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Reed: Tear down ‘deplorable’ Zone 6 properties

PEOPLE SPEAK

Commissioner voices concerns at Midtown meeting; Tooley named new chair of board

BY JAMES HARPER DAYTONA TIMES harperjames59@yahoo.com

Daytona Beach Zone 6’s commissioner is calling for the demolition of abandoned and neglected buildings in the area she serves.

Commissioner Paula Reed brought

her concerns before the Midtown Area Redevelopment Board this week as it elected Bishop Martin Tooley as the new chairman. Tooley replaces outgoing chair Hemis Ivey.

Reed recently toured the Midtown area of the city, which has a heavy Black population, with Daytona

Beach Redevelopment Director Reed Berger and Charles Bryant. She called what she witnessed “deplorable.

Boarded up too long Elected last November to her first term as the Zone 6 commissioner, Reed told the Midtown board mem-

bers she wants to do more to help the area be successful to attract more businesses and residents.

“This is ridiculous. So many places are boarded up and are left boarded up for so long. We need to get some teeth (in our code enforcement poliPlease see REED, Page 2

NAACP probing arrest of 911 caller

BY JAMES HARPER DAYTONA TIMES harperjames59@yahoo.com

Tuskegee Airmen Hiram Mann, Daniel Keel and Charles Holiday made a stop at Campbell Middle School last week during their touring exibition.

Living legends share history at middle school Three Tuskegee Airmen, traveling exhibit make stop at Campbell

Family to sue city

BY ANDREAS BUTLER DAYTONA TIMES butleramj@yahoo.com

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hree legendary pilots were back in the area last week to speak and answer questions about their adventure during World War II. Tuskegee Airmen Charles “Doc’’ Holiday, Daniel Keel and Hiram E. Mann, all fighter pilots, attended a presentation at the Rise Above Tuskegee Airmen Red Tail Traveling Exhibit. The exhibit was at Campbell Middle School April 3-4.

“The event was a tremendous success.

The Airmen spoke one on one with the students. They put a face on their story and told the kids how they overcame adversity to succeed,” said Percy Williamson, director of Daytona Beach’s Leisure Services Department.

Craig Zablo, principal of Campbell Middle, added, “You often hear about heroes, but these are real heroes. It was good to have these real American heroes.

It was a pleasure for our students, parents and faculty to meet them. This year alone we have had some of our students meet the governor and others – Olympic gold medalists, but this was more exciting for them.’’

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The arrest of a Black Daytona Beach resident after she called 911 for help after her home was burglarized has garnered the attention of the local NAACP. “We have spoken with Mrs. Jones, and will be following up with Chief (Mike) Chitwood regarding the arrest,” Daytona Beach NAACP President Cynthia Slater told the Daytona Times on Wednesday.

Slater was referring to Dedra Jones, who was arrested April 1 after she called the Daytona Beach Police Department (DBPD) for help but was arrested herself about an hour after her first 911 call.

Also on Wednesday, Jones’ daughter Natalie told the Times that the DBPD had informed the family that two people have been arrested in the burglary based on fingerprints lifted from the home.

Volusia County School Board member Ida Duncan-Wright addresses a group of spectators who visited the Tuskegee Airmen at Campbell Middle School.

Natalie Jones said her family still plans to sue the city for the false arrest of their mom. However, they are having trouble getting a local lawyer to take the case.

Natalie said she was even told by a Black attorney the case would be hard to win and other attorneys would be biased against them.

Natalie said her family is looking for legal representation outside of Volusia County.

“We want my mom’s name to be cleared. They don’t understand it just wasn’t just my mom calling 911. The purpose of the lawsuit against the city is not for money but to clear my mom’s name,” Natalie said.

According to a police report on her arrest, a call was made from Jones’ cell phone at 4:33 p.m. for help. Another call was made a half-hour later when no one had showed up. The police report said eight calls were made from Jones’ cell phone.

“We have contacted Mayor (Derrick) Henry and other commissioners and they have not responded back to us. We have never had police called to our home and when we needed them it seems like they didn’t care,” Natalie added.

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Marriage material? Church seminar to help single women figure it out

By ASHLEY THOMAS DAYTONA TIMES athomasnews@gmail.com

A workshop and seminar for women who are ready for their significant others to – as Beyonce sings – “put a ring on it,” is being held next week at Hope Fellowship Church.

The free workshop titled “Mar-

riage Material” is the first in a three-part series focused on women aged 21-45 who are not married but welcome the idea.

The sessions, which will be conducted quarterly, are to “equip, excite and encourage pre-marital women through a biblical message of chastity, beauty and virtue,” explains Jada Ford facilitator of the event.

The first workshop will be held April 20 from noon to 2 p.m. at Hope Fellowship Church, 869 Derbyshire Road.

“It will be an interactive seminar that will serve as a great icebreaking experience. The topics of discussion will be, physical fitness and nutrition, skin care, makeup, hair and fashion.”

“There will also be a ‘Food For

Thought’ segment that will ask the question “To Date or Not To Date?” where I will share insight from a book written by Joshua Harris,” added Ford. “Its gonna be fun!”

Friends first As she celebrates four years of marriage to her husband, Clinton, in July, Ford says they were

friends first.

“We would both attribute the happiness and success of our marriage to our individual relationships with Christ. In fact, it was that very thing that sparked our friendship to begin with when we met in 2003. It’s funny because neither one of us was each other’s ‘type’ physically at Please see SEMINAR, Page 6

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Two indicted in Dent’s death

BY JAMES HARPER DAYTONA TIMES harperjames59@yahoo.com

An 18-year-old was charged this week with first-degree murder of a 17-year-old while another young man along for the ride has been charged as a principal to the murder.

Ji’Ron Dent died March 7, two days after being allegedly shot by Tijuan Isaac.

The teen’s death has prompted an outcry by community leaders, including Mayor Derrick Henry and Commissioner Patrick Henry. Patrick Henry is establishing a mentoring program geared toward Black males. Both Henrys spoke at the teen’s funeral last month.

Enrique Chapman was indicted on the principal to first-degree murder for allegedly being a passenger in the car at the time of the shooting, according to State Attorney spokeswoman Klare Ly in a report.

In stolen vehicles Dent was a front-seat passenger in a stolen Ford on March 5 and his accused killers were the driver and passenger in a stolen Dodge, police say.

Reports indicate that Dent was riding in a vehicle with John Headon when the vehicle was fired upon from occupants of another vehicle.

Both vehicles Tijuan were reported stoIsaac len and the incident stemmed from an argument over the ownership of the vehicle that Dent was riding in according to reports.

Four young men were arrested related to the shooting: Isaac, Chapman, Enrique George Green, Jr. Chapman and Justin Nelson.

Headon was arrested shortly after the shooting and charged with violation of probation but police say that his arrest has nothing to do with the shooting.

He had fled the scene by the time police arrived to the shooting in the Dent case, according to police reports.

On March 5, the Daytona Beach Police Department responded to

the area of North Clyde Morris and Florida Street in reference to multiple vehicles chasing each other exchanging gunfire.

According to a press release, Dent was shot by Isaac firing multiple times with a handgun striking him in the head, this as the defendant actively pursued him.

Mentoring program and march Out of Dent’s tragedy was born a program for young Black men and teens.

The program is being started by Henry and will be housed in the Derbyshire area with 15 young men to begin with.

“I challenge every Black man to take two young Black men and mentor them no matter where they are.

If we start to show these young men love, maybe they will show love for themselves,” Commissioner Henry has stated.

Bringing people together and working toward a solution against gun violence and domestic abuse also will be the focus of a “March Against the Madness” rally scheduled May 18.

It is scheduled to start at 9 a.m. from Derbyshire Park near Hope Fellowship Church in Daytona Beach.

Suicide prevention, awareness the focus of campus seminar

BY TAMARA PATRICK DAYTONA TIMES

According to the American Association of Suicidology, 2,144 African-Americans committed suicide in the United States in 2010. Suicide was the third-leading cause of death among AfricanAmerican youth ages 10to 19 after homicide and accidents.

Bethune-Cookman University Counseling Services along with the Project S.T.E.P.S. (Survival Through Education Prevention and Services) Program hosted a seminar on Monday that took a critical look at those statistics. The seminar was titled “Many Voices, One Vision.’’

The goal of the seminar was to build awareness of suicide among underrepresented student populations. Students at B-CU and Daytona State College as well as representatives from the community participated in the seminar.

Joi Niles, a B-CU counselor and presenter at the seminar, said about 100 people attended the oneday event.

Speaker Dr. Joy Kinard (left) is pictured with Dr.Claudette McFadden, Dr. Janette Ford and Margaret Symonette following the suicide prevention seminar.

Ideation Among AfricanAmerican Students.’’ The program session was an interactive approach to understanding risk factors associated with collegeaged African-Americans.

“Based on the feedback of students and how it relates to African-Americans and suicide, I believe it had a major impact on those who came to the session,” Niles told the Daytona Times.

Nikes also spoke on some of the common misconceptions in the Black community as it relates to mental illness, stating, “A lot of times African-American people believe going to church solves mental illness, negating that further action and treatment needs to take place to help a person at times.’’

Before the conference, Niles noted, “Suicide does not discriminate and affects everyone.’’

Understanding risk factors

Gays, veterans represented

Niles, along with Dr. Earl Mowatt, were presenters for a session titled “Understanding Suicide

The seminar included sessions on services for veterans, addressing the needs of LGBTQ (lesbian,

REED from Page 1 cies) and hold the property owners accountable,” Reed remarked.

Reed said if the owners of the properties are not going to live in the structures “or keep them up (to code), then tear them down.”

She asked: “How can we attract businesses, how can we attract families to move into Midtown if it looks the way that it looks?’’

Tooley takes charge Reed commended board members for the job they have done so far, including the new Midtown Master Plan. But she also reminded them that they are her “eyes and ears.’’

“I depend on you. Midtown is in my zone. Together we can make a difference,” she added.

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Martin Tooley

Before Reed spoke, the board elected Tooley of Amazing Grace Ministries as the new chairman.

Tooley, who has been on the board a little over a year, set the tone when he asked Berger why were there no request forms visible at the meeting for the public to speak after items were discussed. He also inquired about the lack of request forms for the public to comment at the end of the meeting as he has seen at other city board meetings.

Berger said Midtown has always operated this way but said at the next meet-

gay, bisexual, transgender and queer and questioning) students, genetic factors and family mental health history, the stigma of seeking mental health treatment among AfricanAmericans, and overcoming life’s barriers and challenges.

A session also dealt with campus and local resources for student veterans.

Later, a panel of women discussed the road to recovery after a diagnosis of bipolar, schizophrenia, and schizoaffective disorder.

Dispelling myths The closing speaker was Nakaisha Tolbert-Banks, who is the director of Education and Public Affairs Mental Health America of Greater Indianapolis. Tolbert-Banks’ topic dealt with dispelling myths that suicide does not exist in the Black community.

During her presentation, she talked about understanding the impact suicide has on the AfricanAmerican community and discussed the stigma and warning signs of mental illness and suicide.

ing request forms for the public to speak would be available.

“My heart is in midtown. I was born and raised in Midtown. I live in the house I was born in. I am looking forward to a productive year,” Tooley said, also noting that he was pleased how his first meeting ran as chair.

“Thanks for keeping everything germane to topics we dealt with. Sometimes we run down bunny trail,” Tooley said with a chuckle.

Ivey opens meeting Tooley was the only name put up for nomination for chair, with only board members Pat Heard and Dr. Irma Jamison voting against him.

Heard, the vice chair of the group, oversaw the election of Tooley after Ivey was asked to step down from the podium because his extended time as chair was over.

Assistant City Attorney Ben Gross informed the

Training and certification QPR (Question, Persuade, Refer) training and certification was offered at the seminar. QPR is set up to help participants learn how to help those who may seem suicidal and in need of help. Participants learned how to ask questions if suicide is being considered. There also were a large number of participants in QPR training.

Niles called the seminar a success and said B-CU’s counseling center wants to do it again. “There has been talk of making this an annual event,” she said.

Project S.T.E.P.S. is a campus-wide suicide prevention program designed to help diminish or eliminate risk factors that predispose students to suicidal ideation and suicidal attempts.

Tamara Patrick is a BCU student majoring in mass communications.

She is interning this semester with the Daytona Times.

board that as a courtesy it was OK for Ivey to open the meeting, but because his term was expired he could not conduct the election of a new chairperson.

Gross assured Ivey it was not a slight on him but technically he was no longer a member of the board.

Ivey’s term on the board officially ended in December. It was voted by the board to extend his term three months until someone was chosen by the city commission to fill his slot as a board member.

Praise for Ivey On Jan. 8, Ivey was named chairman of the panel again, city records show.

Ivey was only given a three-months extension on the board, not a reappointment because a “reassessment” was being done on the Midtown Master Plan.

Ivey was familiar with both the reassessment and the company that was doing it.

Black lawyers coming together to give free advice

BY JAMES HARPER DAYTONA TIMES harperjames59@yahoo.com

Two separate forums hosted by two different groups of Black attorneys will take place Friday and Saturday to provide free legal advice to whoever needs it.

The Hatchett Bar Association is planning a Community Legal Education Forum Saturday April 13 at Greater Friendship Missionary Baptist Church while on Friday attorneys from the Black law firm of Young & DeLoach will be conducting what they are calling “Free Lawyer Friday” at the John H. Dickerson Center.

Earnest DeLoach, who was born and raised in Daytona Beach before becoming a successful attorney 14 years ago after graduating from Florida State with his law degree, said it’s important to their firm “that we invest our time and talents in the community.”

“We have a wealth of knowledge and providing information that allows members of our community to make informed decisions is a part of how we invest in our community.

As the saying goes, knowledge is power,” DeLoach said in an interview this week from his Orlando office. Their firm also has an office on Beach Street in Daytona Beach.

The event sponsored by DeLoach will be from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Friday at the Dickerson Center and their practice areas include criminal law, accidents, immigration and family law just to name a few.

Black attorneys more prevalent in area DeLoach credits attorneys Roland Blossom, Judge Hubert Grimes and Reginald Moore for inspiring him to become an attorney but says Black attorneys are still under repre-

Self-defense class scheduled for April 18

sented in this area considering the size of Daytona Beach and its Black population.

Though things have gotten better, DeLoach said he remembers when there were only two or three Black attorneys in the Greater Daytona Beach area.

DeLoach said Blacks should be willing to hire their own “because we know what we are doing, not because of our color.”

However he did say Black attorneys representing other Blacks could be an advantage especially when it comes to understanding a certain point a view.

DeLoach said he was happy to learn that a similar forum was taking place the day after their event and he noted he has worked with a number of the attorneys who are members of the Hatchett Bar Association which is sponsoring Saturday’s Community Legal Education Forum Saturday April 13 at Greater Friendship Missionary Baptist Church.

The Hatchett Bar Association is an affiliate of Virgil Hawkins Florida Chapter of the National Bar Association and consists of nearly 1,000 attorneys statewide.

The Association is responsible for establishing scholarships and loans programs to aid law students and recent graduates.

Attorney Donnita Pritchard, one of the organizers of Saturday’s forum and works as an attorney for Community legal Services of Mid-Florida, told the Daytona Times their event will be from 10 a.m. to noon and is set up differently than the DeLoach event.

According to a press release Pritchard provided to the Daytona Times, Volusia, Flagler, and Putnam County attorneys are banding together to provide information on family law, foreclosure law, landlord/tenant law, criminal law and expungment.

Practical program

Being able to recognize dangerous situations and knowing how to use your voice and body language to escape these kinds of situations can be life saving skills. The Daytona Beach Police Department is offering a two-hour self-defense workshop for women residents of Daytona Beach.

The next class is Thursday, April 18 from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. at police headquarters, 129 Valor Boulevard in Daytona Beach.

There is no cost for this potentially life-saving training.

The workshop is specifically designed for women of all ages and will demonstrate how to escape an attack. It’s not like other programs that show participants how to kick and punch their way out. Participants will not be thrown around.

The practical program will show women how to simply escape from the most common types of attacks. The moves are easy to remember and extremely effective. A participant’s age and level of fitness are not issues.

The workshop is being offered in partnership with Simple Self Defense for Women.

Register online at Codb. us or contact Charley Vega for more information at 386-679-1458.

Reed presented Ivey with an award of appreciation from the city.

Ivey said though he will no longer be serving on the board he still planned on being active and vocal in the community especially on his radio show which airs every Monday at noon on WPUL-AM 1590.

In addition to receiving praise from Commission-

er Reed, board member Heard thanked Ivey.

“Thank you for the time and service you have given to this board. I hope you are a positive spokesperson for the Midtown area,” she added.

The Midtown Area Redevelopment board meets at 6 p.m. the second Tuesday of every month at City Hall in the commission chambers.

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‘Phenomenal Woman’ fashion show turns attention to breast cancer “Phenomenal Woman,” a breast cancer awareness fashion show, was a scene of exquisite fashion, entertainment, cuisine, and an awareness of women developing cancer.

Models strutted their stuff inside Vince Carter’s, a posh Daytona Beach eatery co-owned by Michelle Carter-Scott for a show created and directed by former California runway model Cynthia Black. NBA star Vince Carter co-owns the establishment with his mom.

The eatery filled up with guests from all around and the models walking the aisles as a runway.

The fashionistas were the reason the show was produced. You simply loved the fashions, but the design focused on the models as cancer survivors. Some were women you knew, but you didn’t know they had battled cancer.

‘Phenomenal’ models They were Mary Lou Hurt, Connie Fields, Ruby Wyche, Grace Cochran, Valencia Robinson, Lu-

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Others were Andrea J. Parham, Carlos Ann Butler, Jeannette Steen, Dr. Sirretta Williams, Jacqui Courtney, Linda Sharpe Haywood and Pastor Pam Powell.

Some had cancer anywhere from 30 years ago to as little as one year prior.

Some experienced double and triple bouts of different cancers. However, all the models looked healthy.

The scenes were suitable for presenting Daytona Beach Mayor Derrick Henry; Commissioner Patrick Henry; Shaquille O’Neal’s mom, NBA Moms President Lucille O’Neal; celebrity Charles W. Parker; and others. The event included belly dancers, a silent auction and support groups.

Foundation in works The production was phe-

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Compiled by the Daytona Times Jobs expo at Daytona State The Daytona State College Career Placement Center is hosting the 2013 Health and Public Services Careers Jobs Expo April 29 from 11 a.m. – 2

p.m. at the Hosseini Center, Building 1200 on the Daytona Beach Campus. For registration information and to reserve a table, contact Miriam G. Ruiz at 386-506-3687 or ruizm@ DaytonaState.edu.

nomenally successful due to Black, along with Westbrook Alexander, commentator/program manager; Valencia Tubaya-Alexander, assistant program manager; Deborah Susswein, public relations, Diane Goodrich, social media; William and Milissa Cooley, website developers; Troy Taylor, videography/sound; Derrick Clark, production, and Norma Sodal, photography.

Comparing the catwalk of her heyday, Black underwent déjà vu and discussed the opportunity for bringing awareness to cancer. She cuts through with guests on radio, airing on WNZF FM and WPUL AM, and sharing critical issues.

The fashion show was recorded live.

Black has communicated with Halifax Hospital for starting a foundation for patient treatment of cancer - for patients a notch above Feedback sought for signage program The City of Daytona Beach is seeking feedback on preliminary signage designs and list of venues for its wayfinding signage program, now in the second of three phases. The meeting will be held April 25 from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. at the Peabody Auditorium. For more information, call 386-6718607.

Church to host Brotherhood workshop Mount Mission Missionary Baptist Church invites the public to attend a Brotherhood Workshop themed “Redemption’’ April

All part of the “Phenomenal Woman” fashion show were restaurateur Michelle Carter-Scott, model Dr. Sirretta Williams, model Ruby Wyche, and radio host/ former professional model Cynthia Black. the requirements of affordable health care yet unable to pay for their own coverage. The hospital is ready to render physicians, oncologists and surgeons.

Black also is seeking sponsorships to continue her broadcasts of providing resources.

Men and breast cancer Keynote speaker/retired Army Col. Lloyd Freckleton closed the gap as a survivor. Freckleton did not take chemo although he will continue taking Tamoxifen for the next five years for breast cancer. Freckleton discovered a lump one 13 from 10 a.m. – 2 p.m., 810 George W. Engram Blvd. The workshop, based on Galatians 3:13 is open to men, women and children and lunch will be served at noon. More information: 386-383-6353.

College to host family workshop The Strengthening Families workshop will take places April 12 from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. on Daytona State’s Daytona Beach Campus, Bergengren Hall. The free workshop is presented in collaboration with the Early Learning Coalition of Flagler & Volusia and StewartMarchman-Act Behavioral

day while readying for a golf game.

He says that 1 percent of the 49.2 percent male population will develop breast cancer, and the disease is far aggressive for men.

Freckleton has the support of his wife, Dr. Deborah Freckleton, as well as a breast cancer support group, where he’s the only male. He says the technology is there and available to defeat the disease.

Black adds that they’ll hop on the mic for another production of breast cancer awareness. It will take place at the Palm Coast Hilton Garden Inn, Nov. 9, 11:30 a.m., and vendors are Healthcare. More information: 386-506-4218.

Screening event for children Easter Seals is offering a free developmental screening event April 20 with appointments available between 9 a.m. and 3 p.m. for parents to visit with a qualified Ages & Stages Questionnaire evaluator to help assess their children’s progress toward typical milestones. More information: www.esvf.org.

Mentor training for foster care Community Partnership for Children is recruiting men-

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Black can be reached for more details at 386-5461817.

••• As always, remember our prayers for the sick, afflicted and bereaved.

Happy Birthday to You! Birthday wishes to: Joan Robinson, April 11; Louise Reid, St. Hellen Mitchell, April 13; Breadon Phillip Robinson, April 14; Jillian Elizabeth Glover, April 15; Christine, Rooks, twins Nekosha and Porsha Jones, April 16. tors for teenage children in foster care. Registration for the next orientation class is being accepted for the next orientation class on May 28 from 5 p.m. – 6:30 p.m. at Community Partnership for Children, 160 North Beach St., Daytona Beach. More information: 386-547-2293 or Susan.Hiltz@ cbcvf.org.

Port Orange history series Port Orange’s monthly history lecture series will be held April 12 at 1 p.m. at the Adult Activity Center Annex, 3738 Halifax Drive. More information: 386506-5522.

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Obama budget breaks Social Security pledge Even before President Obama released his budget proposal this week for the next fiscal year that begins Oct. 1, preliminary details about his plan to effectively cut Social Security cost of living increases has caused a firestorm among supporters who now feel betrayed.

Under the plan, Obama would shift the way federal benefits are indexed from the Consumer Price Index (CPI) to the “chained” CPI, gradually reducing benefit payments. Without getting overly technical, the chained CPI – a way of indexing living costs – has grown on average by about 0.3 percentage points per year more slowly than the official CPI. Social Security actuaries assume the gap between the two CPIs will continue to average 0.3 percentage points per year in the future; White House officials point out that the chained CPI would not affect initial Social Security benefits because they are based on wages. It is the subsequent cost of living increases that would be affected.

Seniors hurt According to an analysis by the Associated Press, Social Security benefits for a typical middle-income 65-year-old would be about $136 less a year under the new indexing. At age 75, annual benefits would be $560 less. At 85, the cut would be $984 a year. While that might not seem huge to some, it represents a significant loss of income from the elderly living on a

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fixed income.

Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) shares Robert Reich’s outrage.

“If Obama is serious about dealing with our deficit, he would not cut Social Security – which has not added one penny to the deficit,” Sanders said in a statement posted on his website. “Instead, he would support legislation that ends the absurdity of one out of four profitable corporations paying nothing in federal income taxes. He would also help us close the offshore tax haven loopholes that enable large corporations and the wealthy to avoid paying $100 billion a year in federal taxes.”

Social Security payments and COLAs are not limited to the elderly. According to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, approximately 6 million children under age 18 (8 percent of all U.S. children) lived in families that received income from Social Security in 2011. That includes children who received their benefits as dependents of retired, disabled, or deceased workers as well as those who live with parents or relatives who received Social Security benefits.

Democrats are irked that Obama is breaking a pledge he made in 2008 not to cut Social Security. And regardless of how he couches it, that’s the net effect of his action.

President Obama’s new proposal also calls for placing a 28 percent cap on tax deductions and other exclusions. Because the change would raise taxes of the wealthy, GOP leaders are expected to reject the plan.

Social Security provides monthly benefits to more than 50 million retired workers and workers with disabilities, their dependents, and survivors. Obama faces considerable opposition from his own party, largely because of the importance of the popular retirement program.

“Social Security benefits play a vital role in reducing poverty,” observed the Center for Budget and Policy Priorities. “Without Social Security, 21.4 million more Americans would be poor, according to the latest available Census data (for 2011). Although most of those whom Social Security keeps out of poverty are elderly, nearly a third are under age 65, including 1.1 million children.”

George E. Curry is editor-inchief of the National Newspaper Publishers Association News Service (NNPA.) Curry can be reached through his website, www.georgecurry.com. Click on this story at www.daytonatimes.com to write your own response.

New approach needed to dismantle street gangs During my research on street gangs, one thing became clear: They are the primary source for drug distribution. The crimes conducted by these street gangs on a daily basis also include murder, bribery, extortion, robbery, carjacking, prostitution, human trafficking, and money laundering.

Some gangs concentrate on some of these crimes but all of them have drug trafficking as their number one activity. This makes them truly a menace to our society. Yet, we ignore them. We tend to be blind to their destruction and terror. There are 1.4 million street gang members (2011) and we act like they don’t exist.

There are more than 2.1 million men and women incarcerated.

The majority are there for drugrelated crimes. Approximately 650,000 persons are released from our jails/prisons each year but at least 52 percent will return within three years for parole violation or a criminal act.

Social disgrace It is a social disgrace to have that many human beings incarcerated and then they get into a “revolving door.” The cost of housing a state prisoner can be as high as $45,000 per year.

Dealing is a very big “business” for many drug dealers and unlike

The next thing we need to do is to write new legislation. Organized street gangs are already being broadly prosecuted as rackeHARRY C. teering enterprises. The Racketeer ALFORD Influenced and Corrupt OrganizaNNPA COLUMNIST tion Act (RICO) should be amendmany other sectors in the U.S., ed to explicitly include street gangs business is booming. The gang with certain, severe prosecution of leaders don’t have a recruiting pro- their leadership. gram; they “draft” top prospects.

The Peoria, Ill. Chamber of Task force needed Commerce once did a job study Let’s form a task force like the for Black youth (18 to 30). The old “Untouchables.” Make them number one employer was the city forfeit their assets, bust up their government; number two was the leadership and strongly police our local utility company and number banking system that plays along three was the illegal drug activity. with some of the vast money laundering that is taking place.

Extreme problem If we follow the money and My brothers and sisters we have clean up the inside corruption, we an extreme problem that needs ur- will begin to turn the tide. gent fixing. I would like to see Black It is not something so great that elected officials become more ac- we cannot manage. Some comtive about addressing this probmon sense, a lot of courage and lem. It is my firm belief withdrawal programs are not the end solution. a taste of vision could change it We need to come together and do around. God bless us. something radically progressive.

Harry C. Alford is the coNothing that has been tried in the founder, president/CEO of the past has improved this “illness.”

National Black Chamber of The time has come for bold, Americana style action. The first Commerce. Website: www.nathing we should do is legalize tionalbcc.org. Email: halford@ drugs. Treat it like liquor and cig- nationalbcc.org. Click on this arettes by taxing it to the limit and story at www.daytonatimes.com to write your own response. regulate it wisely.

African leaders avoid US Blacks Two weeks ago, President Obama met with three African presidents— Koroma (Sierra Leone), Sall (Senegal), Banda (Malawi), and Prime Minister of Cape Verde Jose Maria Pereira Neves. This was the White House’s way of rewarding these leaders for their examples of good governance. Receiving an invitation to the White House is one of the most sought after invitations in the world, especially for foreign leaders.

African leaders constantly complain about how they are negatively portrayed in the U.S. media, about how Blacks don’t invest in Africa, and about how there seems to be a disconnect between Africans and American Blacks.

My response has always been quite simple – It’s your fault!

While in Washington, each leader participated in numerous meetings and events to strengthen bilateral cooperation on a range of shared priorities.

Joint events included a dinner hosted by the Corporate Council on Africa (CCA) to discuss trade and investment opportunities with representatives from U.S. businesses; a public discussion on democratization in Africa at the United States Institute for Peace (USIP); an economic and development roundtable with U.S. government officials; and a meeting with Secre-

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tary of Defense Hagel to discuss cooperation on shared regional security and peacekeeping objectives in Africa.

Notice anything interesting here?

Let me help you. Dinner hosted by CCA — mostly Fortune 500 companies (White-run companies).

Many Africans accuse “corporate America” of only using Africa for their natural resources — well duh, you invited them to your country; a discussion on democracy at USIP. I have tried, to no avail, to get Howard University interested in engaging with African heads of state, but they have shown absolutely no interest.

So, I guess these African leaders couldn’t find any Black NGOs to meet with or maybe their White lobbyists would not give them permission to meet with successful minority businessmen like David Steward, CEO of World Wide Technology in St. Louis – a $ 5 billion privately held firm.

Maybe their White lobbyist wouldn’t give them permission to meet with the National Newspaper

Publishers Association (NNPA), a federation of 200 Black-owned newspapers in the U.S., or give a speech at a Black university.

So, to my African heads of state, if you are looking for positive media coverage from the U.S., then sit with our Black media and tell them your story. If you are looking for investment in your country, then invest some time by meeting with Black businessmen when you come to our country. If you want Americans, especially Blacks to tour your countries, then take a tour of our communities when you are in the U.S. So, stop complaining and be what you are looking for.

Africa has a lot to offer as far as investment opportunities, tourism, and even education; but Africa has not made its case to the American people. Until they do, they will continue to be like the tinkling cymbal or the sounding brass, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.

Raynard Jackson is president and CEO of Raynard Jackson & Associates, LLC., a Washington, D.C.-based public relations/ government affairs firm. He can be reached through his website, www.raynardjackson.com.

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Everyone’s hopping on the gay rights bandwagon You can call it the “bandwagon effect,” or “political opportunism,” or, the “wake-up-call effect,” or, less cynically, an old American tradition. Whatever you call it, in the last month it seems everybody and their momma in the political arena has been expressing support for gay rights and same-sex marriage.

The support has come from opposite ends of the political spectrum: from Ohio Republican Senator Rob Portman, who also revealed that his son is gay, to former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, who said she was free to speak her mind now that she has left office. Even the Republican National Committee seemed in its white paper exploring the causes and implications of the Party’s decisive defeat last November to call for a softening of the GOP’s hard line on gay rights and same-sex marriage lest it find itself in “an ideological cul-de-sac.”

Martin Luther King, Jr., whose commitment to justice for all got him killed 45 years ago this month, would be pleased. We do know which side this man, who was becoming ever more “militant” in his willingness to challenge the country’s fierce dynamic of exclusion, would be on today.

Of course, it’s not literally true that the opposition to gay rights has melted away. We can still expect plenty of venomous rhetoric and obstructionist legislative tactics from right-wing clerics, conservative officeholders (and wannabes) and pundits, and the conservative talk-show confederacy.

Opposition shifting But the signs are unmistakable that the American public’s support-to-opposition ratio on the multifaceted issues of gay rights has shifted significantly. For example, a Washington Post–ABC News poll conducted last month found that a record 58 percent of Americans now support samesex marriage, a finding the paper called “a remarkable – and remarkably fast – turnaround in American public opinion” on the issue since 2010.

The poll’s findings were underscored by the two cases involving same-sex marriage the Supreme Court took up last month: One concerns Califor-

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nia’s 2008 voter-enacted Proposition 8, which bars same-sex marriage in the state. The other involves the 1996 federal Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), which forbids federal recognition of same-sex marriages performed in the nine states and the District of Columbia where it is legal.

Regardless of how the court rules on these cases – expectations are that the justices will issue narrow rulings effectively gutting both laws – full civil rights for gay and lesbian Americans will become a reality much sooner rather than later.

It’s perfectly clear now that the gay rights movement is this era’s “gateway” tolerance issue – that it is the movement whose successes are most critical at this moment to advancing tolerance and equal opportunity in American society.

That isn’t to say gay rights has pushed into the background the struggle for full equality of Black Americans – or of White women and other people of color.

Issue of tolerance Rather, it’s to acknowledge what hindsight has made apparent: Because the issue of gay rights has been the most contentious issue of tolerance for the past two decades, the advances gays and lesbians have made in gaining their rights, and the recognition of those rights by their fellow Americans have broadened the boundaries of tolerance for all.

Of course, what has happened on the same-sex marriage front over the past month hardly means that struggle is finished.

Black Americans can point to an entire catalogue of breakthroughs stretching back to Emancipation; yet, their struggle for full citizenship goes on.

So it will be with the gay rights movement.

Lee A. Daniels is a veteran journalist based in New York City. Click on this story at www.daytonatimes.com to write your own response.

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“This semester we cut cost cut spending and had to layoff employees. We had to tighten our belts,” said Warrick.

In October 2012, the school clipped $8 million from their budget.

“We’re still struggling with the numbers,” said Warrick.

Grandfather clause?

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President Barack Obama garnered much applause after signing an executive order in 2010 for the White House Initiative on Historically Black Colleges and Universities. In 2011, the Education Department made changes to a number of federal student loan programs to curb the number of loan defaults that were piling up when parents couldn’t pay. When the government largely cut out the banks in the student loan process, they also changed the rules for students and parents.

New loan policies fail Black students in college Changes to federal financial aid programs will affect many collegiates struggling to get education Editor’s note: This is the first of two stories by NNPA Washington Correspondents Freddie Allen and Maya Rodan examining how federal loan problems are failing Black students in college.

BY FREDDIE ALLEN NNPA NEWS SERVICE

WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Like thousands of Black college students, Bethanie Fisher, a psychology major at Howard University depended heavily on the Parent Loan for Undergraduate Students program that allows parents to borrow the full amount of college tuition and fees. During, the 2007-2008 school year, an estimated 33 percent of undergraduate students that earned degrees at Historically Black Colleges and Universities received Parent PLUS loans, double the rate of all undergraduate students nationwide.

“My mom, my dad, my aunt and my uncle would all apply every single year,” said Fisher.

In August 2008, Fisher’s freshman year at Howard University, her uncle agreed to help her pay tuition.

When he died suddenly of lung cancer at the end of her sophomore year, everything fell apart.

No one else in Fisher’s family met the standards for the Parent PLUS loans and now with stricter rules, her dreams of earning a degree from Howard University or any university are quickly evaporating. After scraping together enough money for a third year at the Washington school, Fisher, a Detroit, native ran out of time and money.

Can’t afford it Now she must come up with almost $15,000 to pay the balance that she owes, before she can take another class at Howard University. Money that neither her mom nor her barely there father could afford. Fisher estimates that tuition plus room and board and living expenses, she spent more than $20,000 a year to attend Howard University.

“On paper it says that my mom makes a lot of money,” Fisher said. “But who has that much money to spare every single year in a single-parent home?”

Fisher is not alone. Thousands of Black college students cobble together scholarships, loans and grants to earn college degrees. As President Obama champions education as the key to America’s future on the world stage, critical changes to federal financial aid programs threaten to close the curtain on the academic careers of thousands of Black college students.

‘Cutting off the future’ In 2011, the Education Department made changes to a number of loan federal student loan programs in an effort to curb the number of loan defaults that were piling up when parents couldn’t pay. When the federal government largely cut out the banks in the student loan process, they also changed the rules for students and parents.

And it is those sudden rules changes that are creating havoc.

Now parents seeking the loans can be disqualified for past defaults, bankruptcies, or tax liens within five years of applying for the loan. Parents need a near spotless credit history now, a dream in itself in today’s tough economy.

“If you make it harder to get a student loan if you have families that are less able to pay for a college education less able to survive what you’re doing is cutting off the future and you’re also putting a particular burden on historically Black colleges and universities.” said Mary Frances Berry, professor of American Social Thought and history at the University of Pennsylvania and former Assistant Secretary of Education.

“Whoever decided to make these policy changes they need to sit down and think about how the goals that they have for higher education are absolutely irreconcilable with what they’re doing with the budget.”

Programs, staffs cut And these changes could not have come at a worse time for HBCUs. Black colleges also struggle to reconcile dwindling enrollments with their efforts to enrich the lives of their students. Some have been forced to reduced programs and cut staff sizes.

“What we have here is a situation where we’re getting sliced at the federal level and we’re getting diced at the state level,” said Lezli Baskerville, president of the National Association for Equal Opportunity in Higher Education (NAFEO), a member organization representing HBCUs. “Given the federal cuts and the disproportionate loss of wealth, the bursting of the housing bubble which disproportionately impacted African-Americans, it signals a calamitous situation.”

Letter to Duncan In September 2012 a group led by William R. Harvey, president of Hampton University and chairman of the president’s Board of Advisors on HBCUs, sent a letter to Education Secretary Arne Duncan detailing the disparate impacts the loan changes have had on HBCUs. “At Benedict College last year, 926 students (30 percent of those who applied) were deemed eligible and received Parent PLUS or FEFL loans totaling $13,567,321. This year, only 237 students (only 9 percent of those who applied) were deemed eligible and received such loans, totaling $3,754,938,” Harvey wrote.

The group also challenged the Department of Education’s use of extenu-

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The Port Orange Youth Advisory Board announces an awards program to recognize youth in Port Orange who have made a significant contribution to the welfare of the community.

The criteria for the award will be based on accomplishment, leadership and service.

To be eligible for the achievement award, the youth must be enrolled in grades 8-12 and a resident of Port Orange or attend a Port Orange school. Completed nomination forms

ating circumstances in determining a student’s eligibility for a PLUS loan.

“There are no more extenuating circumstances than the grossly disproportionately high unemployment rate in the communities from which our students come and DoED’s failure to phase in or give notice of the new interpretation and implementation of the regulation regarding evaluating credit history.

“These actions are actively working against President Obama’s goal of having the highest proportion of college graduates in the world by 2020, and the Administration’s commitment and our nation’s dire need to increase the number of African-American college graduates,” stated the letter.

Colleges hurt The Atlanta Journal Constitution reported last October that “Morehouse College says it will furlough faculty and staff and make other budget cuts because of a drop in enrollment.”

Because of the Department of Education’s new loan policies, loan rejections jumped from 25 percent to 65 percent at Clark Atlanta University in Atlanta. Clark Atlanta President Carlton Brown issued a statement saying a 13 percent drop in enrollment forced the school to cut travel and slow the hiring process for new faculty and staff.

Recent changes in the Parent Loan for Undergraduate Students left many students in bad straits like Fisher. The new rules shut out kids that had previously been admitted during the spring semester.

According to Cynthia Warrick interim president of South Carolina State University in Orangeburg, more than 1,000 students were denied Parent PLUS loans this academic year, leading to the lowest enrollment numbers in five years at the small school.

On a campus of less than 5,000 students, losing that amount affected all aspects of campus life. must be received before 5 p.m. on Tuesday, April 30 in the Port Orange City Manager’s office, 1000 City Center Circle.

Applications are available from the City’s website at www.port-orange.org.

The Youth Achievement Award program was developed by the Youth Advisory Board, which is comprised of middle and high schools students from Port Orange schools.

For questions or additional information, call 386-506-5522.

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South Carolina State quickly depleted their need-based grants and were forced to turn students away, some with “B” averages, but not good enough to earn scholarships.

“The loan programs are the only way these kids can get to college,” said Warrick. “It’s almost as if they’re telling the kids, ‘We don’t want you to go to college.’”

Johnny Taylor, president and CEO of the Thurgood Marshall College Fund said that the Department of Education should consider a grandfather clause for students who have relied on PLUS loans in the past and were just recently denied due to the changes.

“It makes no sense to let these students leave school without a degree or without a way to pay back the loan,” said Taylor. “If you already invested two years into a student it’s silly to cut him off now. If the kid goes home without a degree, he’s going to default.”

Taylor said that his group is working with the Department of Education to seek a resolution that will save the academic careers of nearly 14,000 students that were affected by the PLUS loan changes this year alone.

They’re also working with Congressional Black Caucus and some Republicans on Capitol Hill, just in case their efforts at the executive branch-level stall.

Back home Taylor said that if it takes a lawsuit to resolve this issue, his group is fully prepared to take that next step.

“I remember Thurgood Marshall challenging ‘separate, but equal,’” said Taylor referring to the landmark 1954 Supreme Court decision in Brown vs.

Board of Education that reshaped the future of education in the United States.

“If he hadn’t been willing to challenge ‘separate, but equal” we would still have it.”

After sitting out for a semester and a last-ditch effort to get back into school for the spring 2013 semester, Fisher decided to move back home in February, ending her academic career at Howard University prematurely.

“To hear your friends complain about going to class when you’re just dying to sit in someone’s class, I just can’t do that anymore,” said Fisher.

The Detroit-native said she needs to pay the $15,000 balance before Howard University will release her academic transcripts so that she can attempt to transfer credits to a school closer to home.

“It hurts more than anyone will ever know,” said Fisher. “If they weren’t going to let me finish, they shouldn’t have let me start.” the Mass Communications department at BethuneCookman University, will be held at 7 p.m. April 19 at the Center for Civic Engagement, 740 W. International Speedway Blvd. This year’s event will feature a Hawaiian luau-themed extravaganza.

Leila Fore and Alvin Mallory, two Mass Communications alumnus, started the event in 2007.

Awards will be handed out in several categories including “Best Journalist of the year,” “Best TV Personality of the Year” and ”Public Relations Person of the Year.”

For more information, call 386-481-2796.

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Atlantic to host alumni game for coach who had stroke VOLUSIA COUNTY HIGH SCHOOL SPORTS REVIEW

BY ANDREAS BUTLER DAYTONA TIMES butleramj@yahoo.com

The Atlantic High School girls basketball team will hold an alumni game to help longtime assistant coach Herman Perry, who recently suffered a massive stroke. Perry is currently in rehabilitation.

The game will be held at Atlantic High in Port Orange on Saturday, April 13, with a 2 p.m. tip-off.

Admission is $5 and all the proceeds will go toward Perry’s medical expenses. Donations can be dropped off at the door.

“We just want to help him out. The medical bills can be expensive. This is just something from the team and the Atlantic High community to help him,” said George Butts, Atlantic’s head coach.

Perry has spent 30 years teaching in the VoluCoach Herman Perry sia County school system and 18 years on the Sharks coaching staff alongside Butts.

“Coach Perry has been a major help for this year’s team as well as the program. He has been with us for a long time. He has had an impact on many of players. Perry is also my best friend,” commented Butts.

Perry is a graduate of BethuneCookman, where he is often seen attending basketball games.

Some of the school’s alumni expected to participate in the game are former basketball standouts Kim Manning, Athena Christorforakis, Alisha Adams, Romona Wilson and Kathryn Wilson.

SEMINAR from Page 1 the time, but we could go in on some prayer!”

‘Choose every day’ Dr. Denise Avent is a pastor and social worker who alongside her husband, the Rev. Colonius Avent, has counseled over 200 couples who are seeking to get married, are already married or are on the brink of divorce.

“One of the things we tell couples at the premarital counsel session is that it (marriage) is something they have to choose every day. Just as they have chosen on their wedding day, with all the glitz and glamour, but each morning you have to choose that you want to be married,” she explained.

Marriage, Avent states, “relies on the role each partner plays in the relationship and for a happy and successful marriage, certain topics have to be discussed up front including finances, children, goals, education and inlaws.”

She also notes that having a strong relationship with God has an impact

LEGENDS from Page 1 ‘Awesome experience’ Around 900 people visited the exhibit with about 850 being schoolchildren.

“That was the purpose of the event, to get as many children as possible out.

The children got to meet the Airmen, got autographs and dog tags stating they were a part of the exhibit. We also want to thank the Volusia County school district and Campbell Middle School for allowing us to bring this exhibit to our community,” said Williamson.

Those children who attended the exhibit en-

For more information or alumni wishing to play in the game, should contact Butts at 386-3226100 ext. 38226.

Williams plays in All-American games Atlantic High girls basketball star Ronni Williams scored one point, grabbed three rebounds, blocked a shot and had two steals for the East in a 92-64 loss to the West in the McDonald’s All-American Game at the United Center in Chicago Illinois on April 3.

Williams made history by being the first girls basketball player from Volusia County and the first University of Florida girls signee to play in the game.

She also played in the Women’s Basketball Coaches Association High School All-American game in New Orleans on April 6.

Williams led the Sharks to a 23-7 record and Class 4A semifinals this season while averaging 20 points and 10.7 rebounds, 3.1 blocks and 3.2 steals per game.

Baseball: Lopez baseball stats A look at Father Lopez baseball teams stats, which weren’t available for last week’s spotlight on team. Stats as of April 8.

Batting: Tommy Roache: .491 BA, 1 HR, 12 RBI, 18 R, 7 SB; Zack Hawk: .404 BA, 1 HR, 16 RBI; Joe Skinner: .386 BA, 23 R, 8 SB; Brandon Loehner: .310 BA, 11 RBI, 11 SB; Joey Markus: 2 HR, 11 RBI

on the relationship of not only the marriage but also the entire household.

“The role that the church plays in a successful marriage depends on the person’s faith. It depends on how committed and dedicated they are to their marriage. The best way is making sure that Jesus is a part of your marriage, that it’s not just you and your spouse, that it’s you, your spouse and the Holy Spirit.”

Conditions determine success A report prepared by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Center for Health Statistics interviewed nearly 11,000 women 15-44 years of age on “Cohabitation, Marriage, Divorce and Remarriage in the United States,” supports Avent.

The interviews, which focused not only on individual factors but also community conditions, found that marriages tend to last longer under certain conditions, including age, whether she was raised in a two-parent household and “whether religion plays an important role in her life.”

“One of the things a woman can do to prepare herself for marriage is

joyed the experience.

“It was an awesome experience to see living history right in front of you. I also got met one of the pilots, Mr. Holiday, and got to shake his hand,” said 15-year old eighth-grader Roberta VeraCruz.

Jonathan Dunbar, a 13-year-old in the seventh grade, echoed, “It was an awesome experience to see these men that served us during wartime. They did their best and gave their all in service of their country. They also made history.”

Airmen at Balloon & Sky Festival too Daytona wasn’t the only stop for these heroes.

They also were on hand at the Balloon & Sky Festival at the New Smyrna

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April 12 at Conrad Park in DeLand.

Silas Grinstead: 2 HR, 10 RBI Pitching: Tommy Roache: four wins, 2.65 ERA, 34.1 IP, 30Ks Sam Shields: three wins, 2.53 ERA. 36 IP, 35Ks; Matt DeLuca: two wins, 11 IP, .64 ERA, 6Ks

Track and field: Locals fare well at relays Spruce Creek High track star Xavier Atkins (10.50) finished second in the 100-meter dash to lead locals at the prestigious Florida Relays at the University of Florida in Gainesville from April 4-6.

The Hawks’ 4x400 relay team of Megan Tse, Kristina Harris, Jennifeer Burns and Oashia Hillman (3:57.80) also finished ninth.

DeLand’s Ken Peneiro placed fourth in the 3200-meter run

making sure she’s the best she can be,” states Avent.

Ditch the drama “When you enter into a relationship with someone else, it’s not that you are getting someone to fix you, to validate you or complete you, but that you have something to bring to the table; you have to think highly of yourself, you need to achieve some of the goals that you want,” she added.

“Don’t go into the marriage thinking that this is what’s going to make you into what you need to be, you need to already have that self-esteem, that pride set up.”

Avent continued, “If you are not prepared for a marriage or relationship, don’t go into a relationship causing someone else problems because so many times we bring so much old baggage with us, that the next person has to deal with all of this old baggage.

“Open up your luggage and take out the worn out, the outgrown. Air it out and then you are able to receive someone else.”

For more information on the workshop, contact Jada Ford at marriagematerialministries@gmail. com.

Beach Airport on April 5-6, where their famous Red Tail P51 Mustang aircraft was on display.

“I liked the planes and I learned that they were and are Black pilots and not all pilots are White,” said Messiah Brown, 5. He had attended the festival in New Smyrna with his family.

The City of Daytona Beach, The City of New Smyrna Beach, Pepsi Bottling Company, Vistas Innovative Hospice Care, the Mary McLeod Bethune Legacy Preservation Institute, Inc., and the Courtyard Marriott Inc. were sponsors of the event.

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(9:24.66) and eighth in the 1600-meter run (4:19.25).

Orange City University boys track team finished second in the high school division of the Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Spikes Challenge from April 5-6.

New Smyrna Beach’s James Clark won the 100m (10.59) and 200m dashes (21.57).

Mainland’s 4x100 (Wilfred Taylor, K’Jorn Simmons, Shane Rodney, Adrien Killings/42.59) and 4x400 (Killings, Reginald Calhoun, Jaquis Davis and David White/3:27.18) relay teams also took home first place finishes.

White (49.40) also won the 400m dash.

Father Lopez’ A.J. McFarland (39’-11”) won the discus and Flagler Palm Coast’s Dustin Bowens

NAACP from Page 1 According to a police report involving Jones’ arrest, not the burglary report, 911 was dialed from Jones’ phone eight times.

Dedra Jones is not denying she called the emergency number multiple times.

She told the Times last week that she was upset that her home had been broken into and couldn’t understand why officers hadn’t arrived within the first half-hour of her 911 call.

Officer arrives late The Times has obtained the police report related to the burglary.

A different police officer Dedra was dispatched to Jones’ Jones Berkshire address at 6:42 p.m., an hour after Jones’ arrest.

This police report, obtained by the Daytona Times Monday, and written by Officer Scott Houle, said that he was dispatched to the Berkshire address for a “burglary that had happened earlier today.”

“Upon my arrival, I contacted the homeowner and his daughter. She stated that her mother called earlier to report the burglary, but the officer arrested her.”

The daughter being referred to is Natalie Jones. She was on the scene with her father, Joby Jones.

(47’-11”) won the shot put.

Local girls winners were University’s Christian Daniels in the 2000-meter steeplechase; Flagler Palm Coast’s Devonne Friday (48.13) in the 300 hurdles, Flagler Palm Coast Matanzas’ Alexis Wells (36’-11”) took the triple jump and their 4x100 relay team (Wells, Kaylyn Pitts, Paige Jennings, Payton Tucker/51.42).

Prep Sports Seven Baseball 1. University (16-5), 2. Spruce Creek (14-6) 3. New Smyrna (124), 4. Taylor (14-4), 5. Father Lopez (10-7), 6. Trinity (9-8-1), 7.

Seabreeze (10-8). Others: Deltona (8-9-1), Mainland (9-8). These are the records as of April 9 at noon.

The report stated upon entering the home around 4:30 p.m. they noticed a black karate duffle bag, 32” Panasonic TV, an X-Box, a 50” Panasonic TV, a Play Station, a Compaq laptop and miscellaneous jewelry was missing.

The Jones family estimated all their missing items totaled $7,000 in value.

Television found near fish mart The police report also stated that prior to her mother being arrested they began walking toward Mason Avenue when an unidentified person told them that two Black juveniles wearing black and white Tshirts were carrying a TV behind TJ’S Fish mart on Lewis Drive.

When the juveniles were approached, they dropped the TV and went to 802 Lewis Drive. They were not apprehended at the time.

Natalie Jones and her father recognized the TV as one of theirs, picked it up off the ground and took it home.

In the police report, Natalie identified one of the juveniles as Samuel Williams.

Officer Houle said at the time of the report there were no serial or model numbers to identify stolen property.

Pictures were taken at the scene and four latent fingerprints were submitted as evidence.

Houle said he attempted to contact the residents at 802 Lewis Drive where the suspects allegedly went after the robbery, but he said there was no answer when he knocked at the door.

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Big week for baseball and softball teams

BY ANDREAS BUTLER DAYTONA TIMES butleramj@yahoo.com

It was a good week on the diamond for the BethuneCookman University baseball team. The team went 5-1 from April 2 through April 8.

B-CU swept Florida A&M in a three-game series and picked up wins over Miami and Stetson. The only blemish was a 3-1 defeat to Jacksonville on April 2.

On Monday, Anthony Stokes went 3-for-4 with three RBIs, including two homeruns to help lift the Wildcats to a 10-2 win over I-4 rival Stetson at Jackie Robinson Ballpark in Daytona Beach.

“I was able to sit on a few pitches. I got a few that I was looking for,” stated Stokes.

Added Jason Beverlin, BCU’s head baseball coach, “His homeruns were really big and gave us a big lift tonight.’’

Shutout against FAMU Matt Noble also was 2-for-4 with an RBI, including a solo homerun. Eric Sams went 2-for-4 with two RBIs and Brandon Turner was 2-for-4 with an RBI for B-CU. Montana Durupau picked up the win and Michael Austin got the save on the mound for the Wildcats.

Eros Modena went 3-for5 with two RBIs and Josh Johnson 3-for-5 while Ali Simpson and Jordan Dailey combined for a shutout for B-CU in a 4-0 in the series finale with FAMU on Sunday.

A day earlier, Chris Biocic went 3-for-4 with two RBIs and Scott Garner pitched a complete game for B-CU in a 4-1 win over the Rattlers

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B-CU’S baseball team swept Florida A&M in a three-game series and picked up wins this month over the University of Miami and Stetson University.

B-CU ROUNDUP in the fist game, a double header.

The Wildcats ripped the Rattlers 16-3 in the second game as Stokes went 3-for7 with seven RBIs and Sams 4-for-5 with four RBIs. Stokes hit a grand slam and three-run triple.

Defeats Miami Chris Biocic and Shaun McCarthy both were 2-for4 with an RBI, while Durupau pitched up the win on the mound and Dailey pitched two scoreless innings for the save in a 5-3 win over Miami on April 3.

“It’s big when you can

play against a team like this with such intensity and focus like we did. We played hard and came up big,” said Beverlin.

The Wildcats played at Jacksonville late Tuesday, which was after the Daytona Times’ deadline. They return home to face North Carolina Central in a threegame series from April 1314.

Stokes, Garner honored Stokes has been on a tear since returning to the lineup last week. During that span, he went 7-for-13 with three homeruns and 10 RBIs. “He can be a streaky hit-

ter. He did this some last year. His homeruns come in bunches. He is really doing well at the plate right now. We will ride him as long as we can,” said Beverlin.

Added Stokes, “I had some time off and I took some more time in the cages. I made some use of my rest. I didn’t really change anything at the plate.’’

Stokes was named MEAC Offensive Player of the Week on Monday. During the FAMU series alone, Stokes was 4-for-9 with a homerun and seven RBIs. Meanwhile, Garner received MEAC Pitcher of the Week accolades. He was 1-0 with a 1.00 ERA with a

complete game in his start against the Rattlers.

Softball: Tolbert throws no-hitter Shanel Tolbert threw a no-hitter as BethuneCookman shut out South Carolina State 8-0 in a mercy rule five-inning contest on Sunday.

“I had been working towards getting one. My pitches were working today and it finally happened,” responded Tolbert.

“She really hit her spots and had a good mentality out there today,” said Chris Cochrane, B-CU’s head softball coach.

The no-hitter was the first for B-CU since 2007

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All nine Wildcats batters had a hit led by Michelle Banuelos-Smith who went 2-for-3 with three RBIs. One of her hits was a threerun homerun.

Aurelia Gamch was also 2-for-2 with an RBI and Shamaria Engram 2-for-2 for B-CU. The win gave the Wildcats (11-28, 5-0) a sweep of the three-game series and kept them unbeaten in Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference play.

Tolbert won each game on the mound in the series for B-CU. For her performances, she was named MEAC Pitcher of the Week on Monday.

During the week, Tolbert posted a 3-1 record with a 1.15 ERA. On the season she is 6-20 with a 4.23 ERA but in MEAC play she has a 4-0 mark with a 1.23 ERA. It was the second time this season that Tolbert garnered the honor.

A day earlier, B-CU beat South Carolina State 4-3 and 9-8 to take a double header.

Gamch went 3-for-4 with an RBI, Calesha Shelly and Simone Ceasar both went 2-for-4 while Kelsey Rodney and Melissa Berouty each had RBI hits in the first game.

The 4-3 win also gave Coach Cochrane her 200th career victory.

Rodney had an RBI double, Banuelos-Smith a tworun triple and Gamch two hits in the second game.

The Wildcats traveled to North Florida on Wednesday and will return home to face the University of Central Florida on April 17 and North Carolina A&T from April 20-21.

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