Click here to read a Q&A with Alisha By Loretta Fulton Alisha Taylor, a local actress, director, and producer of documentary films, is this year’s honoree at the annual Heroes’ Luncheon sponsored by ICAN (Interested Citizens of Abilene North). The luncheon will begin at 11:30 a.m. Thursday, April 9, at the Abilene Convention Center. Individual tickets are $40. Rosten Callarman,
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Click here to read article about ICAN’s Heroes’ Luncheon, including ticket information. By Loretta Fulton Alisha Janette Taylor is making quite a name for herself in her hometown as an actress, producer and director of documentary films. And now she can add “Hero” to her resume. On Thursday, April 9, she will be honored at the annual Heroes’ Luncheon, sponsored
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Editor’s Note: Rosten Callarman is the new executive director of ICAN (Interested Citizens of Abilene North). He replaces the Rev. Andrew Penns, director of Curtis House Cultural Center and pastor of Valley View Missionary Baptist Church. Callarman previously was housing navigator for Abilene Hope Haven By ROSTEN CALLARMAN Founded in 1994, Interested Citizens of Abilene North serves as the neighborhood
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By LORETTA FULTON No greater tribute could have been paid to the Civil Rights giant Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on the anniverary of his assassination than the “sermon” delivered April 4 by Dr. Jerry Taylor. King was assassinated on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee, on April 4, 1968. Exactly 51 years later, Taylor, a religion
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By LORETTA FULTON A disturbing but significant piece of local history will be commemorated in a public ceremony April 13 when soil is collected to add to a national project marking the sites of lynchings in America. The event will begin at 10 a.m. at 341 Ash. St., where Grover C. Everett of Sulphur Springs was shot to death at the
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