San Antonio Register (San Antonio, Tex.), Vol. 60, No. 48, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 2, 1992 Page: 1 of 10
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by Edwin N. Glosson
Group gives at-risk youth helping hand
The other day a friend needed some
help in completing a projcct. Man-
power was needed if the job was to be
finished on time. But on a Saturday
afternoon there no able bodies around
except three young lads from New
Light Village-Chad, Maylon, and
Danny. They pitched right in like
veteran workers
nearly lOhoursuniilthejobwasdonc.
These hard working lads did every-
thing that was asked of them in order
to earn some pocket change. Now that
the job is over, they'll return to the
"Village" in hopes of one day break-
ing free and moving on to bigger and
better things. But living hard and
growing up fast, carries over into adult
hood and many who grow up in pov-
erty stricken areas, never ever leave.
Chad, Maylon and Danny arc at Risk
Kids-there chances of being produc-
tive citizens are not as good as
someone living in a less hostile
environement.
But we can make a difference in the
lives of these young lads and the lives
of others living in high crime and
poverty stricken areas.
There is a program called Youth At
Risk where teens turn there lives
around. It began in Oakland, Calif, in
1982 and today boasts an impressive
record of lower recidivism.
Youth at Risk utilizes a transforma-
tional intervention approach toward
solving the problems of juvenile de-
linquency and is considered a national
model for dealing with the problem
of juvenile delinquency.
What seems to be the greater part 01
this program's success is the focused
approach on the potential of these kids
and not just treating them like losers
and casualties of their neighborhood.
The re-entry program is innovative
and necessary to assist institutional-
ized juvenile offenders transition suc-
cessfully to thciroldcommunity. Built-
in community support and positive
programming support the conccpt.
These "kids" arc taken on a retreat
which is set amidst a positive envi-
ronment that is creative, supportive
and instructional for participants.
These youngsters learn to let their
inner feelings out.
For example: Maura, 19, completed
the course. She is the single parent of
a 3 year old. Maura was abandoned as
a child, sexually molested by foster
parents and at 5, was raped by a 10
year old. Long before reaching teen
years, she was a veteran of drug and
alcohol abuse, juvenile delinquency
and self abuse. During one of the
self discovery sessions, she
poignantly revealed her tortured soul
to others in similar straits. Her an-
ger, bitterness, and pain poured forth
as large tears rushed from her quiv-
ering face. The counselor, wo are
trained, assisted Maura through the
trying ordeal.
One counselor wrote: "It is a sight to
behold: where just hours ago, the faces
and actions of these young men and
women exuded tension, taut jaws
sealed in hateful determination and
anger towards the world because of
years of exposure to violent and
virulent worlds, they arc now sighing
in pained relief."
There is an informal graduation
ceremony which culminates the re-
treat where youngsters make friends
for life as as well as the permanent
effects of what they've learned.
The test comes when graduates "hit
the streets" in theirold communities.
There won't be 30 fellow session
participants to cheer the youngsters
when he awakens in the mornings..
The second phase of program is per-
haps the most crucial. Two adults are
Two adults are assigned to work
weekly with each graduate.
In San Antonio, South lexas r<ui-
ncrs for Youth, Inc. is theorganization
committed to improving quality of
life for San Antonio's youth. "Wc
want to integrate its self saving means
and help prevent our troubled young
people from spiralling into the next
vortex of destruction.
Thursday, April 9, at 7:30 to 8:30
p.m., at the Alamo Branch YMCA, S.
New Braunfels and Iowa, the com-
munity is invited to attend a presenta-
tion and to ask your questions about
the San Antonio Youth At Risk Pro-
gram. For more information call 490-
7054 or Scott Fausto, 666-3538.
The
onio Register
San Antonio's Leading Community Newspaper for Right, Justice, Equality, and Community Progress Since 1931
Thursday, April 2,1992
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African press members talk of differences
Visitors say most Americans
take freedoms for granted
Church musician
killed in accident
A 27-year-old man was killed in an
automobile accident early this week
in Schcrtz.
Walter Carter of Gonzales died from
the injuries he received in the mishap
atalocal hospital. Carter was on his
way to work when the fatal accident
occured.
Services for his will beSaturday,
April 4, at l p.m.at the St. James
Baptist Church where Carter played
the drums in the choir.
Interment will follow in St. James
Cemetery in Belmont, Texas.
He is survived by his parents, Ervin
and Ruby Carter: two brothers and a
grandmother.
Arrangements were by Brooks and
Lee Funeral Home.
Tyson shouldn't
go to jail, most
Blacks respond
Fifty-eight per cent of Blacks
polled in a new nationwide radio
polling service, Buy Freedom 900
Network, believe that Mike Tyson
should not have gone to jail for raping
Miss Black America beauty
contestant Desiree Washington.
Forty-one Black radio stations in
the country panicipated in the poll,
although none of the stations were in
Indianapolis.
Buy Freedom 900 Network is a
new radio polling service organized
by Tony Brown, veteran broadcast
talk show host of Tony Brown's
Journal.
Callers vote on issues of current
interest via a touch tone phone 24
hours a day, 7 days a week, by calling
1-900-976-5558. A flat rate of 99*
per call is charged to the caller's
phone bill.
Brown did not announce the
number of calls in response to the
poll. This was not a scientific poll.
The question for the week of
March 31 is "Will you vote for
politicians who wrote a bad check?"
H. Ross Perot to
open campaign office
H. Ross Perot will open his presi-
dential campaign headquarters in San
Antonio Friday.
The headquarters will be at 4241
Piedras East in the Fireman's Fund
Building at the Koger Executive Cen-
Members of the African Press answer questions from members of the East Side Boys and Girls Club Wednesday
afternoon. The youngsters wanted to know more about their language; the visitors were interested in the young
men's future plans, which included medicine, sports, architecture, and engineering.
No more park and ride
at Windsor Park Mall
Effective this past Sunday, March
29, VIA Park-n-Ride is no longer
available at Windsor Park Mall.
VIA announced detours of all
existing routes and park and ride
services off the Windsor Park Mall
property to the Randolph Blvd. Park
& Ride located at 410 and IH-35
North.
Windsor Park, which is owned and
managed by Melvin Simon and
Associates, decided not to renew
VIA's contract which expired March
31,1992. The decision came shortly
after the murder of Eastsider Rachel
Grant earlier this year.
Grant was caught in the crossfire of
bullets between rival gang members.
A rodeo goer had been killed at the
Park-n-Ride last year.
Melvin Simon, which also owns
Ingram Park and Rolling Oaks malls,
has requested that service at these
two malls be discontinued effective
May 31.
East Siders desiring to go to
W i ndsor Park Mallmaystilldosoon
VIA Bus Route 15. Bus routes 632
and 639 will also continue to serve
the mall. These routes will make
service stops on Walzem Road and
along the 1-35 access road.
Routes 640 and 630 will continue
on Mid-Crown, eliminating the
previous stop at Windsor Park Mall,
and additional stops will be added
along the 1-35 access road to
accommodate express routes 17 and
550/551 and route 641.
Park and Ride service will still be
available to North Star, Crossroads,
McCreless, and South Park Malls.
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ter on Loop 410 and Callaghan..
There will also be East Side satel-
lite offices at 1824 Martin Luther
King and Bible World Book Store in
McCreless Mall.
The kick off for the office will be at
5 p.m. Friday.
For more information call 738-8111
or 533-4383
Impressive rites held
for Vernal Morgan
Impressive rites were held for
long time San Antonian Vernal
Morgan at Tried Stone Baptist
Church with the Rev. L. O. Perry
officiating Tuesday afternoon.
Morgan was born to Sampson
and Annie Waiters Morgan in
1918 in Guadalupe County.
After completing high school
there, he enlisted in the U. S.
Army where he served from 1943
to 1946.
He was a deacon at Tried Stone,
because of poor health, he was
not able to attend regularly.
He married Lois T. McDonald
in 1953 and three children were
born to this union, Deltricia
Morgan and Angela Holmes; son,
Marvin.
He succumbed after a lengthy
illness.
He is survived by his wife, chil-
dren, sister, Carlos B. Foster;
granddaughter, niece, nephew
and other relatives.
Interment was in Ft. Sam Hous-
ton National Cemetery. Arrange-
ments by theBrooks Funeral and
Lee Funeral Home, Gonzales,
Texas.
Early voting
starts Monday
Early voting begins Monday, April
6, and continues through Friday,
April 10 for the Primary Runoff
election on April 14.
The main early voting location is
the basement of the Bexar County
Justice Center.
Othei early polling will be
conducted at Central Park Mall,
Crossroads Mall, Eastside Multi-
Service Center, Ingram Park Mall,
McCreless Mall, South Park Mall,
Westlakes Mercado Mall, and
Windsor Park Mall. Other locations
are also available.
Voters who were registered to vote
by March 15 may vote from 8 A. M.
until 6 P. M. daily.
African Journalists visiting San
Antonio this week said that one ol
the things Americans could do to
help the situation in Africa is to stop
sending money because the people
never get it. The journalists also
suggested that Americans stop
sending tear gas and send books in-
stead. The books, they said, are
something that can help them.
Eleven journalists representing the
African countries of Algeria,
Burrundi, Chad, Comoros, Congo,
Conte D'lvoire, Mauritius,
Mozambique,Togo,Tunisia,and Sao
Tome and Principe.
The African-American Publishers
Association, the Alamo City Cham-
ber of Commerce, and the San An-
tonio Council for International
Visitors presented the African-
American Press Summit Monday
afternoon at the Barbara Jordan
Center.
The group will tour different parts
of the country to acquaint themselves
the role of the media in the United
States. The primary focus of the tour
is on the free press in American
democracy, media technology, cul-
tural variety, and social issues.
The African press members, in re-
sponse to questions from local me-
dia representatives, pointed out'that
freedom of the press and freedom of
speech arc things that most Ameri-
cans take for granted. In Africa, they
said, those freedoms arc not yet a
by Carolyn Beverly
reality. African journalists are
monitored by their government and
could be killed for writing or saying
the 'wrong' thing.
In fact, they said, there are cur-
rently six journalists who are in prison
because of what they wrote.
"African people have suffered a
great deal," one journalist said, "but
things are looking up."
The journalist went on to say that
African people are looking forward
to freedom of the press, and that, for
them the real war on freedom of the
press has been going on for two
years now.
To date, no African country enjoys
freedom of the press or free speech
due the single party political system
in power. Consequently, most Af-
rican journalists write under
pseudonymns.
Most of the visiting journalists were
in agreement that there is no sub-
stance in the reports by the American
press and only one side of the story is
being told. The visitors also felt that
the American press should not fill
the front pages of the paper with so
much violence.
(Carolyn Beverly is the author of
the Register's People, Places, Faces
and....column. Her regular column
returns next week with a one on one
interview with African news editor
andanchormanGuilhermedoCarmo
Barbosa Neto and a look at the
country Sao Tome and Principe.
Katie Jones, center, the first chairperson of San Antonio's Ebony Fashion
Fair, chats with two models after the successful completion of this year's
show. Jones chaired this year's show, also.
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