The fello t acirema
ub rre b y gettin re dy
.. r "Nacirema Week" in early
: August. Sadie Hawkins Day
(ladle bring the men), a race
track party, a bridge &. whi t
party and a Belle I le picnic
, are included. Ernest Broyle
- js club pre ident. ...
The Virginia Park Com
munity Investment As ocia
tion is offering cholarship to
college to students with a
• grade point average of 2.5.
• Applicants must live in the
Virginia Park area, be a high
school graduate and be under
21. Contact Education Com
mittee, 8671 Ro a Parks Blvd.
48206 ...
Pianist and singer, Jo Dun-
'more and her on, Greg, are
back after a week in Madrid,
Spain where she performed to .
an enthused audience every
night. ...
The Belle Maison Monday
Night Bridge club met in the
Friendship room where four
tables of players gathered for
the two-bout session.
They included Art
Johnson, first place winner;
Cornelia Cheek, second place
and Billie Anderson, third
place ... Others enjoying the
game were Helen Tims, Clyde
Turner, Henry Morgan, Jim
Hill, Nancy Walstine, Jonnie
Gibbs, Vera Dunlap, Marjorie
• and Jim Atkinson, Rhetta
: Johnson, Mildred Gill and
I Mary Faulkner ... Sherman
I Cheek conducts the weekly
: games and awards the cash
: prize to winners ...
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A great many "get well
wishes" are going to Lela Bur
nette, president of the pres
tigious Current Topic Study
Club; Emma Bradford, Floyd
Penick, Fern Gahagan and
Mary n ... Calls, cards
and visits are cheering them.
Brunetta Taylor is making
a two month visit to Los An
geles, where she helps her
daughter and granddaughter
celebrate their birthdays.
• Brunetta was top ticket-seller
• this year for Metropolitan
: Baptist Church's annual
i Fashionscope ...
I The Michigan Coalition for
• Human Rights will host a July
• tour for High School students
: who are interested in social
: justice issues. The number to
: call for other information is
831-0258 ...
: Congratulations to 17 year
• old Jenice Mitchell, winner of
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• the NAACP Essay & Art con-
: test, "What does the Civil
• Rights Struggle mean to me?"
The contest helped
I celebrate the Detroit branch's
: annual Freedom Fund dinner
: held at Cobo Hall last month.
: Jenice received a $300
• Savings Bond and 2 dinner
I tickets. She is a senior at Mar-
tin Luther King Hi�h ...
The October Calendar club
of Bethel AME Church
: presented "The Pa tor's
: Chorus in Concert" last Sun
, day afternoon at the church.
Laura Fo ter directed the
: group. Special guest artist
: was Roland Sunkins,
: violinist. ..
WILLIE B. SMITH
Wilson, the widow of the late
Porterfield Wilson, will receive the
East Bank Association Porterfield
Wilson Award, honoring a person
credited with making a major con
tribution to the betterment of the
community in a direction-setting or
pathfinding fashion.
DETROIT
p ident of
., Porterfield'
ervers on the
DIANE J. EDGECOMb
Detroit Civil Service commission
and is a recipient of SA VVY Woman
magazine's "Savvy 60" list of top
woman business owners, and is
listed in Crain's Detroit Business'
"Michigan' Top 50 Businesses
Owned and Operated by Women."
Edgecomb, president of Detroit's
t 1 rge.
Ed ecomb' contribution to
Detroit' elt-beln include
project for perm ent Ughtin of th
Am dor Bridge to m e "neck
I ce of Ugh "linldn two natio ,
ere tion of revitalization program
for Gree to n, the "Detroit low"
progr m which brought. e onal
lighting to downtown t Chri tm
time, major downtown Detroit
landm r nd the tate of the an
lighting for major downtown tree .
She wa elected a one of
Detroit' "Ten Mo t Influential
Women" by the Detroit Free Press,
nd i recipient of the Greater
Detroit Ch mber of Commerce
"Summit" award and Michiganianof
the Year" award, among many
others.
Smith, 31, i receiving the East
Bank Association Rising Star award,
recognizing a young person, a pew
comer to the community or someone
in the early years of their career who
either live, works or has invested in
the East Bank community and made
a contribution that indicates a
promise of future greater positive
impact on the community. An East
Side resident, Smith is attached to
the 5th Precinct.
SMITH ORGANIZED and
coaches the East Side Blue Jays Ath
letic Club of up to 30 neighborhood
youngsters comprising up two
baseball teams. The group, Of
ganized under the Detroit Police
Department's Police Athletic
League (pAL), sponsors the only
(Photo by Earlene Tolliver)
During a recent drawing sponsored by River Ide Ford In Detroit, Malcolm Morran (center) of Detroit
was the winner of a 3 nights\4 days Bahama Cruise Package. Also pictured are (left)Steve Conyer ,
new car 8ale8 manager and (right) Tim Turner, generalsalea manager.
Scholarship
auditions
slated
Marygrove College will
hold scholarship auditions for
its internationally acclaimed
Summer School fot the Per
forming Arts/Festival of
Dance on Sunday, June 7, at 1
p.m. in the Liberal Arts build
ing on campus located at 8425 ..
West McNichols at Wyoming.
The dance audition is open
to students 12 years of age and
older who are at least at inter
mediate level. Students will
be judged on their perfor
mance and technique in the
areas of ballet, modem, and
jazz. Several scholarships
will be awarded.
For more information call
862-8000, extension 572.
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BARBRA WILSON AND SON CHRISTOPHER WILSON.
PAL team on the East Side.
A native of Pontiac, Smith was a
member of the U.S. Marine Corp
and is youth director of Redeemer
Church of God in Christ on Detroit'
East Side and chairman of the Op
timist International Junior Optimist
Club. "God has blessed me," ays
Smith.
"If not for the help of adults who
recognized me as a kid I'd be in
prison instead of a police am,
try to give some of that back."
Founded in 1990, the East
As ociation i an organizatl.
busine owners and civic lead·
Detroit' East Side between J
son and the Detroit River, fro
Belle Isle Bridge east to the c
Pointe Park border.
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PhotO: R n
I van Neal has put out
He's not a
a lot of fires.
firefighter-
he's a teacher. But to the
kids he's reached, �'s a hero.
eM. M O.
Call1-800-45-TEACH.