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Vol. 46 No. 8 Phone: 512-476-0082 Email: [email protected] July 6, 2018 The District Cultural Arts Fest INSIDE 2018 Musical Lineup Release!

Days of standing AUSTIN, TX - On on the sidelines RAPPIN’ September 1, 2018 vi- may soon come to sual artists, musicians, an end for Tommy Wyatt poets, dancers, chefs Justice Roberts See KEY and more will reanimate Page 2 six sites of historical sig- Givens Park to nificance in The District, receive major including: Six Square’s improvements headquarters, Oakwood Cemetery, Givens Park, The City of Austin is Doris Miller Auditorium working on two separate and Huston-Tillotson projects to improve Giv- University. ens District Park. Givens The District Cul- Park is a 40-acre park lo- tural Arts Fest 2018 is a Austinite Reed wins community celebration cated at 3811 E. 12th Artist Of The Year that will honor the rich Rhythm Of Gospel Street. The park was first legacy and cultural con- Award acquired in 1957 and has tributions of Central See WINNER been in badly need of re- Texas’ Black commu- Page 3 pairs for some time now. nity. The park is one of From 2 – 5:30 PM the historical sites that guests can visit our inter- the community wants active sites that will fea- Mali Music (left), Tobe Nwigwe (top right), Son Jobarteh (bottom right). preserved in East Austin. ture installations show- In its glory days, the park casing some of Austin’s provide a new context to Dotson Cervantes, tional, national and was the site of numerous best talents in African the location’s history and Juiceland, Tito’s Vodka local artists including: community events. One and African Diaspora cul- have a curated menu of and more. Carolyn Blanchard Elected officials of these events that I re- ture. From interactive food from established From 5 – 10:00 PM and the Jazz Affair, protest Trump’s member most is the poetry to engaging the- and up and coming chefs, guests can join us at our Tobe Nwigwe, Sona immigration policy. atrical performances, along with beverages sixth location for musical Jobarteh, and Mali crowning of Miss See TEXAS each site’s events will provided by Wines of performances by interna- Music. Juneteenth. Miss Black Page 4 Austin was also crowned Austin Long-Term Care there. Stacey Dash Lands The community is Facility Wins National Award being invited to partici- pate in the Master Plan Ironic Role In New Film for the development. There will be an Open By Defender News Service Hollywood Reporter re- House Saturday, July 14, Mildred Fay ports, “The film has been 2018 from 10am to 12pm Jefferson had a compli- under such tight wraps in the Givens Park Pavil- cated history. She was the that even the major cast ion. There will be a total first Black woman to members had not been re- of three meetings to graduate from Harvard vealed; Two Supreme gather input. The public Flash mob performed by residents and staff of Medical School, the first Court justices are played will have the opportunity Querencia Barton Creek - Austin, TX on September woman to graduate in sur- by a couple of Hollywood’s 29, 2015. Courtesy Stan Orth/Youtube to define what recre- gery from Harvard Medical more outspoken conser- ational uses are desired in (AUSTIN) — Querencia at Barton Creek in Austin School and the first vatives, Jon Voight and the park. The Master Plan has earned a national honor for improving their qual- woman to become a Robert Davi, and other process will conclude in ity of care. member of the Boston justices are played by the fall of 2018. PARD is The local long-term care facility was one of just Surgical Society. However, Corbin Bernsen, John collaborating with the seven across Texas to earn the honor, despite a state- she was also a stone-cold Schneider, Steve Republican who cam- Guttenberg, William Freese and Nichols Land- wide staffing crisis that’s left facility managers scram- bling to staff shifts. Only 166 other nursing homes in paigned for Ronald Forsythe, Wade Williams scape Architectural/Plan- Mildred Fay Jefferson the nation have achieved this award. Reagan, whose economic and Richard Portnow.” ning Firm in the master The 2018 Silver - Achievement in Quality Award is policies would crush Black even called her “classless” In addition, “Stacey planning effort. the second of three distinctions possible through the communities in the 1980s. for speaking Spanish. Dash, the Clueless star and Givens Park is a AHCA/NCAL National Quality Award Program, which Jefferson was famously Loeb’s film is based on the former Fox News com- real treasure for Austin recognizes providers across the nation that have dem- pro-life, a member of the 1973 U.S. Supreme Court mentator who withdrew and especially former onstrated their commitment to improving quality of National Right to Life Com- decision that granted a from a congressional race East Austinites. It is just care in long term and post-acute care. mittee, the oldest national woman’s right to an abor- as a Republican three one of the many sites that Based on the core values and criteria of the na- pro-life organization in tion. The film will be “pro- months ago, claiming the need to be restored in the tionally recognized Baldrige Performance Excellence America, and failed at life” with “famous” con- campaign had become community. It is very ex- Program, the Association’s Quality Award program grabbing the Republican servatives like Stacey Dash ‘detrimental to the health citing to see the swim- challenges member providers to achieve performance nomination for the 1982, and Jon Voight, both and well-being of my fam- ming pool open again. excellence through three progressive levels—Bronze, 1990, and 1994 U.S. Sen- Trump supporters. The ily,’ plays Mildred We encourage the Silver and Gold. Members at the Silver award level ate elections. Jefferson, the first black woman to graduate from community to be a part of develop and demonstrate effective approaches that Who is going to play help improve performance and quality outcomes. her in a movie? Clueless Harvard Medical School the master planning pro- This year’s Silver recipients can now advance in starlet Stacey Dash. and the former president cess. I remember, with developing approaches that meet the criteria required The movie, titled Roe of National Right to Life.” pride, the numerous for the Gold – Excellence in Quality Award. v. Wade, is a “pro-life” film Roe v. Wade is alleg- events that we held there The program is sponsored by AHCA/NCAL Associ- produced by Nick Loeb, edly being filmed in New for our Annual Celebra- ate Business Members: First Quality, NRC Health, and Sofía Vergara‘s ex-hus- Orleans and will wrap up tion of the Villager. I en- Team TSI Corporation. The awards will be presented to band — the man who sued production on July 15. No courage you to be a part recipients during AHCA/NCAL’s 69th Annual Conven- her to use their embryos word on the studio that of this planning process. tion & Expo in San Diego, California, October 7-10, 2018. after they broke up and Stacy Dash will distribute the film.