Central Community Out-
re ch ervice nd U . Y
ro . ionofPromi Community
Servi ,1 ted t 1 9 Pipe -
ton Street, Benton H rbor, i not
only providing food nd h lter
or th homele • but i no
providin rvie for di bled
vete ns.
Gwen Swift, E cutive Direc-
tor for the Center id the
Ve ra dmini tion provide
ervice for di abled veterans
through th Cen er.
The Center h ve n provid-
in rvice to the community
inee Au t 1 . d Swill.
Service rendered through the
Cen r re follo :
- Vouche for portation
'to nd from VA Ho pital ,
through the Greyhound B Sta­
tion.
- Flor I arrangemen for
burial, if the family of a veteran
can't afford to buy flower arran­
gements the Center will donat
them. Veterans must qualify for
thi ervice.
- Emergency transportation
for individuals that are ill and
don't have money or transporta­
tion to get to the doctor, through
Beer & Wine
Uquor
for emergency
i tan
- Housing for t homel
both men and worn n.
- Coun ling rvice for
vetera by prot ion I coun­
lor from th D troit Vet ran
Center.
Swi t id th Cent rio h ve
VA 10 ns fundin through the
Veteran Admini tration Cent r.
"We have joined hand with th
Ve ra P rtn rowe can h ve
teran drop-in Center in th
Berrien County area," h aid.
Swift id th mo t biggest
problem he h ve een, i tbe
need of transportation ervi .
"We don't provide trarsportation
for peoples that are low income,
but we do provide -rrarsportation
for the homet and the disable
veterans."
Swift said he and two more
staff per on will have to go
thro gh orne training by repre­
sentativ from the Veteran Ad­
ministration Center.
"We are her to erve the
veterans and other needed people
in the community," said Swift.
Packagea Meats
Grocerie
Rib Shack & Party Store
BAR·B·Q RIBS & CHICKEN IS OUA SPECIAL TV
. 268 E. EMPIRE
BENTON HARBOR. MI. 49022
(616) 925·6007
T�KE OUT SERVICE ONLY
MON. - SAT.
8a·2a
SUNDAY
11a· 12 mid.
WHEN THE propo al were
brought to comm ion at their
o hop earlier thI month. they
were de ti to which company
uId benefit tbC city more. Some
commi ioners id, go with W
M n gement, be e Ind t al
Sanitation did not secure ibid th
a bond which required by the city'
b ckftng process. And otbcr eommis-
loners f: vored Ind trial Sanitation
beca it w local and would hire
city re iden .
Al though the commi sion
awarded the contract wi th a 5-4 vote,
City Manager Steve Manning aid
the commission needed 2{3 vote to
pas the resotutlon, which six (6) of
the nine (9) commissioners had to be
in favor of the contract.
Manning said after checking into
, the matter with the city's attorney,
Scott Smith, of the Cary, Nantz,
Wood, H ffi ,Rankin & Cooper
Law Fil111, be id it would only take
a majority vote to award contracts.
The 2/3 vote requirement w for
sale or receiving land and real tate.
Awarding tbe bid proposal was
originally postponed until tho city
commi ion got legal advice from
Attorney Smith regardin action
W te Management would t ke
against the city if Industrial Sanita­
tion was awarded the bid.
Commissioner Kerry Shannon
stressed two weeks ago. that the city
was looking at � law suit from Waste .
It' Time to Make that
Change and We Are the
People to Do It
*Job /Job Training
*Hou Ing
*Rellable Haith Cafl
F .cllltle
*Recr atlon
*Safer Street
*Clean City Street
*Bu Ine Developm nt
for Th� People
Make That Change! VOTE
u
P d For By Th. Commltt .. To Elect Emma Hull For M yor
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MUSKEGON
At The Library
Halloween treats and bookmarks
will be P d out in the Children's
room October 28 througb October
31sL
Pre-Scbool StoryTime will meet
on Wednesday and Friday, October
30 and ovember 1. The film, "A
Dark, Dark 1i Ie", 11l be shown
along with other Halloween storie
for young children, a 3·5.
Movie for children are shown on
Saturday at 1 p.m. Showing
November 2, will be, Curious
George and Rip Van Winkle.
College Night
•
ollow the Echo . The Echol
will be he ed for Milw ee, W· •
co in on Saturday, December 7, for
Christmas hopping t tb Grand
Avenue Mall.
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Readers Write:
Community hould
be outraged at yor
on
Editor,
Jbere' omething wrong wi th
African Amerians in our community.
You have a white mayor of a
predominantly Black town, an inter­
esting paradox, dismi s an entire
generation of African descent as
"lost" and only a few brave soul in
the community takes offense at the
comment.
Have we become 0 filled with
If-hate, that we will let a member.
of a race, with a proven track record
of meaning no good, berate our
youth we tand by and let it hap­
pen?
Where' the public outcry
demanding Bill Wolf apologize for
his racist and -very dangerous com­
ment? Or do the older African
Americans .in Benton Harbor truly
. believe that the future of our People
are "lost"?
Mayor Wolf i the only mayor in
the entire country to dismi an entire
generation of young African
Americans.
THE MAYORS of Chicago and
Detroit have much larger problems
. than we have, but Richard Daley and
Coleman Young never gave up on an
entire generation of Black people.
I'm a 33-year-old African
American father of four and I refuse
to accept the fact that they're lost
because a white man doesn't know
how to relate or understand them.
I raise them to be aware of their
proud history a people. I tell them
about Africans, before the birth of
•
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..
."
I,
Christ, m tering medicine, astrol- . :
ogy, th arts, and civilization. '
1 tell th m about their leaders'
from Hannibal to Nate Turner to
Loui Farrakhan. .
I tell them that years of being tom �
away from the land of their ,
forefathers, the de truction of the
African family during slavery, the'
los of our culture and religion, cen- .
turie of institutional racism, and .
more importantly, being forced to �.
recogrw:c the Son of God white
-man is finally taking it's toU among .:«
people.
THE LACK OF job oppor • .':
tunities, ignorance, elf·hate, aoo tbe
deliberate dumping of crack cocaine 'IIJ
in our community haS led some of
.�
our young people down the wrong
path, but that doe n't mean they're
"lost"; just imply misled and
neglected.
They were abandoned by the cur- I �
rent ,generation of Black leadership ';
who became complacent when they'. "­
became integrated and "accepted" by . t
white society. 1 -
They moved out of their neigh- .
borhoods leaving a void of leader- �"
ship and role models fOJ the current-
.'
youth. .
. As economic opportunities ,
opened up a generation ago, they 1
took their money and spent it in other, •
neighborhoods and stopped
patronizing Black businesses.
They took their children out of .. '
schools they attended in their youth ..
and placed them in other school di - , .
tricts hoping they would be better, to
but instead their children were ig· I,:
nored culturally and educationally. . I
So, Mr. Mayor, if you're strug- ..
gling with a generation of "lost"
young African Americans, you -
should place the blame on boulders oJ
of your bon-sighted, selfish sup­
porters and the basic contempt your �
race has for African Americans in"
this society.
Lake Michigan College' Annual
College Night is scheduled for Mon­
day, November 11, from 7-9 p.m. in
the LMC Mendel Center for Arts and
. Technology.
Sylvia Coleman, LMC director of
financial aid, will discus financial
aid programs and packages and will
answer questions in two half-hour
ions at 7:30 and 8 p.m. in the
Hanson 1bcatre of the Mendel Cen­
ter.
Call 1-80().2S2 1LMC or 616-
927-3571, ext. 262 for more infor-
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