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BY JAMES HARPERDAYTONA TIMES harperjames59@yahoo.com

A community project geared toward steering boys in grades 4 through 9 in the right direction will be taking place every Sun-day during the month of Septem-ber beginning Sept. 9, according to the organizer of what is called the Disciple Boys Community Project.

Daytonan Mary Fears says this

is the fourth time she has orga-nized the project, which will take place at Stewart Memorial Unit-ed Methodist Church in Daytona Beach.

“The boys will meet and listen to outstanding successful Afri-can-American men in the com-munity tell about their careers,” said Fears.

Well pleasedFears said the objective of the

project is “to inspire each boy to develop good moral character, to study and achieve in school, to set career goals, be punctual, honest, responsible and respect-ful.”

The motto of the Disciple Boys is Matthew 3:17: “This is my be-loved son, in whom I am well pleased.”

Fears said the primary goal of the project is to influence boys to adopt the scripture as the guide for their behavior throughout

the remainder of their lives.

Fears said the boys will also learn the impor-tance of being a Christian disci-ple, live healthy and be drug free.

Fears also said the boys hopeful-ly leave believing

in themselves, dreaming about the future, setting goals and having de-

termination and perseverance.The role models will speak to

the boys starting around 4 p.m. for about an hour. After each ses-sion the boys will be treated to ice cream.

The program is free and non-denominational.

“This project is communi-ty wide. Together we can enrich the lives of many boys. Together let’s take action to develop young men of strong character,” con-cluded Fears.

Those interested in learning more about the project can con-tact Fears at 386-253-1516.

Boys sought to be disciples in community project

BY JAMES HARPERDAYTONA TIMES harperjames59@yahoo.com

Volusia County’s elections su-pervisor is concerned that some-

one might be trying to “set up” a Daytona Beach mayoral candi-date.

Ann McFall said misinforma-tion about Daytona Beach may-oral candidate Derrick Henry was printed in the Daytona Beach News-Journal.

“It is my hope that the supervi-sor’s office will not allow such a dark shadow to be cast over such an important election when no law has been violated,” Henry said this week in an exclusive in-terview with the Daytona times.

McFall said Wednesday – be-fore the Daytona Times went to

press – that she did not voluntari-ly go to the daily newspaper with the story about Henry. She was contacted by a reporter from the paper.

McFall said an absentee ballot request form was never hand deliv-ered to her in De-Land by Henry as reported in the News-Journal.

Never happenedThe elections supervisor also

said she doesn’t know how infor-mation about an internal matter involving absent ballot request forms linked to the Henry cam-paign were leaked to the press.

The News-Journal article stat-ed that Henry hand-delivered an envelope with an absentee ballot

request form to McFall at her De-Land office.

Henry and McFall both said this week that it never happened.

McFall said Henry turned in absentee ballot request forms at City Island Library to a member of her staff, which was not illegal.

Odd requestMcFall also said red flags were

first raised when three envelopes were mailed to her office in De-Land this summer with Henry’s name and address on them in the upper left-hand corner.

This is when she first suspect-ed someone might be trying to set up Henry and she contacted him.

“I don’t want anyone to make a mockery of my system,” said Mc-Fall.

In one of the envelopes was an absentee ballot request form from a resident who had died.

Henry was contacted by the elections office about the de-ceased and learned his name was Jerry Shazel.

The Times has learned that Shazel died May 24, 2011 at the Malcolm Randall VA Medical Center in Gainesville following a brief illness.

“I had no idea he died,” Henry said, noting that he didn’t recall sending in the absentee ballot re-quest for Shazel since he and his campaign workers had knocked on more than 5,000 doors.

Henry said he did not know Shazel personally.

Just ‘carelessness’?McFall said she did not go to

the press two years ago when there was an absentee ballot fraud probe involving Henry.

“The state attorney went public

Derrick Henry

Set up or just carelessness?

Tickets on sale for Oct. 11 event to benefit hospitalSPECIAL TO THE DAYTONA TIMES

Get ready to twist again! Tickets are now avail-able for legendary singer and performer Chubby Checker’s “Twisting Thru the Decades” concert at the Athens Theater, 124 North Florida Ave., in downtown DeLand. The concert is Oct. 11 at 7:30 p.m.

Tickets for preferred-reserved seating, which includes orchestra center rows one through five and balcony center rows one and two, are $80. Tickets for general reserved seating are $65. Pro-ceeds will benefit the Florida Hospital DeLand Foundation, which helps raise funds to enhance and expand the facilities and services at the hos-pital.

Fit at age 70According to Florida Hospital DeLand Presi-

dent and CEO, Mark LaRose, the concert is a way to say thank you to the community.

“Our organiza-tion is, and always has been, about pro-moting good health and wellness,” La-Rose said. “Chub-by Checker’s ‘The Twist’ was the No. 1 song in 1962 when Florida Hospital DeLand opened 50 years ago. This event is just another way to say thanks to the residents of Volusia County for putting their trust in Florida Hospital DeLand for the last 50 years.”

Chubby Checker

himself is very health conscious and believes that his years of doing the twist have helped him stay fit at age 70.

“I really do credit all my dancing for keeping me healthy,” said Checker. “I hope people get in-spired at DeLand’s concert and start to dancing and twisting into better shape.”

‘Twistin’ in the streets’Along with his Wildcats band, Check-

er will lead the attempt to break the Guinness Book of World Records for “the most people twistin’ in the streets at once.” To do that, more than 1,600 people twisting si-multaneously are needed. In addition, Encore Catering in DeLand will provide health refreshments for this com-munitywide celebration and dancers from lo-cal studios will per-form from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. on an outside stage.

“We’re look-ing forward to breaking the world re-cord, and branding DeLand once again as the des-tination for fun,” MainStreet Executive Direc-tor Jack Becker said.

Along with putting a healthy twist on the night, Florida Hospital DeLand will feature retro style musical entertainment for partyers to dance in the streets. Event attendees are en-couraged to wear their best retro costumes and showcase their dance moves because prizes will be given out for both.

to bring ‘The Twist’ to DeLand

For more informa-tion about Florida Hospital DeLand’s 50th anniver-sary, visit www.fhdeland50.org. The box office is open Thursday through Saturday from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. Tickets also can be purchased online at www.athensdeland.com/Blurbs/chub-by_checker.htm.

Henry denies wrongdoing in recent primary; elections supervisor ponders if someone’s out to get candidate

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(two years ago),” McFall said about voter fraud charges against Henry, which oc-curred after she turned in-formation over to the state attorneys office and the of-fice began its own investi-gation.

McFall said she will not be turning anything over to the state attorney this time until she determines if “it was just carelessness” on the part of Henry and his workers or something else.

Henry not deterred“How did the media

know about it? I’m out-raged that this has been reported to the media. A crime has not been com-mitted,” remarked Henry, acknowledging the story already has put doubt in the minds of some of those who voted for him on Aug. 14 for mayor.

“This will not stop me from achieving victory. I am going to do what I need to do to get my message out,” Henry said.

McFall said she is wor-ried about upcoming rac-es.

“I’m trying to correct

things for the future. It (the envelope with the absentee ballot of deceased) had his return address,” continued McFall. She questioned: “Is someone trying to set him up?’’

Henry will face Daytona Beach Commissioner Edith Shelley during the Nov. 6 general election. He and Shelley were the top vote-getters in the Aug. 14 pri-mary. Other candidates in-cluded Fred Hoffman and Gwen Azama-Edwards.

Absentee issuesMcFall said the probe her

office is conducting isn’t related to the charge two years ago that cost Henry his job as a Daytona Beach city commissioner.

During Henry’s 2010 re-election campaign for city commission, he ordered more than 90 absentee bal-lots online.

Henry was removed from his Zone 5 Daytona Beach city commission seat by then-Gov. Charlie Crist af-ter he was charged with conspiracy to commit vot-er fraud and illegally ob-taining absentee ballots.

After paying fines and completing other orders by a judge, the charges against Henry were dropped last year. Henry has said in in-

terviews he never intended to break the law and was working with his campaign manager only to increase voter turnout.

After reaching a plea deal, Henry officially re-signed as a city commis-sioner and his job with Volusia County Schools af-ter having been reassigned from his assistant principal position at Mainland High School.

McFall said she doesn’t expect her investigation to be completed until after the election.

She said more than like-ly, after all is said and done, she will be mailing a letter to Henry about careless-ness when it comes to deal-ing with absentee ballots.

McFall said it is not un-usual for absentee ballot request forms to be mailed to her office with careless mistakes. She noted that Congressman John Mica’s campaign is under scrutiny for the volume of absentee ballot request forms that can be linked to his work-ers and volunteers.

McFall said a lot of the Mica campaign absentee ballot request forms were duplicates. Mica is run-ning for the congressional seat 7. He defeated Sandy Adams in the Aug. 14 pri-mary.

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The Hope Food Pantry cele-brated its first year in operation on Aug. 18. The pantry, located at 1200 Ninth St. in Holly Hill, first opened its doors on Aug. 9, 2011.

The pantry registered 55 fam-ilies in its first month of op-eration. To date, 370 families

and 988 individuals have been served. Twenty-five bags of food are donated each week and plans are being made to add an additional day of donations in the near future.

Restoring Hope Incorporat-ed (RHI), sponsor of the pantry, was established as a Communi-

ty Development Corporation of Hope Fellowship Church of Day-tona Beach. The pantry operates within the guidelines of the Sec-ond Harvest Food Bank of Cen-tral Florida.

If you or someone you know needs food assistance, contact the church at 386-226-1122.

BY JAMES HARPERDAYTONA TIMES harperjames59@yahoo.com

Attorneys for advocacy groups are discussing a response to judg-es’ findings relating to a lawsuit in which a federal court upheld the U.S. Justice Department’s deci-sion to block reducing the num-ber of early voting days in five of

Florida’s 67 counties. Florida’s 62 other counties are

not protected by the provision in the Voting Rights Act cited by the Justice Department.

Opponents of the voting hours reductions are expected to challenge the ruling hoping the court agrees the 62 other counties are not uniform with the rest of the state.

Cynthia Slater, and NAACP Branch president of Daytona Beach, who also serves on the state and national boards of the civil rights organization said it is their goal that the law is blocked in all 67 counties.

Other groups involved include the ACLU and League of Women Voters.

Early voting reduction The Justice Department and

civil rights groups argued that a 2011 Florida law allowing coun-ties to reduce the window for ear-ly voting from 96 hours per week to as few as 48 made it more dif-ficult for minorities to vote than whites.

The federal government blocked the rules from taking effect in five counties – Collier, Hendry, Osceola, Polk and Lee – by invoking the 1965 Voting Rights Act, which allows it to ve-to voting rules changes in certain states and counties with histories

of racial repression.Slater said the ruling has the

effect of adding a Sunday to early voting in those counties.

“In the covered counties, his-torically, they have had 12 days, which included 2 Saturdays, but no Sundays. That would presum-ably remain true under the cur-rent status quo. If the covered counties agree to this change, however, the eight days will in-clude two Saturdays, and one Sunday (the Sunday a week be-fore the election, but not the Sun-day immediately prior to Election Day),” Slater said.

NAACP, others planning response to ruling on block reducing early voting days

BY JAMES HARPERDAYTONA TIMES harperjames59@yahoo.com

Daytona native Anthony J. Aza-ma has been promoted to Assis-tant Athletic Director for Market-ing, Sales and Licensing at Miami University in Oxford Ohio.

In addition to overseeing the marketing and sales staff, Azama will become the sports adminis-trator for the Miami men’s bas-ketball.

“Anthony’s commitment to Mi-ami’s athletic department for the

last six years has been tremen-dous,” said Josh Fenton, senior associate ath-letic director for finance and ad-ministration.

“He works in one of the most difficult areas of the entire de-partment and

has been able to show progress with unique strategies and tech-niques in promoting our pro-grams and selling tickets,” Fen-ton added.

Azama graduated from Van-

derbilt University with a bache-lor’s degree in human and orga-nizational development. He also played on the football team. Fol-lowing graduation, he was in-ducted into the Mid-Tennessee Chapter of the College Football Hall of Fame.

Former associate director of Florida Classic

He also is chair of the Oxford Chamber of Commerce and serves on the Butler County Visi-tors Bureau Governing Board.

Prior to Miami University, Aza-ma worked for Florida Citrus Sports in Orlando.

In July 2005, he was the asso-ciate director of the Walt Disney World Florida Classic, an annual football game between Bethune-Cookman University and Florida A&M University.

He handled marketing, spon-sorships and day-to-day opera-tions for the game in addition to serving as the primary point of contact between the participat-ing universities.

He is the son of Gwen Azama-Edwards and the Rev. Larry Ed-wards of Daytona Beach.

Anthony Azama promoted at Miami University in Ohio

BY JAMES HARPERDAYTONA TIMESharperjames59@yahoo.com

Known as Momma ReRe to many in the Greater Daytona Beach area, Reola Tucker Robin-son died Aug. 16. She was 85.

Robinson’s funeral service will take place at 1 p.m. on Sept. 1 at Shady Grove Baptist Church with Elder Robert L. Thomas presid-ing.

Viewing will be Aug. 31 from 5:30 until 8 p.m. at Herbert Thompson Funeral Home.

Stacia Wilson, Robinson’s daughter, said her mom helped anyone in need whether it was feeding them or just giving them a ride.

“She loved when the Black bik-ers came to town and housed some of them,” Wilson said.

Worked for 43 years at B-CU

Robinson also has touched the lives of hundreds if not thou-sands of Bethune-Cookman Uni-versity students.

Robinson started working in the school’s laundry department and was a fixture on campus for 43 years until she retired in 1997.

“After retiring she just enjoyed life loving everyone around her. She was dedicated to her family. And if anything she could do for you she would,” concluded Wil-son.

Robinson was born to Ger-trude and Perry Tucker on July 2, 1927, in Ocilla, Ga.

Along with her daughter Sta-cia Wilson, she is survived by her grandchildren, sister Leeatis Mattox, brother Danny Tucker and other relatives.

Longtime Bethune-Cookman employee Reola Robinson dies

Hope Food Pantry marks first year of operation

Mary Tay-lor, Trudi Halstead, Vince Tur-co, LeRosa Dixon, Vicie Dallas, Shan Jordan, Cynthia Williams were among those at-tending the one year celebration opening of the Hope Food Pantry on Aug. 18. Kneeling in front of the adults were Kageiana Badie and Jacob Wil-liams.

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Church to hostyard saleThe Stewart Memorial Unit-ed Methodist Church will host a back-to-school yard sale Sept. 1 at 9 a.m. at the church, 317 North Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Blvd. Items for sale include clothing for men, women and children, books, a variety of house-hold items, decorations for Christmas and more. More information: 386-255-7222.

Jazz trio performs Sept. 8 at libraryRelax to the cool jazz tunes of the Kenny MacKenzie Trio at 7 p.m. Sept. 8 at the New Smyrna Beach Regional Library, 1001 S. Dixie Free-way. The group formed in New York City in 2000, plays weekly in several Manhat-tan jazz clubs. The musi-cians have released multiple albums. More information: 386-424-2910, ext. 104, or www.volusialibrary.org. Nurse to discussmedical mistakesMae Miner, RN, BSN, will present a course designed to educate health care pro-fessionals about the number of medical errors occur-ring in the United States and how to avoid them. The course will be held at Daytona State College Bldg. 320, room 541 on Sept. 17 from 1 p.m. – 4 p.m. Three CEUs. $20. More informa-tion: Janine Roberson, 386-506-3522.

Extension offers lawn,landscape workshop The University of Florida/Volusia County Extension will offer a Green Industries Best Management Practices Workshop from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. Sept. 6, at the Agricul-tural Center, 3100 E. New York Ave., DeLand. Partici-pants can earn certificate and continuing educa-tion units. Registration is required by Sept. 4 with $25 fee. Registration form: http://volusia.org/exten-sion/horticulture.htm under “Residential and urban hor-ticulture.” The fee includes lunch. More information: 386-822-5778.

Bodybuilding contestcoming to PeabodyThe Daytona Beach Classic Bodybuilding Competition will be held at the Peabody Auditorium Sept. 22 from 8 a.m. – 8 p.m. More informa-tion: www.peabodyaudito-rium.org.

Mentor trainingscheduled Sept. 18 Community Partnership for Children is recruiting men-tors for teenage children in foster care. The next orien-tation will be held Sept. 18 from 5 p.m. - 6:30 p.m. at the Community Partner-ship for Children, 160 North Beach St. To register or for more information: Susan Hiltz, 386-547-2293 or Susan.Hiltz@cbcvf.org.

To list your event FREE, e-mail us at news@daytonatimes.com. No phone calls or faxes, please. Events are listed on a space-available basis, and in the sole discretion of the Daytona Times staff. For guaran-teed placement, contact Lynnette Garcia, lgarcia@flcourier.org, phone 954-882-2946, for ad rates.

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SINBADComedian and actor Sinbad is scheduled Oct. 12 at Hard Rock Live Orlando.

The 113th session of the Central Conference of the Af-rican Methodist Episcopal Church will take place Sept. 11-14 at the Allen Chapel AME Church, 580 George W. Engram Blvd., Daytona Beach.

More than 1,000 delegates, laypersons, and youth from throughout Central Florida are expected to attend the four-day event. The conference will feature a num-ber of workshops on such subjects as Christian educa-tion, social action, health and wellness, women’s and youth ministries.

Other highlights of the conference will include a spe-cial program during the conference designed to address the issues of youth, young adult and senior ministries. Also, the annual Debutante and Masters Cotillion will be held Sept. 9 at the church.

“We are excited about hosting the conference this

year,” said the Rev. Nathan M. Mugala, pastor at Allen Chapel.

Added Bishop Adam Jefferson Rich-ardson Jr., “We pray that all who at-tend will find inspiration and a renewed sense of calling.’’

Richardson recently was appoint-ed presiding bishop for the 11th Dis-trict of the African Methodist Episcopal Church. He was assigned in July to serve as leader of the Florida, Central, South, West Coast, East, and the Bahamas Conferences.

The Rev. James O. Williams, Orlando, is the host pre-siding elder.

For more information about the conference, call the church office at 255-1195.

Fabric-cutting party to raise awareness about domestic violence, bullying

The Sewing Garret of South Daytona is hosting a fabric-cutting party Sept. 4 from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. at 949 Beville Road. The purpose of the party is to cut and create purple ribbons that will be distributed to local businesses for dis-play in October, National Domestic Violence Awareness month and National Bullying Prevention Month.

Fabric and pattern templates will be provided. Partici-pants should bring their own scissors. To register for the event, contact the Sewing Garret at 386-767-3545 or email thesewinggarret@bellsouth.net

For more information about domestic violence and pre-vention, contact the Domestic Abuse council at 386-257-2297 or call the hot line at 386-255-2102 or 800-500-1119.

Bishop Adam Jefferson Richardson

Allen Chapel to host AME conference

Cinematique of Daytona, Volusia County’s on-ly dedicated Art House Cinema, is celebrating 20 years with an open house on Aug. 31. Beginning at 4 p.m., the Daytona Beach Regional Chamber will make the milestone official with a ribbon cutting ceremony. Immediately following, the theater doors will open to show some of the cinema up-grades.

Admission is free and will include samples of the new café menu and a video presentation of coming attractions. Door prizes and information about the 10th annual Daytona Beach Film Festi-val also will be available.

More information: 386-252-3118.

Art House Cinema celebrates 20th anniversary

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Without a gun, how many lives would have

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DAviD FiTzSiMMonS, ThE ARizonA STAR

When news broke of the mur-ders at the Sikh Temple of Wis-consin on Aug. 5, people of all faiths and backgrounds and the first responders who came to the scene to help were horrified by the ambush on men and wom-en as they prepared for wor-ship services. Leaders across the country quickly denounced the hate crime and the FBI immedi-ately began investigating the at-tack as a possible case of domes-tic terrorism.

But as easy as it was for all of us to be outraged by another sense-less attack and heartbroken by the congregation’s stories, it was difficult to be surprised by how it took place again in a nation unwilling to curb guns designed just to kill lots of people in the hands of lawless people. Would this have happened without a semi-automatic gun and high-capacity clips of bullets?

The shootings at the Sikh Tem-ple of Wisconsin came only two weeks after James Holmes killed 12 people and injured 58 oth-ers at a movie theater in Auro-ra, Colorado, in one of the worst mass shootings in American history. Would this have hap-pened without an AR-15 assault rifle, a Remington 870 12-gauge shot gun, and a semi-automat-ic handgun with high-capacity clips of bullets?

Every time another mass shooting happens in the Unit-ed States, the debate over gun control comes fleetingly to the forefront—until political fear paralyzes courage and action. Inevitably, some people repeat the argument that the solution to preventing mass shootings is not better gun control laws—even control of assault weapons which have no place in nonmil-itary hands—but getting even more Americans armed.

The apparent fantasy result would be something straight out of Hollywood where every single time a bad person stands up with a gun a good person with their own gun would quickly rise up out of the crowd, shoot the bad person, and save the day.

Gun violence epidemicBut arguments like this ignore

both common sense and scien-tific evidence about the connec-tion between the ready avail-ability of guns—including as-sault weapons and guns with large ammunition capacity—and the epidemic of gun vio-lence in America.

Daniel W. Webster, professor and co-director of the Center for Gun Policy and Research at Johns Hopkins School of Public Health and a panelist at the Chil-dren’s Defense Fund’s recent conference, wrote after the Au-rora shootings: “We should not brush aside discussions of gun policy as too politically difficult to expect meaningful change, or ‘the price for our freedoms.’ In-stead, we should reflect on why the U.S. has a murder rate that is nearly seven times higher than the average murder rate in oth-er high-income countries and a nearly 20 times higher murder rate with guns.’’

It is way past time for com-mon-sense gun law reform in America.

Many of the victims of mass shootings have been strang-ers—sometimes children—who were personally unknown to the shooters but were simply in “the wrong place at the wrong time,” even if the “wrong place” turned out to be going to class, attend-ing a worship service on a Sun-day morning, or going to the lo-cal movie theater on a summer evening. In other words, they could have been any one of us.

What will it take for us to do something about it?

Marian Wright Edelman is president and founder of the Children’s Defense Fund (www.childrensdefense.org). Click on this story at www.daytonatimes.com to write your own response.

Opinions expressed on this editorial page are those of the writers, and do not

necessarily reflect the editorial stance of the newspaper or the publisher.

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The domino effect of student debt

When this year’s student debt burden surpassed the $1 trillion mark, it became even larger than the amount of debt held on cred-it cards. New findings now con-clude that heavy student loan debt delays the ability of young grad-uates to buy a home and in the worst scenarios, strips Social Se-curity benefits and even disability income paid under Supplemental Security Income.

“There has been a 46 percent in-crease in average debt held at grad-uation from 2000 to 2010. More-over, total outstanding debt held by the public has skyrocketed 511 percent over the past decade,’’ ac-cording to “Denied: The Impact of Student Debt on the Ability to Buy a House,’’ a new research paper by the Young Invincibles, a national youth advocacy group. Their re-search shows that the challeng-es of becoming a homeowner are magnified with student debt.

Loans double burdenStudent loan debt has been ris-

ing much more rapidly than sala-ries for college graduates. When researchers compared salaries of the typical single student loan borrower to the cost of a median-priced house, they concluded that potential borrowers with a student loan and average consumer debt are not likely to qualify for a mort-gage. If a married couple carries a double burden of student debt, it

becomes even harder to qualify.Although student loans are usu-

ally considered to be a problem for young people, the reality is that many seniors share the same debt dilemma. The Treasury Depart-ment reported earlier this year that people ages 60 and older owed $2.2 million on student loans that were 90 days or more past due. As a result, Treasury reduced ben-efit payments on Social Security checks for 115,000 retirees. Legal-ly, the share of benefits withheld can be as high as 15 percent.

Interest accruesConsumers who owe $60,000

or more on federal student loans are allowed by Treasury to take as long as 30 years to repay the loan. An additional eight years of repay-ment is allowed in the event of eco-nomic hardship or long-term un-employment. In these instances, payments are deferred while the interest continues to accrue. Who would ever have imagined that a student loan repayment would take 30 years or more? In bygone years the only loans that incurred such lengthy indebtedness were

mortgages.The domino effect of debt be-

gins with a student loan and then delays the ability to qualify for a mortgage. With other consumer debt payments such as car loans, and credit cards taking a larger share of net income, the ability to gain wealth is limited if not sty-mied.

Consumers opting for rent-al housing may find the month-ly payment more affordable on a cash-flow basis; but no equity or wealth is derived on rentals. Fur-ther, as the rental housing mar-ket has tightened, the cost of rent-al housing continues to increase, leaving fewer disposable dollars to save for a home down payment.

The Denied report reaches a thoughtful conclusion: “Policy-makers who may be unmotivated by individual struggles of borrow-ers, or unconvinced of the extent of the problem today, would be wise to begin to view student debt in an additional light: as an en-cumbrance on the recovery of the housing market, and as a result, a potential hindrance to economic growth.”

Charlene Crowell is the com-munications manager for State Policy & Outreach with the Cen-ter for Responsible Lending. Click on this story at www.day-tonatimes.com to write your own response.

The ‘Politricks’ of White supremacy

Fear, threats intimidation won’t work this time

The 2012 political season is in full throttle toward the November 6h national elections. The Dem-ocrats and the Republicans have determined their respective na-tional standard bearers and de-lineated their issue platforms and public policy agenda and pri-orities. Black Americans, Latino Americans, and millions of other Americans who are eligible and registered to vote will determine not only the future of the United States for the next four years, but also the future of America’s stand-ing in the world community.

Obama-Biden verses Romney-Ryan will be the ultimate politi-cal contest between the forces of progress and the forces of back-wardness. But even amid the mul-titude of negative radio and televi-sion ads that attempt to attack the character and integrity of candi-dates for high office and service to the nation, caution should be put in place to avoid being turned-off or cynically alienated from the im-portant civic and moral responsi-bility to stand up, speak out and vote.

In particular, I am appealing to Black Americans and others of goodwill and judgment to not fall prey to the revived campaigns of voter suppression in many of the crucial swing states. We need a re-cord Get-Out-The-Vote (GOTV) effort across the nation. There are some mischief-makers who are trying to suggest that Black Americans should not be enthu-siastic about voting in 2012 be-cause of the persistence of poverty

and unemployment, as well as the disproportionate incarceration in our communities. These real matters, however, are exactly why we should have the highest voter turnout ever.

Deceptive political tacticsThere is another matter that I

feel obligated to lift up at this time and it is the issue of the steady rise in both overt and covert acts, rhetorical statements, and oth-er schemes where the tenets of White supremacy are being open-ly practiced and advocated to the detriment of Black Americans and others who believe in a pluralis-tic, racially-diverse democracy. For those of us who have person-ally witnessed reactionary behav-ior in response to the long struggle of Black Americans for freedom, justice and equality, this is noth-ing new.

A politrick is a deceptive politi-cal tactic that attempts to use pos-itive discourse, phrases or rheto-ric to hide the negative intent and consequences of extremist ideo-logical actions.

In 2012 the politricks of racial hatred, division and obfuscation continues to escalate into a coun-terproductive manifestation of what I call the ‘politricks of White

supremacy.’ In Ohio, state election officials publicly bemoan what they feel is a “contortion of the voting process to accommodate urban voters.” That’s a politrick to try to justify the suppression of Black American voters and other who are concentrated in the urban centers of Ohio.

When Vice President Biden ac-curately stated in Virginia: “They want to put y’all back in chains,” Republican politicians cried and wept profusely in another glaring politrick maneuver. In Iowa, Hank Williams Jr. sang at the state fair and said to more than 8,000 peo-ple, “We’ve got a Muslim presi-dent who hates farming, hates the military, hates the U.S., and we hate him.” Williams displayed the politricks of White supremacy to the cheers of the crowd at the fair.

We have come too far and al-ready suffered too much to con-template any notion of going back-wards. Change has happened and more change will happen again. Our job and responsibility is to stay focused and keep our eyes and minds on the realizable prize of empowerment, equality and equity. Forward ever, backwards never!

Benjamin F. Chavis Jr. is pres-ident of the Hip-Hop Summit Action Network and Education Online Services Corporation. He can be reached at drbenja-min.chavis@gmail.com. Click on this story at www.daytona-times.com to write your own re-sponse.

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ChARLEnE CROwELL

This is a response to the recent attacks on mayoral candidate Mr. Derrick Henry’s campaign. It is obvious to me that some segments of our great city are awfully afraid of change and will do anything to distract, distort, divert and use fear tactics to try and sway voters from voting for Mr. Derrick Hen-ry.

I’ve seen these dirty attempts in politics all of my life. Similar at-tacks were done on my godmoth-er, the late, great, Honorable Shir-ley Chisholm when she ran for Congress in 1968 in Brooklyn, New York against the powerful and well-known Mr. James Farm-er, former founder of C.O.R.E. (Congress of Racial Equality) or-ganization. Mr. Farmer did not take Mrs. Chisholm’s candida-cy seriously because he thought no one knew her and he was well known throughout Brooklyn, New York, New York City and the Unit-ed States. So, voter fraud, voter registration and absentee ballots became major issues.

Visual learnersSince most of Americans are vi-

sual learners, your continuation of bringing up a subject over and

over again, even if it is not true, makes people take undue notice. What you are doing is attempting to change people’s opinion and thought process.

We also know how people learn, kinesthetic (touching and feel-ing), auditory (hearing) and visu-al (sight). These are the three mo-dalities of learning. So, if you put fear in the voters’ mind, maybe it will change the outcome of the election.

This tactic was tried with Mrs. Chisholm over 40 years ago and used with other noteworthy can-didates, but failed to garner posi-tive results.

Vote for changeI have confidence in the voters

in our great city that they are so-phisticated and astute enough to recognize what a small segment of our city is trying to do, divide and conquer. Fear, threats and intim-

idation may have worked in the ’40s, ’50’s and ’60s. It will not work in Daytona Beach’s mayoral elec-tion in November 2012.

Therefore, I urge voters to vote for fairness and vote for change. Mr. Derrick Henry is a classic ex-ample of a few people playing games with our God-given right to vote.

Derrick has already won the mayoral election by receiving over 34 percent of the registered votes and his opponent only received around 39 percent. This is in a city that has less than 15 percent Afri-can-American citizens. We aren’t going to play the race and fear game. We are concerned about all of the citizens in Daytona Beach. That is why Mr. Derrick Henry’s theme is “One city, one vision” for Daytona Beach, Florida.

Dr. Willie J. Kimmons is an educational consultant, moti-vational speaker, author, for-mer teacher, superintendent of schools, college professor, pres-ident and chancellor. Click on this story at www.daytona-times.com to write your own re-sponse.

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By JoShUA AxElRodMcClatchy-Tribune

o you’re a rising college fresh-man. You’ve got four (possi-bly more) years of experienc-es ahead of you that will shape who you are socially and profes-

sionally. How can you get ahead in both those areas without too much stress?

Through social media of course! Be-tween Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn and other prominent network-ing sites, social media can be a wonder-ful tool for a freshman looking to estab-lish him or herself in a college bubble.

“The strength of social media is in its ability to network and collaborate,” said Sabrina Kramer, assistant director at the University of Maryland’s Center for Teaching Excellence. “Networking for jobs and other opportunities has always been important — just now you can reach more people much more easily.”

Kramer suggested that students start building an online professional portfo-lio early.

“Employers want to see evidence of a person’s ability to think, critically analyze and write effectively,” she said. “Build-ing a portfolio, updating it and curating it with good examples of your work al-so shows good organizational skills and that you care about your work.”

Iowa State University senior Thom-

as Frank is the founder of College Info Geek, a resource for making college a “remarkable experience.” Social media played a huge part in his college life.

“Social media was the catalyst for my first internship,” Frank said. “Had I not been using Twitter as a freshman and following my school’s new account, I would have never found out about the leadership conference Principal was running. Through that I gained dozens of contacts, a Fortune 500 internship and eventually a $5,000 scholarship.”

As important as the professional ad-vantages here are, don’t forget the “so-cial” aspect of social media.

“The advantages of social media came about before freshman year even start-ed,” said Madeline Monaco, a sopho-more at Elon University, in Elon, N.C. “I found my roommate on Facebook, where we talked and decided to room with each other. By looking at pages she had liked and other things in her ‘About Me’ section, I was able to connect with a really great girl and develop a really great relationship with her.”

Monaco also said that Facebook and

Twitter are slowly becoming her prima-ry news outlets.

“I found out about Whitney Houston’s death from a friend’s post on another’s wall,” she said.

Social media also has entered the classroom. Sites like StudyBlue allow students to share study material on just about every subject imaginable in one easily accessible place. Some professors also incorporate social media into their lesson plans.

“In one class, students were able to talk with the author of the book that they were reading via a blog,” Kramer said. “In a talk I gave, we were able to interact via Twitter with the speaker in a TED (Tech-nology, Entertainment, Design) talk that I was highlighting in my talk.”

Students can also create wikis or Google Docs to help each other study, review and edit papers, or even ask a professor questions the night before a test.

If you’re a freshmen not making the most out of social media, you’re proba-bly going to fall behind.

“I think that being able to have up-dates from your friends and family on a constant basis is integral to what most people expect at this point,” Kramer said. “I think it allows for a richer expe-rience and the ability to connect outside of campus. The art of networking is still as or more important in the era of social media as compared to before.”

Try to find University of Col-orado Boulder graduate Er-in Moriarty on Facebook. No luck? That’s exactly what Mo-riarty is hoping will happen.

“Once I started applying for jobs, (there was) the idea of going through my entire Face-book profile and making sure I never said a cross thing or posted something potential-ly offensive,” she said. “I went so far as to change my name to Yossarian Caulfield (a combi-nation of the main characters from “Catch 22” and “Catcher in the Rye”).”

She now goes by Erin Broiarty, a name coined by friends that only they would know to search for on Face-book. It’s a strategy that is be-ing used more and more by college students to hide po-tentially embarrassing parts of their social media lives from employers.

College students are slowly beginning to learn that posts on Facebook, Twitter, per-sonal blogs and other social networking sites can be used

against them in their profes-sional lives.

Now, it’s all too easy to re-veal your thoughts and feel-ings to the entire Internet at the click of a button. College students realize that the photo of them holding a red plastic cup and looking sloppy might be the difference between get-ting a job or internship and re-jection.

“For me, social media is both a personal and profes-sional tool,” said Indiana Uni-versity-Purdue University Fort Wayne junior Laura Rosen-baum. “If it sounds like some-thing I wouldn’t want my par-

ents to know about or some-thing I’d get in trouble for from my (employer), I don’t post it.”

Peter VanRysdam, chief marketing officer for 352 Me-dia Group, which specializes in web development and digi-tal marketing, said that when his employees do something questionable over social me-dia, his company handles it on a case-by-case basis.

“We don’t have any specific rules in place, but we do edu-cate employees about using common sense when mak-ing posts,” he said. “We just ask they consider the ramifi-cations, and as a result, we’ve never had a big issue.”

VanRysdam mentioned an employee who, after she was fired, posted unflattering com-ments about 352. Though she was out of the company’s con-trol at that point, they still had leverage over her severance package and used that to get her to take down the posts.

Moral of that story: employ-ers can and will see everything

you post online. “I don’t think students ful-

ly grasp the impact of what they post,” said VanRysdam said. “Actually, I think they just don’t grasp how to use Fa-cebook’s security settings. It amazes me what some people keep public, especially as they get closer to graduation. It’s a buyer’s market when it comes to hiring, so everything is fair game!”

If you’re a college student worried about your person-al life ruining your profes-sional one, either think before you post or make sure you’re keeping everything you post as private as possible. Quick warning though: if you’re us-ing Moriarty’s strategy, make sure people know your real name.

“My name has changed so many times and for so long that at my internship last sum-mer, my first paycheck was made out to Erin Broiarty,” she said.

— Joshua Axelrod

When people say that you can get in trouble on Facebook and Twitter, they aren’t just blowing smoke. There are plenty of cases of intelligent, talented people destroying their careers be-cause of something they posted on a social media website. Well, intelligence is clearly relative here. It should be a given at this point that anyone can see what you post online. Let the mistakes of a few misguided social media users serve as a lesson. for future generations of Facebookers and Tweeters:

Buck BurnetteOne surefire way to get yourself fired

is to be blatantly racist, homophobic or just plain hateful online. The poster boy for that scenario is Buck Burnette, a former University of Texas backup center. Soon after Barack Obama’s election, Burnette showed the world his true colors via Facebook: “all the hunters gather up, we have a #$%&er in the whitehouse.” Once Longhorns Coach Mack Brown saw this, he kicked him off the team faster than Burnette probably figured out that White House is two words.

Anthony Weiner Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert

were in comedy heaven for a week when this story leaked. When former New York Rep. An-thony Weiner at-tempted to send a picture of his namesake to a 21-year-old female college student in Seattle via a private Twitter message, he accidentally re-vealed his man-hood to the entire Twitterverse. It didn’t take long for him to resign. Thanks to his inept Tweet-ing, the world now has Weinergate to remind us why sexting is never a good idea.

Dharun RaviThis is bullying at its most despi-

cable and deadly. Former Rutgers University student Dharun Ravi (no-tice how everyone here is a “former” something) set up a webcam to spy on his roommate Tyler Clementi. When he caught Clementi kissing another man, Ravi took to Twitter and told his followers to watch for a second webcam rendez-vous. The next day, Clementi jumped off the George Washington Bridge to his death. Ravi was eventually con-victed on 15 counts of invasion of pri-vacy, bias intimidation, tampering with evidence, witness tampering and hindering apprehension or prosecu-tion, and sentenced to 30 days in jail and a $10,000 fine for invasion of priva-cy and bias intimidation, among other charges.

Ashley PayneFile this one under “there’s no such

thing as online privacy.” Ashley Payne’s crime was going on vacation in Europe and posting a few pictures of herself at beer gardens and cafes. She was over 21 and only 10 of her 700 photos had alcohol in them, so no big deal, right? The problem was that Payne was a teacher in Barrow County, Ga. Despite having Facebook’s highest level of pri-vacy settings, one of her students saw the pictures and the district superin-tendent received an angry anonymous email from a concerned parent. Payne was forced to resign.

Gilbert GottfriedHollywood and Twitter go together

like Ashton Kutch-er and misreport-ing Joe Paterno’s death. Gilbert Got-tfried thought it would be funny to Tweet some jokes about the Japanese tsunami, like: “Ja-pan is really ad-vanced. They don’t go to the beach. The beach comes to them.” Gottfried’s antics cost him his job as the voice of the Aflac Duck. The lesson here: if there’s the potential to offend a large group of people, keep your big bill shut.

Kevin ColvinThis young man deserves the award

for “Worst Liar Ever.” Kevin Colvin was an intern at Anglo Irish Bank’s North American branch. He told his manag-er that he would be missing work for a “family emergency.” The next morning, pictures of him in a fairy costume (com-plete with a wand) from the Halloween party he skipped work to attend sur-faced on Facebook. His boss found the photo and sent it everyone in the office. Social Media 101: if you’re going to lie, cover your tracks. And, if you’re a man, don’t get caught in a dress.

— Joshua Axelrod

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Dr. Celeste Philip elected to serve on board of directors

SPECIAL TO THE DAYTONA TIMES

Dr. Celeste M. Philip has been selected chair of Cultural Health to the American Heart Associa-tion, Greater Southeast Affiliate Board of Directors. She is serving on the board during the associa-tion’s 2012-2013 fiscal year.

Philip is the assistant direc-

tor for Public Health at the Volu-sia County Health Department where she is responsible for a number of public health pro-

grams including Disease Control, E nv i ro n m e nt a l Health, Nutrition and Health Pro-motion.

During the up-coming year, Phil-ip’s leadership will help the or-ganization impact heart disease and

stroke, the No. 1 and No. 4 lead-ing killers, respectively, of Ameri-can men and women. The Great-er Southeast Affiliate services Al-abama, Florida, Georgia, Louisi-ana, Mississippi, Tennessee, and Puerto Rico.

‘Deeply committed’“As a clinician and public health

practitioner, I am deeply com-mitted to promoting and sup-porting healthy lifestyle choices, and look forward to working with the American Heart Association

to further help the community,” said Philip.

The board will help the asso-ciation achieve its 2020 impact goal to improve the cardiovas-cular health of all Americans by 20 percent while reducing deaths from cardiovascular diseases and stroke by 20 percent.

A few outlined responsibilities include:

Controlling and managing the affairs, funds, and property of the affiliate

Approving the final annual budget and other fiscal matters

for the affiliateApproving all operational poli-

ciesDelegating the implementa-

tion of operational policyPhilip received a Bachelor of

Arts degree (Magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa) from Howard University majoring in English and Spanish. She continued on to receive a Master of Public Health in maternal and child health, as well as a Doctor of Medicine from Loma Linda University in Loma Linda, Calif.

BY ROBERT NOLINSUN SENTINEL/MCT

A raucous mob of first and second graders, jos-tling for lunch at Hallan-dale Elementary School, shouts and jumps at the sight of a human-sized ba-nana in their midst.

“They love it,” Broward School District intern Er-icka Floyd said from with-in her foamy yellow casing. “Some kids want to bite me.”

That’s just what school menu mavens want their young charges to do: gob-ble up fruits and veggies. To that end, Floyd and oth-er staffers often don cos-tumes — corn, grape, car-rot, banana and watermel-on — to entice kids to eat healthy.

“We’re trying to attract attention to the concept that fruits and vegetables are good for you, they’re good to eat, they’re fun,” said Darlene Moppert, a nutritionist who helps fill the bellies of some 140,000 students each school day.

Fruit or veggie required

That involves semi-loads worth of comestibles for hungry mouths: 24 million cartons of milk, 3.4 mil-lion pizza slices, 2 million chicken nugget servings, 4 million apples and 1.4 mil-lion tacos.

Those are just a few of-ferings on the school lunch menu of five items: fruit, vegetables, grains, meat and milk. Students must pick three, at least one a fruit or veggie.

Carlos Aurtado, 6, is a pizza and potato man. “It’s like so good,” he said of the pizza. Still, “My favorite is mashed potatoes.”

Despite an unrelenting barrage of junk food ads, kids often opt for nutritious fare. Marta Gomez, manag-er of Hallandale Elementa-ry’s cafeteria, where some 800 kids chow down each day, serves up to 100 salads every lunchtime. Fruits, too, are popular.

Still prefer pizza, burgers

“The apple slices?”

Gomez said. “I go through seven or eight cases a day.” A case contains 100 pack-ages.

“I ate my apples,” Ja’Mari Peacock, 5, announced.

“We eat bananas here,” bragged Jamaria Addison, 6.

But kids need prodding to eat healthy. “Their con-sumption of fruits and vegetables is not where it needs to be,” Moppert said. “Their favorite foods are the pizza — who would have thought that? — and the burgers.”

So besides costumed in-terns, Moppert employs other strategies. School foodies host focus groups to see what students like, and conduct “plate waste” studies to see what they don’t.

Making favorite foods healthier

They review a feedback website where students list preferences, and initiated a program to buy fresh pro-duce from Florida farmers. A team of dieticians plans rotating menus, with pop-

ular items appearing twice a month.

Pizza, burgers, tacos and chicken nuggets may seem less than wholesome, but Moppert said ingredients count. The pizza has whole-wheat crust and low-fat cheese. Burgers and tacos,

lean beef. Chicken nuggets are white meat and baked, not fried.

“We’re taking what kids like and are familiar with and making it in a form that’s a little healthier,” Moppert said.

With the percentage of

overweight kids doubling in the past 30 years, stakes are high. “The generation of children of this decade has a lower life expectancy than their parents,” Mop-pert said. “We’re trying to reverse this trend.”

Local doctor to help lead American Heart Association

By any means necessary: Fruit costumes aim to encourage kids to eat healthier lunches

Dr. Celeste M. Philip

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Banana ambassador Ericka Floyd extols the virtues of fruit for elementary school kids at Hallandale Elementary School in Hallandale.

M A Y O RDECEMBER 14 - 20, 2006 7SPORTSAUGUST 30 - SEPTEMBER 5, 2012 7

BY ANDREAS BUTLERDAYTONA TIMES butleramj@yahoo.com

Bethune-Cookman failed to pick up a win in three games at the East Carolina University Classic in Greenville, N.C., this past weekend.

Mistakes doomed B-CU in a 3-0 (25-15, 25-22, 25-10) loss to the University of Charlotte to open the tournament. The Wild-cats had more errors (27) than kills (21).

“We had a lot of unforced er-rors. We have a good team that has to settle down. We will get better,” said Head Coach Rapha-el Isaac.

Krysta Garner had seven kills, Delicia Pierre six kills, Moni-ca Lowe 10 assists and Jennifer Jimenez 11 digs for the Wildcats.

The next day B-CU suffered defeats to host East Carolina and Campbell University.

“It’s a work in progress. I still plan on competing for the MEAC Championship. I am not happy with the loss, but I am happy with the play of our freshman and the potential that we have, but we still have a lot to learn,” added Isaac.

The Wildcats first fell to East Carolina 3-1(25-17, 20-25, 25-12, 25-8).

B-CU did rally from a 12-3 defi-cit to take the second set.

Gardner paced the Wildcats with 10 kills and 10 digs. Team-mates Aubrianna Curtis added 21 assists, Jimenez nine digs and Janeen Davis eight digs.

B-CU concluded the week-end and tournament by losing to Campbell 3-0 (25-10, 25-13, 27-25).

Gardner had 11 kills, Destiny Hudson nine kills, Curtis 24 as-sists and Jimenez nine digs in that game.

Back to workThe Ladies travel to Laramie,

Wyoming, to compete this week in the Wyoming University Cow-girl Classic.

There the Wildcats (0-3) will face tough opponents in the Uni-

versity of Missouri-Kansas City (2-2), Wyoming (4-0), Florida Gulf Coast University (2-1) and George Washington University (0-3).

B-CU won’t play at home until Sept. 11 when they host the Uni-versity of North Florida.

Football: Wildcats season begins

Football season is finally here as Bethune-Cookman is set to open its season against Alabama State University in the MEAC/SWAC Challenge at the Cit-rus Bowl in Orlando on Sunday, Sept. 2.

The game will air live on ESPN at noon putting the Wildcats and

Hornets in the national spotlight.It’s the second straight year B-

CU has played in the game. Last year the Wildcats defeated Prai-rie View A&M 63-14. They are hoping to duplicate that success.

Look at the Florida Courier for a complete preview on the MEAC/SWAC Challenge.

Wildcats in pollsBethune-Cookman is ranked

in several of the HBCU preseason football polls.

The Wildcats are ranked sec-ond in both the From Press Box to Press Row.com and Heritage Sports Radio Network preseason polls.

Norfolk State is ranked tops in both polls just ahead the Wild-cats.

B-CU didn’t crack the FCS

Coaches Top 25 pre-season poll but did receive 21 votes.

Fans win ticketsThe Wildcats don’t play at

home until Sept. 22 against Ten-nessee State University in the Hall of Fame game, but they are already working on filling the stands.

B-CUAthletics.com hosted a kickoff contest on Sunday that gave students, alumni and fans a chance to win tickets and hotel accommodations for that game.

Users had to access the website and correctly answer trivia ques-tions.

Dr. Leonard Everett won the grand prize of four tickets and an overnight stay at Homewood Suites by being the first user of the site to answer the questions.

The other winners were Mar-cus Alridge, Adrian DeBose, Te-hia Starker and Felicia Collins, who each won two tickets to the game.

Women’s basketball: New as-sistant coaches

Head coach Vanessa Blair pro-moted graduate assistant Letitia Curry to full-time assistant coach and named Mary Dunn graduate assistant coach on Aug. 23.

Curry joined the staff last sea-son as the school’s first graduate assistant coach.

Dunn is a former Mt. Saint Mary’s player and was recruited to the school by Blair when she was the head coach there. Blair joined B-CU in 2008.

COURTESY OF B-CU

Bethume-Cookman University’s volleyball team, above, plays at home on Sept. 11.

BY ANDREAS BUTLERDAYTONA TIMESbutleramj@yahoo.com

Atlantic’s Xavier Scott and De-monte Kemp sacked Gateway’s Anthony Gonzalez as time ex-pired to preserve a 27-22 win over Kissimmee Gateway high at Der-byshire Park in Daytona Beach this past week.

“We challenged our kids. That is where all the wind sprints and conditioning come into play. We put our defense in a hole all night. They really stepped up,” said Tim Smith, Atlantic’s head coach.

Playing at Derbyshire also was a first for Atlantic, which nor-mally plays home games at New Smyrna Beach Sports Complex.

“We have a lot of kids that live over here. We are trying to save some money and we are looking for a home field situation. I grew up in this area, and it’s like home-coming for me. We are thinking about playing here again. I was hoping for a good atmosphere. I think it was good and fun,” com-mented Smith.

Alex Bell was sharp throwing for 191 yards with two scores and Chris Jones had his better game on the defensive end to lead the Sharks.

“C.J. is a warrior and he doesn’t come off the field. He is tough and one of the best players in the area. Alex has come a long way. He has a few things to improve on. We are trying to be balanced but we got out of our game plan a little,” said Smith.

Gateway jumped out to a 14-0 first quarter lead behind a touch-down run from Isaiah Wharton and Hunter Webber returned a DeAndre Lee kickoff return fum-ble 29 yards for a score.

Atlantic then settled down and responded with 27 unanswered points.

“Gateway is a good team. We challenged our kids and I think that we just wanted it at the end,” added Smith.

Bell threw across field to find

Matt Marcoini who went 35 yards for a touchdown. Later, Bell threw a ball that was tipped to Jordan Yon who ended up go-ing 65 yards for a score to tie the game at 14.

Jones’s one-yard score with 11:11 to play in the third quar-ter gave the Sharks a lead 20-14 lead, one that they would not re-linquish. The score was set up by Lee’s 79-yard kickoff return.

Ian Stevens caught an 81-yard touchdown reception for the Panthers. The ball was tipped to him by an Atlantic defender be-fore he raced to the end zone.

A short punt by the Sharks gave the Panthers the ball one last time at the 37 yard line for one fi-nal drive.

Adam Owens added an eight-yard touchdown run for Atlantic.

Kickoff Classic recap

Mainland’s Cameron Hadley threw touchdown passes to Ste-phen Bostick and Chris Antho-ny in a 30-13 loss to Altamonte Springs’ Lake Brantley.

Connor Blair threw for 154 yards and two touchdown passes for Seabreeze in a 21-14 loss to St Augustine. Tre Rodriguez ran for 142 yards, Raushoud Floyd had 81 yards receiving with a score and Charles Nelson had a re-ceiving touchdown for the Sand-crabs.

Mike Colubiale had four catch-es for 37 yards and blocked two extra points for Spruce Creek in a 26-0 loss to Lake Mary. Craig Pe-ludat threw for 66 yards and Col-lin Olsen ran for 36 yards for the Hawks.

JoJo Kemp ran for 79 yards with a touchdown and Colteen Rob-inson threw for 118 yards with two scores for DeLand but San-

ford Seminole rallied with three straight late scores to win 37-19.

Marcus Johnson threw for 204 yards and ran for a touchdown to lead New Smyrna to a 28-0 win over Merritt Island. Diamonte Mitchell added 59 yards receiv-ing with a rushing touchdown while Terrill Jefferson and Kye Hall each ran for a score for the Barracudas.

Scores: Flagler Palm Coast-76, Deltona-0; Warner-27, Mel-bourne Holy Trinity-14; Father Lopez-14, Maitland Orangewood Christian-14; Ocoee-24, Uni-versity-7; Crescent City-46, Cal-vary-20; Cocoa Space Coast-33, Pine Ridge-0; Trinity-13, Wild-wood-6.

This week’s top games

DeLand at Mainland: Two of the area’s best battle it out for early local supremacy. This could be a defensive struggle. The team that finds offensive consistency wins.

Seabreeze at Spruce Creek: Both teams have explosive of-fenses. Seabreeze has more weapons. This could be a shoot-

out. The team who plays defense wins.

Atlantic at Crescent City: The tough and scrappy Sharks hit the road to face a team that won’t lie down.

Melbourne Holy Trinity at Fa-ther Lopez: Lopez is looking to turn things around. They feel like they are better than recent years. A win at home to open the season could set the tone.

Flagler Palm Coast at Matan-

zas: It is the Battle of Palm Coast and Flagler County. Both teams feel like they have improved from a year to ago.

Prep Sports Seven football preseason

1. Seabreeze, 2. DeLand, 3. Mainland, 4. Warner, 5. Atlantic, 6. New Smyrna, 7. Spruce Creek. Others: Flagler Palm Coast, Ma-tanzas, Trinity.

Atlantic holds off Gateway in Kickoff Classic

VOLUSIA COUNTY HIGH SCHOOL SPORTS

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PhOTOS BY ANDREAS BUTLER/DAYTONA TIMES

Atlantic’s defensive front lines up against Gateway’s offensive front in the trenches during last week’s Kickoff Classic.

Atlantic’s Alex Bell (8) and Chris Jones (7) runs the option against Gateway during last week’s Kickoff Classic at Derbyshire Park.

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Don’t forget your neighborhood Publix will be open during regular store hours Labor Day, September 3, 2012.

– Angie StoneSinger, Songwriter, Actress | Atlanta, GA

I’m not a chef, but I love to cook and entertain. And on game day, the

more the merrier. I’m always trying new ways to add fl avor, too. I

love watching my friends enjoy the food I’ve made almost more than

watching the game. Publix is always on my team, because they make

it even easier to bring folks together on Sunday or any day.

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