San Antonio Register (San Antonio, Tex.), Vol. 67, No. 22, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 19, 1998 Page: 2 of 10
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Top Latin of Distinction, Inc. Host Spirit Awards Banquet
Sandra Cranford
Gloria Riggs
The honorees were Jeanette ' „ .
Cade (community) has been in the Glori? H. McGowan, President
' Mr
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Marina Collins
The San Antonio Metropolitan
Chapter of Top Ladies of
Distinction, Inc. (TLOD) held their
Eleventh Annual Spirit Awards
Luncheon, Saturday, November 7,
1998 at the Doubletree Hotel in
San Antonio.
Nine women in the community
were recognized for their
outstanding service in a variety of
categories.
Leola Wilkins
San Antonio Fighting Back
“1998 Outstanding Coalition
of the Year”
Washington, D.C.- San Antonio’s,
Fighting Back is named the “1998
Outstanding Coalition of the Year”
by Community Anti Drag Coalitions
of America during its annual Na-
tional Leadership Forum. CADCA’s
National Leadership Forum IX will
attract more than 1,000 community
organizers from across the country.
San Antonio Fighting Back was rec-
ognized along with Atlanta’s Gen-
esis Prevention Coalition; Nome,
Alaska’s Bering Strait Coalition for
Prevention, and .Rochester, New
York’s Prevention Partners, Inc.
San Antonio began as a neighbor-
hood organizing effort in 1990 and
formed into a coalition in 1992. This
comprehensive substance abuse,
crime and violence prevention and
community involvement an develop-
ment program uses a number of pro-
grams approaches to engage neigh-
St Philip’s College
Notheast Learning
Center offers series
of How To’ Work-
shopsa for Parents
—The Northeast Learning Cen-
ter (NELC), a satellite operation of
St. Philip's College will offer a se-
ries of free "How to workshops for
parents of school—age children
beginning Nov 12 and continuing
through Dec. 3 at the NELC loca-
tion at Toepperwein Road and 1-
35 in Live Oak.
The Workshops, designed to as-
sist parents in helping their chil-
dren with school, will be presented
by the staff of the Learning and
Leadership Development Center, a
community education service
housed on the main campus of St.
Philips College.
The workshop schedule is as fol-
lows: Nov. 12 from 6:15 to 7:15
p.m. * How to Help Your Child
Write an Essay": Nov. 19 from
6:15 to 7:15 p.m. "How to help
Your Child Improve Memory,"
Dec. 3 from 6:15 to 7: p.m. —
How to Help Your Child Improve
Test Scores," and Dec. from 5 to 6
p.m. -— "Angel Making," ($5 Cost
for suppliM. i (
The Northeast Learning Ceriter,
located at I 2702 Toepperwein
Road, functions as m extmrion of
St Philip's Collep. Hie NELC of-
fers a growing selection of credit
serving people iiving and working
in northeast Bexar CcCaty and aar-
Beatrice Tennessee
borhood residents. Economic devel-
opment, public policy and collabo-
rations are just a few of the methods
used to address problems identified
by the community. These efforts
have yielded a 19% drop in overall
crime rate, an increased in average
age of first time use from 9.4 years
Of age in 1992 to 13.5 years of age
in 1997 and the development of a
provider linked data system.
“The coalition movement is the life
blood of the drag prevention field,”
said Beverly Watts Davis, executive
director, San Antonio Fighting Back.
“Coalitions institute a mechanism
for the field to reach communities
with their critical messages. We are
grateful to CADCA for being galva-
nizing entity for the coalition move-
ment nationally.”
rounding areas.
More information is available by
calling the NELC at 654-371 7
CUOMO AN-
NOUNCES
GROUNDBREAK
ING NATION-
WIDE AUDIT
OF HOUSING DIS-
CRIMINATION
AROUND NATION
Housing and Urban Develop-
ment Secretary Andrew Cuomo
announced the most comprehen-
sive and sophisticated nationwide
audit ever conducted to test for
and evaluate housing discrimina-
tion in urban, suburban and rural
communities around the nation.
"This historic audit will help us
tight housing discrimination more
effectively,” Cuomo said "By de-
termining the extent and scope of
housing discrimination in greater
detail than ever before: die audit
will help us give all American fam-
ilies the opportunity to exercise
their legal right to move into any
neighborhood and any home they
can afford.”
“It is disturbing that after 30
years of firir housing enforcement,
we still need to fight this fight, but
report after report, complaint after
complaint only confirms for us the
need for this comprehensive, na-
tionwide audit,** Cuomo said. t
Cuomo said die audit, which will
cost $7.5 million in the current fis-
cal year will include 3,000 to
5,000 teats fbr housing discrimina-
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Smith, Event Chairperson
____j Manor Square Care Center
___________________________—ona Higgs (community) is employed with the Southwest
Independent School District as a para-professional in resource math. Sandra Cranford (healthcare)
works with Prudential Health Care of San Antonio as a mental health/substance abuse casemanager.
Murina Collins (religion) sang with the Owens Gospel Singers throughout the City and State for over 20
years. She is known in the City for giving tributes. She worked as the church secretary of West End
Baptist Church where she has been a member for 57 years. Castle J. Maney (religion) has been a Class
Leader for more than 62 years. She was one of the first Female Stewards at Bethel A.M.E. Church. She
served as a Debit Manager with Atlanta Life Insurance Company for over 34 years. Beatrice Tennessee
(education) has served in the teaching profession for more than 20 years. While teaching at Sam Houston
High School, she was the Teacher-of-the-Year in 1993. Leola Wilkins (education) is a retired education
in the public school system. She taught two years in the New Jersey System, nine years in middle school,
and 23 years as a high school counselor in the San Antonio Independent School District. Lfaizel Harmon
Kennedy (education) is a retired Principal of Montgomery Drive Elementary School. She retired in 1997
after serving 36 years in the education profession.
Linzell Kennedy
his old Central Texas
live oak has seen a lot
over the last century.
It's also been a reliable source
of shade and support for young
and old. FOR THE 32,000
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TEXAS EMPLOYEES OF
SOUTHWESTERN
||f|§ BELL, this old tree
Hpil represents a shared
heritage of steady, solid growth
and a future full of possibilities.
Like new technologies that will
take Texas into the next century.
AS THE LONE STAR;
STATE PREPARES FOR
the new Century,
we're helping out with a million
and a half miles of available
fiber-optic cable and ISDN lines.
And we’re developing high-speed
lines for demanding network
needs. WE’RE P(jtOUD TO
HAVE HELPED BUILD
TEXAS for the last 100 years
And we're working just as
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