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a monthly minority publication May 2013 | graduation edition | to subscribe to this publication, please contact us at [email protected] | website: http://www.centralvalleyvoice.com | The concerned Men Cook Off for Education was held Sunday April 28, 2013 at The Merced Civic Center a culinary success as forty amateur and profes- sional cooks presented samples of their favorite recipes to an estimated audience of 350 de- lighted tasters. The gastro delights ranged from Antoine Hubbard’s Pralene Candy to Mr. D’s N’Orlean’s Gumbo. Other entries were deep fried chicken, Georgian Peach Cobbler, fried turkey, pulled pork Carolina style, chicken alfredo, Chocolate Cov- ered everything from strawber- ries to bacon, pork ribs, Portu- guese beans, Hmong Salad. Sunday’s event was the four- teenth fund raiser sponsored by the Multicultural Connec- tion, Inc. whose objective is to provide scholarships and as- sistance to the student activity fund. The appreciative crowd was treated to a sunny after church social. The attendees represent- ed a cross section of the com- munity. The chefs were well rep- resented by the education and elected official communities. At the culmination of the af- ternoon awards were given to the top placers which included the following and the catego- ries of their entrees: Each entree was judged for appearance, taste, and presentation. The cat- egories and winners were: SALAD: Anthony Patterson Asian Salad APPETIZERS: Stan Thurston Mini Muffin Philly Cheesesteak MEAT MAIN DISH: Al Peterson Beef Brisket SOUP/CHILLI: Eliza Crane Denard Davis “Mr. D” retained his “Superior” Title after losing last year. The afternoon ended much too soon for many in atten- dance. Music and other entertain- ment was provided by Lamont Walker while Eugene Drum- mond Emceed the event. But no one left to go Mickey D”s. CONCERNED MEN’S COOK-OFF FOR EDUCATION A Unifying Factor In The Valley’s Community centralvalleyvoice.com Central Valley Voice e People in the Central Vall want to know "at's really going on"? BY LEONARD RHODES
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a m o n t h l y m i n o r i t y p u b l i c a t i o nMay 2013 | graduation edition
| to subscribe to this publication, please contact us at [email protected] | website: http://www.centralvalleyvoice.com |
The concerned Men Cook Off for Education was held Sunday April 28, 2013 at The Merced Civic Center a culinary success as forty amateur and profes-sional cooks presented samples of their favorite recipes to an estimated audience of 350 de-lighted tasters.
The gastro delights ranged from Antoine Hubbard’s Pralene Candy to Mr. D’s N’Orlean’s Gumbo. Other entries were deep fried chicken, Georgian Peach Cobbler, fried turkey, pulled pork Carolina style, chicken alfredo, Chocolate Cov-ered everything from strawber-ries to bacon, pork ribs, Portu-guese beans, Hmong Salad.
Sunday’s event was the four-teenth fund raiser sponsored by the Multicultural Connec-tion, Inc. whose objective is to provide scholarships and as-sistance to the student activity fund.
The appreciative crowd was treated to a sunny after church social. The attendees represent-
ed a cross section of the com-munity. The chefs were well rep-resented by the education and elected official communities.
At the culmination of the af-ternoon awards were given to the top placers which included the following and the catego-ries of their entrees: Each entree was judged for appearance, taste, and presentation. The cat-egories and winners were:SALAD: Anthony Patterson Asian SaladAPPETIZERS: Stan Thurston Mini Muffin Philly CheesesteakMEAT MAIN DISH: Al Peterson Beef BrisketSOUP/CHILLI: Eliza Crane
Denard Davis “Mr. D” retained his “Superior” Title after losing last year.
The afternoon ended much too soon for many in atten-dance.
Music and other entertain-ment was provided by Lamont Walker while Eugene Drum-mond Emceed the event.
But no one left to go Mickey D”s.
CONCERNED MEN’S COOK-OFF FOREDUCATION
A Unifying Factor In The Valley’s Community
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ISSUES & VIEWSClass of 2013: Summon the Courage, Choose to Serve and Live with Compassion
“Raise your eyes now, and look from the place where you are…for all the land that you see I will give to you.”Genesis 13: 14-15
University commencement season is a time of high hopes and great celebration. I was again reminded of that this past Saturday when I delivered the commencement address at Huston-Tillotson (HT) Univer-sity in Austin, Texas. This com-ing weekend, I will also speak during graduation ceremonies at Tuskegee University and Al-corn State.
Perhaps best known as the university where Jackie Robin-son served as athletic director and basketball coach before he set out to break the color barrier in baseball, Huston-Til-lotson is the oldest Historically Black College and University (HBCU) west of the Mississippi. For 137 years, it has opened doors of educational opportu-nity that might have otherwise been closed to many African American students. The en-thusiasm and optimism I saw in the faces of this year’s HT graduates – and that I expect to see at Tuskegee and Alcorn – reaffirmed my belief that the future is indeed in good hands.
My message to the gradu-ates was simply to make sure that in addition to emerging from college academically pre-pared, they should also em-brace their obligation to pave the way for the next genera-tion and leave this world better than they found it. I am all too aware that this is easier said than done. So, I also shared three key observations, or better yet life lessons, to help them navigate this next phase
of their journey. I call them the three C’s – courage, choice and compassion.
The class of 2013 is gradu-ating at a pivotal moment in American history. Fifty years ago, from the steps of the Lin-coln Memorial, Dr. Martin Lu-ther King shared his passionate dream that America live up to its promise of liberty and jus-tice for all. That same year four little Black girls were killed by a terrorist bomb planted by the Ku Klux Klan at Birmingham’s 16th Street Baptist Church, and civil rights hero Medgar Evers was assassinated in the drive-way of his home in Jackson, Mississippi. Now 50 years later, we have witnessed the second inauguration of the nation’s first Black president. As I told the HT graduates, we’ve come a long way baby, but we still have a long way to go.
While many of the legal impediments to equal oppor-tunity have been eliminated over the past half-century, new
challenges including voter suppression, criminal justice abuses, economic inequal-ity and opposition to common sense gun safety legislation, have risen to take their place. All of these problems will re-quire this generation of grad-uates to muster the kind of courage shown by people like Jackie Robinson, Texas Con-gresswoman Barbara Jordan, and National Urban Leaguer Heman Sweatt, who fought the
battle to integrate the Univer-sity of Texas in 1950. They each found the courage and made the choice to devote them-selves to a cause greater than themselves. They each demon-strated the kind of compassion required to act beyond individ-ual interests and clear obsta-cle-laden paths so that those who followed could have bet-ter opportunities. The baton is now passing to a new genera-tion, and I have no doubt they
will rise to the challenge. The National Urban League
has always engaged young people in our empowerment movement. For more than 40 years, our Black Executive Ex-change Program (BEEP) has been cultivating new leaders and inspiring achievement by enabling African American stu-dents to interface and network with African American business professionals to prepare for ca-
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The program was established by family and friends who un-derstood Mr. Davis' passion for education and his com-mitment to the young people who will shape our future. The Ossie Davis Endowment Schol-arship program is designed to provide scholarships to African American incoming freshman attending a four- year Histori-cally Black College or Univer-sity commencing Fall 2012. Ap-plicants must demonstrate the ability and desire to use artistic activism to proactively address the concerns of humanity.
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• Talk with your parents, teachers and coun-selors about your career goals and get their
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Young men must register with the Selective Service System to qualify for federal job training.
advice.• Spend time with people who work in areas
of interest to you and find out what it takes to succeed.
• Put together a résumé you can use when applying for a job.
• For young men, registration with the Selec-tive Service System is required by law within 30 days of their 18th birthday.
• This can be done by mail, at a post office or online with a computer or smartphone. Just visit www.sss.gov and click on the registration icon.
It is important to remember that registra-tion is required in order to be eligible for Pell Grants, College Work-Study and Guaranteed Student PLUS Loans, federal job training and federal jobs.
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Initially, Toledo planned to major in psychol-
ogy. But an orientation leader spoke so pas-sionately about sociology that she decided to explore that major.
“I thought there was no way that I was going
to fall in love with it, but I did,” Toledo said. One of her favorite UC Merced memories is
when a sociology professor said she and other professors saw that Toledo was hard working and studious.
“I never thought any professors had taken no-
tice of me, but that showed me the professors at UC Merced really take note of their students and see all the effort they put forth in class,” Toledo said.
Activities outside the classroom helped her
confidence and leadership skills. Through pro-grams like HEROES, Toledo learned to lead and
work in a group, speak in public, engage an audi-ence, organize events and more.
“All of these are essential skills that the op-
portunities at UC Merced have allowed me to be able to grow in work and real-world capaci-ties,” she said. Juggling classes, work and other activities also taught her to be organized and disciplined.
“If I had a few hours in my schedule, I knew I
had to finish my reading,” she said. Toledo said she loved her years at UC Merced
and would recommend the campus to other stu-dents.
“Without a doubt, it will be a place where they
will be able to find a variety of leadership oppor-tunities that will benefit them throughout their lives,” she said.
Toledo believes the skills she built at UC Mer-
ced will help in her professional life. After gradu-ate school, she wants to work on providing sex education classes and other resources to low-income families and minority communities that need those services.
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tephanie Toledo didn’t want anything to get in the way of her academic success when she arrived at UC Merced.
The shy freshman wasn’t ready to consider clubs, social
activities or other campus opportunities. But Toledo soon realized that she needed more than classwork to get the most from her college experience.
“You have to go outside your comfort zone,” she said. So a few months into her freshman year, Toledo followed
a friend’s recommendation to check out the Health Educa-tion Representatives for Opportunities to Empower Stu-dents (HEROES) program. She built leadership and other skills with that program and others such as the Violence Prevention Program, Orientation and the Latino Leader-ship Initiative Program at Harvard.
Now, after four years of rigorous academics and campus
participation, Toledo graduates this month with a bache-lor’s degree in sociology. She’ll start work in a few months on a master’s degree in public health at UC Davis.
“I definitely feel ready to go,” she said. “I feel like I’m ready
for any class, anywhere.” Toledo traveled far from her Southern California home
in Whittier to UC Merced. She remembers touring UC cam-puses as a high school student and feeling like she didn’t belong.
But the atmosphere was different at UC Merced, where
Toledo was charmed by people’s friendliness and the op-portunity to grow with the UC’s newest campus.
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Reflections
Damien is the son of Sherri Bell & Reggie White.He’s now heading to Arizona Western, an elite JC program in Yuma, and he will be in the Matadors’ secondary. Arizona Western isn’t just another “JC” program, either: Arizona Western sent four recruits to major D1 colleges, has won league titles three of the last four years and was ranked No. 12 in the final national regular-season JC poll last season.
Modesto Christian High School, Damien Bell-White.
GRADUATING CLASS OF 2013
Aliyah D Banks graduated from Oklahoma Wesleyan University.
Joy Alexander-Appel Studied Masters In Social Work at California State University, Fresno. Class of 2013.
2013 Graduates Eric Rangel with friends at University of The Pacific in Stockton, graduation ceremony.
Congratulations to Sonia R. Riley who gradu-ated from Ashford University on 2/11/13 with a Bachelor of Arts in Business Administration. With a specialization in Human Resources Management.
Best Wishes toClass of 2013
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(NAPSI)—When comparing college costs, one of a stu-dent’s first steps should be fill-ing out the FAFSA (Free Appli-cation for Federal Student Aid). Then, students begin receiving back financial aid award letters from the colleges they’ve ap-plied to. These letters outline the estimated cost to attend the school, expected family contribution and financial aid award package, which includes grants, scholarships, work-study, need-based and non-need-based loans.
Your financial aid letter may look different this year. Col-leges have the option of using the U.S. Department of Educa-tion’s new Financial Aid Shop-ping Sheet for the 2013−2014 award year. Many of the ele-ments contained in this new form are the same as a school’s own financial aid award letter, though the standardized for-mat should make it easier to review elements such as grant and scholarship amounts, net costs, graduation rates, loan default rates, median borrow-ing and estimated monthly loan payments after gradua-tion.
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Under-standingFinancial Aid AwardLetters: Compare Costs
Students can find many sources of college funding.
After you receive either form, here are some next steps:
Determine additional ex-penses: Consider all fund-ing options including grants, scholarships, institutional awards, Federal Work Study, Federal Perkins Loans and/or Federal Direct Stafford Loans. Be realistic about your budget-ing needs. Borrow only what you need.
Explore additional financing options:
Tuition payment plan—In-stead of paying your tuition bill in one lump sum each semes-ter, if offered by your school, you can enroll in this plan to make smaller, manageable in-stallment payments. This plan can be used on its own or com-bined with financial aid, includ-ing student loans.
Federal Direct PLUS loan for parents—This loan is avail-able for parents of dependent undergraduate students. This loan can cover up to 100 per-cent of remaining eligible education-related expenses. A credit check is required, but the parent’s debt and current income are not considered.
Federal Direct PLUS loan for graduate and professional stu-dents—This loan is available to graduate and professional stu-dents and can cover up to 100 percent of remaining educa-tion-related expenses. A credit check is required, but the stu-dent debt and current income are not considered.
Private (or alternative) stu-dent loans—These loans are made available to students through banks and other pri-vate lenders. These loans can typically cover 100 percent of the remaining costs of eligible education-related expenses. Full credit underwriting is re-quired as well as a debt and current income. Most students will need a qualified co-signer to meet credit eligibility re-quirements.
Know your deadlines and compare your options: Pay special attention to the college application deadlines to make sure that you take full advan-tage of these opportunities.
For additional financial aid resources, visit www.wellsfar-gocommunity.com or www.wellsfargo.com/student/.
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Merced College will award degrees and certificates to more than 1,000 students graduating during the current 2012-2013 academic year. Many of these graduates will walk across the stage to receive their awards during Merced College’s 50th Commence-ment Exercises on Friday, May 24 at 7:30 p.m. in Stadium ‘76/Don Odishoo Field.
A total of 853 students are graduating with associ-ate of arts or science degrees and 151 students will earn certificate of achievements.Three students will be recognized with the Super-intendent Honors for having completed at least 36 units of study with a 4.0 grade point average. In addition, 139 students are graduating with honors.
Congressman Jim Costa, representing the 16th Congressional District, will deliver the Commence-ment Address.
Stephen Maxey, who is graduating with degrees in international studies and psychology, will deliver the student address. His speech is titled “People Helping People.”
The ceremony will also feature members of the Phi Theta Kappa Honor Society announcing the out-standing professor of the year. A special recogni-tion is also reserved for graduates who are veterans of the US Armed Forces.
The 1,044 awards and certificates represent an increase of 25 percent over the total for 2011-2012 academic year.
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reers in corporate America. In addition, the National Urban League Young Professionals (NULYP) engages young professionals ages 21-40 in voluntarism and philanthropy to empower their communities and change lives.
Many of today’s HBCU graduates have been touched by those and similar efforts. We expect that they will use the blueprint of courage, choice and compassion summoned and shown by so many be-fore them. We expect that they will pass it on and choose to serve.
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8 MAY 2013
Walk the campuses of many black colleges, and you are bound to notice young female students strolling and talk-ing, clusters of women having lunch together, classrooms filled mostly with women. It’s impossible to miss the dearth of male students and not worry about that.
Young black men are not at-tending, or graduating from, college at the same rate as black women. Although their absence is more apparent at historically black colleges and universities, or HBCUs, black male students are scarce at col-leges everywhere.
The national college gradu-ation rate for black men is 33.1 percent compared with 44.8 percent for black women, ac-cording to the U.S. Department of Education. The total gradua-tion rate is 57.3 percent. Black men represent 7.9 percent of 18-to-24-year-olds in America but only 2.8 percent of under-graduates at public flagship universities.
While this troubling trend is most acute among blacks, young men of color in general are underrepresented in colleg-es and universities. The national college graduation rate of His-panic men is 41.1 percent and of Native Americans and Alaska natives 33.8 percent. In com-parison, the graduation rate for white males is 54.5 percent. Asian/Pacific Islanders have the highest rate, 60.6 percent.
This education gap virtually ensures that men of color, par-ticularly blacks, will continue to have less earning power than their white counterparts and be underrepresented across a broad spectrum of high-paying professions.
The good news is that the problem is being addressed. Af-rican-American educators who noticed the declines sounded
warning bells several years ago and took the lead in trying to increase the rates of black men attending and completing col-lege. State college systems be-came involved, too. The bad news is that the problem is persistent and complicated by factors that affect young black men long before they enter col-lege.
The City University of New York (CUNY), the public univer-sity system, has been working on this issue since 2004 when it established its University Task Force on the Black Male Initia-tive. CUNY holds an annual Black Male Initiative Confer-ence and a recurring speakers series on black men and higher education.
The University System of Georgia has a similar program that is equally comprehensive, and numerous other programs nationwide include modest student-run projects, ambitious institutional ones and civic-minded community-based ef-forts.
While the personal costs of not having a college educa-tion are obvious—limited job opportunities, reduced earn-ing potential, stunted career advancement—graduating fewer black men also has nega-tive long-term economic and social implications for the well-being of the black community. Without solid incomes and steady jobs, young black men’s chances for economic advance-ment are severely diminished,
as is their ability to marry and help to support families, se-cure credit to buy homes or start businesses. They are also unlikely to become influential business leaders with a say in economic development of their communities.
The lagging economy exac-erbates the problem. College tuition has risen while incomes of black families have declined. The 17.3 percent unemploy-ment rate for black men age 20 and older (13.2 percent for black women) is nearly double the national unemployment rate of 9.5 percent and likely to increase if the economic recov-ery doesn’t gain momentum. What’s more, the prospect of finding a well-paying job with-out a college degree is fast de-clining in an increasingly global economy.
Black men need college de-grees more than ever. That’s where the Man Up program at Howard University comes in. Like student retention efforts at other HBCUs, Man Up is a peer-mentor support program designed “to keep our men in school and help them to ma-triculate successfully,” said Lin-coln Brown Jr., who oversees the program.
Howard’s undergraduate male enrollment declined from 3,070 during the 1994-95 academic year to 2,499 during 2009-10, while female enroll-ment declined by only 52 stu-dents, from 4,958 to 4,906.
While at least half of Howard
students graduate within six years, many black colleges do not. Graduation rates at black colleges overall are lower than the graduation rates of black students at highly ranked, ma-jority white universities. At 20 HBCUs, two-thirds or more of all entering black students do not earn a diploma, and many are men.
Man Up offers students an opportunity to meet regularly in group sessions with male mentors, usually professors and community volunteers. They discuss problems that may be hurting student’s grades, mak-ing college life difficult or caus-ing them to consider leaving school.
“We deal with whatever issue that confronts them on daily basis,” Brown said. “It could be anything—relationships, father or parental issues, socialization issues.”
Students could also be hav-ing difficulty adjusting to col-lege life, developing effective study habits, communicating
with peers or professors, even staying focused. Some young men have no fathers or other male role models in their lives and, as a result, no male men-tors to help guide them when they encounter trouble in col-lege. Others have troubled fam-ily lives or deal with self-esteem issues. Still others have inad-equate or inferior grade school educations that didn’t prepare them for college.
Some students face none of these challenges and are do-ing perfectly well in school but attend the meetings simply for the camaraderie and male bonding.
Malik Washington, 22, a se-nior, joined Man Up in his first year at Howard after learn-ing about the program during freshman orientation.
“I wanted to come and talk,” he said. “I didn’t have any spe-cific issue per se that I wanted to talk about, but I could see there were issues in the back of my mind that could become problems later in life.”
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Guest speaker Dr. Robert L. Walker ( right) Pastor of Galilee Missionary Baptist Church, Fairmead, CA with members and singers at Antioch Baptist Church Appreciation Services.
Anniversary Celebration ANTIOCH BAPTIST CHURCH PASTOR & WIFE’S APPRECIATION SERVICES
BY FDR MEDIA SERVICESThe Antioch Missionary
Baptist Church held their Pas-tor & Wife’s 35th Appreciation Services.
On April 19, – April 21, 2013 in Merced.
Guest speaker on Friday night was Pastor Don Strong from Greater New Hope Missionary Baptist Church, Merced.
The Appreciation Services continued on Sunday Morning Worship Service. The speaker was Reverend Harvey Jackson, retired Pastor from New Hope Missionary Baptist Church in Merced and concluded on
To many people, springtime is “garden time.” The first warm days make them anxious to till the soil and plant seeds in the rich earth. Gar-dening used to be primarily a hobby indulged in by only a few, but skyrocketing food prices have made it almost a necessity in some households. The idea of organic produce has also greatly in-creased its popularity.
There is something about digging in the earth and seeing things grow from tiny seeds into produce-bearing plants which gives us a thrill!
Gardens are such friendly things. They set the neighbors calling: Don’t you want some Zin-nia seed?” or “See” my tomatoes are up!” “Your green beans, are they growing?” Pretty soon you’ve got a new friend, almost without you re-alizing it. Little paths across the grass link you to your neighbor. You just have to go and see the products of his/her labor. They raise more than flowers and vegetables. Friendships often spring from the garden hours.
There are two very important gardens in Scripture. The first is the Garden of Eden. This garden was where the firs sin was where the first
sin was committed, so it was the setting for the downfall of mankind. If this had been the only Bible garden, we would be in a miserable condi-tion today-banished forever from the presence of God and doomed to an endless eternity in the lake of fire and brimstone.
The second garden is the Garden of Geth-semane. This garden is also a beautiful garden, filled with olive trees. This garden was where Jesus prayed so fervently the night he was be-trayed by Judas and taken by the Roman sol-diers. His sweat became like great drops of blood. He wanted to bypass the terrible expe-rience of the cross-both the spiritual and the physical-but only if it was possible with God the Father. Jesus graciously submitted to His Fa-ther’s will and met the mob unafraid. They car-ried Him away to His death, which made all the difference to mankind.
In 1 Cornthians 15:22 we read: “For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive.” The Garden of Eden represents death which came though Adam, and the Garden of Geth-semane represents life which come through the sacrifice of Jesus on the cross. Thank God for spring, and for gardens-and especially for the Garden of Gethsemane and what followed the brief interlude there.
GARDENS BY DAVID MACY
June 8th Dance Extravaganza
For HIS Glory is hosting a praise dance extravaganza June 8,2013 at New Faith Tabernacle Christian church 208 E. 10th Street Merced at 3:00 p.m.
For more information contact Elder Phyllis Patterson by email [email protected] or phone 208-648-0495
Romans 15:6 - That ye may with 1 mind and 1 mouth glorify God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Sunday Evening - April 21, 2013 - 3:00 p.m. The afternoon services was spirit- filled led by the Choir Director Demetrius Bankhead and the Antioch Choir. The Speaker was Dr. Robert L. Walker, Pastor of Gali-lee Missionary Baptist Church, Fairmead, CA
Other Guests Churches included: Second Baptist Church, Dr. Charles Ivins Sr. - Modesto, CA.
New Bethany Baptist Church, Dr. Charles Ivins, II, Modesto, CA and Little Zion Baptist Church, Dr. Erik Haley, Mendota, CA.
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G O D B E LO N G S I N M Y C I T Y P R AY E R WA L K 2013BY POPPY PHARES
od Belongs In My City is a silent prayer walk that will take place on May 25th in Atwater. The prayer walk kicks off at
Veterans Park at 10 a.m. Veterans Park is at the corner of Buhach Road and Bellevue Road, in Atwater. We will begin with some wor-ship and short instructions. We will proceed down Bellevue Road and end at City Hall. Our prayers are centered around our city, commu-nity, state and nation and its needs. We see a need for cleanliness, our economy, the fi-nances in our community, the businesses, for employment, our City leaders, our churches, schools, our young people and a more uni-fied community, helping one another when in need. We are praying against the violence that has been in uprising, the drugs pollut-ing our schools, and streets and praying for gang members to have their eyes opened. We are praying for people to come to the saving knowledge of Christ and that would be our biggest prayer. There are a lot of people in our community that are blinded by the lies of the enemy and don’t know God. So our prayer is that the people of our community that do KNOW God would come together on behalf of those who do not and we re-invite GOD into all aspects of our lives, and introduce this population to our loving and redeeming GOD. We believe with all of our hearts that our GOD is the solution to ALL of the issues in our community.
There were a pre event Rally that took-place in Atwater at Liberty Fellowship church on May 17th. There was a concert like atmo-sphere, taking place outside in the grassy area at the corner of Shaffer Road and Juni-per Avenue, Atwater, CA. There were several local Christian music ministries, including CFlo, DOS, and our own youth Worship Band. Many churches came together for GBIMC (God Belongs In My City. The community came together and heard about GBIMC, get rallied up and get fired up and ready to pray and take possession of this City for the Lord Jesus Christ. This prayer walk and rally event are both modeled after the original GBIMC prayer walk that took place in NYC in Novem-ber of 2009, when a youth group organized
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a prayer walk in response to an atheist ad campaign on the transit system stating “One Million New Yorkers are good without God, are you?”. The youth group gathered other youth groups and the outcome was a prayer walk 1500 bodies strong. The ministry found-ers have been working closely with us since October 2012 to make this Atwater Prayer Walk a reality. We are grateful for this ministry founded on seeking God, prayer and seeing a change for communities by the Hand of the Almighty God.
We’ve been fortunate to develop some new relationships with local churches and have had interest and participation from Christian Life Center, Atwater First Church of God, Soundlife Merced, Valley Christian Church, Newlife Community Church, St. An-thony’s Church, Atwater Nazarene Church and others...and we believe that all of these unions will help our community greatly.
You can find out more information about GBIMC on their website: www.godbelongsin-mycity.com or Facebook or Twitter.
Check out our promo video on youtube.com at: GBIMC Atwater Promo or call Poppy Phares at 209 658-1619 or email: [email protected]
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The public is invited to Join Us In Apprecia-tion of our Pastor Nathaniel & Dorothea Green Of 23 Years of Dedicated Service On June 9th 2013 @ 3:00 p.m. @ Christ Unity Baptist Church 1320 L Street Modesto CA 95354
Special guest Speaker Pastor Stamper & Con-gregation from Heavenly Gate Baptist Church of Stockton CA will be joining us in this special occasion.
Also Pastor Jason Sample of True life Minis-tries Worship Center and the Anointed by Grace Ministries from Sacramento CA will be here.
Lunch is being served @ 1:00- 2:30 p.m. in our fellowship hall. If you need more information contact (209) 735-8466. We are asking you to come and celebrate with us on this special day!
Appreciation Services PastorNathaniel & Dorothea Green
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(NAPSI)—It may come as a surprise to some, but the fa-mous face that can encourage people to donate to charity more than any other is that of the First Lady.
According to a survey con-ducted by Harris Interactive, Americans are 12 times more likely to donate to a charity
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endorsed by Michelle Obama than by a famous actor or sing-er. Respondents were more likely to give to her charities than causes endorsed by the following:
• Three times more likely than Oprah Winfrey.
• Four times more likely than Taylor Swift.
While many Americans would donate to a charity endorsed by Michelle Obama, you don’t have to wait for her to get around to one you care about. Fundraising can be fun—and easy.
• Six times more likely than Angelina Jolie or Alicia Keys.
• Twelve times more likely than Justin Bieber.
Meanwhile, 65 percent said they wouldn’t donate to any celebrity’s cause.
What You Can DoWherever you stand on the
subject of the survey, you may care to consider the charities the celebrities endorsed:
• Alicia Keys—Keep a Child Alive provides lifesaving ser-vices for children and families affected by HIV/AIDS in Africa and India.
• Taylor Swift—DoSome-thing.org provides resources to teens to make a difference in their communities through social change.
• Justin Bieber—It Gets Bet-ter Project shows teenagers in the LBGT community that they are not alone—and it will get better.
“We applaud everyone, whether you’re famous or not, who stands up for the causes that he or she cares about,” said Lesley Mansford, CEO of Razoo, a crowd funding platform for causes, which commissioned the survey. “One certainly doesn’t have to be a celebrity to make a difference. Anyone can make a difference by giv-ing either his or her money, time or influence.”
Her organization has em-powered individuals, nonprof-its and communities across the country to raise over $149 million online—one small do-nation at a time. With access to over a million nonprofits, Ra-zoo makes it easy to donate to charity. At the site, you can also set up your own fundraiser for your favorite cause.
Learn More You can fundraise, donate
or get further facts at www.ra-zoo.com, on Twitter at @Razoo or on Facebook at www.face-book.com/razoogiving.
One was an estranged rela-tionship with his father. The two had not spoken since Washington was 14 years old, but he decided to reach out to his father earlier this year.
“Man Up put me in a position where eight years later I was able to speak to him and able to do so without anger and bit-terness,” Washington said. “I’ve grown and matured, and I owe so much of my maturation to the program.
“They stressed the impor-tance of understanding myself and my role as a man in this society, and I don’t mean the gender roles that we attach to people in society but more like how do I fit in the world, how will I influence the world and how will the world influence me.”
Such sentiments can seem like touchy-feely intangibles difficult to measure or to cite as proof of the program’s success, but they touch on the unique emotional and social challeng-es—not to mention structural racism—that young black men routinely confront.
“We’re the place where they can come and get it off their chest,” said Darryl Moment, 54, an adjunct lecturer at Howard who runs the group sessions.
“It is not about a single part of their environment, you can-not find a cure, you cannot find a symptom for something that’s systemic,” he said quot-ing his own mentor, a black professor from his college days. “And you cannot point at one factor and forget that there are all these other con-tributing factors, whether it’s the apathy of their parents, the low expectations of the school systems they came from, the fact that they didn’t have a suc-cessful model for assimilating in college.”
As part of retention ef-forts, male students are of-fered workshops in writing, math, study skills, and time and crisis management. They are prepped on interview-ing skills and resume writing. Tutors help those struggling
academically, and those with financial problems are referred to aid and scholarship sources. Still, research on black male students has shown that hav-ing supportive relationships with mentors on campus often plays a more significant role in their success than these ser-vices.
“The core issue seems to be giving them some way to de-velop a sense of community on campus,” Michael Cuyjet, an as-sociate professor at the Univer-sity of Louisville’s educational and counseling psychology department told Inside Higher Ed, an online education news source. He is also editor of “Afri-can American Men in College,” a book that profiles several col-lege programs targeting male students.
“The general research on student behavior indicates that students do better if they feel that they’re connected to the campus somehow, through academics, through extracur-ricular activities, through so-cial networking—somehow,” Cuyjet told the website. “And studies have also shown that African American men seem to have a difficult time doing that, for a number of reasons. Gen-erally speaking, one is that a large number of African Ameri-can men are socialized to not ask for help.”
Malik Washington could not agree more.
“You don’t come to school as an academic machine,” he said. “You come to school as person, a person who has emo-tions and a personal life. If your emotions or your personal life are not balanced, it will affect whether you graduate.”
He said his Man Up mentors helped him find that balance by challenging him to take a long view of his future. They asked often: “Why did you come to Howard?” They reminded him just as often: “Okay, you met one challenge by getting here. How are you going to finish?”
“It was like you don’t have any choice but to finish and graduate,” Washington said.
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Rev. Eddie P. Goodin, D. Div., Pastor of Antioch Baptist Church, escorted by Sister Sandra Kyle and Sister Joyce Goodin, escorted by Associate Minister, Sterling Kyle Jr. B.Div at the 35th Annual Pastor and Wife Appreciation Ser-vice in Merced, CA.
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Ola Winzer (left) Joyce Dale (center) and Margaret Warmack at the Second Baptist Church Mother & Daughter Tea 2013 in Merced, CA.
Bettye White (front) with daughter Karen at the Second Baptist Church Mother & Daugh-ter Tea 2013.
Bill and Cynthia Russell at their Pastor and Wife’s 37th Year Anniversary Celebration on April 21, 2013 - Antioch Baptist Church, in Merced.
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lies, getting answers is a chal-lenge.
In addition to general manu-als, such as the comprehensive 72-page Your Guide To Choos-ing A Nursing Home — Medi-care.gov, getting a sense and feel of a home by visiting more than once may make the differ-ence between sleepless nights and peace of mind.
Questions to admission directors are important, but observation is often a better predictor of how well a per-son will adjust to the new en-vironment. Answers from staff may dramatically clash with the reality of a nursing home’s ratings, atmosphere, activities, patient rights and physician availability.
Things to Look for OnsiteOften a nursing home place-
ment is made hastily because of a hospital’s “time’s up” policy. Patricia L. McGinnis, executive director of California Advo-cates for Nursing Home Re-form, [http://www.canhr.org/] said, “Contradictory to their role -- appropriate placement – discharge planners are often pressured to get patients out of the hospital because of bill-ing issues.”
Atmosphere is important: With nursing homes, beautiful furniture and new curtains do not necessarily translate into good care. You may see a facil-ity that has a four- or five-star rating, but the atmosphere or patient population may not be well suited for a potential resi-dent.
Always look at dining rooms during lunchtime to see how
BY RITA WATSONPROVIDENCE, R.I.— When
their mother became a nursing home escapee, her helicopter daughters wondered what the sweet 93-year-old widow was thinking. With her daughters hovering anxiously, she was quick to answer. “I wanted to pick up a few things to cook for your father tonight.”
The woman’s daughters gave a collective deep sigh. Their mother remained young at heart, but the memory thief of dementia turned her mind into an intermingling of long-term remembrances, short-term forgetfulness and delu-sional thinking. She was stuck in her married past unable to comprehend why she had to live in a room with no kitchen to cook pasta for her husband, who had actually died.
Her daughters realized that they could neither stop their mother’s mental deteriora-tion nor prevent behavior one would expect from an impetu-ous teenager. But, what they could do was to find a nurs-ing home where their mother would be safer and maybe happier, too.
Despite their hovering and search for the perfect nurs-ing facility, their mother’s worsening dementia limited their choices. Questions to ask about quality ratings, activities and atmosphere as well as cul-tural sensitivity, patient rights, and physician availability may seem obvious.
Key Questions to AskHowever, even with all the
guides designed to help fami-
many residents are there in-stead of eating alone in their rooms.
Ask to look at activity charts to determine how those requir-ing various levels of care may participate and benefit. While offering residents Wii Bowling sounds good on paper, resi-dents with dementia will not be able to remember the steps involved for knocking down the pins. On the other hand, BINGO plays an important role in routine and socialization.
Music in nursing homes should be more than just rec-reation; it should be therapy, even for residents who are cognitively challenged. Some experts in aging say that mak-ing music can be a protective factor against the most difficult aspects of dementia.
For example, the documen-tary Alive Inside, explores how patients are transformed by listening to iPods. In a nursing home there can never be too much music.
Patient rights and physi-cians: From small issues to more substantive ones, pa-tients’ rights versus the best interest of a patient is tricky. Be certain to ask about patient-choice issues. Important ex-amples are:
Dining room seating -- Do new residents get assigned tables and is there flexibility to be able to move to another table? You want flexibility.
Room changes -- Residents may be shifted to different rooms merely for the con-venience of the home. But sometimes roommates are not compatible. Ask how this is handled, and is the staff quick to make changes if problems arise?
Showers and changes of pull-ups or diapers -- To pre-vent urinary tract infections, or UTIs (a common health issue that can also worsen a senior’s mood), it is important that resi-dents are changed and bathed frequently. Ask how often this takes place and how they han-
dle a person who refuses. Hid-ing behind patient rights is not acceptable when a health issue is involved. Incontinent pa-tients should be checked every few hours.
Make certain family care-givers are permitted to be in-volved with helping a person with dementia make appropri-ate choices.
Ask how a facility handles conflict. A well-trained staff can often coax even the most belligerent resident into com-plying with a health issue. Hy-dration and frequent diaper changes are key to preventing potentially debilitating UTIs.
In the elders, a UTI can cre-ate agitation and delirium that leads to preventable hospital-ization. This is only one reason why having a full-time physi-cian or nurse practitioners on staff makes good sense. Does the home have one?
Ombudsmen and Other Re-sources
Despite your best efforts, if nursing home issues concern you, contact the local long-term care ombudsman. These people, usually found through the state or local government department or commission on aging, are independent of-ficials designated by the U.S. Older Americans Act, to moni-tor area nursing homes and assist residents. They usually can fill you on about a facility’s record.
However, keep in mind what Donna McCormick, managing attorney for the Elder, Health and Disability Unit at Greater Boston Legal Services—om-budsman programs are un-even around the country. She explained, “In theory all nurs-ing homes should have om-
budsmen, but the challenge takes place when they become so intertwined with manage-ment that they don’t always advocate effectively for resi-dents.”
The other alternative is to find a different home. Phy-sicians and researchers tell us that seniors can be more adaptable than we realize.
What is every family’s goal? Dr. James M. Ellison, a profes-sor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, said, “Families need to know that their loved ones are being cared for by a kind staff in an atmosphere that stimulates them emotion-ally, socially and cognitively. It’s important to remember that even with a diagnosis of de-mentia people can find joy in the appropriate surroundings.”
As a result, families often find themselves in search of a different nursing home.
Here are some helpful re-sources keyed to quality of care, nursing staff, health in-spections and safety issues.
* Medicare.gov - Nursing Home Overview;
* Nursing Home Compare - Medicare.gov directs one to state sites and phone numbers;
* America’s Best Nursing Homes - News - US News and World Report, is a star-rated overview;
* Nursing Home Inspect, makes nursing home inspec-tion reports.
* California Advocates for Nursing Home Reform’s “Nurs-ing Home Guide,” a national model for state searches.
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Carnival Pre-Sale Discount:Save $7.00 eachAll-Day-Ride Carnival Coupon is $23 if purchased by June 11. Exchange for Unlimited Ride Wrist Wrap good any one day of the Fair (after June 11 the price is $30 each).
Tickets & info at www.MercedCountyFair.com
MERCED COUNTY FAIRJune 12-16$5 General AdmissionEveryone 6 years & up (Children 5 & under FREE admission)
Fairgrounds: 900 Martin Luther King Jr. Way, Merced, CA 95341 • Phone (209) 722-1507
• Purchase at www.mercedcountyfair.comWHERE TO BUY:• Fairgrounds Office 8am-5pm
• Rancho San Miguel Market pre-sale ticket outlet, 1930 Yosemite Pkwy, Merced from 10am-7pm
Admission Pre-Sale Discount:Buy 4 – get the 5th ticket FREE! 5-pack of tickets is only $20 if purchased by June 11.
Advance Savings:
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WEDNESDAY • MERCY MEDICAL CENTER SENIORS’ DAY Free admission Seniors 65 and better
Rhett Walker BandAuto Races $5 GRANDSTANDTHURSDAY • EECU KIDS’ DAY 12 and under free admission
Pablo CruiseTractor Pull $5 GRANDSTANDFRIDAY • MERCED SUN-STAR DAY
Jason Michael CarrollDemolition Derby $5 GRANDSTANDSATURDAY
Evolution: The Ultimate Tribute to Journey
Bull Riding $5 GRANDSTANDSUNDAY • RANCHO SAN MIGUEL MARKETS DAY presented by O’Reilly Auto Parts & Pepsi
Korina LopezGran Jaripeo Y Variedad ADVANCE $15 • AT GRANDSTAND DOOR $20
FREE Outdoor Theatre ConcertsPresented by Table Mountain Casino & Budweiser
Grandstand EntertainmentPresented by Table Mountain Casino, O’Reilly Auto Parts, Modelo Light & Rancho San Miguel Markets
Rhett Walker Band
Pablo CruiseKnown for Top 10 hits “Whatcha
Gonna Do When She Says Good-bye?” and “Love Will Find A Way,” Pablo Cruise – including three of its four original members -- is back together on the concert tour and they’ll be playing their chart-top-ping songs at the fairgrounds’ Out-door Theatre.
Also performing in the fair-grounds’ Outdoor Theatre are: The Rhett Walker Band, a Christian al-ternative/Southern rock group, Opening Day, Wednesday, June 12; Jason Michael Carroll, a rising star in country music, Friday, June 14 and Evolution: The Ultimate Tribute to Journey, will perform the music of Journey on Saturday, June 15. The headline entertainment act for Sunday, June 16 will be announced soon.
Each night a headline entertain-ment act will appear at 8:30 p.m. in the Outdoor Theatre, where all concerts are free with admission. The Outdoor Theatre Concert Se-ries is presented by Table Mountain Casino and Budweiser.
Pablo Cruise toured the world,
sold several million albums and singles and became the first rock band to play the Grand Ole Opry. In 1979, they were the first rock band to play a casino showroom, breaking Elvis Presley’s attendance record at the Sahara Tahoe, in Lake Tahoe, Nev.
After seven albums and hit songs including “Don’t Want To Live With-out It,” “I Want You Tonight,” “Cool Love,” “A Place In The Sun” and “I Go To Rio,” the band took a hiatus in 1986 that lasted more than 20 years.
Original vocalist David Jenkins joined up with Southern Pacific, a country rock band that was ahead of their time, with hits including, “Midnight Highway,” “New Shade of Blue” and “Honey I Dare You.” Since 1999, he has performed with Rock & Pop Masters, a group of the top singers from the 70s and 80s. He and some of the band’s members entertained US troops in Iraq in 2011.
Pianist and vocalist Cory Lerios turned his talents to film and TV af-ter leaving Pablo Cruise in 1986. He wrote the music scores for 11 sea-sons of the TV series, “Baywatch,” as well as other shows including, “Days of Our Lives,” “Kim Possible,” “Max Headroom,” “Police Story,” and “Land Before Time.”
The band’s other members in-clude original drummer, Steve Price, and newest member, Larry Antonino, a bassist and vocalist.
Admission to the 2013 Merced County Fair will be the same bar-gain as the 2012 Fair – everybody gets in for $5. That’s half off the 2011 general admission. Kids 5
Pablo Cruise, one of the top pop/rock bands of the 70s and 80s, will be the headline entertain-ment Thursday, June 13, EECU Kids’ Day at the 2013 Merced County Fair.Children 12 and under get free admission to the fair on EECU Kids’ Day.
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years and under will continue to get in free. Seniors, 65 years and better, will get free admission on Opening Day, Wednesday, June 12, Mercy Medical Center Seniors’ Day. Active duty mili-tary members in uniform will be admitted at no charge all five days of the fair.
In addition to the $5 general admission, the fair is offering a “Buy 4-Get the 5th Ticket Free”
Nationwide (BlackNews.com) -- The Shawn Carter Scholarship Fund (SCSF) provides individual grants ranging from $1,500 to $2,500 to every student who qualifies and reapplies yearly, from admission to graduation. The grant can be used to cover tuition expenses and related supplemental educational expenses such as books, lab fees, travel and select costs of living. All Shawn Carter Scholars are required to “give back” by conducting community service and by serving as mentors to younger, aspiring Shawn Carter Scholars.
All high school seniors, undergraduate (2-year or 4-year) college students, and students at vo-cational or trade schools are eligible to apply. All applicants must be US citizens, 25 years old or younger, and have a minimum GPA of 2.0.
The program attracts candidates from all back-
grounds, nation-wide. They all have a compel-ling desire to pursue higher education, in spite of many personal, socio-economic setbacks, including teen pregnancy, former incarceration, interrupted schooling, and homelessness. They are hardworking, resilient and determined in-dividuals who want to make positive contribu-tions to their local and global communities, and they turn to the SCSF to make their ambitions and dreams possible.
Founded in 2002 by Shawn Carter (Jay-Z) and his mom Gloria Carter, the foundation has since then given scholarships to over 750 students, totaling over $1.3 million dollars.
For more details and/or to apply, visit:www.scholarshipsonline.org/2013/05/
shawn-carter-foundation-scholarship.html
MERCED COUNTY FAIRCONTINUED FROM PAGE 15
RAPPER JAY-Z LAUNCHES 2013 SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM FORNEEDY STUDENTS
Life After Life is a documentary film that fol-lows Harrison and Noel, who were sentenced to life as teenagers and incarcerated for decades, as they are given a chance at Life After Life in prison.
Noel Valdivia was sentenced to life in prison at 18 after being convicted of first-degree murder. Severing all ties with the gang life that led to his criminal activity and giving his life over to God, Noel has spent his 30-years in prison striving to transform himself.
Harrison was sentenced to life in prison at 17 after being convicted of second-degree murder. Part of the first group of men to enter Pelican Bay, Harrison soon realized that the men and boys around him are stuck, and the only way to transcend this life is through education.
Decades into their incarceration, Noel and
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Harrison met on the San Quentin yard and be-came like brothers in their mutual endeavor to transform their lives and break the cycle of in-carceration.
The film follows Noel and Harrison as they work to tip the scales back from the actions of their youth and become positive agents of change within their families and communities.
“I believe in the power of film to help drive so-cial change,” Tamara Perkins, the film’s director said. “For many years I have worked with youth and adults born into generational poverty and surrounded by criminal activity. In my work, I have seen how little room our criminal justice system leaves for growth or change.”
The Life After Life filmmakers have launched a Kickstarter campaign to raise the $30,000 needed to finish their film. They must meet this goal by June 1 or they will not receive any of the funds.
Supporters who give any amount will have access to 20 minutes of exclusive footage from over six years of filming both inside San Quentin
general admission discount ticket package for $20 through June 11. For information go to www.MercedCountyFair.com.
For more information call (209) 722-1507, fax (209) 722-3773, or email to [email protected]. Visit the Fair’s website, www.MercedCounty-Fair.com and connect with us on Facebook and follow us on Twitter.
The 15th annual Modesto American Graffiti Car Show and Festival is Friday-Sunday June 7-9, 2013 at Modesto Junior College West Campus, 2201 Blue Gum Avenue, Modesto, CA.The Parade begins at 7 p.m. Friday, June 7- downtown Modesto, free; George Lucas. Grand Marshal.The Car Show/Festival: 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday, June 8; 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Sunday, June 9, 2013.Admission: $7 (children under 12 free with adult)Sponsor: North Modesto Kiwanis ClubAdditional Information: www.northmodestokiwanis.org; or call1 (888) 746-9763.
Modesto American Graffiti Car Show and Festival
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Eat healthier with this tasty twist on a traditional dish.
(NAPSI)—A legacy of healthy eating can be one of the best gifts you give your family. Like traditions, healthy recipes can be passed down from generation to generation. Choose the right ones and you’ll provide great opportuni-ties for your family to live longer, healthier lives.
The Network for a Healthy California (Net-work) offers a number of tips and resources to help take charge of your family’s health. By providing families with healthy recipes, the Net-work empowers everyone to pass down tradi-tions of health.
Try adding a few healthy and tasty recipes to your family’s legacy, starting with the delicious Oven Fried Chicken with Summer Squash from the Network’s Soulful Recipes−Building Healthy Traditions cookbook:
Oven Fried Chicken with Summer SquashThis recipe adds a healthy twist to a tradition-
al meal by baking instead of frying chicken.1 cup finely crushed cornflakes¼ teaspoon salt½ teaspoon ground black pepper1 teaspoon onion powder1 teaspoon garlic powder ½ cup evaporated skim milk1 pound chicken breasts, skin removed, cut into 6 pieces Non-stick cooking spray½ tablespoon vegetable oil1 clove garlic, finely chopped2 medium zucchinis, cut into short strips3 medium yellow squash, cut into short strips
1 teaspoon dried oreganoPlace an oven rack in the middle of the oven.
Preheat oven to 350°F. In a small bowl, combine cornflakes, salt, ground black pepper, onion powder and garlic powder. Place evaporated milk in a separate bowl. Dip chicken pieces in milk and roll in crushed cornflake mixture, light-ly coating both sides.
Spray a roasting pan with non-stick cooking spray and arrange chicken pieces on the pan in a single layer. Bake for 30 minutes. While the chicken is baking, heat oil in a medium skillet over medium-high heat. Sauté garlic in oil for about 3 minutes. Add zucchini, yellow squash and oregano; continue to cook until tender, about 5 to 7 minutes. Serve each piece of chick-en with 1 cup of zucchini and yellow squash mixture. Makes 6 servings.
This recipe is lower in fat because the chicken is baked, not fried. It’s also lower in both fat and cholesterol because it uses chicken breasts in-stead of thighs. Remove the skin before coating the chicken to reduce fat even more. Serve it with a side dish of sautéed squash and zucchini to ensure your family gets closer to the recom-mended goal of making half their plate fruits and vegetables!
Celebrity Chef Nikki Shaw hosts “Today’s Fla-vor” on Sirius XM and was a contestant on the Food Network’s search for “The Next Food Net-work Star.” For more information on the Network for a Healthy California, visit www.CaChampi-onsForChange.net.
Make Healthy Eating A Family TraditionBY CHEF NIKKI SHAW
18 MAY 2013
Proving she is no one-hit won-der Cal State Stanislaus junior forward Karenee Demery has once again been invited into camp with the Under-23 US Women’s National Team. The camp will be May 11-18 at the Olympic Training Center in Chula Vista, Calif. Head Coach Randy Waldrum has called in a total of 24 players for what is the second of three domestic
training camps to be held in 2013. “Despite being pretty nervous Karenee did a great job in her first camp,” said Cal State Stan-islaus women’s soccer coach Gabriel Bolton. “It is great that she has been called into the second camp so soon because she will be able to apply what she learned the first time. She will definitely be more relaxed and comfortable.”
In April Demery spent a week at the Home Depot Center in Carson, Calif. at the first camp of the year for the U23 team. She scored a goal in her first game with the team in a match against the U20 Women’s Na-tional Team who were also training at HDC. She is one of seven forwards called into the team this time.
WOMEN’S SOCCER PLAYER IN-VITED TO NATIONAL TEAM CAMP
D E M E R Y G E T S C A L L E D B AC K TO C A M PW I T H N AT I O N A L T E A M
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NBA Commissioner David Stern announced on Wednesday that the NBA Board of Governors voted (22-8) to reject the relocation of the Sacra-mento Kings to Seattle.
“The big winner here was Sacramento,” said Stern during a press conference in Dallas.
League owners upheld the Relocation Com-mittee’s April 29 unanimous recommendation (7-0) to deny the application of the team to relocate.
“We will talk to the Maloofs and seek in the next 24 to 48 hours whether we can help facili-tate an agreement to be signed between the Ranadive Group and the Maloofs for the sale of the franchise in Sacramento,” added Stern.
Stay current with Kings.com for updates.
THE NBA BOARD OF GOVERNORS ON WEDNESDAY VOTED TO REJECT THE RELOCATION OF THE SACRAMENTO KINGS TO SEATTLE
COMMISSIONER STERN ANNOUNCEMENT ON KINGS
NBA Commissioner David Stern
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The Fresno State men’s basketball team is offer-ing a fun summer opportunity for hoopsters to take flight at the Bulldogs’ Skills Camps on the Fresno State campus. “The camps will feature a multitude of skill in-struction, competitions & games,” said Fresno State Director of Basketball Operations Nick Matson. “With the guidance of the Fresno State Coaching Staff and Fresno State student-ath-letes, campers will be instructed on a variety of fundamentals & skills including ball handling, shooting, passing, and competitions.” This year, there will be three camp sessions: Ses-sion 1 runs June 10-13, Session 2 runs June 24-27, Session 3 runs July 29-Aug 1. Sessions 1, 2 and 3 are open to students in the second grade through 11th grade (ages 6-17) for $125 per camper if paid in full one week prior to the session the camper is attending or $150 per camper after that deadline. A $25 discount per camper is available when the application is received as a group of four or more. Each camp runs from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Thursday, with the option of dropping
The Fresno State men’s basketball program willhost three youth summer camps on campus.
Youth campers will learn basketball skills in a fun environment this summer under the direction of the Fresno State men’s program.
THREE YOUTH BASKETBALL CAMPS SET FOR SUMMER
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off participants as early as 8:30 a.m. Pizza, wa-ter, soda, popsicles, chips and candy bars will be available for purchase or campers can bring a sack lunch.
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(NAPSI)—At the height of the financial crisis in 2008, the U.S. government bailed out our nation’s banks and nationalized our home mortgage system.
Four years later, most of those bailouts have ended and taxpayers have been repaid in full. Unfortunately, that is not the case for mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Remarkably, they remain in government control, continue to dominate the mortgage market, and still owe taxpayers over $140 billion.
Neither Congress nor the White House has a viable plan to get that money back or to get the government out of housing finance. As a result, taxpayers—not banks or investors—are now on the hook for trillions of dollars of mortgage risk. And the government continues to add to that risk, accounting for over 90 percent of new mort-gage credit today, double the amount it provided just a few years ago. Even worse, recent actions
CONSUMER CORNERin Washington threaten to make Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac permanent wards of the state.
Moreover, millions of potential homeowners cannot get a mortgage because private sources of housing credit are scarce. Many of those private sources cannot compete with the govern-ment.
Your elected representatives in Washington aren’t paying attention to this problem!
But there is a plan to fix it. Former officials from the Obama and Bush administrations, Jim Mill-stein and Phillip Swagel, have crafted a way to restart private housing markets, ensure access to affordable 30-year mortgages, protect taxpayers from future bailouts, and repay them for saving the two largest sources of housing finance in our country: Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Millstein and Swagel discussed their plan in their recent article for The Washington Post.
Call your representatives in Congress. Let them know that we need to end the last bailout and the nationalization of our home mortgage system. Go to www.whoismyrepresentative.com to tell them that you support housing finance reform.
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-- Orrin C. Hudson, via his Be Someone organization in At-lanta, is using the game of chess to teach inner city kids how to "make the right moves" in life. -- -- To raise funding for their 2013 national tour, they are asking the public to make donations of $5 or more online at www.BeSo-meone.org/donate --
Nationwide (BlackNews.com) -- A powerful Black youth orga-nization that has already helped more than 20,000 kids is plead-ing to the public in efforts to raise funding for a national tour. The organization, Be Some-one, Inc, was founded by mas-ter motivator Orrin C. Hudson in the year 2000. His approach was very unique: Use the game of chess to teach inner city kids how to “make the right moves” in life.
Based in Atlanta, Georgia, Hudson and his 501(c)3 non-profit organization have already
Powerful Black Youth OrganizationSeeks $5 Donations
won rave reviews and national attention from CNN, NBC, Good Morning America, USA Today, and even People Magazine. He even once received a grant from filmmaker Tyler Perry.
But Hudson wants to help more than just a few thousands kids. He wants to take his show
on the road and do a national tour to help 1 million kids. For that reason, he is appealing to the public to make small dona-tions of just $5 or more to help him reach the much needed funding of $50,000.
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Orrin C. Hudson, founder of Be Someone organization in Atlanta, Georgia, skillfully using the game of chess to teach inner city kids how to "make the right moves" in life.
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FINANCIAL CORNER BE USED? With the funding, Hudson will launch the 2013 African Ameri-can Chess and Youth Leader-ship National Tour and travel to as many urban areas as pos-sible to help young inner city kids develop the practical skills and techniques to overcome obstacles in life, illustrated through the best and most in-tellectual visual aid of all time: the chessboard.
He will target young people age 12-18, and will train them to become better decision makers. Via the game of chess, Hudson will teach them 20 life lessons that they can take from
the chess board to make them-selves success at everything they do. He instills in them, the focus, discipline and patience required by the game. To donate online with a debit or credit card:Visit www.BeSomeone.org/do-nate and click on “Give Now” To donate by check or money order:Please send your donation to:Be Someone, Inc.949 Stephenson RoadStone Mountain, GA 30087 * Be Someone, Inc is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization. For more information, please visit www.BeSomeone.org or call (770) 465-6445, or send an email to [email protected]
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