Up and Coming Weekly is a weekly publication in Fayetteville, NC and Fort Bragg, NC area offering local news, views, arts, entertainment and community event and business information.
Issue link: http://www.epageflip.net/i/1501747
WWW.UPANDCOMINGWEEKLY.COM JUNE 21 - 27, 2023 UCW 9 FEATURES 100 years ago this month: Historical events from June 1923 a STAFF REPORT e month of June has been home to many historical events over the years. Here's a look at some from June 1923 that helped to shape the world. •e Polo Grounds in New York City hosts a boxing match between Frenchman Eugène Criqui and Johnny Kilbane on June 2. Among those in attendance to see Criqui knock out Kilbane in the sixth round is New York Yankees slugger Babe Ruth, who ar- rived after a game at Yankee Stadium earlier in the day. •On June 4, 16 men begin what be- comes a 2,000-mile voyage in a single lifeboat after they are forced to aban- don the British cargo ship Trevessa as it begins to sink in the Indian Ocean. •e Soviet Army defeats what is left of the White Army near Okhotsk on June 6, ending what proves to be the last major battle of the Russian Civil War. •On June 8, a bill is passed in the British House of Commons grant- ing women the right to divorce their husbands on the grounds of infidel- ity without having to prove cruelty or desertion. •Bulgarian Prime Minister Aleksan- dar Stamboliyski is toppled June 9 in a bloodless coup orchestrated by a pri- vate organization of reserve officers. Stamboliyski survived the coup long enough to flee to his home village of Slavovitsa, but he is ultimately killed on June 14 by members of the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organiza- tion, a group that had attempted to assassinate him four months earlier. •Legendary actor Lon Chaney gets the girl in "e Shock," an Ameri- can silent film released on June 10. ough Chaney often played char- acters who did not get the girl, "e Shock" ends with Chaney's character, gangster Wilse Dilling, beginning a new life with Gertrude, whose freedom is assured thanks to a timely earthquake. •On June 12, magician Horace Goldin is granted a patent for the popular illusion of sawing a woman in half. Goldin would go on to perform for U.S. Presidents Harding and Wil- son and King Edward VII of Britain. •Lou Gehrig makes his debut for the New York Yankees on June 15. Gehrig replaces first baseman Wally Pipp in the ninth inning, though this was not the most notable time Gehrig replaced Pipp. at would occur nearly two years later on June 2, 1925, when Geh- rig started at first base and took over for the slumping Pipp. ough the moment Gehrig re- placed Pipp in the starting lineup is often remembered as the start of Geh- rig's consecutive games streak that would ultimately last nearly 14 years, the streak actually began a day earlier when the man eventually nicknamed "e Iron Horse" pinch hit for Pee- Wee Wanninger in the eighth inning. •Scores of people cross the border from Northern Ireland into the neigh- boring Irish Free State on June 17 as a ban on Sunday alcohol sales goes into effect in the former locale. •e popular newspaper comic strip "Moon Mullins" debuts on June 19. Created by cartoonist Frank Wil- lard, the strip ran until June 2, 1991. It depicts the lives of diverse characters who reside in a boarding house. •United States President Warren G. Harding departs Washington, D.C., on June 20 to begin a cross-country speaking tour. President Harding would never return to the nation's capital, dying unexpectedly of a heart attack on August 2 in San Francisco. ough Harding's term in office was fraught with scandal, including Teapot Dome, Harding embraced technol- ogy and was sensitive to the plights of minorities and women. •Turkey holds the first general elections in the nation's history on June 28, following the 1919 — 1923 War of Independence. DR. SHANESSA FENNER, Principal, WT Brown Elementary School. COMMENTS? Editor@upandcomin- gweekly.com. 910-484-6200. Adult volunteers needed for military youth mentoring program by DR. SHANESSA FENNER September 11, 2001. I remember that day and exactly what I was doing at the time. I was doing my princi- pal internship at a local elementary school when I received the tragic news. Parents started coming to the school to check out their children and there was a collective fear and panic in the air. "Tuesday's Children gets its name from the events that occurred on Tuesday, September 11, 2001, and we were founded to support the families and children who have lost someone in that tragedy," said Abigail Diedrich, long-term youth mentoring coordina- tor. "We are over two decades old at this point and we have created lots of different programs to support families in the wake of tragedy, mass violence or military conflicts." Tuesday's Children Long-Term Mentoring Program is seeking dedi- cated adult role models to provide support to children. "While we always support the fami- lies who were affected by September 11, we have started to include families who are considered Gold Star or other military-related loss so we have a lot of families who have military-related loss and the children are assigned a one-on-one mentor who is an adult volunteer for at least one year," said Diedrich. "e criteria to become an adult mentor entails the individual be- ing over the age of 21 and they have to pass the thorough background screening and interview in order to make sure the individual wants to participate in the program for the right reasons." She added, "It is really important that the adult is mentally sound and is going to be a positive support in the life of a child who has already experi- enced some trauma and loss." "We match based off of similar interests and we do both in-person and virtual options," said Diedrich. "In person has to be the preference so we try to find people in the area that is close to where the families are." Diedrich added that some of the things the mentors do with the men- tees include attending soccer games, going to the zoo or park, arts and crafts activities, or just hanging out having a meal together and having great conversations. For the virtual option, the mentor and mentee can chat using FaceTime, play Battleship on the screen, follow a recipe on YouTube or discuss a book. For more information and to sign up call 516-562-9000 or visit http://www. tuesdayschildren.org/ Adult role models can mentor children by attending events or simply chatting over a shared meal. (Photos courtesy Tuesday's Children)