Black hall of fame plans induction event

There will be nine hall of fame inductees Saturday.
WARREN -- An international official of the United Steelworkers of America will be keynote speaker at the 21st annual Trumbull County African-American Achievers Association Hall of Fame inductee dinner.
Maxine Carter, assistant to the international president and director of the USW's civil rights department will speak at 6 p.m. Saturday at DiVieste Banquet Hall, 754 N. River Road.
Nine people will be inducted. They are:
Anthony "Tony" Hughes Elzy, 18, son of Anthony and Robin Elzy of Warren, is a senior and All-Ohio football player at John F. Kennedy High School. He was twice named JFK's Most Valuable Player of the Year, twice was All-Northeast Ohio, two-time Division 5 Offensive Player of the Year and twice named an All-Ohio player. He was named by the Ohio High School Coaches Association "Tremendous 26" Class of 2005.
As a junior Elzy rushed for more than 2,500 yards and scored 30 touchdowns, both school records. During one game, he rushed for 470 yards and scored seven touchdowns, also school records. He has accepted a four-year scholarship at the University of North Carolina.
He was also a member of JFK's 2004 4x100 track team that broke a state record and took first place in the state track meet.
At school, he is a member of the Science Club, yearbook staff and Key Club. He is a member of New Jerusalem Fellowship Church, where he is a junior deacon, church percussionist, a member of the Youth and Gospel Chorus and Praise the Lord Team and a Youth Fellowship leader.
Jasmine Trimble, 17, daughter of Vernon and Darlene Trimble of Champion, is a senior honors student at Champion High School. She is involved in several school activities, including Key Club, student council, yearbook staff, track and symphonic and marching bands. She is a cheerleader and involved in tap, jazz and ballet dancing.
Jasmine has participated in Make a Difference Day, Red Cross blood drive, Salvation Army during the Christmas season, helped assist the needy by preparing and distributing baskets during Thanksgiving and Christmas, and made survival kits for the victims of Hurricane Katrina.
She is a member of Eastside Church of Christ, Warren, where she's a member of the youth group and church choir. She is a hostess at JD's Post Home, Champion, and seasonal worker at Grandma's Real Ice Cream. She will attend Kent State University and plans to become a certified public accountant.
Vincent E. Peterson of Howland is known in law enforcement circles. Peterson received his bachelor's degree in 1987 from Youngstown State University, where he was a football standout. He has been employed as an adult probation officer since 1990 and is in charge of intensive supervision. Peterson has been a detective with the Trumbull County Drug Task Force.
He serves on the citizens advisory board of the North East Ohio Community Alternative Program (NEOCAP), board of Linkages, Forum Health Trumbull Memorial Hospital's community relations board, Highland Terrace advisory board, and is a member of Leadership Mahoning Valley.
Peterson is a former member of the Brother to Brother mentoring program. He has received numerous awards for his law enforcement and community activities. He is a trustee of the Warren Sports Hall of Fame.
His is an associate minister at Triedstone Baptist Church, Warren, where he has served on the usher board and is a member of the choir and head of JAM youth group. He and his wife, the former Evelyn Morton, have two children.
Jake Edward Jones Sr. of Warren is deputy director of NEOCAP. Like Peterson, Jones is known in the athletic and law enforcement communities. He also played football at YSU and received his bachelor's degree in 1987 and master's degree in 1995, both in criminal justice. Jones is a certified social worker and domestic violence counselor. He's a member of the sports Hall of Fame and past chairman of the achievers' association.
In 1997, Jones started working at NEOCAP. He was promoted to his current position in 2002. Before that, he was a probation officer with the Trumbull County Adult Probation Department and a prevention specialist with the Rebecca Williams Community Center. He has coached football at Warren Western Reserve and Warren G. Harding high schools.
He has taught part time in YSU's Criminal Justice Department and lectured. In 2005, he received the Professional Achievement Award from the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Corrections for his contributions in the field of community corrections.
He and his wife, the former Bridgette Washington, have two children.
James "Sterling" Frazier of Warren is financial secretary of United Steelworkers of America Local 1375.
Before graduating from Harding in 1974, Frazier was one of three students selected to the Upper Ground Program at Kent State University. After graduation he became a construction worker through Laborers Local 935. He was hired at the Republic Steel Corp., now WCI Steel Inc. He enlisted in the Marine Corps and after three years returned to Republic, where he was one of a handful of skilled trades workers as a welder.
He has been involved in union organizing and has held a variety of union elected positions. He also worked for USW international.
Frazier started the Relay for Life team at UAW Local 1375. He has also volunteered in serving food and passing out clothing to the needy. He is a member of Third Baptist Church, where he is president of the Men's Christian Fellowship.
He and his wife, Michele, have three children and six grandchildren.
Colette Marie Jenkins Parker, of Warren Township, is the religion writer for the Akron Beacon Journal and a visionary of the Trumbull County Martin Luther King Jr. Dream Team. A native of South Bend, Ind., she received her bachelor's degree in psychology from Indiana University and an associate degree at Holy Cross College.
For 14 years, Parker has worked to educate and empower people. She has brought to the community many motivational speakers. She serves on the executive committee of the Warren-Trumbull County Branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, where she is chairwoman of the Freedom Fund Committee. She is a member of the parent advisory committee at Jefferson Elementary.
As a journalist, she has received the 1994 Pulitzer Gold Metal for Meritorious Public Service as one of two writers for a series on race relations.
She received a second place from the Ohio Society of Professional Journalists for religion coverage in 2002 and first place in 2003 for coverage of minority issues. She received first place in 2004 from the National Association of Black Journalists for enterprise reporting. She was a fellow at Ohio University's E.W. Scripps School of Journalism's Midwest Newspaper Workshop for Minorities.
She and her husband, Darryl, have a daughter.
Bobby Jean Cunningham, 46, of Warren, is a 17-year employee of WCI and active in UAW Local 1375. She is a 1955 graduate of Harding and working on her bachelor's degree in human services.
Cunningham works in the company's caster department, where her duties include observing the cutting of steel slabs to the customers' specifications and assuring all computer data is on the order sheets.
At Local 1375, she is co-chairwoman of the employee assistance program, dealing with members and their families who are addicted to drugs or alcohol. She is also involved in helping those who face utility shutoffs. She is co-chairwoman of her local's United Way Campaign and union partner to the WCI Community Improvement Committee.
Cunningham is a Salvation Army bell ringer and volunteers for the Relay for Life, Make a Difference Day, Warren Urban Drug and Alcohol Outreach Program, Warren City Schools Gear Up Faith Based Planning Committee, and Committee for America Coming Together, which deals with voter registration. She is a former board member of Community Solutions.
She is an active member of New Fellowship Baptist Church, where she teaches Sunday school and is a member of Praise Team, Evangelistic and Adopt-A-Member Ministries, chairs the youth advisory committee and is assistant to the Deacon Sheepfold Ministry.
She and her late husband, Dewey, have three children. She is the custodial parent of a cousin.
Wilbert "Bert" Johnson Jr., 63, of Warren, is the second person in his family to be inducted into the hall of fame. His father, Bert Sr., was the first.
Johnson is the owner of Bert Johnson Realty and has his own appraising and property development companies. He is a 1961 graduate of Warren G. Harding, and attended Youngstown State University, Warren Business College and Kent State University. He also was a bailiff in Warren Municipal Court.
He got his start in real estate in the mid-1960s when he went to buy a house -- and was told by an agent that he could buy only on the city's West Side -- "where my people were." He credits Van Williams with teaching him about real estate and helping him obtain a real estate license. In Niles, he went to work at the James L. Morrison real estate office and was the top seller for seven years.
Upon becoming a broker Johnson started Bert Johnson Realty in 1971. He has worked closely with programs that place low- to moderate-income people in affordable homes. He was named Broker of the Year in 1984 by the Akron Association of Real Estate brokers.
In 1983 he became owner of B & amp;J Enterprise, which works in property rehabilitation, small business properties and remodeling of housing units. As a regional vice president for the National Association of Real Estate brokers Inc., he covers Michigan, Ohio and Indiana.
He is a member of King Solomon Lodge 87 and El Hasa Temple No. 28. Johnson has four children.
Robert Louis Stevenson Jr., 45, of Warren, is a Realtor with Coldwell Bankers.
Stevenson is a 1978 graduate of Western Reserve High School and received a degree in business management from American Intercontinental University.
In 1978, he went to work for WCI and in 1984 joined the Air Force, where he was an air traffic controller. While on military duty, he owned and operated Dual Communications Pagers/Answering Service.
After being discharged in 1986, he returned to WCI to become a heavy equipment operator for 14 years. For the past seven years, he has been a crane operator with the steelmaker.
He attended Kent State University and received his real estate license in 1989. He has completed 500 successful transactions -- becoming a member of Coldwell's International Diamond Society for being among the top 17 percent brokers out of 120,000 agents.
He and his wife, Loda Michele, have two children.