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Crisis Control partners with HARRY to provide food for vets

BY TEVIN STINSON THE CHRONICLE

Last weekend Crisis Control Ministry partnered with HARRY (Helping Advocate Research Respond for You) Veterans Community Outreach Services and Goler Memorial AME Zion Church to provide boxes of food and gift bags for local veterans and civilians.

During the drive-thru event last Saturday, boxes of food were distributed to 100 veterans and their families. They also received gallons of milk, cereal, and other items, including Easter baskets for children provided by HARRY and Goler Memorial’s Parent Body Missionary Society.

Most of the food was provided by Crisis Control.

Abbey McCall, director of community relations, said around the holidays they Volunteers with HARRY Veterans Community Outreach Services during the giveaway event on Saturday, April 3.

Most of the food distributed during the giveaway was provided by Crisis Control Ministry.

usually partner with local organizations to host giveaways with surplus food at the distribution center.

McCall said the boxes had enough food for 3-4 meals.

“We’ll be giving out a non-perishable box of food and we have a good bit of food left over from the week that we wouldn’t want to go bad, so we brought some produce, lots of bread to give out, and we have milk. This is food that we pick up from our grocery store partners,” McCall continued.

“I think it’s amazing that we’re able to support vet-

erans who have served our country. So many people have been impacted by the coronavirus and it’s surprising a lot of veterans don’t know about Crisis Control Ministry as a resource, so the partnership with HARRY is a good way to get the word out there and let them know what else we do besides food assistance.”

In addition to providing food assistance, Crisis Control also helps veterans with pharmacy medications and financial assistance.

Founded in 2008 to

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honor the life and legacy of ex-Marine Harry Smith, HARRY is one of the few organizations in the area designed to advocate for the wellbeing of veterans.

The mission of the nonprofit organization is to provide a network that is responsive to the health, social, and economic wellbeing of veterans and their families.

“I think it’s just a good partnership with HARRY’s veterans group to let the community know we’re here as a resource.”

Fishing event looks to bring fathers and sons together THE CHRONICLE

On Saturday, April 17, the B. Positive Movement, a local non-profit designed to help young people reach their full potential, is inviting men and boys to pull out their fishing rods and make their way to Kernersville Lake for the Fathers & Sons Great Fishing Experience.

Brandon Horne, founder of the B. Positive Move-

ment, said the idea for the Fathers & Sons Fishing Experience came to him one day while sitting at the kitchen table. He said after taking his own son fishing, he realized how it brought them closer.

“I took my son fishing and he really enjoyed it and I thought that was a good way for a father and son to be able to have some quality time, enjoy each other’s company and just bond. My son and I were able to bond and it was just a great experience … and I felt like so many other fathers could benefit from this.”

Horne said he also realized that there weren’t many organizations or programs for fathers and sons, especially in the African American community, so he set out to change that

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The Fathers & Sons Great Fishing Experience is scheduled for Saturday, April 17, at Kernersville Lake. with the Great Catch Fishing Experience. After partnering with other organizations and sponsors, Horne was able to host his first father/son fishing event in 2019 at Salem Lake. More than a dozen men and boys

came out to enjoy a relaxing day of fishing, games, prizes, and free food.

“I was always trying to figure out the best way to be able to give back to the youth, but I also wanted to build that connection with

fathers,” he continued.

“It just kind of stemmed from, we don’t hear a lot about fathers in our community. It’s always mothers and sons or mothers and daughters or fathers and daughters, but we

don’t hear anything about fathers and sons. So I just thought I would do something in the community to bring awareness to fathers in the neighborhood and See Fishing on A8

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Register To Vote—Now? ing (read: “Souls To The Polls”) and makes it illegal to provide food and water to voters who have to stand in line to vote, sometimes for hours. If you think the same could not happen in North Carolina, you’ve not been paying attention.

Will we keep our republic?

You will get to decide, but only if you are registered to vote!

BY HOWARD PEARRE

“A Republic … if you can keep it,” said Benjamin Franklin when someone in the Philadelphia crowd shouted out asking what the founding fathers had created.

Last November, millions of Americans did their part and We, The People, kept our republic.

The Grand Experiment in democracy was tested, and in spite of a violent mob’s attack on the Capitol on January 6, Joseph R. Biden was sworn in as the 46th president of the United States.

The 159 million citizens who voted, including more than 5.5 million North Carolinians, helped choose a new path for the country.

In less than two years, the Grand Experiment will be tested again. After spring primaries that are scheduled for March 8, 2022 (less than a year from now), every congressional seat in the country, including 13 in North Carolina (or possibly 14, depending on 2020 Census apportionment) and one of the state’s U.S. Senate seats, will be on the line. Citizens will flock to the polls or mail in witnessed ballots.

The country will choose either to continue moving forward or to reverse its direction; however, only citizens who are registered will be able to have a say about that direction. We need only look back to 2016 to see the disastrous consequences of an unwise choice.

If you voted in 2020, you probably are registered to vote in 2022. Even so, now is a good time to check your registration status to be sure. There is no reason to doubt the integrity of our state and county elections boards and processes based on their performance in 2020, but individual voters still have ultimate responsibility to

Howard Pearre retired from N.C. Vocational Rehabilitation and the assure their registrations are valid and accurate.

If you did not vote in 2020, have moved, or changed your name, now CERTAINLY is the time to check your status while there still is plenty of time to take corrective action.

Even a move across the hall in an apartment building could mean trouble if your registration does not reflect the new address. It is also a good time to check with family members, neighbors, and friends at church, work, or school to spread the word about checking their registrations. During the 2020 election, much was said about voting being suppressed, particularly for targeted groups. Powerful interests throughout the country tried mightily to do exactly that. Many of these strategies failed, but only because determined citizens persisted and demanded to fulfill their duties and privileges to vote. Sadly, however, many citizens played into the hands of those interests and voluntarily suppressed their own votes by failing to register and/or cast their ballots.

The campaign to suppress voting in the 2022 election is gaining steam in state legislatures throughout the country. Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp recently signed into law a bill that allows county boards to eliminate Sunday vot-

Department of Veterans Affairs. He is a former precinct chief judge with Forsyth County Board of Elections and has provided voter registration training sessions. He is a member of the Winston-Salem Writers.

How to check or update your registration

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7,500 appointments available at joint vaccination event planned for April 10 SUBMITTED ARTICLE

Forsyth County Department of Public Health, Novant Health, and Wake Forest Baptist Health will hold a mass COVID-19 vaccination event for individuals 18 years of age and older on Saturday, April 10. The event will be held at two locations: the Winston-Salem Fairgrounds Education Building and Novant Health’s mass vaccination site at Hanes Mall.

Appointments for Fairgrounds, 414 Deacon Blvd., are now available at https://beatcovid.wakehealth. edu/preregistrationWSFG410.cfm. Appointments at Novant Health’s Hanes Mall location can be scheduled at GetVaccinated.org.

Forsyth Public Health, Novant Health and Wake Forest Baptist Health are also scheduling first dose appointments during the week for their normal vaccine operations using other vaccines.

On Saturday, April 10, approximately 7,500 doses will be available from a shipment the three organizations received of the Johnson & Johnson (Janssen) vaccine, which is a single shot vaccine. All three vaccines that are now available are built on years of research and have been proven to be effective in preventing hospitalizations and deaths.

It’s important for those who book an appointment to either attend the appointment or to cancel or reschedule at least two hours ahead of time so staff can schedule someone else. Those who need to cancel should follow the instructions in their appointment confirmation email.

Vaccinations are the best way to contain COVID-19 and protect against the disease. Currently, 23% of Forsyth County residents 18 years of age and older have been fully vaccinated. On Wednesday, April 7, every adult in North Carolina will be eligible to get the vaccine.

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Black women’s voices take center stage at the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women ATLANTA — Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority Inc. and the International Black Women’s Public Policy Institute (IBWPPI) hosted the panel discussion “Promoting the Safety and Security of Women of African Descent” on March 16. The virtual session was held during the 65th session of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women.

The panel convened experts and world leaders to speak on the exploitation of Black women and girls in the underground human trafficking world and other forms of violence. Speakers included: Rasheeda S. Liberty, International President, Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority Inc; Barbara A. Perkins, IBWPPI president and CEO; the Honorable Paula Cox, former premier of Bermuda; Dr. Deirdre Cooper Owens, historian and professor at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln; Michellene Davis, health equity strategist/president & CEO of M.D. Clarida Drew, LLC; Ouleye Ndoye, human rights activist; and Teresa Stafford, chief programs officer, Cleveland Rape Crisis Center.

In the United States, there are more than 600,000 to 800,000 people being trafficked annually across international borders and 40% percent of sex trafficking victims are Black women and girls. The panelists discussed the vulnerabilities of Black female trafficking victims, gaps in services and public policy, and the historical context of the oversexualization of Black females dating back to the transatlantic slave trade. These elements, coupled with poverty, racism, and a wide array of social determinants, feed into the vicious cycle of human trafficking.

International leaders and activists promoted strategies for grassroots action to inform, prevent, and address violence against women including intimate partner-based violence, physical and mental abuse. IBWPPI shared with attendees their position paper “Slavery by Another Name: The Epidemic of Black Female Trafficking Victims in the US and Abroad.”

“Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority, Inc. is proud to be a part of such powerful work to amplify the importance of protecting women and youth for nearly 100 years. As we amplify, our sisterhood acts to ensure that women of African descent are protected in healthcare, education and financial equity policies,” said Rasheeda S. Liberty.

“The issue of human trafficking as it pertains to Black women and girls is largely an issue of not being seen, heard or valued. The International Black Women’s Public Policy Institute’s goal is to change that,” said Barbara A. Perkins.

“Humanizing and centering the voices of Black women is our collective call to action, regardless of where they are, because Black women matter.”

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Black-Asian solidarity has a long history in America

BY VINCENT L. HALL TEXAS METRO NEWS

Now this one will probably get me into trouble, but it does not matter. There is undeniable evidence that my mama and God love me. That’s enough for me, and even if it were not, this has to be said. I am tired of Black folks who spew disinformation and ignorance.

White privilege may make allowances for some, but not for us. After the horrific murders of some of our Asian sisters in Georgia, the press started asking whether or not the Black community would align with them to stop the senseless racist attacks against them spurred on by Trump and his merry band of white supremacists. It was devastating to me to read many of the social media responses and sickening to hear them among friends and family.

“What did the Asians ever do for us? I don’t remember them being a part of our civil rights struggle!”

There are three significant flaws in this dismissive reasoning. First, reportedly, only 3-5% of Black folks followed King and the civil rights movement in general. Second, plenty of Asians like our Jewish brothers and sisters went to bat for us. Go back and read the history.

Finally, the revolutionary fight for the liberation of all peoples should never be conditional. Good people must challenge racism, sexism, homophobia, and all other forms of oppression without regard to the

race, ethnicity, or government on either side of the equation.

Many believe as I do, that Jesus Christ was of African descent. However, if that same Jesus died for Africans but no one else, he would not be worthy of my spiritual allegiance.

We should pounce on injustice in the world roundly and without question. How shallow is it to ask, “What did Asians or Mexicans or anyone else ever do for us?” Miss me with that dumb sh!t! Nothing in the Christian credo or ethos requires compensation or reparations for good deeds. Nevertheless, for the sake of the naysayers, let me reiterate a few of the main points of a CNN article by Van Jones, “Black-Asian solidarity has a long and storied history in America!” This may be the only time you ever hear me quote Van Jones. “Legendary civil rights icon Frederick Douglass gave a speech about immigration in 1869 at a moment when restricting Chinese and Japanese migration to the United States was central to the political debate.

Douglass took a strong

stand for a “composite nation” with free migration as a fundamental human right. When Filipinos decided to fight for their country’s independence instead of accepting U.S. colonial rule, the U.S. launched a war against them. That war created a crisis of conscience for some African American soldiers. Prominent African American figures like Henry M. Turner and Ida B. Wells empathized with the Filipino freedom fighters and spoke out on their behalf. African American opposition to the Vietnam War was widespread.

Leaders like Malcolm X, Muhammad Ali, and Martin Luther King Jr. spoke out. Protesters carried signs reading, “Black men should fight White racism, not Vietnamese freedom fighters.”

Near the end of his life, an embattled Malcolm X was isolated from the Nation of Islam. As he struggled to forge a new path for himself, Yuri Kochiyama, a Japanese American human rights activist, stood by his side. The two became friends and helped each other develop global perspectives on human

rights. When assassins gunned Malcolm X down, it was Kochiyama who famously cradled his head as he lay dying on the floor of the Audubon Ballroom.

My angst is simple regarding the need for African Americans to take a stand against injustice anywhere that poses a threat to justice everywhere. Dr. King made it plain.

“The time is always right to do what is right.”

He ended that quote with another equally compelling line. “You could start right now by doing a small part to treat people with dignity, courtesy, and respect.” As the most hated people on planet earth, African Americans should show some respect and regard to our AsianAmerican family’s plight in this critical juncture of American history. Dr. King was assassinated 10 days before Easter and 53 years ago. Let us honor his legacy rather than distorting it. It is always right to fight injustice.

Vincent L. Hall is an author, activist, and award-winning columnist.

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Will justice and truth prevail in the George Floyd trial?

Dr. James B. Ewers Jr.

Guest Columnist

America is watching the George Floyd trial.

The world is too. It began last week and the media is covering it on every side.

It is difficult for me to watch as the testimony has been riveting and full of passion. Witnesses have cried and those of us at home have shed tears.

The memories of this horrific murder are still fresh and are still lodged in our minds. They have not gone away.

We have used eight minutes and forty-six

seconds as the amount of time Derek Chauvin, then a Minneapolis police officer, had his knee on the neck of George Floyd.

New testimony has shown that it was nine minutes and twenty-nine seconds. Prosecutor Jerry Blackwell said, “9-2-9 were the three most important numbers in this case.

That was the time it took to squeeze the very life out of George Floyd.

Chris Stewart, an attorney for Floyd’s family, said, “It’s heartbreaking to know the torture lasted even longer.”

This unspeakable act has taken on a new level of both stain and sadness.

The stain of it is that a human being would commit this heinous act without any remorse or contrition. The sadness of it is

that a life was taken, and George Floyd’s last breath was in anguish and pain.

We saw this crime against life unfold on television, raw and uncut.

This was not a hold-up and no lockdowns were in place. Special police forces were not needed.

You and I saw one man callously and recklessly commit murder.

This one man was not just any man. He was a police officer who took an oath to protect and to serve. Van Jones, CNN political commentator, said, “You want the police to obey the law.” In my opinion, he did not fulfill his oath.

I have an expression that I have been using a lot lately. It is “you can’t defend the indefensible.”

You cannot in good

conscience defend what happened to George Floyd on May 25, 2020. Yet some will disagree with my assertion.

Eric Nelson, the attorney for Derek Chauvin, is wanting the jury to consider and review all the facts in the case. Nelson is saying Chauvin was doing what he was trained to do.

There have been experts like former Philadelphia police commissioner, Charles Ramsey, who has disagreed.

Lt. Richard Zimmerman has also taken issue with attorney Nelson’s statements. In his testimony, he said he was never instructed to kneel on someone’s neck who had on handcuffs.

Lt. Zimmerman is not just any police officer. He is the most senior police

officer in the Minneapolis police force. His opinions and statements matter.

There have been several witnesses who have testified, and they say they saw the same thing. They saw George Floyd slowly losing his life because Derek Chauvin had his knee on his neck.

As the trial progresses, there will be some who will try to convince the jury otherwise. They will bring up points that are immaterial and irrelevant.

The facts simply do not lie. The truth will come out because it always does.

Onlookers looked and were rendered helpless by the police. They watched just feet away as a murder was being committed.

What was going through their minds as his

life was coming to an end?

Maybe Darnella Frazier, a teenager said it best.

She said, “It’s been nights I’ve stayed up apologizing to George Floyd for not doing more and not physically interacting and not saving his life. But it’s not what I should have done, it’s what he should have done.”

She was talking about Derek Chauvin.

James B. Ewers Jr. Ed.D. is a former tennis champion at Atkins High School in Winston-Salem and played college tennis at Johnson C. Smith University, where he was allconference for four years.

He is a retired college administrator. He can be reached at overtimefergie.2020@yahoo.com.

Ban the death penalty for those with serious mental illness Laura Finley Guest Columnist The death penalty is an antiquated and barbaric form of punishment. This is why most nations have ended it. The top six executing nations in 2019 were China, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Egypt, and the U.S. The U.S is especially cruel in that there is no categorical exemption for the seriously mentally ill from receiving death sentences. It is time that death penalty retaining states correct this injustice and enact legislation ban-

ning death sentences for those who were seriously mentally ill at the time of their crime.

Tragic cases illustrate the need for such a ban. Florida executed John Ferguson on Aug. 5, 2013, despite the fact that he had suffered from well documented severe mental illness for 40 years and believed he was the ​ “Prince of God.” Missouri executed Cecil Clayton on March 17, 2015. Clayton had an IQ of just 71, suffered from dementia, and was missing a large part of his brain due to an accident. Georgia executed decorated Vietnam War veteran Andrew Brannan on Jan. 13, 2015, although he suffered from bipolar

disorder and post-traumatic stress disorder due to his time in the war.

In March, and with bipartisan support, Kentucky’s House of Representatives passed a bill to ban the seriously mentally ill from receiving the death penalty. On Jan. 9, 2021, Ohio Governor Mike Dewine signed into law a similar ban. The Florida Senate Criminal Justice Committee voted unanimously in bipartisan support of SB 1156, “Serious Mental Illness as Bar to Execution.” The bill is sponsored by Senator Jeff Brandes (R-24). It is supported by the Florida Mental Health Advocacy Coalition, National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI),

the American Psychological Association, the American Psychiatric Association, and the American Bar Association, among other advocacy and professional groups. It would exempt capital defendants from death if, at the time of the crime, they had a serious mental illness that significantly impaired their capacity to exercise rational judgments in relation to their conduct, to conform their conduct to the requirements of the law, or to appreciate the nature, consequences, or wrongfulness of their conduct.

The proposed bill does not preclude a guilty verdict or a sentence including life imprisonment without the possibility of parole.

Polls show widespread support for ending the death penalty in general.

For instance, a 2016 poll in Florida found 62% of respondents support some form of a life sentence and only 35% support the death penalty for those convicted of murder. In particular, national polls show widespread support for exempting the mentally ill from the death penalty.

For example, a 2014 poll found that 58% of respondents opposed executing those who were seriously mentally ill and only 28% supported it. In fact, much of the public believes such an exemption already exists.

For those who wish to see a fairer, and ethically

and morally appropriate system of justice, it is critical to contact legislatures in states that retain the death penalty and implore them to propose a ban on executing the seriously mentally ill or to vote for one that has been proposed, like the bill in Florida.

education or hold positions of limited economic power within the colonial structure.

The British did a similar form of “othering” in the colonial lands that were to become Sudan. By encouraging Islam in the northern part of that colony and severely restricting it in the south, a religious divide developed. Additionally, the British invested heavily in the north – considered Arab – but underdeveloped the south, which they identified more with their East African colonies. These divisions led to a tragic “othering” of the people of northern Sudan and southern Sudan that continued even after Sudan’s independence and led to its splitting into two nations.

It would take numerous volumes of history to catalog the countless instances where white supremacy pitted one group of people of color against another.

But what we know now is that it must be stopped.

In the biblical tradition

when God asks Cain about Abel’s whereabouts, Cain responded by asking, “Am I my brother’s keeper?” In this story, Cain abandoned his empathy in order to pursue his own selfish desires.

We cannot be like Cain. We cannot abandon our empathy for our fellow human beings. We must all be our brothers’ keepers as well as our sisters’ keepers. We all face a common struggle against those who use hate and fear as tools to separate us in order to serve their greed and lust for power.

Because we are all of one earth, we are all essentially of one mother. And in our struggle against white supremacy, we must all link arms to protect and care for one another.

Oscar H. Blayton is a former Marine Corps combat pilot and human rights activist who practices law in Virginia.

Laura Finley, Ph.D., syndicated by PeaceVoice, teaches in the Barry University Department of Sociology & Criminology and is the author of several academic texts in her discipline.

Stop ‘othering’ Oscar H. Blayton Guest Columnist I wondered how long expressions of empathy would continue to be front and center in the minds of Americans following the hate-fueled multiple murders of Asian women in and near Atlanta, Georgia.

To be clear, two of the victims of Robert Aaron Long’s homicidal mania were not of Asian ancestry. But their proximity to clearly and stereotypically identifiable Asian ethnic tropes brought them within the sights of the killer.

The fact that most people have already forgotten the names of the eight victims murdered at three Asian American spas in the Atlanta area tends to strengthen the argument that generally speaking, empathy for

“the other” is fleeting.

When we fail to stay in touch with our humanity and abandon our ability to have empathy for all people, we fall into the trap of enabling those among us who use hate and fear as tools to separate us in order to serve their greed and lust for power.

At many points along the path of American history, the ugly truths of our country are shrouded in the shadows of lies, misinformation and ignorance. Sometimes these truths emerge from the shadows, and we even hear some Blacks and Asians demonize Asians.

It is common knowledge that some Black folks speak disparagingly about merchants of Asian ancestry who operate businesses in Black communities.

Recently, there are reports of Sery Kim, Congressional candidate of Korean ancestry from Texas and a supporter of Donald Trump, speaking publicly about people of Chinese ancestry, saying that she

does not “want them here at all.” Rather than drawing gasps and condemnation from her audience, her remarks generated cheers and applause.

The modern-day “othering” of people of color in America and elsewhere is a direct result of Western imperialism and colonialism. For the sake of their stability, these socioeconomic processes required creating and maintaining the global myth of white supremacy.

Europeans used white supremacy to place themselves at the top of the social hierarchy in lands they controlled.

They also maneuvered the inhabitants of color into opposing each other based upon their ethnic or cultural backgrounds.

“Divide and conquer” is not merely a trite and meaningless saying. It is a political, social and economic strategy that has resulted in the successful looting of entire continents by a few relatively small countries in the western end of the Eurasian land-

mass. By creating separate classes of “haves” and “have nots,” European imperialists created tensions between identifiable groups that prevented them from joining forces and throwing off their oppressors.

Two very clear cases illustrate how this has been done and its disastrous effects.

In the 1980s, the world watched in horror as a conflict between Hutus and Tutsis in Rwanda resulted in the deaths of thousands of men, women and children. But little thought was given to the fact that the schism between these two peoples had been exacerbated for decades in large part by the Belgian colonial administrators who ruled over the lands that were to become Rwanda and Burundi. The Belgians formalized the “othering” between the two groups by forcing Hutus and Tutsis to carry ethnic identity cards.

To create a class division, the Belgians allowed only Tutsis to obtain a higher

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Former Mt. Tabor star making a name for herself in coaching world

BY TIMOTHY RAMSEY THE CHRONICLE

Kendra Samuels-Eaton has known since middle school that the game of basketball could take her places. Not only did the game provide a full scholarship to college, it has now provided career opportunities as Samuels-Eaton is currently the associate head basketball coach for the women’s team at UNC-Pembroke.

Samuels-Eaton was a standout player for Mt. Tabor in the mid-2000s before she headed to Western Carolina to play college basketball. After graduation, Samuels-Eaton has been on a path to success that seems to just be getting started.

Compared to other players, Samuels-Eaton picked up the game of basketball at a rather advanced age. It wasn’t until eighth grade that she decided to give the sport a chance.

“I wasn’t into basketball until the eighth grade,” she said. “Prior to that, I used to march with the Yettes at the YMCA with Mo Lucas, and I did that for a few years before I even started playing basketball. I would say my brother got me into playing the sport.”

Byron Samuels, Samuels-Eaton’s uncle, was a coach and she spent a lot of time watching him coach the game of basketball and enjoyed it, so once she started playing, she took to it like a fish to water.

“When I got into it, I enjoyed being able to compete against other people and being able to travel,” she said. “I just fell in love as soon as I touched it.”

During the AAU season of her eighth-grade year, Samuels-Eaton blos-

somed to the point where she was able to make the varsity team at Mt. Tabor as a freshman. Her strength and ability to play around the basket was further along than most girls her age and was something she learned playing basketball with boys at the local playgrounds.

“Where I grew up was at Millbrook apartments and there was really not a lot of girls that played basketball, so my brother would take me up to Hanes Hosiery with him and I would just play against them,” she stated. “Once I started competing with the guys and then ultimately beating them, I thought I could possibly have a collegiate career with this.”

While at Tabor, Samuels-Eaton developed her game tremendously, thanks to her coaches. She says they challenged her to be the best player she could be and held her to high standards.

“I had to show every year that I was worthy of my spot, nothing was ever given to me,” she continued. “So, I just competed every day and worked hard

on my game every day.”

During her junior year, there were some very big highs and lows for Samuels-Eaton. She eclipsed the 1,000-point barrier in her junior year, but also tore ligaments in her knee and had to have surgery in the summer.

The recovery process after surgery was a tough one for her, because her goal was to try and get back on the court for her senior year to play.

“My PT (personal trainer) was great and he basically pushed me,” she said about her injury. “Like any other person, it was a blow to me, and I was just frustrated and down and out, but I had to make a decision that this is something I wanted to do and something that can help me get into school. I had to switch gears and get into that mindset of getting back and showing what I can do my senior year.”

Samuels-Eaton fought her way back onto the court six months later to help her team make a playoff run, as well as showing college coaches she was still the same player. When it came

to choosing a college, her mind was made up early.

Western Carolina was one of the first schools to recruit her and maintained contact, even through rehab of her injury, so it was an easy choice for her to choose the Catamounts.

“I’m different and Western Carolina started sending letters before anyone,” she said about her recruiting. “The coach at the time, which was Kellie Harper, who is now the coach at Tennessee, she never saw me play and I thought that was a great thing. A lot of the other schools that were recruiting me knew I tore my ACL and they wanted to wait to see how I did my senior year, but my whole mindset was that you never know what’s going to happen.

“Western Carolina stayed with me throughout the whole process of me tearing my ACL, so Western was the only school I took an official visit to.

When I went up there it was great, the team was great, the atmosphere was great, and the community was great.”

One of the things that won Samuels-Eaton over during her visit was when Harper, formerly Jolly, brought out her national championship rings to show her. Harper was a player at Tennessee under then coach Pat Summitt during the 1990s and won three national titles while there.

It was apparent from day one that there was a big talent gap between high school and college, Samuels-Eaton said. Most of the adjustments she had to make were on the court.

Because she was an aboveaverage student, the academic side of college was not a problem for her.

“Throughout my time in school, I ended up with a 3.5, so the academic part was actually the easiest,” she said about college.

Samuels-Eaton graduated from Western Carolina in 2009 with a degree in sports management with a concentration in athletic administration.

While there, she became a member of the 500-point club and appeared in 117 games for the Catamounts. In her four years, she accumu-

lated 721 points and 524 rebounds and led the Catamounts to a Southern Conference Tournament title and a berth to the NCAA tournament during her senior year.

She went on to earn her master’s degree in physical education and sports science from Central Missouri in 2011. She was recently accepted into East Tennessee State’s Global Sport Leadership Doctorate program, which she will be starting in the fall.

Playing professional basketball was not something that interested Samuels-Eaton after graduation and neither was coaching, she said. Initially, Samuels-Eaton took a position at Western as the coordinator of academic support services for student-athletes for two years.

Following that position at her alma mater, she became the coordinator of basketball operations at Wake Forest. In that role, she handled the day-to-day operations of the team by handling travel and developing content for the women’s basketball team website, for example.

Coaching was still not on Samuels-Eaton’s radar while at Wake. She was at the point where she was still trying to figure out what she wanted to do career-wise.

“Initially, I never wanted to be a basketball coach, honestly,” she said. “I really wanted to be in athletic administration, like an assistant AD somewhere, but I believe everything happens for a reason.”

Samuels-Eaton’s next move was to North Carolina Central University, where she obtained her first coaching position. She See Kendra on A8

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Barbers and stylists care about your hair and your health BY: SARAH FEDELE AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION

April is National Minority Health Month, but our participating Hair, Heart and Health barbers and stylists are helping their clients be healthier – all year long!

Through this program, salon and barbershop staff have been trained, blood pressure checks are being encouraged, and stylists and barbers are engaging their clients with heart health information to help reduce risk factors for heart disease and stroke.

The American Heart Association’s Hair, Heart & Health program is working with eight local barbershops and salons including Gentleman’s Grooming Lounge, Blend Masters, and Monique Michelle the Studio beauty salon in Winston-Salem. In Guilford County, The Hot

thing related to having a healthy family,” shared Derek Brooks, owner of Gentleman’s Grooming Lounge in WinstonSalem.

“As a cosmetologist, we’re able to advise our clients about hair, skin and nails.

Now, with the parallel for heart health, we will have some training to also advise our clients to have a healthier lifestyle,” said Monique Parks, owner/operator of Monique Michelle the Studio in WinstonSalem.

“Our clients are very comfortable in the chair and overall health conversations happen naturally. Now with the materials, information and training from the American Heart Association, we can be even more factual and helpful,” said Charlz Henry, stylist from The Hot Seat Studio Salon in Greensboro.

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Monique Parks of Monique Michelle the Studio in Winston-Salem with Tracy Teal getting a trim.

Seat Studio Salon, United Barbershop, Marte’s Barber Shoppe, Heads Up Barbers, and Glenwood Barr-ber Shop are participating.

Hair, Heart & Health is part of a statewide initiative with the American Heart Association and Blue Cross Blue Shield of NC (Blue Cross NC) to improve heart health among systematically disadvantaged populations in North Carolina.

Live Chair Health will also now be joining with Hair, Heart & Health in the Triad – making health conversations in the barber’s chair even more possible.

With Live Chair Health, barbers

nities. More often than not, barbers and hairstylists serve in dual roles of therapist and hairdresser. Their clients are like family and together, they share a history.

When health issues arise in conversation, it’s important that accurate information is being shared. With the help of the American Heart Association, Blue Cross NC and Live Chair Health, the stylists in the participating shops are trained and now will have all the resources they need for healthy conversations at their fingertips.

Heart disease is the leading cause of death for Americans, but deaths from the disease are higher among Black Ameri-

Derek Brooks of The Gentleman’s Grooming Lounge in Winston-Salem with Tommy Torain getting a trim. and stylists will perform quick and easy health screenings for their clients before their haircut and then help their client complete a short health questionnaire on the Live Chair Health kiosk or the Live Chair app.

“We are on a mission to save the lives of African Americans by addressing chronic health conditions through the trusted relationships established between hair professionals and their clients,” shared Andrew Suggs, CEO and founder of Live Chair Health. “Together with the American Heart Association, we are elevating barbers and stylists into becoming not only leaders in their community, but lifesavers for those who sit in their chairs.”

Why is this so important?

“Barbershops are pillars in the neighborhood and imperative to the education of our people. We encourage our neighbors to come in, sit and talk about every-

cans than their white counterparts. Due to historic marginalization and systemic racism, health disparities have existed within the African American community for decades. In the U.S., African Americans have a higher prevalence of high blood pressure than other racial or ethnic groups. Sixty percent of African American men and 57% of Black women have cardiovascular disease. Black individuals also have a higher risk of first-ever ischemic strokes. Increased prevalence of high blood pressure, an increased likelihood of resistant hypertension, increased overweight and obesity rates, and increased prevalence of prediabetes, make the focus of this awareness, education and preventative program so vital.

Follow this North Carolina health equity journey and read local community impact stories from program participants throughout the year at www.heart.org/ ProjectCommunity.

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Senior Services seeking Mealson-Wheels volunteers SUBMITTED ARTICLE

After nearly a year of providing frozen meals once a week to seniors in our Meals-on-Wheels program - and missing our daily in-person connection with them that makes this program so rewarding for volunteers - we’re thrilled to announce our plan to

return to delivering daily, hot lunch-time meals starting May 3.

Senior Services has an urgent need for more volunteers in the program.

Would you or someone you know like to be a part of these very special weekday deliveries? You can schedule to volunteer once per week, once per

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month, or anything in between. Many husbands and wives do this together.

Or volunteer with a friend.

To find out how you can get involved, visit seniorservicesinc.org or contact Holly Beck, volunteer and community engagement manager, at hbeck@ seniorservicesinc.org or call 336-721-3411.

Forsyth County Public Library System increases its Saturday hours and capacity SUBMITTED ARTICLE

The Forsyth County Public Library system’s 10 libraries will be open on Saturdays from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., beginning on Saturday, April 10, and there will be increased capacity at all locations. The change comes in response to customer requests, vaccine distribution, and Gov. Roy Cooper’s easing of pandemic restrictions.

“There’s always much to be optimistic about with the arrival of spring, and this year there are even more reasons,” said Library Director Brian Hart. “We’ve heard from a number of people in our customer surveys that they’d like us to be open longer on Saturdays, so we’re happy to oblige.”

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the father figures who play major roles in these young men’s lives.

The event scheduled last spring was canceled due to the pandemic, but the event is returning with a bang this year. At the time of publication, 75 people had already registered. Horne said it’s been exciting to see how the

community has rallied behind the event. “It’s very exciting to see so many people want to be a part of it or even just be a sponsor if they can’t be a part of it,” he said.

“We want to allow this opportunity for not only just fishing, but for networking, bonding between the fathers and sons, but also other fathers within the community because they may have resources

other fathers may not even know about.”

The Fathers & Sons Great Catch Fishing Experience is scheduled to begin on April 17 at 9 a.m. at Kernersville Lake, 6408 Old Valley School Road, Kernersville.

Registration is open until Monday, April, 12. To register visit Eventbrite and type “Fathers & Sons Great Fishing Experience in the seach bar.

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was an assistant coach under Vanessa Taylor.

“It was good because out of my whole life, I never worked at an HBCU,” Samuels-Eaton stated. “That’s another one of those things where if an opportunity opens up and I have an opportunity to do something I’ve never done, I’m going to do it.

“That whole thing was a great experience just to see how our schools are run and see the excitement about an HBCU and I was able to see that at Central,” she went on to say.

Samuels-Eaton found her way to her current destination at UNC-Pembroke after leaving Central. She stated that she has enjoyed her time at UNCP tremendously, while also learning a lot in her position as associate head coach.

“It’s great, it reminds me of my school at Western,” she stated about her position at UNCP. “It’s a

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All 10 libraries will continue to operate their To-Go Libraries, Hart said.

Increased operating capacity means that more people will be able to be inside libraries, but the library is asking people to still plan to limit their visits so that everyone can have a chance to browse. In addition, customers are asked to continue to wear masks and practice social distancing. Masks are required for all customers, beginning at five years old.

The library hasn’t determined a date to fully reopen, Hart said. Meeting rooms remain closed to the public and in-person programming will be limited to outdoor programs which follow social distancing guidelines. Library management will work with Forsyth County to evaluate further phases of reopening.

tions at 336-703-2800 to request that a registration form be mailed to you.

To check the accuracy of your registration, click on your name. The next screen click on VOTER DETAILS to see if your address, voting precinct, and other information is correct. If your address or other information has changed, you can use the registration form to make updates so you can vote at the correct polling place for the correct slate of candidates.

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The deadline to register to vote in North Carolina is 25 days before the date of a primary or general election.

small college town with great people around and very diverse. It’s probably one of the more diverse schools in North Carolina because of everyone that is there.

“The coach that I am working under, he’s been in coaching for 30-plus years,” she continued.

“John Haskins is a great guy and I am able to learn so much from him, so it’s been a pleasure just being there and learning. I call him rain man because he knows every type of play in basketball and it’s really helped me with the X’s and O’s as a coach.”

As the associate head coach, there are several duties that she is responsible for. From scheduling practices and workouts, to ordering equipment, handling scheduling, and recruiting are just a few of the things Samuels-Eaton is responsible for in her role on top of her duties on the sidelines.

“As long as my head coach and the players are

happy I am fine, I don’t need all the glory, because at the end of the day as coaches our job is to make sure these ladies graduate and that’s the biggest piece of coaching from my perspective,” Samuels-Eaton said.

Samuels-Eaton says she doesn’t like to predict the future. She is a selfadmitted loyal person that doesn’t like to seek out new opportunities. Her focus is on the young ladies in her program right now.

“I really like to inspire young ladies, because I come from a single parent household and I enjoy giving them a role model and showing them that they can be successful and that’s my main thing,” she said. “I love to inspire young black women and that’s a big thing for me.

I tell them that anything is possible if you work hard and do what you have to do.”

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The Scholarship Program for Lifeguard/Aquatics Summer Hires (SPLASH) will cover the full cost of lifeguard certification training ($250) if you commit to work for the city for the summer 2021swim season.

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PORTRAIT PROJECT A new interactive sculpture in downtown Winston-Salem celebrating community & diversity!

Virtual Unveiling 9:30 a.m. Saturday, April 10

How to watch: • Spectrum Channel 13 • AT&T Uverse Channel 99 • YouTube (City of Winston-Salem, NC) • Facebook (City of Winston-Salem, NC - Government) The Winston-Salem Portrait Project was commissioned by the Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Public Art Commission.

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SHOWING THIS MONTH • Nexus • Winston-Salem Portrait Project • Chasing the Clouds

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Question or concern about city government services? City Link 311 (336-727-8000) is open to service all non-emergency calls, 7 days a week.

The City of Winston-Salem does not discriminate on the basis of race, sex, color, age, national origin, religion or disability in its employment opportunities, programs, services or activities.

Mayor: Allen Joines City Council: Denise D. Adams, Mayor Pro Tempore, North Ward; Barbara H. Burke, North Ward; Robert C. Clark, West Ward; John C. Larson, South Ward; Jeff MacIntosh, Northwest Ward; Kevin Mundy, Southwest Ward; Annette Scippio, East Ward; James Taylor, Jr., Southeast Ward City Manager: Lee Garrity

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Also Religion, Community News, and Classifieds Timothy Ramsey Sports Columnist

Legendary college basketball coach says it’s time At first I thought it was an elaborate April Fool’s Day joke. Once I realized that it was true, I couldn’t believe it. The iconic Roy Williams has retired from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC).

As I type the words, it still does not seem real to me. At 70 years of age and 33 years as a head coach, he has done it all as a head coach. Williams has also had some chronic health issues that have come up as well, but that still does not ease the sting of his retirement.

Williams spent 15 years as the head coach for the Kansas Jayhawks before coming home to coach the Tar Heels. He spent 18 seasons as the head coach in Chapel Hill, collecting three national championships along the way, one more than his mentor and former UNC head coach, Dean Smith.

Over the years, Williams has accumulated enough accolades, trophies and honors to fill any room. His 903 wins rank third all time and he is the only coach in history to have 400 wins at two different schools. He was also elected into the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame in 2007.

“It has been a thrill.

It has been unbelievable.

I’ve loved it,” said WilSee Coach on B6

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It was a battle between two unbeaten girls

soccer teams when West Forsyth faced off against Reagan last week. Both teams had dominated their previous opponents, so the matchup between the 4A giants was highly an-

Titans prevail in overtime thriller

BY TIMOTHY RAMSEY THE CHRONICLE

With a host of injuries to key starters on offense, many people thought the Reagan Raiders could possibly get blown out by undefeated West Forsyth. The Raiders not only played well; they nearly gave the Titans their first loss of the season, but came up just short by score of 28-25.

It was a low scoring game and the defenses for both teams really set the tone on that chilly Friday evening. The Titans had dominated their previous opponents, so it must have been a shock to have the shorthanded Raiders play them so closely.

“They did a good job and they threw all their guys in there that caused us some trouble at times,” said Adrian Snow, West Forsyth head coach. “We have a young quarterback that is still trying to learn and grow, but we found a way and that’s all that matters.”

Nasion Johnson got things started for the Titans. On their first play from scrimmage, Johnson took a handoff and left everyone in the dust, scor-

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West Forsyth Titans wins by a narrow margin against the Reagan Raiders with a final score of 28-25. ing a touchdown that gave West Forsyth a 7-0.

Early in the second quarter Reagan was faced with a critical fourth down.

Still trailing 7-0, Raider head coach, Josh McGee, pulled the trigger and went for it on fourth down.

Raider quarterback, Kam Hill, found Chris Joines in the corner of the endzone for the tying score. Joines jumped over the Titan defender to make the spectacular catch.

Johnson was not done with his heroics of the day.

After several nice runs on the drive, Johnson scored his second touchdown from eight yards out, giv-

ing the Titans the lead once again. The defenses then began to take over. The final minutes of the second quarter was a mixture of turnovers and miscues.

The Titans led 14-7 at the half.

“Tazhae Woods is a great player and they are really big up front with some talented guys up there,” Snow said about the Reagan offense. “It was good that our kids just found a way. In life there are going to be tough times, you might go through a pandemic, you might not be able to pay your bills, you might get covered tighter than you

might have thought, but guess what you have to do? You have to keep playing, keep fighting, and get your butt out of bed and go to work the next day and some things are going to work out.

“I treat the game of football like life all the time. It was good and I am excited for the kids.”

The game remained tied for much of the second half. The Titans were not able to throw the ball effectively, so the Raiders crowded the middle to stuff the running game of West Forsyth. This defensive adjustment by Reagan See Titanss on B6

ticipated. After a tough game between the two teams, the Raiders came away victorious to remain undefeated at 6-0.

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Nasion Johnson Running back, West Forsyth Nasion Johnson made his presence felt on the first play from scrimmage on Friday night. Johnson took his first touch over 60 yards for a touchdown that gave West Forsyth their first lead of the evening. In total, Johnson ran for 170 yards and two touchdowns in the Titan’s victory over the Reagan Raiders.

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MOTTO Athletics Top 15 Area Football Teams

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Points For Points Against 1. Reidsville (5-0) 270

28 2. Mount Tabor (6-0) 250

33 3. Grimsley (5-0) 186

25 4. West Forsyth (4-0) 159

58 5. Western Alamance 6-0) 270

62 6. Glenn (4-1) 185

118 7. Walkertown (4-0) 141

43 8. Randleman (6-0) 224

39 9. Dudley (5-1) 229

56 10. Oak Grove (5-1) 171

109 11. North Davidson (5-1) 198

70 12. Southeast Guilford (5-1) 157

63 13. East Surry (5-1) 235

79 14. Forbush (5-0) 234

47 15. Northwest Guilford (5-1) 200

79 Honorable Mention: Eastern Alamance (3-1), Northern Guilford (4-1), Mount Airy (5-1), Southern Guilford (4-1), East Forsyth (3-2)

NOTICE OF MEETING WSMPO Transportation Advisory Committee The Transportation Advisory Committee (TAC) for the Winston-Salem Urban Area Metropolitan Planning Organization (WSMPO) serves as a forum for cooperative transportation planning and decisionmaking for the MPO region which includes Forsyth County and portions of Davie, Davidson and Stokes counties. The next meeting of the TAC will be held Thursday, April 15, 2021, at 4:15 p.m. This meeting is being held via teleconference with applicable video access to protect our community during the COVID-19 pandemic. Agenda materials for this meeting can also be found at https://www.cityofws.org/2422/Transportation-Advisory-Committee.

The below items will be presented for adoption during this meeting: - Consideration of additions and amendments to the FY 2020-2029 Metropolitan Transportation Improvement Program (MTIP); Action date TBD - 2021-2022 Unified Planning Work Program -CTP Update Amendments and Modifications Public notice of public participation plan activities and time established for public review of and comments of the TIP will satisfy the Program of Projects (POP) requirements. Any person who believes they have been aggrieved by an unlawful discriminatory practices regarding the Winston-Salem Urban Area MPO programs has a right to file a complaint with Kelly Garvin, City of Winston-Salem, P.O. Box 2511, Winston-Salem, NC 27102, within 180 days following the date of the alleged discrimination occurrence.

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Ready for the next step

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The boys’ basketball team at East Forsyth High School is attempting to return to the glory days of old. One of the major contributors to this effort is sophomore sensation Will Gray.

Gray averaged 16.5 ppg. last season and was voted onto the Central Piedmont 4A All-Conference Team. Although the Eagles finished with a 7-5 record, things are looking up for East. As the son of head coach and former East Forsyth standout basketball player, Monty Gray, Gray has been around basketball as long as he can remember.

“My dad has coached at so many schools, I can’t even keep count, but he would always bring me to the school he was coaching at and I would be in the gym watching or running around just always being there,” said Gray about how he got into the game of basketball.

Gray says the transition from middle school basketball to high school basketball was a tough one for him. He played his freshman season at Forsyth Country Day School and said he learned a lot playing on both the JV and varsity levels that season.

With his first full varsity season under his belt, Gray feels he is ready to take the next step in his game.

“This first year on varsity was pretty good,” he said. “I made all-conference and it was a transition, but I think I handled it well.”

Making the all-conference team was a great accomplishment, said Gray.

He still feels there is more work to be done with his game to become an even better teammate. His biggest thing to work on this offseason is his mid-range shot.

“It felt good and I felt fortunate and blessed enough for them to recognize me for what I did through every game we played,” he said about making the all-conference team. “I do know there is more work to do, but I felt very good about being recognized.”

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Will Gray, far right, stands with his father, Monty, and brother, David. er, but feels he makes the at it. The fact he is playbiggest impact on defense. ing on this national AAU He takes pride in shutting team is going to hopefully down his opponent and has give him the experience he needs, because he is goa knack for getting steals.

“Honestly, I think my ing against a lot of great defensive part of the game players from around the is very strong, I love play- country. I just need him to ing defense,” he contin- improve, stay hungry, stay ued. “The way I steal the hungry and keep doing ball is very high level and what he is doing, because I don’t get tired out there. we can’t let up on the gas I actually played all games at all.”

Gray had not played for most of the season.”

AAU basketball in the past At 6’2, Gray is a good three seasons due to him height for a guard in to- wanting to work certain day’s game. Last season aspects of his game. He he was a combo guard, currently plays for Team playing both the point and Curry out of Charlotte. shooting guard positions.

Coach Gray said he “Honestly, at the be- was not surprised by the ginning of the season, I stellar play of his son last played the point and had to season. Due to the work facilitate more,” he said. ethic Gray has, Coach “But towards the end of Gray says he does not have the season, I was looking to do much to motivate his to score more and I kind of son to compete at a high was successful with that, level and give it his all.

“If you know Will, so I would say I like playing the two-guard position Will is a different kid,” more, but if I ever need to Coach Gray said about his play the point guard posi- son. “Sometimes as a dad, tion, it doesn’t come hard you get wrapped up in beto me. It’s just different ing a dad and a coach, but Will plays hard and that’s roles.”

Coming into the sea- something I don’t have to son, Coach Gray wanted to motivate him to do.

“I wasn’t surprised see growth from not only because I know what it Will, but from all his playmeans to him to get out ers, he said. there and compete. It “The one thing we makes me feel special that know is the only way we I have a son that can play can get better is if we’re at that level. I want him to working,” said Coach continue to improve, so I Gray. “This is the time we try to keep him as humble have to get better, so we as possible.” are eager to get back into For Coach Gray, havthe gym. ing his son make the all“Will is still going to conference team is even have to improve his abil- more special because he ity to be a point guard and also made the all-conferfacilitate even better. This ence team when he was is a role he has had in the playing for the Eagles. past, but he has to stay Coach Gray says it creates

a lot of good-natured conversations about who is the better player between the two of them.

“We talk a little junk in the house about who is the better East basketball player, but all around it is great for everybody and I think he wants to continue to do more things after this season as he gets ready to play college ball,” said Coach Gray.

Coach Gray said at this point, he was the better shooter than both of his sons at their age, but admits they are both more skilled all around than he was at their respective ages.

“Once they continue to keep growing and improving that jump shot and their mid-range, they will exceed me and go much further than I did,” said Coach Gray about his sons. “They are definitely going to be better than their dad and I’m proud of that and they should be.”

Gray has more goals to accomplish before he leaves East Forsyth. He appreciates the individual accolades, but would prefer team success because of the hard work he and his teammates have put in together.

“I would like to get the 1,000-point ball and so I want to progress on our record,” said Gray.

“We went like 5-21 before I got here and now that I am here, we went 7-5 and I feel like that was a huge accomplishment. I want to get an even better record next year. I just want every aspect to be better before I graduate and be better as a team in every way.”

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God’s judgement: Getting what they deserve

Elder Richard Wayne Wood Sunday School Lesson

Ezra: Faith and Action Preacher Scriptures: Ezra 10:1-12 By the end of this lesson, we will: *Contrast the people’s need for repentance with their joyful response to God’s word; *Believe that God’s truth is eternal; *Grow in determination to serve God in our community and beyond.

Background: “Do not give your daughters to their sons or take their daughters for your sons” (Deuteronomy 7:3). After 70 years of exile, God’s promises were starting to come true, but they were not fully realized.

The Israelites were to seek the Lord with all their hearts and the Lord would restore them to their land. In Ezra, their hearts were not transformed; they were doing the same thing that took them into exile. They were intermarrying with neighboring peoples – pagans. The issue was not race but religion – being unequally yoked to unbelievers.

Lesson: “O Lord, God of Israel, You are benevolent, for we have survived as a remnant, as is now the case.

We stand before You in all our guilt, for we cannot face you on this account” (Ezra 9:15). Praying and making confession, weeping and perpetrating before God is Ezra’s response to Israel’s transgression. The people saw this public display of his contrite spirit and the effect was their joining him in his outward show of remorse.

Ezra knows that genuine repentance has to proceed their return to the land and that was missing. To be truly rescued from exile, Israel had to be truly transformed (verse 1). Among those who witness Ezra’s grief is Schechaniah, a community leader who immediately acknowledged the sins of the people and proposes a covenant to resolve this widespread problem of intermarriage. They were to swear an oath to expel their foreign wives and the children born to their unions. Schechaniah taking the role of spokesperson says to Ezra, we will follow God’s law and for him to “Arise! For this matter is your responsibility, but we will be with you; be courageous and act” (verse 4).

Ezra in response requires the leadership, priests, Levites, and all Israel “swear” to abide by the covenantal agreement (verse 5). Ezra continues his grief in private completing his fast (verse 6). A proclamation is made issuing a three-day deadline for all the returned exiles in Judah to come to Jerusalem. The three days took in account those who had the farthest to travel (50 miles).

Anybody who failed to attend would “according to the counsel of the prince’s and the elders, all His substance should be forfeited and himself separated from the congregation of those that had been carried away” (verse 8). So, everyone came despite the cold rainy weather on December 19 and sat in the street before the temple as Ezra spoke to them. Ezra stated the “problem”: “Ye have transgressed, and have taken strange wives, to increase the trespass of Israel” (verse 10).Verse 11 holds the two essential elements of repentance – agreeing with God and taking righteous action to separate from sin.

“So now, make confession to the Lord, God of your fathers, and do His will, and separate yourselves from the peoples of the land and from foreign women.” Knowing the return for their obedience, the people agreed to abide

by Ezra’s instructions (verse 12).

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It is not uncommon for “law-abiding” citizens to wonder if people who break the law get what they deserve.

This question hits home if we have been wronged by someone and we want to be sure they pay for their mistake. Rev. Tim Keller addressed this subject. He said we can trust God “to be the sovereign judge of all people.”

Knowing that God will handle things relieves us of having to do the job ourselves. Keller went on to say, “Either Jesus will pay for your sins, if you trust in him to have paid for them all on the cross, or you will pay for them yourself.”

Accepting that Jesus died for your sins is a game-changer and should change our thinking about people who may have hurt us. If someone has wronged you, you must resist the urge to “settle the score.” Thankfully, “you

can leave things in God’s hands. We do not have the knowledge, the right, or the power to judge others for their sins,” wrote Keller. Keller also said, “A critical component of a wise life is a conviction that God works out everything to the proper end – even the wicked for a day of disaster.”

Keller calls it divine vengeance when he quotes Miroslav Volf who said, “The practice of non-violence requires a belief in divine vengeance.” Even if a person may seem to get away with something, God will handle it at the proper time. The Bible says, Do not take revenge, my dear friends, but leave room for God’s wrath, for it is written: ‘It is mine to avenge; I will repay,’” says the Lord (Romans 12:19).

A key question to ask ourselves is, “Do we get what we deserve?” Every one of us has sinned. The Bible says, for all have

sinned and fall short of the glory of God (Romans 3:23). Academically, we know that Jesus came to earth to take on our sins and to die for us, so that our relationship with the Heavenly Father could be restored. He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, so that we might die to sins and live for righteousness (1 Peter 2:24).

Accepting this allows us to live righteously. There is a lot at stake for us and others. The Bible tells us, For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord (Romans 6:23).

God’s sentence for an unrepentant person is severe. It is not our place to judge others because we are also subject to God’s judgment, and we are far from perfect. Our righteousness is a gift and only because of Jesus’ sacrifice on the cross. We did nothing to earn it. For us,

the first step is to forgive someone who has wronged us. Jesus gave us clear instructions: Do not judge, and you will not be judged.

Do not condemn, and you will not be condemned.

Forgive, and you will be forgiven (Luke 6:37).

The opposite is also true.

We will be judged, condemned, and not forgiven if we judge, condemn, and fail to forgive.

We have no way to look into another person’s heart or into their past to know what they deserve.

Only God can do that.

And, rest assured that God will. Trust that God will take care of it. The LORD works out everything to its proper end— even the wicked for a day of disaster (Proverbs 16:4).

Bruce Boyer is the author of two devotional books and writes a weekly devotional. A library of his stories is posted on https:// christianfaithstories.org/.

The Gift of Black Theological Education and Black Church Collaborative WILMINGTON, Del. - Systemic racism in America has shown itself to be a public health crisis, particularly as COVID-19 has affected Black Americans at disproportionate rates.

The Gift of Black Theological Education and Black Church Collaborative (The Gift Ccollaborative), a unique movement of historic Black schools and denominations, is bringing together congregations across America and experts to address the issues.

In April, the Gift Collaborative is hosting a series of five free Zoom presentations exploring the issues surrounding health disparities, as well as finding positive solutions.

The presentations start on April 13 with Rev. Dr. Miriam J. Burnett, MD, MDiv., MPH, speaking on “The Intersection of COVID-19 and Health Disparities.” Burnett is the founder of RAPHA Health Inc., which provides information and education about health issues to faithbased and community organizations and brings many resources to the discussion.

Four other cutting-edge presentations (listed below) will follow throughout the month, covering topics including mental health, addiction, nutrition, and reproductive health.

These sessions are part of an ongoing series of presentations by The Gift Collaborative, which has brought together leaders of Historically Black Theological Institutions (HBTIs), denominational leaders, scholars, and congregants to not only address racism and social issues, but also build leadership capacity in congregations.

The Collaborative intends to inform a new generation of leaders engaged in building new pathways forward in America.

The Gift Collaborative is a critical alignment of the relationship development and collegiality among the six HBTIs: Hood Theological Seminary in Salisbury, North Carolina, the Interdenominational Theological Center in Atlanta, Georgia, Payne Theological Seminary in Wilberforce, Ohio, Samuel DeWitt Proctor School of Theol-

ogy at Virginia Union University in Richmond, Virginia, Shaw University Divinity School in Raleigh, North Carolina, and Howard University School of Divinity in Washington, D.C. The denominations participating in the collaborative include: The African Methodist Episcopal Church (AME), the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church (AMEZ), Baptist General Convention of Virginia, Christian Methodist Episcopal Church (CME), Church of God in Christ (COGIC), General Baptist State Convention of North Carolina Baptist, and the United Methodist Church.

Registration is free and open to the public. To register and watch past presentations and learn more, visit: http:// www.thegiftcollaborative.org/.

Collaborative Health meetings are free via Zoom, all times 7 p.m. ET April 13 – Overview of the Social Determinants of Health and COVID April 15 – Mental Health and Addictions in the Midst of COVID-19 April 20 – Nutritional Health April 22 – Chronic Medical Conditions and Reproductive Health and the Impact of COVID-19 April 29 – The Environment and Health For additional information, contact John Thomas III, at Paynefellow@thegiftcollaborative.org or call 615601-0450.

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Thursdays and Saturdays Free Meals Christ Rescue Temple Church, 1500 North Dunleith Ave., will serve hot meals as part of the People Helping People Feeding Program. Meals will be served every Thursday and Saturday from noon until 1 p.m. at the church’s location. For more information, call 336-7229841.

Sundays Virtual worship services Green Street United Methodist Church, 639 S. Green St., invites you to join online worship services on Sundays at 11 a.m. The service, which is available via Facebook and YouTube, is a celebration of the diversity of the human family. Visit www.greenstreetumc.org or email admin@greenstreetumc.org for more information.

NOW Zoom services New Birth Worship Center (NBWC) in East Bend has gone virtual. Please join Dr. James L. E. Hunt, Senior Pastor on Sunday mornings at 10 a.m. on Zoom webinar. The link is https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84789021891 or Dial-In: 1 301 715 8592 ID Mtg. #: 84789021891.

In addition, Sunday School is taught by Deacon James

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All are welcome to join us for Zoom (virtual) Bible Study on Wednesdays at 7 p.m. Our Pastor, Dr. Hunt, will be the teacher. The Zoom Link: https://us02web. zoom.us/j/89195349778 or Dial-In Mtg #: 1 301 715 8592 ID#: 89195349778#.For additional information, please call 336-699-3583 or visitwww.newbirthworshipcenter.org or visit our Facebook page.

April 11 First Waughtown Baptist Church (FWBC) Live stream Senior Pastor Dr. Dennis W. Bishop will resume the series on Suggestions for How to Survive a Storm. The reference scriptures are Acts 27: 29-32, 42-44. Service begins at 10 a.m. Sunday, April 11, on Facebook Live, https://www.facebook.com/FirstWaughtown/ and on the First Waughtown website, https://www.firstwaughtown. org.

April 10 GriefCare St. Paul United Methodist Church sponsors “GriefCare,” a support group for persons experiencing grief due to the death of someone close to them. The sessions

feature biblical teaching on grief and recovery topics.

“What do I live for now?” is the topic on Saturday, April 10, at 10 a.m. Sessions are free. For information about how to participate in this virtual GriefCare session, please call 336-723-4531 before April 10.

April 26-29 Baptist Training Institute The Forsyth County Baptist Training Institute will be held this year on Monday, April 26, thru Thursday, April 29. The text this year is “God’s Power to Help Hurting People.” There will be classes for the following unions: pastors and ministers, deacons, missionaries, Sunday school, nurses, trustees and youth and young adults. All classes will be held virtually. More details will follow in the coming weeks.

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IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF JACKSON COUNTY, GEORGIA. PETITION OF MATTHEW CHRISTOPHER DECKARD and CARLA JEAN DECKARD FOR THE ADOPTION OF B.P. GARRETT, MINOR CHILD. CIVIL ACTION FILE NUMBER: 20-45B

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TO: Sarah Jill Dulaney. You are hereby notified that the above action was filed in Jackson County Superior Court Clerk’s Office, Georgia, on December 2, 2020. A final hearing is scheduled at the Jackson County Courthouse in Jefferson, Georgia, at 1:30 p.m. on June 10, 2021. You shall not be a party to the adoption and have no obligation to file an answer, but have the right to appear and show cause why your rights to the child should not be terminated. If you fail to appear at this hearing, your rights may be terminated. The judge in this case is Judge Wayne D. McLocklin.

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Community Calendar Each Wednesday Marketing outside of the box HUSTLE Winston-Salem is hosting A Thin Line Between Customer Service & Marketing. Customer service is the new marketing. From the customer journey to customer reviews to the overall customer experience, this series will reaffirm that 2021 is the year of the customer.

We’ll focus on how to get to know your customers again to retain them, building genuine customer connections, authenticity, and audience targeting. For more info and to register: https://www.hustlews.org/ events-programs.

Today, April 8 Understanding your credit report Free workshop on April 8, 6 p.m., on the who, what, when and why of credit reports presented

by Financial Pathways of the Piedmont. To register, go to www.tinyurl.com/fppworkshops.

April 14 Speaker forum at WFU Wake Forest’s Face to Face Speaker Forum will host Pulitzer prize-winning writer Isabel Wilkerson, author of “Caste: The Origins of our Discontents,” on Wednesday,

April 14, at 7:30 p.m. The event will include a talk

by Wilkerson followed by a conversation with Dean of Wake Forest School of Divinity Jonathan Lee Walton. The event is free for Face to Face Speaker Forum season subscribers and students, faculty and staff at Wake Forest, as well as students and faculty in the Winston-Salem area. To register, visit go.wfu.edu/facetoface.

Tickets for the general audience are $10. *This is a virtual event.

April 17 Yard Sale S.G. Atkins Community Development Corporation - The Enterprise Center, 1922 S. Martin Luther King Jr., will be holding a yard sale on April 17 from 8 a.m-1 p.m. and giving free groceries to community members. There will be furniture, books, clothes and toys. CASH ONLY For more information, call 336-734-6900.

April 19 Medicare workshop The Shepherd’s Center of Greater Winston-Salem is offering a virtual workshop for individuals turning 65 (as well as those who already have Medicare) to learn about the different insurance options available, including “Original

Medicare,” Medicare prescription drug programs, Medicare supplements and Medicare Advantage plans. The session will be held on Monday, April 19, 2021 from 3 - 4:30 p.m. through computer and telephone access. The session is provided at no cost.

Because space is limited, reservations are required.

Contact the Shepherd’s Center at 336-748-0217 or Info@shepherdscenter.org for more information or to reserve a seat.

April 19-23 Earth Day Seminars and Workshops Piedmont Environmental Alliance will hold a series of seminars and workshops April 19-23 as part of its virtual Earth Day Fair. To see the dates and times, go to www. peanc.org. All seminars and workshops are free and will be available on their Facebook page.

April 21 Charity golf tournament Jim Shaw’s ACE Academy Annual Charity Golf Tournament will be held Wednesday, April 21.

Registration/Brunch will be from 9:30 – 10:30 am; shotgun start at 11 a.m.

The tournament will be held at Maple Chase Golf & Country Club, 5475

Germanton Road.

The cost is $125 per player or $375 per team which includes: green fees, cart, range balls, and a pro shop gift card.

There will be door prizes for the longest drive, closest to the pin, and prizes for a “hole in one.” For more information about the golf tournament, aviation summer camps, or sponsorship opportunities please contact Jim Shaw’s ACE Aviation Academy at 336-306-8145 or by email at ShawAceAcademy@ gmail.com.

April 22 Story Slam @ MUSE The Willingham Story Slam @ MUSE WinstonSalem” will host a virtual storytelling event on Thursday, April 22, 2021, at 7 pm, with the theme “Foolishness.” The featured storyteller this month is upright bassist and composer Matthew Kendrick. Advanced registration for our free community event is required for storytellers and observers. Donations are welcome. Further details are available at: https://www. eventbrite.com/e/willingham-story-slammuse-winston-salem-foolishnesstickets-147016715955 April 27 Home maintenance

workshop The Center for Homeownership is partnering with N.C. Cooperative Extension, Forsyth County to conduct a FREE home maintenance workshop on April 27, 6-8 p.m. The workshop is FREE, but registration is required. To register, to go https://jotform. com/61056148566156.

For more information, call 336-773-0286, ext. 1108.

April 29 Story Slam @ MUSE MUSE Winston-Salem is partnering with The Ramkat to present “From Combo Corner to the World,” a fun historical and musical program about Winston-Salem and North Carolina music and a perfect kickoff to MUSEws’ new monthly arts-and-performance programming series. This program will be live via Zoom on April 29 at 7 p.m. and is free to attend--donations are welcome to MUSEws and The Ramkat. Register on Eventbrite.

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for this event. Isabel Wilkerson, the first black woman in American journalism to win the Pulitzer Prize, is celebrated for her deeply humane narrative writing. She is the acclaimed author of New

York Times Best Sellers, “The Warmth of Other Suns” and “Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents.” The Pulitzer Prize winner was awarded the National Humanities Medal by President Barack

Obama in 2016 for “championing the stories of unsung history.”

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April 8, 2021

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liams during a news conference to announce his retirement at the Smith Center. “It’s coaching.

And that’s all I’ve ever wanted to do since the summer after my ninthgrade year of high school.

No one has ever enjoyed coaching like I have for 48 years.”

Williams began his head coaching career at Kansas as a relatively unknown assistant coming from UNC. He not only succeeded during his tenure at Kansas, he carried on the storied tradition of the school. Williams was 418-101 overall and 17549 in conference play. He took the Jayhawks to four Final Fours and two national championship game appearances in 1991 and 2003.

Kansas was the winningest team of the 1990s.

The Jayhawks had several teams during Williams’ tenure that had what it took to win the national championship, but always came up short. It began to feel as though Williams would always be a runner-up at best, because he was never able to get his teams over the hump. That all changed once he arrived in Chapel Hill, however.

His arrival in Chapel Hill happened a few years later than many people assumed. Bill Guthridge took over for Smith when he retired in 1997. Guthridge led the Tar Heels for three seasons before retiring in 2000 and many thought that Williams was next in line to take the position.

There was a media storm surrounding the Williams’ decision. After a week of speculation, Williams chose to stay at Kansas and Matt Doherty was hired at UNC. Doherty’s time in Chapel Hill only lasted three years, which once again opened the door for Williams and this time he came home.

UNC was coming off some down years, but luckily for Williams, he inherited some top talent from Doherty. McDonald’s All-Americans Raymond Felton, Sean May and Rashad McCants were already on the team.

Williams added freshman

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kept them within striking distance.

“They threw a bunch of jokers in there and they had like nine guys in the box,” Snow said. “We tried to make them pay, but we couldn’t make them pay and that’s the way it works sometimes, it’s called playing football.”

Still leading 14-7, West Forsyth was looking to run out the clock late in the fourth quarter. The Titans ran an option play and the quarterback fumbled. The ball was recovered by a Raider defender and he took it all the way into the endzone to tie the game with just over two minutes left.

“All I thought about was the next play,” Snow said about his thoughts after the fumble. “If I would have lost my mind, guess what would have happened? Our kids would

Ezra

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Marvin Williams in his second season, which was enough for Williams to win his first national title as a head coach in 2005.

Williams continued his winning ways throughout his time in Chapel Hill.

He tacked on two more national championships in 2009 and 2017. Williams ended his career at Chapel Hill with a blowout loss to Wisconsin 85-62 in the first round of the NCAA tournament. This marked the first time Williams has lost in the first round of the NCAA tournament as a head coach, as he was previously 29-0.

“Everybody wants to know the reason, and the reason is very simple,” Williams said. “Every time somebody asked me how long I was going to go, I’d always say, ‘As long as my health allows me to do it.’

“But deep down inside, I knew the only thing that would speed that up was if I did not feel that I was any longer the right man for the job. I no longer feel that I am the right man for the job.”

I must admit that I was shocked to hear that Williams was retiring. It seems that Chapel Hill was headed in the right direction with the current roster and the recruits they had coming in next season.

I thought at the age of 70, that Williams might stick around a few more years to make another run at a championship.

“I love coaching, working the kids on the court, the locker room, the trips, the jump around music, the trying to build a team,” Williams continued. “I will always love that. And I’m scared to death of the next phase. But I no longer feel that I’m the right man.”

Williams will go down as one of the greatest college basketball coaches in the history of the game. If you want to be honest, he really had two hall of fame careers with what he was able to accomplish at Kansas and with the Tar Heels.

One of the biggest things I think will be affected is the rivalry between UNC and Duke University. It is arguably the best rivalry in all of sports, whether collegiate or professional. Mike Krzyzewski, Duke head coach, says he was “surprised” to hear that Williams was retiring.

“College basketball is losing one if its greatest coaches and a man who genuinely cares about the game of basketball, and more importantly, the people who play it,” Krzyzewski said in a statement.

“Roy has led two iconic programs as a head coach and did so in exemplary fashion. I have the utmost respect for Roy and his family, who represented themselves and their institutions with class, grace and humility.

“While we were on opposite sides of college basketball’s greatest rivalry, we both understood how lucky we were to be part of it and always tried to represent it in the way it deserved. Personally, I will miss competing against him, seeing him at coaches’ meetings and having the opportunity to discuss how to make our game even better. Roy is a great friend, and our sport was very fortunate to have him as long as it did. We have all benefitted from his longevity in and commitment to coaching. His legacy is secure as one of the greatest coaches in college basketball history.”

I am wondering how the retirement of Williams will affect the recruiting of players that have already signed their letters of intent, along with the players that are considering UNC. That puts even more importance on the successor to Williams.

There were several names mentioned as possible contenders for Williams’ position. Names like Jerry Stackhouse, Steve Robinson, Hubert Davis, Scott Drew and Wes Miller. All the coaches mentioned are quality guys, but we all know it takes more than that to lead the Tar Heels. The ability to recruit in a tough ACC (Atlantic Coast Conference) is a necessity. The suspense ended when it was announced that Hubert Davis, assistant coach for the Tarheels, will take over as head coach, becoming the first Black coach for UNC. Davis will join an elite club. The UNC job is one of the best in college basketball.

Coach Williams will be missed and will never be forgotten as a legend in Chapel Hill.

have lost their minds. During that whole game, I just sat there. I guess since I am getting old, everybody else was running around going crazy and I was trying to be as calm as I can, and I think our guys feed off of that.”

In overtime, the Titans had possession first. On the second play, Jevante Long scored from seven yards out. After a penalty on the conversion, West Forsyth chose to go for two to make the lead eight.

“I just felt like we had it on the one and a half yard line and we have some guys up front that are pretty good, so I felt like why not give it a shot, so that’s what we did,” said Snow about his decision.

“We tried to put the pressure on them and that’s what we did.”

The game came down to another critical fourth down play for Reagan.

Once again Hill connected with Joines in the end-

zone for another score.

The Raiders were able to convert on the two-point conversion to tie the game.

Unfortunately for the Raiders, they were hit with an unsportsmanlike conduct penalty.

The Titans had the choice to take the penalty yards and have the ball first in the second overtime, or to push the Raiders back 15 yards and play defense first. Coach Snow chose the latter and that move proved to be the game-winning decision.

West Forsyth has an opportunity to wrap up a playoff spot next week with a win against Davie County.

“We are playing for something, meaning if we win, we’re in the playoffs, if we don’t, we don’t know where we are going to be,” he continued. “The what ifs are a big deal and we told them if they want to get rid of the what ifs, you take care of business.”

accordance with the pleasure of God and not that of man. (The UMI Annual Commentary 2020-2021, The Modern Life Study Bible, The MacArthur Study Bible, The Jesus Bible, The New Interpreters Study Bible and The Oxford Bible Commentary).

For Your Consideration: Why do you think mourning is necessary? Do you think God’s require-

ments for repentance are sometimes cruel?

Application: As we wrestle with issues of marriage, we have these principles to keep in mind. Our concerns are not based on race or ethnicity, but spiritually we must consider not how to separate people, but how to bring them together in following God.