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Giving Back to Our

Mothers & Daughters

This past Saturday the National Association of University Women held their annual mother-daughter celebration program. The program is held once a year to highlight some of the bright young girls in the community. Along with giving recognition to the importance of a mother’s role in her daughter’s life and the bond that they share.

“The event held this past Saturday was filled with good food, music, doorprizes for the girls and their families and powerfull word of encouragement from women looing to uplift one another.” This is wat Mrs. Bonita Williams, a current member of the organization had to say about the celebration.

The program set to start around 3pm that afternoon got off to a little bit of a late and lasted until around 6pm.

The overall event included words of welcome from the current organizations President, Angelia Rivers and organization members such as Brandisha Ganzy. Followed by the honorees all showcasing a special talent of their choice for the audience.  The girls were then greeted by guest speaker Alicia Turner, WCTV eyewitness news reporter. She spoke to the girls about the importance of always achieving the goals that you set for yourself and to know that they will always have a support system in their corner. Turner gave a little back history on her own life to let the girls know that they all could relate to her in some way shape or form, she really emphasized of the importance of confidence and for them to always firmly love/believe in the goals and dreams in life.

NAUW Tallahassee branch President Angelia Rivers has been a member for over 8 years now and has served in her leadership position for the past four years. She said, “I love the sisterhood that we have, the opportunity to be able to give back to our community is so great and I love what this organization represents as a whole each day that we continue to serve”.

This event has been going on for years within the organization, the original name of the program as The Mother and Daughter Tea but was recently changed to its current name about four years ago. Rivers says the change came about as they notice the interest of the young girls involved started to dwindle, they wanted to revamp the program into one were there message nd purpose is still served but can also be one the middle school girls would love to be a part of.

 But this isn’t event isn’t one that is open to the public, in fat young girls have to be chosen to be honored at this event. But the overall process is quite simple. Letters of interest distributed through the current members to their own personal database of contacts who they believe would be a great fit for the mother daughter celebration. The girls are then required to fill out an application and short essay stating why they should be chosen to be honored. This year’s event had a group of five girls all ranging from 6^th-8^th grade in attendance who were honored alongside their mothers with gifts and framed certificates of appreciation.

At the end of the event girls are introduced to the high school educational scholarship that the organization provides. They were all invited to apply for this post-secondary education scholarship during their senior year of high school.

According to president rivers, the impact that was made during this year’s celebration was so uplifting that some of the organizations women have taken upon themselves to forgo continuous mentorship with the young girls and their mothers as they continue the matriculation throughout these next years of school.

“This will be a first for us, never have we ever started a mentoring program from the celebration, although it has been talked about in the past. It’s just great to see it all coming to life!”

The Florida Capitol Museum

The Florida Capitol Museum:

 Looking at The Workforce Past, Present & Future

Tuesday evening, TCC hosted one of the many events apart of Tallahassee’s first “March of Museums” series. Students along with local people from the community all joined together to discuss the matriculation of Florida’s Labor workforce over the past years with special guest speaker Steven Noll.

Steven Noll has published three books and is a current professor at the University of Florida

This event along with many others in the first “March of Museums” series all highlight the many museums in the states capitol that commemorate Florida’s history.

The Florida capitol. Museum speaker series focused on the theme of “The Way We Worked: Labor and Florida history”. The discussion focused on topics ranging from good jobs, fair wages, unemployment rates, tourist drawn economic systems, and so many other things that make up this state’s economy. Mr. Noll went into depth about the start of Florida’s economic system with the assistance of clip art displayed through a slide show. All of the art used showed different stages and areas of Florida that drew economic growth depending on the resources obtained from a specific area during a certain time frame. From plantations to sharecrops or the development of industrial shifts in the natural land to lumber mills.

 Mr. Noll really went into depth on the racial tensions and social injustice that took place in the development of Florida’s workforce. With the beginning of Florida’s workforce being developed through the use of slaves for free workers for jobs such as plantation workers. “Leon county is the fifth largest cotton producer of all counties in Georgia and Florida.” Said Noll.

The images used really captured the progression of Florida due to the use of these slaves. His presentation even illustrates life for workers after the civil war when many blacks and indigenous slaves moved into positions of sharecropping, turpentine workers, tobacco plant works and etc.

But over the years many of the jobs that have held economic growth in Florida continue to be diminished by the continues demolition of Florida’s natural lands for the development of human habitation and industry services or tourist attractions. According to Noll some of Florida’s top 3 current economic problems are that, “Many people have a problem finding a good paying job.  Workers aren’t being properly trained for these jobs once hired and third we need to be concerned about caring for Florida’s environment while balancing these good paying jobs”.

As for the spectators, they were very engaged with Mr. Noll’s presentation and had quite a bit of feedback. There were even a couple sugar plant labor workers who just so happened to be in town and thought this would be a great opportunity to voice some of their own concerns about the future of Florida’s workforce and their position in it.

Many guest discussed their own opinions on how to improve the job market and how to prepare workers to take on jobs in the future.

When asked about their overall goal for the series, Ms. Tiffany Baker, the museum director over at Florida’s capitol had this to say. “Basically, we are providing an historic context to the community. We want to give people a generally overall analysis of Florida’s history to look at through a set of fresh eyes. That way we are able to discuss or make more informed discussions about the issues that are taking place.”

The “March of Museums”, commemorates Florida heritage month and will continue to take place with other events within the community until April 15^th.

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