Subject: Tarheel Tidbits
Date: Tue, 1 Feb 1994 12:30:45 -0500 (EST)

And now the latest news and gossip from the Old North State.

The brothers Foundation, the Queen City's non-profit organization working
to provide low-cost housing for people with HIV/AIDS, has announced plans
to broaden its service by developing the city's first adult day health
care program designed to meet the unique needs of HIV/AIDS patients and
caregivers.

World AIDS Day on 1 Dec. brought nine volunteers from around the Tarheel
State to the City of Oaks to honored by Gov. Jimbo Hunt and the Sec. of
Environment, Health and Natural Resources, Jonathan Howes.  Several
hundred people, most holding candles, gathered on Union Square in front
of the Capitol for the service.

Officials at Metrolina AIDS Project announced that Stephen O'Shields
their former treasurer, had been charged with two counts of embezzlement.
The arrest came three weeks after MAP's discovery that more than $120,000
was missing.

In the Queen City, the Charlotte Gay & Lesbian Film Sers, entering its
fourth year, announced this year's schedule of six presentations that
represent the best in gay and lesbian films of the year.

In the City of Medicine, the Magnolia Grill's Ben and Karen Barker have
decided to donate an evening of dining to raise money for AIDS.  David
Heslop, the manager, is forming a committee to determine how the money
should be used.

Back overn in the Queen City -- Yes, again.  Those queens sure are busy. --
Mecklenburg Superior Court Judge Zoro Guice, Jr., ruled that the process
by which a zoning variance was allowed for the New Life MCC to purchase
property for a church should be reviewed.  Records of the case are to
be provided to him within 30 days of his 6 Dec. ruling.

The NC Pride PAC for Lesbian and Gay Equality announced that it has hired
Derek Charles Livingston as Executive Director.  Livingston is from Miami
where he worked fro three years as an HIV prevention educator.  He was
one of the four national co-chairs of the 1993 March on Washington{

And that is the way it is in North Carolina, my home state.

-YHT