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FEBRUARY 28 - MARCH 6, 2013
B-CU first HBCU to sign agreement with SBA
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Small Business Administration to expand access to loan programs BY JAMES HARPER DAYTONA TIMES harperjames59@yahoo.com
Borrowers and lenders of loans backed by the U.S. Small Business Administration will have greater access to capital and less paperwork as a result of a proposed regulation aimed at streamlining the SBA application process, an administrator
for the agency said this week. The announcement comes as Bethune-Cookman University Interim President Dr. Edison Jackson signs an agreement with the SBA, another example that he is laying roots to become the university’s next full-time president if asked by the school’s Board of Trustees at their next meeting this month to take on the job. A story that appeared in last Friday’s Florida Courier (sister newspaper of the Daytona Times) stated that Jackson would accept the position full time if asked by the board.
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Access to capital On Feb. 14, Jackson met with Cassius Butts, regional administrator for the SBA. Jackson, along with Butts and Wilfredo J. Gonzalez, the North Florida district director, signed a Strategic Alliance Memorandum (SAM). SBA helps develop thousands of small businesses each year by providing access to start-up and expansion capital, counseling, training, surety bonding, business and home disaster mitigation loans and government contracting opportunities. Jackson reiterated to business students who were at the signing
that they are his first priority. “Our goal is to produce worldclass graduates. We want you to be proud you matriculated from here that you are prepared for the world. Stop thinking you have to work for someone else and that is your only choice,” Jackson said. “Dream the impossible. Get rid of dream killers. Winners run with winners,” Jackson told students.
Milestone for B-CU B-CU is the first of 59 historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) in the Southeast to enter into an agreement with the
Attorney relates Daytona’s segregated times in new novel ‘White Sugar, Brown Sugar’
BY JAMES HARPER DAYTONA TIMES harperjames59@yahoo.com
There was a time when Blacks living in Daytona Beach could not go across the bridge to the city’s beachside unless they were working in someone’s house as a maid, working as a yard man, cooking n a restaurant or cleaning hotel rooms for tourists. Attorney Mike Pyle remembers those segregated times and has written a novel titled “White Sugar, Brown Sugar” using the city and that Editor’s time period note: During in the 1950s Black and 1960s History as the setMonth, the ting for the Daytona book. Times shares Pyle said the stories of the book is some area about the residents friendship who have of two boys made great – one Black, strides the other locally and White – and nationally. how their relationship defied the odds of race and time. “I decided I wanted to have a Black character in the book late. I saw similarities and differences how people of different social and cultural backgrounds, with different incomes could go through drug abuse and alcoholism. I wanted to show somebody with money and somebody without money ending up in the same situation,” Pyle explained.
‘Didn’t understand racism’ Pyle, 59, uses the pen name E.G. Tripp, which he and his
Small Business administration to promote small, minority-owned businesses, according to Butts. Dr. Weldon Blake, B-CU’s Business Department chair, was instrumental in coordinating the SAM. Butts said HBCUs and their faculty serve as the foundation for strong and thriving communities. “This partnership will foster young entrepreneurship, especially in minority communities,” Butts noted. Jackson said the partnership with SBA is a milestone for B-CU. Please see b-cu, Page 2
Black race fans don’t let lack of diversity keep them from 500 BY ANDREAS BUTLER DAYTONA TIMES butleramj@yahoo.com
father also was an attorney. Pyle said his father, who was a long way from being a civil rights activist, quickly told the person “that kind of language was not tolerated in his house.” The attorney also remembered when Dr. Martin Luther King came to St. Augustine.
Each year, the Daytona 500 and events leading up to the big race attracts hundreds of thousands of visitors and brings in nearly $2 billion into the local economy. On Sunday, Blacks who attended the Sunday Daytona 500 were talking about the excitement of the event even though Saturday’s harrowing crash had cast a pall over weekend activities. The Nationwide Series race, which took place at the Daytona International Speedway (DIS) a day before the Daytona 500, made headlines due to a major crash. A car went flying into a front section of the grandstands injuring more than 30 people and hospitalizing 15. NASCAR has opened up an investigation into the crash to check safety measures but three people have retained Orlandobased law firm Morgan & Morgan for legal representation. The Daytona Times had learned of no lawsuit being filed by its Wednesday night deadline. Attorney Matt Morgan of Morgan & Morgan announced the hiring on Twitter Monday night. The tweet read: “BREAKING: My firm has been retained by three individuals who were injured at the NASCAR race this past weekend. -- @MattMorganESQ.” Morgan told ESPN.com on Tuesday that no lawsuits had been filed, but he was gathering information for the individuals to “pursue their claim for damages against the entities responsible for the injuries.”
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Above: Attorney Mike Pyle, who was born and raised in Daytona, uses the pen name E.G. Tripp in his novel. Left: Daytona Beach is the setting for a book about the friendship of a Black boy and White boy.
daughter came up with. He was born and raised in Daytona Beach and says though the characters in the book are fictitious, they are based on his life and people he met on his journey to becoming a successful attorney in the area. The White character in the book is Jude and Roosevelt is
his Black friend. Jude is loosely based on Pyle’s life.
Remembers MLK’s arrest In an interview with the Daytona Times, Pyle remembered hearing someone visiting their house and used the word “nigger,’’ which his father heard. His
No eminent domain for those affected by Orange Avenue project BY JAMES HARPER DAYTONA TIMES harperjames59@yahoo.com
Many of the approximately 150 people at the John H Dickerson for a discussion on the overhaul of Orange Avenue were concerned about one thing. Will Daytona Beach be using eminent domain to buy their private property for the $19.5 mil-
lion project? Daytona Beach Public Works Director Ron McLemore, project manager for the construction project, calmed their fears. He said there are no plans to do any construction renovations outside of city and county property in which the street and sidewalks already exist. McLemore left the door open to the possibility of the city us-
ing eminent domain, saying construction of Orange Avenue from Nova Road to Beach Street is being done so that a future commission can expand or widen the thoroughfare if they choose to do so.
Frontage stays same He said the city is not taking any frontage from property owners. Sidewalks will be widened
within the right of way. McLemore also noted that Orange Avenue from Nova Road to the railroad tracks is two lanes and 50 feet wide. Residents asked about a bicycle path on the strip and turn lanes at every intersection. McLemore said such suggestions are not in the design but will be considered. In reference to widening Or-
ange Avenue from Nova Road to the railroad track, McLemore said since there are no funds in the current budget to purchase frontage; requests to have construction of this area go from two lanes to four lanes would kill the project.
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