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COMMUNITY MINUTE 02/24/08-03/02/08

Mon. 02/25/08
What a weekend, between the STAR 94.5 listeners were treated to a great Black History tour with Tajiri Performing Arts. They heard young Michael Walker recite excerpts from Martin and Malcolm and watched as Tajiri's director Jami Thomas did a rendition of a slaves story of abuse from her owner –Thank you to our tour guides two wonderful women from Sanford, the praise dancers and members of Mt. Zion – it was a great day in spite of the rain and we couldn't have done it without Grant Transportation...thank you all. This afternoon at 3, Reverend Kimbrough has organized a rally in front of Evans High School with the intent to save the school. He wants leaders, the community, parents and students to march for change for the school...

Finally that evening at 6:30 will be a Neighborhood Watch Community Meeting at the Callahan Center on Parramore Avenue...It's your opportunity to make your neighborhood a safer place to live....Go to our website STAR94fm.com for details.

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Tues. 02/26/08
Flu season is not over and the Health Department will be offering free flu shots again this Wednesday at the 1st Haitian Baptist church on Lenox Boulevard in Orlando from 9:00am until noon.

Thursday night, Edgewater High Schools Fashion Club will have their 1st Annual Black History Month Fashion Show...all proceeds benefit the students organization, there's lots of family fun, trivia, spoken word and more planned so go and enjoy 7:00pm in their auditorium...

This March 1st several of our Districts are electing delegates to send to Denver for the Democratic National Convention in August. Here locally you can vote at a poll however, District 8 voters will have to ride to Jacksonville. I'll have more information for you on transportation – for now though go to our website for info on the role of the delegate...

Wed. 02/27/08
Let me correct something I said in yesterday's community minute – Delegate voting for the August Democratic National Convention is March 1st – if you are a registered voter, then you'll be able to elect a representative – Here's my correction - district 3 candidates are Reginald McGill and Kathleen Gordon.- your polling place is in Jacksonville and they are coordinating transportation to get you there, District 7 so far is Dr. Adrienne Perry and District 8 is Dr. Lavon Bracy and Lawanna Gelzer...polling information is on our website STAR94fm.

Today until noon free flu shots are being offered to those in need at the 1st Haitian Baptist Church on Lenox Boulevard in Orlando – it's important to get your vaccine, especially if you're 50 or over...

And there's a press conference at the Orange County Health Department on Lake Ellenor drive this morning at 10:30...information to help save our babies will be shared including the fact that last year alone the infant mortality rate for our black babies was 14.6 per 1 thousand live births...Learn how to raise a healthy baby by being healthy yourself.

Thurs. 02/28/08
Tonight at 7:00pm Edgewater High School will have their Black History Fashion Show. Image will be presented in the school auditorium and open to everyone. Proceeds benefit the student's organization...

Speaking of students, Scott Peters at Eccleston always sends me these great tips – this one is on dealing with peer pressure....Scott says that pre-teens and teenagers often would rather spend time with their friends than with their parents or other adults –....Just because they choose their friends over you shouldn't stop you from still offering guidance and rules, even though they may fight you every step of the way – Make sure that you teach them to refuse offers of cigarettes, alcohol and drugs and you can even begin to role play these situations early on and most of all - Remember you are their parent and not a pal...Again these tips come in peiodically from Mr. Peters the assistant principal at Eccleston.

More on students, this Sunday at 3pm Evans High School will have an FCAT prayer and banquet service at their 9th grade center – to encourage students, teachers and parents to ace the upcoming exam....and this coming Tuesday the School board has a work session where changes at the school will be discussed, it's 4pm at the ELC...info is on our webstie STAR 94fm.com

Fri. 02/29/08
We made it to the weekend – oh my – on the calendar of things to do – tomorrow at 10am the City of Orlando's Blueprint hiring program invites you to a community meeting – enjoy food, music and fun as you hear plans on developing a workforce to get ready to build the new venues...they'll need lots of workers, so you'll want to hear the information...go to the Callahan Center on Washington and Paramore... Sunday you're invited to the annual FCAT prayer service at the Evans 9th grade center 3pm... everyone's welcome --Pastor Kimbrough wants us to take the Fear out of the FCAT – Speaking of Evans, there is a school board meeting Tuesdsay March 4th, solely to discuss the building of the new Evans High School facility. And Yes you are welcome to attend... Finally, there's been a barrage of what we call collateral deaths associated with domestic violence. This Sunday my guest is Carol Wick with the Harbor House, she'll explain more that's 6:30AM on STAR 94.5

COMMUNITY CONNECTION
Sun. 03/02/08
Sunday's Community Connection is with Harbor House, Carol Wick the Executive Director will discuss this rash of "collateral deaths" associated with domestic violence. There is a new media campaign that will un-roll soon and will be exposed on STAR this Sunday. Carol is an expert on DV, a victim herself and now an advocate....