Time Change For SRB Event

Night club owner Edison Garcia told Plaintalker the mayor's event featuring Rev. Al Sharpton will be held from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. tonight at Faraones, 111 East Front Street.

It had been scheduled to start at 6:30 p.m. at Washington Community School before the venue change and Sharpton's web site placed his expected arrival at 8 p.m.

Asked whether the event would interfere with his Friday night schedule, Garcia said Mayor Sharon Robinson-Briggs told him her event would conclude at 8:30 p.m.

Garcia said he could provide seating for about 150 people tonight. A similar number attended a candidates' forum at which the mayor was to appear along with he Democratic Primary challenger, Councilman Adrian Mapp. But the forum had to close down after the mayor failed to appear. She later sent word by way of an aide that she was ill.