Tuesday, October 20, 2009
Roanoke NAACP announces awards
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The Roanoke branch of the National Association for the Advancement for Colored People recognized more than a dozen individuals, community organizations and businesses in late September when it presented its Citizen of the Year awards.
Recipients of the 11th annual Citizen of the Year awards included the Rev. Edward Burton, who retired in March. He received the chapter's Lifetime Achievement Award for his 50-year tenure as pastor of Sweet Union Baptist Church and for his community and involvement during those years.
Other Citizen of the Year recipients and their categories were: David Stewart Wiley, Roanoke Symphony conductor, for arts; Yoedie "Cleveland" Swain, proprietor of Diva's House of Hair, for business; SunTrust Bank, for corporate; Kaye Hale, executive director of the West End Center, for education; and Leah Taylor, a Roanoke public schools scholar, for youth education.
Also recognized were Carla Lewis, immediate past director of the Gainsboro Library for humanitarian work; Chris Miles of WDBJ (Channel 7) and Scott Lehman of WSLS (Channel 10), for media; Small Smiles dental clinic, for medicine; and the Rev. Rene Castillo of St. Gerard's Catholic Church, for religion.
President Brenda Hale presented the 2009 President's Award to Blue Ridge Behavioral Healthcare and Loudon Avenue Christian Church, two facilities where chapter meetings are held.
Daniel Hale, immediate past president; Brenda Walker, immediate past secretary and housing chairwoman; and Edward Mitchell, president of the Roanoke chapter of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, were recipients of the annual social justice award given in memory of the Rev. R.R. Wilkinson, a Roanoke civil rights leader.
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Witches, ghosts and goblins beware; some of those seeking treats on Halloween will be armed with safety tools.
U.S. Cellular stores on Electric Road and Valley View Boulevard are handing out free Halloween safety kits Monday through Halloween and promoting the use of cellphones as a great safety tool for the holiday.
Dee Taylor, director of sales for U.S. Cellular in the mid-Atlantic, described cellphones as necessary costume accessories this year in an e-mail announcing the safety kits and promoting ways children can use cellphones for safety and fun.
