The Charlotte Post Life! THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 2020 SECTION B Hornets launch voter initiative for elections By Ashley Mahoney [email protected] FILE PHOTO The Charlotte Hornets are the latest professional sports franchise to unveil a voting initiative. UNCF’s annual Women Who Lead luncheon will take place Sept. 26 with a virtual format. “Swarm the Polls,” announced by Hornets Sports & Entertainment on Sept. 1, is designed to educate people about the importance of voting, how to prop- erly register, and encourage them to vote. Similar to UNCF’s fundraiser the Carolina Panthers’ “Your Vote Counts” initiative, “Swarm The Polls” targets voters in the Carolinas and creates a specific space on the Hornets’ website with voting resources where people can check their reg- istration status, find a polling place, request an ab- moves to virtual space sentee ballot and use links to register. “Swarm the Polls” extends across the Hornets, By Herbert L. White to www.uncf.org/mawwll. Glenda Baskin Glover, inter- Spectrum Center, the G-League Greensboro Swarm [email protected] The event will also include a vir- national president of Alpha Kappa and the Hornets Venom GT, a digital gaming team. tual HaTitude competition to de- Alpha and Beverly Evans Smith, Sports venues like Spectrum Center, Bank of Amer- The Women Who Lead luncheon termine the fiercest headgear. You national president and CEO of ica Stadium and Bojangles’ Coliseum were approved is a virtual affair. must be registered for the lunch- Delta Sigma Theta. as early voting sites due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The annual UNCF fundraiser is eon and go to www.uncf.org/hati- The luncheon has also added a Mecklenburg County voters can cast ballots at any Sept. 26 and for the first time will tude to participate in the HaTitude virtual shopping mall to support of those sites regardless of their designated polling be an online-only event in re- competition. The deadline to sub- Black-owned businesses selling locations. This is the first time Spectrum Center will sponse to the coronavirus pan- mit photos is Sept. 14. hats, designer masks, jewelry and serve as an early voting site starting Oct. 15-31 from demic. The luncheon will honor leaders Greek paraphernalia as well as art, 8 a.m.-7:30 p.m. weekdays, 8 a.m.-3 p.m. on Sat- Organizers will have a virtual of four historically Black soror- spa services, cosmetics and hand- urdays and 1-5 p.m. on Sundays. The Hornets organ- photo booth on hand so partici- ities: Sarah Catchings-Smith, inter- bags. ization will make details about free parking locations pants will have a chance to be national president of Sigma To shop online: in the future. The Hornets worked with the North dressed from head to toe for a Gamma Rho, Valerie Hollings- http://e.givesmart.com/events/h Carolina State Board of Elections, the South Carolina great cause. worth Baker, international centen- Df/page/UNCFVirtualShopping/ Election Commission and RISE to Vote, a nonpartisan To register for the luncheon, go nial president of Zeta Phi Beta; extension of RISE group focusing on civic engage- ment in professional sports, to create “Swarm the Polls.” Hornets head coach James Borrego will host a free Please see CHARLOTTE |2B Charlotte resident overcomes setbacks to Misinformation become one of nation’s healthiest seniors By Ashley Mahoney working with seniors. I spread could hinder [email protected] really do. It is just so re- Exercise made Dora Tay- warding to hear their lor a stronger and more in- stories and other tes- COVID treatment dependent person. timonies I get from other Four years ago, the Char- seniors, as well as from By Melba Newsome lotte resident had her left Dora herself. It is just a re- NORTH CAROLINA HEALTH NEWS hip replaced, making the warding industry when There is cautious optimism among public health area to Taylor’s calf en- you are working with sen- officials that a vaccine to combat the novel corona- tirely metal. Following sur- iors. We all want to get old virus that has turned the world upside down might gery, she decided on more and still be fit, focused and be available by the end of the year. than the confines of a on this journey of life and A vaccine to combat COVID-19 is the best chance walker and now Taylor is a living independently.” we have to end the pandemic and return to some- 2020 Swanson Award top Working with Andrews thing resembling normal life. But what happens if a 10 finalist as one of the helped Taylor not only re- significant number of people refuse to be immu- healthiest and most active cover from surgery, but nized? seniors in the country. The also Bell’s Palsy, which In an Aug. 14 NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist poll, 71 award is presented an- causes muscle weakness percent of Americans say the coronavirus is a real nually by SilverSneakers, on one side of the face. De- threat but only 35 percent say they won’t get vacci- the nation’s leading com- spite struggling with Bell’s nated. munity fitness program for Palsy, Taylor still went to Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of seniors. class. One of her eyes COURTESY DORA TAYLOR Taylor, popped out of its socket, Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said herd immunity, On The Net Dora Taylor of Charlotte is a finalist for the Swanson Award as the 63, was but the facial exercises she where enough of the population is immune to stem http://silvers- nation’s healthiest senior. the spread of infection, is less likely if only two- nomi- did helped her recover neakers.swan- Patty and she made me feel has been replaced in those thirds of the population were vaccinated. nated by quickly. sonaward.com comfortable, I was able to three places, they may That concern is shared by health officials across her trainer, “It corrected itself within do the exercises,” Taylor need compensation for North Carolina. Family practice physician Lisa Reed, Patty An- two weeks, and my doctors said. “She does modifica- those areas.” said between 5-10 percent of families in Buncombe drews, who were amazed,” Taylor said. tions for those could not Taylor’s bone density, County don’t get routine vaccinations such as those runs Moveit2Loseit-Senior Andrews prioritizes mak- move their full body. She balance and blood sugar against measles. That number has been even higher Fitness (4822 Albemarle ing her clients feel com- made it accessible for me. have improved, and she no during the pandemic. Road LL 315). Voting for fortable with wherever Once I started doing them, longer needs assistance to Reed worries that this vaccine hesitancy in Ashe- the winner ends on Sept. 4. they are in their fitness I became stronger.” do everyday activities. She ville and the surrounding community will be even “I decided I needed better journey. She showed Tay- Said Andrews: “Most sen- has a good bill of health greater for a coronavirus vaccine, resulting in a dra- than I was doing,” Taylor lor modifications to fit iors have shoulder prob- from her doctors and is matic impact on herd immunity. said. “I went from a walker what she needed at that lems, hip problems and/or committed to staying fit. “As a tourist town that relies very heavily on people to a cane, and from a cane time, and they have been knee problems because While COVID-19 has kept coming here to enjoy our mountains and everything to being able to walk by working together since. they have had a shoulder Taylor from a physical stu- else that we have to offer, it is really unfortunate that myself now. I learned a lot “It was hard because you replacement, hip or knee dio, she exercises through we could be a place that isn’t able to offer safety in of things along the way.” are ashamed of the way you move, but once I met replacement. If something online classes. 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