Grand Rapids Public School Board of Education Candidates

The Grand Rapids Times
5-2-2008

Q & A:
Candidates For The Grand Rapids Public Schools Board Of Education Share Their Views About Co-Pay For Teachers, Cultural Competency Training and School Safety

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Local Boxer All About Being Positive

The Grand Rapids Times
5-2-2008
By Richard Pulliam

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In the News

Student Wins Second Computer Giveaway

Entrepreneur Roosevelt Tillman (2nd Right) presented a Dell Computer to Nicholas Robinson (right) while Robinson's aunt, grandmother and grandfather wait to congratulate him.

Kidspeak 2008:  Adults Step-Up, Stand Out

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Graduates Invited To Special Service In Their Honor

Grand Rapids – Rev. Howard Earle, Senior Pastor, and the General Education Ministry at New Hope Baptist Church invite all graduates to attend a special service as honored guests, Sunday, May 18, 2008, at 4:00 p.m.

This event is for all 2008 graduates from high schools, a colleges or universities – undergraduate and undergraduate – technical institutes or an adult education/GED programs.

“This Baccalaureate Service is a way to give a pat on the back to students in our community for doing something positive,” said Pastor Earle. “We want them to know their community recognizes and values their achievement.”

Pastor Earle also said that this is a citywide service for area graduates. Participation is open to all graduates that want to attend.

“Other church congregations have been invited to join in congratulating and celebrating these students for the work they have done to reach this important point in their lives,” he said. “We want everyone- parents, relatives, friends and neighbors to come out to encourage graduates to continue in a Christian walk as they move forward.”

New Hope is located at 130 Delaware SW.

Graduates that plan to participate are asked to sign up by calling 452-4278, to leave your name address and phone number or by sending an e-mail message to dgreer42@com cast.net before May 9th.

In Defense Of Rev. Dr. Jeremiah Wright, Jr.

Rev. Dr. Jeremiah Wright, Jr. needs defense, least of all by a white clergyman. But I have been distressed by the pressure on Barack Obama to distance himself from Dr. Wright and even from Trinity UCC.

I believe Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Jr. is a great man of God – though surely, as are we all, flawed and imperfect. And Trinity UCC is a magnificent church.

Because these issues may continue to beset Senator Obama and because we have been summoned to a long-overdue national dialogue on the subject of race, I want to offer some observations and opinions.

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Mother Love Campaign

Dear Readers,
I am so glad to speak to you via the written word. I hope all is well with each one of you and I mean this. It is good when we can say all is well. Even when things are not going that well we can still say this: “All is well.”

Dear God, Jesus and Holy Spirit, thank you for a life that you have given each one of us to live. We get mixed up many times and the moon does not show the bread crumbs left on the path that our fathers left for us to follow, or we went down the wrong path.

Dear Readers, don’t forget our mother love campaign. All of those things that you would like to send out to your mother. You can write the best mother day cards, put your heart in it and let it all out to mother. Now I see some of you tearing up cause your mother has died and I know that feeling, it hurts so badly.
Yet deep in our hearts our mothers prepared us for that day. When she said, “I may not be with you always so listen to me now.” We just did not understand the meaning of her words. So we remember mother and all of those great things she did for us and all of that love she gave to us. Memories never die and never will the love our mothers gave to us. The 27th Psalm states, “though my mother and father forsake me The Lord will never leave me.”

Mother Duck
I take my student nursing assistants group from the great Gerald R. Ford Job Corps to the Veteran Hospital for their clinical rotation. It was a beautiful sunny day and the Veteran grounds are very nice and home to many ducks living and walking around you. There are many windows in the home and you can look out and see the ducks walking around. Today when we looked out of the window there was a mother duck with all of her fat, brown, so cute baby ducklings. She had given birth to 13 ducklings! Mother Duck had been the leader and the entire little ducks waddle after her. She was letting them enjoy the warm sunny day. Her head was up eyes were sharp and alert to any danger that might come near her babies. It was reported that a raccoon who lives in the area had eaten some of the other mother duck’s eggs. The reason this duck’s ducklings survived they had the power and clever protection of mother duck. I heard one of the nurses say, “I would go out and take a closer look but Mother Duck will chase you off.”

Mother Love Campaign deadline for Mother’s Day is next week. All notes, letters must be in the Grand Rapids Times office by Wednesday May 7th, 2008. Please write no more than three paragraphs (this will give you a good space.) Send your favorite picture of your mother, no matter what age. Sit down and become creative. Share with the world your mother. Buy your Grand Rapids Times, cut out the article and frame it. This will be for your mother and future generation to see your mother in the newspaper.

To those who want to write a letter of forgiveness, or mother where are you, please do so for in the end love will rule.

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