WEST VIRGINIA
Charleston
Charleston Economic Community Development Corporation (CECDC) Sponsors the fifth annual "Juneteenth" Saturday, June 13, 1998 - June 20, 1998. This year’s emancipation celebration is eight days of family activities, music, food, games, and much more. Saturday, June 14, 1998 will kick-off with Mayor G. Kemp Melton’s "Juneteenth" proclamation with this year’s theme: "Don’t Complain, Make a Change - Crack Get Back". Gospel preaching and singing is staged at the Westside Community Mart parking lot beginning Sunday afternoon, June 14, 1998, at 4:00 p.m. and nightly (Monday through Friday) at 7:00 p.m.
Activities during the week are a four-by-four block radius of sidewalk vendors, checkers and chess, billiards and table tennis tournaments, horseshoes, free throw shooting, three-point, and hot shot contest, along with two-on-two and three-on-three basketball tournaments. Additional activities will be a puppet show, film festival, West Virginia National Guard static displays of tents, HuM-Vee, OA-58 helicopter, Peacemaker, mini C-130H, Air and Army National Guard Recruiters with Sergeant Pride, along with a health Fair, Drug Abuse Resistance Education (DARE) information and Black History information booths and a carnival atmosphere of excitement.
The week-long celebration will be capped by a Saturday night banquet featuring Ms. Nancy Starks, Kanawha County Magristrate, Tickets are $15.00 per person and all funds raised will be used for CECDC’s Summer Youth Academy. For additional information call: Robert M. Hardy, Director CECDC, at (304) 343-3604 or Ms. Trudy Johnson, Chair/Juneteenth, at (304) 343-5820 or page 341-9710; Geneva Foster - pgr# (304) 341-9710.
Huntington
The Eighth Annual Juneteenth Festival,
hosted by Barnett Child Care Program, Inc., will be held Saturday, June
20th, from 12:00 noon to 9:00 p.m. at the A.D. Lewis Community Center. Our theme
for 1998 is "Celebration of Family." Events are
open to the public: READ-A-THON at Barnett Center, June 1-30
(Participants read all or portions of their favorite book, autograph and donate the book
to the Barnett Library. CELEBRITY/PERSONALITY BOOK AUCTION
(books autographed by local and national celebrities) will be held during the festival on
June 20. PARADE - On the morning of the festival, families
and organizations will parade through the Fairfield West community to the festival site.
Also on the day of the festival - MISTER JUNETEENTH & MISS
JUNETEENTH CONTEST FAMILY FASHION SHOW FAMILY GAMES
WORKSHOPS ENTERTAINMENT VENDORS. For more information, please contact Ms. Rebecca
Glass, Director of Barnett Child Care Center, Inc., e-mail address: rlglass1@aol.com,
telephone: (304) 522-3180.
