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There’s a window covering for every personality. Styles can range from formal to funky and can coordinate or illuminate a room’s good looks. Choosing your perfect window “match” is about more than colors and textures, so while one of the key considerations is that the treatment fits your style, also make sure to consider the functional benefits that these products can add to your home. A few important questions to consider; Do you need to filter light, or let more light in? Will flowing fabrics or solid lines best complement your look? Is safety a consideration for your small children or pets? If so, you may prefer a cordless style that operates with a spring system rather than strings. Get your matchmaking started by understanding the “personality traits” of these popular options:
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which will be reviewed by the of the inspiration for Henderstate board in March 2010, when son Collegiate came from their final approval is expected. Plans experience there. call for the school to open in Sanchez is working as school August 2010. planner this year and will beEric Sanchez and Carice come the school leader when it Cantelupe are the force behind opens. Cantelupe is continuing the new school. Both were with Gaston Prep this year and Teach for America participants will assume the position of grade who began their educational level chair in the new school. careers with the Vance County The school will open with shades provide a fashionable way to stay Schools before moving to Gas-Cellular 100 graders in the warmer in theabout winter and cooler in thefourth summer. ton College Preparatory School first year. It will add a grade in Northampton County. Much each year for the following four
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Looking for a way to create a clean, streamlined appearance? Choose the cordless option. It’s a great way to avoid dangling cords that clutter your view and also offer a safer option for homes with children and pets. The cordless option is offered on a variety of products, so make sure to check for availability before committing.
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All but four candidates seeking election to Henderson municipal offices have pledged their participation in today’s forum. Ward 1 Councilwoman Mary Emma Evans, Ward 4 at large council candidate Ranger Wilkerson and mayoral candidate Tina Hunter will not be attending. There is no confirmation whether mayoral candidate Tammy Sue Lightfoot will show up. The Dispatch is joining the Henderson-Vance Chamber of Commerce, radio station WIZS and the Home in Henderson Web site in hosting the forum, which will be from 3 p.m.5:15 p.m. in the Vance County Commission meeting room at 122 Young St. Evans, who is pastor of Room at the Cross Pentecostal Holiness Church, had already told the newspaper she would be unable to participate because of a prior commitment to go to Antioch United Church of Christ, which is just on the Vance side of the North Carolina-Virginia border. Evans said the pastor of Antioch is reaching his first anniversary there. Wilkerson told the newspaper he would have to go to Greenville to be at the side of a sick family member. Hunter, when asked by a chamber representative whether she would participate in the forum, replied, “I’ll pass.”
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The HendersonVance Black Caucus is supporting Juanita Somerville for mayor over incumbent Pete O’Geary and the three other challengers, Tina Hunter, Tammy Sue Lightfoot and Tim McAllister. The rest of those the caucus is backing for election to Henderson municipal offices in contested races are City Council incumbents. Please see CAUCUS, page 3A
A phoned Lightfoot’s residence and her daughter answered and said her mother was not at home. A message asking Lightfoot to reply was not returned. In addition to the city chief executive’s position, five of the eight council positions are being contested and they are as follows heading into the Oct. 6 election: Please see FORUM, page 3A
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The Day/Night option, available in Levolor custom cellular and natural shades, combines two fabrics in one shade. Use the lightfiltering fabric during the day and blockout fabric for privacy at night. The blockout fabric also can be used during the day for maximum room darkening.
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Only from Levolor, LightMaster is a no-rout hole design that blocks light for enhanced room darkening and increased privacy in wood and faux wood blinds.
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There are various levels of light control on blinds and shades, letting you determine the amount of light in your room.
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years, until it includes grades four through eight. In an interview with the Daily Dispatch, Sanchez said they plan to apply later to continue through the twelfth grade. Henderson Collegiate will provide more hours of learning for students. School hours Monday through Friday will be from 7:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. On Friday the hours will be 7:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. The school will also include a two-week session in August.
According to Sanchez, the community forum is intended to accomplish several things: • Describe the school’s educational approach. • Give the public an opportunity to interact with the staff and board of the new school. • Answer questions and respond to concerns citizens may have. • Present the school’s marketing plan and plan of operation. • Enlist support of the community.
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A U.S. flag flies over the entrance to the ACORN Community High School in New York on Friday. The school was formed in 1996 in a partnership between ACORN (the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now) and the New York City Board of Education.
What has ACORN grown into? Arkansas civic activist group gone national now mired in controversy By SHARON THEIMER and PETE YOST Associated Press Writers
WASHINGTON — Activist group ACORN started in 1970 to help the poor in Arkansas and quickly went national, growing into a multimillion-dollar conglomerate with a mission so far-flung that schools now bear its name, two radio stations are affiliates and a man it backed is the president. Oh yeah, it’s also the unwilling star of a hot Internet video featuring a couple dressed as a hooker and her pimp. And that last bit is just one of its problems. The organization praised for its Hurricane Katrina relief efforts and treated by federal, state and local governments as a valuable public resource has had nearly $1 million embezzled by its founder’s brother. The openly Democratic-leaning group has seen its employees accused of voter registration fraud, and taking it down has become a cause celebre for Republican lawmakers, activists and pundits. As if volunteers allegedly signing up cartoon character Mickey Mouse to vote didn’t give ACORN enough bad publicity, the public is enthralled with new videos appearing on
the Internet and TV news shows showing ACORN employees in Brooklyn, N.Y., advising a couple posing as a prostitute and pimp to lie to get housing aid, and employees in other cities counseling the pair on tax, banking and immigration issues. Many Democrats used to advertise their ACORN connections. Now, however, the Democratic-led Senate has voted to cut off its grants from the Department of Housing and Urban Development, and the Democrat-dominated House doesn’t want it to get any federal money, period. White House press secretary Robert Gibbs called the conduct in the videos “completely unacceptable” and a prominent ally of President Barack Obama, John Podesta, is on an ACORN advisory panel working to clean up the mess. Republicans are using ACORN to portray Democrats as corrupt and distract Obama from his policy agenda, the same way Democrats used issues involving Halliburton, the giant government contractor and ex-employer of former Vice President Dick Cheney, against the GOP during the Bush years. Top Republicans from congressional leaders
to California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger want criminal probes of ACORN and conservative voters are pressuring news organizations for coverage. The Census Bureau this month cut ties with ACORN for the 2010 census, and a nonpartisan watchdog group, Citizens Against Government Waste, named senators who voted to continue financing ACORN the “September Porkers of the Month.” New York Gov. David Paterson on Friday ordered state agencies to examine contracts with ACORN and place holds on them in the meantime. ACORN has portrayed its problems as the unfortunate work of a few employees. In the best case, that suggests it made bad hires and gave them poor training and supervision. But when the founder of a national organization admits attempting to keep quiet his brother’s theft of more than $900,000, it’s a sign that ACORN’s problems may rise high and run deep. How did ACORN wind up in this mess? Did it simply grow too big for its own good? The scope of government investigations into its activities is unknown. Voter registration fraud
cases involving ACORN workers are pending. HUD’s inspector general has acknowledged an investigation is under way. ACORN this past week announced it would investigate the video scandal and suspend the admission of new clients into its housing program. ACORN chief executive Bertha Lewis has pledged do whatever necessary “to re-establish the public trust.” She condemned the actions of the two employees who appeared in the Brooklyn footage, but ACORN also contends segments of the video shot there and elsewhere by the hidden-camera couple were manipulated to make it look bad. “We understand that the Republican Party is upset and the right wing is upset because they are out of power now,” Lewis said Friday on New York radio station WNYC. James O’Keefe, one of the two filmmakers, said he went after ACORN because it registers minorities likely to vote against Republicans: “Politicians are getting elected singlehandedly due to this organization,” O’Keefe told The Washington Post. “No one was holding this organization accountable.” Please see ACORN, page 3A