title of thi
year' nnu I youth conference
will be, "Tod y' Youth Chal
lenged by Troubl om Times."
The conference will begin June
18, t 3 p.m. t the Holiday Inn and
then commence at the Benton Har
bor High School at 7 p.m. and
returning to Holiday Inn t 9:30
p.m. w re the youth will be tay
in .
On Friday, Jun 19, at 9:30 a.m.
the youth will m et at the high
chool for devouori/ peaker. At 10
a.m. tb youth will prepare for the
religio m rch from the high
school to orton Par on Main
and P P '9(, where a rally and
pel inging will be held.
After the rally the youth will
return to the high school and
Holiday Inn for classes and other
activities.
On Saturday and Sunday the
youth will be attending other clas
ses and participating in other ac-
. tivities. At 2:30 p.m. Saturday a
pageant will be held to pick the
winner of Congeniality and at 7
p.m., the winner of Mr. and Mrs.
Michigan award will be presented.
THE CONFERENCE will
come to a closing on Sunday, June
21, at 3 p.m. at the Holiday 1M,
where a program and award
ceremony will be held.
According to Brock the classes
the youth will be attending will be
dealing with different types of sub
jects, some not pertaining to the
Commi
By BERNICE BROWN
BENTON HARBOR - Benton Har
bor Mayor Emma Hull and several
commissioners attended the Nation
al Conference of Black Mayors Con
vention recently at the Hyatt
Regency Crown Center, in Kansas
City, Missouri.
Mayor Hull, accompanied by
Commi loners Clarles Yarbrough,
James Turner and Steve Wooden at
tended the 5-day conference, from
April 22-26.
Rumor arose in the community
that the trip was paid for by members
of the Cornerstone. Alliance and
other private individuals.
According to Mayor Hull, the
registration fee for her was $125 and
$150 for each COmmissioners, with
the total cost of about $800 for each.
"1 haven't had one commissioner
tell me tonight what he brought back
that's going to benefit the residents
of Benton Harbor," Commissioner
George Wysinger said.
"It' not necessarilly about
reporting on the conference," said
Ma�or Hull, but "about the things
that you amed' 0 that you can see
ults."
She aid orne portions of the con
ference was about developing
leadership acros the country and
ne orting with the Black mayors
wi citi that have urban problems,
suc ftlfrastnacturc, finance an
devel men and how to gettechni
cal isUi certain organiza
tions.
SHE SAID she also spoke wi th a
mayor that wa involved in the
"Weed and Seed" program, and he
gave her some pointers.
Mayor Hull said another
workshop they attended was on
"media violence." She aid a lot of
things the Black mayors had do�e
and got indicted for, but when white
HILL ID H ... went t th
conference through th Benton
Harbor Area School Di trier. He
aid th conferenc w dealing
with African-Arneric n men and
boy .
"We mu t qu tion anything
that i being put into our heads,"
Hill aid.
"The key to every human
being' ucce i education.
Education i something that no one
can take way from you," Hill aid.
"We must give erio thought to,
the knowledege that is going into
ourhe dsofourm nandboys. We
must que tion anything that is
being put into our heads."
He aid there needs to b more
education on multiculturalism.
"Multicultural education doe not
eliminate anyone through history.
It just brings other people into his
tory just like Afrocentric education
does."
"Afrocentric and multicultural
education just puts history in its
proper perspective with the truth,"
Hill said.
He said over 150 students from
the Benton Harbor School System
heard orne dynamic speakers,
such as Attorney Patricia Russell
McCloud, who will be doing this
years Benton Harbor High School
graduation Commencement; Je se
Jackson Jr., and Paul Robeson Jr ..
ioner
discu strip
mayors did the same things nothing
was done.
She said all they have learned will
be useful when needed. "It's just like
if you go to COllege. You may not
never use it until you get a job, but as
long as you get the inform�tion an�
the situation arises, you will have it
to use."
She went on to ay, "You can't
have good leadership unl leader-
hip is developed. You must go to
place that re going to educate you
and qualify you to be the type of
leader that you need to be to lead the
city."
"You can't lead anything if you
are behind," she aid. "So that's why
you must have thi type of training.
We are not onl y educating ourselves,
but bring the information b ck and
educating the people as well.
COMMISSIONER Yarbrough
said he knew there were some ques
tions . raised about who went, and
who paid for the trip to Kansas City
for the commi sioners, "We ex
plained to yo before we left that this
wouldn't co t the city not one penny
from it general fund, with no
taxpayers' dollars involved in it, " he
said.
"Some businesses, organizations
and each commissioners that went
personally put up his own money,"
Yarbrough aid. '
He went on to say that there was
nothing wrong with anyone trying to
support the community anyway they
see fit. "Matter of fact, it was nece -
ary. We can't afford to pay our own
way to these very important learning
sessions that we all benefit from,
those that went, to bring back new
ideas to this community and thi ad
ministration to practice, "he aid.
"Thi is nothing that's knew," he
aid. "Busine e and organizations
have contributed things like this to
BENTON HARBOR
MISS BENTONHARBOR and h r court waved to the crowd lining M In Stre
recent Blo omtlm P r.... (Photo by H rdl Sell)
Hill aid there nee to be good
action from th city and good c
tion from th chool y tern.
"Edu ation i our key to ucce
al o. That' omething th t
nobodycantak away,sowew nt
to mak ure that we're in line with
what w want to do."
In other busine the commi -
sion approved th leasing from
McDonald Machinery, for a 3 1/2
wh el loader to remove and at
Jean Klock Park. Th co t of the
10 der will 4,200 a month. If
project is completed in le than a
month' time, the co t will be
prorated.
TH COMMI ION al 0 p
proved an installment purch e
agreement to finance a 1992
Dodge Caravan from Schroeder
Motors of Bent Harbor, for the
amount of 18,000.
The Caravan is for the use of the
City's Police Department and
funded as part of the pedal police
control for the Benton Harbor
Housing Authority, aid Michael
Vance, City' Finance Director.
Vance aid the $18,000 would
be reimbursed to the city over an
24-month period from the housing
commi ion.
Mayor Pr o-re m : Charles
Yarbrough conducted the meeting.
Mayor Emma Hull wa at a meet
ing in Lan ing at the time.
the city (or its benefit all the time. It's
nothing wrong with it and no laws
have been broken."
"QUITE FRANKLY, for those
that want to know, 'it's none of your
business, ttl Yarbrough said. He
went on to ay, the people would be
impressed if they would ask the
question, "what was gained by
going" rather than, "Who went and
who paid."
Yarbrough saidsomeone is trying
"to divide this administration, but it'
not going to work." .
"You can't make a case where
there is no case," he added.
In the City's Charter (Illegal to
Accept Gifts): Section 3.56, itstates:
"No member of the Commi sion, the
. Manager, or other officer c
employee of the City shall knowing
ly accept any gift, frank, free ticket,
pass, reduced price or reduced rate of
ervice from any person, firm or cor
poration operating a public utility
within the City; or from any person
known to him to have or to be en
deavoring to secure a contract with
the Cty. The provi io of thia -
lion ball not apply to the porta
tion of policemen or firemen in
uniform or wearing their official
badg when the same is provided by
ordinance or otherwise. No member
of the Commission shall be eligible
to an appointive office within i gift
during the period for which he w
elected:"
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