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By Jewell Cardwell
Beacon Journal staff writer
POSTED: 08:40 p.m. EDT, Aug 11, 2009
Big, beautiful bouquets to Akron's Evelyn Neal Miller who has taken it upon herself to launch a much-needed and extremely appreciated ''Pants Up Rally!'' from noon to 4 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 29, at Prince of Peace Baptist Church, 844 Garth Ave., Akron.
''I'm just a concerned parent and grandmother who's tired of the drooping,'' Miller said.
''We sit around saying 'We're tired of it,' and no one does anything. So I decided I would, starting with my own children and their friends, saying, 'Pull up your pants or else you can't come into my house!' ''
Miller, to her credit, didn't stop there. ''I went to the Goodwill and purchased belts, and asked for belts to be donated for this project. And I will be asking for donations of new or used men's belts of all sizes from adults to youth,'' Miller informed.
''I got a table at the [recent] Crime Night event and gave out belts to those who were drooping. My sisters and I wore T-shirts that said, 'Pants Up! See the Mind! Not the Behind!' and I made fliers saying, 'Be the one to make the Change! Pants Up! Young Men, you are our future. Pull 'Em Up!' ''
Miller said she was buoyed by the positive response.
Interested in donating belts to Miller's Pants Up! project or helping in other ways? Please contact her at miracleshesable@att.net.
A new mission
A community fundraiser will help ensure that the conversion of the Furnace Street Mission building into a chaplaincy center becomes a reality.
The center will be a long-overdue place of confidential emotional healing for safety forces of Summit County (police, fire and dispatchers) after being exposed to horrific incidents.
The Rev. Bob Denton, pastor and chaplain for the Akron Police and Fire departments, provided this update:
''A group of off-duty police and fire personnel along with Victim Assistance volunteers met and gutted the building to prepare it for remodeling. When the Tri-County Laborers Union heard about the project, the members volunteered to donate all the labor needed to remodel the building (estimated to be approximately $100,000).
''On June 10, a press conference was held to announce the project and to solicit materials for the project. In attendance were approximately 50 police and fire personnel from across the county. The response to that request has been very successful; donated items include a furnace with central air, glass block windows, carpet, electrical lighting, and some carpentry materials. These items have been generously donated by contractors, developers and private individuals, many who have asked to remain anonymous, but wanted to help the Safety Forces of Summit County.''
An upcoming ''Dogs and Suds'' fundraiser (hot dogs and beer) will help fund the rest of the project. It will be from 4:30 to 7:30 p.m. Aug. 27 at Lock 3 Park, 200 S. Main St., Akron. Music, door prizes and free parking await you. Tickets, $10, are available from members of the local safety forces community.
Juvenile diabetes benefit
Three cheers for Trish Numbers, a Macedonia mother who is organizing a ''You've Got a Friend'' fundraiser from 6 to 11 p.m. Saturday at Scoreboards Bar & Grill, 10333 Northfield Road, Northfield. The event will aid the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation.
The party is very personal for Numbers, whose daughter Emily, 17, was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes when she was 12.
The event features entertainment by the Bustouts, a classic rock band, door prizes and a 50/50 raffle. A Chinese-style raffle with prizes ranging from $50-$200 also is planned.
Tickets must be purchased before the event by calling 330-467-6773. For $20, you get a rib dinner with corn, potato and beverage; for $25, the meal and entry in the 6 p.m. cornhole tournament.
Nod of appreciation
The family of Josh Geer — the 8-year-old golfer with cerebral palsy who was the subject of a recent Beacon Journal feature — wants to give a special nod to Akron General's Edwin Shaw Challenge Golf program and Ron Tristano, his golf coach.
Josh hit the ceremonial first shot off the tee at last week's Bridgestone Invitational.
''Ron started with Josh when he was 41/2 and his patience and knowledge has given Josh a sport he can play and possibly compete in as he grows,'' Lisa Geer said of her son. ''Along with Ron are many other volunteer coaches who have taught him the game, the rules, and the etiquette. They supported him and cheered him on. They were all at the tournament when he took that shot. . . . I would just like to let every parent of a child with a disability know that this is a wonderful program. Any child with any disability can try it.''
Bowling fundraiser
Friends of Shannon Johnson, the 17-year-old Stow girl who was critically injured when she fell from a moving vehicle, are planning another fundraiser to help with her medical bills.
They're hosting a bowl-athon at 6:30 p.m. Friday at Sto-Kent Family Entertainment Center, 3870 Fishcreek Road, Stow.
The $20 cost includes three games of bowling, shoes and dinner. A 50/50 raffle and a silent auction are planned. For more information or to donate auction items, please call 330-805-8763.
Fill the boots
Several local Ohio Association of Professional Fire Fighter unions from Stark County plan to take to the streets this weekend to help fight neuromuscular disease during the ''Fill the Boot for Muscular Dystrophy Association'' campaign.
Participating will be Canton Local 249, Jackson Township Local 2280, Massillon Local 251, Plain Township Local 2967 and Perry Township Local 3960 as they help Jerry's Kids. Their goal? $20,000.
Fazio's workers to meet
The second annual Fazio's Reunion is planned for 1 to 7 p.m. Aug. 23 at the VFW Pavilion, 690 W. Waterloo Road, Akron.
''If you remember last year, the very successful reunion of former workers from the now defunct Fazio's grocery chain netted a van full of extra food and several hundred dollars which was donated to the Interval Brotherhood Home (IBH),'' writes Debra Canale, research analyst at the Knight Center of Digital Excellence.
''The reunion committee will do the same this year. Cost is $7 in advance, and $10 at the door. Any extra funds or food will again be donated to Father Sam at the IBH.'' Checks should be made out to Fazio's Reunion and mailed to: P.O. Box 4571, Akron, OH 44310. For more information, e-mail faziosreunion2009@yahoo.com or call Cathy Brown at 330-785-1871.
Jewell Cardwell can be reached at 330-996-3567 or jcardwell@thebeaconjournal.com.
Big, beautiful bouquets to Akron's Evelyn Neal Miller who has taken it upon herself to launch a much-needed and extremely appreciated ''Pants Up Rally!'' from noon to 4 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 29, at Prince of Peace Baptist Church, 844 Garth Ave., Akron.
''I'm just a concerned parent and grandmother who's tired of the drooping,'' Miller said.
''We sit around saying 'We're tired of it,' and no one does anything. So I decided I would, starting with my own children and their friends, saying, 'Pull up your pants or else you can't come into my house!' ''
Miller, to her credit, didn't stop there. ''I went to the Goodwill and purchased belts, and asked for belts to be donated for this project. And I will be asking for donations of new or used men's belts of all sizes from adults to youth,'' Miller informed.
''I got a table at the [recent] Crime Night event and gave out belts to those who were drooping. My sisters and I wore T-shirts that said, 'Pants Up! See the Mind! Not the Behind!' and I made fliers saying, 'Be the one to make the Change! Pants Up! Young Men, you are our future. Pull 'Em Up!' ''
Miller said she was buoyed by the positive response.
Interested in donating belts to Miller's Pants Up! project or helping in other ways? Please contact her at miracleshesable@att.net.
A new mission
A community fundraiser will help ensure that the conversion of the Furnace Street Mission building into a chaplaincy center becomes a reality.
The center will be a long-overdue place of confidential emotional healing for safety forces of Summit County (police, fire and dispatchers) after being exposed to horrific incidents.
The Rev. Bob Denton, pastor and chaplain for the Akron Police and Fire departments, provided this update:
''A group of off-duty police and fire personnel along with Victim Assistance volunteers met and gutted the building to prepare it for remodeling. When the Tri-County Laborers Union heard about the project, the members volunteered to donate all the labor needed to remodel the building (estimated to be approximately $100,000).
''On June 10, a press conference was held to announce the project and to solicit materials for the project. In attendance were approximately 50 police and fire personnel from across the county. The response to that request has been very successful; donated items include a furnace with central air, glass block windows, carpet, electrical lighting, and some carpentry materials. These items have been generously donated by contractors, developers and private individuals, many who have asked to remain anonymous, but wanted to help the Safety Forces of Summit County.''
An upcoming ''Dogs and Suds'' fundraiser (hot dogs and beer) will help fund the rest of the project. It will be from 4:30 to 7:30 p.m. Aug. 27 at Lock 3 Park, 200 S. Main St., Akron. Music, door prizes and free parking await you. Tickets, $10, are available from members of the local safety forces community.
Juvenile diabetes benefit
Three cheers for Trish Numbers, a Macedonia mother who is organizing a ''You've Got a Friend'' fundraiser from 6 to 11 p.m. Saturday at Scoreboards Bar & Grill, 10333 Northfield Road, Northfield. The event will aid the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation.
The party is very personal for Numbers, whose daughter Emily, 17, was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes when she was 12.
The event features entertainment by the Bustouts, a classic rock band, door prizes and a 50/50 raffle. A Chinese-style raffle with prizes ranging from $50-$200 also is planned.
Tickets must be purchased before the event by calling 330-467-6773. For $20, you get a rib dinner with corn, potato and beverage; for $25, the meal and entry in the 6 p.m. cornhole tournament.
Nod of appreciation
The family of Josh Geer — the 8-year-old golfer with cerebral palsy who was the subject of a recent Beacon Journal feature — wants to give a special nod to Akron General's Edwin Shaw Challenge Golf program and Ron Tristano, his golf coach.
Josh hit the ceremonial first shot off the tee at last week's Bridgestone Invitational.
''Ron started with Josh when he was 41/2 and his patience and knowledge has given Josh a sport he can play and possibly compete in as he grows,'' Lisa Geer said of her son. ''Along with Ron are many other volunteer coaches who have taught him the game, the rules, and the etiquette. They supported him and cheered him on. They were all at the tournament when he took that shot. . . . I would just like to let every parent of a child with a disability know that this is a wonderful program. Any child with any disability can try it.''
Bowling fundraiser
Friends of Shannon Johnson, the 17-year-old Stow girl who was critically injured when she fell from a moving vehicle, are planning another fundraiser to help with her medical bills.
They're hosting a bowl-athon at 6:30 p.m. Friday at Sto-Kent Family Entertainment Center, 3870 Fishcreek Road, Stow.
The $20 cost includes three games of bowling, shoes and dinner. A 50/50 raffle and a silent auction are planned. For more information or to donate auction items, please call 330-805-8763.
Fill the boots
Several local Ohio Association of Professional Fire Fighter unions from Stark County plan to take to the streets this weekend to help fight neuromuscular disease during the ''Fill the Boot for Muscular Dystrophy Association'' campaign.
Participating will be Canton Local 249, Jackson Township Local 2280, Massillon Local 251, Plain Township Local 2967 and Perry Township Local 3960 as they help Jerry's Kids. Their goal? $20,000.
Fazio's workers to meet
The second annual Fazio's Reunion is planned for 1 to 7 p.m. Aug. 23 at the VFW Pavilion, 690 W. Waterloo Road, Akron.
''If you remember last year, the very successful reunion of former workers from the now defunct Fazio's grocery chain netted a van full of extra food and several hundred dollars which was donated to the Interval Brotherhood Home (IBH),'' writes Debra Canale, research analyst at the Knight Center of Digital Excellence.
''The reunion committee will do the same this year. Cost is $7 in advance, and $10 at the door. Any extra funds or food will again be donated to Father Sam at the IBH.'' Checks should be made out to Fazio's Reunion and mailed to: P.O. Box 4571, Akron, OH 44310. For more information, e-mail faziosreunion2009@yahoo.com or call Cathy Brown at 330-785-1871.
Jewell Cardwell can be reached at 330-996-3567 or jcardwell@thebeaconjournal.com.
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Tallmadge, OH
Posted 07:18 AM, 08/12/2009
I have yet to figure out why people of color wear their pants that way? Can someone enlighten us please.
Tallmadge, Oh
Posted 07:48 AM, 08/12/2009
"Drooping" is a prison culture carry-over. Drooping pants was a visible statement that a man was "available" for sex and would put up no resistance. By showing the buttocks and upper but crack it implied that it sodomy could be had for a price - well, at least in prison it does.
Why the self destructive urban culture today embraces this sign of homosexuality is a mystery. However, I would strongly state that never in the history of mankind has there ever existed such a self-destructive, go-nowhere culture. . . . if you want to call it "culture."
Canton, OH
Posted 07:57 AM, 08/12/2009
Outragous fashion among youth has been a way to rebel against adult authority for as long as I can remember. The more we complain, the more determined they are to do it.
Fairlawn, OH
Posted 08:57 AM, 08/12/2009
@ Traditionalist
While I would love the irony if that was truly the origin, it is not. The only thing you have correct is that it began in the prison system.
http://www.snopes.com/risque/homosex/sagging.asp
Akron, Oh
Posted 09:00 AM, 08/12/2009
Saggin' has been going on since the early 90's. It is kinda ridiculous thast it still goes on. Fashions come and go....bell bottoms, straight leg jeans, flannel shirt, t shirts, etc...... but saggin remains forever. Thank MTV and the hip hop rap culture. They wasted a generation of youth that is dumb, lazy, and goaless!
Canton, OH
Posted 09:04 AM, 08/12/2009
I doubt Ms. Miller's plan will have a huge effect but i give her a lot of credit - especially not letting kids in her house with droopy pants. Good for her!!!!
akron, OH
Posted 09:36 AM, 08/12/2009
@Mr grump suburban youths also droop their pants,take a look in your backyard.
Anti-Politically Correct & Anti-GOP, OH
Posted 09:57 AM, 08/12/2009
The #1 reason that the police will NOt do anything about this is because when the thugs and criminals run from them with saggy pants, they are much easier to catch.
Posted 11:16 AM, 08/12/2009
What are they going to do with all these belts? Use them to tie up their victims in home invasions and gang attacks?
Akron, Oh
Posted 11:41 AM, 08/12/2009
Most of the people I know who wear their pants sagging, which is stupid, are white boys on skate boards, so while I'd like to speak for my race I can't answer a race bais question when my experience is not yours...but whats Old Man Grump doing around so many young pantless black boys to know how they "all" wear their pants? mmmmm
Posted 12:32 PM, 08/12/2009
wildflower -What's Old Man Grump doing around so many young pantless black boys? Simple. It's obvious by just driving down the street.
Akron, Oh
Posted 02:39 PM, 08/12/2009
@Wildflower
"Most of the people I know who wear their pants sagging, which is stupid, are white boys.."
Liar.
akron, oh
Posted 05:50 PM, 08/12/2009
@tradition: It started in jails yes,but had nothing to do with homosexuality. They aren't allowed belts in prison. Saggin' on the streets says that you are "prison tough".
Stow, OH
Posted 06:28 PM, 08/12/2009
I find humor in the fact that so many people seem to think that drooping pants are a sign of the apocalypse. When I was young, facial hair, sideburns below the middle ear, shirts without collar, jeans, tennis shoes, the Beatles, pants on girls, skirts about the knee, and the like were thought be adults to signs that society was sliding into the pit of hell. I suppose that Cain, Abel, and the rest of their crew did something that appalled Adam and Eve. Every moment spent worrying about some kind of teenage fashion fad is a moment wasted. The more adults regale against drooping pants, the longer the fashion will stay around. Kids like to do things that bother adults. All those who are crusading against pants did the something when they were kids that irritated adults.
Akron, oh
Posted 06:39 PM, 08/12/2009
Just tell them you like the style, cops do.
Posted 04:04 AM, 08/13/2009
While reading your comments about the sagging pants,This is why we need it now , a Change it's been to long of a Style! Young men no matter what color are our future.
The comments posted have been very informative, and I thank each and everyone for their support of this project.
PULL EM' UP! SEE THE MIND! NOT THE BEHIND!
TELL THIS TO THE NEXT YOUNG MAN YOU SEE WITH SAGGING OR DROOPING OF THE PANTS.
Akron, Oh
Posted 07:03 AM, 08/13/2009
I work for a company and have had the privilege of sitting on several search committees, the last one was to find workers for a position in the computer/network field. The position was an entry level one that paid about $11.00 an hour, it wasn’t a get rich position but the pay, medical and chance to move up was there so we figured we’d get many applications. Out of the 120 applications we finally whittled it down to 10 candidates that seemed to fit all requirements for the job. We then called them in to interview we were surprised at a few of the candidates, 2 came in with the droopy pants look, (black guys) and 1 came in with dirt under his nails and looked like he just got done fixing his engine before the interview, (white guy). This was only an entry level position but the candidate would represent our company and would be seen by people from other companies, so those three people were thrown out immediately. Don’t people understand how to represent themselves for an interview and that first impressions are ever lasting? We simply decided that these folks were just a waste of our time and didn’t even give them any more consideration. These people that wear their pants like that for whatever reason don’t have a chance to get hired in the real world.
, OH
Posted 08:43 AM, 08/13/2009
My Dad has been wearing his pants like that for years
Akron, OH
Posted 08:49 AM, 08/13/2009
Now, now Nicky G...Wildflower isn't lying; she's just incorrect. While most young black youths buy pants that are 10 sizes too big and therefore, won't stay up on their butts, young white youths are wearing such tight, nut-hugger pants that they can't pull them up all the way. It's not uncommon to see boxers poofin outta anybody's pants anymore.
So, that said...it's a fad...it'll go away one belt at a time.
