Daytona Times - July 07, 2016

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Plans for Joe Harris Park spark debate L. Ronald Durham says the city does not have any plans to transfer ownership of Joe Harris Park to B-CU.

B-CU and city looking to residents for park solutions, but locals still have concerns about partnership.

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A community meeting was held at B-CU’S Center for Civic Engagement last week to gain public input on the city’s planned upgrades to Joe Harris Park, a park located near the campus.

Joe Harris Park, a longtime community treasure located at 315 Pearl St., has over the years become a hotspot for crime and drugs. The park also is adjacent to the Biarritz Club, where two people

were shot to death on New Year’s Eve. Discussion about what to do with the park, also known as Harlem Park, included renovations and beautification, vegetation, irrigation, lighting, signage, upgrades to the playground, activities, and, of course, safety.

While residents were pleased to be in the loop, skepticism and distrust remains in regards to the city and school’s partnership relationship to the park.

Residents believe that a backroom deal has been

made to give the park to the university but city leaders again squelched that last week.

No transfer “Joe Harris Park is owned and operated by the City of Daytona Beach,’’ L. Ronald Durham, the city’s community relations and special projects manager, said at the June 30 meeting.

“The city does not have any plans to transfer ownership of Joe Harris Park to Bethune-Cookman Uni-

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A storied career for legendary Wildcat

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Jack “Cy’’ McClairen is surrounded by Bethune-Cookman Wildcats at a gathering in his honor on June 30..

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The leaders of the local Islamic Center, an area A.M.E. church and even a Black nightclub say they have increased their security measures in the wake of the mass shooting in Orlando last month.

The Islamic Center of Daytona Beach has been the target of a threat since the tragedy at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando where a gunman killed 49 and wounded 53 on June 12.

“A threat has been made against the Islamic Center. We have taken measures and stepped up patrols in the area. We have worked with them on awareness and safety,” confirmed Daytona Beach Police Chief Mike Chitwood.

Hussam Reziqa, president of the Islamic Center of Daytona Beach, said increased security measures have been taken as well as extra police presence.

Church on alert The Orlando shooting sparked memories of the tragedy that took place just a year ago at Emanuel A.M.E. Church in Charleston, South Carolina where a lone shooter killed nine people at a Bible study.

“I think that incident is what woke up the Black churches. This incident isn’t far off from that one, the Rev. Jeffrey Dove, pastor of Allen Chapel A.M.E. Church in New Smyrna Beach, said about the Orlando shooting.

“These incidents confirm the security that exists for faith-based institutions. We have already received our training with police and our members. We are very diligent and alert.’’

‘Cy’ McClairen retires after 55 years of service to university

hen it comes to history, legacy and tradition at BethuneCookman University, only the school’s founder, Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune, ranks higher than 85-year-old Jack “Cy’’ McClairen.

The longtime Wildcat retired on June 30 after 55 years of service with the institution serving in various capacities.

A small get together was held for him at B-CU’s Center for Civic Engagement last week with both current and former staff, faculty and alumni in attendance.

“It’s just time. I figured it’s time that I take my butt home,” quipped McClairen.

During his time at Bethune-Cookman, he touched many lives.

“I came back to coach football but ended up coaching basketball and being athletic director. I met regular students. I got in contact with not just athletes but students. I decided to use this to influence all students to get an education. I talked with them and let them know the position that they are in, they can do something for their lives,” McClairen told the Daytona Times last week about his long tenure at BethuneCookman.

Islamic Center, church, nightclub taking security measures in wake of Orlando tragedy

Club owner cautious Sam Ferguson, owner of the Safari Lounge, on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard says he’s not afraid, but he is cautious.

The club keeps current security measures in practice.

“I’m not in fear. I am a 22-year Army veteran. I don’t think anyone lives in fear. However, I am concerned about safety for everyone,” Ferguson told the Daytona Times.

“We do the things we do. We make sure our security does pat downs on everyone. We also have metal detectors. We keep an eye on everyone in the club.

A standout player at Bethune-Cookman, he gained notoriety as a student when he caught a game-winning pass against Florida A&M University in 1952.

Safety classes Local law enforcement is taking measures at keeping everyone safe.

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More ‘Cornbread’ for kids in Daytona Author Vince Taylor, creator of the popular “Cornbread’ children’s book series, returned to the Midtown Educational and Cultural Center in Daytona Beach on June 30. More than 300 kids watched Taylor and his tall character Cornbread engage young in learning exercises that keep them on their feet. Taylor, an educator from Duval County, uses rhythmic reading with rap during his interaction with the kids. Taylor and Cornbread visited the center last summer.

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The police department held an “Active Threats in Public Spaces: Run, Hide, Fight’’ class on June 25 at its headquarters at 29 Valor Drive.

The class taught residents about what people can do and consider if ever involved in a mass shooting.

The police department will ahold a simple self-defense class for women on Aug. 9 from 6 p.m. until 8 p.m. at the station.

Linda McGee, a member of the local Muslim Women’s Association, said the police chief has encouraged their members to attend the self-defense classes.

The women at the mosque “are very safety conscious and we are very aware of our surroundings,” she told the Times.

Chitwood stated, “We always encourage anyone to come out to these. Last year, when we did the shooters awareness class that was even extended to faith-based organizations. We did one with the mosque. We also did it with churches across the city.’’

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Brett Morian of Daytona Beach hugs an attendee during the candlelight vigil at Ember in Orlando on June 12.

McClairen was founder’s chauffeur, guest on ‘Oprah’’ In a press release about McClairen’s retirement, BethuneCookman noted the following about the longtime Wildcat.

McClairen was a chauffer for Bethune-Cookman founder Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune in Daytona Beach while he was a student. “He drove the family car from Panama City to Tallahassee for the 1947 Bethune-Cookman-Florida A&M game, where he remembers seeing Dr. Bethune roaming the sidelines with her cane, encouraging her Wildcats.’’

• Jackie Robinson helped him get his NFL gig – kind of… When McClairen caught a famed game-winning touchdown catch against Florida A&M at the 1952 homecoming game, one of the guests was Branch Rickey, the former Brooklyn Dodgers General Manager who paved Jackie Robinson’s entry into major league baseball.

Rickey had moved on and was running the Pittsburgh Pirates.

To this day, McClairen believes Rickey made a call or two to his neighbors, the Pittsburgh Steelers, who drafted McClairen in 1953.

• McClairen beat Florida A&M in two sports as a player and a coach. McClairen and John Chaney led the Wildcats to the 1953 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference championship, beating the Rattlers in the title game. When he returned to Bethune-Cookman as a coach, McClairen enjoyed 29 basketball wins over the Rattlers, including the 1968 SIAC (Southern Intercollege Athletic Conference) championship game. A football coaching win would elude McClairen during his first football stint, but he finally got it in 1994 with a lastminute win at the Florida Classic.

• Two of McClairen’s former players – Hall of Famer Larry Little and Maulty Moore – were on the 1972 famed Miami team that compiled the only perfect season in NFL history.

• When he was football coach, McClairen cut a kid named Willie Gary, who would go on to be

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Standout player

McClairen was drafted by the Pittsburgh Steelers in 1953. one of the nation’s most prominent attorneys. So Oprah Winfrey thought it would be a good idea to reunite the two, and it made for good TV on her show.

Gary has no hard feelings – he’s made several contributions to Bethune-Cookman (he graduated from Shaw University) and a computer lab in the music building bears Gary’s name.

• McClairen still holds BCU’s coaching win record. McClairen gave up the sidelines for good in 1996 after three seasons of rebuilding the foundations for one of the nation’s premier HBCU football programs.

The final tally for coaching victories was 467 -71 in football and 396 in basketball. Since then, the only Wildcat coach who has come remotely close was Mervyl Melendez with 379 in baseball. The only current coach who could surpass McClairen in the relatively near future? Laura Watten with 341 softball wins.

• McClairen’s 55 years as a Bethune-Cookman coach and administrator will match the tenure of Grambling State’s Eddie Robinson as football coach of Grambling State (1941-42, 1945-97).

He was a standout student athlete in football, basketball and track at the school in the late 1940s.

“I didn’t know if I was going to win at any sport. I added track on.

We had some good football and basketball players but they just didn’t go anywhere. We didn’t get a lot of the top track athletes like other schools,” commented McClairen.

He played with the school’s all-time leading basketball scorer, John Chaney, who went on to be a legendary coach at Temple University.

“It’s great to just be recognized along with those great athletes. I get the recognition too. I couldn’t have done it by myself. We had other athletes that were good in both basketball and football,” McClairen noted.

Celebrated head coach He also served as BethuneCookman’s head coach in both football and basketball. In basketball, he won over 300 games.

“It’s been great,” he said about his career at the school. “When I first coached, they didn’t really know about me. I never coached before. I taught the men how to be men. My secretaries were students. I had three or four at a time because they had to take classes,” McClairen explained.

Throughout the years, McClairen has seen athletics gain national attention and TV appearances; in addition, the college became a university with worldwide acclaim.

“It makes me feel good and it makes me proud. I’ve seen this school grow. When I played here, we were an NAIA (National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics) school, and when I coached we were Division II. I didn’t often get to play against or coach against the big boys but now our kids do. I’m glad of the notoriety that we get,” McClairen commented.

He also helped build the school’s golf program into a prominent historically Black college and university (HBCU) national championship, Mid-East-

FROM PLAYER TO HALL OF FAMER Here’s a timeline of McClairen’s career provided by Bethune-Cookman.

1947 Attends Bethune-Cookman-Florida A&M game in Tallahassee 1949 Enrolls at Bethune-Cookman 1952 Catches game-winning pass in Homecoming win over FAMU 1953 Leads basketball team to SIAC championship and finals of

NIBT; named SIAC player of the year 1953 Drafted in 26th round by Pittsburgh Steelers; first Bethune Cookman player drafted 1955 Finishes U.S. Army Service Begins NFL career in Pittsburgh 1955 1957 Finishes third in NFL with 46 receptions, named to Pro Bowl Team Final season with Steelers 1960 Returns to Bethune-Cookman as athletic director, football 1961

coach and basketball coach; finishes inaugural football

season 5-3 and basketball 13-12 Coaches basketball team to first NCAA Division II tournament 1965 appearance Coaches basketball team to NAIA tournament appearance 1966 Coaches basketball team to SIAC championship and second 1968

NCAA Division II tournament appearance 1972 Steps down as football coach and athletic director 1977 Named SIAC basketball coach of the year 1980 In final season of Division II play, wins the SIAC basketball

tournament and advances to NCAA Division II tournament for

the third time 1988 Inducted into Florida Sports Hall of Fame 1989 Named MEAC basketball coach of the year 1993 Steps down as basketball coach 1994 Named head football coach for the second time 1994 Finishes first season 5-6 with first-ever football coaching win

over Florida A&M; named MEAC football coach of the year Steps down as head football coach 1996 1998 Inducted into SIAC Hall of Fame as Player (2000 as Coach) 2000 Inducted into inaugural class of Bethune-Cookman Athletic

Hall of Fame 2008 Inducted into MEAC Hall of Fame ern Athletic Conference (MEAC) championship and NCAA tournament contender.

“We had a coach who was playing professionally with the PGA. He needed someone that he could keep communicate with and get things done, so he asked me to help him out. That’s how we got started,” McClairen said about the school’s golf program.

‘Our rock’ Those who got to work closely with him will forever feel his impact.

“Cy is our rock and well-spring of knowledge and wisdom. He has given his heart and soul to this institution. He is in the DNA of this university. You can’t spell legacy without ‘C-Y,’’ said Lynn Thompson B-CU’s vice president and director of athletics.

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pher John Reeves was an AllAmerican high school basketball player recruited by McClairen.

“Cy is one hell of a coach. You don’t win 300 games without being great. He did a lot of things that probably changed the rules like bringing in shot clocks,” Reeves remarked.

David Howard Sr. is a former BCU player and the current head coach at both Atlantic High and Campbell Middle schools.

“It’s an honor to have played for him. I got to see him coach when I was playing in high school,” Howard stated. “He didn’t recruit me, but he did let me play for him after I transferred from an NAIA school. I had to sit out a year, but he let me take on a role as an assistant coach. I learned coaching from him.’’

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Putnam woman following in father’s footsteps as funeral director Oftentimes, we wish we had the capability of knowing what lies around the corner. But for Karla N. Flagg-Wright, she’s able to see the investment that God has made in her here-and-now experience.

She’s got a grip on being certified a licensed funeral director by the State of Florida. She comes from a distinguished, well-known family, far outreaching the depths of Northeast Florida.

She is the daughter of the Rev. Karl N. and Terricena Flagg of the Mt. Tabor First Baptist Church of Palatka. The pastor and the queenly first lady have been married for 30 years. They have another lovely daughter, Kandyce N. Flagg.

Rev. Flagg is president and CEO of Karl N. Flagg Serenity Memorial Chapel in Palatka. He’s meticulous in funeral directing and embalming. He’s a friend to many members of the clergy, taking part in fellowshipping as a worship leader or guest speaker at anniversaries and other occasions.

He’s a county commissioner in District 3 in Putnam County and has served several terms as the City of Palatka’s mayor, populated by well over 10,000 residents.

Human resources background Flagg-Wright knows the gravity of being motivated.

“Once I graduated from the University of Central Florida (UCF) and returned to Palatka, it was not as easy for me to enter into my career field of human resources,” she said, “so I briefly worked at a local school and hospital. But I didn’t get that same sense of fulfillment as working as a funeral director.”

The situation did not have the same resonance as it does today.

She recalls as a child running around the halls of the funeral home. By age 8, she was attending different funerals at various churches. The sprawling Karl N. Flagg Serenity Memorial Chapel was founded by her father on July 4, 1997.

The scene was set when Flagg-Wright earned her bachelor’s degree from the University of Central Florida. With a concentration in business management – and particularly in human resources – as a funeral director, “I am able to conduct arrangement conferences. I am able to actually direct services,” said Flagg-Wright, who is licensed to work administratively without the involvement of embalming.

NCNW seeks contestants for annual pie contest The Daytona Beach Section of the National Council of Negro Women (NCNW) is looking for contestants for this year’s Sweet Potato Pie and More Contest on July 30.

The event is homage to the group’s founder, Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune, who sold pies during the early days to keep the college open. Her birthday is July 9.

Participants can submit pies in one or more categories. The categories are sweet potato, fruit pies, custard pies and key lime pies. First- and second-place honors will be awarded in each category.

The cost is $10 to enter and each contestant will receive a special commemorative gift. The deadline to enter is July 27.

NCNW is a nonprofit membership organization founded in 1935 by Dr. Bethune.

With a mission to lead, develop and advocate for women of African descent as they support their families and communities,

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Attention to details It’s an enormous task in addition to a checklist of unloading the limousines of a cortège – DVDs depicting the decedent’s life; photographs, collages, flower arrangements, casket and register stands, extension cords, portable microphones, reserved seating signs, obituaries, and other details – all necessary for a dignified and meaningful funeral.

Last-minute details could crop up from clergy and others participating. And don’t forget the requests from distant funeral homes to be of assistance to local families in transporting a deceased. And then, there’s the call in the middle of the night, signaling disaster. But importantly, the work of a licensed funeral director affirms the need for someone’s beloved family and friends to gather in support of each other.

Mom and first lady too Flagg-Wright was supplied with further insight following her graduation from UCF to continue her education at St. Petersburg College and further studies in the administration process of funeral directing.

The impact of becoming a funeral director has deepened her calm, quiet demeanor, and has freed up her parents from shifting into overdrive due to their busy schedules.

“Really, the object of it all is that I saw how much he (Rev. Flagg) and my mom invested in getting the business started and keeping it afloat,” she said.

It’s also her season that she is the mother of Jayla Faith, who just turned 5 months old. And, her husband, the Rev. Jarvis F. Wright, has plotted a course as pastor of the New St. Paul Church of God in Christ, located in Seville.

The earthly pilgrimage of becoming a funeral caregiver has allowed FlaggWright flexibility to care for Jayla at work.

And, if that’s not enough, as first lady, she oversees the operational administration of the office at New St. Paul, and is a joint coordinator for the Young Women of Ex-

Karla N. Flagg-Wright is shown with her husband, the Rev. Jarvis F. Wright, and their daughter, Jayla Faith. cellence (Y.W.E), a mentoring program for teen-aged girls.

Trio performs July 8 at Gospel/Jazz Café The incomparable organist Doug Carn and his trio will play the Gospel/Jazz Café, July 8, 7 p.m. Robert Whiting will play the jazz classics on guitar, and Carlos Felder, on drums.

The donation is $15.

To order tickets, call First Church at 386446-5759, where the Rev. Gillard S. Glover serves as pastor. The Gospel/Jazz Café is located inside of First Church at 91 Old Kings Road North, Palm Coast.

Candidates forum set for July 14 Let’s turn to the City Candidates Forum, which takes place July 14, 6-8 p.m. at the African-American Cultural Society, 4422

U.S. 1 North, Palm Coast.

It’s a public, free event, sponsored by the Flagler County Democratic Party. It’s non-partisan with all mayoral and City Council candidates invited to participate.

It’s an opportunity for the public to submit questions to the candidates.

For further details, call 386-283-4883.

••• Please note the corrections to last week’s article: Pam Richardson should have been described as running for the Palm Coast District 3 seat. And, a graph during the editing process should have read that Linda Cole collaborated on a CD with Joshua Bowlus and his jazz group. We regret the errors.

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

Celebrations Birthday wishes to William Jones, July 8; Yolaine Pierre Goodridge, July 9; and Paul Henderson, July 11.

NCNW addresses issues of human welfare and rights through public education, community service and advocacy.

For more information, call 386-2531753 or send an email to daytonabeachsectionncnw@gmail.com.

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Daytona State alumni to host bowling fundraiser Hosted by the Daytona State College Alumni & Friends Association, “Bowling for Scholarships” is scheduled for Friday, July 22, from 6 to 9 p.m. at the Ormond Lanes, 206 N. U.S. Hwy. 1, Ormond Beach.

Three games and shoe rental are $15 per person. All proceeds will go toward the Alumni & Friends Association Scholarship Fund and Alumni & Friends Helping Hands Fund.

For more information, call 386-506-4506 or email Suzette.Cameron@DaytonaState. edu.

Dr. Michael A Chambers and his wife, Lizzie, meet area residents at a June 30 reception at Bethune-Cookman University.

Community greets Greater Friendship pastor, wife Dr. Michael A. Chambers and his wife, Lizzie, received a warm welcome from the Daytona Beach community the evening of June 30 during a Meet and Greet held at Bethune-Cookman University. Chambers is the new pastor of Greater Friendship Missionary Baptist Church. Chambers, who moved from Baltimore, Maryland, started pastoring Greater Friendship in May. He has pastored churches in Maryland,

Mississippi and Georgia. Chambers also is the former vice president of the United Baptist College and Seminary in Baltimore.

An Army veteran of Operation Desert Storm, Chambers received his Bachelor of Arts in Business Administration from Faulkner University, Montgomery, Ala. He earned a Master of Divinity from New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary and his doctorate from United Theological Seminary, Dayton, Ohio.

Chambers is the father of four children – Nicholas, Nykia, Aja and Sean.

Ormond Beach church to host Founder’s Day event Emmanuel Church of the Living God will observe its first Founder’s Day Celebration commemorating the legacy of the late bishop and founder, Dr. L. Delores Simmons-Ward. The church was founded by the bishop and her husband, Deacon George W. Ward.

Bishop Simmons-Ward died on Nov. 23, 2015. She is survived by Deacon Ward.

Evangelist Dr. Willie Mae Lee will be the speaker at the 10:30 a.m. service on July 10 at 54 South Ridgewood Ave., Ormond Beach.

Holly Hill to honor pastor and wife New Life Church Ministries in Holly Hill is hosting the 25th pastoral appreciation for Pastor Victor and Lady Charline Gooden this weekend. The church is at

Dr. L. Delores Simmons-Ward and Deacon George W. Ward

1625 Derbyshire Road.

On July 8 at 7 p.m., the special guest will be the Rev. Dr. Milton Biggham. The special preacher at 11 a.m. on July 10 will be Evangelist Lorraine “Punch’’ Baldwin.

For more information, call 386-6776222.

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Brazil, be careful of what you wish It was 2009. The International Olympic Committee was going to choose which city would be the 2016 host for the World Olympics.

The United States had the political star, nouveau political leader Barack Obama and his wife, First Lady Michelle, giving the presentation. The other presenters were Madrid, Tokyo and Rio de Janeiro.

No chance to work Despite the first lady, our presentation was a concern. All labor involved would be uniononly project labor agreements, which means no Blacks nor Hispanics nor women would get much of a chance to work before and during the Olympics.

Large sections of the Southside of Chicago would fall under eminent domain. They proposed to gut historical neighborhoods and replace them with stadiums and stations for the 2016 Olympics.

The residents of these targeted neighborhoods were ready to demonstrate, fight, and sue and everything else to resist the proposed gentrification of their family homes and neighborhoods.

Political opportunists began their preparation to pounce on

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the “buy low, sell high” hustles.

Rio saw Chicago’s flaws. They were not going to transplant neighborhoods without a plan for empowerment. Infrastructure was already in place due to the preparation of the World Cup Soccer Games. Their hillside slums known as ‘favelas’ would be upgraded, not just leveled.

Thousands of jobs would be created. Brazil is 53 percent Black, and the largest Black population second to only Nigeria.

Now, they are going to get ‘empowerment.’

Rio wins Chicago lost in the first round.

From then on, the glitter of the Obama Era started to tarnish.

Chicago’s investors were crushed. President of the Chicago Board of Education and member of the 2016 Olympic Committee Michael W. Scott became so depressed that he committed suicide.

Brother Malcolm X’s influence on the voting rights movement To do research for a documentary on Brother Malcolm X’s influence on the Black Power Movement, I joined with the conceiver of the project, Thomas Muhammad, interviewer Dr. Tara White, executive producer Lori Malihoit, videographers Evans Mitchell and William Hicks on an over 1,500-mile journey to Lowndes County, Ala., Selma, Ala., and Dallas, Texas.

The adventure actually began with Dr. White interviewing Brother Malcolm’s nephew, Rodnell Collins, author of the book “Seventh Child: A Family Memoir of Malcolm X.” He provided information on his uncle’s family history.

A great trip Highlights of the adventure in which we travelled in a rented recreational vehicle are as follows: • A visit with Dr. Calvin Sinnette, who was a pediatrician for Brother Malcolm’s daughters and Mrs. Elinor Des Verney Sinnette, author of “Arthur Alfonso Schomburg: Black Bibliophile & Collector.” They were close

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enough to Brother Malcolm that he called them on Saturday evening, Feb. 20, 1965 to thank them for their contribution to the campaign to secure clothing for his children. Their clothing had been burned up in the firebombing of his home the previous weekend.

Mrs. Sinnette also remembers his telling them that there would be an attempt to kill him the next day, Sunday, Feb. 21, 1965, but for them not to worry because he was on top of things. That was painful to hear.

• A visit with John Jackson in Lowndes County, Ala. Mr. Jackson is the son of Matthew Jackson. His father owned a large farm in the county. Mr. Jackson, who was 16 years old in 1965, said his father heard Brother Malcolm speak at Brown’s Chapel in Selma on Feb. 4, 1965 “and came home a changed man.”

Time for ‘good trouble’ inside, outside Congress Congressman John Lewis’ call to action in the U.S. House of Representatives on June 22 was the beginning of an extraordinary event in our nation’s Capitol.

Members of Congress participated in a nonviolent occupation of the floor. How refreshing to see Lewis and his Congressional colleagues protesting the egregious fact that even in the wake of the deadliest mass shooting in our nation’s history and the senseless preventable deaths by gun of tens of thousands of human beings in our nation, including children, year in and year out, Congress has refused to act to reduce the epidemic of gun violence raging across our country.

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Lewis grew up in segregated Troy, Ala. where he was taught not to challenge the racist Jim Crow status quo because that was just the way things were. But as a teenager he decided he couldn’t and wouldn’t spend his life afraid of getting into “good trouble.” He wrote a letter to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. after hearing him on the radio during the Montgomery Bus Boycott. Dr. King invit-

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I have been to Rio de Janeiro a few times. It is a 24/7 party. However, we had our most successful trade mission there. We took 84 businesses and did over $34 million in four days.

One thing that I know is that the Brazil power structure will not stand for Black empowerment. Black Brazilians are hungry to mix with Black Americans.

The disparity is about to explode in civil protest.

Looking at us The 53 percent Black sector looks at us and knows that we did not get empowerment by being nice. We took it to the streets and would not back down. Sooner or later they are going to emulate us.

Since winning the Olympic selection in 2009, more than 2,500 Black males have been killed by the police. They aren’t going to take that much longer.

Much of the Brazilian government is corrupt. Its largest corporation, Petrobras, is scandalized with bid-rigging. Principals in Petrobras and many of its partners are marching off to prison.

Former President Lula is considered a hero in the soccer and Olympic competitions, current President Dilma Rousseff is fac-

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ing an impeachment trial for cooking the federal books. The nation’s overall economy is in the dumps.

May be a mess The Olympic Games may end up being a horrible mess. The beach volleyball site is littered with human body parts washing ashore. Rowing teams will be rowing in polluted water.

The usual prostitution, panhandling and robberies won’t be deterred. The ongoing lethal drug wars won’t take a respite.

The favelas will still be there.

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rights campaign. After much discussion it was decided that the cost of not allowing him to speak would be greater than allowing him to do so.

Both LaFayette, in his book, “In Peace and Freedom: My Journey in Selma” and the National Voting Rights Museum in its 50th Anniversary program, state that Brother Malcolm’s coming to Selma and speaking in Brown’s Chapel to clearly demonstrate his support for their campaign, had an influential impact on the later passage of a voting rights bill.

He immediately offered the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) a house on his farm that became the headquarters for their voting rights campaign in Lowndes County. That house, in which Kwame Ture and other SNCC warriors strategized and slept, is still there as Freedom House, and is open to the public.

• A visit in Selma with Dr. Frederick Douglas Reese, Joanne Bland, Averette Woodson and Charles Mauldin, all of whom

were frontline warriors in the battle against White supremacists/racists. Dr. Reese, whose home was firebombed, is the only surviving member of a group known as The Courageous Eight.

They began the battle for voting rights in Selma.

Mrs. Bland, Mr. Woodson and Mr. Mauldin, all of whom marched across the Edmund Pettus Bridge on Bloody Sunday, were 11, 13 and 16 respectively, at the time. All were in Brown’s Chapel to hear Brother Malcolm speak. He had always been presented to them as a person who advocated violence.

Mrs. Bland smiled and said, “At age 11, all I knew was that he advocated killing White folks who suppressed us. I was disappointed when he didn’t do that in his speech.”

• A visit with Pastor Emeritus Zan Holmes whose church, St. Luke Community United Methodist Church in Dallas, includes a stained-glass mural of Brother Malcolm in a series of murals depicting the history of Black folks in this country.

• A panel discussion in Dallas, Texas with Dr. Bernard LaFayette, a member of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s inner circle who provided a first-hand account of the debate among the Southern Christian Leadership Council officers about the possibility of Brother Malcolm speaking at Brown’s Chapel which was the headquarters for their voting

ed the “boy from Troy” to come meet him and helped spur young John Lewis on his lifelong path as a nonviolent warrior for justice who helped transform our nation.

As a student leader and eventually chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) Lewis helped organize and supported sit-ins and other student activism across the South with my generation of young activists.

At age 23, he was the youngest person to speak at the 1963 March on Washington. Two years later, he was brutally attacked by lawless state and local law enforcement officials and his skull was fractured on the Edmund Pettus Bridge while attempting to lead a march for voting rights in Selma, Ala. The televised images of the savage “Bloody Sunday” beatings followed by the March from

Selma to Montgomery by people coming from across the nation led President Lyndon B. Johnson to call on Congress to pass what became the Voting Rights Act of 1965. It was a pivotal moment in the Civil Rights Movement and in America’s continuing struggle to honor America’s dream.

In 1986 John Lewis was elected to Congress to continue fighting to push America forward.

He displayed a moral leadership and clarity that I hope will infect enough of his Congressional colleagues and galvanize millions of voters appalled by Congress’s inability to ban gun sales to people on the “no-fly” list, expand background checks, or provide other urgently needed common sense safety solutions to protect Americans including our children from relentless gun violence.

We desperately need a critical mass of leaders like Congressman Lewis, Senator Christopher

Murphy, and others who joined in the House sit-in willing to stand up to the National Rifle Association and the gun manufacturing industry and their lobbyists and money and do the right thing to prevent gun violence that injures or kills a child every half hour in our gun saturated nation.

As John Lewis said from the House floor: “Sometimes you have to do something out of the ordinary. Sometimes you have to make a way out of no way. We have been too quiet for too long.

There comes a time when you have to say something, when you have to make a little noise. When you have to move your feet. And this is the time.”

Amen!

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Victor Ramirez, 61, uses his ventilator at the men’s dorm at the Illumination Foundation Recuperative Care in Santa Fe Springs, Calif., on Feb. 12. The Guatemalan native became homeless after he lost his job at a car wash in Los Angeles.

Old motels used to help homeless heal California sites turned into model recovery centers

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Just up the freeway from Disneyland, in the Orange County city of Buena Park, Calif., Paul Leon stood outside the beat-up remnant of a seedy motel. Above him, a faded pink sign advertised the Coral Motel, whose rooms back in its prime cost 35 bucks a night.

“This particular motel was going to be taken back by the city of Buena Park, because of the drugs, alcohol, prostitution,” Leon explained.

But Leon, CEO of the Irvinebased Illumination Foundation, a homeless services nonprofit, had a different idea. He proposed turning the motel lobby into a triage center and converting the rooms into clean recovery facilities for homeless people recently discharged from the hospital.

And that’s what he did.

‘Poor man’s recuperative’ It’s impossible for homeless people to recover from a health crisis when they just go back out onto the street after being discharged from the hospital. They end up returning repeatedly to emergency rooms and hospitals, which are very expensive.

Recuperative care centers are pricey to set up, but the motel model was just the opposite, Leon says.

“The beauty of this (is) it’s the poor man’s recuperative,” he said.

“They’re not the Hyatt or the Hilton, but they do serve a purpose for us. The costs to run it are much less.”

The motel recovery room costs about half as much as a hospital would — about $2,000 less a day for each patient. And it’s like being at home. In fact, it may be even better than home, because it has a nurse on staff to help supervise care and handle complications.

Six sites Leon, who was trained as a public health nurse, launched the Illumination Foundation to provide precisely this type of care and links to the community.

The foundation now has expanded the motel model to six sites in four California counties — Orange, Los Angeles, Riverside and San Bernardino.

Elvin Quinones, one of the patients at the Coral Motel, padded across the motel parking lot in flip-flops to show off his previous home — a small white Datsun B210 sedan.

“I’ll show you my house,” he said, “it’s not very big.”

Homeless and helpless Quinones is a large man, and it’s hard to picture him crammed into the car along with his two dogs. In the days immediately following his gall bladder operation, he had to fit a bunch of medical gear too.

“I’ll be honest, I was sleeping in front of the 24-hour Wal-Mart, because they had a bathroom,” Quinones recounted. “I still had a tube stuck inside me that was draining, so I needed someplace where I could empty out the drain.” Being homeless and helpless, he added, is something he’ll never forget.

“It’s surreal. You think you’re going to wake up and it’ll all be a nightmare. And you wake up and it’s not,” he said. “It’s just the next day.”

The Coral Motel in Buena Park, Calif., used by the Illumination Foundation Recuperative Care, serves as a respite for people needing a place to recover after being discharged from the hospital.

New model of care A week after his medical release, the hospital called and helped place him in the motel.

“This is a new model of care for Orange County,” said Ginny Ripslinger, vice president of network of care at St. Joseph Health System.

Hospitals and health insurers help fund the motel-based care centers, Ripslinger said, because they save money by stabilizing these patients.

The dollars they contribute are in addition to any payments from Medi-Cal, the state- and federally funded health program for people with low incomes.

Beyond the financial interest of hospitals, providing funding for this motel-based care is “just the right thing to do,” Ripslinger said. “We don’t want to discharge them to the street, and there’s an obligation on the hospitals to provide continuity of care and safe discharges.”

Social services too There’s also an added benefit to accommodating these homeless patients in motel rooms for two or three weeks.

“You might say they’re a (captive) audience,” Riplinger said.

“We can then provide the social services and the linkages to the community for stable housing and get them in a protected environment.”

Leon said he has been working with dozens of cities across the

Lloyd Brooks, 57, sleeps in the men’s dorm at the Illumination Foundation Recuperative Care in Santa Fe Springs, Calif., on Feb. 12. Brooks is recovering after getting his left leg amputated due to an infection. country to establish similar models elsewhere.

“If you’re just starting and you don’t have a recuperative care program,” he said, “one easy quick method is to use motels.

They could basically start within days to house some of the patients that are the most vulnerable.”

Every city has a homeless problem, Leon added, and every city has its own version of the beat-up Coral Motel. It’s a rare opportunity, he said, to turn two big problems into one solution.

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Elvin Quinones, 55, visits his two Chihuahuas at the Santa Fe Animal Hospital usually every other day. Quinones put them in the kennel the day he became homeless.

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A 22-car wreck happened on Lap 90 during the Coke Zero 400. It started when Jamie McMurray lost control of his Chevy and tagged Chip Ganassi Racing teammate Kyle Larson.

A Daytona victory for Keselowski Coke Zero 400 winner reflects on obstacles leading up to his big finish

BY DAVID SCOTT CHARLOTTE OBSERVER/TNS

Brad Keselowski won for a first time at Daytona International Speedway on Saturday — no small deal for him — and now he’s primed for the postseason.

“I’m ready for the Chase to start right now,” Keselowski said after he held off Kyle Busch by .159 seconds to win the Coke Zero 400 in overtime. “Let’s go!”

Nine races remain before the Chase begins and that gives Keselowski plenty of time to continue to build on what’s become a stalwart season for his Team Penske No. 2 Ford.

He already has three victories, so he’s certain to be among the favorites when the postseason begins.

Not all rosy But his Saturday victory also provided a huge dose of confidence for Keselowski, who had never won at Daytona — along with Talladega (Ala.) Superspeedway one of NASCAR’s two restrictor-plate tracks — in 14 previous starts. Making his Daytona struggles more puzzling is the fact that he has four career victories at Talladega.

Brad Keselowski wins the Coke Zero 400 in overtime on July 2 at the Daytona International Speedway.

Brad Keselowski “The wins are never easy to come by, and I think this one means a lot to me for sure because looking at our past here, it hasn’t been all that rosy,” Keselowski said.

“I was telling (team owner) Roger Penske when I was in victory lane and the fireworks were going off, usually I’m loading up the car and about to go to the airport, so it’s nice to be here and have a great finish.”

Lots of questions He didn’t expect much from Saturday’s race.

“It seemed like it was never going to happen,” said crew chief Paul Wolfe.

“You keep getting the questions, ‘How do you guys win at Talladega and not do it at Daytona?’ I got that question a lot this weekend. It’s great.”

Keselowski said the team has usually tried to take what worked at Talladega to Daytona. Race after race, year after year, that didn’t

A huge flag is displayed at the Coke Zero 400 Powered By Coca-Cola on July 2 at the Daytona International Speedway. work. He finished 20th at the season-opening Daytona 500, then won at Tal-

ladega for a fourth time in May. “From the get go, we’ve been really strong at Talladega and we’ve used that approach (at Daytona),” Keselowski said. “And we’ve been awful.”

Overcoming the barriers This time, he and Wolfe tried something different when they arrived for Daytona’s summer race. The Toyota’s setup was completely different from what won at Talladega.

It was good enough to lead 115 of the race’s 161 laps.

“Sometimes you need to look in the mirror and you need to do something different,” Keselowski said.

“That might sound easy to come to. But there are a lot of roadblocks and barriers for a team to do that.

I’m proud we could do that and put this together.”

Made most of it Keselowski’s five restrictor-plate victories are the most on the Cup circuit since 2009 (Dale Earnhardt Jr. had three).

“Talladega looks real good, Daytona not so much,” said Keselowski,

Jacksonville Jaguars linebacker Telvin Smith was the honorary pace car driver. the 2012 Cup champion.

“There’s a lot of great drivers on these plate races and a lot of variables to put them all together. Those numbers could shift a lot of ways fairly easily, so it’s hard to make a comparison.

“But when we have a great car like we did today, I feel like I can compete and make a run for it.

You’ve always got to have the car, but when you have the car, you’ve got to make the most of it, and we were able to do both.”

Big wreck Keselowski’s ability to stay ahead of the pack al-

lowed him to avoid a 22car accident on Lap 90. The wreck started when Jamie McMurray lost control of his Chevy and tagged Chip Ganassi Racing teammate Kyle Larson. That brought Jimmie Johnson into the fray and the cars piled up behind them.

The victory also held several landmarks for Keselowski and Team Penske.

It was the 100th Cup victory for Team Penske in a year in which it is celebrating its 50th anniversary. It was also Keselowski’s 20th victory in 250 career starts.

“And we finished first (Saturday),” Keselowski said. “I like that number best.”

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JULY 7 – JULY 13, 2016 bridge include handicap accessibility, 8-foot sidewalks, fishing piers on the east and west sides of the Halifax River, and plaques at 28 scenic overlooks commemorating conflicts in America’s military history.

32-month project

Veterans, local officials and residents attend the groundbreaking ceremony for the new bridge. The current bridge, which is more than 60 years old, has been closed since June 6 and will be demolished.

Ceremony marks beginning of construction on veterans bridge More than 100 residents and local and state officials gathered on June 30 to celebrate the beginning of construction on the new Tom Staed Veterans Memorial Bridge in Daytona Beach.

Volusia County Manager Jim Dinneen noted the new bridge was named for Tom Staed, a prominent area hotelier and Korean War veteran who died in 2013.

“This new bridge will serve as a tribute to Mr. Staed and all veterans,” Dinneen said, noting the entire $38 million cost will be covered by the federal government.

Design elements of the new

The ceremony was concluded with a special surprise commemorative “boom” to signify the start of demolition. A website with ongoing construction updates and photos has been set up for the project and can be found at www. volusia.org/veteransmemorialbridge.

The initial phase of construction, which will take three to four months, includes the demolition of the existing bridge. As early as August the laying of the foundation, which involves the driving of 225 concrete pilings (some measuring 30-inches square and 100-feet long) into the riverbed, is expected to begin and continue for approximately 10 months. Noise and vibration from the pile driving can be expected.

Pile driving will occur from 7 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Monday through Friday. The project is expected to last 32 months.

TSA PreCheck opens at Daytona International Airport The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has opened a permanent PreCheck enrollment center at Daytona Beach International Airport (DAB). PreCheck allows participating flyers to experience a more efficient airport screening process by leaving on shoes, light jackets and belts and leaving laptops and compliant liquids in carry-on bags.

Passengers must pre-enroll and schedule an appointment at www.identogo.com/Daytona. aspx. At the appointment, passengers will need to show documentation proving identity and citizenship status.

During the onsite enrollment

at DAB, applicants will be fingerprinted for a background check.

The $85 application fee can be paid by credit card, money order, company check or certified/cashier’s check. Cash and personal checks are not accepted.

“We are very excited about having the TSA PreCheck enrollment center,” said Jay Cassens, business development director at Daytona Beach International Airport. “Last fall, TSA held a two-week enrollment event here and it was very successful, with 1,200 people enrolled.”

KTN for enrollees Successful applicants will re-

ceive a known traveler number (KTN) via U.S. mail within 45 days that is valid for five years. The enrollee should enter the KTN in the “known traveler number” field when booking travel reservations.

The KTN also can be added when booking reservations through a participating airline website, phone call to the airline reservation center, or with a travel management company making reservations. The KTN also can be entered in participating airline frequent flyer profiles, where it will be stored for future reservations.

More than 150 airports, including DAB, have dedicated TSA Pre-

Check lanes.

Twelve airlines participate in the program including Alaska Airlines, American Airlines, Delta Air Lines, Hawaiian Airlines, JetBlue Airways, Southwest Airlines, United Airlines and Virgin America “The TSA PreCheck enrollment center is another convenience for our passengers and enhances the overall customer service experience,” said Cassens.

Visit http://www.tsa.gov/tsaprecheck/required-documentation for a complete list of required documents.

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Board to make funding recommendations The Children and Families Advisory Board will meet at 1:30 p.m. Tuesday, July 12, in the firstfloor training room of the Thomas C. Kelly Administration Building, 123 W. Indiana Ave., DeLand.

Members will review, score and make funding recommendations for fiscal year 2016-2017 contingency grant funding.

The advisory board assesses and evaluates strategies to meet needs, monitors program compliance, advertises funding availability, recommends appropriations for programs serving children and families, and provides recommendations to the Volusia County Council on children and family issues.

For information, visit www.volusia.org/cfab or call Brittany Scott, children and community programs coordinator, at 386736-5955, ext. 12959.

ECHO Advisory Committee to meet July 12 Volusia County’s Environmental, Cultural, Historical and Outdoor Recreation (ECHO) Advisory Committee will meet at 3 p.m. Tuesday, July 12, at Lilian Place, 111 Silver Beach Ave., Daytona Beach.

Members will review the progress of open ECHO grants. The public is invited to attend and participate in the meeting.

For information, contact Carmen Hall at chall@ volusia.org or 386-7365955, ext. 12044.

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