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City Year to hold fundraiser, day of local service i BY JULIE LEDBETTER TIIK (MMKCOCK City Year will hold its 10th an nual fundraiser and day of com munity service called City Day Satin-day. | Registration will be Saturday at 8:30 a.m. followed by a short morning program in Finlay Park. At 9 a.m., service teams will travel to their selected work sites to be gin their service, which usually lasts about five hours. Teams will select preferred sites of interest to them. “For our larger organizations, we actually work with them to se lect the site that they are inter ested in working at because our ideal to match people with then interests," Stacy Jemmott-Hunt, recruitment director for City Year, said. These teams will perform a va riety of services, both indoor and outdoor, including planting, mulching, creating flowerbeds and litter pick-up. I About 25 different service sites will participate, including sever al elementary schools, Carolina Children’s Home, Ronald McDonald House, Prevent Child Abuse South Carolina and God’s Storehouse. “It showcases some nonprofit organizations that people don’t know about in hopes that they just won’t support it on one day, but they’ll support it throughout the year," she said. Team members are asked to get pledges to support the City Year SS program. “We typically ask people to get )_ pledges from people, family, |g friends, et cetera, to pledge like a dollar per hour of service they do,” Jemmott-Hunt said. The money benefits different programs City Year sponsors throughout the year. “We run after-school programs, we teach curriculum on character education, building better self-es teem within students, so we are in and out of the classrooms primar ily dealing with elementary school kids,” Jemmott-Hunt said. The money will go to sustain ing programs such as Camp City Year, a weeklong camp for about 150 students in the midlands. Students interested in getting involved can contact Jemmott Hunt at 254-3349. Comments on this story?E-mail gamecocknews@gwm.sc.edu s Edwards drops out of presidential race, will support Kerry BY TOM RAUM TIIK ASSOCIATKI) PHKSS | ATLANTA — John Edwards, " whose Southern charm and ora torical flair transformed the Democratic presidential contest, finally gave in to the inevitable math of the primary contest on Tuesday, bowing out with the same unbridled optimism that has characterized his candidacy. “We have been the little engine that could," the North Carolina senator told supporters as he sig naled he was abandoning his challenge to front-runner John Kerry. He planned to formally an nounce he is dropping out of the race on Wednesday in Raleigh, N.C. Edwards won his native South Carolina and managed to come h from the backfield in a once 9 crowded Democratic race with a string of strong second-place fin ishes to be the last major chal lenger to Kerry. Edwards congratulated Kerry in a speech to supporters, signal ing that Democrats would present a united front against Bush in the fall. He called his Senate colleague from Massachusetts an “extraor dinary advocate for jobs, better health care, a safer world." In a telephone call to Kerry, Edwards implied that he would drop out and told Kerry he want ed to sit down and talk with him about unifying the party, said ► Kerry spokesman David Wade. The two also talked about how they “rode out the tough times” and the contributions and sacri fices that their wives had made throughout the campaign, Wade said. Kerry, in turn, credited Edwards for bringing “a com pelling voice to our party, great eloquence... and great promise for leadership for the years to come." Edwards appealed to indepen dents and other potential swing voters who could be instrumen tal in a close contest in the fall. Although he made millions as a plaintiffs trial lawyer before run ning for the Senate for the first time in 1998, Edwards empha sized his humble origins as the son of a textile mill worker who had lost his job when his factory closed. That, and his ability to clearly lay out issues, enabled Edwards to connect easily with most audi ences. His campaign pitch that there are two Americas—one for the rich and powerful and one for everybody else — resonated with audiences. Several Democrats said Edwards’ campaign skills and per formance should earn him con sideration as Kerry’s vice presi dential running mate. Edwards did not specifically ad dress his status in his Tuesday night speech to supporters, but left no doubt that he was dropping out. He turned his fire on Bush, say ing, “Come November, he will be out of the White House, not just out of touch." Edwards noted that he had done best in states where he had spent the most time campaigning — such as Iowa and Wisconsin — and regretted that he did not have more time to promote his candi dacy. Primaries CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 tonight,” the president told Kerry, adding that he looked forward to a “spirited fight." Hours earlier, Bush had dis patched Vice President Dick Cheney to TV studios to criticize the presumptive foe. Kerry called Edwards, whose lone win before Super Tuesday was South Carolina, “A great voice for our party." He com | mended another fallen rival, ^ Howard Dean, in an effort to unite the party. Kerry rolled up huge Super Tuesday triumphs in California, Minnesota, New York, Ohio, Maryland, Connecticut, Rhode Island and his home state of Massachusetts, as well as a razor thin win in Georgia. Vermont went to Dean, the state’s former governor who dropped out of the race last month. In all, 10 states with a combined population of 94 million — one third of the U.S. total — awarded 1,151 delegates, more than half of the 2,162 needed to seize the nomi nation. Kerry, a 60-year-old senator, had 1,018 delegates to Edwards’ 329. Dean had 182. Kerry declined to talk about his advertising or other general elec tion strategies, but said he will be able to compete against the cash flush Bush. He said several of his former ri vals had offered to help raise mon ey. Edwards is on top of many Democrats’ list to be Kerry’s vice presidential candidate, a topic If that Kerry didn’t touch Tuesday night. Aides said Kerry grew frustrat ed with Edwards’ claim that he was the only candidate who could beat Bush, but not enough to pre clude his consideration for a vice presidential nomination. Two other candidates, Rep. Dennis Kucinich of Ohio and A1 Sharpton of New York, had no chance of winning the nomina- f tion. 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