Tuesday, January 13, 2004

Wilmington, NC – Programming for the week of January 22, UNCW Community Link, an interactive, public affairs television show features heaps of chocolate for a worthy cause as well as the documentary Two Towns of Jasper.



This week H.E. “Hunter” Thompson Jr. talks with Molly Ramey and Billie Fleming from Working Films about the upcoming community debut of the critically acclaimed documentary Two Towns of Jasper. The documentary depicts the racially motivated murder of James Byrd, an African-American from Jasper, Texas who was chained to a pick-up truck and dragged behind it for three miles until his body disintegrated. Working Films is a national organization that links independent documentary filmmaking with community education. Two Towns of Jasper and Working Films, with funding from the Ford Foundation, are supporting a two-year campaign of community screenings of the film which is intended to provoke community dialogues and actions to bridge racial differences. There will be a free public screening in Kenan Auditorium, Wednesday, Jan. 21 at 7 p.m. A panel discussion will follow the screening.

Betty Ann Sanders gets together with the women in charge of the New Hanover Senior Center’s second-annual fund raiser, the Chocolate Fantasy Adventure, to get the scoop on this chocolate lover’s dream. Gail Ginsberg, a social worker for the Department of Aging, is coordinator of the Adventure while the pounds and pounds of chocolate are supplied by Milli Walton, owner of Just Because Chocolates. Walton, who acquired her chocolate recipes from her German grandmother, has been making chocolate her entire life is a self-proclaimed “chocolate artist.” With chocolate delights ranging from a tool kit to candles to aspirin there is little that Walton cannot make from chocolate. This year’s Adventure hopes to raise $15,000 to support the many programs at the Senior Center such as Family Respite Care Support, Home Delivered Meals, etc. There will be over 30 vendors at the event to help raise the money.

Dr. Randy Bobbitt, from the UNCW communication studies department, joins UNCW Community Link this week to discuss the possibility of a lottery in North Carolina.

UNCW Community Link reaches beyond the television studio to allow citizens to sound off on compelling issues facing Southeastern North Carolina. Hosts Sanders and Thompson 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 Community Link is brought to you in part by the following sponsors: Time Warner Cable, Wilmington Star-News and WHQR Public Radio.

For more information on today’s topics, please visit the following Websites:



Working Films

www.workingfilms.org

New Hanover County Senior Center

http://www.nhcgov.com/AG/SeniorCenter.asp







Watch UNCW Community Link on the following stations:

Wilmington & Brunswick County can tune in on The Learning Network, Time Warner Ch 5 and Charter Communications Ch 12 at 7 p.m. Mondays, Thursdays and Fridays.

Pender County can tune in on Government Channel 8 at 7 p.m. on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays.

Carteret County/Havelock/Jacksonville can tune in on Time Warner Channel 10 at 7 p.m. on Thursdays.