Net Miles Of Smiles

Kiwanis International President Donald Canaday was in the island recently to celebrate the 45th anniversary of Kiwanis in Jamaica, which coincided with the 94th anniversary of Kiwanis International. Jamaica comprises four Kiwanis divisions, 58 clubs and 2,400 members.

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Canaday, a 38-year veteran Kiwanian, was elected president at the 93rd annual International Convention in Orlando, Florida, in June 2008, to serve a one-year term. The highlight of his visit to the island was the induction of 75 new members during a ceremony at the Hilton Kingston hotel last Thursday. Associate Editor Byron Buckley spoke to Canaday before the start of the ceremony.

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Why are you in Jamaica?

I am here to celebrate with the Kiwanians of Jamaica. They are a great bunch of men and women who wear the pin of Kiwanis proudly and they serve those who are in need. We are hoping to grow.

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Stretching is fundamental to good health. It lengthens muscles, improves flexibility and joint range of motion, gets blood flowing, and prepares joints for work. Massage therapy is the manual manipulation of the body’s soft tissue to prevent or reduce pain and stress.

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Published: Sunday | February 1, 2009

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Tyrone Reid, Staff Reporter ..

ANOTHER FEATHER was tucked neatly into the already well-decorated hats of Maurice William Facey and Gordon ‘Butch’ Stewart yesterday, as the University of Technology (UTech) conferred honorary degrees on both men.

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The conferment of the Doctor of Laws (honoris causa) on Facey and Stewart was attended by many of the movers and shakers of corporate Jamaica, as well as senior Cabinet ministers and other high-ranking public officials.

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After the conferment ceremony, Facey told The Sunday Gleaner that the honour would have a place on the top shelf of his trophy case.

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“I am ecstatic!” he said, adding that it was certainly one of his greatest achievements.

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The term black aviation describes a historical fact: For the first half-century of powered flight, blacks flew in segregated circumstances. The story of black aviation is one of breakthroughs against restrictions. First, such isolated pioneers as Bessie Coleman overcame the entrenched discrimination of the time. Coleman’s brief career as a stunt pilot inspired a generation of black youth. Even so, at the time of Lindbergh’s historic flight to Paris in 1927, only a few blacks had become aviators. Racial prejudice excluded most.

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In the 1930s African Americans formed flying clubs to promote aviation in the black community. The clubs made it possible for African Americans to participate in aviation: Their members trained pilots and mechanics and promoted aviation through publications, lectures, and even air “circuses.” These air shows drew the curious with promises of “aerial acrobatics, rolls, turns, spins, ribbon cutting, crazy flying.” In 1933 and 1934 the long-distance flights of C. Alfred Anderson and Dr. Albert E. Forsythe displayed both flyers’ skills while appealing for equality in aviation. In Los Angeles William J. Powell set up the Bessie Coleman Aero Club and wrote his visionary book Black Wings, which urged black youth to choose careers in aviation. In Chicago Cornelius R. Coffey established the Coffey School of Aeronautics, served as the first president of the National Airmen’s Association, and built an airstrip in an African American community. Both Powell and Coffey recognized that blacks would need technical skills to advance in aviation.

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Lady in Red 

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