Wednesday, April 23, 2003

Wilmington, NC – Programming for the week of May 5 for UNCW Community Link, a new interactive, public affairs television show, features discussions about Faith-Based Initiatives as well as Project CARE, a unit devoted to comforting military communities in times of deployment.

This week Betty Ann Sanders speaks with UNCW’s Paul Wilkes, Dr. Mike Queen from First Baptist Church and Reverend Joe Brown from St. Luke AME Zion church. The group discusses the Faith-Based Initiatives plan and the impact this government funding is having on the local community.

“Some things need to be ironed out before the plan is further implemented. There is a danger of violating the constitutional principle of the separation of church and state,” said Reverend Brown. “There may be some hidden political agenda’s attached to it that need to be removed before it becomes a firm plan.”

Also this week H. E. “Hunter” Thompson, Jr. chats with Sandra Wyrick from the Onslow Volunteer Center, Michele Van Horn from the USO and Lyndsay Jones from the Onslow Chamber of Commerce on the accomplishments of Project CARE. Project CARE was initiated in 1991 to help the families and communities that are left behind when massive numbers of troops are deployed. “The Community has come together because of [Project Care] and military families have formed a support structure,” said a very pregnant Lindsay Jones, whose husband is presently deployed in Iraq.

UNCW Community Link program reaches beyond the television studio to allow citizens to sound off on compelling issues facing Southeastern North Carolina. Hosts Betty Ann Sanders and H. E. “Hunter” Thompson, Jr. engage and challenge the region’s newsmakers and opinion-shapers and then ask viewers to voice their opinions. Through collaboration with the Southeast Public Interest Network of North Carolina (www.SpinNC.org), citizens can use the latest Internet technologies to continue the dialog on show topics and community ideas.

UNCW-TV has won four Awards of Excellence from the Alliance for Community Media.

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