been built, Mr. Mutasa replied: “I
can’t tell you the number immediately, I will have to check. But everyone in
the country whether affected by Murambatsvina or not is being considered for
decent housing.”
He also denied claims made in the report by the church-based Solidarity
Peace Trust that most of those people expelled from the cities had since returned. “People cannot have been living in thin air. They must be living
somewhere,” he said. The report claimed that people in the cities had been
crowded into those houses that had not been demolished.
“In some houses, people now co-exist in around one square meter per person of floor space,” the report states.
Catholic Archbishop Pius Ncube, chairman of the Solidarity Peace Trust,
told the BBC that the government had failed to live up to its promises. “They
themselves said that they would construct 300,000 houses,” he said. “They’ve
constructed a few hundred houses and none of them have been occupied.”
The report said that out of more than 100,000 displaced people in the west
of the country, not one person has been officially housed by the government.
The informal economy, which was targeted by Operation Murambatsvina, is
still in disarray a year after the operation, according to the report.
Coffee production fell sharply following
the civil war
“Even the women whose husbands
have been in prison as genocide suspects or children like me whose father
are genocide suspects—we understand
each other, we don’t have any quarrels.”
Fellow worker Beatrice Karigirwa’s
husband and most of her relatives were
killed in the genocide. She has one surviving brother who is in the army. “My
job has given me hope for a better future and enables me to live peacefully
with other women,” she said. “After
the war, I didn’t want to live with anyone because of what was done to me.
But as time went on and as I lived with
people here, I gradually healed.”
She said hearing the stories of fellow workers, some of whom have no
family left, has helped the healing
process. “I know my problems are not
the worst,” she said.
“Coffee has played a big role in the
progress of this country. We live in harmony with Rwandans from different
areas.
“If we all stayed at home we would
all be thinking in the same way as before but coming to work in the coffee
industry has taught us a lot.”
HIGH-GRADE COFFEE
Rwanda has decided to concentrate
on specialty coffees—which became
popular in the US and Europe in the
1990s—and to sell them through fair
trade deals.
In 1990, Rwanda exported 45,000
tonnes of coffee a year, but that plummeted following the conflict. With
competition growing from newcomers
such as Vietnam, the government has
decided to focus on high-grade coffee
with the aim of returning to 1990 production levels by 2010.
Fatuma Ngangiza, of Rwanda’s
Unity and Reconciliation Commission
set up in the wake of the genocide, underlined coffee’s importance to the
country.
“You don’t reconcile in a vacuum,”
she said. “There must be a practical
program, there must be something that
brings people together.
As they work together, cleaning the
coffee, they talk together so they start
talking business but later they start
talking family affairs. It fosters relationships and reconciliation.”
7
CAPITAL COMMENTS
September 1, 2006
WEBB SURGES AHEAD OF
ALLEN IN LATEST WALL
STREET JOURNAL/
ZOGBY POLL
A
ccording to an independent
Wall Street Journal/ Zogby
poll released over the weekend, Democratic candidate for U.S.
Senate Jim Webb has pulled ahead of
Senator George Allen. The poll puts Jim Webb
Webb at 47.9% and the incumbent Allen at only 46.6%.
The Zogby poll is the third poll released in the last week
that shows Webb within the margin of error and the first
to show him ahead of Allen.
The Journal called this most recent survey a “sharp
swing” in favor of Jim Webb. The poll, conducted
from August 15 -21, has a margin of error of +/- 3.2 percent.
“We have always maintained that the more Virginians learned about the real George Allen the more they
would know he isn’t right for Virginia,” said Webb
spokesperson Kristian Denny Todd. “George Allen has
shown his true colors and now more than ever Virginians are saying his values don’t match up with theirs and
he should go.”
In contrast, Webb’s message on foreign and domestic issues has caught on across the Commonwealth. In
the past two weeks, Webb has delivered a major address
laying out a clear vision for our nation’s national security, was honored by the 1st Marine Division Association as “one of the great leaders of the Vietnam generation,” and was endorsed by the Virginia AFL-CIO, the
Commonwealth’s largest labor organization.
“Jim Webb is the natural choice,” said Denny Todd.
“Jim’s message of economic fairness, accountability
and national pride has resonated with many Virginians
who want to see this Commonwealth and our country
head in a new, positive direction.”
Jim Webb is a decorated Marine, former Secretary of
the Navy and Assistant Secretary of Defense, best-selling
author and award-winning journalist.
8
HOYER ON COURT OF APPEALS
EARLY VOTING DECISION
C
ongressman Steny H. Hoyer (DMD) recently released the following statement in response to the
Maryland Court of Appeals ruling that early
voting in Maryland is unconstitutional.
“While I respect the Court of Appeals’
ruling with regard to early voting, I disagree
with it.
“We should be doing everything in our
power to facilitate voting in our state and
nation. Instead, this makes exercising the
franchise more difficult.
“Nearly half of all states use some form
of early voting, according to the National
Conference of State Legislatures, including
the state of Texas, among the most Republican-leaning states in the union. It has
proven to be a secure and convenient option for eligible voters who for whatever
reason cannot vote on Election Day.
“Unfortunately, Maryland voters will be
deprived of this option in November.”
HOYER STATEMENT ON ONE
YEAR ANNIVERSARY OF
HURRICANE KATRINA
C
ongressman Steny H. Hoyer (DMD), who is on a trip through the
Gulf Coast this week, released the
following statement in observance of the
first anniversary of Hurricane Katrina:
“Today is a somber day for our nation.
It is a time to grieve for those who died in
Hurricane Katrina and in the flood waters
that followed. It is a time to recommit ourselves to those who lost all that they possessed. It is also a time to assess our
progress in rebuilding.
“Democrats are visiting the Gulf Coast
this week to demonstrate once again our
commitment to aiding the survivors of Hurricane Katrina. I am disappointed by the
slow delivery of the help that was promised,
but heartened by the optimism and determi-
nation of those who
have been forced to rebuild their lives.
“One year ago, our
nation was shocked by
images of Americans
stranded in flood waters
and left without food
and water for days.
The government’s incompetence infuriated Rep. Steny Hoyer
(D-MD)
the country, and it fundamentally altered Americans’ views of
their leaders.
“Despite their frustration, Americans
rallied to the side of their fellow citizens.
But the job is far from finished. As the
young people at Chalmette High School
sang today, 525,600 minutes ago disaster
struck the Gulf Coast, and it has not yet
been made whole. We must marshal all the
resources of this wealthy nation to rebuild
the lives and dreams of our fellow Americans.”
SAMPLE BALLOTS BEING MAILED TO ALL REGISTERED VOTERS
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n September 2, the Montgomery County Board of Elections will begin mailing sample ballots for the September 12 Gubernatorial
Primary Election to all registered voters in Montgomery County. Voters should review sample ballots carefully for the following
information:
The polling place name and address;
Instructions on how to use the Touchscreen voting machines;
Directions on how to use the review screen on the Touchscreen voting machines prior to casting ballots; and
Screen shots of the ballot that will appear on Touchscreen voting machines.
Voters may experience lines at their polling places, particularly during peak hours immediately before work, 7:00–9:00AM, during the
lunch hour 11:00AM–2:00PM, and immediately following work, 5:00–7:00PM. To facilitate the voting process, the Board of Elections encourages all voters to mark their sample ballot in advance of arriving at their polling place.
For further information on the voting process, call 240-777-VOTE.
THE METRO HERALD
September 1, 2006
COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA’S
UPDATE ON
SMALL, WOMEN, AND
MINORITY BUSINESS PARTICIPATION
IN STATE PROCUREMENT
he Commonwealth of Virginia is pleased to provide you with an update on
the utilization of Small, Women- and Minority-owned (“SWAM”)
businesses participating in State procurement activities. The graphs below
show the progress of the Commonwealth’s SWAM procurement initiative,
which includes data from the 4th quarter of the 2005-2006 fiscal year.*
By way of background, the 2004 Commonwealth Procurement Disparity Study,
which examined the procurement practices of the Commonwealth from 1998-2002,
uncovered a significant disparity between SWAM businesses and non-SWAM
businesses being awarded state contracts. During the Study period, women and
minorities obtained approximately 1.27% of the Commonwealth’s business, while less
than _ of 1% (0.44) of state contract dollars were awarded to people of color. Today,
progress has been made. Overall, there were increases in spending with women-
T
owned and small businesses through the 4th quarter of the last fiscal year.
Commonwealth spending during the 4th quarter with women-owned businesses
increased by 0.2% (from 1.83% in 2005 to 2.03% in 2006), and spending with small
businesses (non-women or non-minority) also increased by almost 1% (from 9.25% in
2005 to 10.20% in 2006). Commonwealth spending with minority-owned businesses
also increased by 0.27% (from 2.02% in 2005 to 2.29% in 2006).
A comparison of year-to-date expenditures for 2005 and 2006 shows an increase
in minority and women participation in State contracting. In 2005, minority-owned
businesses received 1.79% ($83,961.00) of state business compared to 2.24%
($99,069.00) in 2006. Women-owned businesses received 1.69% ($78,927.00) in 2005
compared to 2.29% ($100,990.00) in 2006. Small businesses received 10.59%
($495,621.00) in 2005 compared to 9.41% ($415,275.00) in 2006.
Governor Tim Kaine recognizes the importance of maximizing the participation
of small, women, and minorities in the vast array of commercial opportunities
available in state procurement. Executive Order Number 33 (2006) was recently
signed into effect by Governor Kaine to ensure that all businesses and owners have an
equal opportunity to share in state procurement. Some examples of the Executive
Order’s requirements include: small business set aside program (which include
businesses owned by women and minorities meeting the small business definition),
small business development program, implementing small business enhancement tools
such as the unbundling of selected State contracts, increasing SWAM participation on
small procurements under $5,000, and the early posting of potential contract
opportunities.
The Commonwealth’s SWAM participation numbers, however, are a reflection of
several factors: (1) the ability of the Commonwealth of Virginia to craft policies and
procedures that remove the impediments and barriers to SWAM participation
(especially as it relates to people of color and women); (2) the willingness of
purchasing officers to adhere to those policies and procedures and the willingness of
the Commonwealth to penalize those that do not; and (3) the readiness of businesses
owned by people of color and women to become SWAM certified and eVA registered.
SWAM certification and eVA registration are particularly important because it
makes businesses more attractive to agency purchasing officers who are now being
graded on their SWAM participation numbers. Becoming SWAM certified and eVA
registered allows SWAM businesses to be featured on a source list from which state
procurement officials select vendors. It is a very important step for Virginia’s Small,
Women- and Minority-Owned businesses: BECOME SWAM-CERTIFIED AND
eVA REGISTERED TODAY!
For more information on becoming SWAM certified or to be registered on eVA,
please visit the Virginia Department of Minority Business Enterprise’s website at
www.DMBE.Virginia.gov or call 804-786-5560. The DMBE website has a wealth of
information as well as the online applications for certification as a SWAM vendor.
THE METRO HERALD
*Data does not include subcontracting dollar amounts.
9
HEALTH & WELLNESS
September 1, 2006
25 YEARS LATER:
AIDS AND THE FORGOTTEN VICTIMS
Young, vulnerable children in Lesotho,
Africa, receive food, learning
opportunities and support.
S
cience has taken important steps
toward treating the condition in
the 25 years since the first cases
of a nameless, deadly disease now
known as the human immunodeficiency virus were recorded in the U.S.
The problems of one group affected by
the disease, however, need addressing
in a different way.
Over the last quarter century, the
tragic story of HIV/AIDS has often
been told-but the story of children orphaned by this disease is often forgotten. Without mothers, fathers, doctors
and community leaders, millions of
children are left unprotected and deprived of a normal childhood. Children
are suffering because the world has not
recognized that the disease is wreaking
havoc on childhood.
The AIDS pandemic is unraveling
decades of progress for children.
School enrollment, immunization rates
and child survival around the world are
suffering significant reversals because
of the impact of AIDS.
To date, an estimated 15 million
children worldwide have been orphaned by HIV and AIDS. In Sub-Saharan Africa, the world’s hardest-hit
region, eight out of 10 orphans lost
their parents to AIDS. Meanwhile, in
Latin America and the Caribbean, it is
estimated that 752,000 children have
lost one or both parents to the disease.
Through its Unite for Children,
Unite Against AIDS campaign,
UNICEF (United Nations Children’s
Fund) hopes to record significant
global progress in addressing
HIV/AIDS by 2010. UNICEF’s goal is
to prevent mother-to-child transmission of the disease by offering services
to 80 percent of women in need; increase pediatric treatments to 80 percent of children in need; reduce the
percentage of young people living with
HIV by 25 percent; and reach 80 percent of the world’s children most in
need with support services.
In 2001, UNICEF and the Kimberly-Clark Corporation partnered to
support children orphaned and made
vulnerable by AIDS in Sub-Saharan
Africa and Latin America. The $5.2
million pledged by Kimberly-Clark
has helped UNICEF to ensure orphans
are fed, protected and educated. The
evidence of the effects of these pro-
grams can be measured one child at a
time, such as Werner, a bubbly 3-yearold who was brought to San Jose Hospice in Guatemala by his mother, who
later died from HIV/AIDS. Through
UNICEF-supported programs at the facility, Werner is receiving food, medicine and other supplies, which are
helping him to grow up strong and
healthy. Soon he will be going to
school.
“The fight against the HIV/AIDS
pandemic is not an easy one. Through
successful partnerships like our relationship with Kimberly-Clark, we can
bring hope to children affected and infected by HIV/AIDS and offer them a
brighter future,” said Charles J. Lyons,
president of the U.S. Fund for
UNICEF.
Although Sub-Saharan Africa receives the most attention regarding
HIV/AIDS, there are many other areas
of the world that are at a crucial juncture in their response to the disease. For
example, now is a pivotal time to address HIV/AIDS in China. The country
has seen unprecedented economic
growth, but the social stigma of HIV
and AIDS is still very negative. Given
that 20 percent of the world’s 10-to-24year-olds live in China, ensuring the
health and well-being of the world’s
children cannot be accomplished without considering this country.
The estimated 530,000 children in
China who have lost one or both parents
to AIDS, or who are living with parents
who are currently ill, are often outcast
from their schools and ostracized by
their communities-and they fall victim
to inadequate social services.
Recognizing this, UNICEF and
Kimberly-Clark have expanded their
partnership to China to ensure that
children
made
vulnerable
by
HIV/AIDS have the opportunity to
lead normal lives. The goal is to keep
orphans in loving, caring families and
communities, and to provide them with
access to education, health services,
medicines and psychological support
in the face of negative social stigma.
Together with the Chinese government, UNICEF has launched a campaign to help to reduce the shame and
discrimination of the disease through
awareness efforts and to protect those
children who have been orphaned and
made vulnerable by HIV/AIDS. Kimberly-Clark support of this campaign
will help to provide subsidies for
school fees, summer camps and a
youth ambassador program. The company will also help to fund UNICEFestablished Red Ribbon Centers in
local communities, where vulnerable
children and families receive care and
support through education, training
and income-generation activities.
For more information, visit
www.unicefusa.org.
THE AUSTIN-WESTON
CENTER FOR COSMETIC SURGERY
HOSTS BLOOD DRIVE
T
he Austin-Weston Center for Cosmetic Surgery is hosting their third
annual community blood drive with the American Red Cross on Saturday, September 9 from 9:00AM– 1:30PM at the Austin-Weston
Center in Reston, Virginia. Please join their staff in this yearly tradition of
donating blood to help honor the victims of September 11. Please call their
office at 703/893-6168 to schedule your life-saving donation or visit
www.austin-weston.com to register.
10
MEDELA, ZUTANO AND MOTHER OF 7 CONNECT WITH
WORLDWIT TO SUPPORT NURSING MOMS IN THE WORKPLACE
W
orldWIT™ (www.worldwit. org), the world’s largest
community for professional
women, announced today its partnership with three industry leaders in
women’s and babies healthcare products, education and fashion in honor of
National Breast Feeding at Work Week,
September 4-8, 2006. The annual
week-long holiday was introduced by
WorldWIT in 2005. The relationship
will unite Medela (www.medela.com),
the most trusted breast pump manufacturer in the world, Zutano (www.zutano.com), a leader in children’s innovative fashion and Mother of 7
(www.motherof7.com), one of the foremost breast feeding advocates in the
U.S. with WorldWIT, an award-winning
opinion leader for women in business.
These sponsorships offer exclusive access to first rate content, teleseminars, a
complete guide for companies who seek
resources and ideas on how to support
nursing moms, a pledge for those who
seek continued support, and the Rumina
Award for the top companies who support nursing moms.
As a longtime champion of breast
feeding, Medela works with the
world’s leading lactation researchers to
develop the most advanced and effective products to support nursing mothers and breast feeding babies. Most
recently, Medela introduced 2-Phase
Expression®, the only research-based
breastpump technology that mimics a
baby’s nursing rhythm, resulting in
faster let-down and milk flow. The
company’s Corporate Lactation Program was the first workplace program
to meet the needs of working mothers
who breast feed their babies.
“Medela’s breast feeding group exists to enhance mother and baby health
through the life-giving benefits of
breast milk, which is why we are
TAKING MEDICINE IS
NOW EASIER FOR KIDS
WITH SWALLOWING
DIFFICULTIES
pleased to be a sponsor of this year’s
event,” says Susan S. Sperling, Director Marketing Communication & Services for Medela. “Our broad range of
programs for nursing mothers closely
parallel the objectives of WorldWIT’s
National Breast Feeding at Work Week,
which is why this program is a natural
fit for our company,” she continued.
Zutano’s mission is to celebrate and
cultivate child individuality in all aspects of their business practices and
development.
They are committed
to support, nurture and cultivate programs that give back, including: educational enrichment programs for children, reproductive rights to women,
end childhood hunger, regional scholarship fund, clothing drives and breast
feeding educational programs such as
WorldWIT’s National Breast Feeding
at Work Week.
“Our Zutano ‘bring your baby to
work’ program has been so successful I
would like to see other companies who
can support their employees to breast
feed or pump in the workplace create
effective systems,” remarks Michael
Belenky, President of Zutano children’s clothing. He continues, “We
have found at Zutano when the health
and well being of our children and parents are taken care of, everyone wins.”
Mother of 7, Inc. equips expectant
and new mothers, educators, advocates,
individuals, organizations, businesses,
employers, and employees with the
most comprehensive, up-to-date, and
highest quality breast feeding video series on the market, designed with various choices for time and budget.
“As a fulltime working mother of
seven breastfed children, including
twins and a child with special needs, I
want to share my wealth of professional
and personal knowledge about the innumerable benefits of exclusive, long term
breast feeding for the baby, mother,
family and society,” says Stephanie
Scholz Neurohr, founder and CEO of
Mother of 7, Inc. “World authorities and
experienced mothers, fathers, and fami-
W
hen children are sick, they
often have to take medicine
in order to get better. But
when a child has difficulty swallowing
a pill, the cure may be worse than the
symptoms, leaving both the child and
parents upset and frustrated.
This difficulty in swallowing,
called dysphagia, is found in about 40
percent of children with developmental problems, such as prematurity,
mental retardation, ADHD, autism and
cerebral palsy. Designed for those with
dysphagia, the Oralflo Pill Swallowing
Cup(TM) is a breakthrough medical
device that can make the difference in
getting a child to take his or her medicine or vitamins. Designed by Heilos, a
former medical products engineer for
Johnson & Johnson, the Pill Swallowing Cup alleviates the discomfort and
anxiety associated with pill-taking and
proves itself a vital accessory for doctor’s offices, hospitals, group homes,
daycare centers and concerned parents.
The unique design of the Oralflo Pill
Swallowing Cup also eliminates the
need to cut and crush pills so they can
be swallowed whole, which is required
for time-released and coated pills. The
cup is a professional healthcare product
that is patent pending, trademarked and
registered with the FDA as a Class III
medical device. It is available at
www.oralflo.com for $11.95.
lies from around the globe add further
insight, bringing cutting-edge breast
feeding education and instruction to not
only the WorldWIT members but to
their families and friends, all at the click
of a button,” she continued.
WorldWIT intends National Breast
Feeding at Work Week to become an
event widely recognized by businesswomen, as well as companies small
and large around the nation. The objectives of National Breast Feeding at
Work Week are:
• To promote full participation and
equality for nursing women in the
workplace;
• To educate women who are deciding whether to breast feed or pump
milk upon returning to work after
giving birth;
• To describe the major factors involved in making the choice to breast
feed upon heading back to work;
• To publicize the achievements of
businesses that have made breast
feeding accommodations and offer
their nursing mom employees a private space, reasonable breaks, access to a lactation consultant, etc. To
learn more about our Rumina award,
visit our site: www.worldwit.
org/RuminaNominations. aspx.
• To offer businesses the opportunity
to become a Milk Works Employer
that pledges to do more in the support of nursing-mom employees
(http://www.worldwit.org/BreastfeedingPledge.aspx).
WorldWIT founder, former Fortune
500 VP of Human Resources, mother
of five and award-winning entrepreneur, Liz Ryan openly discusses tips
for working moms and employers on
her Business Mom blog—www.
worldwit.org/Blogs.aspx:
For more information on National
Breast Feeding at Work Week visit
www.worldwit.org or contact Kristi
Hughes at 215/816-2954 (or email
[email protected]).
PAINFUL TEETH
CAN HAVE EFFECT IN CLASSROOM
D
“
o your teeth hurt?” It’s not a question one expects to hear from a
teacher trying to troubleshoot poor academic performance, but perhaps it ought to be.
Each year more than 50 million school hours are lost by students whose
dental-related illnesses cause them to stay home or seek professional care. In
cases where pain is not intense enough to keep children out of school, it might
still distract them in the classroom.
“Poor oral health is a very real distraction and can cause some children to
have a difficult time participating or concentrating in the classroom,” said
George Levicki, DDS, President and CEO of Delta Dental of Virginia.
With a new school year approaching, Levicki urges parents and other caregivers to help children maintain good oral health. Along with promoting the
basics of dental hygiene such as brushing after every meal and flossing daily,
he also suggests parents think about scheduling that next regular dental
checkup for their kids.
In between visits to the dentist, caregivers also should monitor children’s
oral health or changes in behavior that might signify pain or discomfort.
“Parents should regularly check children’s mouths for any signs of concern,” Levicki said. “They should look to see whether gums are bleeding,
swollen or bright red. Persistent bad breath or gums that have receded from
the teeth could also be signs of oral infection.” Such signs warrant a discussion or appointment with a dentist.
Packing healthy lunches and limiting the consumption of sugary beverages
can also help parents prevent problems associated with childhood tooth decay.
“Untreated dental diseases can cause chewing problems, which in turn
could restrict a child’s ability to get all the necessary nutrients from food,”
Levicki said. “Left untreated, cavities, gum disease or other oral infections
might not only distract students in class, but could eventually impair speech
development and even hinder social development.”
For more information visit www.deltadentalva.com.
THE METRO HERALD
HEALTH & WELLNESS
September 1, 2006
FACING UP TO A TROUBLING HABIT:
THUMB-SUCKING
DISPELLING MIGRAINE MYTHS FROM FACT
A
lthough there are 29.5 million
migraine sufferers in the US,
many people who are not affected by this legitimate health condition continue to believe commonlyheld
myths
about
migraine.
According to the National Headache
Foundation (NHF), some of the more
common myths are as follows:
MYTH: CAFFEINE CANNOT
HELP RELIEVE A MIGRAINE
These photos show improvement in a thumb-sucker’s bite after a short course of
interceptive orthodontic treatment. Later comprehensive treatment will fully align
the teeth.
T
hese commonly asked questions about how thumb- and finger-sucking can affect a child’s teeth will let parents know that such problems
may be corrected with orthodontic treatment.
Q. At what age should a child be seen by an orthodontist?
A. All children should have a checkup with an orthodontist no later than age
7. An orthodontist can detect orthodontic problems due to oral habits at
this checkup. Treatment to correct an oral habit such as thumb- or fingersucking may intercept the development of a problem and may make treatment at a later age shorter or less complicated.
Q. How is the problem usually corrected?
A. Problems caused by an active thumb-sucking habit can be corrected
through appliances such as a tongue crib or a palate expander. Consult
your orthodontist for information about a particular child’s correction.
Q. How long does the correction take?
A. It can take as little as a few months. The patient will wear a retainer for a
time following this correction.
Q. Will the patient require further orthodontic treatment?
A. After the permanent teeth come in, full braces may need to be placed to
fully align teeth.
Parents interested in additional information on orthodontic treatment may
obtain a free video, “A Smile That’s Good for Life,” by calling the American
Association of Orthodontists’ (AAO) toll-free information line 1-800STRAIGHT (1-800-787-2444). The video may also be viewed online at
www.braces.org in the “Want a Beautiful Smile” section.
Orthodontists are dental specialists concerned with the diagnosis, prevention and treatment of dental and facial irregularities. Orthodontists graduate
from dental school, then further their education with two to three years of
university-based training in an orthodontic residency program. Only those
who have completed this education may call themselves “orthodontists,” and
only orthodontists may be members of the AAO.
For more information about orthodontic treatment for children and adults,
visit www.braces.org.
CAREFIRST BLUECROSS BLUESHIELD
NAMES LISA KRAUS VICE PRESIDENT
OF MEDICAL AFFAIRS
C
areFirst has named Lisa Kraus, R.N., to the position of Vice President of Medical Affairs. In her new role, Kraus’ responsibilities
will include oversight of CareFirst’s care management programs
for members, case management, medical appeals and regulatory compliance.
Kraus joined CareFirst in 1988. In her 18 years with the organization,
Kraus has served as Manager of Utilization Management and most recently as Director of Care Management.
“CareFirst has a strong commitment to providing its members with the
highest quality care,” said David D. Wolf, CareFirst Executive Vice President for Medical Systems and Corporate Development. “Lisa has played
a strong role in strengthening our ability to meet the health care needs of
our members and we expect great contributions from her in her new position.”
Kraus has a nursing degree from Towson University and is certified as
a case manager by the Case Management Society of America. She is a
resident of Churchville in Harford County, MD.
In its 71st year of service, CareFirst, an independent licensee of the
Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association, is a not-for-profit health care
company which, through its affiliates and subsidiaries, offers a comprehensive portfolio of health insurance products and administrative services
to nearly 3.4 million individuals and groups in Northern Virginia, the District of Columbia, Maryland and Delaware. Through its CareFirst Commitment initiative and other public mission activities, CareFirst supports
efforts to increase the accessibility, affordability, safety and quality of
health care throughout its market areas.
To learn more about CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield, visit www.carefirst.com.
THE METRO HERALD
Fact: For certain migraine sufferers, caffeine is a migraine inhibitor, for
others it is a trigger. Keeping a
headache diary can help determine
whether caffeine helps or hurts your
migraine. Caffeine is found naturally
and as an additive in coffee, tea, chocolate, cola, certain soft drinks, and some
pain relieving and acute migraine medications.
MYTH: MIGRAINES ARE NOT
TRIGGED BY STRESS
Fact: Stress is a commonly recognized trigger of migraines. Stress can
be physical or emotional. It can be
good or bad. It is an unavoidable part
of modern life.
Events causing emotional stress can
trigger a migraine headache. Migraine sufferers are thought to have
highly sensitized brains. In times of
emotional stress, certain chemicals are
released that provoke the vascular
changes that can cause a migraine
headache. Factors related to stress include anxiety, worry, shock, depression, excitement, and mental fatigue.
After a stressful period there may be a
letdown which can, in itself, trigger a
migraine headache.
MYTH: REGULAR EXERCISE
MAY NOT HELP REDUCE
MIGRAINE FREQUENCY
Fact: For those who suffer from
chronic, recurring migraines, exercise
can either provoke an attack or lessen
the frequency and severity of these
headaches. If exercise or physical
strain induce a headache, it is important to see a healthcare provider. Maintaining a regular exercise program can
reduce the number of headaches and
contribute to overall good health.
MYTH: DIETARY
SUPPLEMENTS CANNOT BE
HELPFUL IN MIGRAINE
TREATMENT
Fact: Those suffering from frequent migraines may have a low magnesium level. Magnesium has a relaxant effect on smooth muscle, such as in
blood vessels. Daily supplementation
of 500 - 750 mg increases the body’s
magnesium level. Riboflavin (Vitamin B2) assists nerve cells in the production of ATP, an energy producing
substance, which is essential for many
chemical reactions to occur in the
body. High doses of riboflavin (400
mg. is recommended) may reverse
cells’ “energy crisis” during migraine
attacks.
MYTH: MIGRAINES ARE NOT
TRIGGERED BY A
LACK OF SLEEP
Fact: Migraine can be triggered by
lack of sleep. Go to sleep at the same
time every night and wake up the same
time each morning, including on weekends. This maintains the body’s natural
circadian rhythm.
MYTH: MIGRAINES CANNOT
BE TRIGGED BY EXPOSURE
TO SMOKE, ODORS OR
PERFUME
Fact: Certain fumes and vapors can
initiate a migraine headache. Perfumes are also often a culprit. Being
in public places which are smoke-filled
or poorly ventilated can result in the
onset of a migraine.
MYTH: MIGRAINES DO NOT
RUN IN FAMILIES
Fact: Migraines can be hereditary.
If one parent has migraine, the child
has a 50 percent chance of having
them. If both parents have them, there
is a 75 percent chance the child will
develop migraine and if even a distant
relative has migraines, there is a 20
percent chance the child will also experience them.
“Because migraine is an often misunderstood disease, it is important to
dispel myths that may contribute to the
confusion,” said National Headache
Foundation
Executive
Director
Suzanne E. Simons. “It is our hope
that this effort will further the understanding that migraine is neuro-biologic disease.”
For more information on headache
causes and treatments, visit www.
headaches.org or call 1-888-NHF5552 (M-F. 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. CST).
WOMEN WITH RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS
LESS LIKELY TO GO INTO REMISSION
R
heumatoid arthritis, one of the
most common forms of arthritis, is an autoimmune disease
that affects more than two million
Americans. The overwhelming majority of patients are women, according to
the Arthritis Foundation. New research
presented at the Annual European Congress of Rheumatology reveals further
gaps between the sexes in this often
debilitating disease. Swedish researchers report that women are less
likely to go into remission, or experience an absence or decrease in symptoms, after being treated for the disease.
The reason for the sex differences
is not entirely understood. Although
disease activity was similar between
men and women in the study at the
start of treatment, “women had a much
lower remission rate than men,” the researchers noted, while also calling for
more research to investigate the gender
discrepancy.
Rheumatoid arthritis involves the
immune system, which attacks joint
tissue and causes inflammation and
permanent joint damage. The most
common physical symptoms of
rheumatoid arthritis include stiffness,
predominantly in the morning or when
sitting for a long time, fatigue, difficulty moving, joint swelling and pain.
Patients often experience pain and
swelling of joints in corresponding
points on both sides of the body. In
some cases, people with rheumatoid
arthritis have nodules or bumps under
the skin. The disease affects everyone
differently and can be mild or severe.
Like other autoimmune diseases,
rheumatoid arthritis predominates in
women. “Women are affected with
autoimmune diseases collectively
more than men,” says Virginia Ladd,
president and executive director of the
American Autoimmune Related Disease Association. “More research is
needed to look into why women are afflicted more than men.”
Because many more women are affected by the disease, hormonal influences are likely to be involved. Most
studies agree that the development of
rheumatoid arthritis depends on the interplay of several factors.
“The sex ratios probably do not reflect hormones only,” explains
Michael Lockshin, M.D., professor of
rheumatology at the Hospital for Special Surgery at Cornell Medical Center
in New York City. “There is a real
possibility that exposure difference to
some unknown stimulus accounts for
at least some of the sex ratios.” In
other words, maybe some biological or
environmental trigger affects men and
women differently.
Genetic risk factors make some individuals more susceptible to the disease, but genetics does not tell the entire story. Research published this
month in the Annals of the Rheumatic
Diseases indicates that smoking nearly
doubles the chance that a woman who
does not have a genetic risk factor for
rheumatoid arthritis will develop the
disease.
There is currently no cure for
rheumatoid arthritis and treatment
varies from person to person. One of
the main objectives of treatment is to
control a person’s symptoms and if
possible, bring about remission.
Treatment can involve medication,
physical and occupational therapy,
counseling and in some cases, surgery.
There are new treatments on the horizon, “these are mostly biological interventions,” says Lockshin, or drugs that
modify the immune system’s response.
Because women are less likely to
go into remission, patients need to be
followed carefully so that their symptoms are controlled. The researchers
call for “reinforced vigilance in the frequency and quality of follow-up in
order to achieve optimal suppression
of the inflammatory process in all patients, regardless of gender.” Other
studies have shown that early diagnosis and proper management can slow
the progression and damage of the disease.
Source: Society for Women’s Health
Research
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HISPANIC HERITAGE MONTH 2006
September 1, 2006
WETA TV 26 PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS—HISPANIC HERITAGE MONTH 2006
September 2
90 MILES, A WETA INDEPENDENT CUT (11:15PM)—A personal
memoir of a man who came to America from Cuba in the 1980 Mariel
boatlift spotlights the historical forces
at work in his life.
MAID IN AMERICA, A WETA
INDEPENDENT CUT (12:15AM)—
A film follows three of the thousands
of Latina immigrants working as nannies and housekeepers in Los Angeles,
revealing the challenges they face as
they pursue the American Dream.
CHAVEZ RAVINE: A LOS ANGELES STORY, A WETA INDEPENDENT CUT (1:15AM)—Narrated by Cheech Marin, a film
spotlights a lost downtown Los Angeles Mexican-American community,
razed in the 1950s to build Dodger Stadium.
September 3
RECALLING
ORANGE
COUNTY, A WETA INDEPENDENT CUT (1:30PM)—A documentary presents a modern travelogue in
the increasingly diverse Southern California County, exploring themes of immigration and cultural accommodation
within the context of education policy
and politics. (WETA TV 26 PREMIERE)
NOCHE DE MARIACHIS, A
WETA INDEPENDENT CUT
(2:30PM)—A concert filmed live in
Las Vegas at the Aladdin Theater for
the Performing Arts celebrates Mexico’s independence day with Mariachi
music. (WETA TV 26 PREMIERE)
September 5
VISIONES: LATINO ART AND
CULTURE Episode 1 of 6.
(1:30AM)—A series of journeys
throughout the country illuminate the
world of Latino artistic expression.
Spotlighted are the Latino Mural
Movement of the 1960s, Nuyorican
spoken word and editorial cartoonist
Lalo Lopez.
his run-in with the law and his path to
redemption—impeded by immigration
policy. (WETA TV 26 PREMIERE)
SANTO DOMINGO BLUES: LOS
TÍGUERES DE LA BACHATA, A
WETA INDEPENDENT CUT
(2:30PM)—A documentary tells the
story of singer-songwriter Luis Vargas
and bachata, the Dominican guitar
blues that rivals Merengue and Salsa in
popularity in the Latin American
world. (WETA TV 26 PREMIERE)
THE REPUBLIC OF BASEBALL: THE DOMINICAN GIANTS
OF THE AMERICAN GAME, A
WETA INDEPENDENT CUT
(10:30PM—Ten percent of Major
League Baseball players, and many of
its superstars, hail from the Caribbean
island nation of the Dominican Republic. A film explores the story of members of the first generation of Dominican baseball stars. (WETA TV 26
PREMIERE)
PANCHO GONZALES: WARRIOR OF THE COURT, A WETA
INDEPENDENT CUT (11:30PM)—
A film profiles world-class tennis
player Ricardo Alonzo “Pancho” Gonzalez, from his early successes to his
retirement at age 47. (WETA TV 26
PREMIERE)
September 12
VISIONES: LATINO ART AND
CULTURE Episodes 2 & 3 of 6.
(1:00AM)—Spotlighted are the Puerto
Rican Traveling Theater Company
(PRTT) of New York, Tejana musical
artist Selena and the Santero art tradition of New Mexico; the Texas Day of
the Dead Celebration and the image of
the Virgen de Guadalupe as a Latina
icon.
September 19
VISIONES: LATINO ART AND
CULTURE Episodes 4 & 5 of 6.
(1:00AM)—Spotlighted are New
York’s Latino hip hop dance and culture, Miami’s Afro-Cuban sound and
Taco Shop Poets of Southern California.
September 22
THE BRONZE SCREEN, 100
YEARS OF THE LATINO IMAGE
IN HOLLYWOOD CINEMA, A
WETA INDEPENDENT CUT
Episodes 1 & 2 of 2. (10:00PM)—Images of Latinos on the silver screen
evolved from one stereotype to another, but by the 1960s, the Latino acting community evidenced powerhouse
talent, including Academy Award-winners Rita Moreno and Anthony Quinn.
(WETA TV 26 PREMIERE)
Moreno, a 66-year-old Mexican man
who has traveled to the U.S. since the
1960s to work in farm fields. (WETA
TV 26 PREMIERE)
September 26
VISIONES: LATINO ART AND
CULTURE Episode 6 of 6.
(1:30AM)— Spotlighted are the history of salsa music and dance in
Philadelphia, the first Mexican-American Prima Ballerina Evelyn Cisneros,
Tejana music pioneer Lydia Mendoza
and Chicano music artist Lalo Guerrero.
September 23
THE LIFE AND TIMES OF
FRIDA KAHLO (10:45PM)—An
Emmy-nominated documentary coproduced by filmmaker Amy Stechler’s Daylight Films and WETA frames
the life of the Mexican artist in relation
to the historical and cultural influences
that created her, exploring her art and
her radical politics. Rita Moreno narrates and Mexican singer Lila Downs
provides the voice of Kahlo. (WETA
TV 26 ENCORE PRESENTATION)
FARMINGVILLE, A WETA INDEPENDENT CUT (12:15AM)—A
documentary examines the attempted
murders of two Mexican day laborers
in a Long Island town, exploring the
debate over illegal immigration and the
pursuit of the American Dream.
September 24
YANK TANKS, A WETA INDEPENDENT CUT (10:30PM)—A film
examines the enduring popularity of
classic 1950s American cars in Cuba
and the way they serve as beacons of
individuality for their owners. (WETA
TV 26 PREMIERE)
THE GUEST WORKER, A
WETA INDEPENDENT CUT
(11:30PM)—A film spotlights the
United States’ little-known H2A
Guestworker program, relating the
story of Don Candelario Gonzalez
September 27
NUESTRA FAMILIA/OUR FAMILY, A WETA INDEPENDENT CUT
(10:30PM)—A documentary examines the struggles faced by Latino families in overcoming the influence of
California’s violent Norteño street
gang and its prison-based counterpart,
Nuestra Familia. (WETA TV 26 PREMIERE)
Moreno siblings (photo courtesy of
Mylène Moren)
September 30
MAQUILAPOLIS (CITY OF
FACTORIES), A WETA INDEPENDENT CUT (11:04PM)—A film follows two women’s experience at work
in the massive sweatshops known as
maquiladoras along the U.S.-Mexican
border as they contend with labor violations, environmental devastation and
urban chaos. (WETA TV 26 PREMIERE)
LOS ANGELES NOW, A WETA
INDEPENDENT CUT (12:04AM)—
A film explores America’s secondlargest city, a megalopolis that is the
most multicultural city in the world.
LA SIERRA, A WETA INDEPENDENT CUT (1:00AM)—A film
follows the lives of three young people
living in a Medellín, Colombia, neighborhood ruled by violence and a group
of teenage paramilitants.
Frida Kahlo at Casa Azul, her blue house
(photo by Nickolas Muray)
September 9
DEVIL’S MINER, A WETA INDEPENDENT CUT (11:15PM)—A
film follows two young brothers in Bolivia who work long shifts in the Cerro
Rico silver mines, braving deadly conditions to earn enough money to attend
school. (WETA TV 26 PREMIERE)
LOS TRABAJADORES, A WETA
INDEPENDENT CUT (12:15AM)—
A film follows two day laborers in
Austin and a battle over the city’s controversial local day-labor program, exploring the contradictions that haunt
America’s dependence on and discrimination against immigrant labor.
September 10
SPLIT DECISION, A WETA INDEPENDENT CUT (1:30PM)—A
film follows the story of talented Chicano boxer Jesus Chavez, relating his
life as a youth in Chicago’s inner city,
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September 20
LALO GUERRERO: THE ORIGINAL CHICANO, A WETA INDEPENDENT CUT (10:30PM)—A
film-appreciation profiles the father of
Chicano music, Lalo Guerrero, who
has inspired three generations with
music that combines pop with the
Mexican-American and Chicano experience. (WETA TV 26 PREMIERE)
September 21
FROM MAMBO TO HIP HOP: A
SOUTH BRONX TALE, A WETA
INDEPENDENT CUT (10:30PM)—
A music-filled film documents how
one New York City borough produced
some of the most influential music
styles in America. (WETA TV 26 PREMIERE)
Mural in Santa Ana (photo by Jim Bunoan)
THE METRO HERALD
September 1, 2006
THE METRO HERALD
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EDUCATION
September 1, 2006
CAT IN THE HAT STATUE TO BE UNVEILED
FOR FIRST TIME TO BENEFIT
READING IS FUNDAMENTAL
FCPS ADULT AND COMMUNITY EDUCATION FALL AND
WINTER COURSE REGISTRATION UNDER WAY
R
egistration is now under way
for fall and winter classes—
from September to December—offered by Fairfax County Public
Schools (FCPS) Office of Adult and
Community Education (ACE). The
ACE course catalog, ACE Classes,
Etc., is available at ACE registration
centers and at all Fairfax County public libraries and is in the mail to Fairfax
County residents. Class information
may be viewed online at www.
fcps.edu/aceclasses.
ACE will introduce four new career
certification programs this fall:
• court reporting using the stenomask
and voice reporter software.
• fitness specialist for older adults.
• health unit care coordinator.
• professional personal chef.
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bring the magic of books and the joy of
reading to the children who need them
most. Each collector purchasing the
Oh, The Stuff You Will Learn print will
receive a certificate of literacy commemorating their contribution to RIF.
Presenters at the September 9, reception will be: Bill Dreyer, Curator
for the art of Dr. Seuss and Patricia A.
Cornell, Vice President for Marketing
and External Relations, Reading Is
Fundamental.
The connection between generations of young (and not so young!)
Seuss lovers is well established and
grows stronger with each passing year.
This exhibition new works from the
Seuss collection that have never before
been shown in the Washington, DC
area.
The lovable, mischievous Cat in the
Hat reappears in Seuss’s book I Can
Read with My Eyes Shut. This time he
takes a Young Cat in tow to show the
fun that can be had from reading. The
Oh, the Stuff You Will Learn print that
generates a donation for RIF is taken
from an image in the book I Can Read
With My Eyes Shut.
The P&C Art Gallery may be
reached at 888/299-6783. Visit www.
pcart.com for more information.
SCHOOL BOARD
SOLICITING
NAMES FOR
NEW CENTRAL
OFFICE
T
he Fairfax County
School Board is in the
process of naming the
new central office facility located at 8115 Gatehouse Road
in Falls Church, Virginia. The
Board invites employees, both
active and retired, as well as
any resident of Fairfax County
to participate in the naming of
the facility.
For details and to submit a
name suggestion, visit www.
fcps.edu/news/name.htm
The deadline for name suggestions is September, 15.
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• how to improve one’s cash flow.
• small businesses tax considerations
and compliances.
• technical writing.
• writing for profit.
• Linux+.
• Security+.
• software development.
• Spanish for healthcare providers.
• video production.
• how to become a real estate settlement agent.
Other new courses include the appreciation of Chinese art, black-andwhite darkroom printing, flower and
garden photography, dietary considerations for celiac disease, writing screen
adaptations from novels, and selecting
a contractor for home renovations and
projects. Several new culinary classes
also join the lineup: cooking instruction for the extremely clueless, Indian
lentils and curries, fondues, and how to
give dinner parties.
New online offerings include
courses in preparing for college-level
writing (learning proper spelling and
syntax and writing essays and research
papers).
ACE, now in its 52nd year of operation, provides high quality, convenient, and affordable education to the
community. ACE classes help individuals meet educational, career, and life
enrichment goals and are held in a variety of settings—traditional classroom, computer lab, art studio, online,
and in the field. ACE also customizes
instruction to meet the needs of organizations on site.
HIGHLAND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL SOARS ON MSA SCORES
Dr. Seuss “Oh, the Stuff You Will Learn”
he first large scale statue of the
beloved childhood book character The Cat in The Hat will
be unveiled for the first time on September 9, here in Georgetown. The
event at the P&C Gallery on M Street
will mark a new relationship between
The Art of Dr. Seuss and Reading Is
Fundamental (RIF), the nation’s
largest and oldest nonprofit children’s
and family literacy
organization, to benefit young readers. The 50th anniversary of the 1957
publication of Dr. Seuss’ The Cat in
The Hat will be celebrated in 2007.
The P&C Gallery event will take
place from 6:30-9:00PM on Saturday,
September 9, with a reception for a
new gallery exhibition of Dr. Seuss art,
including the first tribute sculpture
from a collection paying homage to
Seuss’ beloved books and characters.
During the reception, a large scale,
four-foot-tall bronze sculpture of the
Cat in the Hat will be unveiled for the
first time at the gallery. Only 60 of the
statues will be produced and sold.
Portions of the proceeds from the
sale of the Dr. Seuss sculpture and
other Dr. Seuss art (including a limited
edition print of Oh, the Stuff You Will
Learn) will be donated to RIF to help
New career-oriented courses coming this fall include:
S
tudents at Highland Elementary
School posted tremendous gains
on the Maryland School Assessment (MSA) this year, enabling the
school to leave Maryland’s list of
schools in need of improvement. The
progress at this school with high
poverty levels has been possible
through the concentrated efforts of a
dedicated staff that has helped student
scores rise by more than 40 percentage
points over the last three years in some
areas.
Last week, the Maryland State Department of Education announced that
Highland made Adequate Yearly
Progress (AYP) for the second consecutive year, which means that the school
has been removed from the state’s corrective action list under the provisions
of the No Child Left Behind (NCLB)
Act.
As of this year, no MCPS schools
with high poverty (Title I) are on
NCLB school improvement or corrective action lists. In five years, MCPS
has moved from 10 to zero Title I
schools identified for improvement.
This is particularly noteworthy, given
the large size of the school district and
the high poverty rates, mobility rates,
and percentage of English language
learners enrolled in MCPS Title I
schools. MCPS is the only large
school system in the nation without a
single one of its high poverty schools
on a state’s “needs improvement” list.
In 2006 at Highland, nearly 78 percent of third graders were proficient in
reading, compared with only 46 percent in 2005. Students in all grades
showed marked improvement over the
2005 test scores.
“This is a significant achievement
for students, staff, and families at
Highland,” said Dr. Jerry D. Weast, superintendent of schools. “A range of
effective strategies was used by the administration and staff at the school,
with support from the central office administration, to provide students with
the focused instruction and support
that helped each student achieve at a
higher level.”
Seventy-four percent of Highland’s
students are Hispanic, and nearly 57
percent qualify for the subsidized meal
program.
Highland Elementary School—
Strategies to Improve MSA Scores:
• Increased use of small group instruction at all grades, especially in
upper elementary grades
• Targeted staff development in literacy areas to improve reading instruction.
• Greater flexibility in use of reading
materials.
• Full Inclusion of Special Education
and ESOL
• Access to mainstream curricula in
math and reading.
• Daily meetings with ESOL specialists for instruction for English
learners correlating with mainstream objectives.
• Appropriate accommodations for
eligible students
• Monthly test-taking with designated accommodators to help students develop a relationship with
the accommodators.
• More accommodations, including
dictation, offered to English learners than in previous years.
• Increased time accommodations for
some English learners.
• Frequent data reviews with all staff
• Increased informal and formal observations by administration.
• Weekly team planning for all
grades.
• Formative and summative testing
with data monitoring and analysis
in reading and math, with re-teaching.
• Monthly Steering Committee oversight from Office of School Performance, Office of Curriculum and
Instructional Programs, and Office
of Organizational Development
• Revised discipline policy to improve student behavior and attendance
• Before- and after-school MSA
clubs
For more info: 301/279-3391, or
www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org
STAY ALERT: 800 SCHOOL BUSES ROLL
ON SEPTEMBER 5
O
n Tuesday, September 5, eight hundred Prince William County
school buses will roll, some as early as 6:00AM, to pick up children
and take them to the county’s 85 schools. About 51,000 of an estimated 70,000 students will be transported by bus. The safety of students on
buses depends on the willingness of motorists to follow laws concerning
school buses.
By law, motorists must stop when a school bus is stopped with its red
lights blinking and stop sign extended, except when the bus is on the opposite
side of a median strip. Motorists must also stop if the bus is loading or unloading children and the signal devices are not functioning properly. Passing
a stopped school bus is considered reckless driving and carries a fine of $250.
“School buses are the safest form of ground transportation on this planet,
and we want to keep it that way,” said Edward Bishop, Director of Transportation Services for Prince William County Public Schools. Most fatalities
and major injuries associated with pupil transportation occur when students
are struck by motorists who are attempting to pass school buses while students are being loaded or discharged. These traffic violations usually occur either unintentionally, because motorists do not understand traffic laws regarding school buses, or intentionally because they become impatient.
“I encourage all motorists to review and obey the laws concerning school
bus safety. To those thousands of citizens who know and obey these laws, I
ask for your continued support in the coming school year,” Bishop said.
Motorists should be particularly alert during the early morning and midafternoon hours when school buses are on the road. Prince William County
high schools open at approximately 7:30AM and close at approximately
2:00PM The hours for middle schools are approximately 8:20AM to 2:50PM
and elementary schools open between 8:45 and 9:20AM and close between
3:15 and 3:40PM Opening and closing times vary according to school to better utilize the School Division’s school buses and drivers.
THE METRO HERALD
EDUCATION
September 1, 2006
TOUR THE WHITE HOUSE WITH JOHN PHILIP SOUSA
YOUNG LEADERS LEARN LESSONS OF
LEADERSHIP AT 2ND ANNUAL
NISSAN STUDENT GOVERNMENT
LEADERSHIP PROGRAM
F
Y
oung visitors to the Marine
Band’s
website,
www.
marineband.usmc.mil, will
discover the newly-designed Kid’s Corner, a behind-the-scenes musical adventure through the White House. The site
features colorful artwork, historic photographs, informal interviews with
members of “The President’s Own,”
and a guided virtual tour conducted by
an animated John Philip Sousa, Marine
Band Director from 1880-1892.
The band was a fledgling ensemble
of instruments when President John
Adams moved into the unfinished
White House and asked the Marine
Band to perform at his New Year’s reception on Jan. 1, 1801. “The President’s Own” has been a permanent fixture at the White House ever since,
performing there more than 300 times
annually. Through its performances,
the Marine Band has had front row
seats as history unfolded at the most
famous address in America. Sousa’s
tour points out those pivotal moments
and explains the unique relationship
between “The President’s Own” and
the President’s home.
Designed as a fun educational tool
for students and teachers, Sousa’s tour
begins in the Grand Foyer, where visitors may click on the marble floor to
learn about famous guests who danced
to Marine Band ensembles or on the
Christmas tree to read about holiday
music performed at the White House.
Visitors to the East Room may click
on Alice Roosevelt’s dancing shoes,
First Lady Abigail Adams’ clothesline,
or President John F. Kennedy’s folded
flag to learn more about the Marine
Band’s participation in large White
House gatherings such as dances, afterdinner entertainment, concerts, weddings, funerals, award presentations,
press conferences, and bill-signing ceremonies.
The State Dining Room contains
hidden facts and treasures about the
Marine Band’s close association with
President Abraham Lincoln, information about the Strolling Strings, and
YOUNG READERS IN VIRGINIA
INVITED TO ENTER “LETTERS ABOUT
LITERATURE” WRITING CONTEST
T
he Virginia Foundation Center
for the Book announces the
2006-07 Letters About Literature writing competition. Students in
grades 4 through 12 are invited to write
a letter to the author of a favorite book.
State winners will be invited to appear
at the Opening Ceremony of the 2007
Virginia Festival of the Book in Charlottesville and will be eligible for the
national competition.
To enter, students in grades 4–12
write a personal letter to an author, explaining how the author’s work
changed the student’s view of the world
or themselves. Young readers can select
authors from any genre—fiction or
nonfiction, contemporary or classic.
Letters About Literature is sponsored
nationally by the Center for the Book in
the Library of Congress and Target
Stores. Letters About Literature supports national and state standards for
teaching language arts and reading.
The Virginia Foundation Center for
the Book will select the top letter writers
in the state on each of the three competition levels: Level I for children in
grades 4 through 6; Level II for grades 7
and 8, and Level III, grades 9–12.
Teachers and parents can access related
lesson plans and curriculum uses in the
Teacher Resource Guide by going to
www.loc.gov/letters. Deadline for en-
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photos of the White House gingerbread
house, complete with sugar cookies in
the shape of Marine Band percussionists and sousaphone players.
Sousa’s tour continues to the musicians’ holding room, where students
may learn more about the instruments
that members of “The President’s
Own” play.
The tour ends on the South Lawn,
the scene of the Marine Band’s bicentennial celebration, the Easter Egg Roll,
Tee-ball games, and State Arrival ceremonies. After the tour, visitors are invited to flip through the Marine Band’s
scrapbook and to see photos of “The
President’s Own” in performance at
popular Washington, D.C., landmarks,
on tour across the country, and at its
home, Marine Barracks Washington.
The Kid’s Corner is located at
www.marineband.usmc.mil/kids_
corner/index.htm.
tries is December 8, 2006. The required
entry coupons are available now by calling the Virginia Foundation Center for
the Book at 434-924-3296, by e-mailing
[email protected] or by visiting
w w w. v i r g i n i a f o u n d a t i o n . o r g /
bookcenter.
Virginia winners will receive a cash
prize and a $50 gift card from Target,
the presenting sponsor of Letters
About Literature. In addition, they
will be invited to read their letters at
the Opening Ceremony of the 13th annual Virginia Festival of the Book,
March 21-25, 2007 in Charlottesville.
The Virginia winners will then become eligible for the national competition where six winners will each receive an expenses-paid trip to the
nation’s capitol to read their letters during the National Book Festival in the
fall of 2007. In addition, they will receive a $500 Target gift card redeemable at any Target Store or target.com. Target Stores, along with its
parent company Target Corporation
(NYSE:TGT), gives back more than $2
million a week to its local communities
through grants and special programs.
Since opening its first store in 1962,
Target has partnered with nonprofit organizations, guests and team members
to help meet community needs.
ifty-five student government
presidents from Historically
Black Colleges and Universities
(HBCUs) from across the country participated in an innovative leadership
program July 30-Aug. 3 on the historic
campus of Tougaloo College in Tougaloo, Mississippi. The second Annual
Nissan Student Government Leadership
Program featured four days of leadership training sessions rendered by a
cadre of nationally recognized speakers.
Jim Morton, Vice Chairman for Nissan North America states, “We hope that
the learning and networking the students
participated in will positively affect the
rest of their lives. Each student left the
program poised to lead their schools toward new heights and prepared to assume future leadership roles in whatever
endeavors they choose.”
The Nissan Student Government
Leadership Program provided student
participants intensive leadership development and training at a level generally reserved for Fortune 500 company
executives. The leadership sessions,
conducted by three of the nation’s premier leadership training specialists, enhanced the students’ self-awareness,
self-management,
socio-political
awareness and interpersonal relationships. Nissan executives and managers, including Morton, were on-hand
as “mentors” throughout the program.
Students began the day with leadership sessions and ended it with nationally-recognized speakers. Session topics included: “The Call Leadership,”
“Practice in Team Development” and
“Taking Charge: Understanding Your
Leadership Challenges.” Participants
also received a “Leadership Toolkit”
which included books and resources to
aid in their success during their upcoming tenure as SGA presidents.
According to Tougaloo College SGA
President Chase L. Gayden, a Special
Education major, the lessons learned
during the program will not only affect
his term as president, but the entire campus as a whole. “I now know that it is
very important that student leaders learn
how to think critically and be able to analyze beyond the norm,” he said
According to Morton, Nissan developed the program to provide valuable
tools to upcoming student government
leaders. “When we created and launched
the inaugural program last year, we intended to equip these leaders with the
training and tools to effectively lead their
respective campuses,” added Morton.
“As we continue to hold the leadership
program annually, we will continue to influence positive change in these leaders,
not only on their college campuses, but
in the business world as well.”
A number of internationally acclaimed leaders visited the program to
offer the participants advice on building a strong foundation for success on
their respective campuses, in their communities, in government and in global
corporations. The guests included Hill
Harper, Actor of CBS’s “CSI: NY” and
Author of Letters To A Young Brother:
MANifest Your Destiny; Dr. Beverly
Hogan, President—Tougaloo College;
Farrah Gray—Entrepreneur and Philanthropist who became a millionaire at
the age of 14; Kevin Powell—Writer,
Commentator and Community Activist
from the first cast of MTV’s “The Real
World;” La Shawn Samuel, Diversity
Plans and Programs—Central Intelli-
John Smith, Sr., publisher of the Atlanta
Inquirer and Chairman of the National
Newspaper Publishers Association, greets
Nissan Student Government Leadership
Program participant Frederick Howard,
SGA President at Medgar Evers College
in Brooklyn, NY. Smith was a featured
speaker during the 3-day leadership
development event.
gence Agency; John B. Smith, Chairman—National Newspaper Publishers
Association; Dr. Johnnetta B. Cole –
President, Bennett College for Women
and Chairman of the United Way of
America and Rickey L. Jasper, Diversity Plans and Programs—Central Intelligence Agency.
For more information on the Nissan
Student Government Leadership Program visit www.NissanSGLP.com or
615-725-3460, 615-725-1451 336558-8063
HIGH SCHOOL
STUDENTS
INVITED TO
SERVE AS
MENTORS FOR
HOMELESS
CHILDREN
Y
oung people who would
like to make a difference
in the lives of a homeless
child are invited to join the
County’s Youth Advisory Committee’s “Big Buddy, Little
Buddy” program.
Mentors must attend Montgomery County public or private
high schools, provide their own
transportation and commit to three
hours a week for six months.
Two sessions are planned—October through March and January
through June—and will be held at
the Greentree Shelter in Bethesda.
Mentors will assist their “buddies” with homework and arts and
crafts projects, plus play games
and participate in sports activities
with them. Group activities are
planned once a month off the
premises. Students will qualify
for student service learning credits.
Applications must be received
by September 22. The mentoring
program is sponsored by the
Montgomery County Youth Advisory Committee, the Department
of Health and Human Services,
and the Department of Recreation.
For more information or to request an application, call David
Branick at 240/777-6985.
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COMMUNITY NEWS
September 1, 2006
FAIRFAX COUNTY
FREE EXPO GEARED TO
50+ AUDIENCE
A
ctor John Astin (best known
from “The Addams Family”
television show) and Washington Post columnist Abigail Trafford are
featured speakers at the InfoExpo—the
metro area’s annual event for people
over 50 and their families. The free
expo, at Springfield Mall on September 7 and at White Flint on September
10, combines informative lectures with
health screenings, exhibits, computer
training and entertainment.
Free screenings for osteoporosis,
glaucoma and blood pressure will be
offered, and valuable door prizes
will be presented throughout the day, including travel to New York City aboard
Amtrak’s Acela train. Information and
giveaways will be provided by dozens
of governmental and non-profit organizations, as well as businesses that provide services and products to older
adults. Exhibitors include healthcare
providers, homebuilders and retirement
communities, legal and financial advisors, travel services and many others.
Computer classes will teach about
Internet health research, using Photoshop, and more. Entertainment will include Klezmer and jazz music, as well
as singers, dancers and a barbershop
quartet.
The InfoExpo will take place from
11:00AM–3:00PM on Thursday, September 7 at Springfield Mall in Springfield, Va., and from 12:00 noon to
4:00PM on Sunday, September 10 at
White Flint Mall in N. Bethesda, MD.
Admission to both events is free and
open to all.
The InfoExpo is presented by The
Beacon newspaper as a community
service, with the support of CVS/pharmacy, Comcast Cable and other corporate, government and non-profit sponsors.
D
rug abuse and
addiction affects
school
aged
children in many ways.
Some kids grow up with an
addicted family member
while others have started
using drugs and alcohol
themselves due to peer
pressure at school. Learn to
recognize the signs of drug
and alcohol addiction and
help save a life.
If you or someone you
know is struggling with an
addition,
call
NARCONON® Arrowhead.
Narconon Arrowhead offers
free addiction counseling,
assessments, and referrals to
rehabilitation
centers
nationwide and to your
community by calling 800468-6933 or logging onto
www.stopaddiction.com.
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For more information, call 301949-9766.
LABOR DAY
HOLIDAY SCHEDULE
FOR FAIRFAX COUNTY
L
isted below are schedules for
Fairfax County government offices and services for the Labor
Day holiday on Monday, September 4.
County Government—Closed
Courts—Closed
Public Schools and School Offices—
Closed
Libraries—Closed
Fairfax Connector—Sunday schedule
(www.fairfaxconnector.com)
FASTRAN—Not in Service
Park Authority RECenters—Regular
opening time until 6:00PM
RECenters open at different times.
Note the following RECenters will
be closed for scheduled repairs:
Lee, Providence and Cub Run. For
additional information, including
lakefront parks, historic/nature sites
and golf courses, visit www.
fairfaxcounty.gov/parks
Community, Teen and Senior Centers—Closed
County Trash Collection—Regular
schedule. Call private contractors
about their schedules.
Recycling and Disposal Facilities at
I-66 and I-95—Open
For more news and information,
visit www.fairfaxcounty.gov/news.
RESIDENTS CAN RAKE IN
BIG SAVINGS AT MCC’S
FALL FLEA MARKET
A
rea residents can purchase second-hand (and some new)
treasures at incredibly low
prices at McLean Community Center’s
(MCC) Fall Community Flea Market
on Saturday, September 9. The sale
will be held from 9:00AM–1:00PM at
the Business Bank parking garage, located at 1451 Dolly Madison Blvd., on
Route 123 across from J. Gilbert’s
Restaurant.
Professional flea market dealers
and individuals selling household
items both participate in this sale, offering shoppers a wider selection of
goods. The yearly sale has become one
of the Center’s largest because of the
diversity of offerings, according to
Community Events Assistant Diane
Cruz. “The items for sale range from
the finest furniture, jewelry and rugs to
mixing bowls, flower vases and
mugs,” said Cruz. “People actually line
up outside the garage to make sure
they get in first.”
A limited number of selling spaces
are available on a first-come, firstserved basis for $50 each. The deadline
to register is Thursday, September 7.
Registration forms can be downloaded
from MCC’s Web site: www.
mcleancenter.org (click on Community Events). For more information,
call 703/790-0123/TTY: 703/8278255.
RCC CLOSED LABOR DAY,
BUILDING RENOVATIONS
AND NEW FALL
POOL SCHEDULE
T
he Reston Community Center
will be closed for Labor Day
on Monday September 4, 2006
at all locations. Beginning August 28,
there will be limited access to some
areas of RCC Hunters Woods while the
facility undergoes annual renovations,
including the pool and Community
Room. Following annual renovations,
community room will re-open Sunday,
September 3 and the pool will re-open
Monday, September 11.
During the fall, the pool will operate on a revised schedule:
Mondays and Wednesdays, 6:00 a.m.7:00 p.m.
Lap Swim: 6:00 a.m.-8:00 a.m.,
12:00 p.m.-1:00 p.m., 6:00 p.m.7:00 p.m.
Open Swim: 8:00 a.m.-11:00 a.m.,
1:00 p.m.-6:00 p.m.
Tuesdays and Thursdays, 6:00 a.m.7:00 p.m.
Lap Swim: 6:00 a.m.-8:00 a.m.,
12:00 p.m.-1:00 p.m., 4:00 p.m.7:00 p.m.
Open Swim: 8:00 a.m.-11:00 a.m.,
1:00 p.m.-4:00 p.m.
CLOSED FRIDAYS
Saturday, 12:00 p.m.-6:00 p.m.
Lap Swim: 12:00 p.m.-1:00 p.m.,
5:00 p.m.-6:00 p.m.
Open Swim: 1:00 p.m.-5:00 p.m.
Sunday, 12:00 p.m.-6:00 p.m.
Lap Swim: 12:00 p.m.-1:00 p.m.,
5:00 p.m.-6:00 p.m.
Open Swim: 1:00 p.m.-5:00 p.m.
For further information, contact the
Reston Community Center at (703)
476-4500, Virginia Relay (800) 8281120 (TTY) or visit www.
restoncommunitycenter.com. The
Reston Community Center is located at
2310 Colts Neck Road, Reston, VA
20191.
MONTGOMERY COUNTY
GLEN ECHO PARK
OPEN HOUSE SHOWCASES
FALL CLASSES
A
September 10 Open House at
Glen Echo Park will introduce
adults and youth to the wide
range of visual arts, dance and performance classes being offered at Glen Echo
Park this fall. The Open House will take
place at the Park, 7300 MacArthur
Blvd. in Glen Echo, Maryland, from
12:00 noon to 4:00PM. Other activities
will continue until 6:00PM.
The Open House will feature free
classes and demonstrations. For instance, visitors can try belly dancing,
explore “Music Together,” a music and
movement program for children, or
participate in demonstrations of polymer clay crafts, silk painting, beading
and kite-making. The Park’s newest
classes will also be highlighted, including movement classes in Nia technique and hoola-hooping.
Visitors will also be able to view
artists at work in their studios. A number of studios are planning exhibitions.
Photoworks will host an opening reception for its faculty/student exhibition from 2:00–4:00PM. Yellow Barn
Gallery will feature the work of Joel
Rudick from noon to 5:00PM. An ongoing student art exhibition will be on
view in the Popcorn Gallery and Glen
Echo Park Partnership office from
12:00 noon–6:00PM.
Lindy, swing, and waltz dance
demonstrations and participatory
classes will be held in the Spanish
Ballroom and Bumper Car Pavilion.
Other programs include a family dance
from 3:00–5:00PM p.m. and a Ballroom Tea Dance from 3:00–6:00PM.
with the LaSalle Dance Orchestra.
In addition, the Open House will
feature Adventure Theatre performances of “Miss Nelson is Missing” at
11:00AM and 1:30PM. Ticket information is available from 301/3205331.
Registration for fall classes begins
Aug. 5. Participants are encouraged to
register online at www.glenechopark.
org or during the Sept. 10 Open House.
Most classes begin in late September.
Glen Echo Park offers classes for adults
and youth in ceramics, drawing and
paintings, kiln-formed and blown glass,
photography, music, metals, writing,
arts and media, contemporary movement, social dance, puppetry, environmental education and theater.
Glen Echo Park is located six miles
northwest of Georgetown along the
scenic Potomac River palisades. It
began in 1891 as a National Chautauqua Assembly “to promote liberal
and practical education.” By 1900,
Glen Echo was on its way to becoming
the premier amusement park in the
Washington area until 1968. Since
1971, the National Park Service at
Glen Echo Park has been offering yearround activities in dance, theater and
the arts. Today, the Glen Echo Park
Partnership is committed to managing
a rich fabric of vibrant educational,
artistic, historical, cultural, environmental and recreational programs at
the Park in a manner that is attractive
and accessible to diverse audiences.
For further information or a digital
image, call (301) 634-2228.
COUNTY HOLDS
SEPTEMBER TRAINING
CLASSES FOR CITIZENS
INTERESTED IN BECOMING
COMMUNITY SAFETY
ADVOCATES
M
ontgomery County is opening up a new training class
in September for residents
who are interested in serving as frontline emergency response assistants
during large emergencies. The training program will certify participants—
who attend all seven classes—to be
community emergency response team
(CERT) members.
The classes will be held on September 6 from 7:00–8:30PM; September
12, 14, 19, and 21 from 7:00–9:30PM;
and September 16 and 23 from
9:00AM–5:00PM at the Montgomery
County Public Service Training Academy, located at 9710 Great Seneca
Highway in Rockville.
CERT participants will learn to:
• Prepare for the hazards that
threaten their communities.
• Apply safety principles.
• Locate and turn off utilities.
• Extinguish small fires.
• Identify hazardous materials situations.
• Triage and treat victims.
• Set up a medical treatment area.
• Understand the psychological impact of a disaster on themselves and
others.
• Apply response skills in a disaster
simulation.
• Serve as Community Safety Advocates for the department in the area
of emergency preparedness.
Space is limited and participants
must be at least 18 years old.
The class is free and participants
will be provided with protective equipment such as a hard hat, vest, goggles/eye protection; work gloves, and a
flashlight.
For more information, call Battalion Chief Brian S. Geraci at the
County’s Homeland Security Department at 240/777-2202, or brian.
[email protected].
WWASHINGTON, DC
UPCOMING WORK AT
VAN NESS STREET, NW
B
e advised that District Department
of
Transportation
(DDOT) crews will be working
at Van Ness Street between International Drive West and Reno Road, NW
through Wednesday, September 13,
weather permitting. Crews will be removing an existing median strip, performing road repair and re-striping
lanes. Construction hours will run
from 7:00AM–7:00PM. Two-way
traffic will be maintained throughout
the duration of project. Minor delays
should be expected.
INTERNATIONAL SPY
MUSEUM PRESENTS
UNCONQUERABLE NATION:
KNOWING OUR ENEMY,
STRENGTHENING
OURSELVES
A
s the fifth anniversary of the
9/11 terrorist attacks approaches, Brian Michael Jenkins, the dean of American terrorism research, has written a clear-sighted and
sober analysis of where we are today in
the struggle against terrorism. Jenkins,
a former captain in the Army’s elite
Special Forces, was decorated for his
combat service in the Dominican Republic and Vietnam, and currently
serves as senior advisor to the President of RAND Corporation. With the
benefit of his nearly forty years of terrorism research, his new book Unconquerable Nation: Knowing Our
Enemy, Strengthening Ourselves provides a fresh perspective on jihadists
and how they can be defeated without
the sacrifice of civil liberties.
This event will take place on Thursday, 7 September, 12:00 noon–1:00PM
on the 2nd Floor Museum Complex of
the Spy Museum, 800 F Street, NW,
Washington, DC, Gallery Place/Chinatown Metrorail Station.
No registration required for this
free event.
MEMORIAL MARCH FOR
SUICIDE PREVENTION
J
oin the Suicide Prevention Action Network USA for a Memorial March on their 11th Annual
National Awareness Event on the Mall
on
Saturday,
September
9,
10:00AM–12:00 noon at The World
War II Memorial (17th Street, between
Constitution and Independence Avenue) to raise awareness and advance
public policies that prevent suicide.
Following the march is a speaking program featuring ABC7/WJLA-TV’s Rebecca Cooper and author Dr. Kay Redfield Jamison. There will also be a
musical performance by Afro Blue,
Howard University’s premier vocal
jazz ensemble, a display of Lifekeeper
Memorial Quilts, which put a face on
those lost to suicide, and a free T-shirt
for participants. This event is free and
open to the public.
Participants will have the opportunity to remember those lost to suicide
and call for increased attention to problem of suicide in our nation. Each year,
more than 30,000 lives are lost to suicide, making it the 11th leading cause
of death in our nation, and the thirdleading cause of death for young persons between the ages of 10 and 24. In
addition, there are an estimated
650,000 suicide attempts annually.
Partners include Active Minds,
THE METRO HERALD
ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT
September 1, 2006
AN EVENING OF STARS(R) TRIBUTE TO
ARETHA FRANKLIN TO REMEMBER UNCF
SPOKESMAN LOU RAWLS
Aretha Franklin
Lou Rawls
T
he September 8 and 9 taping of
An Evening of Stars(R) Tribute
to Aretha Franklin benefiting
the United Negro College Fund
(UNCF) will be the first time in 28
years that the UNCF’s annual TV special will be produced without legendary performer Lou Rawls, who
died in January at the age of 72.
But Rawls, who is credited with
originating the idea for the TV event in
1979 and helping the UNCF to raise
over $200 million for minority higher
education, will be remembered on the
28th anniversary of the program with a
special award bearing his name. The
Lou Rawls-UNCF Award will be given
to an artist whose career exemplifies
Rawls’ passion for ensuring that minority youth receive a quality college
education. The first recipient of the accolade will be announced Friday, September 8 during the taping at the
Kodak Theatre in Hollywood. As part
of its partnership with UNCF and commitment to education, Target will be
the corporate sponsor of the Lou
Rawls-UNCF Award.
“When Lou Rawls passed, UNCF
felt it was important that his esteemed
legacy not fade away, but shine brighter
than ever on the television event in
which he invested so much of his time
and talent,” said UNCF President and
CEO Michael L. Lomax, Ph.D. “Each
year, this award will go to a worthy in-
dividual whose service to our mission
of education and supporting member
colleges lives up to the name of the
man for whom it was created.”
“What an amazing way to continue
the legacy of such an extraordinary man.
Although Lou himself was not able to
attend college, he created this telethon
28 years ago with selfless sacrifice and a
vision to help those who would strive for
higher education fulfill their dream,”
said Nina Rawls, widow of the Grammy
Award-winning vocalist. “It is truly an
honor to keep his name and vision alive
for future generations.”
From 1979 to 1997, the UNCF’s
annual television special was known as
The Lou Rawls Parade of Stars(R).
The program was re-formatted and renamed An Evening of Stars(R) in
1998. At its 25th anniversary in 2004,
the program adopted a tribute format to
recognize an outstanding artist each
year with the UNCF’s prestigious
Award of Excellence. Rawls was the
first recipient of the award, followed
by Quincy Jones in 2005 and Stevie
Wonder in 2006. Aretha Franklin will
become the fourth recipient and first
female artist to receive the annual tribute and UNCF’s Award of Excellence.
The live taping at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood will feature celebrity
presenters and well-known performers
from a variety of eras and genres of
music and acting. As one of the longest
running and most successful televised
events in U.S. history, An Evening of
Stars(R) has featured a Who’s Who of
recognizable talent, including Frank
Sinatra, Bill Cosby, Michael Jackson,
Whitney Houston, Sammy Davis, Jr.,
Dick Clark, Nancy Wilson, Reba McIntyre, Richard Pryor, Beyonce Knowles,
Jill Scott, Luther Vandross, Whoopi
Goldberg, Patti LaBelle, Ed McMahon,
Vanessa Williams, Michael Bolton,
Toni Braxton, Hall and Oates, Ziggy
Marley and scores of others.
An Evening of Stars(R) (AEOS),
formerly the Lou Rawls Parade of
Stars(R), first aired in 1979, and since
that time has become one of the
longest running and most successful
televised events in U.S. history. AEOS
2007 will be the first without its
founder Lou Rawls, who died in January 2006. Rawls, a spokesperson for
UNCF and champion for AEOS for
more than 25 years, is credited with
helping raise more than $200 million
for the UNCF to supplement the cost
of higher education for scholarship recipients and member institutions. This
year’s show, now in its 28th season, is
sponsored by American Airlines, McDonald’s, Prudential, Target, Toyota
and Wachovia. Learn more about
UNCF at www.uncf.org
NAJEE SHARES HIS POINT
OF VIEW AT BLUES ALLEY
T
he DC Blues Society (DCBS)
will host its free 18th Annual
DC Blues Festival on Saturday,
September 2nd at the Carter Barron
Amphitheatre, 16th St. & Colorado
Ave., N.W. from 1:00–9:30PM.
This year’s festival is a tribute to
the music of New Orleans and the Gulf
Coast, and features a lineup of outstanding local and national acts. The
festival will be simultaneously broadcast live by WPFW-89.3 FM radio.
This family-friendly event will be a
great Mardi Gras-type celebration, including beads and a mask-decorating
table, while supplies last. Come early
to get your beads and decorate your
mask for the second line at 3pm!
THE LINEUP (ALL TIMES ARE
APPROXIMATE):
1:00PM—
THE WESTCOTT BROTHERS
This local band won the DCBS Battle of the Bands last year and competed
in The Blues Foundation’s annual International Blues Challenge in Memphis, TN. 18 year-old guitarist and
leader of the band, Andrew Westcott
inherited his love of the Fender Stratocaster guitar from his late Grandfather
Jimmy Moore, who played music in
the Washington, DC area during the
70’s and 80’s. He is joined by his
younger brother Philip on bass, their
friend and keyboardist Jeff Conlin,
who is considered one of the areas best
(and busiest) keyboard players, and
drummer Billy Herrington (Uncle
Billy), a native Marylander who began
his music studies at seven years of age
when he took drum lessons at Charlie
Byrd’s in Bethesda, MD. Their latest
CD is entitled Bottom of the Hole.
2:00PM—
TERENCE MCARDLE &
JUMPIN’ TONIGHT
Terence McArdle and Jumpin’
Tonight delights swing dancers, roots
music fans, and blues lovers alike with
a combination of swinging guitar, rough
hewn vocalizing, swinging shuffle
grooves, and pulsing horns. Sounding
both retro and modern at the same time,
Terence McArdle & Jumpin’ Tonight
keep the party moving. Started in 1992
as an alternative to the area bands that
were performing standard cover songs,
Jumpin’ Tonight’s members have
shared the stage with some of the greats
in blues music today such as James Cotton, Little Jimmy King, Smokey Wilson, and Robert Lockwood, Jr. You Better Believe It! is Terence McArdle’s
latest CD.
3:00PM–
JOIN A NEW ORLEANSSTYLE SECOND LINE WITH
MEMBERS OF THE
JUNKYARD SAINTS!
Celebrate the New Orleans spirit
and join in the fun as the Junkyard
Saints lead a second line through the
Amphitheatre.
3:45:00PM—
ROBERT LIGHTHOUSE
M
ulti-platinum recording artist Najee, pioneer of the “rhythm and jazz” movement of the Eighties that helped define
the contemporary jazz scene brings his sultry saxophone stylings to Blues Alley–Thursday, September 7–10. Najee takes the stage at 8:00PM and
10:00PM. Blues Alley is located at 1073 Wisconsin Avenue NW in Washington, DC. For more information or tickets call 202/337-4141 or go
online to www.bluesalley.com.
Najee
THE METRO HERALD
“CELEBRATE NEW ORLEANS MUSIC” AT THE
DC BLUES SOCIETY’S 18TH ANNUAL DC BLUES FESTIVAL
Robert Lighthouse, a native of
Sweden, first came to the United States
at the age of 18 determined to learn
more about the music he loves — Mississippi Delta Blues. For eight years he
traveled around the country visiting
blues Meccas like Chicago’s famed
Maxwell Street and New Orleans, the
cradle of the blues. He settled in Washington, DC in 1988 and established a
cult following as a street musician. As
the winner of the DC Blues Society’s
2006 Solo/Duo competition, Robert
will be heading to Memphis in 2007 to
represent the DC area at the Blues
Foundation’s International Blues Challenge. Robert has been called “A
supremely talented bluesman/mercurial talents” by Blues & Rhythm Magazine. Robert’s latest CD is Drive-Thru
Love on the Right on Rhythm label.
5:00PM—JUNKYARD SAINTS
Junkyard Saints are a DC/Baltimore-based seven-piece band performing their own brand of New Orleansstyle party music—blending funk,
swing, Latin, R&B, with some oldschool Zydeco to round out the mix.
They regularly receive college and independent radio airplay, and have
played at some of the most notable
venues and festivals in the country including the Kennedy Center, Lincoln
Center, Baltimore’s Inner Harbor and
Pier Six, Ft. Lauderdale Cajun Crawfish Festival, and at private events for
corporate and entertainment clients
such as HBO, John Waters, Crayola,
and Northrop-Grumman. Junkyard
Saints’ latest CD is House of Jam.
6:15PM—MEMPHIS GOLD
Chester Chandler, aka Memphis
Gold was born in Memphis, Tennessee.
He was the thirteenth child of fourteen,
born to John and Reada Chandler. His
father John played bass fiddle and
piano in the Church of God in Christ,
where at the tender age of 4, Chester
was first introduced to the guitar.
Chester was quickly recognized as a
promising musician, and by the age of
8, he was a regular on Beale Street in
Memphis, where he played the guitar
for pocket change. “He [Memphis
Gold] is the genuine article, perhaps a
throwback to the bluesmen of yore who
learned their licks at the knee of legendary patriarchs like Charlie Patton,”
said Larry Benicewicz of the Music
Monthly. “And having done so, serves
as one of the last links to the days when
cotton was king on the Mississippi
Delta.” Not only is Memphis Gold a
great performer, he is also a local hero.
In February 1996, Chester Chandler
“Memphis Gold” rescued nine children
from a train crash in Silver Spring, Md.
Ironically, he had performed a blues
seminar for these same children several
months earlier. Memphis Gold’s latest
CD is Prodigal Son.
8:00PM—MARVA WRIGHT
Marva Wright was born and raised
in New Orleans, Louisiana. She started
performing professionally in 1987, and
has electrified audiences all over the
world with her finger-snapping, toetapping, get-up-and-dance style.
Marva has played the White House,
New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival,
North Sea Festival in Holland, Umbria
Festival in Italy, as well as Jazz and
Blues Festivals in France, Switzerland,
Germany, Sweden, Norway, Brazil,
and Russia. Harry Connick Jr., Bobby
McFerrin, Aaron Neville, Fats
Domino, Lou Rawls, and Marcia Ball
are but a few of the artists with whom
Marva has performed. Known as “The
Blues Queen of New Orleans”, her
powerful voice was a staple of the New
Orleans music scene. After Hurricane
Katrina struck, Marva relocated to the
Baltimore area. Blues Queen of New
Orleans, released in 2004 on the Mardi
Gras Records label is her latest CD.
The DC Blues Festival will also
feature FREE workshops throughout
the day. Each of the workshops will
have a New Orleans/Gulf Coast feel.
There will be children’s harmonica
workshops, an acoustic guitar workshop conducted by members of the
Archie Edwards Blues Heritage Foundation, a Zydeco-Cajun workshop and
a children’s petting zoo, where children can come and play instruments!
Following the Festival, the AfterParty will be held at Chick Hall’s Surf
Club from 9:00PM-1 am. Dr. S.O.
Feelgood Band and Show will be performing. The Surf Club is located at
4711 Kenilworth Avenue, Bladensburg, MD 20781, (301) 927-6310.
Advance tickets to the After-Party are
$10 members, $12 nonmembers. Tickets at the door will be $15. For advance tickets, send a check or moneyorder made payable to the D.C. Blues
Society to: DCBS Festival AfterParty, P.O. Box 77315, Washington,
D.C. 20013-7315.
For more information on the free
Festival, the After-Party, or DC Blues
Society, please visit www.dcblues.org
or call 202/962-0112.
ISRAEL’S #1 HIP HOP GROUP:
HADAG NAHASH
H
adag Nahash, Israel’s number one hip-hop band that has recorded
four chart-selling albums, will headline the next 6th in the City event
at Sixth & I Historic Synagogue, co-sponsored with Taglit-birthright
Israel’s DC Area Alumni Association. While receiving extensive media coverage from The New York Times to Rolling Stone magazine, Hadag Nahash
has toured all over the world to sell-out crowds. The band’s unique style
blends hip-hop, funk, jazz, electro and rock, all with a touch of Middle Eastern influence. Most of the lyrics deal with life in Israel and include a critique
of social, political, racial and gender-oriented issues.
6th in the City, the programming arm of the Sixth & I geared toward
young professionals, is committed to providing cutting-edge, dynamic and diverse events in the heart of Washington, D.C. Other past events have included a Town Hall Meeting with Senator John Kerry and the sold-out show,
A Hip Hasid: Matisyahu in Concert.
Hadag Nahash will perform on Thursday, September 14th at 8:00PM.
Tickets are $15 in advance, $20 at the door and an additional $10 to attend a
private reception with the band before the show at 7:00PM, only available
through advance sale tickets. Tickets may be purchased through Ticketmaster or by calling 202/397-SEAT.
6th in the City: Hot New Events in a Cool Historic Space, 600 I Street,
NW, Washington, DC 2001. Set in an incredibly beautiful, recently restored
synagogue, Sixth & I is located right in the center of the bustling Penn Quarter of DC and around the corner from the Verizon Center.
For more info: www. 6thInTheCity.org
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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT
September 1, 2006
MILLENNIUM STAGE SEPTEMBER 2006
F
ree Daily Performances at
6:00PM on the Millennium
Stage in the Grand Foyer. No
tickets required.
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 1;
SOUTH PLAZA
6:00PM: D.C.’s own The Pietasters,
dubbed the grandfathers of Ska-Rockand-Soul, stir up a frenzy at their shows
with a smattering of ska with shades of
Spencer Davis, Otis Redding, Alton
Ellis, and Bob Marley in their repertoire, as well as cool covers.
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 2
6:00PM: Page-to-Stage: MetroStage presents Words AND Music:
The Stephen Schwartz Project, a new
revue of songs by the creator of
Wicked, Godspell, Pippin and The
Baker’s Wife; and selections from The
Bingo Long Traveling All Stars and
Motor Kings a new musical about a
black barnstorming ball club in 1939.
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 3
6:00PM: Page-to-Stage: The Taffety
Punk Theatre Company rocks one of
Shakespeare’s lesser known poems,
The Phoenix and Turtle, with live
music and dance. Guest artists include
musicians Katy Otto, Erin McCarley, &
choreographer Jeffrey Bailey.
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 4
6:00PM: Page-to-Stage: Musical
Voices at Signature-One of the region’s
theaters for new musical theatre showcases songs from projects in development, including such musicals as The
Underground Railroad, SSA: Ass
Backwards, The Next Big Thing, and
Saving Aimee.
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 5
6:00PM: Red Stick Ramblers play a
mixture of Cajun fiddle tunes, Western
Swing, and traditional jazz of the
1920s and 1930s, delighting audiences
with danceable rhythms and strong, elegant melodies.
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 6
6:00PM: *Don Bruce Big Band, led
by vocalist Bruce, delights audiences
with their big band spin on swing standards and pop favorites.
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 7
6:00PM:
D.C’s
own
Lisa
Moscatiello and the Space Dots, featuring vocalist Moscatiello, Erik Wenberg
on guitar, Robbie Magruder on drums,
Harry Appelman on keyboards, and Jon
Nazdin on upright bass, blends jazz and
folk as heard on Trouble from the Start.
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 8;
FAMILY THEATER
6:00PM: The Night Kitchen Radio
Theater presents Bread and Roses by
Katherine Paterson.
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 9
6:00PM: The Amadeus Orchestra, a
professional chamber orchestra, has
performed at Carnegie Hall, the Smith-
sonian Institution, and worldwide via
radio broadcast.
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 10
fresh exuberance by mixing elements
of funk, soul, and modern jazz to the
delight of all listeners.
6:00PM: WNO Insight Lecture Series presents Bartók’s Bluebeard’s Castle, a dark tale about a woman on the
verge of discovering her husband’s terrifying secret, and Puccini’s only
comic opera, Gianni Schicchi, with
farce, fraud, and a deathbed scene
played for laughs.
6:00PM: Blues pianist and vocalist
Henry Gray, a Louisiana native, has
performed at virtually every New Orleans Jazz & Heritage festival, and was
nominated for a Grammy Award in
1998 for A Tribute to Howlin’ Wolf, for
whom he played piano 1956-1968.
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 11;
CONCERT HALL
6:00PM:
Organist
Stephen
Kalnoske gives a concert on the Center’s Filene organ.
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 12
6:00PM: Emerging from his punk
rock roots in bands Sleepytime Trio
and Milemarker, guitarist and vocalist
Ben Davis has developed into a musician with diverse interests and influences, having played with such artists
as Engine Down, Denali, Pinback, Ted
Leo, The Rosebuds, and Rainer Maria.
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 13
6:00PM: Vocalist and guitarist Carrie Newcomer, the Indiana-based songwriter who has been criss-crossing the
country telling stories and blending diverse musical styles for nearly two
decades, has shared the stage with a
variety other performers, including Alison Krauss and Union Station, Bonnie
Raitt, Rosanne Cash and Mary Chapin
Carpenter.
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 14
6:00PM: Local Dance Commissioning Project: Asha Vattikuti, who
specializes in Kathak—a classical
dance style of Northern India-presents
Gul-E-Bakawali, the story of Prince
Taj-Ul-Muluk and the fairy Princess
Bakawali. Collaborator Laurel Victoria
Gray and Silk Road Dance Company
perform the Middle Eastern dances.
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 15
6:00PM: Local Dance Commissioning Project: Asha Vattikuti, who
specializes in Kathak-a classical dance
style of Northern India-presents GulE-Bakawali, the story of Prince Taj-UlMuluk and the fairy Princess
Bakawali. Collaborator Laurel Victoria
Gray and Silk Road Dance Company
perform the Middle Eastern dances.
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 16;
SOUTH PLAZA
6:00PM: 2006 Open House Arts
Festival: Nanci Griffith, one of the most
admired and acclaimed of singer-songwriters, brings together folk and country
in her own brand of “folkabilly.”
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 17
6:00PM: Tremè Brass Band, named
for the neighborhood that has nurtured
many of New Orleans’s greatest musicians, plays music steeped in the deep
roots of New Orleans jazz, bringing a
SPIRIT OF WASHINGTON HOSTS
TWO GOSPEL LUNCH CRUISES
IN SEPTEMBER
S
pirit of Washington hosts September Gospel Cruises on Saturday, September 9th and Saturday, September 23rd. Gather at the river for fellowship and fun! Enjoy an inspired afternoon Gospel cruise featuring
a bountiful buffet, fascinating sightseeing along the Potomac River and
gospel music performed live or spun by a DJ.
Spirit of Washington is docked at Pier 4 at 6th and Water Streets SW,
Washington, just three blocks from the Waterfront/Greenline Metro.
Boarding time: 11:30AM Cruising time: Noon–2:00PM. Cruise pricing
is $40.00 per person
For more information or reservations, call toll-free 866-211-3811 or reserve online at www.spiritofwashington.com
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MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 18
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 19
6:00PM: Finnish-Swedish band
Gjallarhorn (pronounced ‘Yallarhorn’),
consisting of singer and fiddler Jenny
Wilhelms; Christopher Öhman on
viola, fiddle, mandola and backing vocals; percussionist David Lillkvist; and
Tommi Mansikka-Aho on didgeridoo,
create strong melodies in their rootsbased Nordic folk rock.
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 20
6:00PM: Classika Theater presents
The Magical Balloon which tells the
story of a traveling actor and his magical
trunk of tricks and toys, as expressed
through masks, pantomime, unique choreography, and audience participation.
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 21
6:00PM: Local Dance Commissioning Project: Helanius J. Wilkins and
EDGEWORKS Dance Theater present
Cold Case, a multi-media piece exploring the issues of race and representation
through the eyes of black men in dance.
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 22
6:00PM: Local Dance Commissioning Project: Helanius J. Wilkins and
EDGEWORKS Dance Theater present
Cold Case, a multi-media piece exploring the issues of race and representation
through the eyes of black men in dance.
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 23
6:00PM: Old School Freight Train,
from Charlottesville, Virginia, combines thought-provoking lyrics with
captivating melodies, soulful vocals,
and imaginative arrangement, blending
bluegrass, jazz, Latin, and Celtic
music.
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 24
6:00PM: Brazilian singer Cibelle,
singing in Portuguese or English, takes
audiences on a sonic journey through
bossa nova, electronic music, soul, and
jazz.
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 25
6:00PM: WNO Insight Lecture Series presents Sophie’s Choice, by
Nicholas Maw and based on William
Styron’s heart-wrenching novel about
Sophie, a Polish immigrant who was a
prisoner in Auschwitz and living in
Brooklyn post World War II, and her
two lovers, Nathan and Stingo.
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 26
6:00PM: The Boys and Girls Club
of Greater Washington presents Icon 06
in which local youth display their talents on stage, in addition to receiving
awards and scholarships for school.
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 27
6:00PM: Son de la Frontera brings
a rediscovery of flamenco’s deep
Gypsy roots in ancient North Indian
and Afghani music, infusing melodies
and rhythms from Cuban, Mexican,
Colombian, Moroccan, Egyptian, and
Lebanese folk styles.
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 28
6:00PM: Czechomor explores the
wedding dances and folk songs of their
native Czech Republic, combining violin, cello, and guitar with accordion
and occasionally Czech bagpipe.
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 29
6:00PM: Dance DC Festival 2006
features an evening highlighting the passion of the tango to the percussive
rhythms innate in tap, South African
Gumboot Dance, and West African
drumming. Co-presented with the DC
Commission on the Arts and Humanities
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 30
presents Asia in Legends which uses
dance to convey the many heritages,
traditions, and histories of the different
countries that make up Asia.
All concerts are free and open to
the public and are subject to change
without notice.
6:00PM: Dance DC Festival 2006
MONTGOMERY PARKS TO HOST
WEEKEND RETREAT FOR WOMEN AT
ROCKWOOD MANOR PARK
M
ontgomery County Parks is
hosting an outdoor Weekend
Retreat for Women, Friday,
September 8 through Sunday, September 10 at Rockwood Manor Park located at 11001 MacArthur Boulevard,
near Great Falls in Potomac.
Retreat participants will enjoy
catered meals, overnight accommodations, and a variety of seminars and
outdoor activities. During the weekend, women can select from the following activities: kayaking on the
C&O Canal, bird watching, nature
photography, nature journaling, meditation, yoga, fishing, introduction to
archeology, nature hikes, and a potted
plant workshop.
For instruction, program materials,
meals, lodging, and evening campfires
featuring guest speakers, the all-inclusive retreat fee is $200 per person for
shared cabins or $250 for semi-private
guest rooms. Advance registration and
payment are required, and space is limited. Registration forms, activity descriptions, and more information on
Rockwood Manor are available online
at www.WeHaveTheWhere.com or by
calling Helen Aument at 301-299-5026.
“We’re inviting women to join park
staff and guest speakers for a restorative
weekend focused on nature, mild exercise, relaxation and new experiences,”
said Montgomery County Parks Director Mary Bradford. “They’ll get back
to nature and enjoy a weekend away
from the cares of their daily lives.”
Built in the 1920s, Rockwood was
the country estate of socialite and businesswoman
Carolyn
Gangwer
Caughey and her husband John. Carolyn was as a true model for women’s
achievement long before such traits
were fashionable. They had no children, however, she was extremely interested in character building for
young women and wanted her country
estate to be used for that purpose.
Her admiration for the fledging Girl
Scout movement during the early
1930s led her to select the organization
to become the beneficiary of her
beloved Rockwood. Later, approximately 60 acres were sold to developers and the remaining 30 acres and
ownership of the Manor House, Carolyn Cottage and several other buildings were transferred to The MarylandNational Capital Park and Planning
Commission for use as a public park.
ENJOY LABOR DAY WEEKEND IN
MONTGOMERY COUNTY PARKS
F
rom fishing and boating at Black
Hill Regional Park, to camping
at Little Bennett, to strolling and
picnicking along Sligo Creek Trail and
ice skating at Cabin John, in Montgomery County Parks this Labor Day
weekend “It’s all right here!”
“You don’t have to go away to have
a great time on Labor Day weekend,”
explained Montgomery Parks Director
Mary Bradford. “With the high price
of gasoline, we’re expecting tens of
thousands of area residents to take advantage of their 395 fantastic parks
close to home in Montgomery County.”
Endless free recreational opportunities within the 33,000-acre park system
include: hikes along 200 miles of
wooded trails (download maps at
www.montgomerytrails.org), picnics
beside stream valley parks or around
three lakes, strolls through scenic
Brookside Gardens, workouts at 13 outdoor exercise courses, basketball games
on 208 courts, climbing and sliding on
274 popular playgrounds, fishing along
the shores of three lakes, four nature
centers (days and hours vary) and more.
For soccer fans, the MSI tournament at the SoccerPlex in South Germantown Recreational Park will be in
full swing all weekend, www.mdsoccerplex.org. Although the premier
lighted and unlighted baseball and
softball fields at regional parks are taking a rest during the Labor Day weekend, residents may find some games to
watch at local park fields. Additional
information is available online at
www.montgomeryparks.com.
For a small fee, visitors may con-
sider: Pontoon boat cruises on Little
Seneca Lake at Black Hill Regional
Park, Boyds; Saturdays and Sundays
through September 24; 10:30AM,
1:00PM and 2:30PM, Cost is $4;
Canoe, rowboat and kayak rentals
available; www.blackhillboats.com
Launch your own kayak, rowboat
or canoe at Lake Needwood, Derwood;
Sunrise to sunset daily, $5 in the honor
box; www.lakeneedwoodboats.com
Rides on the antique carousel and
miniature train at Wheaton Regional
Park; Daily through Labor Day, 10AM
to 5:30PM, weekends through the end
of September. Cost $1.50 (kids under 2
ride free on carousel); www.
wheatontrainandcarousel.com
Miniature train rides through the
woods at Cabin John Regional Park,
Rockville; Daily through Labor Day,
11:00AM to 4:30PM, weekends
through the end of September; Cost is
$1.50; www.cabinjohntrain.com
Splash playground and mini-golf at
South Germantown Recreational Park;
Daily through September 5, weekends
through the end of September; Cost is $4
for the splash playground and $5 for our
18-hole miniature golf course and $4 for
children 11 years and younger;
www.sgermantownsplashandgolf.com
Wings of Fancy live butterfly exhibit at Brookside Gardens in Wheaton
Regional Park; Daily through September 17; Cost is $4.50; www.
brooksidegardens.org
Horseback riding at Wheaton Stables and Meadowbrook Riding Stables; Call concessionaire for details at
301/622-2424 and 301/589-9026.
THE METRO HERALD
ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT
September 1, 2006
BROOKSIDE GARDENS CALENDAR EVENTS
FRIENDS OF BROOKSIDE GARDENS
ANNUAL PLANT SALE
Unique plants offered only once a
year at Brookside Gardens, and other
perennials, shrubs and trees will be
available for sale. Saturday, September
9, 10:00AM-3:00PM. Brookside Gardens 1800 Glenallan Avenue,
Wheaton, MD 20902, Outside the Visitors Center. For more information, call
301/962-1400
or
visit
www.
brooksidegardens.org
CHILDREN’S DAY—
“NATIVE AMERICAN FUN”
Enjoy a day filled with Native
American culture, food, and children’s
crafts. Listen to performances by the
Native Nations Dance Theater. Learn
about and see different Native American costumes and dances. Have fun
participating in a traditional Native
American “Round” dance, plus children can make a Dream Catcher, Medicine Wheel, Beading or Moccasin
craft project. Native Nations Dance
Theater will perform at 1:00PM and
3:00PM. Crafts are ongoing from
11:00AM–4:00PM. Free admission.
Saturday, September 16, 11:00AM4:00PM, Brookside Gardens 1800 Glenallan Avenue, Wheaton, MD 20902,
for more Information, call 301962-1400
or
visit
www.
brooksidegardens.org
“WINGS OF FANCY”
LIVE BUTTERFLY EXHIBIT
Be surrounded by butterflies flying
freely amidst a colorful garden of tropical flowering nectar plants. Learn
about the butterfly life cycle. Observe
exotic tropical butterflies from Costa
Rica in addition to species native to
North America. The exhibit runs
though Sunday, September 17,
10:00AM to 4:00PM daily. Fees: $4.50
adults; $3.50 ages 3-12; Brookside
Gardens South Conservatory 1500
Glenallan Avenue, Wheaton, MD
20902. For more information, call
301/962-1453
or
visit
www.
brooksidegardens.org
Groups of 12 or more by appointment only, call 301/962-1467 for reservations. We regret that we are not able
to accommodate strollers in the Butterfly Exhibit. To volunteer at the exhibit,
call 301/962-1429.
DAHLIA SHOW & SALE
Sponsored by the
National Capital Dahlia Society
Dahlias of all sizes and colors will
be on display. Advice on growing
dahlias will be available along with the
video. Saturday, September 23,
2:00PM-5:00PM, Sunday, September
24, 9:00AM-3:00PM, Cut blooms for
sale at the close of the show from
3:00PM-4:00PM, Visitors Center.
Brookside Gardens 1800 Glenallan
Avenue, Wheaton, MD 20902, for
more information, call 301/962-1400
or visit us online at www.
brooksidegardens.org
BONSAI SHOW
Sponsored by the
Brookside Bonsai Society
Exhibit of bonsai trees and shrubs
will be on display. Saturday, September 30, 9:00AM-5:00PM, Rose Garden. Brookside Gardens 1800 Glenallan Avenue, Wheaton, MD 20902, for
more information, call 301/962-1400
or visit www.brooksidegardens.org
AZALEA AUCTION
Sponsored by the Brookside Gardens
Chapter of the Azalea Society
You’ll have more fun outbidding
the person next to you at this popular
annual auction of beautiful spring and
fall blooming azaleas and other woodland and companion plants.
THE METRO HERALD
Saturday, September 30, viewing of
plants begins at 10:30AM; Auction begins at 11:00AM
Outside the Visitors Center. Brookside Gardens 1800 Glenallan Avenue,
Wheaton, MD 20902, for more information, call 301/962-1400 or visit
www.brooksidegardens.org
CELEBRATING THE
AMERICAN LANDSCAPE
Claire Sawyers, Director, The Scott
Arboretum of Swarthmore College
In this slide-illustrated lecture,
Claire will discuss some design principles to help garden makers create regionally appropriate and evocative gardens - evocative of their time and place
and culture. She will draw on the opportunities she has had to extensively
travel and see gardens across the country and around the world. Friday, September 8, 10:00-11:30AM, Fee: Free;
registration required, Visitors Center
Auditorium. Brookside Gardens 1800
Glenallan Avenue, Wheaton, MD
20902, for more information, call
301/962-1400
or
visit
www.
brooksidegardens.org
EVERGREENS FOR
WINTER INTEREST
Diane Lewis, Brookside Gardens Staff
Throughout the garden, Brookside
features a wide selection of evergreen
trees and shrubs. Enjoy a walk and
discover both broadleaved and needleleaved species that enhance a winter
setting. Learn how to assess your garden to add evergreens for a more complete landscape. Wednesday, September 13, 1:00PM, Fee: $5; registration
required
Meet at Visitors Center entrance.
Brookside Gardens 1800 Glenallan
Avenue, Wheaton, MD 20902, for
more information, call 301/962-1400
or visit www.brooksidegardens.org
DECORATED SEED BOX
LaVerne Sokolowski,
Plantscape Designs
As summer ends and autumn begins, so many seeds can be gathered
from your garden. Be ready with your
own personalized seed collection box,
made beautiful with decoupage and/or
paint. Not only is collecting seeds a
fantastic way to make sure you have
gorgeous blooms in your garden next
year, but you can give away and swap
seeds with your friend. Fee includes
all materials to make one seed box.
Thursday, September 21, 10:00AM12:00PM, Fee: $35; registration required, Visitors Center Adult Workshop Brookside Gardens 1800
Glenallan Avenue, Wheaton, MD
20902, For more information, call
301/962-1400
or
visit
www.
brooksidegardens.org
HIGHLIGHTS OF
THE GUDE GARDEN
Phil Normandy,
Brookside Gardens Staff
The sensual hills and valleys of the
Gude Garden display many glorious
trees and shrubs that merit discussion.
Follow the rockways to the Tea House
and interesting Gude Island. Learn a
bit of early Brookside history about the
Gude nursery and family, as well as the
special importance of the new Reflection Terrace. Wednesday, September
27, 1:00PM
Fee: $5; registration required, Meet
at Visitors Center entrance. Brookside
Gardens 1800 Glenallan Avenue,
Wheaton, MD 20902, for more information, call 301/962-1400 or visit
www.brooksidegardens.org
NATIVE AMERICAN FRUITS
Lee Reich, Author & Columnist
Although most supermarket fruits
reflect our European heritage, a number of native fruits - including pawpaw,
persimmon, lowbush blueberry,
juneberry, elderberry, and more - were
enjoyed by Native Americans and
early settlers. They also received a
flurry of interest in the latter half of the
19th century, when new and better varieties of wildings were sought out.
Through a slide-illustrated lecture, Lee
will re-introduce many of these natives, describe their histories, appearances, and flavors, as well as how to
plant and grow them today. Because
they are native, these fruits generally
look naturally at home in our landscapes, and are pest-free and easy to
grow. Samples of fruit will be available, so you can taste before you decide to plant. Lee’s book, Uncommon
Fruits for Every Garden, will be on
sale and he will be available to sign
books after the lecture. Lee spent more
than a decade in agricultural research
with the USDA and Cornell University. He is the author of multiple
books, writes a gardening column for
Associated Press, and is a regular contributor to Horticulture Magazine. Friday, September 29, 10-11:30AM
Fee: Free; registration required,
Visitors Center Auditorium. Brookside
Gardens 1800 Glenallan Avenue,
Wheaton, MD 20902, for more information, call 301/962-1400 or visit
www.brooksidegardens.org
WATER COLORS,
WATER GARDENS—
THROUGH SEPTEMBER 23
Watercolors by Dave Daniels
A journey of beauty, light and
imagination in large-format works featuring land and water flora and fauna
in their native habitats. Daniels’ work
is in the permanent collections of NIH
and the Quadrangle Corporation,
among others.
VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES AT
BROOKSIDE GARDENS
Help others discover the fascinating
world of plants by volunteering at
Brookside Gardens, 1800 Glenallan
Ave., Wheaton MD 20902. Contact
Ellen Hartranft, Volunteer Coordinator
at 301/962-1429 or ellen.hartranft@
mncppc-mc.org to request a volunteer
application or for more information.
RHYTHM N’RHYMES, a poetry event hosted by Sir Charles Cary,
poet and author of Poetic Xpressions, introduces featured poets
and authors to the stage at—
Cranberries Restaurant
5740 Silver Hill Road
Forestville, Maryland 20747
Linda Parks, owner of Cranberries, also greets guests while
sharing the many activities offered at Cranberries—just one block
from Pennsylvania Avenue in Forestville, Maryland.
During the evening, dinner guests may enjoy a modestly priced yet
tasty dinner while poets share their original renderings!
For more information, call
Reba Barnes, Publicist, REBAssociates, on (301) 420-0000
FLOWER BUDS
This once-a-month series will meet
the second Monday of every month.
We will feature gardening activities,
stories, crafts, and garden walks for
children ages 3-5 with a parent.
Monday, September 11, 10:3011:30AM. Fee: $2 per child; registration is required. Brookside Gardens
Visitors Center, 1800 Glenallan Avenue, Wheaton, MD 20902. For more
information, call 301/962-1400 or visit
www.brooksidegardens.org
PHIL AND RHODA DENDRON’S
“EASTERN WOODLAND
INDIAN GARDEN”
Visit this enchanting and delightful
children’s garden honoring early Native Americans who once occupied our
eastern forests of North America.
Imagination is sparked while experiencing the daily activities of Native
American children hunting, gathering
or farming plants for food. Discover
how Indians traveled, farmed and used
plants for food, medicine and utilitarian purposes. Brookside Gardens 1800
Glenallan Avenue, Wheaton, MD
20902, for more information, call
301/962-1400
or
visit
www.
brooksidegardens.org
ART EXHIBITS
The Brookside Gardens Visitors
Center exhibitions showcase affordable original works on horticultural
themes by area artists. All art exhibitions are free-of-charge and most of
the works are available for purchase. If
you are interested in exhibiting, contact Linda Williams at ArtShows@
toward.com or 301/962-1454.
NATURE ON THE WIN—
THROUGH SEPTEMBER 23
Watercolors by
Kandy Vermeer Phillips
Closely observed studies of birds
and butterflies in the fields, meadows,
trees, plants and blossoms that nurture
and protect them.
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SPORTS & RECREATION
September 1, 2006
COCHRAN FIRM’S BYRON PERKINS TO HELP BOOST NUMBER OF
BLACK COACHES IN THE NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE
Byron Perkins, The Cochran Firm
B
yron Perkins, Managing Partner
of The Cochran Firm in Birmingham, has been named CoCounsel to the Fritz Pollard Alliance
(FPA), an influential group of minority
sports professionals leading the charge
of promoting diversity, equality and
opportunity in the coaching, front office and scouting staffs of the National
Football League (NFL).
The FPA was created in the wake of
a groundbreaking 2002 report authored
by The Cochran Firm’s founder, the late
legendary trial attorney Johnnie L.
Cochran, Jr., and coauthored by noted
civil rights attorney Cyrus Mehri. The
report illustrated that despite being more
successful than their white counterparts,
black coaches were not considered for
the vast majority of head coaching positions. The report has been a catalyst for
change and directly contributed to the
creation of the Rooney Rule, which requires NFL teams to interview at least
one minority candidate for open head
coaching positions. It is unique in major
league sports according to Perkins.
Perkins is nationally recognized in
his representation of clients in landmark racial and gender discrimination
cases as well as personal injury litigation. In 2001, he served as co-counsel
in one of the nation’s most significant
racial discrimination class actions that
resulted in a $192 million settlement
against The Coca-Cola Company
(NYSE: KO). This case continues to
serve as the gold standard for the need
to implement and manage proactive di-
versity programs in corporate America.
Perkins also obtained a major settlement on behalf of client Kenney Edwards
against the John Deere Company
(NYSE: DE) in 2004. Edwards claimed
he was denied approval to become a John
Deere dealer based upon his race. Perkins
also represented FOX Television’s American Idol winner Ruben Studdard in his
lawsuit against 205Flava for misappropriation of his image in 2003.
Perkins focuses his legal practice in
the areas of personal injury, wrongful
death, truck and automobile accidents,
products liability, sexual harassment
and racially hostile work environment
litigation.
In October, 2005, The Cochran
Firm was named to The National Law
Journal’s Plaintiffs’ Hot List, a compendium of the country’s top plaintiffs’
law firms doing the most to shape the
law in America. Also in 2005, The
Cochran Firm was named to The NLJ
250 list, The National Law Journal’s
survey of the largest law firms in
America. Notably, The Cochran Firm
held the exclusive position of appearing on both of these celebrated lists.
INTERNATIONAL INSPECTORS TO VISIT FAIRFAX COUNTY NEXT WEEKEND
DURING SITE SELECTION TOUR FOR 2013 WORLD POLICE & FIRE GAMES
A
team of international venue inspectors will visit Fairfax
County, Virginia next weekend
as part of their global tour to select an
appropriate host for the 2013 World
Police and Fire Games, the second
largest participant-oriented sporting
event in the world behind the Summer
Olympic games.
The bi-annual competition will feature between 55 and 65 different athletic
competitions, 45 of which will come
from a list of mandatory team and individual sports with as many as 20 others
selected from a list of optional events.
The competition will include everything from basketball, bowling, boxing
and bodybuilding to swimming, soccer,
table tennis, volleyball, rowing, shooting sports and ice hockey.
Participants in the games are both
full-time and retired law enforcement
officers, firefighters and public safety
officials. The games will be contested
over a 10-day period in the summer, attracting upwards of 10,000 participants
and 15,000 visitors, creating considerable economic impact for the host
venue. The 2007 games take place in
Adelaide, Australia next March
(www.2007wpfg.com.au), with future competitions set for Burnaby, BC
(2009) and New York City (2011).
Fairfax County/Washington, D.C.
is one of five destinations in the running for the 2013 games along with
Calgary, Denver, Belfast (Northern Ireland) and Innsbruck (Austria). From
Friday, September 8 through Tuesday,
September 12, the World Police & Fire
Games Federation international selection committee will visit the region as
part of a tour of all five potential host
cities. This committee will visit as
many competition venues as possible,
while also observing the region’s infrastructure, amenities and benefits.
“We’re making every effort to put
BASKETBALL FANS TO SELECT ONE
AMATEUR PLAYER AS THE
CROSSOVER MVP
I
n conjunction with the September 1st nationwide release of CROSSOVER, TriStar Pictures has sponsored
a reality-show online contest in which basketball fans
will select one amateur player for a slot on the AND 1 international tour.
At each stop during AND 1’s 30-city U.S. Tour, amateur
players were invited to participate in the “Open Run” preceding every game. At each Open Run, up to 4 players were
selected to play against AND 1 in front of their hometown
crowd. After the game, coaches and AND 1 players voted
one amateur player to follow the tour.
No more than 3 amateur players were allowed on the
tour bus at one time. In each city as one new player joined
the bus, one player was voted off. AND 1’s final tour game
was held in Madison Square Garden on Friday, August 25th.
Over 175,000 fans have logged onto www. crossovermvp.com to select their favorite amateur player. The player
with the highest number of votes will join AND 1 as a member of their international tour.
Finalists include Jamal Nelson of Detroit, Michigan,
Jerome Holman of Brooklyn, New York and Ryan Williams
of Queens, New York. Voting will close on Monday, September 3rd, and the winner will be announced on September 6th during the final episode of Streetball on ESPN2.
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our best foot forward next weekend,”
said Sgt. Bruce Blechl, a Fairfax
County police officer and Executive
Director of Team Fairfax 2013, the
local organizing body behind the bid.
“We’re enlisting the involvement of
Visit Fairfax, the official tourism promotion agency for Fairfax County, as
well as local athletes, media personalities and politicians in an effort to show
the inspectors just how serious our region truly is about hosting the games.”
According to Blechl, the inspection
team will visit 30 different venues
throughout the region in four days, as
well as attend a special ceremony in remembrance of the events of September
11, 2001.
For additional information, please
contact Bruce Blechl at bruce.
[email protected]. or at
703/449-7222, TTY 711.
NEW PARKS &
RECREATION COURSES
T
his Fall The City of Fairfax Parks and Recreation Department will be offering a new series especially designed to compliment studies for Pre-school, School or Homeschool children in
the Community. The courses in Dance and Nutrition
will be led by a former professional dancer and
Master of Dance from the Philadelphia College of
the Performing Arts. The classes will introduce children and teens to the appreciation of music and the
co-ordination of rhythm and movement.
• Boys only—Dance & Tumbling Class
• Boys & Girls Dance Combo
• Kiddie Combo
• Teen Dance
• Creative Dance
• Nutritional Eating for Weight Loss & Healthy
Habits
• Survival Party Dance
These are just a part of the courses and classes on
offer in the City of Fairfax Parks & Recreation Department this Fall. “The Benefits are Endless!”
Please contact our office at 703/385-6090 for
more information and a brochure on all our programs
and services. For more information visit www.
fairfaxva.gov.
FINDING SOLUTIONS TO SOCCER’S
BIGGEST PROBLEM
author. He provides numerous facts,
ideas, suggestions, tips and general information, including:
• The role of soccer governing bodies, coaches, players, promoters
and broadcasters;
• How to increase visibility of the
sport in the United States;
•
How to score more goals with
ease—when and how to shoot, and
direction;
• How to use body movement to play
the game more effectively;
• What changes FIFA (the world soccer governing body) should consider to improve the game; and
• What soccer can teach those who
play other sports.
A
lthough its popularity has been
slow to take off in the United
States, the sport of soccer now
seems to be coming into its own on
American soil. For those who already
play, those who want to learn how and
for anyone in whose life sports play a
large supporting role, author Gabriel
Akuya offers his new book, Soccer Solutions: Scoring More Goals and Winning the Big Games (now available
through AuthorHouse).
“Soccer Solutions is dedicated to
all soccer moms who are the pillars of
soccer growth in the U.S.A.,” writes
Akuya. The book is also intended to
educate and enlighten those who are
not very familiar with soccer and to
help those that are currently playing,
teaching and managing the sport. It is
also a concise guide to give those with
interests in broadcasting and promoting soccer games an opportunity to
learn new tricks and techniques that
will make them more efficient in their
respective areas of expertise, says the
“The book places emphasis on the
fact that you cannot score goals if you
do not shoot the ball and, most important, you cannot win games if you cannot score goals,” says Akuya. “Its presentations are different from any other
books you have read about soccer. It
serves as a reference tool and a teaching tool for perfection.”
The author is a student of soccer
and played the game from elementary
through secondary school. He holds
associate’s and bachelor’s degrees in
computer science from The City University of New York and a master’s degree in management information systems from American University in
Washington D.C. He likes to dissect
soccer games and express his opinions
about how the game should be played
and promoted, he says. The publication
of this book is the cumulative result of
those observations, views, insights
and, above all, his effort to find a solution for what he sees as soccer’s
biggest and most common problem:
little or no goal scoring.
WALT DISNEY WORLD FLORIDA CLASSIC
TO RENEW TITLE SPONSORSHIP DEAL
T
wo thousand and six marks
the ninth year Walt Disney
World (WDW) will serve as
the title sponsor of the Florida Classic, the historic football showdown
between the Bethune-Cookman College (B-CC) Wildcats and the Florida
A&M University (FAMU) Rattlers.
Thousands of devoted fans will
rekindle the longstanding Sunshine
State rivalry during the Walt Disney
World Florida Classic at 3:30 p.m.
on Saturday, November 18 at the
Florida Citrus Bowl Stadium in Orlando, Fla.
This year’s game will bring
WDW’s total financial investment to
$2.3 million in scholarships to both
educational institutions.
“We’re delighted to be the title
sponsor of the Walt Disney World
Florida Classic again, and look forward to providing $400,000 in scholarships to students during this hallmark event,” explained WDW
Director of Minority Business Development Eugene Campbell.
The Walt Disney World Florida
Classic is expected to draw a sell-out
crowd of more than 72,000 fans and
will be televised before a national
audience on ESPN U. This game is
considered the largest Historic Black
Colleges & University (HBCU) football classic in the country.
Festivities kick off on Friday, November 17 with the Walt Disney
World Florida Classic “Fan Day” at
Disney’s-MGM Studios, where the
high-stepping college marching
bands will be guests of honor at Disney’s 3 p.m. parade during the annual Steppin’ in the Park event. The
soulful performances make this particular event a fan favorite, showcasing the top two award-winning
bands.
Priority seats for the Walt Disney
World Florida Classic are available
through season ticket packages
from both schools. For more information call the athletic ticket offices
at B-CC 368/481-2202 and FAMU
850/599-3141 .
General admission tickets may be
purchased at any Ticketmaster outlet,
at the TD Waterhouse Center, by
phone 407/839-3900 or on-line at
Ticketmaster.com.
Handicap accessible seating and
groups of 20 or more can be purchased from the Florida Citrus
Sports box office at the Florida Citrus Bowl Stadium. Fans should purchase their tickets at one of these approved locations. Buying from any
other source increases the risk of receiving a counterfeit ticket.
For info: 407/423-2476 or
[email protected].
THE METRO HERALD
BUSINESS NEWS
September 1, 2006
AFRICAN AMERICANS AND HISPANICS
DISPROPORTIONATELY
WITHOUT BANK ACCOUNTS
By Mark Hall, Freelance Journalist
A
ccording to a recent Survey of
Consumer Finances, 30% of
African American households
in America are unbanked. For Hispanics the statistics are worse—34% of
Hispanic households are unbanked.
Unbanked households do not have access to a traditional banking relationship. Many are forced to cash their
paychecks at check cashing establishments, and pay bills using cash and
money orders. The cost of these services, particularly to families with lower
incomes, can be exorbitant. Basic
things like the ability to direct deposit
your paycheck, withdraw cash at
ATMs, and purchase goods and services via the Internet, are services unbanked families don’t have access to.
That only 7% of Caucasian households are unbanked, has led many to
point to a disconcerting disparity in
America today. Hip-Hop entrepreneur
Russell Simmons, Chairman of Rush
Communications, believes education
and access to services play a key role.
“Financial Empowerment is the
final leg of the Civil Rights movement,” said Simmons. “Many young
people haven’t been taught how to
manage their finances. They don’t
know that if you don’t pay your phone
bill or your credit card bill that it can
affect your credit, and even hurt you
when you go to get a loan, or even
open a bank account as you get older.”
To address the lack of education
and resources in urban communities,
Simmons has been hosting Hip-Hop
Summits on Financial Empowerment
in major cities in America for the past
two years, which bring together HipHop stars and provide information and
awareness on how to manage your finances, budget, and understand your
credit. He also introduced the Prepaid
Visa Rush Card, the first general purpose reloadable prepaid card product
on the market developed specifically
for unbanked and underbanked consumers, and offered as a low-cost alternative to check cashers.
Unlike a credit card, prepaid cards
allow access to funds loaded in advance.
Reloadable card programs allow money
to be added to the card balance by the
consumer or through direct deposit, depending upon the program.
Today there are a number of general purpose prepaid card products on
the market that require no credit check,
or bank account. Along with Russell
Simmons’ Prepaid Visa RushCard, and
BabyPhat Prepaid Visa RushCard (see
www.RushCard.com), products like
the Wired Plastic Prepaid Visa Card
(see www.WiredPlastic.com), and the
Vaya Prepaid MasterCard Card (see
www.VayaCard.com) enable individuals to get back on track financially, and
ideally transition to a more traditional
banking relationship.
Features and services of reloadable
prepaid cards differ from provider to
provider, but the core functionality is
similar, including the ability to: direct
deposit your paycheck; pay bills online
and via the Visa or MasterCard payments network; load cash directly to
the card in thousands of retail locations
nationally; withdraw funds at ATMs;
and check your balance and payment
history online.
While some unbanked consumers
enjoy the convenience of no longer
having to cash their paychecks at
check cashers, or stand in line to pay
their bills every month, many find that
once they start using a prepaid card
product, it literally helps change their
lives and the way they manage money.
Lisa Snell-Smith has been a
BabyPhat Prepaid Visa RushCard user
since the card was first introduced.
She admits, “I don’t think I ever
learned to manage money correctly. I
used to write checks to people, which
would bounce. It’s embarrassing, and
it costs money.” Since she started
using the BabyPhat Rushcard, SnellSmith deposits her paychecks directly
to the card each month, and uses the
card to pay her bills. “I’ve learned to
only spend money that I have. I’m
able to track everything I spend in my
account using the Internet. [The
RushCard] has really helped me manage my finances better.”
UNWTO SIGNS NEW AGREEMENT
TO HELP AFRICAN TOURISM
T
he World Tourism Organization
(UNWTO) has signed an agreement to be the overall partner of
the upcoming TourismAfrica, as part of
its ambitious and ongoing efforts to
promote and aid tourism development
in Africa as a major tool to help eradicate poverty on the continent. The
Forum will be held 10-15 September
2006 in Geneva (Switzerland).
“We want to continue to be on the
frontline in creating jobs and fighting
poverty in Africa which has so much potential as a tourism destination,” said
UNWTO Secretary-General Francesco
Frangialli. “We have seen in other regions of the world just how much
tourism can help in economic development and certainly Africa has everything
visitors want to experience—natural
beauty, fascinating cultures, incredible
wildlife, adventure travel, etc”.
Within a broader framework of
achieving the Millennium Development
Goals, one of the UNWTO’s main tasks
is to assist Least Developed Countries,
such as those in Africa, in promoting
their tourism product as an instrument
of development through training, education and support service programs,
like the STEP (Sustainable Tourism
Eliminating Poverty).program.
Tourism industry professionals
from around the world will gather 1015 September in Geneva to participate
in the first TourismAfrica 2006, an
event aimed at boosting leisure travel
and sector investment.
In the accord signed with Strategic
Business Meeting S.A., the UNWTO
recognized the important role tourism
plays in African development and
agreed to be the overall Strategic Part-
ner of the event.
Last month, the Madrid-headquartered organization agreed a long-term
e-tourism partnership with Microsoft
to expand information communications technology in the tourism sector
with a special focus on Africa.
At
TourismAfrica2006,
the
UNWTO will continue its emphasis on
e-tourism when Geoffrey Lipman,
Special Advisor to the UNWTO Secretary-General, hosts an interactive panel
discussion on new technologies and
their role in development, as well as
business opportunities in Africa.
The UNWTO is co-organizing a
day-long conference titled “International Tourism: A Wealth of Opportunities for the Least Developed Countries”. Speakers will include the
ministers from seven African nations.
UNWTO Secretary-General Francesco Frangialli will also preside the
TourismAfrica´s inauguration.
African governments view tourism as
a major potential foreign exchange
earner and job creator but they need help
in getting the word out on the continent’s
myriad attractions to boost arrivals. According to current assessment by the
UNWTO, the number of visitors to the
continent is expected to rise to 47 million
a year in 2010 and to 77 million in 2020.
Organizers said TourismAfrica’s
main goals are fostering financing and
investment of tourism projects, promoting tourism destinations and activities in Africa and preserving the region’s unique heritage.
Additional information about
TourismAfrica 2006 and online registration on: www.tourismafrica.com.
URBAN INVESTMENT
PARTNERS ACQUIRES
APARTMENT COMPLEX
IN RIVERDALE, MD
U
rban Investment Partners
of Arlington, VA has acquired a 179-unit apartment building in Prince George’s
County, MD for $11,390,000.
UIP provided $3.3 million in
equity and Meridian Capital provided a mortgage loan.
Since 1999, UIP has acquired
over 1,600 rental apartment units in
the Washington, D.C. metropolitan
area on behalf of its investors, and
plans to acquire about 600 more
units by the end of the year. The
total value of UIP’s existing holdings is approximately $130 million.
Park Tanglewood, located in the
Washington, D.C. suburb of
Riverdale, MD, consists of a single
seven-story building with a 270space parking lot, swimming pool,
picnic area and playground. Built in
1965, it has undergone numerous
renovations and upgrades. The new
ownership plans to invest several
hundred thousand dollars for the implementation of modern heating systems and water-saving measures.
“Park Tanglewood is part of the
quality multifamily property portfolio that we have assembled,” said
Wout Coster, one of three principals of UIP. “With today’s cap
rates, it is difficult to find quality
investments that provide attractive
returns, but we identified this and
other acquisitions through our extensive knowledge of the Washington area market.”
DISB APPROVES WASHINGTONFIRST
BANK’S ACQUISITION OF
FIRST LIBERTY NATIONAL BANK
T
he District of Columbia Department of Insurance, Securities and
Banking (DISB) approved August 16, the application of WashingtonFirst Bank, Washington D.C., to acquire First Liberty National Bank,
Washington D.C. As of June 2006, WashingtonFirst, a District-chartered commercial bank, had about $127 million in assets, while First Liberty, a national
bank, had approximately $80 million.
“This acquisition would enhance WashingtonFirst’s ability to provide better deposit and lending services to the residents and businesses of the District
of Columbia, and the surrounding area,” said DISB Commissioner Thomas E.
Hampton. “This is an exciting prospect for the city.”
DISB reviewed the proposed merger transaction for conformity with the
District of Columbia banking code, and applicable regulations and policies.
“DISB considered WashingtonFirst’s financial and managerial resources,
future prospects, community development programs, as well as the public interest,” said DISB Associate Commissioner for Banking Howard Amer. “All
of these factors were found to be consistent with approval.”
WashingtonFirst was chartered in the District in 2004. It operates its head
office and one branch in the District, as well as two branches in northern Virginia. First Liberty has its head office in the District and three branches in
Maryland. First Liberty will be merged into WashingtonFirst as the surviving
bank, and its four offices will become branches of WashingtonFirst.
WashingtonFirst has six months to consummate the transaction.
THE METRO HERALD
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AUCTIONS (REAL ESTATE)
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beach access. September 9 @ 11:00
AM. Sneads Ferry, NC. North Shore
Country Club. Call 919-805-1711 for
showing. Visit www.johnsonproperties.
com—NCAL 2522, 7340. NCRBL8835.
Farm Auction—Franklin County, VA.
475+/- acres offered in multiple tracts on
Friday, October 6. Historic home—open
and wooded land—convenient to
Roanoke. Auction details with photos
available at www.woltz.com. Call 800551-3588 for a brochure. Woltz & Associates, Inc. (VA#321), Brokers and
Auctioneers.
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TRUCK DRIVERS
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HOMES FOR SALE
BANK FORECLOSURES! Homes from
$10,000! 1-3 bedroom available! Repos,
REOs, HUD, FHA, etc. These homes
must sell! For Listings Call 1-800-2985309 x4672.
RUSTIC CABIN FOR SALE—Just off
Blue Ridge Parkway near Smart View.
Price $89,000.00. Contact Walker
Commercial Services, Inc. (540) 3446160. www.walker-inc.com.
Just $59,990. Just 2 hours, 15 minutes
from Pittsburgh. Ready for that log
cabin. Only one! Call Owner 866-3861508.
ATTENTION HUNTERS! 27 Ac.
$89,000. Private National Forest Access. Secluded, wooded acreage west
of Lexington, VA. Access to a million
acres of George Washington National
Forest. Loaded with game. Ready for
your dream cabin! Owner 866-3632697.
WEST VIRGINIA FARMHOUSE ON 7
ACRES with private fishing pond.
Woods and fields. House has wraparound deck for great views. Country
setting—close to town. 1 hour 45 minutes west on Route 50. $189,500. Call
now: 866-347-1096.
LAWN AND GARDEN
PRIVACY HEDGE—Leyland Cypress
Summer Blow out sale. Fast Grower 3’3-1/2’ trees regularly $39.95 now only
$14.00 each. Free installation. Free delivery trees guaranteed.432-222-8837.
LOTS AND ACREAGE
LAND FOR SALE
20+ Acres with Private River Access.
Perfect for a vacation getaway and
retirement. Very usable with long range
mountain views. www.landneardc.
com.
5 MINUTES TO LEXINGTON, VA—2 to
6 acre mountain parcels from $69,990.
Incredible views! All Sites perked, with
underground utilities. Ready for your
second home or retirement Retreat!
Owner 866-363-2697.
ACREAGE IN THE WV MOUNTAINS—
2 acres with Trout Stream Frontage.
PERCHED ON THE MOUNTAINTOP—
This 15-acre tract has a beautiful homesite in the woods. Located in Amherst
County. Enjoy the mountain views this
fall & winter. $149,900. 540-294-0818.
2.25 ACRE HOMESITE—Open homesite at the foot of the mountain. Located
in Amherst County. Owner will finance
with low down payment. $33,900. 540294-0818.
2 ACRE BUILDING SITE—Beautiful
mountain views, on state road. Just minutes from I-81 Exit 205 in Northern
Rockbridge County. $85,900. 540-2942020.
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Lanes, Great Pay/Benefits. Also Hiring
BUSINESS PROPERTY FOR SALE
BUSINESS AND PROPERTY FOR
SALE—Pet Grooming and Boarding
Kennel Facility Operational And Fully
Equipped. Price: $179,500.00. Contact
Walker Commercial Services, Inc. 540344-6160. www.walker-inc.com.
EMPLOYMENT LISTINGS
Hiring 2006 Postal Jobs. $17.50$59.00 hour. Full Federal Benefits paid
training/vacation. No experience necessary. Green Card ok. Fee. 866-9075285 x 776.
EQUIPMENT FOR SALE
SAWMILLS from only $2,990.00—
Convert your LOGS TO VALUABLE
LUMBER with your own Norwood
portable band sawmill. Log skidders
also available. www.norwoodindustries.com—FREE information: 1-800578-1363 Ext:300-N.
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September 1, 2006
THE PREMIER HOMESITE—Stunning
360 degree views of the Blue Ridge
from this 14.7-acre site in northern
Rockbridge County. This spot must be
experienced in person. Call 540-2942020. $239,900.
AIRLINES ARE HIRING—Train for high
paying Aviation Maintenance Career.
FAA approved program. Financial aid if
qualified—Job placement assistance.
CALL Aviation Institute of Maintenance
(888) 349-5387.
PEACEFUL WATERFRONT—This 3.6acre site is perfect for watching wildlife,
fishing, swimming and canoeing at a 22acre lake near Farmville. $149,900.
540-294-0818.
WOLFF TANNING BEDS—Buy Direct
and Save! Full Body units from $22 a
month! FREE Color Catalog CALL
TODAY! 1-800-842-1305. www.np.
etstan.com.
5 ACRES—hardwoods and small clearing on state-maintained road. Septic approved; 20 minutes from Bedford.
Covenant, restrictions. Owner-financing,
low down payment. $49,900. 540-2942020.
2 ACRES FOR LOW DOWN PAYMENT—Wooded home site in Buckingham County (suitable for mobile
homes). Owner-financing available.
$22,900. 540-294-0818.
MISCELLANEOUS FOR SALE
Attend College Online from Home.
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assistance. Computer provided. Financial Aid if qualified. Call 866-858-2121.
www.OnlineTidewaterTech.com.
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HOMEOWNERS WANTED! Kayak
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display new maintenance free Kayak
pools. Save thousands of $$. Unique
opportunity! 100% financing available.
1-877-377-7665.
REAL ESTATE FOR SALE
Lake Gaston VA/NC—350 miles shoreline, FREE Lake Map/Buyers Guide. Tanglewood Realty, Box 116, Bracey, Virginia
23919. www.TanglewoodRealty.com
1-800-338-8816.
sunsetproperties.biz or call 888-3379214.
WATERFRONT PROPERTIES
NC Gated Lakefront Community.
Pleasantly mild climate 1.5 acres, 90
miles of shoreline. Never offered before
with 20% pre-development discounts,
90% financing. Call 800-709-5253.
Spectacular Virginia Waterfront—
CORBIN HALL—Gated, private community on Atlantic side of Virginia’s Eastern Shore. 3+ acre lots available from
$130K to $650K with immediate, deepwater access to Chincoteague Bay.
Amenities include community pier, boat
launch & beautiful community center
w/guest suites, pool, spa & fitness room.
PORT SCARBURGH Gated, private
community on Virginia’s Chesapeake
Bay. 1 to 12 acre waterfront lots available with pier access. Priced from
$370K to $599K. Location ideal for boating & fishing. Privacy close to quaint
villages, shopping & water activities.
Both properties feature spectacular
views, mild climate, low taxes, abundant
wildlife. 757-709-9525 or visit www.
corbinhall.com.
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for a change? Want to earn what you’re
really worth? Call Kelley 888-421-4838
for info.
FIRE YOUR BOSS! Work from home.
Seeking motivated people with a desire
to earn a $100K+ first year income. NOT
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Archive
issues
are available
at
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LAKEFRONT PRE-DEVELOPMENT
OPPORTUNITY! www.grandeharbor.
info All water-access homesites direct
from the developer. Most amenities
already in. Far below market value, from
$79,900. Possible 18 months NO PAYMENTS! Call Now! 888-BY-LAKES.
Waterfront Wilmington, NC—Historic
Port City Coastal Development The
Bluffs on the Cape Fear. Fastest Growing County in NC. Grand Opening Fall
2006. Direct Ocean Access. Preconstruction incentives to call now.
www.thebluffsnc.com 866-725-8337
Cape Fear Bluffs, LLC Broker.
VACATION RENTALS
Beach Rentals—enjoy a family
vacation now with reduced rates at
Sunset Beach, NC. Over 430 cottages
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Visit:
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AGENCY DIRECTOR
VIRGINIA DEPARTMENT OF
FORENSIC SCIENCE
RICHMOND, VA
The Virginia Department of Forensic Science, a nationally
accredited forensic laboratory system, seeks a highly motivated
and experienced individual to serve as the director of the agency.
The Department provides scientific analysis of evidentiary
material, as well as technical assistance and training to Virginia’s
criminal justice system. It employs approximately 300 staff in four
regional laboratories located in Richmond, Norfolk, Roanoke, and
Fairfax, serving the Commonwealth of Virginia.
The agency director will be responsible for the overall direction
of the four regional laboratories as well as operational, strategic,
and budgetary planning and oversight of the agency. The central
laboratory in Richmond houses the agency’s administrative offices
including the office of the agency director.
Competitive candidates should possess an advanced degree in
natural science, forensic science, or a closely related field with a
minimum of ten years experience in the field of forensic science,
including a minimum of five years management experience in an
accredited forensic science laboratory. Salary range is $92,900 to
$146,900; actual salary will be commensurate with experience and
salary history. This position is appointed by, and serves at the
pleasure of, the Governor. For more information, visit the
Department of Forensic Science website at www.dfs.virginia.gov.
The selected candidate will be required to submit to a
comprehensive background investigation to include DNA testing
via buccal (cheek) swab.
Interested persons should submit a resume, writing sample and
cover letter by 5:00 pm, October 16, 2006, to:
Clyde Cristman
Deputy Secretary of Public Safety
Office of the Governor
P.O. Box 1475
Richmond, VA 23218
Or email to: [email protected]
AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER
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