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Wateree Community Action Inc
Posted on 02/23/2010 10:15:37 PM PST by Jet Jaguar
Wateree Community Actions Is…
· An Empowering Facility in the Community
- It builds, rehabilitates and weatherizes houses for clients.
- It introduces its clients to the political process.
- It brokers for clients to help them gain access to services and information.
- It sponsors employment training, hands-on work experience, and does job development for clients.
- It teaches clients self-help and life skills to become self-sufficient.
- It exposes to clients opportunities available to them.
* An Economic Enhancer in the Community, an Added Value
- Annually it brings into the area over 11 million dollars, which translate
into forty-four million dollars after turning over four times more. These dollars impact lives of citizens, taxes, governments and businesses of the community.
· A Helping Hand to the Poor
- It provides and helps clients obtain food, clothing and shelter.
- It helps them purchase prescriptive drugs.
- It helps them pay utility bills and house rent.
- It provides books, educational supplies, health screenings, and developmental opportunities for youth and children.
· A Spawning Ground for Leaders of Tomorrow
- Young children are tomorrow’s leaders in the making. The pre-schoolers
of the Head Start Development Program are our youngest clients. Our emphases with these future leaders are sociable and cognitive development, nutrition and health care, family service and parent involvement in the life of their children.
· A Source of Information and Referral
- It collects, complies and disseminates printed information and informs the
public.
- It displays information exhibits to teach, educate, and instill appreciation
- It coordinates and collaborates with other community entities to exchange and share ideas and resources.
· A Source of Inspiration to those Involved
- It has inspired many clients, employees, and volunteers to acquire career
credentials and job advancements.
- Several board and advisory council members have been inspired to private
and public office on local and state levels. Their first exposure to the large picture of community needs was through involvement with Wateree Community Actions.
· In Summary:
Wateree Community Actions is a necessary unequivocal asset to this community.
According to the Recovery.org website, Sumter, S.C. received $15,827,385 of our tax money. According to the same site, this money was credited with creating or saving 4.91 jobs.
Were did the money go?
The county of Sumter got $62,400. The city of Sumter got $253,828.
The Santee-Wateree RTA got in excess of $1,000,000.
The Santee Lynches regional Council of Governments got $3,103,434 for one grant and another $112,017 for a second.
Then it gets interesting.
Wateree Community Action Inc is awarded $700,000.
Then awarded $1,076,865.
Then awarded $6,435,805.
Then awarded $429,049.
Then awarded $244,800.
Then awarded $2,073,186.
Sumter County has one of the highest unemployment rates in S.C.
Maybe Jim Clyburn, John Spratt, Bob Inglis, Joe Wilson, Henry Brown, and Gesham Barrett could look into this.
Where the stimulus money went misssing.
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Wateree Community Action Inc
I figure I should ping you two.
Probably one of those outfits that somehow manages to waste $28,000 to weatherize your house with $30 worth of caulk and $250 worth of attic insulation.
5 jobs...
Somebody got rich.
This site of "South Carolina Association of Community Action Partnerships" actually lists some names of Watertree directors)
Heres is Cedric Kirkman's (AKA "polar bear") myspace page. He is listed on the above site as part of Watertree.
Some other names to research:
Willie Bethune
13 S Main St
Sumter, SC 29150-5244
(803) 484-5306
Wateree Community Action, Executive Director
Mrs. Fredrica Brailsford
Ms. Rebecca Duncan
Mr. Howard Parnell
Mr. George Gibson
Wow! I wonder how much grant money it took for Wateree Community Actions to put together that amazing list of liberal BS cliches?
Thanks!
- It displays information exhibits to teach, educate, and instill appreciation
- It coordinates and collaborates with other community entities to exchange and share ideas and resources.
I would swear that was Obamas’ teleprompter speaking.
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"Wateree Community Action Agency, Inc.
Mr. Willie Lee Bethune, Executive Director"
Here is a South Carolina court action against "Former Clarendon County Magistrate Willie L. Bethune" for a sex scandal with a female defendant.
If its the same guy, we may have the first piece of dirt on this. Will check in later, good luck fellow freepers on the hunt!
There’s a very telling letter here from 1993, during which Mrs. Fredrica Brailsford complains that a newspaper photograph did not contain enough black people:
Thanks. Bump.
"Bevis became the administrative director of the Pee Dee Mental Health Center (the “Center”), a branch of the South Carolina Department of Mental Health (the “Department”), in July 1984. He was promoted to executive director of the Center in 1985 and served in that position for nearly seventeen years. (J.A. at 279.) After an investigation revealed serious procurement violations at the Center, Bevis announced his voluntary retirement, effective November 2001."
----snip---
"Willie Bethune who became Bevis’s supervisor"
So now we have a sex scandal and procurement violations! (Sigh...I really wanted to go to bed-lol)
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&source=hp&q=Willie+Lee+Bethune++Sumter%2C+S.C.&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=
Go to bed.
I need to as well.
I will peruse tomorrow.
Appears the magistrates middle name is Lee as well:
http://www.scscja.com/judges/clarendoncounty/clarendoncountymaglist.htm
5551
Judge Willie Lee Bethune
County Jail
Highway 261 Boyce Street
Gable, SC 29051-0000
Post Office Box 93
Gable, SC 29051-0093
Still not 100% confirmation. Could be 2 different Willie Lee Bethune’s. Need to connect this Willie Lee Bethune magistrate (with the sex scandal) to the Watertree Executive director Willie Lee Bethune.
Seriously, its 2:40! Goodnight!
Cya!
Wateree Community Action Inc is awarded $700,000.
Then awarded $1,076,865.
Then awarded $6,435,805.
Then awarded $429,049.
Then awarded $244,800.
Then awarded $2,073,186.
... Hmm ... looks like someone’s getting backdoor reparations.
I just wonder who.
I priced insulation for my old house.
I cannot afford it.
Nobody came and offered it to me.
I would be willing to take $40,000 worth of insulation.
I could do my house right and continue down the the street.
All the houses on Wren would be Obama complient.
And it would create a second job for me.
Good catch!
Get out of bed! There is work to do! LOL
Cmon Freepers, its all there-google the people, look for links! Try to 100% show the judge is or isn’t the executive.
I’ll be off this till after 3:15. Good hunting folks!
My info is correct so far but It should be spelled “Wateree” not “Watertree”
Money was funneled to company called KQC and its president Hal Kaplan. Apparently Kaplan has a long history of this type of construction for the Head Start program there.
Note: You need to scroll to the right side of that newspaper to see the article. Its just to the left of the photo and is entitled “Building A Future”.
Now that we know Bethune’s background is in mental health, it would appear he is in fact the same Bethune mentioned in the previous link in the Pee-Dee mental health lawsuit.
I must be coming late to the party. What is this organization accused of doing? What crime are we investigating? Did I miss an article or news story?
According to the Recovery.org website, the group got about 10 million and created...5 jobs. Jet asked us to check to see who they are/connections, etc.
The "connections" will be interesting, but the basic gist of this is disgusting ... $15,000,000 for 5 jobs ... PLLLLEEEEZZZEE ... and they want a second $timulus? I didn't refer to any "connections" as we are far from confirming anything yet.
The Recovery.gov site is amazing ... every time you click on one of those dots you "light up" with anger. Want to make people angry enough to "do something?" Give them that link and show them how it works.
I hope MANY other bloggers pick this up so we can get this "small" example out to people so they will start checking Recovery.gov for what's happening in THEIR back yard. I'm from S.C. so this one is in MY back yard!
Well done.
Thank you for getting the word out.
Bump.
Many branches of WCA according to google.
Horry County, S.C.
Interesting facts:
$31,048,796 to the Transportation Dept. created/saved 32.56 jobs
Then:
$381,910 to Waccamaw Economic Opportunity Council, Inc. created/saved 2 jobs
$849,833 to Waccamaw Economic Opportunity Council, Inc. created 0 jobs.
$1,196,224 to Waccamaw Economic Opportunity Council, Inc. created 0 jobs.
$3,719,833 to Waccamaw Economic Opportunity Council, Inc. created 0 jobs.
So $6,147,800 to WEOC to create or save 2 jobs.
Charleston County north:
St. James-Santee Family Health Cehnter (sic) Inc.
Awarded $188,582
Awarded $436,375
Jobs created/saved = zero.
Great stuff in this thread ... fascinating to read it. Thanks to all.
Doug @ The Patriot's Flag
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