Friday, February 25, 2000
Black history embraced
Woodlawn presents play
BY SARA J. BENNETT
The Cincinnati Enquirer
WOODLAWN — A fashion show, a play by Woodlawn Elementary School students and their parents, plus open houses in the police and service departments are part of the village's Black History Month celebration Saturday.
The festivities begin at 11 a.m. at the municipal building, 10141 Springfield Pike, with “Veils of Culture,” a fashion show of African clothing. Students and their parents also will present a play, African Americans Past and Future.
The play features students playing famous African-Americans as children and their parents playing the influential figures as adults, said Marjie Dogan, Woodlawn's acting municipal manager.
Meanwhile, the village's police and service departments will welcome residents to open houses.
The service department will give tours of its new facility at 110 Marion Road.
At the police department adjacent to Village Hall, residents will be introduced to officers hired during the past year, Crime Prevention Officer Tim Dillingham said.
Police also want to tell residents about several upcoming programs.
They include self-defense seminars, classes on dealing with domestic violence, training sessions on workplace violence, and possibly parenting groups.
“We'll have sign-ups for the different seminars, and if people buy in to the topics, then we're going to take maybe the most popular topics and do a citizens police academy in the near future,” Officer Dillingham said.
“We just want to get the word out to the community that we're here for them.”
“Visions of Black Americans 2000,” Woodlawn's Black History Month celebration, runs 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday. Police and service open houses run 10 a.m.-6 p.m.
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