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Staff and Wire reports
IUPUI filling city bus with food for hungry One IndyGo bus didn’t pick up 1 passengers this week. Instead, the Jaguars city bus is collecting enough food from the IUPUI campus to feed people served by 10 different local shelters. According to Gleaners Food Bulk, 13 percent of Hoosiers aren’t getting enough to eat. That’s why on Tuesday, IUPUI faculty, staff, and students once again joined together to fill the bus full of food as part of the “Jam the Jaguars Bus” food drive. Beginning at 10 a.m., the bus, painted with IUPUI mascot Jinx the Jaguar, made stops across campus to pick up collections from various departments and offices and delivered the goods to local shelters including Gleaners, the Julian Center, Lighthouse Mission, Wheeler Mission and
, more. Throughout November, IUPUI has encouraged students, faculty and staff, as well as the public, to bring in canned goods and other much-needed items. In the food drive’s first year, last year, the campus filled the entire city bus and several large vans full of food. IUPUI student organizations alone contributed 1,800 pounds of food.
IDEM monitors
mercury in Indiana Many remember playing with mercury as a child. We remember using it to shine pennies during science class or even watching it scatter when dropped to the floor. Now, we must all be aware of the danger that mercury can pose to our health and the environment. As part of its efforts to deal with mercury in the environment, IDEM has awarded the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) a tworyear grant totaling $528,500 to discover how much mercury is in our environment. The primary funding for the grant comes from IDEM ’ s air and water state funds. With this grant the USGS will establish and operate four monitoring stations for mercury and trace metals in rain and snow in Indiana. The data will provide IDEM with an assessment of how much mercury falls from the sky. The grant will be used to set up and run the stations (including equipment), analyze the data, and produce interim and final reports of the analysis. . For more information about mer-
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New home for Mozel Sanders dinner
By ANARti V. HOLMES
Recorder Editor
The Mozel Sanders Thanksgiving Dinner will take place in a new venue this year, but the move won’t damper the spirit of community service left by its founder. For its 26th year in operation the community dinner relocated from its long-time home inside the kitchen of Arsenal Tech High School into Atherton Student Union at Butler University. “Tech remodeled their kitchen and reduced it down to a third of what it was,” said T.C. Watson, operations manager of the annual dinner, founded by the late com-
munity activist Rev. Mozel Sanders. “They took out the big kettles we use to cook the food in and informed us last year how we would probably have to look for a new home to have it because they could no longer accommodate the size of our dinner.” Last year, 23,000 dinners were delivered to hundreds of Marion county families in need and event organizers anticipate that number will swell to more than 25,000this year.
of the Black community.
“The bottom line is you can’t be all over die city.
The move to Butler generated some community criti- Whatever location you have it will mead some people cism. Some critics were concerned about the needy being can’t get there,” said Watson. “You’ve got people living
able to get to the Northside campus at 46th Street and
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People wait for flu
vaccine
By RONNETTA S. SLAUGHTER Staff Writer
Although flu season officially begins in January, many people eagerly await shots to decrease the likelihood of contracting the vims. Most Indiana residents, however, are still waiting for the flu vaccine as dramatic supply shortages affect local and national health care providers. According to specified restrictions, only people at-risk for contracting the vims can receive the shots including health care employees and senior citizens ages 65 and older. In August, manufacturers notified hospitals and health care providers about the impending delay of shipments. Twq years ago, 1,817 people in Indiana die<rfit>m flu or pneumonia, and vaccine shortages threaten to further increase fatalities. “I’ve never seen this long of a delay (with shipments),” said Phyllis Peden, coordinator of the immunization program
Haughvllle activist cams national honor
By FREDERICK L.MERKERSONIH Stuff Writer
Olgen Willliams’ vision of watching his grandchildren play outside while he sat on the porch of his Haughville home was just a distant dream 10 years ago. Once considered a haven for relentless crime and violence, die Westside neighborhood just wasn't the place for kids to play outside or for seniors to gather on the
Hosea Williams, pictured in this file photo, was the fiery lieutenant to Martin P<mh.
Luther King Jr. He died of cancer Thursday, Nov. 16,2000. He was 74. (AP Photo/ But times are different now, hugely RIcFeld) because of residents like Williams, execuHosea Williams, civil rights £: s S c “ Hou “ He
leader, dies of cancer
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ATLANTA (AP) — Friends of civil day civil rightsmovemewlias fallen." she rights activist Hosea Williams remember said. “He fought tirelessly unto his last
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him as a courageous, determined stalwart who continued to contribute to his com-
munity even as he battled cancer. Williams, who died last week of cancer
at age 74, was prominent in the civil rights movement long after the death of its leader, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. For three decades, Williams was also known for his annual holiday dinners for the poor, which
fed 30,000 last year in Atlanta. King’s widow, Coretta Scott King, la-
breath to help the broken, die hurting and the downtrodden have a better life.” Williams was with King in Memphis, Tenn., helping support striking sanitation workers on April 4,1968, the night King
was assassinated.
During a 1993 interview with The Associated Press, Williams recalled his anger: “I was wishing I could pull some
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Tobacco settlement helps
rrSETs; develop smoking programs
(Including diabetes), kidney
disorders or
Immune system problems.
By RONNETTA S. SLAUGHTER Staff Writer
and dldar who Hava chronic pulmonary or cardiovascular disease, Including asthma. Children and tMn-agere («ge 8 months to 18 yoare old) who are and therefore might beatrtpkfor
Influenza infection. • Women wire win be In the second or third trimester of pregnancy during
Indiana’s share of the national $206 billion tobacco settlement will go towards prescription drugs, public health initiatives and anti-smoking programs. Many local organizations insist that AfricanAmerican awareness programs remain a top priority to combat deceiving advertisements which may target specific ethnic groups. “We need more (smoking) education in communities of color,” said Cecilia Bordador, director of diversity for Smokefree Indiana. ‘Tobacco plays a large
part in public health issues (for African Americans).” During last month’s African-American Male National Conference, Bordador presented a workshop that highlighted tobacco’s influence (Hi Blacks throughout
the years.
“From the Fields to the Factories: The Tobacco Industry’s Contribution to the Plight of African-American Matas and Females,” detailed a historical journey
attention as the Indianapolis Division of the Federal Bureau oflnvestigation presented Will-
iams with the FBI’s “Director’s Community Leadership Award.” The prestigious award is presented only once each year in each of die FBI’s 56 national field divisions. It recognizes the achievements of individuals and organizations within die area of drug education
and prevention.
According to FBI officials, Williams has demonstrated an exemplary level of dedication, commitment and effectiveness in programs aimed at reducing drug use and violence in Haughville and hdi^
aipolis.
“(Hgen Williams is in quite an elite group. He is just everywhere he is needed in the community,” said FBI Special Agent Doug Garrison. “He let’s his actions dp fee talking and seems to have his hands
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and general statistics from slavery until Alliance Roundtable, a local group which
the year 2000. As slaves. Blacks worked in the tobacco fields and became addicted.
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Crips gang co-founder nominated for Nobel Peace Prise
By RON HARRIS Associated Press Writer
SAN FRANCISCO — San Quentin death row inmate and Crips street gang co-founder Stanley “Tookie” Williams has been nominated for the 2001 Nobel Peace Prize, a member of the Swiss parliament has confirmed. Parliament member Mario Fehr nominated Williams and said the inmate changed the lives of others through his series of children’s books and international peace efforts. '"s “I think he has done extraordinary/ work,” Fehr told The Associated Press in a telephone interview. “For these young kids that are in these street gangs, I think it is one of the only opportunities to get close to them. To get them out of the street gangs.”
Williams was said to be surprised by the nomination. “He was positively stunned,” said Barbara Becnel, a journalist Who edits Williams’ writings. “He was wide-eyed like a child and really excited and he was also very humbled by it.” She broke the news of the nomination to Williams in person on a recent prison visit. Williams, 46, and high school buddy Raymond Washington joined forces and created the Crips in 1971 as an alliance to combat rival gangs in East Los Angeles. Washington was killed by his street adversaries in 1979. Williams, “Big Took” to his gang buddies, continued his violent ways, imposing his 300-pound heft on those who dared stand in his way and transforming the Crips into a statewide
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empowers community organizations by partnering tH8m with government agencies in an effort to improve city neighborhoods. He has also worked wife other initiatives like Indianapolis Weed and Seed, Youth Fair Chance and the
Haughville Community Council. “He’s been a pioneer working wife
pdice to clean up the Westside. He’s most deserving and I’m proud to call him my friend,” said HD West District Deputy Chief Timothy Horty, who nominated Williams for fee award Tf any one deserved fee award, it was Olgen. He’s most
deserving.”
Surprised at fee honor, Williams said there were 10 or 15 other Haughville reridents determined to inqprove the neigb-
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