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Baltimore County Council 4th District
Who will be the Voice for the Government a Delinquent Debtor
Black District in the County? Delayed Again
By Rev. Dorothy Boulware
Special to the AFRO
Baltimore County Council
of Maryland is divided into
seven districts of roughly
108,000 residents each. The
Fourth District was created
eight years ago as a majority
minority district after the 2000
Census count. It includes the
Liberty Road communities
– Woodlawn, Lochearn,
Milford Mill, Windsor Mill,
Randallstown, Granite,
Woodstock, Reisterstown
– and the New Town and
Painters Mill areas of Owings
Mills.
Kenneth Oliver made
history in 2002 when he
became the first African
American to be elected to
Council. Now finishing
his second term as the
representative of the
Fourth District, Oliver is
quick to rattle off those
accomplishments that make
him proud of the work he’s
done:
*The only regional park
in the county with indoor ice
skating, soccer;
*Senior housing in
Woodlawn;
*Additions to Cedar Mill;
*Police substations in
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Randallstown;
*Opening of the brand new
Windsor Mill;
*And the largest
community center in the
county.
He also volunteers that his
detractors discount this list,
which is just a sampling of the
one on his Web site. “They
say I haven’t done anything.
I don’t know what they’re
looking at when they say that,”
the councilman said.
Courtesy photo
“If you look at the [4th]
Attorney Leronia Josey is
district, over the last 30 years
committed to re-energizing
nothing was done, until the last
Baltimore County’s Fourth
eight years. ...
councilmanic district.
“I initiated discussions
with the Liberty Road
Business Association about an
apartment complex and we’re
working on developing three
vacant automobile dealerships
into mixed use developments
or office complexes.”
But this work has not
exempted him from a
challenger in this election.
“Some [people] don’t know,
some don’t know about my
personal involvement and
AFRO file photo many just don’t read,” he
Kenneth Oliver faces said. “I can’t understand why
strong opposition for his there would be an effort to
historic county seat. Continued on A5
Wyclef Jean Eyes
Haitian Presidency
Entertainer Wyclef Jean has wept and advocated for his
embattled homeland, Haiti, throughout his near 20-year
career. Now, he’s poised to take the premier leadership role
as president – a massive undertaking for any political faction
and especially colossal for Jean, 37, who has no background in
politics.
In an interview with Times.com, the former Fugees star
said the January earthquake in Haiti prompted his decision. “If
not for the earthquake, I probably would have waited another
10 years before doing this,” the Haitian-born superstar said
Tuesday night. “The quake drove home to me that Haiti can’t
wait another 10 years for us to bring it into the 21st century.”
The Yele Haiti founder continued, “If I can’t take five years
out to serve my country as president, then everything I’ve been
singing about, like equal rights, doesn’t mean anything.”
Jean, left, is seen here being interviewed on the “Varney &
Company” program on the Fox Business Network, July 23.
AP Photo/Richard Drew
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Black Farmers
AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite
By Zenitha Prince
AFRO Staff Writer
When will the checks
arrive?
That’s the question to
which John Boyd, president
of the National Black
Farmers Association, has
been seeking an answer for
more than a decade. But with
a Senate vote slated to take
place this week, the Virginia-
based farmer said he hopes
the government will finally
pay its debt.
“This is taking too long;
farmers are frustrated,”
John W. Boyd Jr., center, a farmer from Baskerville, Va.,
he told the AFRO one
day before the vote. “We and founder of the National Black Farmers Association,
is shown in this file photo from Feb. 15. Boyd met with
have a judgment against
the government and we Sen. Harry Reid on July 28 to see if he could impact
movement by the Senate to fund the settlement and
can’t seem to collect. We
need to talk to someone in finally help the Black farmers who continue to suffer.
accounts payable because the
government has defaulted on Senate Majority Leader known as Pigford v. Vilsack,
its bill.” Harry Reid in a meeting on through the Congress has
With Congress set to go Capitol Hill last week. Reid been rocky at best. Attached
into a seven-week recess, promised to put the matter up to a number of bills, such
Boyd has been lobbying for for unanimous consent—a as the war funding bill, tax
lawmakers to approve the means of expediting extenders and FEMA disaster
payment of a $1.25 billion legislation by means of a assistance bill, the settlement
settlement in a class action straight up or down vote—on funding has been approved
lawsuit filed on behalf of Aug. 2 but it was postponed by the House in two separate
80,000 Black farmers who to Aug. 4. bills. In the Senate, however,
have been victims of loan The progress of the it has been stymied by
discriminations. lawsuit against the U.S. Republicans bent on cutting
Boyd made his case to Department of Agriculture, Continued on A5
Authorities converge on
Hartford Distributors, in
Manchester, Conn., Aug.
3. Officials say several
people were shot at the
beer distribution company
in Connecticut by Omar
Thornton, inset, who then
killed himself.
AP Photo/Journal Inquirer, Jessica Hill
Truck Driver Kills 9, Including Himself
By AFRO Staff Thornton believed he was subjected to racial
discrimination.
Omar Thornton shot and killed eight “We take the representations of our
people, before committing suicide at his members very seriously,” Roos said. “During
workplace in Manchester, Conn., Tuesday the time that Thornton was represented by
morning after reportedly facing disciplinary Local 1035, he reported no concerns about
action for stealing beer. Chris Roos, a racial discrimination to the union.”
representative for Teamsters Local 1035 Steve Hollander, vice president of the
said in a statement that the 34-year-old truck company, who was injured in the gunfire told
driver at Hartford Distributors met with The Associated Press that Thornton was cool
company and union officials on the morning and calm before the killing spree began.
of the shooting to discuss his continued “He didn’t yell. He was cold as ice,” said
employment at the facility. Hollander. “He didn’t protest when we were
“It is our understanding that it was at meeting with him to show him the video of
this time Thornton allegedly shot and killed him stealing. He didn’t contest it. He didn’t
Bryan Cirigliano [local union president], complain. He didn’t argue. He didn’t admit or
a company representative and six of our deny anything. He just agreed to resign. And
members at the facility,” said Roos. then he just unexplainably pulled out his gun
Union officials deny reports that Continued on A5
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AFRO National Briefs

of 22 service projects benefitting local non-profit organizations scholarships, awarded more than $285 million merit-based
in New Orleans. According to the group, each service event scholarships through the ROTC program in 2009. Army
honored of one of the sorority’s founders. representatives for ROTC, U.S. Army Recruiting Command
“Delta Sigma Theta has remained committed to supporting and U. S. Military Academy at West Point, which was ranked
Sherrod Tells NABJ Convention She Will Sue Breitbart
the city of New Orleans in post-Katrina recovery efforts the nation’s top college by Forbes magazine in 2009, provided
Shirley Sherrod, the recently fired director of the U.S.
since the very beginning,” said the organization’s national conference attendees information on the vast range of education
Department of Agriculture’s rural development office in
president Cynthia M.A. Butler-McIntyre in a statement. benefits, more than 150 career specialties and leadership
Georgia, has said she will sue blogger Andrew Breitbart, who
“Through financial contributions, donations, rebuilding development opportunities.
used an excerpt of a speech she made to the NAACP out of
houses and opening up our homes to the Delta sisters who lost
context and called it racist along with cable news network Fox
everything in the storm, Delta Sigma Theta has demonstrated Diddy Sounds Off on ‘Nightline’ Host, Cries Racism
News.
our commitment to rebuilding the great city of New Orleans. In a recent interview with Vibe magazine, music producer
In a video posted on CNN.com Sherrod announced that she
IMPACT Day is just one more way that we hope to impact the and rapper Diddy called “Nightline” host Martin Bashir a racist
intended to sue Breitbart and said while the blogger has not
communities of New Orleans.” for questioning his decision to purchase his son a Maybach car.
apologized, she also does not want an apology from him. “He
In addition, civil rights activist Dr. Dorothy Height’s final “There were times in the interview when I had to give him
had to know that he was targeting me…,” she stated.
book, Living With Purpose: An Activist’s Guide to Listening, an ultimatum,” Diddy told Vibe. “The questions weren’t being
Answering questions at a panel discussion entitled “Context
Learning and Leading, was unveiled at the convention. Former handled the right way. In hindsight, when I saw him, I shouldn’t
and Consequences: Conversation with Shirley Sherrod”
U.S. Secretary of Labor Alexis M. Herman, who wrote the have done the interview because I know the style of interview
during the National Association of Black Journalists’ annual
introduction, described the book as Height’s “final gift” in a that he does… The whole thing about giving a Maybach to my
convention July 29, Sherrod said, “I knew it was racism and no
statement and said President Barack Obama received the book’s son, that’s really like a racist question.”
one had to tell me that.”
first printed copy. The media mogul purchased the silver-hued car, which costs
After the media frenzy about racism that ensued after the
about $360,000, for his son Justin’s 16th birthday.
release of the video excerpt, Sherrod said she now knows “how
Police Seek Gunman in Shooting of Chicago Boy, 13 “You don’t ask White people what they buy their kids,” he
the media can and should work in helping to get the truth out.”
Chicago police have identified a suspect in the multiple continued. “And they buy ‘em Porsches and convertible
When asked if she would accept a new position with the
shooting death of eighth-grader Robert Freeman Jr., 13, The Bentleys, and it ain’t no question. It’s really a racist question
USDA, Sherrod said that she had not and was far from being
Associated Press reported. Freeman was shot 13 times on and put things back in perspective with money and the way that
able to do that. “I haven’t had a chance to read it,” she said.
July 29 while riding his bicycle on the city’s South Side, and people still look at you.”
“The offer still says draft. I need to ask them what does that
according to his family, the teen was the victim of mistaken Justin’s mega-birthday party and new car were featured in
mean….From what I know about that part of the department,
identity. an episode of MTV’s “Sweet 16.”
the Office of Advocacy and Outreach, I don’t think they have
According to the report, Chicago police said tips from
even budgeted the money to operate that part of the program.
witnesses point to a suspect, who has still not been found. Congress Passes Fair Sentencing Act
So I have many, many questions before I can make a decision.”
However, police officials On July 28, the House of Representatives passed the Fair
said “don’t snitch” culture Sentencing Act (S.1789) to restore fairness to federal cocaine
Deltas Convene in New Orleans, Participate in Day of
has made finding the sentencing. The legislation, which matches a measure passed
Service
suspect, identified only as in March by the Senate, is aimed at reducing the current
Members of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, an international
a young male, difficult. sentencing disparity of those convicted of possession of crack
non-profit women’s organization, returned to New Orleans for
Statistics posted on cocaine versus powder cocaine and eliminating mandatory
the third time to
the Chicago Police’s Web minimum sentencing. In a released statement, the NAACP
Courtesy Photo

celebrate their
site show that homicide expressed support for the legislation calling the current
50th national
is a troubling issue, sentencing practices “racially discriminating.”
convention.
with African Americans “Because of the mandatory minimum jail sentence for
The gathering,
comprising 77.1 percent those convicted of possession of 5 grams of crack cocaine
“A Sisterhood
of the city’s crime victims or more, people of color are being put in prisons at much
Called to Serve:
between January 2010 and higher rates than their Caucasian counterparts, and the judges
Transforming
June. have no discretion to mitigate the sentence for first-time or
Lives and
Freeman was the nonviolent offenders or special circumstances,” said Benjamin
Impacting Courtesy Photo
fourth teen killed in area Jealous, CEO and president of the NAACP. “This is the first
Communities,” Robert Freeman Jr.
shootings that week. time Congress has moved to reduce any mandatory minimum
not only allowed
sentence, regardless of how racially discriminatory they may
up to 16,000
Army Salutes National Urban League Women of Power be.”
sorority members
Honorees Under the current sentencing guidelines, conviction on a
to reunite in the
Command Sgt. Maj. (ret.) Michele S. Jones attended the charge of possession of five grams of crack cocaine draws a
Crescent City,
National Urban League’s Women of Power Luncheon on behalf mandatory prison term of five years and possession of 10 grams
but provided them Dr. Dorothy Height's final book
of the U.S. Army. Jones, the first female in the Army appointed draws a mandatory 10-year prison sentence. The sentencing
an opportunity to was unveiled at the Deltas 50th
as the Army Reserve Command sergeant major, currently threshold for possession of powder cocaine is 100 times higher.
aid the surrounding convention.
serves as special assistant to the secretary of defense’s White Under the bill that passed Congress, a five-year prison term
community.
House liaison. would be triggered by conviction of possession of 280 grams of
On July 30, the organization hosted IMPACT Day, a series
The Army, the nation’s largest provider of education crack cocaine.

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Business
Handling it All: Local Woman Moonlights
as Mom and Manager
By Stephen D. Riley
AFRO Staff Writer
What’s the next step in a
down economy where jobs
aren’t hiring and salaries
aren’t climbing? Simple—
take a page from Sharan
Nixon’s playbook and
form your own self-made
conglomerate. The budding
business mogul is a one-
woman building crew. She
manages three businesses
along with three children but
still finds time to masquerade
in a normal life.
The founder of Baltimore
Fashion Week (BFW) is
way too busy right now.
Her annual BFW is fast
approaching its Aug. 19 start
date and her latest nonprofit
creation, Nixon Development,
just launched in 2009 with
intentions set on remaking the
world—starting first with the
world’s core: its youth.
“[Nixon Development’s]
sole purpose and goal as an
organization is to save our
youth and guide them down a
pathway to a new normal that
will either introduce or re-
ignite them to a dream once
unfulfilled,” Nixon says.
It’s somewhat fitting in
a way that Nixon’s newest
creation revolves around
adolescents. Nixon harvested
childhood dreams of
becoming a teacher because
she “liked writing on the
blackboard and making
ditto copies for the class.”
Although she didn’t quite
make it to the schoolroom,
headlining her own youth-
salvation program is
rewarding enough.
Just like her current
business profile, Nixon had
her ideas in a little bit of
everything as an amateur. A
fashion fanatic as a teenager,
she spent her free time
reading style magazines and
presaging her move into the
industry. That fashion bug
eventually grew into BFW
but it was her work in event
management that sparked her
inner entrepreneur and led to
her first enterprise, Butterfly
Productions.
“That was my husband
[and] my life and it seemed
as if everything else revolved
around it,” Nixon revealed.
Putting her all into her first
business was rewarding but
success came at a cost for the
mother of three.
“One [evening] I was
pulling an all-nighter and
my son came to me and
said ‘Mom, you’re always
working and we miss you,’”
Nixon recalled. “I replied,
‘But I’m right here’ [and] he
replied ‘It’s not the same.’ I
was working from home at
the time [but] it was a major
wake-up call for me when
my son said that. After that
statement, I returned to being
a mom again.”
With her priorities
balanced and family happy,
Nixon takes pleasure in
starring as a self-employed
business woman. The freedom
to come, go and do as she
pleases gives her all the
job security she needs; in
spite of a few life learning
experiences along the way.
“In the beginning, starting
my own business was a grand
idea,” Nixon adds. “But then
you have to learn how to live,
love, and work, and you also
have to learn how to separate
the three when the time
“With her priorities balanced and family happy, Nixon takes
pleasure in starring as a self-employed business woman.”
Behind the fashionably styled exterior is Sharan Nixon: mother of three and owner
of many businesses. Nixon’s Butterfly Productions company produces the annual
Baltimore Fashion Week, which will run from Aug. 19-22.
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Waters to be Tried by House Ethics Committee

By Larry Margasak
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) –
California Democrat Maxine
Waters faces a House trial this
fall on three charges of ethical
wrongdoing, setting the
stage for a second election-
season public airing of ethics
problems for a longtime
Democratic lawmaker.
The charges focus on
whether Waters broke the
rules in requesting federal
help for a bank where her special favors, for the released a statement with Republicans will now conduct
husband owned stock and employee or family members, the headline: “The Dirty the Waters trial. The specifics
had served on the board of that could be viewed as Details: Ethics Office Reveals of the allegations won’t be
directors. She denied the influencing official actions. Waters Charges. Panel Has made public until the panel
charges Monday. –A rule that members’ ‘Substantial Reason to – four Democrats and four
Persons familiar with the conduct must reflect creditably Believe’ Dems Have Another Republicans – hold its still-
case said Waters is accused of on the House. Ethics Problem on Their unscheduled organizational
violating: The persons were not Hands.” meeting.
–A rule that House authorized to be quoted by Waters is a senior member Brendan Daly, spokesman
members may not exert name on allegations not yet of the House Financial for Speaker Nancy Pelosi
improper influence that results made public. Services Committee, which commented, “As we have said
in a personal benefit. Republicans quickly handled the recent rewrite in the past about the process,
–The government jumped on the latest of legislation that regulates ethics proceedings are a result
employees’ ethics code, which news. The GOP’s House financial institutions and of a bipartisan, confidential
prohibits granting or accepting campaign committee has strong protections for AP Photo and independent process in
consumers. Rep. Maxine Waters, the House.”

Voice for the Black District

Rangel stepped aside in D-Calif., will face charges In a statement, Waters
March as the chief House tax of ethical wrongdoing in a said, “I have not violated
writer following a negative trial this fall. any House rules. Therefore,
Continued from A1 report on his conduct in I simply will not be forced to
unseat me when there will be four brand new She would be new to the Council but not to a separate ethics case. Waters were filed July 28 by admit to something I did not
councilpersons as it is. Why not make an effort local politics. She’s monitored developments In addition to taxes, his a four-member investigative do and instead have chosen
to add more African Americans to the Council, in the community while serving on the committee handles trade, panel, but not announced to respond to charges made
rather than unseat the only one?” Parole Commission, the University System portions of health care reform, until Aug. 2. An eight- by the House Committee on
He has already received the endorsement of of Maryland Board of Regents, Coppin Medicare and Social Security. member subcommittee of Standards of Official Conduct
the Teachers Association of Baltimore County Development Foundation, Leadership Maryland The charges against four Democrats and four in a public hearing.”
(TABCO). and the Frostburg Board of Visitors.
County NAACP President Pat Ferguson, She says the district currently has a need for:
clarifiying that as a non-profit the organization * Enhancing public education by re- If you’re HIV+ and think you can’t afford the medication you
cannot make an endorsement, said there are engaging parents and holding principals and
“definite concerns related to how effective teachers accountable; need, there’s something you should know.
he [Oliver] has been as a leader” and “the * Revitalizing commercial and economic
adequacy of his overall response to the needs of
the broader community.”
development; and
* Using incentives to attract businesses to MADAP CAN HELP.
Add to the doubt about his political the county and to stimulate job creation.
performance his guilty plea in 2009 related to Josey is perhaps best known for her service
the misuse of campaign funds and this can only as general counsel for Bethel A.M.E. Church The Maryland AIDS Drug Assistance Program (MADAP) helps cover the
multiply whatever factors make him appear for 15 years, two of them as chief operating cost of many medications for low to moderate income people in Maryland
vulnerable. officer. She has received endorsements from who are living with HIV/AIDS.
And the race is on in the Fourth District. the Baltimore County 10th District Democratic
Penny McCrimmon is running against Club, and the Stonewall Democratic and
Oliver, as is attorney Leronia Josey. This is Northwest Catonsville Political clubs. She calls
There are exciting, new drugs in the fight against HIV/AIDS. Don’t miss out
McCrimmon’s third run for this seat. Josey herself an experienced problem solver who is because you can’t afford them.
said she’s running out of necessity, because of committed to re-connect with and re-engage the
what she calls “inexcusable neglect” and her county community. Call MADAP today.
“disappointment in the performance of our Penny McCrimmon had not responded by
current councilmanic representative.” AFRO press time.
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Black Farmers
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domestic spending. Of the six
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suffering from treatment of
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Baltimore Meets 50 Million-Pound Challenge
By AFRO Staff
Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake recently visited
Edmondson Village to celebrate Baltimoreans who have
recycled 50 million pounds of waste since the start of One Plus
One collections last July.
Flanked by huge pallets of recycled materials at the
Edgewood/Lyndhurst Recreation Center, Mayor Rawlings-
Blake praised residents who helped the city reach this
impressive achievement. “We could not have reached this
milestone without the citizens of Baltimore making the right
choice and making the effort to recycle. So today, we say,
‘Thank you, Baltimore’ and congratulations on recycling 50
million pounds,” Rawlings-Blake told the crowd. Courtesy Photo
Jean Allen, president of the Edgewood Neighborhood AFRO Publisher John J. Oliver and Baltimore City Mayor
Stephanie Rawlings-Blake
Association and Cynthia Shaw, president of the Lyndhurst
Neighborhood Association were also on hand and reiterated the
mayor’s statements. Baltimore city have increased over 50 percent.
According to Cleaner Greener Baltimore, an initiative that AFRO Publisher John J. Oliver joined the mayor and
seeks to promote environmental improvement, the Edmondson mentioned the company’s Clean-Green Block Campaign, the
Village Community has shown the largest improvement in oldest urban environmental program in the nation. In 2007,
recycling since the city moved to collecting trash and recycling the campaign partnered with the city and Cleaner Greener
once a week. During this time, recycling collections across Baltimore.
accounting and business His appointment, which
management, and a doctorate requires Maryland State Senate Daughter Honors Mother’s Years
in musical arts from the confirmation, will fill the
Peabody Conservatory of the
Johns Hopkins University.
remainder of a three-year term
that began July 1, 2009.
of Teaching Nurses
Special to the AFRO
BALTIMORE –
All it took Tumara
Jordan was a few
seconds to decide
what to get her
mother Peggy as
a retirement gift
for 35 years as
a nurse educator
at Baltimore
City Community
College.
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family,” Tumara Peggy Jordan and her daughter,
said. “It’s been Tumara
one of the single
most important
things.” Tumara surprised her mother at her retirement party
by announcing she had started the Peggy Jordan Nursing
Scholarship through the BCCC Foundation.
“My mother teaches her students almost like they’re her
own children,” she continued. “Over the years, students were
free to call her at home just about any time of the day or night
with questions. Mom always took the calls. She dedicated her
career to students and it’s been so rewarding for her to watch
them become nurses.”
Originally from Jackson, Miss., Peggy Jordan studied
nursing at Tuskegee Institute in Alabama before graduating
from the University of Maryland with a master’s degree in
nursing. She joined the nursing staff at the old Provident
Hospital and subsequently, began a teaching career at
Provident’s Helene Fuld School of Nursing. From there, 35
years ago, she became a nursing professor at BCCC.
Through her own job as a group marketing manager at
Verizon, Tumara has parlayed her personal donation of $2,500
into an initial scholarship fund of $5,000 with the help of
a Verizon corporate matching contribution. “I hope many
of her friends and former students at BCCC learn about the
Peggy Jordan Scholarship and join with me build to it into a
permanent endowed scholarship one day,” said Tumara, who
hails from Silver Spring, Md.
The Jordan Scholarship will be awarded for the first time
this fall to a student accepted into the BCCC Registered
Nurse program. For more information, contact the BCCC
Foundation Office at 410-462-8328.
Baltimore Woman Welcomes
104th Year of Life
By AFRO Staff
Alice Colbert, born Aug. 3,
1906, in Baltimore, is living
an exceptionally full life. The
spry centenarian has watched
her family flourish with
five generations and she has
traveled to Panama, Mexico,
Italy and England.
At 104 years old, Colbert
still holds fast to traditions she
garnered as a young woman –
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gardening. However, he love Alice Colbert, 104, is a
for cooking is trumped only Baltimore native.
by her joy of family.
“Her eyes will twinkle with happiness when she is preparing
meals, reading books or telling stories of the family history,”
members of Colbert’s family said.
Colbert is the oldest of three children and married her
childhood sweetheart, John, in 1924. The couple raised three
daughters, whom Colbert attributes to her longevity.
The lifelong Baltimorean said her secret to a full,
prosperous life is generosity, which has allowed her to cultivate
relationships that span numerous states. Colbert can often be
heard saying, “My family means everything to me. It’s what
keeps me going.”
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Opinion
Life is a ‘Pre-
existing Condition’
Last March, President
Obama invited me to join
him at the White House as he
signed our Patient Protection
and Affordable Care Act
(H.R. 3590) into law.
While waiting for the
Rep. Elijah president to arrive at that
Cummings historic ceremony, my
thoughts went out to the
millions of Americans whose lives will be transformed for the
better because of what we had been able to accomplish.
I thought back to July of last year when thousands of our
neighbors dialed into to my Healthcare Telephone Town Hall.
They knew that health care reform was a challenge we had to
meet.
My neighbors expressed their deep concerns about
skyrocketing insurance premiums, losing their coverage, and
being denied insurance because of “pre-existing conditions.”
They understood that out-of-control costs and bloated insurance
company profits were stifling our economy and forcing
thousands into bankruptcy.
Most compelling of all, they testified to an even harsher
truth. Tens of thousands of Americans have been dying each
year because they lacked insurance coverage.
Our president and I realized that these premature deaths are
an unacceptable blight upon our national morality. Standing
there with him last March, I recalled a press conference I had
held to project some humanity into a national healthcare debate
that was becoming too abstract.
I will never forget those who spoke then from their own life
experience.
Beverly Barkoye had suffered two strokes. Any humane
society would have assured her a regular doctor’s care – but she
was living in fear because she had no insurance.
Mr. George Kelly and Ms. Sandra Teplica had lost their
insurance coverage while being treated for cancer – and, then,
were denied alternative coverage because they had “preexisting
conditions.”
Blacks Split With Obama Over Education Reform
(NNPA) — At the recent
National Urban League
convention, President
Obama’s speech took aim at
criticisms launched by the
Black civil rights community
over the educational reforms
proposed by Secretary of
Education Arne Duncan.
The 17-page document,
“Framework for
Providing All Students
an Opportunity to Learn
through Reauthorization
Ron Walters of the Elementary and
Secondary Education Act,”
was put together by the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights,
the NAACP, the National Urban League, Rainbow PUSH
Coalition, National Council for Educating Black Children
and the Schott Foundation for Public Education. These
organizations discovered last year that Duncan was putting
together a draft proposal known as “Race To The Top” with
little input from the African-American community, and this
document stands as an important critique of that proposal from
our point of view.
I knew that something was terribly wrong about the Duncan
proposals when Diane Ravitch, an architect of “No Child
Left Behind” in the Bush administration, wrote a piece in The
Nation explaining why she no longer supports NCLB. In that
piece she says, “I expected that Obama would throw out NCLB
and start over. But, on the contrary, his administration has
embraced some of the worst features of the George W. Bush
era.”
Racist Picture of Lynching in Your Paper
I was appalled to open this week’s edition of the AFRO to find a
racially insensitive, politically slanderous, and historically incorrect
picture of a lynching by an artist whose name appears to be Kofi
Tyus. This picture appeared beside the opinion piece: “The Great
American Racial Abyss,” which pretended to point out race-baiting
on both sides of the political spectrum, but which was clearly slanted
to favor the Democratic Party and its devoted operatives in the Black
community.
The photo which I am referring to features the words, “Right
Wing Propaganda” over a man in a hood and robe setting fire to a
Black woman (Shirley Sherrod) tied to a post or a tree, with the word
“FEAR” underneath the fire. This is an unmistakable association with
a lynching, as many of my ancestors were tied to trees and burned
alive by White men in hoods and robes. This is grossly insulting, as
the so-called “right wing” was never among these types. In fact, if
Mr. Tyus had done his research or knew his history, he would know
that it was the Democratic Party that launched the Ku Klux Klan, and
which lynched Black people for over half-a-century, continuing their
discrimination well into the 1960s and beyond. This picture serves to
undo all of the equivocation that the article beside it pretends to do. It
leaves in the mind of the reader the impression that Republicans are
lynching Black people. This is not very different from what I see in
your paper every week. You’ve done a terrific, though sophomoric
job of demonizing your opponent. If you can’t compare them to
Nazis (this has already been done) then compare them to the Klan.
Ignore the truth or the facts, and just demonize, demonize, demonize.
The other articles in your paper, especially the front-page article
titled “Obama, NAACP Caught by Race Bait” written by Zenitha
August 7, 2010 - August 13, 2010, The Afro-American
“What are we to do?” they asked
their nation.
Now, we can give them the
answer they deserve.
Aug. 1 was the day our
Affordable Care Act became real
for people in Maryland with “pre-
existing conditions,” a day all of
us should remember and celebrate.
Here in Maryland, thanks to
visionary action by Gov. Martin
O’Malley and our Maryland
Legislature, our state can expect
to receive $85 million in federal
funding to assure that neighbors
like Beverly Barkoye, George Kelly
and Sandra Teplica receive the
more affordable, high-quality health
insurance that they need.
It is critical that we pass this
message on to family and friends
who have no health insurance because of their medical condition.
Now, after being without insurance for six months,
Maryland residents with pre-existing medical conditions can
apply for and receive insurance through the Maryland Health
Insurance Plan.
They simply need to call (443) 738-0067 or go on the
Internet to http://www.marylandhealthinsuranceplan.state.
md.us. The MHIP Federal Insurance Plan covers a broad
range of health benefits, including primary and specialty care,
hospital care and prescription drugs – and it does so even when
the health care treatment is for pre-existing conditions.
This insurance is designed to be affordable, not free.
Premiums range from $141 monthly for individuals under 30 to
$354 monthly from persons 65 and older. There also is a $1,500
deductible and a $1,500 out-of-pocket limit.
To be certain, this is not the national, single-payer health
insurance system based upon Medicare that I would prefer
(and believe this nation will ultimately adopt). However, it is
Specifically she was talking about how her view of both
“choice” and “accountability” had changed and her conclusion
that neither would improve American education. A radical point
of view!
So, President Obama at the NUL pointed to the
unprecedented amount of funds for education in the Recovery
Act that saved the jobs of many teachers and the recent roll
out of the grant program that provided funds for “Race To
The Top” to the first 18 states. He defended the criticism that
it was not supportive of minority students by saying that state
proposals had to have a robust minority program.
He spent a great deal of time suggesting that while he
supported teachers, they were, in effect, the lynchpin of
accountability for his new reforms. Again, this view – very
little different from the Bush administration’s – also goes after
teachers unions as a barrier to the concept of accountability.
Moreover, since civil rights groups criticize the Duncan
plan as too charter school top heavy, the president defended
it by saying the bad ones [charter schools] would be closed
down. But this didn’t challenge the concept, since a recent
authoritative study by Margaret Raymond at Stanford
University, for the pro-charter Walton Family Foundation,
found that only 17 percent of charters out-performed matched
public schools; the other 83 percent were either no better or no
worse.
These findings are similar to those in Washington, D.C.,
which has the largest number of charters in the country.
The support for charters and public funding of private
schools is the modern version of the segregated academies
of the period before Brown v. Board of Education. Today,
Whites flee public schools demanding “choice” as they become
significantly populated by Black and Hispanic students and so
the neoliberal paradigm that devalues public education – where
Letters to the Editor
Prince, also serves to reinforce the Democratic Party’s lie that
“Republicans are racist,” and it also brings the tea party into the
same umbrella, to be hated and vilified by any who don’t know their
history or can’t read between the all the misinformation contained
therein. You also printed a “Letter to the Editor” which attacked
Michael Steele and other Blacks in the Republican Party, or who
defended the tea parties. Reflecting back to your paper’s attempts to
defend the NAACP and the Obama administration, both for crying
racism during the health care rallies when there was no racism and
for firing Shirley Sherrod without checking their facts, it is clear that
your paper is just a print version of the NAACP, which serves not to
advance the interests of “colored people,” but to advance and defend
the interests of the Democratic Party—the party that lynched my
ancestors, enslaved my ancestors, and which continues to persecute
my contemporaries and future generations through a godless, socialist
agenda based on self-hate, race-hate, and hatred of the founding, the
history, and the continued existence of the United States of America.
We have a house divided once again, and with the continued
baseless, devotedly partisan attacks like your paper is engaging in, it
will not long stand.
Robert Broadus
Candidate for Maryland’s Fourth Congressional District
The Tragedy of a Promised Unfulfilled – Still No 40 Acres
and a Mule
When will government officials in Washington keep their
promises to Black Americans? During the reconstruction period after
the Civil War, government officials promised emancipated slaves that
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a life-saver for the nearly 10,000 Marylanders – like Beverly
Barkoye, George Kelly and Sandra Teplica – whose lives would
be at far greater risk without it.
For all of the ranting, partisan opposition, the debate
about health care reform is ultimately based upon a very
straightforward choice: Either we believe that every life has
value and that we all are in this life together or we do not.
No humane society can allow between 18,000 and 45,000
human beings to die every year, simply because they cannot
afford a health insurance plan. That, however, is precisely what
the greatest nation in the world has been doing – and what our
Affordable Care Act is designed to end.
After all, our survival and the survival of those we love are
also pre-existing conditions – to everything else in life that we
hold dear.
Congressman Elijah E. Cummings represents Maryland’s
Seventh Congressional District in the United States House of
Representatives.
most Black children are – has become official. Many Black
parents support choice because it has been sold to them as
providing the best education.
The Obama administration has put the largest amount of
money on the table for education in the history of the country.
But he needs to change the paradigm of accountability as
punishment if a school doesn’t turn around, to emphasize
what Barbara Arnwine, president of the Lawyers’ Committee,
says should be providing the necessary resources to enrich the
academic culture to enable these schools to succeed.
In this scheme of things, accountability should be changed
to supplement the deficiencies in the resources foundation of a
school, not to assume that all the needed resources are there and
the teachers are the main culprit in lack of student achievement.
Teachers are but one factor. In a 21st century model of
excellent education, the mountain of research that links
poverty to education suggests that a more rigorous social unit
should be developed for schools. Otherwise, the NCLB model
of blaming teachers is what has led the Washington, D.C.
Chancellor Michelle Rhee to fire 241 teachers, with 700 more
on the list because they didn’t evaluate well on a questionable
measurement standard.
The president suggests that while Duncan is “trying to shake
things up,” those who oppose him either resist change or are
“comfortable with the status quo.” Does he really believe that
these civil rights organizations don’t want the best for Black
children?
Ron Walters is a political analyst and professor emeritus
of government and politics at the University of Maryland,
College Park. His latest book, with Toni-Michelle Travis is,
“Democratic Destiny and the District of Columbia” (Rowman
and Littlefield Publishers, 2010).
instead of farming for someone else under the conditions of forced
labor, torture and abuse, they would be given the opportunity of full
citizenship: to own land, protect land and farm their own land for
their own profit and for the good of the community.
Well over 200 years later, the National Black Farmers’ Association
is still waiting for the approval of a $1.25 million settlement
(probably the sum of the 40 acres and mules freed slaves should have
received in the first place), as Black farmers have continued to suffer
discrimination and losses in financial opportunities and benefits from
the very government department created to partner with them… It
is important to note that for years, many Black Americans have felt
they were owed “reparations” for the years of toiling the land in
the slavery system of the United States. No bargains yet. However,
it is also important to note that other ethnic groups have received
reparations (Japanese-Americans due to the internment during
World War II; Native Americans due to lands stolen by the U.S.
government). My next question is: when will Black Americans, who
spent over 200 years of slavery farming this land, be compensated?
Where is the 40 acres and mule? When will Black farmers be repaid
for the years of discrimination since the Civil War? They don’t
need another chief in the civil rights department of the USDA. The
USDA secretary should use the full force of policy and programs to
enforce the policies and share the benefits with every farmer in this
country. There is a great need still, for governance in the government.
Government officials, let’s get it right!
Verinda M. Birdsong
Baltimore City, Md.
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On July 23, members of Maryland

Rev. Dr. James B. Gray
Baptist community celebrated the
Rev. James B. Gray, who was
recently named president
of the United Baptist Pearl Thomas, Joan Summers, Rev.
Missionary Convention of Charles Davis Jr. and Audrey Davis
Maryland. The reception took
place at the organization’s
facility on Madison Avenue
in Baltimore. Dr. Matthew
L. Jones was the previous
Ron “Fang” Mitchell and leader.
Donna Scott
Dr. Beverly O’Bryant
Photos by Bill Tabron
Mary Young and
Dorothy Johnson

Windy and Destiny Smith

Avery Penn, G.I. Johnson
Pianist Mary Benz
and Dennis Penn
Mary Gray, wife of Rev.
James Gray

The Rev. Dr. Cleveland T.A. Mason II,

first vice-president, UMBC

Gray and Baltimore City

Council President Bernard
“Jack” Young The Daughters of Praise
Dancers from Pleasant
Zion Baptist Church

Earlie Boone, Mathew Briton

(standing) Carrol Dickens and
William Evans

Carl Humphrey and

members of The
Departure Group
Courtesy Photo

Carl Humphrey
and a club
employee

Carl Humphrey, an Atlanta-based businessman
and grandson of former AFRO Publisher Betty
Murphy Moss of Baltimore, recently launched
an aviation-themed club in Shanghai, China,
called Departure 10 Ultra Lounge. Through the
Courtesy Photos
vision of entrepreneurs collectively known as
The Departure Group, which Humphrey is part
of, this airplane-influenced ultra lounge caters to
both professionals and party-goers in a distinctive
atmosphere.
On Aug. 7, Vashti-Jasmine McKenzie and Amos Saint-Jean will wed
at Ebenezer African Methodist Episcopal Church in Fort Washington,
Md. The bride is a graduate of Howard University and the groom
attended the University of Central Florida. McKenzie writes faith-
based column “GospelFab!” and Saint-Jean is a gospel music artist.
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Faith Pulse Zion Baptist Honors Pastor on

Aug. 7
Help the Girl Scouts of
Troop No. 1424 of John
Wesley UMC feed the
homeless, 1 p.m. at the
church, 3202 W. North Ave.
For more information, call
410-383-1525. The Rev. Dr.
Alfreda Wiggins is pastor of
the church.
Don’t miss the annual
Family Fun Festival, noon
to 5 p.m. in the 200 block of
N. Chester St. The festival,
which includes food,
games, snacks and an array
of vendors, is sponsored
by The Divine Cathedral
Church and other community
organizations. Doresa Harvey
of Heaven 600 will be the
emcee. For more information
call 410-675-3288, visit
www.thedoorinc.org or www.
thedivinecathedral.com. The
- Along Baltimore’s Famous Pennsylvania Avenue -
- Main Stage: Lafayette & Pennsylvania Avenue -
9/3: Join elected officials for Heritage Trail unveiling, plus
The Spindels perform.
9/4: Cadillac Parade, 50s Music, Poetry In Motion Contest
and more.
9/5: Gospel celebration featuring the “Singing Sensations.”
Sponsored by the Ministerial Alliance.
SPONSORS, DONORS, VENDORS, PERFORMERS & EVENT AGENDA…
visit www.RoyalTCHC.com. For the Pennsylvania Avenue Heritage
Trail tour go to www.PennsylvaniaAvenueBaltimore.com.
25th Anniversary
Faith Bytes Special to the AFRO Standing firmly on the doctrine of his
Rev. Antoine O. McClurkin preacher for The Clarion favorite scripture Romans 1:16, “For I am
is pastor of The Divine Call: The Sixth General Dr. Marshall F. Prentice is the pastor of not ashamed of the gospel of Christ; for it is
Cathedral Church. Convention and Holy Zion Baptist Church, a progressive, urban the power of God unto salvation to everyone
Convocation of MarketPlace congregation in the heart of Baltimore. that believeth; to the Jews first, and also the
Aug. 8 Fellowship and Churches Prentice, a native of Pittsburgh, Pa., Greek,” Prentice has preached the word in
In observation of South and Covenant Partners, 7 graduated from Geneva College with a Africa and throughout the United States.
African Women’s Day on p.m., Aug. 11-13, at Perkins double major in elementary education A great supporter of higher education,
Aug. 9, Life Restoration Square Baptist Church, and theology. He received a master’s in Rev. Prentice’s leadership is evident in the
Ministry is presenting the 2500 Edmondson Ave.,
counseling education from the University of church’s support of the United Negro College
South African Choir in where the Rev. Cleveland
concert under the direction T.A. Mason is the pastor. Pittsburgh and a master’s degree from the Fund, Coppin State University, Morgan
of Mike Nguyuza, 3 p.m., Daily teaching by Elder Samuel D. Proctor School of Theology at State University and other historically
at Shiloh AME Church, Ronald B. Highsmith, pastor Virginia Union University in Richmond, Va. Black colleges and universities. On Feb.
2601 Lyndhurst Ave. For of Sanctuary Church, is Under the pastorship of Dr. Lehman 28, 2009, Rev. Prentice was honored for
more information call scheduled 9 a.m. to noon, Bates, Prentice was licensed and ordained by his contributions with the Coppin State
410-233-4649. The Rev. Aug. 11, 12. For more Victory Baptist Church in Pittsburgh. Seven University Vision Award. Additionally, in
Dr. Mankekolo Mahlangu- information, visit www. years prior to becoming the under shepherd September 2004, the church opened Zion
Ngcobo is the founder and marketplacechurches.org or of Zion, he served as the pastor of the First Christian Middle School, the first Christian
servant of Life Restoration call 410-462-3010. The Right Antioch Baptist Church of Greensburg, Pa. middle school in Baltimore devoted solely to
Ministry. The Rev. Charlotte Rev. Stanley M. Butler is the Pastor Prentice has held many positions educating students in grades six, seven and
R. Clemons is pastor of presiding prelate.
since coming to Baltimore, including: eight.
Shiloh AME Church.
president of Clergy United for Renewal of Pastor Prentice is married to the former
Aug. 13
Aug. 10 Mt. Hattin Baptist East Baltimore (C.U.R.E.), president of the Elvira Johnson, and they are the proud
The Right Rev. John R. Church is presenting “The Progressive Baptist Convention for the state parents of three – Tonya, Preston and Kevin.
Bryant is the convocation Wiz,” 6:30 p.m., Aug. 13 of Maryland and co-chair of Baltimoreans They are also the proud grandparents of two
and 1 p.m. and 6 p.m., Aug. United in Leadership Development grandsons, Brandon Jamaal and Konner
14, in the auditorium of (B.U.I.L.D), a clergy caucus. Anthony.
Mergenthaler Vocational
High School, 3500 Hillen
Road. For more information
call 410-258-6051. The Rev.
Clay Burston is pastor of Mt.
Obituary
Hattin Baptist Church, 2409
Aisquith St.
Dr. Elias A. Dorsey, 69
Baltimore Administrator, Iota Phi Theta Founder
Ongoing
Breakaway@5 Elias Augustus Dorsey Jr., Junior College, director of
Beginning on Sept. one of the 12 founders of Iota Park West Medical Center,
12, share a meal, prayer, Phi Theta Fraternity, died deputy commissioner of
meditation, dialogue and July 29 from complications the Baltimore City Health
fellowship at St. Mary’s
related to pancreatic cancer Department and deputy
Episcopal Church, Woodlawn
at 5610 Dogwood Road, at Gilchrist Hospice Care in commissioner of the city’s
Baltimore. Event takes place Towson. He was 69. housing authority. He served
from 5-7 p.m. on Sundays. Dorsey, or “Tink” as he in the latter position from
For more information, was frequently called, was 1998 to 2000, when he
call 410-944-4236, visit a popular city administrator retired.
stmaryschurchwoodlawn. and worked as an educator Outside of work, the
org or e-mail st.marys. and deputy commissioner of fraternity founder was active
woodlawn@verizon.net. the Housing Authority of the in several organizations,
City of Baltimore. DR. ELIAS A. DORSEY including the Roman
Send your church A lifelong Baltimorean, Catholic Cathedral of Mary
or ministry news to years that Dorsey and 11
Dr. Dorsey was the son of a other friends established Iota Our Queen, where he was
dboulware@afro.com.
contractor and a homemaker Phi Theta Fraternity, which is a Eucharist minister and
and grew up in the Pimlico now recognized as a member cathedral tour guide and the
neighborhood. He spent of the National Pan-Hellenic Baltimore Youth Alliance,
much of his adulthood in Council. According to its where he was a longtime
the Woodlawn area. Dorsey Web site, the organization chairman. Dorsey also
was a 1958 graduate of now boasts more than 40,000 enjoyed fishing, cars and was
Forest Park High School members worldwide. an Orioles fan.
and attended Morgan State. In addition, he spent Dorsey’s sister, Catherine
He later earned a bachelor’s his college years as a C. Dorsey, said her brother
degree from Antioch College. postal worker and from was the “patriarch for our
Several years later, Dorsey 1966 to 1969 he taught in family, the elderly and the
continued his education and Baltimore City schools. young.”
earned a master’s degree in After teaching, Dorsey “He kept the children on
health administration and a worked as a city housing the right course by education,
doctorate, also from Antioch. inspector. He also worked as scholarships and mentoring.
It was during his college an administrator at Baltimore Elias was the ‘go-to’ relative,
always ready and able to
assist his family,” she said.
“Whatever our family
needed, he was willing and
able to provide.”
According to Iota Phi
Theta’s Web site, Dorsey –
along with founders Charles
Briscoe, Webster Lewis and
other deceased fraternity
brothers – is now part of the
Alpha Iota Omega Memorial
Chapter. He leaves to mourn
his memory a son, Jason;
Courtesy of Mississippi Department of Archives and History.
Professor Ernst Borinski teaching in the social science lab,

daughter, Kim; sister, Cathy

and three grandchildren.

The Dorsey family asks

that contributions in Elias
Dorsey’s name be made to
Tougaloo College, MS, ca. 1960.

the Baltimore Youth Alliance,

6101 Loch Raven Blvd., Apt.
408., 21239.

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On Afro.com—Ben’s Chili Bowl Ventures into Maryland

All Hail the DJ

Hip-hop pioneers honored at awards showcase
Courtesy Photo
By Gregory Dale was given the duties of ensuring the safety of Bambaataa and the show. Eddie “OG
AFRO Staff Writer DJ’s Kool Herc, Grandmaster Flash and Red Alert. Over a The three-day event Eddie” Myles
decade later, he founded Edwin Myles Consulting Firm, an will also feature a trade
The historic components of hip hop—an emcee, organization that aims to promote numerous independent and expo, celebrity basketball
microphone and disc jockey—changed as the genre evolved major record labels and artists. game, empowerment
over the years. The latter of the list, once the fundamental As a veteran in the game and entertainment industry insider seminars and an
backbone of classic hip hop, eventually started to fade as for over 25 years, Myles has helped to launch the careers of entertainment
music moved into a new era. But hip hop guru Eddie Myles artists such as Master P, B2K, Ginuwine and Mack 10, among workshop among
aims to reassert the DJ as a central figure in this genre and many others. He launched the IDJ Trade Association in 2008 many other
honor the masters of this forgotten talent through an upcoming and continues to extend his knowledge to promote and consult events.
award show scheduled to take place in Atlanta. artists, DJ’s, record labels and businesses worldwide.
The annual International DJ Trade Association Awards, The IDJT awards, now approaching its third year, The Annual
founded by Myles, spotlights DJ’s—those who are responsible spotlights various radio DJ’s on a local, regional, national and International
for much of the music we hear today. international scale. In addition, club and mixtape DJ’s are also DJ Trade
“Throughout the years, DJ’s were never really concentrated honored, as they often play pivotal roles in the industry. Association
on or respected in the game for breaking records,” Myles told “There’s over 3,000 DJ’s already registered this year…the Awards and
the AFRO in a recent interview. “DJ’s don’t make as much response is overwhelming,” Myles said. “It’s not just a hip-hop Expo will
money as these artists do and DJ’s are the ones that put them situation; we’re dealing with all genres. We’re honoring the take place
on the map.” oldest DJ alive to today’s DJ.” on Aug. 8
Myles, deemed “hip hop’s youngest forefather,” witnessed The event will also feature a lineup of big names in the and will
the unrecognized contributions of DJ’s firsthand. Recruited industry including Crime Mob, the Force MDs and Waka conclude on Aug. 11 in Atlanta, Ga. For more information,
in 1973 by the famous hip-hop DJ Afrika Bambaataa, Myles Flocka. Singers Montell Jordan and Angie Stone are set to host visit: idjtrade.com.

Summertime is not over
yet!
My lands of mercy! So
much information I need to
give you about what’s going on
and such a little space to put it
in. But I will try to do the best I
can. There are a lot of festivals,
concerts, shows and special
events coming up, starting with
this weekend.
The Baltimore Music
Festival 2010 will be held
Aug. 6-7, at CenterStage, 700
N. Calvert St., in Baltimore.
Presented by Bilal Ali
Productions, this festival will
feature over 15 professional
performers over the two days
starting at 7 p.m. on both
days. The VIP reception will
be held from 5:30-6:30 p.m.
The festival will be hosted by
Trish Hennessey and Myranda
Stephens from television
station FOX 45. The 2010
performers include: Paul
Taylor, Pamela Williams, Eric
Roberson, Marcus Mitchell,
Drew Davidsen, Karensa Gray,
Terri S. Isaac Parham, Trey
Eley, Shang, comedian Larry
Lancaster, Marcell Russell
and Scola. This year’s festival
honorees are Radio One’s
Larry Young, Charles Dutton,
the Rev. Anthony Brown and
with music, dancing assortment 8521 Liberty Road. The Elliott The purposes of the and more. Headlining there
of vendors and a variety of Levine Trio and vocalist Tim festivals have been designed entertainment this year will be
By Rosa Pryor ethnic foods. It is free. Brooks will perform at Sista’s to help revitalize the cultural the internationally acclaimed
On Tuesday, Aug. 10, Place on Wednesday, Aug. 18. expression of the city of jazz musician, Najee. Many,
turn left on the 100 block of saxophonist and recording For more information call 410- Baltimore. There will be many many other entertainments
Schroeder Street, a right on the artist, Jacques “Saxman” 340-2002. family and community service and speakers focusing on
1000 block to the 1300 block Johnson will be performing at activities; including a prayer community awareness will be
of Layette Street then march the Blues Alley Jazz Supper The Muslim Community for peace in the community there. I’ll see you there.
through Franklin Square Park. Club in Washington D.C. He Cultural Center of Baltimore from two members of the
There will be lots and lots of will also be celebrating his (MCCCB), a non-profit Baltimore Interfaith Coalition, Well my friends, this is it.
live entertainment including 71st birthday. There will be organization is sponsoring its free health screening and I am out of space and out of
the Spindles and M. C Booze two shows, 8 and 10 p.m. For 8th Annual New Africa Festival information and resource time. If you need me, call me at
and his band, a variety of food, tickets and information, go to will be held on Saturday, Aug. booths. The festival events 410-833-9474 or e-mail me at
clothing, jewelry, arts and crafts web site: www.bluesalley.com. 7, at Leakin Park between will include activities and rosapryor@aol.com.
vendors. There will be an area Dennison and Edgewood streets games for the children, awards UNTIL THE NEXT TIME,
for children to play with games, FestAfrica 2010, an African along the 3400 block of W. for outstanding community I’M MUSICAL YOURS.
crafts and fishing. Also, all the festival with traditional music, North Ave. from 12 noon until service, entertainment, I’LL SEE YOU AT THE
hospitals in the 44th District crafts and art, dances and food 9 p.m. food, merchandise vendors NEWSSTAND.
will be participating. Free will be held Aug. 14 and 15,
health screenings and much noon until 8 p.m. on Patterson
more. Come early and enjoy! It Park at Linwood and Eastern
is free. avenues. For more information,
call 410-608-0420. Choose
Another festival, the
International Festival will
be held Aug. 7-8 at the Poly/
Western High School near Falls
Happy birthday to Patsy
Hutchins, the wife of the
popular promoter and real
The Quality of Mercy...
Road and West Coldspring estate agent, Carlos Hutchins
Lane from noon until 9 p.m. who recently celebrated her
for your personal OB/GYN
The festival is a celebration of birthday at Sista’s Place Night
Baltimore’s cultural diversity Club and Restaurant, located
“FUNNY AND ORIGINAL...
FERRELL AND WAHLBERG
ARE HYSTERICAL!” Bill Zwecker, FOX-TV
“THE SUMMER’S
FUNNIEST
MOVIE.”
Mark S. Allen, CBS/CW STATIONS

Cameron Miles.
A portion of the proceeds
go to benefit Mentoring in
The Hood and The Dream
4 It Foundation. For more
information, call 410-332-0033.

Delegate Ruth Kirk’s 16th

Annual Family Fun Festival
along with entertainment
coordinator and director Cleve Carmen Farrior, M.D., M.B.A., Jennifer Taylor, M.D.,
Brister, are doing again. It will
be bigger than all the others and Angela Hopkins-Luna, M.D., provide obstetrics
at Franklin Square Park on N.
Carey and W. Lexington streets and gynecologic care to women of all ages
on August 14 and August 15,
noon until 8 p.m. in their all female OB/GYN group practice.
The opening of the festival
will begin with a parade,
on Saturday at 11 a.m. at
the corner of Fremont and
Now accepting new patients.
Lexington streets. And you
will never guess who the grand Commercentre East
marshal is—yours truly. When
Cleve Brister asked me to do 1777 Reisterstown Road | Suite 235
this, I thought he was out of
his mind. Can you imagine
Pikesville, Maryland 21208
my big fat body sitting on
top of a convertible with the
410-415-5883
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No Average Joe on the Path to the Pros

By Perry Green 6-inch, 350-pound Silver
AFRO Sports Editor Spring, Md. native with the
prototypical size and talent of
Meet Joe Charles, a 6-foot- a pile-driving NFL offensive
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prospects receive upon entry
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While most of the
300-pounders seen colliding
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Sundays come from
powerhouse collegiate
athletic conferences such as
the Southeastern Conference
(SEC) or the Atlantic Coast
Conference (ACC), Charles
dominated on a much smaller
stage.
After attending junior
college, the 25-year-old
played two seasons for the
Glenville State College
Pioneers under the direction
of head coach Alan Fiddler.
Charles helped Glenville
State win the West Virginia
Intercollegiate Athletic
Conference (WVIAC)
championship in 2008 and
earned All-WVIAC 1st team
honors in 2009. He led his
team with more than 100
knockdowns in his senior
year, which helped him rank Courtesy Photo
amongst the top 60 offensive
Maryland native Joseph Charles hopes the Indoor
linemen listed in the 2010
NFL Draft.
But despite being one
Football League will be a valuable stepping stone in his
path to the NFL.
of very few Division II
football players listed on record this past season led With a much shorter, less-
the Profootballweekly. by former Virginia Tech star wide field, indoor football
com NFL prospects list, quarterback and 2010 IFL appears much faster than the
Charles wasn’t drafted or MVP Bryan Randall. The style of football Charles has
signed by an NFL team this Revolution earned a trip to played throughout most of his
offseason. Charles hasn’t the playoffs, but lost to the career. But he thinks playing
quit yet, however. He signed Rochester Raiders, 26-24, in at this speed will help him
earlier this summer with the the first round. when he does finally make it
Richmond Revolution of the
Indoor Football League after
graduating from Glenville “I’m ready to get back on the field and
State.
Revolution head coach
continue proving why I belong...”
Steve Criswell coached
Charles during the WVIAC Charles says he’s already to the next level. “The game
All-Star Game and couldn’t waiting for the 2011 season is so fast so I have to get out
help notice his talent. to start. “I’m ready to get in my blocking stance quicker
“Besides his obvious size and back on the field and continue and make my run blocks with
skills as a run blocker, Joe has proving why I belong,” said more explosion,” Charles told
excellent leadership skills,” Charles, who will more the AFRO.
coach Criswell told the than likely take on the vital He also mentioned how
AFRO. “He was a stand-up responsibility of protecting former NFL MVP Kurt
leader throughout the entire his quarterback’s blindside. Warner once dominated
All-Star game experience, so “The game is a little different indoor football and how it
when I noticed him at one of than what I played in helped him become a better
our games at the end of the college, but I can handle the player once he made it to
season, I had to get him on challenge.” the NFL. “Warner is best
my team.” Indoor football is different known for his quick passing
Charles wasn’t offered from standard American release, and that’s something
a contract until June, but football because the field is he had to develop just to
because the IFL’s season runs only 50 yards long and about survive in an indoor football
from spring through summer, 85 feet wide. Indoor football environment,” Charles said,
he was still able to contribute also allows only eight players “so maybe I’ll develop some
to the team’s postseason play. from each team to take the good habits here that will help
The Richmond Revolution field each play versus the me defenders off quarterbacks
had an outstanding 13-1 11-on-11 format of the NFL. like Warner.”

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Community Calendar
Aug. 5
Pre-order Tickets for ‘The
Wiz’
CENTERSTAGE, 700 N.
Calvert St., Baltimore. The
1975 Broadway hit The Wiz is
coming to Baltimore on Sept.
29. Patrons who purchase
tribute to the “fellas.” $30. this inspirational workshop, Madison Ave., Baltimore.
For more information: learn how you can break 12-8 p.m. The Annual Stone
eventbrite.com. through emotional struggles Soul Picnic includes main
in 2010. $49. For more stage performances including
Aug. 14 information: 813-373-8114. national and local talent,
Aug. 13 Milbrook Park Drive, More Heart Than Talent games, guest speakers and
Ladies of Like Minds-Date Baltimore. 8 p.m.-1 a.m.
Sheraton Inner Harbor Baltimore Stone Soul Picnic more. For more information:
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Jazz and Soul Festival 2010
Security Square Mall
Grounds, 6901 Security
Blvd., Baltimore. 6-9:30 p.m.
Enjoy a fun evening with
vendors, food, line dancing,
face painting and live jazz
music. For more information:
410-655-1114. Orig.* prices

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‘Applause’
Johns Hopkins Hospital,
Turner Auditorium, 720
Rutland Ave., Baltimore. 7
p.m. Unified Voices of Johns
Hopkins will present this
Broadway musical based on
the film All About Eve. $10.
For more information: 443-
756-8242.
  
Aug. 7
Eighth Annual New Africa
Fest
Leakin Park, 3401 W.
North Ave., Baltimore.
12-9 p.m. Join in the annual
African celebration featuring
a lineup of many talented
artists. For more information:
443-621-7449.
 
Elite Gospel Festival and
Community Outreach
Project
Liberty Grace Church
of God, 3400 Copley Road,
Baltimore. 7 p.m. Come out
to this community event
featuring praise teams,
choirs and more. For more
information: 410-303-9240.

Christ Alive Music Festival

Washington Blvd. and S.
Monroe St., Baltimore. 10
a.m.-7 p.m. Experience this
multicultural Christian music
festival with over 20 national
and local Christian artists.
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Aug. 11
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Bring the family out to this selections for him:
event featuring kid-friendly
entertainment as Harborplace sportswear • designer collections • more
celebrates 30 years. For more
information: 410-243-1333.

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Singer’s Bar, 227 W.
Chase St., Baltimore. 6:30-
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9 p.m. Witness the unique
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plus, 2O%-7O% off Orig.* prices.
venue in spoken word from
many poets in the region. $5. home clearance selections:
For more information: 410-
207-9832. bed & bath • electrics • luggage • housewares • more
Aug. 12
Using Computers: The
Basics
Enoch Pratt Free Library,
Central Branch, 400
Cathedral St., Baltimore. 10
a.m.-12 p.m. In this adult and
senior class, learn the basics
of dealing with computers
from creating documents
with Microsoft Word to
surfing the Internet. For more
information: 410-396-5430.

 Let’s Go Baltimore! A
Celebration of Life
Pier 5 Hotel, 711 Eastern
Ave., Baltimore. 6-11 p.m.
Join the Charm City Wellness
Foundation as they promote
general wellness and offer
financial planning and
resources to those in need.
For more information: 410-
419-1363.
ORIG. PRICES ARE OFFERING PRICES, AND SAVINGS MAY NOT BE BASED ON ACTUAL SALES. SOME ORIG. PRICES NOT IN EFFECT DURING
THE PAST 90 DAYS. EXTRA SAVINGS VALID THROUGH 8/8/10. *Intermediate price reductions may have been taken. Extra savings are taken off
Open a Macy’s Account for
already-reduced sale prices; “final cost” prices reflect extra savings. Orig. items are available while supplies last. Fine jewelry at select stores, extra 15% savings
log on to macys.com for locations . Advertised items may not be available at your local Macy’s, and selections may vary. Prices and merchandise the first 2 days with more rewards to come.
may differ at macys.com. For store locations & hours, log on to macys.com. Exclusions and limitations apply; see left.
Macy’s credit card is available subject to credit approval; new account savings valid the day your account is opened and the next day; excludes
services, select licensed departments, gift cards, restaurants, gourmet food and wine. On furniture, mattresses and rugs/floor coverings, the
new account savings is limited to $100; application must qualify for immediate approval to receive extra savings; employees not eligible.

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TO ADVERTISE IN THE BALTIMORE AFRO-AMERICAN NEWSPAPERS, DEADLINES ARE: Up to CHECK or MONEY ORDER to: AFRO-AMERI-
CAN CO., 2519 N. Charles St., Baltimore, MD
CLASSIFIED DISPLAY RATES: 20 Words
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-- CONTRACT RATES AVAILABLE --

1 2 3 4 5

HOUSE FOR RENT AD NETWORK AD NETWORK LEGAL NOTICES 6 7 8 9 10

our branch office at 410-
2007 KENNEDY AVE 696-2855x217. Ask for SERVICES - Baltimore City Public Schools.
BALTIMORE MD Susan Stepke, or email MISC. 11 12 13 14 15
3BR, 1 & 1/2 BATH susan.stepke@insphereis INVITATION FOR BIDS:
LIVING DINING ADVERTISING BUDGET BCS-11009
ROOMS KITCHEN .com. Visit
www.insphereis.com TOO TIGHT!!! GROW Provide Vacant Property 16 17 18 19 20
GAS HEAT
$39,500.00 YOUR BUSINESS WITH Security ProtectionSolution Services at
CALL 301-864-6665 US IN 2010. Advertise in Various Baltimore City Public Schools.
ASK FOR HARRY HELP WANTED- 116 newspapers across
SALES Maryland, Delaware and The Baltimore City Board of School Commis-
DC. Reach 5.2 million sioners is inviting interested companies to NAME_________________________________________________
SEARCHING WANTED: LIFE AGENTS.
readers weekly for only submit bids to: BCS-11009.
Earn $500 a Day, Great ADDRESS_____________________________________________
MAN 52 SINGS $495.00. For more infor-
Agent Benefits. In order to participate, interested bidders
mation contact us at 410-
OLDIES BUT
GOODIES
Commissions Paid Daily,
721-4000 x19 or visit our need to visit eMaryland Marketplace website PHONE NO.___________________________________________
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LOOKING FOR A
BAND Leads, Leads, Leads.
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press.com
TO SING WITH LIFE INSURANCE, Solicitation BCS-11009 will be available for (Room, Apt.,House, etc.) INSERTION DATE:_____________
CALL DANE AT LICENSE REQUIRED. review commencing Friday, August 6, 2010.
410- 243-9069 DOES YOUR BUSINESS
Call 1-888-713-6020
OR 443-378-9728 NEED MORE FOOT The Bid Due Date is Thursday, September
TRAFFIC??? Advertise 23, 2010, at 11:00 a.m. local time. No bids
HELP WANTED - with us in over 116 news- LEGAL NOTICES LEGAL NOTICES
LOOKING FOR will be acceptedafter that time. Any questions
papers across Maryland, related to this solicitation should be directed
EMLOYMENT TRUCK DRIVER Delaware and DC. Reach HOUSING AUTHORITY OF BALTIMORE CITY
to the Buyer. REVISED NOTICE
TRUCK DRIVERS WANT- 5.2 million readers weekly INVITATION FOR BIDS
LOOKING FOR ED! MORE HOMETIME! for only $495. For more PLUMBING SERVICES HOUSING AUTHORITY OF BALTIMORE CITY
EMPLOYMENT AS TOP PAY! EXCELLENT INVITATION FOR BIDS
NANNY, 20 YEARS information contact us at City of Baltimore IFB NUMBER: B-1632-10 HVAC SERVICES
EXPERIENCE. BENEFITS! NEWER 410-721-4000 x19 or visit Department of Finance
CALL 410-235-4515 EQUIPMENT! Up to our website: www.mddc- Bureau of Purchases The Housing Authority of Baltimore City IFB NUMBER: B-1629-10
$.48/mile company driv- press.com (”HABC”) will issue an Invitation for Bids
ers! HEARTLAND Sealed proposals addressed to the Board of (”IFB”) for qualified and interested vendors The Housing Authority of Baltimore City
AD NETWORK EXPRESS 1-800-441- VACATION Estimates of Baltimore, will be received until, to submit sealed bids to provide design-build (”HABC”) will issue an Invitation for Bids
Ad Network 4353 www.heartlandex- RENTALS but not later than 11:00 a.m. local time on plumbing services at twenty (20) scattered (”IFB”) for qualified and interested vendors
press.com the following date(s) for the stated site dwelling units. to submit sealed bids to provide design-build
Classifieds OCEAN CITY, MARY- requirements: HVAC services at twenty (20) scattered site
are published in HELP WANTED-
LAND. Best selection of BIDS WILL BE DUE no later than 2:00 p.m. dwelling units.
affordable rentals. AUGUST 25, 2010 Eastern Time on Tuesday, September 7,
65 DRIVERS Full/Partial weeks Call for * TRAFFIC SIGNAL POLES B50001572 2010. BIDS WILL BE DUE no later than 2:00 p.m.
newspapers. DRIVERS- Owner
FREE brochure. Open Eastern Time on Tuesday, September 7,
daily. Holiday Real THE ENTIRE SOLICITATION DOCUMENT A non-mandatory pre-bid meeting will be held 2010.
Operators. $1000 Sign- Estate. 1-800-638-2102. CAN BE VIEWED AND DOWN LOADED BY on Tuesday, August 24, 2010 at 12:00 p.m.,
25 words $175 On Bonus paid in 60 days! Online reservations: VISITING THE CITYS WEB SITE: at the Charles L. Benton Building, 417 E. A non-mandatory pre-bid meeting will be held
Excellent Rates and Paid www.holidayoc.com Fayette Street, Room 416, Baltimore, on Tuesday, August 24, 2010 at 10:00 a.m.,
(For more than FSC. Home Daily-- No www.baltimorecitibuy.org Maryland, 21202. at the Charles L. Benton Building, 417 E.
25 words there Layover. Call Comtrak at Fayette Street, Room 416, Baltimore,
866-722-0291, or apply WATERFRONT HABC has established a minimum goal of Maryland, 21202.
is an additional online at www.comtraklo- HOUSING AUTHORITY OF BALTIMORE CITY twenty percent (20%) of the total dollar
PROPERTIES REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS
charge of gistics.com
OPERATION OF A CHILD DAY CARE CENTER
amount of the proposed contract for Minority HABC has established a minimum goal of
Amazing Chesapeake Business Enterprise (MBE) utilization, ap- twenty percent (20%) of the total dollar
$7 per word.) Bay Waterfront lots- 10 plicable to all minority and non-minority amount of the proposed contract for Minority
RFP NUMBER: B-1630-10
MISC. lots in a private gated businesses proposing to provide the re- Business Enterprise (MBE) utilization, ap-
compound all with boat- The Housing Authority of Baltimore City quested services as the prime contractor. No plicable to all minority and non-minority
Call AIRLINE MECHANIC –
able water and just 2 (”HABC”) will accept proposals from goal has been established for participation of businesses proposing to provide the re-
Train for high paying
(410) 554-8200 Aviation Maintenance
miles to the open waters interested and qualified vendors to operate Women-owned businesses (”WBEs”), how- quested services as the prime contractor. No
of the Chesapeake Bay a child day care center (”CDCC”) located at ever, HABC strongly encourages and affir- goal has been established for participation of
Career. FAA approved
on Virginia's Eastern Pleasant View Gardens, 1116 E. Fayette matively promotes the use of WBEs in all Women-owned businesses (”WBEs”), how-
All ads must program. Financial aid if HABC contracts. ever, HABC strongly encourages and affir-
Shore. Lots are 1 to 11 Street, Baltimore, Maryland 21202.
qualified - Job placement matively promotes the use of WBEs in all
be prepaid assistance. CALL Aviation
acres in size and some
PROPOSALS WILL BE DUE no later than Responders shall also comply with all ap- HABC contracts.
also include boat dock
Institute of Maintenance 2:00 p.m. Eastern Time on Friday, Septem- plicable requirements of Section 3 of the
and private pond. Near
(866) 823-6729. ber 10, 2010. Housing and Urban Development Act of Responders shall also comply with all ap-
the Town of Onancock, Va
and less then 2 miles by 1968, 12 U.S.C. Section 1701u. plicable requirements of Section 3 of the
REDUCE YOUR DEBT A non-mandatory pre-proposals conference Housing and Urban Development Act of
boat to Eastern Shore
NOW! 10k+ Credit Cards, will be held on Tuesday, August 24, 2010, at The IFB may be obtained on or after Tues- 1968, 12 U.S.C. Section 1701u.
Country Club with 18 hole 10:00 a.m., at 417 E. Fayette Street, Room
Store Cards, Medical Bills! day, August 17, 2010, at the following loca-
golf course. New home 416, Baltimore, Maryland, 21202. The IFB may be obtained on or after Tues-
FREE Debt Settlement tion:
AUTOMOBILE also available. est priced day, August 17, 2010, at the following loca-
Matching Service! Debt
lots on the bay in many HABC has established a minimum goal of Housing Authority of Baltimore City tion:
DONATION Free in 12-48 months.
years! 7 lots priced at only twenty percent (20%) of the total dollar
Free Consultation 800- Division of Fiscal Operations,
DONATE VEHICLE: 899-2156
$98,000. Call (757)710- amount of the proposed contract for Minority Purchasing Department Housing Authority of Baltimore City
Receive $1000 GRO- 4726 or email: vabay- Business Enterprise (”MBE”) utilization, ap- 417 E. Fayette Street, Room 414 Division of Fiscal Operations,
CERY COUPONS, Your lot@yahoo.com plicable to all minority and non-minority Baltimore, Maryland 21202 Purchasing Department
Choice. NOAH'S ARC, businesses proposing to provide the re- Attention: John Airey, 417 E. Fayette Street, Room 414
MISC./FOR LEGAL NOTICES quested services as the prime contractor. No
NO KILL Animal Shelters. Chief of Contracting Services Baltimore, Maryland 21202
Advanced Veterinary SALE goal has been established for participation of Tel: (410) 396-3261 Attention: John Airey,
Treatments. Free Towing, IN THE CIRCUIT Women-owned businesses (”WBEs”), how- Fax: (410) 962-1586 Chief of Contracting Services
IRS TAX DEDUCTION. FREE HD FOR LIFE! COURT FOR ever, HABC strongly encourages and affir- Tel: (410) 396-3261
Only on DISH NET- BALTIMORE CITY matively promotes the use of WBEs in all Questions regarding the IFB should be di- Fax: (410) 962-1586
Non-runners 1-866-912- HABC contracts.
WORK. Lowest Price in Case No.: rected in writing to the address and individual
GIVE
America! $24.99/mo for 24D10001746 indicated above, and must include the refer- Questions regarding the IFB should be di-
over 120 Channels Plus - IN THE MATTER OF Responders shall also comply with all ap- ence: HABC IFB Number B-1632-10. rected in writing to the address and individual
DONATE YOUR VEHI- $500 Bonus! Call Today. IGNATIUS plicable requirements of Section 3 of the indicated above, and must include the refer-
CLE RECEIVE FREE 888-696-9910 NDUBUISI Housing and Urban Development Act of ence: HABC IFB Number B-1631-10
VACATION VOUCHER ONYEJIAKA 1968, 12 U.S.C. Section 1701u. HOUSING AUTHORITY OF BALTIMORE CITY
UNITED BREAST CAN- FOR CHANGE OF INVITATION FOR BIDS
CER FOUNDATION Free MISC./TRAINING NAME TO The RFP may be obtained on or after Mon- ELECTRICAL SERVICES
IGNATIUS day, August 16, 2010, at the following loca-
Mammograms, Breast MASSAGE THERAPY – tion: IFB NUMBER: B-1631-10
Cancer Info www.ubcf.info Learn fast, earn fast. NDUBUISI
FREE Towing, Tax Financial aid if qualified. A
AKANO
ORDER FOR Housing Authority of Baltimore City The Housing Authority of Baltimore City
Deductible, Non-Runners new career is at your Division of Fiscal Operations, (”HABC”) will issue an Invitation for Bids
NOTICE BY (”IFB”) for qualified and interested vendors
fingertips. Call Centura Purchasing Department
Accepted, 1-888-468- PUBLICATION to submit sealed bids to provide design-build
College 877-206-3353 The object of this suit 417 E. Fayette Street, Room 414
5964 electrical services at twenty (20) scattered
is to officially change Baltimore, Maryland 21202
Attention: John Airey, site dwelling units.
DONATE AUTOS, MORTGAGE the name of the peti-
tioner from Chief of Contracting Services
TRUCKS, RV'S. Tel: (410) 396-3261 BIDS WILL BE DUE no later than 2:00 p.m.
LUTHERAN MISSION SERVICES Ignatius Ndubuisi Eastern Time on Tuesday, September 7,
Onyejiaka Fax: (410) 962-1586 2010.
SOCIETY. Your donation THE TRUTH ABOUT
helps local families with to
REVERSE MORTGAGES Ignatius Ndubuisi Questions regarding the RFP should be di- A non-mandatory pre-bid meeting will be held
food, clothing, shelter. Tax Learn about Reverse rected in writing to the address and individual
Akano on Tuesday, August 24, 2010 at 11:00 a.m.,
deductible. MVA licensed. Mortgages from a Mid- indicated above, and must include the refer- at the Charles L. Benton Building, 417 E.
It is this 29th day of
LutheranMissionSociety.o Atlantic Bank Call 800- July, 2010 by the Cir- ence: HABC RFP Number B-1613-10 Fayette Street, Room 416, Baltimore,
rg 410-636-0123 or toll- 873-9930 x 306 for a Maryland, 21202.
cuit Court for Bal-
free 1-877-737-8567. FREE no obligation report. timore City, REAL ESTATE
ORDERED, that pub- HABC has established a minimum goal of

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time in a newspaper of  $%62/87(  twenty percent (20%) of the total dollar
amount of the proposed contract for Minority

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before the 29th day of
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ANTEED! 800-805-4880 only $67,712. Originally shall warn all
5(67$85$17%8,/',1*
Women-owned businesses (”WBEs”), how-
sold for $129,900. Rare interested persons to ever, HABC strongly encourages and affir-
opportunity to own beauti- file an affidavit in op- matively promotes the use of WBEs in all
FURNITURE fully wooded mountain
view acreage close to
position to the relief
requested on or be-
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Solid Wood, never used, season recreation. Make September, 2010.  plicable requirements of Section 3 of the
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boxes. English Dovetail. FREE survey, perc, title Clerk 1968, 12 U.S.C. Section 1701u.
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LEGAL NOTICES LEGAL NOTICES
,
NOTICE TO BIDDERS REQUIREMENTS ARE MORE FULLY EXPLAINED IN THE
SPECIFICATIONS. THE MBE/WBE FORMS IN THE PROPOSAL
FARHNEY KEEDY VILLAGE: BOOKLET MUST BE COMPLETED AND SUBMITTED AT THE TIME
WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT UPGRADE OF BID OPENING.
WASHINGTON COUNTY, MD
Project ID No. 10-05-03 Sealed proposals (the entire book) addressed to Baltimore County,
Maryland for this contract will be received in the Baltimore County
BID DUE DATE: September 9, 2010 Purchasing Division, Room 148, Old Courthouse, 400 Washington
BID DUE TIME: 2:00 PM Avenue, Towson, MD 21204, until the time specified on the contract at
which time they will be publicly opened and read.
TO ALL PROSPECTIVE BIDDERS:
ONLY CONTRACTORS WHO HAVE BEEN PREQUALIFIED BY BAL-
PURPOSE: The Maryland Environmental Service (MES), on behalf of TIMORE COUNTY AT LEAST TEN (10) DAYS PRIOR TO THE OPEN-
Farhney Keedy Village, is soliciting competitive sealed bids from qualified ING OF BIDS WILL BE ALLOWED TO SUBMIT PROPOSALS.
contractors to furnishing all labor, supplies, services, heavy equipment,
materials, tools, and machinery necessary for construction of a new All proposals must be accompanied by a Bid Bond, on the approved
building adjacent to the existing wastewater treatment building, furnishing form provided, in the amount as set forth in the ”Information for Bidders”.
and installing two Sequential Batch Reactor (SBR) package systems, No other form of proposal guaranty is acceptable.
one denitrification filter system complete with electrical work including a
new standby generator, chemical feed systems and associated piping, The Purchasing Agent reserves the right to reject any or all proposals
demolition of existing process equipment and structure as shown on the or bids or parts of bids and to waive technicalities as may be deemed
Contract Drawings and in the Technical Specifications. Additionally, best for the interest of the County.
construction of an office, bathroom and storage building within the
existing building and other miscellaneous improvements and additions, Keith Dorsey, Director
as well as a relocation of an existing generator to the Water Treatment Office of Budget & Finance
Plant, will be included in this project.
BALTIMORE COUNTY, MARYLAND
PRE-BID CONFERENCE/SITE VISIT: A Pre-Bid Conference / Site Visit INVITATION FOR BIDS
will be held at the Fahrney Keedy Village, located at 8507 Mapleville
Road, Boonsboro, MD 21713, on August 20, 2010 at 10:00 AM. Bidders CONTRACT NO. 10101 SX0
are solely responsible for becoming acquainted with the documents and ANNESLIE/STONELEIGH SSO #36 AND #37 ELIMINATION,
job site prior to submitting a bid. 6”, 8”, 10”, 12” AND 15” SEWER
REHABILITATION - CONSENT DECREE
OBTAINING BID DOCUMENTS: **THE SOLICITATION PACKAGE IS ANNESLIE/STONELEIGH - DISTRICT 9 c 4
SENT ELECTRONICALLY**. Bid documents may be obtained by con- CONTRACT COST GROUP ”E” ($2,500,000 to $5,000,000)
tacting the Procurement Office Monday through Friday during the hours WORK CLASSIFICATION: F-6
of 8:00 AM to 4:00 PM. Please provide the contact name, company
name, shipping address, phone and fax number, and email address BID DATE: THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 2010 AT 10:30 A.M. LOCAL
when requesting solicitation packages either via fax or via email. TIME
Fax: 410-729-8280 E-mail: procurement@menv.com
On or after August 9, 2010, the above contract documents (See Note
QUESTIONS/REQUESTS FOR CLARIFICATION: Contractors having *) may be inspected and purchased from the Division of
questions and inquiries regarding either the technical or the procurement Construction Contracts Administration, Department of Public
sections of the bid documents shall contact the Service´s Procurement Works, Room 300B, County Office Building (COB), 111 W.
Office (Attn: Candy Mott-Harris) at procurement@menv.com or via fax Chesapeake Avenue, Towson, MD 21204, upon receipt of payment
at 410-729-8280. Failure to follow these instructions may result in a of $110.00 (ONE HUNDRED AND TEN DOLLARS) per contract, and if
delayed response to bidder inquiries. sent by U.S. mail with an additional $10.00 (TEN Dollars) postage and
handling fee. All checks should be made payable to BALTIMORE
Notice of Applications to COUNTY MD. NO REFUNDS will be made to anyone. Direct any
the Susquehanna River Basin Commission questions to 410-887-3531. Bidders obtaining documents from another
source other than Baltimore County WILL NOT be allowed to submit
Notice is hereby given that on July 28, 2010, the Mayor and City Council proposals to Baltimore County.
of Baltimore (City) has filed respective applications for approvals (Surface
Water - SRBC Pending No. 2010-074, Consumptive Use - SRBC *Note: Contract Documents will consist of One (1) Paper Copy Proposal
Pending No. 2010-075 and Diversion - SRBC Pending No. 2010-076) Book and Seven (7) Compact Disks (CDs) with all of the required
with the Susquehanna River Basin Commission (SRBC) for increased drawings. The CD will be in PDF format. Contractors and Sub-
surface water withdrawal and consumptive water use at its existing Contractors can purchase paper copies of the drawings from Baltimore
Conowingo Intake. For municipal water supply purposes, the City has County - OIT - Central Printing located in the Basement of the COB,
proposed to increase its withdrawal and consumptive use during trigger- RM G-9 for $1.50 a copy.
flow conditions up to a maximum of 124 million gallons per day (mgd)
as measured as a 30-day average and up to a maximum of 186 mgd The proposed work consists of:
during any 24-hour period from the Susquehanna River at its Conowingo
Intake. The Intake is located near the intersection of Conowingo and 1,057 VF of Cementitious MH Lining
Shuresville Roads in Harford County, Maryland. These applications do 128 EA of Internal CIP Frame Seal
not modify the current permitted withdrawals and consumptive uses by 5,863 LF of 6 Inch Sewer Line Rehabilitation
the City of 250 mgd on any day during non-trigger flow conditions as 32,733 LF of 8 Inch Sewer Line Rehabilitation
set forth in the September 27, 2001 Settlement Agreement between the 193 EA Sewer House Connection Lateral Seals
City and the SRBC. 1,248 Air Test and Chemically Seal HC
Comments referring to the SRBC pending application numbers above THE PROJECT IS SUBJECT TO A MINORITY BUSINESS ENTER-
should be submitted to the attention of Ms. Paula B. Ballaron, Regulatory PRISE UTILIZATION GOAL AND FEMALE CONTRACTORS UTILIZA-
Program Director, Susquehanna River Basin Commission, 1721 North TION GOALS FOR BIDS IN EXCESS OF $50,000. THESE GOALS
Front Street, Harrisburg, PA 17102-2391, telephone: 717-238-0423, ext. REQUIREMENTS ARE MORE FULLY EXPLAINED IN THE
222, fax: 717-909-0468, e-mail: pballaron@srbc.net. SPECIFICATIONS. THE MBE/WBE FORMS IN THE PROPOSAL
2010 Maryland Stadium Authority BOOKLET MUST BE COMPLETED AND SUBMITTED AT THE TIME
MBE/SBR Contracting Outreach Event OF BID OPENING.
Wednesday, September 1, 2010
Sealed proposals (the entire book) addressed to Baltimore County,
The Maryland Stadium Authority is inviting MDOT Certified Minority Maryland for this contract will be received in the Baltimore County
Business Enterprise (MBE) firms to attend a contractor outreach event Purchasing Division, Room 148, Old Courthouse, 400 Washington
to be held on Wednesday, September 1, 2010. The session will be held Avenue, Towson, MD 21204, until the time specified on the contract at
from 7:30 am - 11:00 am, in the Camden Club Banquet Room on the which time they will be publicly opened and read.
6th floor located at The Warehouse at Camden Yards, 333 West
Camden, Baltimore, Maryland 21201. The purpose of this session is to ONLY CONTRACTORS WHO HAVE BEEN PREQUALIFIED BY BAL-
promote MBE participation for the Maryland Stadium Authority prospec- TIMORE COUNTY AT LEAST TEN (10) DAYS PRIOR TO THE OPEN-
tive projects which include the following trades: ING OF BIDS WILL BE ALLOWED TO SUBMIT PROPOSALS.

Caulking Metals All proposals must be accompanied by a Bid Bond, on the approved
Clean up Mechanical form provided, in the amount as set forth in the ”Information for Bidders”.
Concrete/Asphalt Repair Miscellaneous Metals No other form of proposal guaranty is acceptable.
Conveying Systems Painting
Demolition Plumbing The Purchasing Agent reserves the right to reject any or all proposals
Doors & Windows Roofing or bids or parts of bids and to waive technicalities as may be deemed
Electrical Site Services best for the interest of the County.
Equipment Special Construction
Finishes Specialties Keith Dorsey,
Furnishings Structural Steel Director Office of Budget & Finance
Housekeeping: Carpet Cleaning, Floor Thermal & Moisture Protection
Maintenance, Pressure Washing, &
Upholstering
Water Proofing
Water Restoration Strictly Personal
Landscaping Welding
Masonry Woods & Plastics Pen Pals
Free parking and a continental breakfast will be provided. Persons Truthful man seeking spiritual pen pals. Womb my ema-
planning to attend should register by Monday, August 16th, by 5:00 p.m.
at www.mdstad.com or a 410-223-4141. nation. Law is unification. Breath, knowledge and con-
Request for Proposal sciousness! William Piggie, P.O. Box 565, Pittsboro,
Ward 25 Section 2 Block 7774A Lot 009A N.C. 27312
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RFP Issued: August 2, 2010
Lonesome Hearts - Pen Pals
Proposals Due: September 2, 2010 To have a notice published in the Strictly Personal Section,
The City of Baltimore Development Corporation (BDC), on behalf of the write the message you want printed in the space below.
Mayor and City Council of Baltimore, has received an unsolicited Enclose ten dollars ($10.00), check or money order for 25
proposal for the purchase of City-owned property known as Ward 25, words. NO CASH PLEASE. Additional words will cost 50 cents
Section 2, Block 7774A, Lot 009A. The M-2-1 zoned property is 3.2
acres and is located in the Crossroads Industrial Park. The property was each.
formerly used as a railroad spur. The property is being offered in an ”as Community Schools Coordinator
is” condition subject to title restrictions (attached) and a Sidetrack
Agreement.
This is a full-time MSW position of the University of
Parties interested in submitting a proposal may do so in writing by 12:00 Maryland School of Social Work, stationed at the Social
PM on September 2, 2010. Any plans for modifications to the property Work Community Outreach Service (SWCOS). The Site
will be subject to the review and approval of BDC. BDC reserves the Coordinator´s role is to assist teachers, school staff,
right to evaluate and refuse any or all proposals which, in its judgment, To answer a Lonesome Heart notice, enclose a check or money
do not provide the highest and best use of the property and/or do not coordinating council members, parents, community mem-
serve the best long term interests of the City. Proposals should conform order for $2.00 for each letter you wish to have forwarded. NO bers, and students by recruiting and coordinating the
to all MBE/WBE and Residents First requirements and are subject to CASH PLEASE. Be sure to include the box number of the per- activities of individuals and organizations willing to offer
the approval of the Baltimore City Board of Estimates. son you wish to contact. programs and services at the school which meet the needs
of students, their families and the community, managing
Proposals should be submitted to: Roseann Walsh, Senior Economic
Development Officer, 36 S. Charles Street, Suite 1600, Baltimore, MD All letters, queries and notices should be sent to:
coordination of a wide range of partners and engaging
21201. All proposals must include a $300. fee made payable to the City families and community on a daily basis.. Social work
of Baltimore Development Corporation. STRICTLY PERSONAL license preferred. Salary mid $40K based on experience.
2519 N. Charles Street, E-mail cover letter and resume due by August 13, 2010
The RFP can be downloaded from the BDC website at www. to: elewis@ssw.umaryland.edu.
baltimoredevelopment.com. For further information, please contact Baltimore, MD 21218
Roseann Walsh, Senior Economic Development Officer at 410-837-9305
or rwalsh@baltimoredevelopment.com Executive Director
BALTIMORE COUNTY, MARYLAND Seeking an experienced professional who will be responsible for the day-to-day management of the Housing
INVITATION FOR BIDS Authority of the City of Annapolis, Maryland. This position reports to an appointed Board and directs all

CONTRACT NO. 10136 RX0

TEXAS LANDFILL PARKING LOT
COCKEYSVILLE - DISTRICT 8 c 3
To aspects of the Authority´s operations. The Authority manages 790 housing units in five communities and
has a staff of 75. The ideal candidate will be a strong leader with vision and integrity who can direct
resources and implement programs to achieve the Authority´s goals. The person will be expected to meet
aggressive goals and achieve measurable results. Seeking a candidate with outstanding organizational

advertise
CONTRACT COST GROUP ”C ($500,000 to $1,000,000)”) skills; working knowledge of HUD regulations; knowledge of housing finance including tax credits, multifamily
WORK CLASSIFICATION: A-2 and B property improvement and management; a positive management style and excellent communications skills;
ability to develop positive relationships with public officials, the Authority Commissioners and staff, residents,
BID DATE: TUESDAY, AUGUST 31, 2010 AT 10:30 A.M. LOCAL TIME and the public; and demonstrated success at creating partnerships with local service providers and fostering
programs of resident involvement.
On or after MONDAY, AUGUST 9, 2010, the above contract
documents may be inspected and purchased from the Division of
Construction Contracts Administration, Department of Public
Works, Room 300B, County Office Building (COB), 111 W.
in the The ideal candidate will have at least six years responsible management experience in an organization of
comparable size and complexity as the Housing Authority with three years in a high level position as an
Executive, Deputy or comparable position. Preference will be given to candidates who have the experience
Chesapeake Avenue, Towson, MD 21204, upon receipt of payment detailed above and experience managing public housing, other affordable housing organizations, and/or
of $25.00 (TWENTY-FIVE DOLLARS) per contract, and if sent by U.S.
mail with an additional $10.00 (TEN Dollars) postage and handling fee.
All checks should be made payable to BALTIMORE COUNTY MD. NO
REFUNDS will be made to anyone. Direct any questions to
410-887-3531. Bidders obtaining documents from another source other
than Baltimore County WILL NOT be allowed to submit proposals to
AFRO local experience with the Annapolis community.

Education required: A Bachelor´s degree in finance, business, social sciences, public administration,
planning or related field. A Master´s Degree and other relevant certifications desirable. Equivalent
combination of education, training and experience which provides the required knowledge and abilities will
be considered. Salary and benefits package will be commensurate with qualifications and experience.
Baltimore County.

The proposed work consists of: Constructing a trailer parking lot,

designed to serve as a staging area for solid waste transport operations
call Applicants should submit a resume package marked Confidential HACA Executive Director, which includes
a letter of interest, a detailed resume, a minimum of five professional references with contact information,
a statement of salary history and requirements. Application packages will be received through August 31,
2010 at;
at the Texas Landfill. Located on Resource Road, in Cockeysville,
Maryland, Baltimore County. Cockeysville - District 8 c 3. 410-554-8200 Housing Authority of the City of Annapolis
Attention: Director of Human Resources
THE PROJECT IS SUBJECT TO A MINORITY BUSINESS ENTER- 1217 Madison Street Annapolis, MD 21403
PRISE UTILIZATION GOAL AND FEMALE CONTRACTORS UTILIZA- EEO. No telephone calls.
TION GOALS FOR BIDS IN EXCESS OF $50,000. THESE GOALS
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