Volume XXV, Number XLII October 30 - November 5, 2014 Amber Vinson comes home! -See Page 4 Miles makes changes at Visit Us Online at www.NorthDallasGazette.com Dade MS -See Page 6 Wendy Davis: The NDG hits All-Star best choice for Texas Comedy By Nicole James Scott Jam Contributing Writer -See Page 10 On Nov. 4, 2014 Texans will cast their votes for the next governor of the state. With only one week re - Win Tix to Ms. Lauryn maining to decide the two leading candidates Wendy Davis and Greg Hill & HOB Gospel Abbott are stomping the campaign trail to garner as much support as Brunch!!! possible. The Texas Publishers As - http://www.facebook.com/ sociation join in that support with NorthDallasGazette! our endorsement of Wendy Davis Y whom we feel is not only the right R TA Texas Publishers choice for our state but the only can - N E didate who if elected will use the M M Association endorses O full weight of the governor’s office C to fight for all Texans and roll back statewide candidates the assaults on our educational sys - tem, women’s rights and voter’s lone voices fighting for the restora - Davis recognizes you do not get the It is an irrefutable fact words of Frederick Dou - rights that we have endured the past tion of those cuts, unlike her oppo - necessary results by cutting teach - those who seek to disen - glas power concedes noth - 14 years under Gov. Rick Perry. nent Abbott. She knows that it’s not ers’ salaries and over crowding their franchise and abrogate our ing without demand. The just good parenting, “family values” classrooms. liberties and attainments, Texas Publishers Associa - ON EDUCATION or strong communities that con - our political victories and tion (TPA) has made it In 2011 the 82nd Legislative Ses - tribute to a child’s success. Funding ON HEALTH CARE strides are well organized clear we will not be en - sion under the leadership of the Re - and policy has to be in place to back Texas Republicans continue to re - and steadfast. Bearing this dorsing any candidate in publican Party cut funding for pub - those efforts. fuse federal funding to expand Med - in mind, it is our duty to the upcoming statewide lic education by $5.4 billion. Some - Davis knows that a one size fits icaid, forfeiting billions of dollars in be not only just as coordi - elections that did not at - thing that had not been done in over all approach to our public education healthcare aid that is much needed. nated in our efforts but to tend our candidate screen - 60 years and something that will not system is not effective. It hinders In fact Abbott has no shame in also be proactive. ing. be done under the leadership of a teachers’ ability to teach, as do stan - claiming one of his first agendas if When candidates come For the office of Lieu - Gov. Wendy Davis. Not only was dardized tests. Most important, she elected is to end Affordable Health - campaigning for our votes tenant Governor TPA en - Davis the only Senator to oppose values teachers, the ones standing in care (ObamaCare). we must be collectively dorses Leticia Van De those massive cuts but she has also the trenches every day, on the front Meanwhile Texas leads the nation ready to present them with Putte. Unlike her Tea continued to be one of the very few line trying to make a difference. a platform that best bene - Party opponent Dan See VOTER, Page 3 fit our community. In the See PUBLISHERS, Page 3 INSIDE... People In The News… See Page 2 People In The News . 2 Op/Ed . 3 Health . .4 Education . .5 Community . .6 NDG Book Review . .7 Community Spotlight . .8 Entertainment . 9-10 Market Place . 11 Career Opportunity . .12-13 Cousia Towns Constance Harper Carlos Ponce Church Directory . .14-15 General Motors . .16 In September 23,000 visited NorthDallasGazette.com - news added daily! People in the News www.NorthDallasGazette.com Ms. Towns, a child victim Learning that many chil - Towns spoke on domestic lence and the development Cousia Towns of domestic abuse and also dren who came to Amore violence and the significant of the community’s our at- a veteran of foster care, Transitional Group were effects it has on communi - risk young women. And, Cousia Towns is a wo- founded Amore Transitional victims of domestic vio - ties – a topic she has lived. excerpt from her keynote man on a mission – ending Group, a non-profit 501 (c) lence, Ms. Towns founded Whatever the topic, the dy - speech may say it all. Ms. the tragedies associated (3) organization, in 2009 to The Cousia Towns End Do - namic feature of her presen - Towns spoke, “ with domestic violence and provide young women who mestic Violence Network in tations is her very intricate Ezekiel 22:30 says: ‘I its many ripple effects. Ms. were “emancipated” from 2014. The organization is a personal story that envelops looked for someone among Towns is a successful entre - the foster care system with network of professional and her professional successes, them who would build up preneur with businesses in a safe and stable environ - civic leaders who pool re - her philanthropic endeav - the wall and stand before Dallas, Texas and Atlanta, ment while preparing them sources to support the erad - ors, and her community me in the gap on behalf of Georgia. She is also the for transition to independ - ication of domestic violence service. Hers is a deeply en - the land so I would not have founder of Amore Transi - ence through educational, through education and gaging life story that not to destroy it, but I found no tional Group and the Cousia and guidance programs. awareness. And, no one is only captivates audiences, one.’ Well…I stand before Towns End Domestic Vio - included the murder of her The organization has ex - better qualified to lead such but also has engaged young you today to tell you that I lence Network. mother, sexual abuse and a panded its outreach efforts a tremendous effort. women who enroll in am that someone. Love and Her business and philan - fragile foster system up - from focusing solely on Ms. Towns recently was Amore Transitional Group’s Grace Community Church thropic successes may very bringing. Towns is a rivet - young women emerging the keynote speaker at a do - unique, “never-ending,” is one. The Balch Springs well be billed as the gems of ing speaker, a relentless cru - from foster care to include mestic violence conference “pay-it-forward” commu - community is one. Toni her life. But, those gems sader, and an inspiration to all at-risk, in-crisis, disad - in Balch Springs, Texas nity service programs. Rose is one. Karen Lewis is were polished by the rough - almost anyone who hears vantaged, and underprivi - sponsored by Love and Towns is a tireless cru - est of personal journeys that her story. leged young women. Grace Community Church. sader against domestic vio - See TOWNS, Page 6 nounce the death of my ceived from the nation. Marcia L. Fudge released a stance D. Harper has be - Constance Harper aunt, Constance (Connie) “My aunt’s greatest joy statement over the weekend come synonymous with The North Dallas Gazette Harper, associate publisher was sharing with others the stating, “Throughout her journalism throughout Ohio and African American pub - and editor of the Call & success, concerns and strug - life, Constance D. Harper and beyond. Journalism has lishing community was sad - Post newspapers. She gles of Cleveland’s black used her gifts as a journal - been a large part of her den to lose a valued col - passed away peacefully community as associate ist, newspaper executive life’s work for more than 60 league this week with the tonight surrounded by fam - publisher and editor of the and civic leader to benefit years.” He lauded her con - death of Constance (Con - ily and close friends. Call & Post newspapers.” the community and improve tributions as a mentor to nie) Harper, the Associate “My mother Judge Sara J. Her work over the years the lives of the most vulner - young journalists over the Publisher and Editor-in- Harper, I and the entire was heralded by many in - able among us. last six decades, and Chief of the Call & Post Harper-Trumbo family would cluding Ohio State Legisla - “Though we mourn the shared, “The many lives she Newspaper last Friday. like to thank the doctors, tor Bill Patmon who shared, loss of Ms. Harper, we give touched as a community ad - Harper served the Cleve - nurses and staff at Miami “For the greater community thanks for her many contri - vocate and media represen - Valley Hospital for the care and for someone from our land community for many butions that have enriched tative are immeasurable.” and concern that they community to communicate years and was scheduled to when she suffered a heart so many people in Cleve- Harper was 81 years old showed my aunt and our about us that we are not all be inducted into the Press attack. land and throughout the and is survived by her sister, family during this most dif - about handcuffs or doing Club Hall of Fame on On behalf of the family State of Ohio.” retired Ohio Judge Sara J. ficult time. something we had no busi - Nov. 7. her nephew Adam Trumbo Call & Post’s Managing Harper, and their sister Glo - Harper was attending released the following state - “My family and I find ness doing, and the good Editor, Kevin D.