Governor appoints Scott Rogers to state Council on Homelessness

Posted on — Jeff Fobes

Scott Rogers, executive director of the Asheville Buncombe Community Christian Ministry, was among those appointed to the N.C. Governor’s Council on Homelessness earlier this month.

Here’s a list of the appointments:

Ilario Pantano (New Hanover County) – Pantano is the director of the State Division of Veterans Affairs.
Bob Kucab (Wake County) – Kucab is the executive director of the North Carolina Housing Finance Authority.
Jerry Vaughan (Mecklenburg County) – Vaughan is the founder and principal at Creative Value Partners.
Anne Precythe (Johnston County) – Precythe is the director of community corrections for the Department of Public Safety.
Iris Payne (Wake County) – Payne works in the Division of Community Assistance at the N.C. Department of Commerce.
Dennis Streets (Chatham County) – Streets is the division director of Aging and Adult Services at the N.C. Department of Health and Human Services.
Angela Harper (Wake County) – Harper is a housing specialist for the N.C. Department of Health and Human Services.
The Honorable Judy Mendenhall (Guilford County) – Mendenhall serves on the High Point City Council and is the finance director of West End Ministries.
The Honorable Kenny Smith (Mecklenburg County) – Smith serves on the Charlotte City Council and works in commercial real estate.
Dr. Sandy Gregory (Iredell County)- Gregory is the N.C. Baptist Aging Ministry director.
Ernie Mills (Durham County) – Mills is the founder and operator of the Durham Rescue Mission.
Denise Neunaber (Wake County) – Neunaber is the executive director of the N.C. Coalition to End Homelessness.
Scott Rogers (Buncombe County) – Rogers is the executive director of the Asheville Buncombe Community Christian Ministry.
John “Tony” Honeycutt (Chatham County) – Honeycutt is the executive director of Piedmont Rescue Mission.
Rebekah Allred (Durham County) – Allred works at the Durham Rescue Mission assisting persons who are homeless.
Keren Nazario (Durham County) – Nazario is a housing specialist at Durham Housing Authority.
The Honorable Wesley Meredith (Cumberland County) – Meredith is a state senator serving his third term.
The Honorable Marilyn Avila (Wake County) – Avila is a state representative serving her fifth term in the N.C. House.
The Council on Homelessness advises the governor and the secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services on issues related to the problems of persons who are homeless or at risk of becoming homeless. The term length is two years.
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As a long-time proponent of media for social change, my early activities included coordinating the creation of a small community FM radio station to serve a poor section of St. Louis, Mo. In the 1980s I served as the editor of the "futurist" newsletter of the U.S. Association for the Club of Rome, a professional/academic group with a global focus and a mandate to act locally. During that time, I was impressed by a journalism experiment in Mississippi, in which a newspaper reporter spent a year in a small town covering how global activities impacted local events (e.g., literacy programs in Asia drove up the price of pulpwood; soybean demand in China impacted local soybean prices). Taking a cue from the Mississippi journalism experiment, I offered to help the local Green Party in western North Carolina start its own newspaper, which published under the name Green Line. Eventually the local party turned Green Line over to me, giving Asheville-area readers an independent, locally focused news source that was driven by global concerns. Over the years the monthly grew, until it morphed into the weekly Mountain Xpress in 1994. I've been its publisher since the beginning. Mountain Xpress' mission is to promote grassroots democracy (of any political persuasion) by serving the area's most active, thoughtful readers. Consider Xpress as an experiment to see if such a media operation can promote a healthy, democratic and wise community. In addition to print, today's rapidly evolving Web technosphere offers a grand opportunity to see how an interactive global information network impacts a local community when the network includes a locally focused media outlet whose aim is promote thoughtful citizen activism. Follow me @fobes
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