This week, Jesse Herndon has more on her plate than the typical high school student.

She has spent hours after school each day making calls, finalizing details for an event happening Sunday.

Collecting donated items for an upcoming silent auction. Calling every bakery in Greensboro.

“It’s very stressful,” said Herndon, a junior at Weaver Academy.

But it’s all for a good cause.

She’s organizing an event with free pastries, live music, a fashion show and a silent auction, which will be held at 7 p.m. Sunday night at The Blind Tiger, 1819 Spring Garden Street in Greensboro.

Admission is $4 with the donation of clothing of any size. The goal is to collect clothes that would comply with Standard Mode of Dress, or SMOD, the uniforms required at some local schools.

The fashion show will feature clothes from Plato’s Closet, Mack and Mack, and Patina Bridal and Formals.

The silent auction would include items such as Weaver Academy student artwork and a gift bag full of beauty products valued at about $200. Herdon is still seeking donations of items to auction.

The event will benefit Backpack Beginnings, a local organization that provides food and clothing for thousands of local needy children.

All 127 Guilford schools have a dress code, but a few dozen require students to wear uniforms.

Some parents have complained about the cost of buying the uniforms. They’ve also complained that the uniform dress codes vary from school to school, requiring additional clothes purchases if a child changes schools.

Parents and some students also described dress code violations for wearing a jacket with a hood, a logo deemed too large or the wrong color shoelaces.

“SMOD is really expensive,” Herdon said. She knows because her sisters have attended SMOD schools.

In January, the Guilford County Board of Education unanimously approved changes to its policy on SMOD. Principals of current SMOD schools have until June to survey parents on whether to continue requiring students to wear uniforms in the 2015-16 school year.

Now, school administrators at traditional schools also have to get public input before requiring uniforms. Ever two years, traditional schools with SMOD have to reconsider requiring uniforms and demonstrate public support for the policy.Read more here:www.marieaustralia.com/evening-dresses | www.marieaustralia.com/bridesmaid-dresses

A Penn Hills man will have items from his clothing line featured in a fashion show in Pittsburgh on Saturday.

Cary Heard, owner of CDH LABEL Clothing Co., has teamed up with The Ladies of Distinction — a recently-formed group of women in Pittsburgh and surrounding areas who are focused on community outreach, fundraisers and programming that benefits the educational growth of underprivileged youth — to headline his first fashion show as they present, “Make Me Over,” an extravaganza with a vision to “spread self-love awareness in the community and embody the greatness that exists in all of us.”

Heard, 22, said the show's goals were relatable to him as he relied on support from family and friends to pursue his ambition to become a fashion designer.

“I was always encouraged because I was good at (designing clothes). It was a talent and people wanted to see it grow,” said Heard, who has been featured three times in Pittsburgh's Fashion Week.

He said his friend's mother bought him a new sewing machine when he was 14 under the condition that he practiced sewing daily.

Heard said receiving the gift turned out to be a “pivotal point” to change his hobby into something he could make into a career.

Kim Heard, his mother, said Cary was “full-blast” with designing after that.

“He wanted to make things for himself, and his style changed. He was passionate about looking good in his clothing and making things he could wear. His peers asked him to make things and that snowballed into making vests for guys, and he made dresses for his dates to semi-formals, and then prom gowns,” Kim Heard said.

Fellow designer Starr Thomas has worked with Heard for more than five years, a time in which she said the duo has both collaborated and given one another input on designs.

“Our bond is just motivating one another and giving each other confidence to keep going,” she said.

Thomas said that since she's known Heard, his attitude toward others has always been “be confident in yourself,” and that he lives his own life that way.

“He's so passionate about (designing clothes). That's part of what makes him special. That, and his talent,” she said.

Heard's passion, talent and demeanor toward life has propelled him into headlining fashion shows.

Saturday's show will provide an opportunity for others to have confidence.

“Make Me Over” creators hosted an open online contest, where 40 contestants submitted photos and essays describing why they thought they deserved a makeover.

Two winners were selected, and on Saturday they will have a complete makeover and get a chance to walk the runway sporting a new look which includes hair, makeup and wardrobe.

Heard described one of the winners as a single mother who devotes the majority of her time to her daughter and hasn't had “much time for maintenance on herself.”

The second winner was nominated by her friend. Heard said she is “very involved” with community outreach, and is a “mother figure to many young people in the community.”

The person who nominated her wrote that she was deserving of the makeover due to her “strong cultural presence.”

Heard said all of the submissions received were “heartfelt,” and that he's glad to headline a show encouraging self-confidence, and gives fellow-designers chance for exposure.

“I'm hoping to make (the show) an annual thing. I hope it will bring a crowd that will create networks for myself and our other designers,” he said.Read more at:www.marieaustralia.com/****-formal-dresses | http://www.marieaustralia.com/cheap-formal-dresses

వేట  వేట ఉరుకుల పరుగుల వేట
Place అవాలి అంటూ అనిపించే thoughtaaa
Infosys,tcs   అంటూ చాలానే  ఉన్నాయంటా  
ముందడుగు వేయాలంటే ముందుగానే ఉండిపోవాలంటా
మనమంటే మనకి భాగానే తెలుసుండాలంటా
రంగులన్నీ మార్చుకుంటూ ముందుకే సాగిపోవాలి  అంటా
Tip top గా ఉండాలంటే   hip hop కే దూరంగా ఉండాలంట
Software లో  ఫిక్స్ కావాలంటే  soft అయిపోవాలంటే
Fashion నుంచి  formals కి  change ఎ  అవలంతా
Projects తో పస్తులుంటూ  career నే  గెంటుకోవాలంటే
అయ్యయో  ఈ  భాదలు మనకే ఎందుకు
ఈ  బారం మనపైన ఎందుకు . .
ఓ ఓ ఓహో ఓ ఓ ఓహో

Before I begin, I wanted to let you know,
I was kinda young, smart and So.
No one ever looked at me, I wasn’t ‘Normal.’
So I kept being me, ignoring all the Formals.
A year has passed, I’m still a little bit of the same.
I continued on with my life, whenever it came.
Another year goes by, I’ve certainly evolved.
I became more experienced, my stupidity dissolved.
I found out more about myself, and tried to be more involved.
As I enter the next year, I slowly begin to fall.
No one seems to notice me anymore, i’m Just another random phone call.
Soon, people only recognized me for moving so silently,
I’d slowly lose myself in my personal gravity.
And in the end, I slipped from existence and became the one known as,
“Nobody In Society.”

By Arcassin Burnham


Wimpy like the kid that made a life for himself dreaming,
The school systems corrupt in making kids realize their meaning,
Be social while you can and everybody will start spreading,
Just don't be alone in a society that is killing,
Make a choice , take a chance , break a heart , learn romance,
no religion in a school full of ******* and some hands,
Giving peer pressure to the weak and the strong prevails,
formals coming up in a week , better learn to dance..

Bullying increases , kids are mean and everybody knows it,
suicide rolls in their minds on the days of Sabbath,
planning to blow your brains out with a gun , i bet you have it,
Then revenge gets involved , kids get killed behind it,
Exchange students don't know what to do in this here crisis,
giving hearts away to ****** , is that called sacrifices?
Teen girls exposing themselves without a care,
Jocks don't rule a school , your mind does , Man you have to fight it.

/

Until i saw you , until i saw you,
you were unbelievable, eyes the color of blue,
i didn't know what to do...

until i saw you..

teen girls in existence could not compare to you,
yeah i'm thinking out loud for a perfect view,
a better sight of you..

the beauty in you..

**** the Greek organizations
for turning my best friends
into girls that willingly throw their bodies
at boys who do not care about them.

**** the Greek system
for making them into people
who value their significance
in terms of letters that dead people came up with a long time ago.

**** the 'brothers'
for breaking them down
and making them say yes
when their answer really was 'no'.

**** their "sisters"
for encouraging them to go to formals they don't want to go to
and forcing them to participate in things
they didn't want to do themselves when they were pledging

as I pushed out
into this hard world
a cold wet baby girl
through screams and men’s
hands wrapped around
the tiny infant

I was alone
as I sat for lunch
shoulders hunched over
my lunch
in the school cafeteria
blending in with the exterior

I was alone
an only child
in my room
as girls went to dances
and parties
proms and semi-formals
I was not normal

I was alone
in his company
standing as a door frame
that he walked through
hanging over him as the blue sky
a cherry silhouette
on standby

I believe age is not a factor in friendship
I believe giving is more satisfying than receiving
I believe being broke is sometimes a blessing
I believe a word leaves a scar worse than a knife
I believe Grace is more than sufficient
I believe a child should hear a ‘no’ once in a while
I believe singing doesn't require a ‘voice’
I believe a twinkle in the eyes tells you so much
I believe secrets are boring
I believe formals are restricting
I believe style never goes out of fashion
I believe black and white photos are timeless
I believe in second chances
I believe nothing feels greater than a hug
I believe the heart knows what it wants
I believe success is so cliché
I believe cleanliness is next to loneliness
I believe dogs do go to heaven
I believe shift happens