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Bishop Dwight Amey, Sr., is one of the originators of the MLK March and celebration in Merced, and will be retiring from his post as chairman of the MLK committee after 19 years.

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The Legacy Continues: A Huddleston Tribute

Written by Sherian Dulan Brown, (Daughter of Garland and Jeannette Dulan, Granddaughter of Alberta Huddleston Dulan

True to the spirit of unity and love, we gather today to cel-ebrate our history, our legacy, and those who have passed the torch of perseverance and excellence on to us. Today we share a Huddleston tribute.

Charles C. Huddleston, born May 6, 1864, was the son of Jim Bryce Huddleston, who was a

slave, and Vashti Farr, daughter of Bob Farr.

Tennessee Allen, born No-vember 15, 1867 was one of 12 children of Sam Allen and Cloney Hart Allen.

Charles and Tennessee, af-fectionately known as ‘Papa Charlie’ and ‘Mama Tennee’ united in marriage and gave birth to 17 children.

Most, if not all, of the Hud-dleston children born to Papa Charlie and Mama Tennee were likely born in Missis-sippi, but the family moved to Muskogee, Oklahoma by 1916 where the promise of hope and prosperity spread out before the African American commu-nity like a welcomed blanket in post-slavery times.

Unfortunately, in 1921 when a hysterical Caucasian girl claimed that a 19-year-old black boy attempted to assault her in a public elevator in Tulsa in open daylight, a mob set forth on a wild rampage that cost the lives of 50 white men and between 150 to 200 Afri-can American men, women, and children.

The destruction by fire of 1.5 million dollars of property, the looting of hundreds of homes, and the senseless killing of in-nocent citizens deepened the wound of the thriving com-munity of post-slavery African

Americans. The emotional damage of having so much of what they and others fought for and worked for...and fought for and bled for...and fought for and died for was snatched away overnight as a result of an unfounded accusation. Their cry still resounds with us today.

The Tulsa Race Riot is just one example of the set backs and difficulties our ancestors lived and preserved through. Those were times our ances-tors were forced to blaze their own trails. To pick themselves up and start over. To rebuild something from nothing. This is the kind of iron will and per-severance we come from. This is our legacy.

There is no question that ac-quiring literacy and education during slavery and long after slavery was abolished involved a continuous struggle in the face of opposition for African American citizens. The oppo-sition maintained that African Americans were intellectually inferior and incapable of learn-ing more than the most rudi-mentary of basic skills. Then, to make matters more compli-cated for African Americans, they emphasized the ideology of a caste-like status.

Education was not freely giv-en to African Americans. They had to demand, create, fund,

SEE PAGE 4>The Huddleston Family

*The Merced County Courthouse Museum curated “Black Gold” exhibit to celebrate the African-American ex-perience in Merced County in 2007.

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and maintain their own educa-tional institutions that would provide literacy for all, coun-teract the false images that the opposition hoped to instill in the African American commu-nity, and prepare the enlisted students for the dominating culture’s institutions.

Indeed, African Americans had to uplift themselves to overcome the throws of illiteracy. Today, most citizens think of education as a basic and almost sacred right, but this privilege was not true for our ances-tors. They realized, however, that education was necessary for growth, success, and per-spective beyond the invisible walls that separated their real-ity from the cultural majority. This is the kind of enlightened thinking we come from. This is our legacy.

In spite of the hardships our ancestors faced and overcame, faith in God has permeated our ancestry and has served as a source of strength for us all. Regardless of religious af-filiation, we are steeped in the belief that there is Someone greater than us all. There is Someone greater than even the most dire of circumstances who sustains us. Regardless of the conflict and injustice on this earth, we know there is a place where all sorrows will cease and love will permeate the air like a sweet aroma. This is the kind of faith we come from. This is our legacy.

Our ancestry is one of iron will, rich experience, unrelent-ing perseverance, and immea-surable sacrifice. Today we celebrate that legacy. When ‘Papa Charlie’ and ‘Mama Ten-nee’ united in marriage and gave birth to 17 children, they continued the rich legacy from which we come.

1. The firstborn to Papa Char-lie and Mama Tennee was Irene Huddleston Smith, born De-cember 15, 1891. She married Cornelius Smith and together they adopted a son named Donald.

2. The second born was Au-gustus Huddleston, affection-ately known as “Uncle Gus”,

A HUDDLESTON TRIBUTE....CONTINUED PAGE 3who was born March 14, 1893. He had 3 children named Thel-ma, William, and Helen Mae.

3. The third child was Effie Dean Huddleston White, born on October 2, 1894. She had a child named Loyce Brown Woods and later married Jo-seph White with whom she had 4 other children: Major Cornelius White, Wilma Jean White Perry, Charles Elehew White, and Edward Augustus White.

4. The fourth Huddleston child was named Macfarland Huddleston, affectionately known as ‘Uncle Mac’, born December 9, 1895. Uncle Mac had 3 children: Rochester Hud-dleston, Lorraine Huddleston Wills, and Homer Huddleston.

During the early 1900s it was not uncommon for many children to die during infancy due to disease or infection. To-day we have the availability of vaccines and cures for many diseases such as measles and smallpox, but during the early 1900s these diseases were deemed life threatening dis-eases.

5. Remorsefully, the fifth child, Bertha Boyce Hud-dleston, born in 1897,

6. and the sixth child, Cassie Lenora Huddleston, born in 1898, passed away as young children.

7. The seventh child born to Papa Charlie and Mama Tennee was Bryce Allan Hud-dleston, born August 5, 1899, who married Susanna Adams on December 18, 1920. Bryce and Susanna had 6 children: Theresa, Charlie, Thomas Spen-cer, Imagene, Roxine Wright, and Edward Rae. Bryce was the first in the family to leave Okla-homa and move to California in 1936 or 1937. In subsequent years, he inspired the rest of the family to move to California as well.

8. The eighth child was An-nie Mae Huddleston Norman, born August 30, 1900, who married Richard Norman. An-nie Mae and Richard’s children were Richard Jr., Harold Loyd, Maxine, Robert, Gladys and Stanley.

9. We regret that the ninth child, Floyd Huddleston,

10. Tenth, Robert Hud-dleston,

11. Eleventh, Vannie Jay Huddleston,

12. and twelfth, Wardell Huddleston, all died as young children.

13. But the thirteen child, Al-berta Huddleston Dulan, born November 27, 1905, survived and married Harry Benjamin Dulan. Together they had 7 children: Harry, Boyce, Claude Garland, Albert, Erwin, Byron, and Charlene.

14. The fourteen child, Stanley Huddleston, born No-vember 17, 1906, married Mat-tie, and had a daughter named Caroline. Stanley was a Sev-enth-day Adventist minister in the southwest and northeast. One of the churches he pas-tured was Berea SDA Church in Boston, MA.

15. The fifteenth child was Samuel Huddleston, born No-vember 3, 1907. Uncle Samuel was an entrepreneur.

16. Sadly, the sixteenth child, Susan Huddleston,

17. and seventeenth child, Garland Taft Huddleston, died as a children.

Out of the rich soil of perse-verance, hard work, and the will of God, a legacy was born. Our legacy is one of roots that run deep, far, and wide. A tree without deep roots will even-tually die; and a tree that can-not reach out of the soil toward its Creator will remain fruitless.

You and I are the tree that stretches forth from the soil of our heritage. We are the trunk, branches, and leaves reach-ing upward and stretching outward to bear fruit, to join together and provide the nu-trients of belonging, love, and encouragement to each other and those who find shade un-derneath our blooming can-opy. We can do this knowing that our roots, this Huddleston legacy, this rich heritage to which we all belong, has the strength to bind us together and yet still set us apart as we grow.

Our legacy of excellence, handed to us by our ancestors, continues with you and me.


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A Continuing Strength In Our Society

Bishop Dwight Amey

Bishop Dwight Amey Sr. — forever linked to the Martin Luther King Jr. Day Celebra-tion in Merced and an hon-orary grand marshal of the march — has had quite the life.

He was born in Madera on July 7, 1945. He grew up in Chowchilla, joined the Air Force, moved to Merced in 1968, bought a house in 1972, and has been married to his sweetheart Gwen for 49 years.

As a spiritual man and pas-tor of the New Faith Taber-nacle Christian Church for 35 years, a father of four now grown children, 13 grandchil-dren, four great grandchil-dren, and boundless contri-butions to the community of Merced, he is an inspiration and living legacy in his own right.

Today, Amey feels at ease in his modest home, relaxed with a gentle spirit about him. He knows who he is and what he's about.

"When I was a kid grow-ing up in Chowchilla, I had to fight everyday because I was black," he says.

He talks about his life and the calling he had that plant-ed the seed in starting the first Martin Luther King Jr. march and celebration in Mer-ced some 19 years ago. The event was focused on a street that was once only known as “J Street.”

Today, with Amey’s love and dedication, Martin Luther King Jr. Way has much more meaning and connection with the community.

"I was lead by the spirit," he says.

Amey attended Merced Col-lege, receiving a degree in ar-chitecture while working for UPS. However, after applying to different firms he realized that staying with UPS made more sense because he was making almost double the income than what he was of-fered elsewhere.

He worked for UPS for 29 years retiring at age 50. Since

then he has devoted his time to community service, his family and his ministry.

"I am a spiritual man," he says. "I told myself if I ever do anything in the community I want to bring people togeth-er ... and respect differences."

Of all his memories, Amey likes to recall the seventh annual MLK march. "Seven is God’s perfect number," he says. "And on the seventh year of the parade, I started crying, bringing all these people to-gether… it was a calling." Sadly, but respectfully, this is Bishop Dwight Amey's last year as chairman and leader of the MLK committee. He is stepping down. The new leader is Tamara Cobb. But Amey smiled and waved at residents one more time on the MLK route.

"I enjoy my family, my kids and grandchildren,” he says. “I have lived a good life here in America as a black man. It's one of the greatest countries in the world."

By Lynda BrommageMid-Valley Publications

Reflects Love Of Longtime Leader

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harpoon of its day. It is said to have doubled the number of whales caught each year,

bringing new riches to all of New England.

Assemblyman Adam Gray presented an award to Bishop Amey for his years of community service. The award was presented January 19, 2015 at the Annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration.


Black History MonthPoem from the AdamsFamily Reunion AlbumWell the time has rolled around once again,We want to bring up each family name;If we don’t call out your people today,Please don’t hold us to blame. We want you to know we are glad you are here, And that you are a part of us;But even in the best of families, Sometimes they even fuss. Now there are the Adams, Alex-anders, Ameys,Andersons, the Atkins too;Then the Barnes, Browns, and the Boyces, And the Berkleys are a part of this crew.

Then the Bowies, Brewsters, the Claybornes,The Crumbys and Winzers ga-lore;

The Palmers, Shannons, the Loves and the Hayes,The Jenkins and many, many more.

Then the Whitneys, Mitchells, Lewises, Gaines,The Hansons, Slaytons by the dozens;The Bryces, Bluefords, Brooks and Veasleys,And the Salerys and all of the cousins

Oh the Jones, Johnsons and the Huddlestons,Mc Cluneys, Walkers from way back;Then the Davises, Gallaways,the Dunns,Many of us started in a shack.

Remember Wilkins, Pluto, Scis-sem, the Kings, The Marzettes and the Atwater Thames;The Graysons and Winstons were also good folks, And the Hartfields were part of the blameYes the Craigs, the James, and so many Smiths,And the Greenwoods many left town;But the Fletchers, the Yokleys, the Whites and

The Wiggins are still seen walk-ing around.

Well the Morrises, Wards and the Turners, MaysThe Praters, Wrights, Martins, Coles;The Greens, Tollivers and the Grahams, Are still eating beans by the bowls.

We can’t forget the Hunters, the Edwards andBlackshears were here;The Woodwards and Woodson, the Nutts and the Roberts,All these we hold so dear.

The Watsons and Sheppards they go way back,The Hewitts were fast in their time;The Mc Quires, the Harrises and the Halls,Are part of culturing chimes.

Remember the Rocquemores, and the Terrells,The Rogers, Mc Murrays too;Then the family of Perkins, and Merrimans,And Porters were proud of you.

Tomilsons, Wynns, Tilfords and Moores,Woods and Thompsons don’t stop;Staples and Dales, Carradines and Toods,Are still reaching for the top.

De Grafferys, Pollards and Ferg-ersons,You are a special breed;And surely this list would not complete,If we left off the family of Reeds.

If we left any old timers out, Please call your name with one great Big SHOUT

So enjoy today with old and new friends,

Do it with gusto and cheer;Then if God bless and all goes well

We’ll see you again next year.

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As the Ferguson, Missouri turmoil unfolded over the past several months I began to think about my own fam-ily's journey from Blytheville, Arkansas to Compton, Califor-nia in l961. My father, Jaffus Haley decided to migrate to California because there were more opportunities here, and he didn't want any of his chil-dren resulting in strange fruit hanging from southern trees.

Our country has come along ways since the early l960's. Back then my hero, Thurgood Marshall, the first African American Supreme Court justice said that social movements won't last unless laws are made to ensure their intended goal. As a result of much rioting in cities all across the United States in the l960's; Detroit, Chicago, Los Angeles, just to name a few, President Lyndon Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act into law in l964. I'm sure peaceful demonstrations led by Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King at his height of influence had a lot to do with President Johnson signing this bill into law.

Back then I learned a lot about my own history. In pub-lic schools we mostly heard about white inventors: Thom-as Edison, Henry Ford, Alexan-der Graham Bell, Eli Whitney, etc. My own curiosity led me to discover Black inventors, scientists, and doctors whose inventions and discoveries permeate our lives today. For example, on your way to work

Black History is American Historytoday did you realize that Gar-rett Morgan invented the sig-nal light? He also invented a gas mask that saved many lives in Cleveland, Ohio when there was an explosion in a tunnel. He and his brother risked their own lives to pull men to safety out of the fire and smoke. When news of this new invention spread, many orders were placed for his re-spiratory hood as he called it. Orders were cancelled just as fast when White run compa-nies found out the inventor was a Black man. Incidently, he is also known for invent-ing a hair straightener too in the same vain as Madam C. J. Walker, the first black million-aire in the United States.

Have you ever heard of Lew-is Latimer? His light bulb was better than Thomas Edison's version. He worked in the U.S. patent office and help patent Thomas Edison's light bulb and Alexander Graham Bell's telephone. He also invented the water closet for trains. Just ask any porter who worked on a train and they will tell you how important this invention was.

How about Elijah T. Woods? He was called the Black Thom-as Edison. He filed over 60 patents for inventions. He also defeated Thomas Edison in court over several of his in-ventions. He won because he was the only one who could explain how many of his in-ventions worked. One of his inventions that I'm grateful for is a tracking device to keep trains from colliding into each other. Unfortunately this in-ventor doesn't get his just due, because he was often in court defending his inven-tions that bigger companies were trying to steal from him. The majority of his money was spent on legal fees defending his patents and inventions.

Probably the most recogniz-able name I want to mention is George Washington Carver, a son of slaves. He lived from 1864 until 1943. Thomas Edi-son offered him a salary of

$100,000 per year to come work for him. Luckily for Book-er T. Washington, the found-er of Tuskegee Institute, Dr. Carver stayed at the university to discover over hundreds of new products and usages of peanuts, sweet potatoes, soy-beans, and pecans. Many of the products included paints, dyes, plastics, make-up, pea-nut butter, and even a kind of gasoline. He practically saved the Southern farmers crops by introducing crop rotation to keep the soil enriched and not become depleted. This famous botanists also was a musician and painter too. He invented over 300 new usag-es for the peanut and at least 125 products from the sweet potato.

As I pondered over our his-tory I thought about con-ditions for today. African Americans have become the second largest minority 44.5 million ( 14.2% of the popula-tion) to Hispanics 54 million ( 17%) in America. We did elect the first Black president, Barack Obama, yet not much economic progress has been made for Blacks. We now have 66% of the prison popu-lation when we only represent 14.2% of the general popu-lation. Something is wrong with this number to dispro-portionally have this many Black men in jail. We've lost an entire generation, ages 12-35 to drugs: methamphetamine, crack, heroine, marijuana, etc. We have more Black men in jail than in college. Our morals are at an all time low. The last I checked 72% of all Black chil-dren are born out of wedlock compared to 29% for Whites, and 54% for Mexicans, 17% for Asians, and 67% for Na-tive Americans. Overall about 41% of all births are born out of wedlock. We need to wake up spirtually to get this thing turned around.

As the Staple Singers use to sing, "How you gonna get respect?" The thing that mat-ters the most has been my up bringing in the church.

The church has always been a great influence for the contin-ual existence of the Black race in America. My heroes where all the older Haley patriarchs and matriarchs. Alex Haley, wrote about our family tree

in his book called "Roots." It was the highest rated TV se-ries ever watched. Many of our family members thought Alex Haley was obsessed with his Roots idea. Yet, it gave America a conscience. Things were getting better from the l960 until now. Now it seems our country has regressed.

The Bible declares in Mat-

thew 11:28-30, "Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and you shall find rest unto your souls. For my yoke is easy and my burden is light." Yes, Jesus is still the answer for all our challenges in life. Yes, Matthew 6:33 sums it up in a nutshell, "Seek ye first the kingdom of God and His righ-teousness, and all these things will be added unto you." Food for thought.....

By Dr. Eric Haley


RELIGIOUS COMMUNITYSlavery is an institution whereby

human beings are divested of freedom and personal rights; the slave is wholly subject to the will of another.

Slavery has been practiced, in varying degrees, since the earliest of ages. In Genesis 10:8 there is the record of Nimrod, who was "a mighty hunter."

The context suggests that he was a hunter of men; an an-cient tyrant who enslaved oth-ers (Stigers, p. 125).

During the Patriarchal and Mosaic periods, slaves were acquired by military conquest (Num. 31:9), through purchase (Gen. 17:32), by birth from oth-er slaves (Ex. 21:4), through vol-untary submission (Lev. 25:39), or, a slave might be received as a gift (Gen. 29:34). Under He-brew law the slave principally suffered the loss of civil liber-ties; otherwise, he was treated as a household member. The Old Testament thus sought to regulate an institution that was prevalent in the antique world. Slavery, in Hebrew society, was far superior to that which exist-ed among the pagan nations of that era. It was never the ideal will of the Creator that one per-son should own and/or com-pletely control another.

Christianity was born into the Roman world. It is estimat-ed that there were 60 million slaves in the Roman empire. A slave, under that system, was not a person; he was a hing---a piece of chattel to be used, abused, and disposed of at the whim of his master. Some have faulted the Christian system for not meeting this evil head on. God knows, however, that hu-man hearts are not changed by revolution; rather, moral per-suasion is the divine ideal for the transformation of human attitudes from bad to good (cf. Rom. 12:2). Barclay wisely noted: "There are some things which can-not be achieved suddenly, and for which the world must wait, until the leaven works"

(p. 312). The teaching of Jesus Christ contained the moral seed which, when understood and received, would lead to the abolition of this abusive insti-tution (Gal. 3:28; Philem.; Eph. 6:5-9). Slavery was a blight upon our own country in the days of its youth.

Slaves were brought to the American colonies in 1619. Two centuries later, in the fa-mous Dred Scott decision of 1857, the U.S. Supreme Court declared that the "descendants of Africans who were imported into this country and sold as slaves" are "beings of an infe-rior order ... so far inferior that they had no rights which the white man was bound to re-spect." Accordingly, the "negro" did not qualify as a part of that body of "people" (i.e., citizens) to which the Declaration of In-dependence referred. Blacks were thus not entitled to the "rights, and privileges, and im-munities" guaranteed by the Constitution. Practically speak-ing, they were viewed as prop-erty rather than persons (Com-mager, pp. 339-345). Our own age is plagued with a situation not altogether dissimilar to the ancient vice of slavery. We speak of the abuse of pre-born human beings, and indeed, po-tentially others as well. Human Personhood - A syn-thesis of the available biblical material can only lead to the conclusion that, from God's vantage point, a human person commences to exist from the time of conception (union of sperm and egg) within a mother's body. Reflect upon these points. (1) The Old Testament consid-ers the life of the unborn child as intrinsically valuable as that of its mother. Moses wrote: "And if men strive together, and hurt a woman with child, so that her fruit depart, and yet no harm follow; he shall surely be fined, according as the wom-an's husband shall lay upon him; and he shall pay as the

judges determine. But if any harm follow, then thou shalt give life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth ..." (Ex. 21:22,23---ASV). The word "fruit" in He-brew is yeled, which means a "child." Compare Genesis 21:8 where the word is used to de-scribe Isaac as an infant. The passage thus suggests that if two fighting men injure a preg-nant woman, so that she gives birth prematurely, if any harm follows (either to mother or child), the perpetrators shall be judged proportionate to the damage done. As one scholar has noted: "... the unborn fetus is viewed in this passage as just as much a human being as its mother ..." (Hannah, p. 141). (2) The inspired prophet David clearly considered himself as a "person" in his mother's womb. "For thou [God] didst form my inward parts: Thou didst cover me in my mother's womb" (Psa. 139:13). Observe the personal pronouns. The "entity" growing within the mother's body is a living, human person. This cannot be logically dis-puted. (3) The Greek word brephos is found several times in the New Testament. It is defined as follows: "an un-born child, embryo, fetus ... new born child, infant, babe" (Thayer, p. 105). John the Bap-tizer, as a brephos, leaped in his mother's womb (Lk. 1:41) Jesus, as a brephos, was laid in the manger (Lk. 2:14,16). The same term is used of both. The difference between the pre-born and the newborn is time, not worth. (4) James characterizes physi-cal death as the separation of the spirit from the body. The body, apart from the spirit, is dead (Jas. 2:26). Here is the divine equation. Body - spirit = death. Body + spirit = life. If there is thus a new living creature from the moment of conception (as indeed every-one concedes), it necessarily follows that the spirit is present from that point onward. Body

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African American Educational Conference to be held at MJC

(Modesto, CA) The Modesto Junior College African Ameri-can Education Conference will take place on Saturday, Febru-ary 28, from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the Mary Stuart Rogers (MSR) Student Learning Center on West Campus, 2201 Blue Gum Avenue, Modesto. The free conference for ages 13 – 21, is geared toward encouraging students to stay in school, plan for college and develop skills that will ensure student suc-cess. Parents are encouraged to attend as well.

The conference will include workshops on counseling, fi-nancial aid and MJC’s First Year Experience program. Enter-tainment will include Pan Afri-can Drumming by Khemya Mi-tRahina, a show by step team Omega Gents, spoken word by Brandi Spencer and music by the band Ahousuo Morado.

The keynote speaker will be entrepreneur and actress

Cynthia Foreman, owner of Sweetie Pies, LLC. Her journey as an entrepreneur began with a bake sale fundraiser for the Little Folks Choir in the parking lot of the Pleasant Grove Mis-sionary Baptist Church in Hous-ton Texas. Her miniature sweet potato pies were a hit and soon she was selling 150 to 200 pies each Sunday, and her business “Sweetie Pies” (taken from her childhood nickname) was born. She relocated from Houston to

Oakland, California and in Jan-uary of 2006, Foreman’s Sweet-ie Pies, LLC was re-established and headquartered in the Bay Area. In 2011 she introduced a line of shortbread cookies and is now preparing to launch a gluten-free line of mixes for buttermilk pancakes, brownies and sweet potato and jalapeno cornbread.

Foreman is also a member of the Screen Actors Guild and has done both film and televi-sion work, as well as written and performed in her own one-woman production of “Bruised, But not Broken” in venues such as Madison Square Garden, Shubert Theater off Broadway, the National Black Theater Fes-tival in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, and Los Angeles Women’s Theater Festival, as well as at colleges and universi-ties. Many of her performances have been used to raise funds for battered women’s shelters.

The African American Educa-tion Conference check-in be-gins at 7:30 a.m. Although con-ference admission and parking are free, pre-registration is required in order to guaran-tee participants a complimen-tary continental breakfast and lunch catered by Larry Mac. To register email [email protected] (include AAE Conference in the subject line) by February 20, 2015. For additional informa-tion call Monika Schortner at (209) 575-7990 or John Griffin, III at (209) 575-6700.


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Samuel Emory, Pastor of Apostolic Tabernacle with youth who ministered in dance at Merced Community annual celebration, honoring the late civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. The Dr. King celebration was held January 19, 2015 at Merced County Fairground.

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SACRAMENTO–Assembly-member Adam C. Gray (D-Mer-ced) announced the introduc-tion of AB 174 in cooperation with Senator Anthony Can-nella (R-Ceres), which provides financial stability and room to expand enrollment in UC Merced’s medical school part-nership with UC Davis – the San Joaquin Valley Program in Medical Education (PRIME). Ad-ditionally, the bill would appro-priate the necessary resources to fund a two-year planning effort to establish a medical school at UC Merced.

“Despite increased access to health insurance under the Af-fordable Care Act, emergency rooms in the Valley are increas-ingly congested,” said Assem-blymember Gray. “There are simply not enough doctor’s of-fices here to meet the needs of the region.”

AB 174 is a reintroduction of Assemblymember Gray’s AB 2232 from 2014, which passed out of the Assembly before hit-ting a road block in the Senate Appropriations Committee. The bill appropriates $1.855 million to expand PRIME’s en-rollment to 12 students per year, up from a high of 8 and $1 million to allow UC Mer-ced to conduct the necessary research to submit a medical school proposal to the UC Re-gents.

“PRIME is a tremendous re-source for Valley students wish-

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Please join artists from At-water, Buhach Colony, Delhi, El Capitan, Golden Valley, In-dependence, Le Grand, Liv-ingston, Los Banos, Merced, and Sequoia high schools at an artist's reception for the Merced Honors High School Art Show on Feb. 12 from 5:30-7:00 p.m. at Multicultural Arts Center at 645 W. Main in downtown Merced.

The show, sponsored by Merced School Employees Federal Credit Union and the Merced County Office of Edu-cation, features the work of over 50 students, and will run from thru - April 2.

Cash prizes will be awarded to artists in several categories at the reception, including Best in Show and a special Superintendent's Award, in which the winning art work will be displayed in MCOE's District Office. A People's

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On Thursday, February 5, the Merced County Section National Council of Negro Women celebrated Black History Month by hosting Andre' Guzman, author of "Young Knowledge" and "Thoughts." Guzman talked about his life experiences and the knowledge he has learned from it.

Charlotte Blevins, with featured speaker Dr. Clayborne Carson at the Mother Lodge, Dr. Marin Luther King Jr. Celebration on January 11, 2015 in Sonora , CA.Dr. Clayborne Carson , the Martin Luther King, Jr. Centennial Professor of History at Stanford University and the founder of the Martin Luther King Jr. Research and Education Institute, which houses the official MLK archives. His topic was income inequality.Dr. Clayborne Carson has devoted most of his professional life to the study of Martin Luther King , Jr. He was selected by Coretta Scott King to edit and publish her late husband’s papers.

Dr. Napoleon Washington Jr., left, and Selma Green in the Martin Luther King Jr. parade held January 19, 2015 in Merced, CA.

Central Valley community, joined together in Merced CA., to honor and celebrate the birthday of the late Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on Monday, January 19, 2015.

The event had a lot of activ-ities, including a march, that started from the Amtrak Train Station and ended at Martin Luther King Jr. Way. The cele-bration concluded at the Mer-ced County Fair Ground with singing, dancing, presenta-tion and displays.

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Dr. David Denson Pastor and First Lady Lorrie A. Denson of the Burning Bush Church in Victorville, CA, are overseeing St. Mat-thew Baptist Church, which is currently without a Senior Pastor.

On Jan. 18, 2015, 80 members of the Burning Bush Church traveled from Victorville CA to support the St. Matthew Baptist Church family.

Merced’s Justin Sharpe Honored

Picture left-right are Bishop Rufus Keith Turner, Lady Trena Turner, Justin Sharpe, Danelle Sharpe and Sallye Sharpe. Justin a Merced native was honored for 12 years of dedicated services . He is the minister of music for the Victory in Praise Church in Stockton, CA.

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ing attend medical school,” continued Assemblymember Gray. “It provides an oppor-tunity to access the facilities and training that do not ex-ist in the San Joaquin Valley while conducting clinical ro-tations here at home.”

“Currently, the San Joaquin Valley is disproportionately affected by California’s physi-cian shortage with access to healthcare 31% lower than the rest of the state and the this will only worsen as the Affordable Care Act contin-ues to expand healthcare in-surance,” said Cannella.

In recognition of the Val-ley’s doctor shortage in 2008, the UC Regents authorized UC Merced to develop a planning effort to establish a medical school at the new-est campus of the UC system. Because that authorization did not include funding to conduct that planning, UC Merced has been unable to submit such a proposal.

“Our aspiring medical stu-dents should not need to travel to a different part of the state in order to achieve their dreams,” said Assem-blymember Gray. They were born here, and they want to learn and practice here. But without the necessary medi-cal infrastructure they need to become doctors, they have no choice. It is time to give them that choice.”

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Women's History Pioneer Vicki Ruiz toSpeak at CSU Stanislaus on March 4

Multicultural women's his-tory pioneer and author Vicki Ruiz, Dean of Humanities at UC Irvine, will speak about famed labor leader and civil rights activist Luisa Moreno

Vicki Ruiz was the first in her family to earn an advanced degree and has been a major force in shaping the field of Chicano/La-tino studies. Credit: Leigh Castelli

+ spirit = person. Personhood thus commences at the point of conception. In addition to these biblical premises, which argue for the existence of a human being from conception onward, until abortion became legal (Roe v. Wade, 1973), and a "new ethic" was adopted in this country, the testimony of science was unequivocally in favor of the proposition that human exis-tence begins at conception. Even though he is a militant evolutionist, Dr. Ashley Mon-tagu, in his book, Human Hered-ity, admitted: "The health of the infant and child begins at con-ception. ... Once the conception has been brought about the care of the infant and child be-gins with caring for the human being developing in the womb" (p. 91). Theodosius Dobzhan-sky, another prominent evolu-tionist, wrote: "A human being begins his existence when a su-permatozoon fertilizes an egg cell" (p. 10). Modern Slavery - The past twenty years have seen some shocking advances in scien-tific technology. As far back as

the 1940's scientists have been experimenting with the fertil-ization of human eggs outside the body. In those days, the em-bryos only lived a short while before they died. In 1961, Dr. Daniele Petrucci, an Italian bi-ologist, fertilized a human egg which grew outside the body for 59 days. He claimed that a heartbeat was discernible. He destroyed the little creature, he said, because it became enlarged and deformed. He claimed that it was a "mon-strosity" (Howard & Rifkin, p. 106,107). In 1966, a team of Russian sci-entists announced that they had succeeded in keeping more than 250 human babies alive in "test tubes" for periods of up to six months. It is estimated that there are now 10,000 frozen embryos in the United States (Elmer-Dewitt, p. 69). We are talking about 10,000 human beings floating around in liq-uid nitrogen baths throughout this country. As far as many scientists are concerned, these human persons have no rights at all. They are merely fleshly pieces of property to be experi-

mented with and disposed of at leisure. Consider the following. (1) "Water Tower Place, a shop-ping center on Chicago's Mag-nificent Mile, houses some of the most exclusive shops in the world. There you can buy every-thing from eighteenth-century Chinese screens to remote-con-trol robots.

But now, in the commercial office section of Water Tower Place, in a suite marked 'Repro-duction and Fertility Clinic,' a new item is going up for sale: human embryos"(Andrews, p. 67). What is the appropriate term for the selling/buying of human beings? (2) In October of 1993 at a meeting of the American Fer-tility Society in Montreal, Jerry Hall, a scientist who is the direc-tor of the in vitro fertilization [the combining of sperm and egg in a Petri dish to effect a hu-man conception] laboratory at George Washington University, announced that he and his col-league, Dr. Robert Stillman, had replicated a human embryo. Starting with 17 microscopic embryos that ranged from the two-cell to eight-cell stage (that's 17 tiny humans), they

divided these little beings into 48 others. The infants lived only a few days, but some scien-tists are suggesting that if the process is perfected, cloned humans could be raised to pro-vide spare parts for others. A re-cent survey indicated that 24% of the American public would have no moral objection to that procedure. But Professor Hans Bernhard Wuermeling, a medi-cal ethicist at the University of Eriangen, was quite right when he labeled this concept "a mod-ern form of slavery" (Elmer-De-witt, p. 69). Slavery indeed, and more! (3) Several years ago, scientists developed a procedure known as Electrical Stimulation of the Brain (ESB). Small electrodes were implanted in the brains of animals and, under the influ-ence of electrical stimulation, the animals' behavior could be remarkably regulated. Cats and monkeys performed like bat-tery-operated toys. Since these scientists believe that man is but a highly evolved animal, they contend that such tech-niques could work on human beings as well. Some have thus

suggested that sockets could be implanted in an infant's head a few months after birth. The youngster would then be programed to operate as a ma-chine. C.R. Schaffer, an electrical engineer, has argued that this would be an economical source of labor---"... the once-human being thus controlled would be the cheapest of machines to create and operate" (Coughlan, p. 104).

Conclusion - Is it possible that men could so degenerate as to be serious about projects such as the foregoing? Of course it is. Humans are perfectly ca-pable of enslaving their fellows. And this not science fiction; it is a present reality. If people of moral fibre do not inform them-selves, and stand ready to op-pose these Frankenstein-like enterprises, who can say what horrors are in store for the hu-man race.

Note: For further discussion of these points, see the author's forthcoming book, Biblical Ethics & Modern Science.]

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at California State University, Stanislaus on Tuesday, March 4 as the College of Humanities & Social Sciences celebrates Women's History Month.

A Professor of History at UC

Irvine and credited with cre-ating the field of the study of Mexican-American women in the Southwest and on the Pa-cific Coast, Ruiz will speak at 4 p.m. in Gemperle Lecture Hall, Room 167 of Demergasso-Bava Hall. Co-sponsored by the Ethnic & Gender Studies and History departments in the College of Humanities & Social Sciences, the program is free and open to the public. The title of Ruiz' presentation will be "Of Poetics and Poli-tics: The Border Journeys of Lisa Moreno."

Ruiz has published more than 10 books on women's history topics during her more than 30 years of re-search that began when she enrolled in the history grad-uate program at Stanford University. She went on to

become the fourth Mexican-American woman in the Unit-ed States and Stanford's first to receive a doctorate in her specialty. Ruiz was named La-tina magazine's "2000 Wom-an of the Year" and her book "From Out of the Shadows: Mexican Women in Twentieth Century America" was named the American Library Associa-tion Choice Outstanding Aca-demic Book of 1998.

Ruiz's accomplishments include an historical encyclo-pedia of Latinas in the United States. She has been honored with a presidential nomina-tion to the National Coun-cil on the Humanities, and Women's e-News Network has named her one of its 21 Leaders for the 21st Century.

Ruiz's passionate focus on collecting oral histories blos-somed during a trip to Gua-dalajara, Mexico, to interview Moreno who suggested that she tell the story of women

cannery workers in Southern California. The result was her doctoral dissertation and first book, "Cannery Women, Can-nery Lives: Mexican Women, Unionization and the Califor-nia Food Processing Industry, 1930-50."

An immigrant from Gua-temala, Moreno mobilized seamstresses in New York's Spanish Harlem, cigar roll-ers in Florida, and women cannery workers in Califor-nia from 1930 to 1947. She was the first Latina to hold a national office, organized strikes, and was the driving force behind the first national Latino civil rights conference in 1939.

For more information, con-tact the office of the Dean for the College of Humanities and Social Sciences at (209) 667-3531.

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The subject of friendship has been heavily on my mind late-ly, so I went to the Bible and also other resources to find out what God says about friend-ship. What is true friendship? What does it look like to be a good friend, or to experience true friendship with another person? What is a friend?

Simply, a friend is someone you know well and care about, who also knows and cares about you. Technology may have shifted the definition of friend in recent years, but hav-ing hundreds of online friends is not the same as having a close friend you can connect and be with in person. Tech-nology can facilitate social op-portunities by helping you re-connect with old friends, start new relationships with people around the world who share similar interests, and main-tain relationships with friends who don't live nearby. How-ever, online friends can't hug you when a crisis hits, visit you when you're sick, or celebrate a happy occasion with you after work.

True Friendship: What Is It?A true friendship is a very rare

thing, but when it is proven, it is something to treasure and keep safe by all means possi-ble. So, what are the hallmarks of a true friendship? How do you know when a friend re-ally loves you? There are three verses I want to focus on to illu-minate true friendship. The first one is from Proverbs:

“A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for adver-sity.” (Proverbs 17:16-18)

My best friend Kris who fits

this description perfectly. She loves at all times. She has prov-en it time and time again; that there is nothing I can say or do will diminish her love for me. When I make mistakes, I can confess to her and be assured not only of her constant affec-tion but also of her honesty. Though she never condemns me, she will tell me the truth about my actions and encour-age me to do what is right. Be-cause of her good judgment and her tender heart, I trust her completely. She is valuable – a true friend.

True Friendship: The Wounds of a Friend

“Faithful are the wounds of a friend; profuse are the kisses of an enemy.” (Proverbs 27:5-7)

It is common for a true friendship to be marked by wounds. As we live life togeth-er, situations arise where true friendship must express itself by one friend wounding an-other, or being willing to sus-tain wounds. The true friend of an addict, for example, may en-dure his friend’s abuse in order to intervene on his friend’s be-half. We may also have to hurt a friend (or allow ourselves to be hurt) in order to do what is most loving and right for the other person.

True Friendship: The Truest Friend

“Greater love has no one than this that someone lay down his life for his friends.” (John 15:12-14)

The greatest example of this is the action God takes in our lives. I recognize God’s friend-ship in His willingness to put up with my frustration and mistakes in order to do what is best for me. And I am humbled by his willingness to wound Himself, and His own son, for my good.

True friendship means laying down your very life, if neces-sary, for the good of a friend. This is the way God loves us. He gives us what is good for us, not what we want. Happily, there are times when the two coincide! But when they do not coincide, and when our foolish hearts long for what will ulti-

mately make us miserable, God is willing to break our hearts to keep us from that ultimate mis-ery. And remember: the heart of God is tender. When our hearts are broken, He feels it too. But He is willing to endure with us. And that is true friend-ship. Close friends vs. acquaintances or online friends

Sometimes it can be difficult to differentiate between close friends and mere acquaintanc-es:

• An acquaintance is someone you exchange small talk with as you go about your day, trade jokes or insights with online, or chat about sports with. While most of these relationships will never progress beyond an acquaintance level, with effort, close friendships can blossom from online contacts, people you meet on social media sites, or from neighborhood or work acquaintances.

• A close friend is someone you trust who shares a deeper level of understanding and communication with you; he or she is someone you can rely on, someone you can really con-nect with, face-to-face. A friend is someone you feel comfort-able sharing your feelings with, someone who'll listen to you without judging you or telling you how you should think or feel. As friendship works both ways, a friend is also someone you feel comfortable support-ing and accepting, and some-one with whom you share a bond of trust and loyalty.

What to look for in a friendA good friend will show a genuine interest in what's go-ing on in your life, what you have to say, and how you think and feel about things. A good friend will accept you for who you are and listen to you at-tentively without judging you or trying to change the sub-ject. A good friend will act in a trustworthy and loyal way, and will feel comfortable sharing things about themselves with you.If a person is controlling to-wards you, overly critical, self-ish, abuses your generosity,

or brings unwanted danger, drama, or negative influences into your life, it may be the sign of an unhealthy friendship. A good friendship does not re-quire you to always agree with the other person. It’s ok to agree to disagree.Good friends can:• Improve your mood. Happi-ness can be infectious. Spend-ing time with happy and posi-tive friends can elevate your mood and boost your outlook.• Help you to reach your goals. Whether you're trying to get fit, give up smoking, or otherwise improve your life, encourage-ment from a friend can really boost your willpower and in-crease your chances of success.• Reduce your stress and de-pression. Having an active social life can bolster your im-mune system and help reduce isolation, a major contributing factor for depression.• Support you through tough times. Even if it's just having someone to share your prob-lems with, friends can help you

cope with serious illness, the loss of a job or loved one, the breakup of a relationship, or any other challenge in life.• Support you as you age. As you age, retirement, illness, and the death of loved ones can often leave you isolated. Having people you can turn to for company and support can provide purpose as you age and be a buffer against depres-sion, disability, hardship, and loss. Staying socially engaged as you age keeps you feeling positive and boosts your hap-piness.Of course, friendship is a two-way street. Being a good friend to someone brings them all of the above benefits, and boosts your own happiness and sense of self-worth in the process. It also makes you feel needed and adds purpose to your life. While developing and main-taining a friendship takes time and effort, the many benefits of having a close friend make it a valuable investment.

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MODESTO, CA---“The Austra-lian Bee Gees Show,” a tribute to one of the successful musi-cal groups of all time, comes to the Gallo Center for the Arts on Wednesday, March 11, at 7:30 pm. It is from the same produc-ers behind “RAIN: A Tribute to The Beatles,” “Jason Bonham’s Led Zeppelin Experience” and “PFX – The Pink Floyd Experience.”

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came to a tragic end in a 1959 plane crash that also took the lives of fellow rock sing-ers Ritchie Valens and The Big Bopper. At the time of the crash, before beginning his country music career, Way-lon Jennings was Holly’s bass player. He gave up his seat that night to The Big Bopper and took a bus to the band’s next stop instead. Among

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whole grains or mash them into burgers.

10. Canned Tomatoes—Es-sential for sauces, soups and stews, canned tomatoes are faster (and, at most times of the year, tastier) to use than peeling, seeding and chopping your own. Select those that are lower in sodium.

“These are ingredients I reach for again and again,” Bedwell added. “With a well-stocked pantry and a little bit of plan-ning, it’s truly possible to pre-pare healthy meals in minutes.”

This entrée or appetizer is a delicious way to incorporate whole grain and other pantry essentials.

Salmon and Quinoa Patties

Yield: 8 patties Serving size: 1 pattie

2 Tbsp canola oil, divided 1 cup minced onion ½ cup finely chopped celery 1 cup cooked quinoa 2 cans, 6.5 oz each, salmon, rinsed and drained3 eggs2 Tbsp green relish ½ tsp salt In large nonstick pan, heat 1 Tbsp canola oil over medium heat. Add onion and celery and sauté for about 5 minutes. Remove from heat. In large bowl, combine prepared qui-noa with cooked onions and celery. Add salmon, eggs, relish

You can enjoy delicious, simple and wholesome Salmon and Quinoa Patties with grilled veg-etables on whole grain rolls or as mini appetizers.

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Serena Williams Wins Again

And at the end of the fortnight she was holding her sixth Aussie Open and 19th overall Grand Slam.

ST. PETERSBURG, FL, USA- The Women’s Tennis Associa-tion unveiled the first 2015 Road to Singapore

Leaderboard featuring 2015 Australian Open champion and World No.1 Serena Wil-liams a top the Leaderboard followed by Maria Sharapova, this year’s runner-up in Mel-bourne.

The Top 8 players on the final Road to Singapore Lead-erboard qualify for the 2015 BNP Paribas WTA Finals Singa-pore, presented by SC Global, featuring a record $7 mil-lion purse and an expanded format featuring eight days

of competition taking place from October 23-November 1.

“Fans have been treated to exciting action in the first month on the 2015 Road to Singapore,” said WTA Chair-man & CEO, Stacey Allaster. “We have seen great cham-pions excel on court with Serena Williams and Maria Sharapova battling in the fi-nal at the Australian Open. We have witnessed a career re-surgence from Venus Williams winning the title in Auckland and advancing to the quar-terfinals in Melbourne. The WTA Rising Stars, players like Genie Bouchard and Madison

Keys, have emerged as con-tenders each and every week. The Road to Singapore will be a compelling story to follow this year.”

For the sixth time in her ca-reer, S.Williams lifted the Aus-tralian Open championship trophy bringing her career Grand

Slam singles trophy count to 19, awarding her with 2,000 Leaderboard points. Win-ner of the 2015 WTA Finals, S.Williams picked up where she finished 2014, in the win-ner’s circle. Currently ranked No.1 in the world, S.Williams is scheduled to play the Dubai Duty Free Tennis Champion-ship in February.

“It makes me feel excited,” said S.Williams. “I started out this tournament not on the leader board, so I’m glad I can finish here on it. Last year I wasn’t high on the list until the fall, or late summer, so I’m excited to be on top of the Roadto Singapore list now. I have some work to do to make sure I get there to de-fend my title, but it’s looking good so far.I hope to get to Singapore again.”

By reaching the final at the Australian Open and winning the title at the Brisbane Inter-national, Sharapova positions

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Thayer, J.H. (1901), A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (Edinburgh: T.&T. Clark).

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and salt. Stir well to combine. Shape mixture into 8 patties, about1/2 cup mixture each. In saucepan, heat remaining canola oil over medium heat. Cook patties for 3 to 4 min-utes, undisturbed, or until golden brown. Flip over and continue cooking for about 4 additional minutes.

Nutritional Analysis per Serving: calories: 150; total fat: 9 g; saturated fat: 1.5 g; choles-terol: 90 mg; sodium: 360 mg;

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