Rotary hears about STEM education program
STEM, which stands for Science, Technology, Engineering and Math, is a program in eastern North Carolina and all around the nation to prepare high school students for the job market of the future. Industries that are hiring now are seeking people with skills that are needed in the current and future workplace. The STEM program gives graduating students those abilities. Kinston Evening Rotary meets Tuesday at 6 p.m. at the House of Wang.
Professor to respond to ‘Toxic Charity’ book
Dr. Stanley Hauerwas, the Gilbert T. Rowe professor emeritus of divinity and law at Duke University, will be a guest speaker at Gordon Street Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) at 6 p.m. tonight.
Hauerwas will respond to the book “Toxic Charity: How Churches and Charities Hurt Those They Help,” by Robert D. Lupton.
A reception to meet and greet Hauerwas will follow his presentation.
Hauerwas has held teaching appointments at Augustana College in Illinois, Notre Dame University and Duke Divinity School.
His work as an ethicist and theologian has been recognized worldwide. In 2001, Time magazine named him “America’s Best Theologian.”
Hauerwas is the second guest speaker in the GSCC Community Lecture Series recently established by the church. The public is invited to attend this year’s lecture at the church, 118 E. Gordon St., Kinston.
For more information, call the church office at 252-523-4143.
The cast for the upcoming production at Ayden Community Theater has been selected. Mike Britner, director, and the cast are in rehearsal preparing “It’s a Wonderful Life,” a classic that comes to life as a live 1940′s radio broadcast. Through the creative energy of the ensemble, a few dozen characters are brought to life on stage. The story is unfolds on the idealistic George Bailey, as he considers ending his life one fateful Christmas Eve. Show dates are: Friday, Dec. 13 and Saturday, Dec. 14 at 7:30 pm and Sunday, Dec. 15 at 2 pm at the Ayden Arts & Recreation Community Center, 4354 Lee Street in Ayden. Tickets are available now for purchase by going to aydentheatre.com. To reach an ACT representative, please call (877) 339-5550.
Cast members include: Dawn Rose Amadea (Ayden); Preston Bradsher (Greenville); David Horn (Winterville); Michael Manning (Grifton); D’Kwon Mitchell (Ayden); Cris Noble (Winterville); John Williams (Winterville); and Laura Lee Young (Ayden).
The ACT 2013-2014 season also includes two other productions: another at the Ayden Arts and Recreation Community Center’s theatre space, Woman from the Town, written by Samm-Art Williams, a playwright that was raised in Burgaw, and directed by Hector Garza, assistant professor at East Carolina University. Production dates are February 7th and 8th at 7:30 p.m.., and a matinee on February 9th at 2 p.m. Auditions for this show are Friday, Dec. 6 and Saturday, Dec. 7 from 5 to 8 p.m. at 4354 Lee Street, near downtown Ayden.
The last show is a dinner theater production, The Altos, written David Landau, music and lyrics by Nikki Stern, and directed by Cris Noble. Production dates are April 4th and 5th, 7:30 p.m. at the City Hotel and Bistro on Greenville Boulevard.