Tuesday, March 23, 2004

Wilmington, NC- Programming for the week of March 28, UNCW Community Link, an interactive, public affairs television show speaks with Julie Cox, Donna Noland, and two of their students about Brain Boosters. Also featured this week are Richard Sceiford and Ren Brown from the Cameron Art Museum.

H.E. “Hunter” Thompson, Jr. sits down with Richard Sceiford and Ren Brown to talk about how the Cameron Art Museum is reaching out to the community. The museum has an exciting fundraiser, the Gelede Spectacles, coming up April 30 through May 2. The event will feature dancing, drumming, women’s story telling and much more. According to Sceiford the project was designed to promote African dance, drum, and culture. Airlie Gardens is hosting the Gelede Spectacles event, tickets are $5.

Those looking for a way to become involved with the museum are welcomed to volunteer for the project. Training sessions for volunteers will be on April 16 or April 23 from 6 to 9 pm. If you are unable to donate your time, consider becoming a member of the museum. For more information about volunteering or membership please visit www.cameronartmuseum.com.

This week on Community Link Betty Ann Sanders has returning guests Donna Noland and Julie Cox. Cox also brought two of her students Mollie Grant and Carlie Blah. Noland and Cox were back again to talk about the different ways that students can become focused without taking medications. When asked about the effectiveness of the different exercises Carlie said “If I get off the subject and I do an ‘8’ and then I can get right back on it.” An ‘8’ is just one of many exercises that allow students to get up and move in ways that help them to get re-focused.

It seems that the key to the exercises affectivity is in crossing the brain’s midline. According to Noland, author of the book Brain Boosters, it helps them to re-focus and remember what they’ve studied. Cox, a 3rd grade teacher at South Topsail, said it has done volumes for her students.

This week’s Editorially Yours is brought to you by Eileen McConville of the YWCA.

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 this week’s show visit these web sites:

YWCA Women of Achievement

http://www.b99fm.com/advertisers/ywca/women

Cameron Art Museum

http://www.cameronartmuseum.com/featured

Discovery School

http://school.discovery.com/brainboosters

Tune into UNCW Community Link:

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 can tune in on Time Warner Channel 10 at 7 p.m. on Thursdays

Jacksonville can tune in on Time Warner Channel 10 at 7 p.m. on Thursdays