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WSPD, Police Foundation continue annual book bag giveaway

BY TEVIN STINSON THE CHRONICLE

The Winston-Police Department and the Winston-Salem Police Foundation helped hundreds of students prepare for the start of the 2021-2022 school year last week when they distributed book bags filled with school supplies at five different locations.

The Winston-Salem Police Foundation, a charitable non-profit, independent organization designed to provide funding that can be allocated to help strengthen community and police partnerships such as mentoring programs and community outreach events, started hosting the book bag giveaway in 2016. Every year more than 1,000 book bags are distributed. And this year, officers handed out 1,400 book bags.

Officers with the WSPD began the day at the Winston Mutual Building and made stops at Reynolds Commons, South Fork Elementary School, Easton Elementary School, and Atkins High School, located on Old Greenssboro Road, to distribute the book bags to students. Each of the book bags was filled with notebooks, pencils and other school supplies.

Retired Chief Barry Rountree joined the officers at Winston Mutual Building. Rountree, who is a founding member of the Police Foundation, said it was good to see the tradition continue.

“We started the foundation to help the community, so it feels good to see this tradition continue,” Rountree said. “We love to sponsor events like this to get the officers out in the community to help build strong community relationships.”

Photos by Tevin Stinson

Last week officers with the Winston-Salem Police Department (WSPD) distributed 1,400 book bags filled with school supplies. Officers distributed book bags at five different locations.

Door left open as to future of Hanes-Lowrance campus Last week members of the Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Schools (WS/ FCS) Board of Education decided to maintain the former campus of HanesLowrance Middle School, located on Indiana Av-

enue, instead of donating the property to the City of Winston-Salem. But district leaders did leave the door open for partnering with the city to bring some much needed resources to the community.

Here’s what we know: last month Winston-Salem City Councilmember Barbara Hanes Burke held a press conference to ask WS/FCS to gift the former campus of HanesLowrance to the city.

Burke discussed plans to transform the facility into a “one-stop community File photo center” that would offer several different programs Hanes-Lowrance Middle School, located on Indiana Avenue. and resources.

WS/FCS hasn’t used ing neighborhoods, even located on Lansing Drive, “We would like the school to be repurposed the facility on Indiana though tests conducted by was sold to TW Garner and turned into a one-stop Avenue since 2015 when the city proved the school Foods. Hanes Burke said transformational, transi- the school board voted was safe. Earlier this year the people who live in the tional community center,” to move students out of the board discussed mov- community have let it be said Burke during the the building after parents ing the bus maintenance known they don’t want press conference held out- raised concerns about facility to Indiana Avenue. the maintenance facility in The maintenance fa- their neighborhood. chemicals underneath side City Hall.

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meeting on Tuesday, Aug. 10, assistant superintendent Darrell Walker said the district is no longer looking to move the maintenance facility to Indiana Avenue. To move the facility to Indiana Avenue, the property would have to be rezoned for industrial use.

Burke, who represents the Northeast Ward where the facility is located, has said on record that she would not approve rezoning of the property.

“Right now the rezoning issue is not on the table, but at a district staff and meeting with Mrs. McManus, we have identified several different capacity needs within the district, from a program perspective,” Walker said.

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New club for adults hitting the skating rink for fun and fitness we thought, because the pandemic cases are on the rise again and people were fearful of coming to a group event,” she stated. “We are also going to try and list places where people can skate outside.

There are greenways and parks around the city with flat asphalt and concrete.

We are going to keep pushing it, because it is good for fitness as well.”

The next event will be held on Sept. 11 and the theme will be NFL Saturday and OSS wants ev-

BY TIMOTHY RAMSEY THE CHRONICLE

Nearly everyone above the age of 40 can remember having a fun outing at the skating rink as a child.

Skating is not as popular as it once was, but Ole Skool Skaters (OSS) is seeking to change that for adults in the Winston-Salem area.

OSS will hold an event every second Saturday of the month at Skateland USA of Clemmons, located at 2512 Neudorf Rd. Donald Scales, president of OSS, came up with the idea because he was looking for a way to get more adults above the age of 40 active while also having fun. He connected with Christina Werts, vice president of OSS, and soon afterward they started the group. The group is for skaters of all skill levels and the only qualification is that you are over the age of 40.

“He (Scales) came up to me one day and he was like, ‘You know I’m thinking about trying to find something to do for our age group’ and I said okay and he said he wanted to start a skating group and again I said ‘okay,’” said Werts about the initial conversation about the group. “I asked him why he wanted to start a skating group and he said, ‘Well you know, that’s where we spent our childhood, we grew up in the 80s.’”

Werts felt it was a good idea and told Scales to start the group on Facebook and

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Ole Skool Skaters is a new skating club for adults 40 and older. she would assist him in his efforts. What started off as a small idea quickly took on a life of its own as more and more people began to join the group. More than 2,000 people have joined the group in less than two months.

“Before we knew it, people were just joining and joining and it just grew,” she said. “Everybody was saying they were joining because they wanted something to do. If you don’t go to the club or anything like that, we really didn’t have anything to do. Everybody just started buying skates and posting them on the page.”

For their first event back in July, the group needed 40 people to show

Donald Scales, president, and Christina Werts, vice president, are the founders of Ole Skool Skaters.

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trict use the 21-acre property on Indiana Avenue to house different programming needs. He also discussed ways the district could partner with the city.

“When we come back with the plan … there’s going to be a piece of that that I want to save for community use. So maybe the Lowrance portion will be a medical clinic space, conference room meeting space, and then we’ve talked about converting the kitchen into a teaching kitchen and working with some partners to come in to teach folks how to cook food, can food, and do that on weekends and after hours so it gets that community use,” Walker said.

“I know it’s not exactly what they want, but it is a bit of an olive branch to put out there.”

Walker said district staff plans to speak with architects and develop-

eryone to represent their favorite NFL team. They will also honor the victims of the 9/11 terrorist attacks.

Because the group has grown so fast, they would like to branch out and have different chapters in other cities and states. They are actually outgrowing their current venue at Skateland, so they may have to relocate sooner than later.

For more information about Ole Skool Skaters, please visit their social media page on Facebook.

ers over the next few weeks and come back to the board with a recommendation next month. He also mentioned that a new air quality study has been conducted in the area.

If the board does decide to repurpose the facility, according to Walker it would need about $5 million in repairs. Right now The Little Theatre of Winston-Salem, a local performing arts organization, is leasing space in the building.

Elisabeth Motsinger, who is the longest serving member on the board of education, said she would like to see the district reclaim the building and let the community know that the building is safe.

“It’s important that we all learn that these buildings are good buildings and they’re usable buildings,” Motsinger continued. “I think it’s really important, educating our community that these kinds of plumes are under most of the city

up and pay the $10 entry fee to make sure they covered the cost of renting the rink. The group was nervous about having enough people show up to cover the cost. Surprisingly enough, more than 100 people showed up for the event, letting organizers know the group is bigger than they thought.

“We were very surprised, because we are in our 40s and 50s, so we didn’t think a lot of people would want to skate, because we don’t heal like we used to,” Werts said with a smile. “Everybody was excited and people were showing everyone their skates and going to the skating rink during the week practicing, trying to get themselves together for the next event. Everyone was so enthusiastic about it and it was just awesome.

It surprised us.”

For their second event held on Aug. 14, Werts wanted to include a community aspect to the event.

The group collected school supplies that will be given to the Enough is Enough nonprofit organization for distribution on Aug. 21.

“I feel like if you can go and buy skates, you can help someone who doesn’t have food or doesn’t have clothing, you know just to help somebody else,” she continued. “That’s when

we decided to do the backto-school drive.

“A lot of people are still suffering from the pandemic and not able to provide for their children.

We really want to continue to give to the community and one of ideas is to bring skating back and make it more popular, so maybe these children will start enjoying skating and maybe that will get them out of these gangs and shooting each other.”

Werts says they have skaters of all levels in the group, so if anyone is not a good skater, they have the resources to assist them.

She stated there is no need to be shy, because everyone has to start somewhere in order to become a good skater.

Werts says they are somewhat apprehensive about the progress of the group due to the rising COVID-19 cases in the state. She feels people are not quite ready to be in public places with other people right now.

“We had a good crowd last night, but we didn’t have as big a crowd as

During their last event, the club collected school supplies to be donated to a local nonprofit.

of Winston-Salem and it’s important that we reclaim these areas. One of my biggest reasons for making a big deal about that is that if we don’t learn about this, we will never build schools in cities again and that would be a terrible, terrible travesty against our children.”

Dana Caudill Jones, who serves as chair of the building and grounds committee, said she hopes that the district can find a way to partner with the city on repurposing the facility.

“I think Mrs. Burke brought up some great things that the community needs,” Jones said. “My hope is that we can have some conversation around this property so it fits the needs that the district needs, but yet it fits the needs that Councilwoman Burke has brought up and I think if we can do something like that, then it’s a win for the whole community.”

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Russell Simmons, Snoop Dogg launch ‘Masterminds of Hip-Hop’ NFT collection

BY STACY BROWN

NEW YORK – Russell Simmons says he wants hiphop pioneers to get their flowers and much-deserved money while still alive.

Over three days in New York – beginning with a massive celebratory dinner at The Chop House in the city’s financial district, Simmons and some of raps’ unsung pioneers officially unveiled the Masterminds of Hip-Hop – a collaboration with NFT marketplace Tokau. The NFT – non-fungible tokens – honors those who laid the groundwork for hip-hop culture today like D.J. Hollywood, Busy Bee Starski, Grandmaster Caz, and others.

Superstar Snoop Dogg will curate the NFT collection, which he and Simmons hope will reap cash for individuals like Hollywood, Caz, and a host of legendary founders.

“This is a multi-billion-dollar industry, and there are so many of the younger generation who don’t know the shoulders on whom they stand,” Simmons told NNPA Newswire during the Chop House dinner.

“Some of these guys [founders] don’t even have bank accounts, but we have to consider, all of us have to consider, none of us would be here without them.”

Simmons insisted the Snoop Dogg “gets it.”

“He wants to be a part of this. That’s why I love him so much,” Simmons asserted. “Snoop has such a big heart; he cares about these guys.”

D.J. Hollywood, Nikki D, and Uptown Records cofounder Jimmy Luv sat near Simmons during the launch event and each toasted the Def Jam founder for his vision and desire to recognize the masterminds of hip-hop.

“I took the word, put it to wax, and everything else is history,” Hollywood proclaimed. “What people don’t know is what it took to ride this train. You had people rapping well before me, but nobody brought it to life before me with two turntables and a microphone.”

Added Nikki D, the first female hip-hop artist signed to Def Jam Records: “A lot of people don’t ever get their flowers. The NFTs bring forth the forefathers, and now a lot of people can see the shoulders that they stand on.”

Luv, who helped shape many legendary music careers, applauded Simmons. “The guy always gives back, and you can’t help but to appreciate that,” he said.

The Masterminds of Hip-Hop includes artists from the pre-recorded and early recording phases of the genre. Simmons said each NFT would be an exclusive collection featuring artwork and never-before-heard stories from hip-hop pioneers.

Public Enemy’s Chuck D., Doug E. Fresh, Big Daddy Kane, and others have signed as collaborators.

“It’s a celebration of hip-hop,” Simmons concluded.

“Hopefully, the NFTs will make a lot of money for these individuals, and hopefully it will set the record straight, and the young people in hip-hop will recognize these giants and give them their flowers while they are still here because a lot of [the pioneers] have checked out and never got their flowers.”

The sale of the NFTs begins on August 30.

Stacy Brown is the NNPA Newswire senior national correspondent.

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Generation X versus the millennials: Can we learn how to work together?

Corey Paris Guest Columnist

I recently was sent a Facebook video about how things have changed so much. I certainly do agree that raising children is hard, but like all things, hard is what you make it.

In the video, a child went to her father and asked, “Hey dad, why do you hate millennials?” and her father replied, “I don’t hate millennials, we just don’t get along.”

How right was he! A day before my father and I were talking about how the younger generation (millennials) think that they know everything, but don’t know anything, will express their opinion, but ONLY know half the story, and the MOST hilarious to me - they know more than us (the parents). Yes, due to the world advancing in technology, moving into the age of “the Jetsons,” us (Gen X) aren’t as savvy with the 21st century as opposed to the 20th century. Everything in the millennial’s life is FAST, FAST, and FAST. On another note, being a parent and dealing with the “issues of raising a child,” I can truly agree to “not getting along.” However, I don’t hate them - I love and will do almost anything for my children but sometimes I just don’t want to even talk to them.

I remember a simpler time, the only social media we had was 8-bit video games, the radio, television and the analog tele-

phone. We went outside to play in the park or played skelly in the neighborhood, hung out with your friends and when you were out and about, the village were your parents. And, furthermost, we had and have until this day respect for our elders.

Now there is a flipside to this: Who gave millennials the right to voice their opinions at every given moment?

Granted, our children have become adults now, but will always be children and need to stay out “of grown-folks business.”

You just might have an idea on how to address “certain situations” by giving your opinions and pretty much it really doesn’t concern you. So, when you decide to turn the conversation gearing toward you (the millennial) just remember - it’s not about you.

What is this entitlement mentality where you are owed something for being alive?

In the world we live in, it is about hard work, determination, and sheer gusto; live, play, work and appreciate a good day’s worth of work. But once again, it’s not about you.

When children get in trouble, what the hell is a timeout and a hug after the timeout?

When a child/ren gets in trouble, in the Gen X days we would get punished and then grounded for days or maybe months.

Sometimes, you could be grounded for so long that your friends might forget who you are.

Where did the respect for the older people go?

Well, that’s simple.

Believe it or not, social media and millennials (NOT ALL) have a minimal amount or no respect for people who are older

than them. Hence, we have seen a high mortality rate of parents and children either hurting or killing one another, disrespect, and maybe even resulted in detention and/or jail time. It was never wise for a child to call Child Services on your parents in my Gen X days; the police came and assessed the situation, later to tell the parent to go home and … you know the rest.

So why millennials, why do you think that calling the city on your parents is a smart move when you know IT IS NOT going to end well for you? Either you’re going to be put in a foster home or on the back of a milk container, SO DON’T DO IT. Why do the millennials think that everything has to conform to what they believe?

Yes, we teach our children independent thoughts and that is a beautiful thing. But that doesn’t mean everything has to revolve around our young adults and their issues.

Once again, it’s not about you.

How can we get along with the millennials?

We can’t. Just like the generations before us.

1900-1924 THE GOVERNMENT ISSUE (GI) 1925-1945 THE SILENT 1946-1964 BABY BOOMERS 1965-1979 GENERATION X (GEN X) OR 13’ERS 1980-2000 MILLENNIALS OR GEN Y 2000- NEW SILENT HOWEVER, the 21st century is new and scary for my Gen X, but as we were taught (well, some of us) how to persevere through hard times, turn a

TV dinner into Thanksgiving, and not be scared of hard work (well, some of us). Us older people forget one important thing about this article: We raised the new pain in the millennials. They are our reflections and everything that we are.

Think about this: The reason why we don’t get along with the millennials is because they are our hyperactive younger selves. They are our stubborn selves that our grandparents “didn’t get along with.” They are everything that we wanted them to be (depends on your expectations). They are determined, but not capable (for now) of being disciplined in the basic things (COMMON SENSE) that will take you a long way. For each generation, the following generation continues to exhibit a continuous cycle of something that cannot be helped; it’s not that my generation hates our predecessor, it’s that sometimes we just don’t get along.

My final thought: It is an on-going cycle of not getting along, maintaining the integrity of passing the torch to the next generation that will not get along with the one before.

The final objective that all my Gen X peers have to keep in mind is, we have to all find a common denominator that can and will bridge the old with the new and learn how to work together.

Corey Paris is a Brooklyn native who resides in Winston-Salem. He loves creative writing and downto-earth topics and is a true advocate for common sense.

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Consider attending an HBCU where you will thrive educationally and athletically Dr. James B. Ewers Jr.

Guest Columnist

I am an advocate and proponent of Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU). I am a witness to their power and purpose.

HBCUs take the rough and the smooth and make us valuable contributors to the world.

It has been that way since the founding of the first HBCU (Cheyney University of Pennsylvania in 1837) to now.

There are givens and intangibles that HBCUs give students in abundance. There is the welcoming atmosphere of the campuses. People with or without titles care about

you. They ask questions as simple as “Can I help you?” or “How are you?”

When you are a firstyear student never having left home, having someone ask how you are doing is a big deal. I am a graduate of Johnson C. Smith University, an HBCU located in Charlotte. My first day on campus walking into my residence hall, Carter Hall, will forever be etched in my mind.

I received what I would call a CE (caring education). It was not just the learning part. My teachers cared about my well-being. They showed it by their patience and their temperament. Their profession was to teach.

Their hearts were to care.

This is what you get at a Historically Black College and University. The scenario I just painted has been re-painted by thousands of HBCU graduates.

The joy of this picture is that it lives on today.

Teachers, staff and administrators want to be there.

It was not their second choice. It was not an alternative.

Being at an HBCU is a calling that many have answered. The same passion for excellence runs through the veins of those employed today at HBCUs. Many of us have been HBCU ambassadors for years. We have been recommending and recruiting students to HBCUs. We have also held open houses and sponsored scholarships. What we need to see is more people using these strategies.

However, one important strategy has been missing in many school districts in America. We must have more teachers and counselors recommend HBCUs to their students. In order to recommend more students, they must find out more and be better versed about

HBCUs. I believe that students are missing out by not knowing about the academic programs and extracurricular activities at our colleges and universities.

While many of us know about HBCUs, there are many who do not. This information can serve as a guide for them.

There are 107 Historically Black Colleges and Universities that are identified by the U.S. Department of Education. This is 2020 data. There are four-year and two-year schools, both public and private. Major programs are contemporary and cutting edge. Scholarships are available and schools are looking for qualified students.

On-campus and offcampus housing opportunities are available, along with a variety of internship programs.

All of these schools have strong academic missions that have withstood

the test of time. Extracurricular activities and athletics have been central to keeping students stimulated and motivated. Many clubs are civic-minded and participate in such efforts as voter registration drives.

Athletic competition is available at the Division I, II and junior college levels. HBCUs have sent their fair share of studentathletes to the professional ranks.

Recently, we have seen former professional athletes become coaches at HBCUs. There will be more to come.

There are athletic scholarships in all sports.

Contact the schools for more information.

Graduate programs and continuing education programs continue to grow at these schools.

As you begin your college visits, include HBCUs. You will come away impressed and wanting to

enroll your loved ones as a traditional or non-traditional student.

This column is dedicated to Reverend Elmon W. Prier, an award-winning teacher, coach and author. He has counseled hundreds of students about their higher education aspirations. He is a graduate of Wilberforce University, an HBCU in Yellow Springs, Ohio.

century, she will speak of our courage and sacrifice.

She will tell her grandchildren how everything changed as she grew up.

She will speak of her career in restoring ecosystems alongside so many of her generation. She will have seen upheavals, yes, and the lingering instability of our damage to the Earth, but she will be able to speak with hope and pride.

The newborn in her parents’ arms today will live to see the birds return in vast flocks. She will see the whales rebound in great proliferating pods that sing across the slowly-cooling seas. The aerial photo maps of her world will change color as she supports global reforestation projects to reverse desertification. She will taste the harvest from her local farms and know the journey her water took to reach her. She will have a hope

that seems impossible to us today.

She will have hope because of us.

And that is what we can do with our lives, right here and right now, to bless this child and all the others entering the world today, tomorrow, and the next day. We can take action for climate justice and give the young ones a gift unparalleled by any fairy godmother.

We can lift the curse that sits upon them. We can give them cause for hope, instead.

Joy for this child or misery for this child. To choose joy is to commit to action.

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 all-conference for four years. He is a retired college administrator. He can be reached at overtimefergie.2020@yahoo.com.

A gift for the future Rivera Sun Guest Columnist Today, a child was born, tiny hands curling and unfurling with the startled shock of cool air on wet skin, oxygen flooding into newly-opened lungs as she cries upon entering this strange new world.

This child will likely live to see 2100. The date hangs, inconceivable, futuristic, but now within the span of a single lifetime.

The child will be older by then, close to 80. She will have lived through every dire climate prediction modeled by modernity’s soothsayers, the scientists.

She will have seen the full weight of our failures in the times she was too

young to remember, these next few years when an immediate transition away from fossil fuels is an imperative for the survival of humanity.

I hope she remembers the story about to unfold, a story that began decades ago and is rapidly approaching the climax of its epic, the story in which billions of human beings rise up for their shared love of this Earth. Like thwarting monsters of old, we will wrestle fossil fuels back into the ground, dethrone the titans of industry, and stop the headlong plunge into the hell realms of the Sixth Mass Extinction. These times are the star-stuff of legends, if we survive long enough.

If we don’t turn this story around, the tiny newborn arriving today will grow up in the greatest tragedy ever to hit our species, the catastrophic collapse of all we know

and love. As an 80-yearold grandmother, she will see the dawn of a new, bleak century, awash in the wreckage of nuclear waste, plastic pollution, ruined cities, dust bowls of barren farmlands. Hers will not be the Silent Spring of which Rachel Carson warned. It will be the Silent Century.

She will be tough, this old woman in 2100.

She will have survived decades of horrors: heat waves roasting the corn on the stalk and melting the onions in the fields, superstorms that slam the coastlines and flatten cities, torrential flooding that sweeps whole towns away, vanishing ice caps, rising seas that swallow Florida in a gulp, early frosts that lead to crop failures and empty grocery store shelves, desperate wars fought for water amidst unrelenting droughts.

It reads like a bibli-

cal curse. We are the ones hurling it in her fragile, newborn face. We are the wicked fairy godmothers hovering over her cradle, poised to ruin her life.

But we don’t have to be.

In these next few years as she learns to crawl, speak, count, walk, we still have time to change the story of her life. As an 80-year-old in 2100, she may be able to tell a vastly different tale than the apocalyptic tragedy that awaits. But, before she even learns to read, we must take immediate action. We must declare a climate emergency, demand a swift transition away from fossil fuels, defund polluting industries, invent and deploy clean renewable energies, overhaul destructive agricultural practices, and more.

If we do all this with vision and conviction, as a grandmother in the new

Rivera Sun, syndicated

by PeaceVoice, has written numerous books, including “The Dandelion Insurrection.” She is the editor of Nonviolence News and a nationwide trainer in strategy for nonviolent campaigns.

The path to citizenship is the path to a more democratic America Andrew Moss Guest Columnist

If negotiations in Congress open a path to citizenship this year for the roughly 10.2 million undocumented immigrants in America, the U.S. economy will grow by as much as $1.7 trillion over ten years, according to a joint study conducted by the Center for American Progress and the University of California, Davis’s Global Migration Center.

This increase in the nation’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) will accrue from wage increases following legalization and citizenship, as well as from enhanced educational attainment and training made possible by the changes in status.

These benefits to the economy have received a fair measure of attention

in the media, but what hasn’t received as much attention is how an opened path to citizenship will also strengthen American democracy. It will do so by making our system of government more representative.

The issue of representativeness is grounded in economic facts and in the realities of daily life for both undocumented immigrants and documented noncitizens (i.e. people with DACA - Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals-status, Temporary Protected Status, or some form of work authorization like a Green Card).

For many years, undocumented immigrants have paid billions in federal, state, and local taxes, and many pay into Social Security as well, even though they’re not eligible to receive retirement benefits.

Yet as author John Washington has noted: “Many basic conceptions of political equality are thrown out the window when it comes to immigrants. You can pay taxes,

serve in the military, own property, go to school, be a working and contributing and fully engaged member of the community, and yet you can be arrested by immigration authorities while picking your kid up from school, in many states you might not be able to legally drive, and in almost all cities you can’t even vote for your city council representative.”

For a nation whose drive to independence was impelled, in part, by the sentiments behind the phrase, “no taxation without representation,” there’s more than good reason for enfranchising millions of residents who contribute so much to this society – and yet who are denied the opportunity of participating fully in the political life of their communities and the nation.

There are those who make their calling in projecting fear about such enfranchisement. Fox News commentator Tucker Carlson tells his viewers and readers, “If you change the population, you dilute the

political power of the people who live there. So every time they (Democrats) import a new voter, I’d become disenfranchised as a current voter.”

Carlson presents his zero-sum vision of political life in language with a powerful subtext: the Republican Party’s embrace, under President Trump, of a racist anti-immigrant program that has extended beyond the end of the Trump administration.

This anti-immigrant program continues in, among other things, the lawsuit brought against DACA

by Republican officials from Texas and eight other states, a lawsuit that led to the ruling last month by a federal judge in Texas that DACA was unlawful.

It’s understandable that Carlson and others fear the full political participation of people long-denied and long-suppressed by xenophobic rhetoric and policy.

Such fear grows out of choices that Republican leaders and allied opinion makers have been making for some time. But if their

own choices now constrict and bind these leaders, why must the nation be equally bound and constricted?

Some may ask, “Why reward people who crossed illegally, or who were brought over illegally?”

And one may answer: sometimes you have to ask different kinds of questions, questions that broaden our humanity, deepen our ties, and expand our potential as a nation.

A question, therefore: what do you say to a physician, health aide, nurse, or pharmacist – a DACA recipient, one of 30,000 who worked tirelessly, and still works tirelessly, to protect patients from COVID – what do you say if our nation cannot, finally, acknowledge him or her as a citizen and as a full person?

What do you say to any one of the five million undocumented immigrants deemed as “essential workers” – people working in construction, agriculture, food manufacturing, and health care?

People who continue to feed the nation, care for its children and its elderly, and build and maintain its infrastructure?

Citizenship, and the voting rights that go with it, are ultimately issues of agency, power, and voice.

The question is: will the power remain exclusively and narrowly held, relegating people to the shadows, and undermining the nation’s vitality and growth?

Or will an inclusive and democratic vision prevail? Will we move to a renewed and wider sense of what the American experiment will be? In the coming weeks, so much will depend on this Congress – and upon the collective pressures that will be brought to bear upon it.

Andrew Moss, syndicated by PeaceVoice, is an emeritus professor (English, nonviolence studies) at the California State Polytechnic University, Pomona.

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Chilly Philly is keeping the Twin City cool

BY BUSTA BROWN FOR THE CHRONICLE

The name sounds contradictive, but it tastes absolutely delicious. Philadelphians call it “Water Ice.” “Anywhere you go in Philadelphia, all they serve is Water Ice. It’s a summertime treat. When I was a child, no matter what park you went to, or what youth sports event you attended, day or night, there were Water Ice and soft pretzels everywhere,” said Submitted photo Wendy Robinson. She’s Pastor Frank Robinson, his wife Wendy, and Andrea an administrative assistant Main, owners of Chilly Philly in Winston-Salem. in student services at Mt. Tabor High School in Win- year, they will celebrate cholesterol free, soy free, ston-Salem. Wendy’s hus- their 25th wedding anni- gluten free, and produced in a peanut free plant. So, band Frank Robinson is a versary.

The Robinsons moved a lot of parents bring their pastor of Messiah Community Christian Church to Winston-Salem 11 years kids in that have peanut alago because of his minis- lergies. We’re affordable. in Winston-Salem.

One day Wendy called try. Shortly after becom- A family of five can buy her good friend and church ing a member of Mes- Water Ice for their whole member, Andrea Main, siah Community Christian family with 20 dollars and with a business idea. Church, it wasn’t long leave with some change,” “Thanks to COVID, we before Andrea and Wendy shared Wendy.

Chilly Philly has plenty couldn’t travel home for became the best of friends.

So, when Wendy shared of flavors to choose from; about 16 months, and the first day in spring is always her vision about starting a banana pudding flavored a big deal with Water Ice. business together, she was Water Ice is my favorite.

“One lady stopped So, my family and friends all in.

As of April 2021, Anmaking banana pudding kept posting pictures saying it’s Water Ice time, and drea, Wendy and Pastor after trying our banana Robinson are the proud pudding flavored Water I got really homesick.

“So, God laid it on my owners of the hottest spot Ice. We have about 40 heart to call Andrea. I said to cool off - Chilly Philly! flavors, but we rotate a we should open up a Water “No business plan, just by different 12 flavors a day.

Ice store. And her com- faith. Like Andrea, let’s We don’t keep the same 12 flavors and the people ments were two words: go!” said the Robinsons.

“Busta, how the name love it. The reason for the ‘Let’s go!’ She didn’t ask me what kind of business. Chilly Philly came about, 12 flavors is because there She replied, ‘Is it that stuff we had several names, so are 12 letters in the name we had on vacation in we did a survey with our Philadelphia. And by the Philly?’ I laughed and said family members, and they way, we do serve ice cream yes, and she said ‘I’m in,’” voted. The name Chilly as well.”

One of the customer Philly stuck and that’s shared Wendy.

Her husband smiled at what we went with,” said favorites is the Philly Sampler. The Philadelphia his wife with an expres- Andrea Main.

Sampler is all 12 scoops Andra, mother and the sion of love and adoration in a large cup. Customers JROTC supervisor in the and then joined in on the can sample up to two flaForsyth County school conversation. “Most peovors and can choose two ple know it as Italian Ice, district, is from Columbia, to four flavors in their cup.

South Carolina.

“I made but if you know anything “Sometimes it’s hard for about Philadelphians, we my way here by way of the them to choose” said Anmilitary,” she said. always want to put our I asked, what’s the dif- drea. name on everything. So, When you stop by ference between Philadelwe call it Philadelphia Chilly Philly, here are a Original Water Ice,” joked phia Original Water Ice and few specials you’ll find: Pastor Frank Robinson. shaved ice or snow cones? Sundaes on Sunday, which He’s a USAF veteran and “Italian Ice is served hard; is 2&2 and add cake; milkpastor of Messiah Com- Water Ice is served soft. shakes made from scooped munity Christian Church. It’s not served at a freezing ice cream; Chilly Philly Frank and Wendy are the temperature, which gives 1&1, which is one scoop of proud parents of two chil- it that nice smooth tex- ice cream with one scoop dren and in October of this ture. It’s fat free, no dairy, of Water Ice; and Chilly

Philly 2&2, two scoops of ice cream and two scoops of Water Ice. Chilly Philly is very active in the Winston-Salem community. “When we first started our business, we said we want to be a blessing to young people by teaching excellent customer service, how to manage their money, and become entrepreneurs as well. We did a back-toschool drive for the teachers. Andrea and I both work for the school district, and we see our teachers taking money out of their pocket when kids don’t have [supplies]. The drive was very

well received by the community. “We’ll also begin doing fundraisers this fall,” shared Wendy.

I asked Andrea to share what’s in the future for Chilly Philly. “Well Busta, we have to keep you all guessing. It’s going to be pleasing, delightful, refreshing, and something to get our customers and community through the winter.”

Pastor Robinson closed by assuring us that Chilly Philly is the real deal. “My brothers and sisters from Philadelphia were the first ones to come in to see if we’re the real deal, and

when they tasted our Water Ice, they immediately said this is the real deal.

We brought the spirit from Philly to Winston-Salem.

Our ice cream is from Hershey Philadelphia, and it’s no taste like it. We specialize in Water Ice, but we serve the best ice cream as well.”

Chilly Philly is located at 454 Knollwood St. in Winston-Salem. Their summer hours are Wednesday – Saturday from 12 – 8 p.m. and on Sundays 2-8 p.m. For more info call 336-608-4068 or visit chillyphilly.org or on Facebook @chillyphilly.

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A day of living in poverty

BY JUDIE HOLCOMB-PACK THE CHRONICLE

On Monday, Aug. 9, the teachers and staff of Ashley Elementary School experienced what it was like to live in poverty by participating in Crisis Control Ministry’s poverty simulation. About 40 participants were assigned into family units and identities, from children to the Photos By Judie Holcomb-Pack elderly, with the goal to Teachers and staff at Ashley Elementary discuss their survive a “month” of liv- experiences of the poverty simulation. ing with limited means.

Margaret Elliott said that lations need at least 40 At the end of the simulathis simulation had been participants. As soon as tion, participants described their experiences: “hum- planned for some time we feel it is safe, we will bling,” “frustrating,” eye- and they wanted to honor begin scheduling future opening,” “challenging,” their commitment to Ash- simulations.” For more in“stressful,” “overwhelm- ley. “We’re paying close formation on the poverty ing,” and “thought-pro- attention to the impact the simulation, email Margavirus is having on large ret Elliott at melliott@crivoking.”

Executive Director gatherings as our simu- siscontrol.org.

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Ribbon cutting held for WSSU Women’s Business Center

BY TEVIN STINSON THE CHRONICLE

Last week local elected officials and others with a vested interest in the growth and development of the community and its citizens, joined representatives from S.G. Atkins CDC for the ribbon cutting ceremony for the Winston-Salem State University Women’s Business Center.

The Women’s Business Center is an extension of the business incubator and development program offered at The Enterprise Center and will offer technical support for women entrepreneurs in the areas of startup, management, marketing, and development, all free of charge.

Participants will also have access to grants, loan programs, certification programs, mentors, and other resources.

The Women’s Business Center was made possible by a grant distributed by the Small Business Administration (SBA) that will cover the cost of the program for five years. There are similar programs sponsored by the SBA in Asheville, Charlotte, Fayetteville and Durham, but the WSSU Women’s Business Center is the first to be housed and sponsored by a HBCU. Carol Davis, executive director of the S.G. Atkins CDC (Community Development Corporation) applied for the SBA grant. During the ribbon cutting ceremony last week, Davis said she was excited to see The Enterprise Center grow. The Enterprise Center moved into its current location, 1922 Martin Luther King Jr. Drive, in 2011 and today it is home to more than 40 small businesses and nonprofits, as well as the first shared-use kitchen in Forsyth County.

“2021 is our tenth anniversary here at The Enterprise Center so we were already celebrating 10 years, then this fantastic development, so we’re excited,” Davis said.

Dr. Joy Lough, program director of the WSSU Women’s Business Center, said she has always had a passion for helping small business owners. In addition to her experience teaching college level business courses, Dr. Lough also owns a consulting business and is the author of the book, “7 Steps to Success: For the En-

trepreneur,” which was recently listed on Amazon’s Best Sellers’ list.

“Seeing my students and seeing my clients get from point A to point Z, it’s a big deal and I enjoy that. I enjoy being a part of the process,” Lough said. “Our mission is to provide technical support for minority business owners, so of course, every year we have a goal to help a certain amount of entrepreneurs, but beyond that I’m really enjoying the planning piece … just being able to help them on their entrepreneurial journey, that is my goal. I want people to leave with a different mindset than when they came in.”

As program director, Dr. Lough is responsible for developing different online courses that business owners will be able to access free of charge. When asked what advice she would give an up-and-coming entrepreneur who is having doubts about taking that leap of faith and going all in on their business venture, Dr. Lough said, “Stay encouraged.”

“First of all, stay encouraged and if you have the passion and that gut feeling that this is what you’re supposed to do, then by all means pursue that, but get the help you need,” she continued. “Don’t think that you have to do this alone … know that there are resources out there to help. Know that there are people rooting for you, all you have to do is ask.”

For more information on the Women’s Business Center, visit The Enterprise Conference and Event Center, 1922 South Martin Luther King Jr. Drive, or call 336734-6900. A playback of the ribbon cutting ceremony can be viewed on the S.G. Atkins CDC Facebook page.

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Program helps turn lives around, one cut at a time

BY JOHN RAILEY

Donald Weaks talks to Shica Shell as she cuts her son Jayden’s hair, breathing new life into an old tradition.

“Basically, the barbershop is the corner store, the place to gather and exchange stories,” Weaks said recently.

What’s different is that Weaks, an ex-offender, is trying to help other ex-offenders through barbering.

Shell, who’s seen her own share of legal troubles, is starting to learn the trade from Weaks. He is participating in Project M.O.O.R.E. (Mentoring Our Own and Rejuvenating the Environment), located in a frame house just off Martin Luther King Drive. Through the initiative, youth can gather, Photo by David Moore learn, and dream, charting plans for careers with on- Donald Weaks teaches barbering to Shica Shell as she site training in music, bar- cuts her son Jayden’s hair. bering and cosmetology. vive,” Weaks said. With munity College. She also The project is the rebarbering, he said, “You incurred drug charges and vamped brainchild of Dacan be your own boss. It’s has done time in jail. vid M. Moore, well-known up to you to make money.

She met David Moore in Winston-Salem for his It’s about taking it to the when she bought a car Southside Rides, which next level if you really from Southside Rides. puts newly-released ofwant.”

“He’s cool. He’s the type fenders, like he once was, Shell wants to do that. of person, he’s going to to work in its car body She’s worked minimum- keep you on the right shop. Now he’s expanding wage jobs and as a hos- track.” his scope, trying to reach pital housekeeper. “You Moore told her about youth before they make can’t make it like that,” the barber program. “I the costly mistakes he and she said. “I’m trying to want to be positive. Being so many others made. The move up. I don’t want to on the streets ain’t getting project is financially supwork for anybody else. I me nowhere but in trouported by Winston-Salem want to work for myself. ble,” Shell said.

State University’s Center Jayden, who’s 8, asked me Weaks said he tries to for the Study of Economic why couldn’t I be my own impart lessons to her about Mobility (CSEM). boss?” staying straight “the best CSEM Associate DiShe’s 27. Weaks is 49. way I can. Get away from rector Alvin Atkinson As he teaches her, they talk people who are doing you said, “Project M.O.O.R.E. about the challenges of no good. A lot of people incorporates a key pringoing straight. “I’ve been want to see you crash.” ciple of effective mendown that same road,” he He said Shell has a pastoring and that is ‘a resaid. He did time in prison sion for barbering. “Once lationship with a caring for drug convictions and you get these initial lesadult.’ It also provides one of being a habitual fel- sons right, then in barber a learning environment on. He met David Moore school you’ll already have in which the life experiwhen he was in prison a step ahead,” he said. “I ences of the mentors make and took one of Moore’s tell her, ‘Don’t be scared, them the best teachers for courses on auto body re- it’s only hair. If you think youth who are susceppair. Weaks has been out you’re messing up, always tible to dropping out of since 2014. “Where I’m at ask questions, I’m right school or choosing criminow, prison is just a speck here.’” nal behavior. The result in my life,” he said. “I’ve Shell is candid about is a winning combination come a long way with the struggle to stay out of for the mentor, the mentee the support of family and trouble and become a barand their families and the friends.” ber. “It’s hard. I ain’t goentire community.”

Shell grew up in Win- ing to lie to you. But I’m Weaks has set up ston. Her mother has a going to make it. I’m not his chair at Project strong faith, she said, going to let my son down.

M.O.O.R.E. In addition “but I went a different I will be a boss.” to teaching students, preroute.” She started getting Weaks told her, “Keep paring them for barber in trouble at 17, she said, pushing. It will happen.” schools, he also caters to when she was at Reynolds customers at this prime John Railey, raileyjb@ High School. She took location just blocks away some cosmetology classes gmail.com, is the writer-infrom the WSSU campus. at Reynolds, graduated, residence for CSEM, www.

“People need some kind and took some classes at wssu.edu/csem. of trade to be able to surForsyth Technical Com-

Founder of Black-owned sneaker company seeks to empower athletes about new NCAA ruling Nationwide (BlackNews.com) - Under a recent Supreme Court ruling, the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) can no longer place restrictions on education-related benefits for student-athletes. NCAA athletes can now profit from their name, image, and likeness with unlimited incentives.

Before the decision, student-athletes were not allowed financial gains from the billions of dollars in revenue that sports brought to American colleges and universities.

Student-athletes can now reap financial benefits from their talents early on.

But with the new judgment in place, however, many people like Tarik Edmonson, founder of Nagast Footwear, fear that student-athletes may be taken advantage of by large corporations and he aims to educate them on the possible pitfalls.

“Everybody knows that these large shoe companies treat athletes like modern-day slaves,” says Edmonson. “They make

billions of dollars off the athletes and only give the athletes a fraction of the profits.”

He continues, “You got athletes who make companies $10 billion a year but the athlete only gets a billion. They are rich, but why leave $9 billion on the table? You did the work and the sweat, and God gave you that talent.

So it should be the other way around.”

Instead of taking a smaller piece of the pie, Edmonson offers athletes an opportunity to take the lion’s share of the profits with a Black-owned company whose Africaninspired styles embody the total essence of our rich and proud heritage. With clothing and shoe collections celebrating Black history, Black pride, and Egyptian hieroglyphs, Nagast Footwear is as trendy and stylish as it is empowering and uplifting.

Launched in 2015, Nagast Footwear became the first company to create an internationally successful sneaker line to commemorate the legacy of powerful

Black leaders, including Nat Turner, Marcus Garvey, and Huey P. Newton, among others.

“We started this company out of a need to help our people, and we want to teach these athletes that they are the brand,” Edmonson explains. “You’ve already done the marketing and promotions because you already got a name. You got the following. You are who the fans want to be like and emulate.”

Even if student-athletes choose to sign endorsement deals with these large companies, Edmonson says he wants them to know their worth when sitting at the negotiations table. “Even if they don’t go with us,” he discloses, “they should know their power when negotiating their deal. The days of big shoe companies only paying athletes pennies are over.”

To learn more about Nagast Footwear, visit NagastFootwear.com.

For more details, contact 470262-3895 or nagastfootwear@gmail.com.

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

One of the best is laid to rest Legendary college football coach Bobby Bowden passed away last week at the age of 91 after battling pancreatic cancer.

Bowden is best known for his time as the head football coach for Florida State University, but his impact on the game, his players, and his fans will last a lifetime.

Bowden was born in Birmingham, Alabama, on Nov. 8, 1929. Bowden himself was an outstanding football player in high school at the quarterback position. He always had a dream of playing for the Crimson Tide of Alabama and after graduation he fulfilled his dream.

He transferred to Howard College (now Samford University) where he played multiple sports and graduated in 1953.

Bowden began his coaching career at Samford as an assistant in 1954. He moved on to South Georgia State College before returning to Samford as the head coach from 1959-62. Bowden then made his first stint in Tallahassee as the wide receiver coach under Head Coach Bill Peterson in 1962.

A few years later Bowden made his way to West Virginia as the offensive coordinator and then head coach before finally landing the head coaching position for the Seminoles in 1976, a job he would hold until he retired in 2009.

Bowden quickly turned the Seminoles from a laughingstock to one of the more formidable teams in the nation rather quickly. During his 34-year stint as head coach, he only had one losing season, which was his first. Of course, he was offered head coaching positions at other top universities, but chose to stay with Florida State.

While he did enjoy early success at Florida State, Bowden and the Seminoles really became a national power in the second half of the 1980s.

From 1987-2000, Florida State finished every season with at least 10 wins and ranked in the top five of the Associated Press poll. That is a stretch of excellence that will probably never be duplicated again.

Under his tenure, two Seminoles won the Heisman Trophy (Charlie Ward and Chris Weinke).

Bowden also finished his career second in all-time wins behind Joe Paterno.

Bowden also established one of the most celebrated coaching trees in college football history. Some of the coaches that came out of that tree are Mark Richt, Chuck Amato, Skip Holtz, Kirby Smart, Mickey Andrews, Jimbo Fisher and Manny Diaz.

During his tenure, Bowden led Florida State to the AP National Title in 1993 with a win against See Rest on B2

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BY TIMOTHY RAMSEY THE CHRONICLE

Even though the season just ended a few

months ago, it’s time for another high school football season. Players and coaches are gearing up for what they hope is a successful season. Everyone is trying to gauge where they

are to start the season and Glenn and Grimsley got a pretty good look at their squads last week in a pre-season scrimmage.

Sam Davis remembered as local sports legend TIMOTHY RAMSEY THE CHRONICLE

Sam Davis, former sports editor for The Chronicle, has passed away at the age of 63. Davis was also a long-time youth sports coach, impacting the lives of many kids around Forsyth County.

Most recently, Davis was the publisher of Triad Sports Weekly, a weekly publication that showcased local youth sports.

Davis also worked for the Winston-Salem Journal as a sportswriter.

Davis grew up in the Happy Hill Gardens area of Winston-Salem and had a deep-rooted love for his community. Ben Piggott, another former Happy Hill resident, played high school basketball against Davis and remembers him being a fierce competitor who has always had a passion for sports.

“Sam played basketball for Anderson (High School) in the 10th grade and we played against them at Carver,” said Piggott about his earliest memory of Davis. “Sam was a very caring type of

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Sam Davis person and when I heard about his death, I was saddened.”

Davis was a multifaceted person who was involved with many things.

Not only was he a coach and a sportswriter, he was also a minister and entrepreneur. Though he was involved with many things,

his impact on the kids in the community will never be forgotten.

“Sam had a strong impact on the youth because Sam was always concerned with giving the youth an opportunity to be exposed,” Piggott continued. “He wanted them to get their due. Sam was the

type of person that would hold banquets for the kids to give them personal recognition.

“He was just a person that was concerned about youth sports to make sure they got the publicity. Sam was just a down-to-earth person.”

Davis was known for

not only highlighting the top tier athletes in the city, but he would also recognize the role players for their contributions to the team.

Councilman James Taylor played football in high school and fondly remembers Davis giving him a compliment years later, after becoming a part of city government.

“I did not make first team all-conference or anything, I was honorable mention, but for him (Davis) to come up to me years later and remember me meant something to a guy like me,” Taylor said.

“Sam Davis did a lot for youth sports in this area and his impact will be felt for years.

“He had a way of writing that made the average player sound just as good as the superstar on the team. He had a lot to do with getting a bunch of guys’ attention from schools from the things he wrote. The contributions that he made not only to this paper, but to the community of Winston-Salem, makes him a legend in the city.”

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Local fighter wins world championship

BY TIMOTHY RAMSEY THE CHRONICLE

Noel “The Holy Fire” Echevarria defeated former world champion Rodrigo Guerrero in a lightweight fight to win the vacant Universal Boxing Organization World Light Title in Atlanta, Georgia, on Aug 14.

“The fight didn’t go exactly how I planned, because I wanted to take him out a lot earlier,” said Echevarria about the fight.

“We train for the best and prepare for the worst and we were kind of in the worst area by having to go the distance with him. He came as a former world champion and he definitely brought it.

“I tried to knock him out between rounds three and four, but once I saw I wasn’t going to knock him out, I had to out-box him. I out-boxed him and won a unanimous decision.”

Echevarria, a native of Puerto Rico, relocated with his family to Winston-Salem from Pennsylvania when he was a teenager and now trains in Kernersville. Echevarria has battled many demons throughout his life to reach his goal of becoming a world champion.

“When they said that I was the champion, even now I am speechless, because I am sitting here looking at a world title and it’s mine,” he said. “I cried tears of joy and all I could think was ‘Thank God,’ because of how much work we put in to get to

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Echevarria hopes his story can inspire more young people to achieve their goals. this point.”

Echevarria became interested in boxing after a suggestion from a friend’s mother. As a youth, he was involved in a lot of fights and the friend’s mother thought boxing would be a great way for him to channel that energy into something positive. He soon made his way over to the 14th Street Recreation Center to start boxing.

“I always had a fighter’s heart, because I would always get into trouble for fighting when I was younger and messing with gangs and stuff like that,” he said. “I started early with drug habits and gang affiliation in Pennsylvania.

I was super young, but I was always the meanest, so I already knew I had that in me to fight, but I didn’t

know about boxing.”

Never one to hold his tongue and always confident in his skills, Echevarria was thrown into a sparring session with a professional fighter on his second day and was defeated badly. He learned that there was more to boxing than just having the will to fight.

From that day forward, he was determined to learn the art of boxing. After training for six months and learning what it would take to become a pro, Echevarria knocked out the same guy in a sparring session, letting him know he had what it took to become a professional himself.

Echevarria showed a lot of promise as an amateur, winning the Junior Olympics in 2010. He

made his professional debut a year later. Echevarria would go on to win his first 11 bouts and was well on his way to a great career until it was derailed by succumbing to the influence of drugs.

He would go on to lose six consecutive fights while battling his drug addiction until one day he chose to not let his addiction win. He gave his life to the Lord, kicked his addiction, and got back into the gym that allowed him to get into peak shape to box once again.

“God, to be honest with you,” Echevarria answered when asked how he overcame his addiction.

“In 2015, I overdosed and I actually died, and they finally resuscitated me. I was in a coma from that Friday and woke up that Sunday. When I woke up, I said I had to turn my life around.”

After leaving the hospital, Echevarria entered into a rehab facility to address the issues he was dealing with mentally. He left the facility, but soon went back to doing drugs once again. Echevarria hit rock bottom when he was living in a tent, homeless.

He became fed up with the way he was living and finally quit drugs cold turkey.

To help with his recovery, Echevarria began working two jobs and started working out once again. He was able to afford a car and then met his future wife along the way.

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Nebraska and a BCS National Championship in 1999 in a win against Virginia Tech. Both teams were two of the greatest teams to ever play, with many players going on to play in the NFL. Florida State also dominated the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) after joining in 1992. The Seminoles won or shared nine consecutive conference titles from ’92 through 2000. They only lost two conference games in that time. Bowden finished his FSU career with a 304-97-4 record.

I remember as a young child becoming a Florida State football fan in 1992.

I had recently relocated from Washington, D.C. with my family to St. Petersburg, Florida, and I was not happy about it. I was only 11 years old and the first game I was able to watch was a Florida State game.

I was drawn to the team because they had a Black quarterback (Charlie Ward) that wore Number 17. It seemed like fate because I was a Washington Redskins’ fan and Doug Williams had just won the Super Bowl a few years earlier as the first Black quarterback to do so. As I continued to watch the Seminoles, I became an even bigger fan.

At that time, Bowden had a television show that used to air on the weekends. As a kid it was kind of cool to see a coach of one of the top programs in the country appear so personable on TV. It also seemed that he had a genuine love for the kids in his program beyond what they did on the field.

It was well known that Bowden was one of, if not the best, recruiter in college football dur-

ing the Seminoles heyday. Coaches knew once Bowden visited a player’s family, it was pretty much a done deal, as he would win them over with his Southern charm and love of family.

“Ive always tried to serve God’s purpose for my life, on and off the field, and I am prepared for what is to come,” Bowden said in a statement in July. “My wife Ann and our family have been life’s greatest blessing. I am at peace.”

You can tell by responses of Bowden’s former players and assistants that he was more than just a coach to them. Derrick Brooks, former linebacker and All-American, wrote on Twitter, “I thank God for my relationship with Coach Bowden! I am so grateful to play for Coach Bowden. He built into our spirits “Faith, Family, Football” in that order! I will miss him and I hope to honor his legacy with how I live my life. RIP Coach B!” Ward wrote on Twitter, “Today as we mourn the passing of Coach Bobby Bowden, I reflect on his amazing legacy not just as a coach, but as a man, a mentor and an incredible person of faith. Please join me in keeping his family in prayer during this difficult time.”

Those were just two of the many condolences sent out about Bowden.

He was a person that was not only respected by those around him, but also by his opponents. Florida State has not been the same since his departure and the school will never be the same without him.

Bowden influenced many of the coaches who are in college football today.

We need more coaches like Bowden who care more about his players than his win/loss record.

RIP Coach Bowden.

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A Conquering Faith Scriptures: 1 John 4:2-3, 13-17; 5:4-5 By the end of this lesson, we will: *Remember the love of God described by the writer of 1 John; *Reflect on the various expressions of God’s love in our lives; *Respond to the challenge to love others with Christlike love.

Background: The Epistles of John 1, 2 and 3 are attributed to John, the son of Zebedee, younger brother of James – “Brothers of Thunder.” In the letter of the lesson, John is concerned with combating false teachings that Jesus was not the Son of God who came in the flesh.

He also seeks to inform the believer how to distinguish God’s spirit and the spirit of antichrist. The overall purpose being to strengthen the faith of the believer. John makes clear also that there is a core truth one must believe to be a genuine Christian - that the Son of God has come in the flesh. John himself walked and talked with Him and said so.

Lesson: John begins chapter 4 of the first epistle by saying, “Believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God …” (4:1). And here is how you make the distinction of whether the spirit is a demon spirit or of the Holy Spirit. A true teacher will acknowledge and proclaim that Jesus is God incarnate. “Every spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God.:” The Holy Spirit testifies to the true nature of Jesus (verse 2). The false teacher then is identified as the “spirit of antichrist,” they seek to distort the true nature of Jesus. They pervert the Gospel by saying that Jesus is not the Son of God – these teachers are not of God. John further warns that the antichrist is real and is actively working on behalf of Satan (verse 3).

“Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another” (verse 11). John gives in the body of this letter five reasons why Christians love: (1) because God is the essence of love, (2) to follow the supreme example of God’s sacrificial love in sending His Son for us, (3) because love is the heart of Christian witness, (4) because love is the Christians assurance and (5) because love is the Christians confidence in judgment. (MacArthur). Love conquers all!

Verses 13-16 are given as assurances of God’s love and why we should have steadfast faith. Verse 13 says that because Jesus dwelt among us in the flesh - died, was resurrected and ascended - the spirit dwells in us “because He hath given of His spirit.” John says in verse 14 “we have seen,” as an eyewitness, a member of the cast - John could verify that Jesus was the incarnate Word, the Messiah, the savior of the world sent by God. Verse 15 makes a broad statement by saying “whosoever”- meaning anyone and everyone because Jesus loves flawlessly and accepts us with all our imperfections and mistakes, and regardless of race, physical, mental, or emotional qualities, education or economic status, age, or cultural background. But “whosoever,” everyone is given the opportunity to become a part of the body of See Faith on B6

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Youth For Christ bridges the gap with Generation Z DENVER, Colo. A recent study by the American Bible Society indicated that 9% of Generation Z (identified as those born after 1996) identify themselves as being “biblically centered.”

The study revealed that half of American adults claim to utilize the Bible at least four times a year, and 49% of millennials (those born between 1981-1996) claim to be “Bible users,” illustrating the drastic distance between millennials and Gen Z-ers.

Youth For Christ (YFC, www.yfc. net) wants to bridge that gap and these statistics make their mission even more urgent. YFC aims to reach young people all across the nation, partnering with local churches to raise up lifelong followers of Jesus who exemplify the Christian faith daily and have a passion for spreading the Gospel.

Something YFC learned early on, however, is that it is increasingly difficult to reach Gen Z using traditional evangelism methods. Gen Z Christians are turning to less orthodox approaches, utilizing TikTok and other social media platforms to spread the Good News. But more importantly, Gen Z responds favorably to relationships.

President and CEO Jake Bland said, “YFC is a movement that builds relationships with young people to introduce them

to Christ and uncover God’s story of hope in their lives. We meet with today’s youth and foster relationships with them, learning their stories and allowing the Holy Spirit to work in their hearts—anything from navigating a new school, spending time in a juvenile institution, or wanting to learn how to share the hope of Jesus with their peers.”

It’s a system that’s produced fruit time and time again. YFC East Alabama recently began collecting backpacks and Bibles for local youth to help connect them to Christ, and YFC Portland hosted a prom for students who were unable to attend one due to the pandemic. YFC firmly believes that by putting together events and campaigns like this, they will continue to foster meaningful relationships with local youth, all while pointing back to

Christ. YFC understands the complexities of young people and how they often feel overlooked, and it’s YFC’s passion to make them feel seen, heard, and valued.

YFC has chapters impacting thousands of communities across the nation that seek out and serve youth from all walks of life. Many teens are silently struggling through a variety of challenging issues—and now they see the living power of a loving God. YFC encourages staff and volunteers to be good news while also sharing the stories of the Good News of Jesus. It involves building relationships through the ups and downs of everyday life in order to lead people to Christ.

YFC has been a pillar of missional ministry since 1944, when the Rev. Billy Graham served as YFC’s first full-

time staff member. Since then, Youth For Christ has continued to be both a rural and urban ministry on mission, and it is always about the message of Jesus. YFC reaches young people everywhere, working together with the local church and other likeminded partners to raise up lifelong followers of Jesus who lead by their godliness in lifestyle, devotion to the Word of God and prayer, passion for sharing the love of Christ, and commitment to social involvement. Youth For Christ operates in over 100 nations and has approximately 140 chapters that impact communities across America.

Learn more about Youth For Christ at its website, www.yfc. net, Facebook and Instagram pages, Twitter feed @yfcusa or on Vimeo.

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Aug. 19 – Nov. 13 GriefShare St. Paul United Methodist Church sponsors “GriefShare,” a support group for persons experiencing grief due to the death of a loved one. The 13 sessions feature biblical teaching on grief and recovery topics. The sessions are designed to give encouragement and support to persons on their journey from “mourning to joy.” Sessions are free; each is self-contained, meaning one does not have to attend the sessions in sequence. Seminar sessions include “Is This Normal?”, “The Challenges of Grief,” “Grief and Your Relationships,” “Why?” and “Guilt and Anger.” For information about how to participate in these virtual Saturday morning GriefShare sessions, please call St. Paul UMC at 336-723-4531.

Aug. 21 – Sept. 4 The Trinity Center of Winston Salem invite all families and individuals to the TTC food pantry (drive-thru style). TTC food pantry will be open on Saturday, Aug. 21, and Sept. 4, from 9:30 – 11 a.m. The church is located at 5307 Peters Creek Parkway. All households in need of groceries, join us every first and third Saturday for grocery pick up. In addition, please contact the administrative office at (336) 784-9347 for any rescheduling dates and cancellations.

Aug. 22 First Waughtown Baptist Church (FWBC) Livestream Senior Pastor Dr. Dennis W. Bishop will continue The Vivid Covenant series, at 10 a.m. Sunday, August 22. The base scriptures are Genesis 1:28 (The Cultural Mandate) and Matthew 28:19-20 (The Great Commission). This week’s message will resume at Psalm 72. The service can be found on YouTube, https://www.youtube. com (First Waughtown); Facebook Live, https://www. facebook.com/FirstWaughtown/; and the First Waughtown website, https://www.firstwaughtown.org.

Aug. 22 Forsyth County Missionary Union Meeting The Forsyth County Missionary Union Meeting will be held on Sunday, Aug. 22, via conference call at 2 p.m.

(Dial-in #: 425 436 6315 - Access code: 343 547-9 followed by the # sign.) Call time begins promptly at 1:55 p.m.

Aug. 22 Meet and Greet morning service Union Bethel A.M.E. Church, 1716 Richard Allen

Lane (formerly Trade. St.) will celebrate its first Parking Lot Meet and Greet morning service on Sunday, Aug. 22, at 10:30 a.m. We invite you to come worship and fellowship with us. Rev. George A. Pass Sr. is the host pastor.

Aug. 29 Family and Friends Day The Pilgrim Rest Missionary Baptist Church, 1905 N Jackson Ave., will be celebrating Missionary and Family and Friends Day on Sunday, Aug. 29, at our 11 a.m. worship hour as Pastor Hart will conclude his series preaching from the book of Revelations. We continue to practice safety protocols guidelines; masks are required.

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SEO is constantly changing, and the top experts are on the pulse to see what is fact or fiction. Join this series and get evergreen advice that any entrepreneur can implement today. Every Wednesday from 12:30-1:30 p.m. Register by going to www.hustlews.org/events-programs. Contact hustlewsinfo@gmail.com.

NOW – Oct. 15 Liberty Street Urban Farmers Market Open The Liberty Street Urban Farmers Market, 1551 N. Liberty St., is now open from 4 to 6 p.m. every first and third Fridays of the month through October 15. The market accepts SNAP EBT cards for purchases. Applications to sell at the market are still being accepted, and there is no cost to apply. Urban farmers and community gardeners are encouraged to apply. Prospective sellers can pick up an application at the market or find the application online at CityofWS.org/2720. Sellers who are growing within five miles of the market will have priority, but growers outside of this area are welcome too.

Aug. 20-21 10-Minute Play Festival Winston-Salem Writers and 40+ Stage Company are pleased to announce the tenth anniversary presentation of the 10-Minute Play Festival with performances 7:30 p.m. on Friday, August 20, and Saturday, August 21, at the Hanesbrands Theater, 209 North Spruce St. The festival features works by six 2021 finalists in the annual 10-Minute Play Contest.

Admission is $15.00 which can be paid at the door and purchased online at https://ci.ovationtix.com/36386/ production/1068453/. Masks are required.

Aug. 27-28 Shmedfest Crisis Control Ministry is announcing its 17th annual Shmedfest community fundraiser. This year’s Shmedfest will be held from Friday, Aug. 27, at 6 p.m. to Saturday, Aug. 28, at 9 p.m. at the Winston-Salem Fairgrounds Clocktower. The event includes an official 5K race starting from the fairgrounds. Local fitness groups F3 (Fitness, Fellowship, and Faith) and FiA (Females in Action) will also be hosting a 24-hour fitness marathon called “The Shmed.” A free community concert will be held Saturday evening and will include four local bands: the Legacy Motown Review, the Downtown Band, the Pharaoh Sisters, and Gypsy Soul.

Sept. 2-4 - CANCELLED Used book sale The Shepherd’s Center of Greater Winston-Salem will hold its 34th Annual Used Book Sale on Thursday, September 2 and Friday, September 3, from 9 a.m.-9 p.m., and on Saturday, September 4, from 8 a.m.-2 p.m.

(1/2 Price on all items!). The book sale is one of the largest in our state! Parking and admission are FREE! The sale will be held in the Education Building at the Winston-Salem Fairgrounds. Entrance for parking is through Gate 5 from Deacon Blvd. There is no admission and there will be thousands of used books and other items on hand at exceptional prices.

For more information contact the Shepherd’s Center at 336-748-0217 or visit www.shepherdscenter.org.

Sept. 4 Class reunion Members of the Atkins High School Class of 1971, the last graduating class of the original Atkins High School, will observe their 50-year reunion with a oneday outdoor celebration on Saturday, September 4. The activities will begin with a tree dedication ceremony at noon on the campus of Winston-Salem Preparatory Academy, former site of Atkins High School, located at 1215 North Cameron Avenue. Additional activities, including a cookout and art from the Heart Workshop will be held later that day. For complete details, please contact one of the following: Annette Morgan Wilson - 336-473-5830, Andrew Lindsay – 336-407-2510 or Rozena Purvis Lyles at 336-692-6426 or email at aejkwilson@aol.com.

Sept. 4-5 Coltrane Jazz and Blues Festival The John Coltrane International Jazz and Blues Festival will be held Sept 4-5 in Oak Hollow Festival Park, High Point. The yearly celebration of jazz and blues music honors Coltrane, a High Point native son, who graduated from William Penn High School, now Penn Griffin School of the Arts. The two-day festival that happens over Labor Day weekend has become a destination event for festival goers. Ticket information and festival details are available www.coltranejazzfest.com.

Sept. 13 Powerful Tools for Caregivers Registration is now underway for two Powerful Tools for Caregivers classes for anyone caring for a loved one who is frail or ill. Caregivers will learn helpful ways to care for themselves while caring for another.

An in-person class is scheduled for Mondays, September 20-October 25, 1 - 2:30 p.m., at the Kernersville

Senior Enrichment Center, 130 East Mountain Street in Kernersville. Registration deadline is September 13.

A virtual class will take place by Zoom on Tuesdays, September 14-October 26, 6:30-8:00 pm. Must have video and audio access. Webcams available for loan if needed. Registration deadline is September 7.

There is no charge, but donations are accepted. Workbook included. To register or get information, contact Carol Ann Harris at The Shepherd’s Center of Greater Winston-Salem, 336-748-0217, or charris@shepherdscenter.org. Class size is limited, so early registration is suggested.

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This the 6th day of August, 2021 Theresa A. Boucher Deputy County Attorney Forsyth County Department of Social Services 741 Highland Avenue Winston-Salem, N.C. 27101 (336) 703-3901 The Chronicle August 12, 19, 26, 2021 NOTICE TO CREDITORS Having qualified as Fiduciary of the Estate of Howard L. Shaw (21 E 405), also known as Howard Lee Shaw, deceased February 3, 2021, Forsyth County, North Carolina, this is to Notify all persons, firms, and corporation having claims against the Estate of said deceased to present them to the undersigned on or before November 2, 2021 this Notice will be pleaded in bar of recovery. All persons indebted to the said decedent or estate shall please make immediate payment to the undersigned.

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We would appreciate a quotation from your firm for any and all work and/or materials on the following project: Project Name: City of Greensboro (Guilford County) ALAMANCE CHURCH ROAD IMPROVEMENTS – ROADWAY WIDENING, CONTRACT NO. 2011 - 067 Bid Date: Thursday, August 26, 2021 @ 2:00 PM Please provide your proposal by: 8-25-21 @ 5:00 PM We are soliciting subcontract bids for the following trades. Work may include, but not limited to: Project Sign, Clearing & Grubbing, Grading, Tree Removal, Drainage, Asphalt, Asphalt Milling, Concrete, Retaining Wall, Fencing, Seeding & Mulching, Erosion Control, Traffic Control, Pavement Markings, Utilities, Hauling, Excavation, Concrete Pipe Supply-Manufactor, Utility-Pipes Regular Dealer along with any incidentals and materials necessary for construction to complete the project.

The work in this contract consists of, but not limited to, approximately 8,515 linear feet (LF) of roadway widening along Alamance Church Road and the realignment of Bristol Road, 7,200 square yards (SY) of 4” sidewalk, 3,840 SY of 6” driveway sections, installation of ADA curb ramps, installation of a wet detention pond, installation of 16” water line and 8” sanitary sewer line. Sections will not be awarded separately. All materials and workmanship shall be in accordance with all referenced plans and specifications herein.

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Hickory Construction Company, Hickory, NC is seeking subcontractors for: sitework, excavation and backfill, subgrade, paving, site concrete, sidewalks, curb and gutter, sanitary sewer, selective demolition, concrete reinforcement, cast-in-place concrete, unit masonry, structural steel framing, steel joist framing, steel decking, metal fabrications, metal pan stairs, rough carpentry, casework, dampproofing, waterproofing, insulation, weather barrier, metal wall panels, TPO roofing, roof specialties/accessories, fire protection, firestopping, joint sealants, hollow metal doors and frames, wood doors, aluminum storefronts, door hardware, glazing, drywall, tiling, acoustical ceilings, resilient flooring/base, painting, signage, toilet compartments, wall and door protection, toilet accessories, fire protection specialties, metal lockers, canopies, gymnasium equipment, plumbing, mechanical, electrical, and fire alarm.

Responsible for HR processes, bi-weekly payroll and oversight of annual employee benefit renewal. The HR coordinator works independently and as part of the admin team with the staff accountant and Chief Financial Officer. Primary HR duties are performed through Paylocity HR portal.

The Work consists of site work and new construction of a municipal facility in Lincolnton, North Carolina.

Assistant Professor in Spanish In WinstonSalem, NC: Professor for 2-3 courses per semester of courses in the Spanish curriculum, including classroom instruction, course design, grading, supervision of student work and advising. Requires: Ph.D *The employer will accept an ABD in lieu of a Ph.D. Mail resume to: Wake Forest University, 1834 Wake Forest Rd., Winston-Salem, NC 27109, AttnL Kelia Hubbard. An Equal Opportunity Employer, including disabled and veterans.

Project Architect: Moseley Architects, 6210 Ardrey Kell Road, Suite 425, Charlotte, NC, 704-540-3755 Contact for Hickory Construction Company is: Bill Herold @ bherold@hickoryconstruction.com Phone: 828-322-9234 Hickory Construction Company will provide quick pay agreements and policies to enable minority contractors and suppliers to meet cash-flow demands.

You may view plans & specs at the following locations: JRL Office @ 314 S. Academy St. Pilot Mtn, NC or Bidding Documents also may be examined at the following locations and All work will be in accordance with the Plans and Specifications which are on file in the office of “The City of Greensboro”, Contact Mr. Ted Barker, Engineering Division, 300 West Washington Street, Greensboro, North Carolina 27401, email: ted.barker@greensboro-nc.gov. (336433-7308) Phone (336-373-2338) Fax JRL is willing to review any responsible quote and will negotiate terms, if appropriate. We will notify your firm if your bid is accepted for this project. Please contact Daniel Lynch @ number listed below, if you have not heard from JRL by 9-2-21 and I will inform you of the status of your bid. If you need assistance with equipment, obtaining bonding, (J.R.L. will furnish bonds for all projects & will help you obtain the proper certification, (if you are not certified.) loan capital, lines of credit, insurance or joint pay agreements, please see JRL terms below or contact us and we will review your needs and direct you to available agencies for assistance.

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‘Shmedfest’ expands to two-day event combining fitness, fun and food SUBMITTED ARTICLE

Shmedfest, a familyfriendly weekend of fitness events and a community concert benefitting Crisis Control Ministry, will be held from Friday, Aug. 27, at 6 p.m. to Saturday, Aug.28, at 9 p.m. at the Winston-Salem Fairgrounds.

Now in its 17th year, the event has had to be split up into two days to accommodate its exponential growth over the past few years. The founders, Steve and Tonya Cavanaugh, originally hosted the event in their backyard, inviting friends and family to help them celebrate their birthdays as well as to raise money for Crisis Control Ministry. As the event grew in popularity, a larger venue was required.

With the addition of new events, it now encompasses two days. This year’s event will include the inaugural Shmedfest 5K and Fun Run. Runners who sign up for the 5K will receive a free swag bag. In addition, this year will reprise the 24hour fundraising fitness challenge known as “The Shmed,” hosted by fitness groups F3 and FiA of Winston-Salem. Participants can sign up for any of the four 45-minute workout sessions over the 24-hour period, including familyfriendly bootcamps and a yoga session. The 5,000rep challenge will also be returning with prizes for the winners. Those who participate in the Fun Run, 5K, or a session of The Shmed can also sign up

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Christ, you must, however, “confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God dwelleth in Him, and He in God.” John again personalizes the knowledge of Jesus – “And we have known and believe the love that God hath given to us.”

John gives a declaration of what our relationship with Jesus is evidenced by “… and He that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in Him” (verse 16). When the Holy Spirit indwells us, then the characteristic of love will be a dominant characteristic of the true believer. The re-

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He feels he finally has kicked his bad habits for good and has the proper support system around that allowed him to win his current world title.

“To be honest, I really didn’t think I would get here so quickly,” he said about his recovery.

Giving back to the next generation is very important for Echevarria.

He currently trains several young boxers and gives them words of wisdom so they can hopefully avoid the mistakes he made in his life. He also has a goal to start a business in the city that will allow him to employ troubled youth to get them off the streets.

“I train a couple of young’uns now and I say

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One of the bands that performed at a prior Shmedfest. to receive an exclusive Shmedfest 2021 t-shirt.

Afterward, a community concert will be held Saturday evening beginning at 4 p.m. Live music will be provided by three different local bands: the Downtown Band, the Pharaoh Sisters, and Gypsy Soul. Dinner will be available for purchase from local food trucks, Pacific Rim, Soul to Bowl, and Good Vibes. Beverages will be provided by Pepsi.

Additionally, beer will be courtesy of Foothills Brewery. Wine, margaritas, and ice cream will be courtesy of the Carolina Thunderbirds Concessions at the Winston-Salem Fairgrounds.

“Shmedfest has grown bigger and bigger over the years, and this year is no exception,” said Margaret Elliott, executive director of Crisis Control Ministry. “An event like this wouldn’t be possible without the support of all of the local groups, businesses, artists, and organizations who are dedicated to giving back to our community.”

To register for Shmedfest, go online to https://tinyurl.com/ shmed2021. The 5K and Fun Run have a registration fee of $35 and $10, respectively. T-shirts are an additional $10 per shirt.

The Shmed workout sessions, as well as the community concert, are free and donations are encouraged. You can donate online at www.crisiscontrol. org.

Now in its 48th year and with offices in Winston-Salem and Kernersville, Crisis Control Ministry’s mission is to assist people in crisis to meet essential life needs and to become self-sufficient. As one of the largest emergency assistance providers in Forsyth County, Crisis Control Ministry provides short-term emergency services including mortgage and rent payments, utility bill assistance, food assistance, and prescription medication assistance to residents of Forsyth and Stokes Counties. For additional information, visit www.crisiscontrol.org.

sult of dwelling in love is confidence. The believer gains the assurance that he is forgiven and will never experience the torment of punishment as the nonbelievers at the time of judgement. This is an assurance for those who love as Jesus loves (verse 17).

There is confident victory to overcome the world when we are obedient to the Word, thereby showing that we love God and “even our faith” – our dedication of our life to Christ. The mature believer enjoys this victory because he is who John is describing – “Who is he that overcometh the world, but he that believeth that Jesus

is the Son of God?” (verses 4-5). (The UMI Annual Commentary 2020-2021, The MacArthur Study Bible, The New Interpreters Study Bible, The Modern Life Study Bible, The King James Study Bible and The Oxford Bible Commentary).

For Your Consideration: Why is it important that we love one another?

How is God’s love made perfect?

Application: Learn to love and obey God’s command. Pray and ask God to reveal where you can extend love to someone in the body of Christ. Then act upon what God shows you. (UMI).

to them all the time that ‘if you think it’s going to be easy, you’re already losing, because it’s not going to be easy,’” he said.

“As long as you don’t give up, it’s worth it in the end and once you get your hand raised and you get that belt strapped around your waist, that hard work makes it all worth it.

“That’s what I tell every single one of them and to make sure they put God first, because when you put God first, He will make sure doors are unlocked and all you have to do is walk through that door.”

Echevarria takes no credit for his remarkable recovery. He gives all credit to God, his family and friends. He says without them, he would not have made it to this point.

“They always keep me motivated and they always keep me humble and grounded,” he said about his loved ones and mentor.

Echevarria feels blessed to have made it through all the mistakes he made as a young man. He has friends that were not fortunate enough to survive. That motivates him to continue pressing forward and promoting positivity to the young people around him and showing people outside of WinstonSalem that there are great athletes here. Currently, Echevarria is ranked in the top 35 lightweights in the United States and top 10% in the world.

For more information on Noel Echevarria, please visit his website at www.

TeamHolyFire.com.