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BY TEVIN STINSON THE CHRONICLE

In an attempt to connect male students with mentors and role models, last week administrators at Julian Gibson Elementary School held their second annual 100 Men Challenge. During the event on Friday, March 15, men from all walks of life showed up to enjoy breakfast with male students in the fourth and fifth grades.

According to Principal Glenn Starnes II, the initiative, which his team started last year, falls under the umbrella of “Big Rock #2.” Starnes said at Gibson they focus on three “Big Rocks” that focus on: high quality, core instruction, family and community engagement, and professional development for teachers and staff. Gibson said after holding the event for all grade levels last year, they decided to focus on fourth and fifth graders this year. He mentioned they also have similar events for girls.

“Today is an opportunity for our young scholars to see and engage in conversation with positive role models in the community.

We know and realize that a number of our children may have an absent father or absent male role model in their household or immediate community and if they’re like me, they won’t have a male teacher until they get to high school,” said Gibson. “We really want to engage in opportunities for our students to interact with males so they can see what positive role models and positive success looks like. “… We invite men from across our school district, across our local community, and even across the state to come in and share with our young boys.”

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Students enjoy breakfast with male role models Starnes said he has seen a tremendous improvement from male students since implementing the

100 Men Challenge and other events last school year. Gibson said any child who is in need of a men-

tor is paired with one. He said, “I’m a firm believer that the achievement gap can only be closed by

building relationships with children.

“We have to find a way to regularly build relation-

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Crystal Towers’ residents will be forced to move HAWS close to finalizing the sale of Crystal Towers

Less than a year after they announced the sale of the building, next month the Housing Authority of Winston-Salem (HAWS) is expected finalize the sale of Crystal Towers.

Here’s what we know: Built in 1968, Crystal Tow-

ers is one of three highrise towers in the city for senior citizens and those with disabilities. In August of last year, HAWS’ Board of Commissioners voted to sell the 11-story high-rise building, citing more than $7 million in repairs as the reason for the sale. At that time HAWS’ Executive Director Larry Woods told The Chronicle Crystal Towers needed renovations to the elevators, drainage lines, electric switch gear room, and resurfacing of the roof. He also said units in the building needed new kitchen

Crystal Towers located on Sixth Street downtown Winston-Salem.

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cabinets and appliances, flooring and new air conditioning systems.

In an article published in The Chronicle on Thursday, Aug. 23, Woods said in recent years HAWS has received less funding from the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), which made it impossible for the organization to afford the renovations or get a loan.

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Women’s History Month

Granddaughter of Dr. Manderline Scales follows her passion for community service

BY TEVIN STINSON THE CHRONICLE

Throughout the month of March The Chronicle will be highlighting women in our community who are setting an example and paving the way for the next generation of leaders. This week we shine our light on city native Porsche Jones.

When most people hear the name Porsche Jones, they think back to her days as a standout basketball player at Carver High School in the early 2000s.

With two state championships and enough individual honors and accolades to fill a few trophy cases, there’s plenty of reasons why.

“One thing about Carver is that it was a family.

It was a community. The teachers really worked with us and tried to help us believe in ourselves and we took pride in being a Carver Yellowjacket and that just carried over to the court,” said Jones. “My junior year when we went 30-0 and won the state championship, that’s what elevated me and helped me understand the importance of going to college.”

Following her stellar career with the Yellowjackets, Jones received a full scholarship to attend Wake Forest University (WFU) where she set

program records for most steals in a game (10) and assists-to-turnover ratio (1.58).

While it’s impossible to deny Jones’ talents on the court, her best numbers may be off the court inspiring young girls and boys to follow their dreams.

After graduating in 2006, Jones started B.O.N.D. (Building On New Development), a youth travel basketball organization for girls. Jones said when she was growing up travel basketball taught her a lot of life lessons and she wanted to create those same opportunities for girls in the community.

“There’s a lot of things I learned through that process as a player and as an adult I wanted to give girls those same opportunities plus more,” said Jones.

“I wanted to teach them about character, leadership and just to train their minds to think about goal setting.”

Jones worked with the original members of Team B.O.N.D. through high school and every member of the team received full scholarships to continue their education and over the years, dozens of other girls would do the same.

Looking to make a bigger impact in the community, Jones decided to

take the same method she used to help young girls in the community with boys.

Over the years B.O.N.D. has also grown into a sports event company that hosts youth basketball tournaments throughout the year.

Jones said although B.O.N.D. has grown, her goal to use basketball as a tool to teach young people the importance of being productive citizens remains the same.

“I’m not as involved with the boys as I was with the girls, but we have a sixth grade team, an eighth grade team and a ninth grade team,” continued Jones. “Our goal, even if they don’t get the full scholarships to college, is to make sure they understand the value of education and they understand the value of being a good productive citizen.”

During a recent conversation with The Chronicle, Jones said her passion for giving back is one of the qualities instilled in her at an early age by her grandmother, the late Dr. Manderline Scales. On what would have been Scales’ 92nd birthday, Jones said her entire mindset stems from her grandmother, a local educator who is credited for starting the Spanish program at Winston-Salem State Uni-

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Porsche Jones, granddaughter of Manderline Scales, uses life lessons from basketball to inspire youth to achieve versity (WSSU). after seeing her grand“Just seeing her in mother work at the HBCU clubs and organizations for more than 40 years, and her involvement in when she decided to purthe community, promoting sue her masters, attending African-American excel- WSSU was a no-brainer. lence is what I was raised Just like her grandmother, on. She raised me to be a Jones uses her degree to person of service, to have educate others as well. For a heart of service, and re- the past five years, she has ally treat everyone from served as a health coach at the custodian to the top Novant Health. person the same way,” she While holding down said. “So a lot of what I a full-time job, running do in my everyday life is an AAU organization and really based off things I sports event organizations, witnessed her do and the Jones still finds time to run things she instilled in me.” her own dump truck comDr. Scales was also pany, JMAC Hauling, Inc. the inspiration behind Founded in 2013, Jones’ decision to pursue Jones said a coach from her master’s degree in re- high school approached habilitation counseling at her with the idea a few WSSU in 2014. Jones said years ago and she saw it

as an opportunity to create jobs and break into an industry that is dominated by men.

“I’m a person that if I see an opportunity that will help me build and create jobs and create things for others, then that’s something that I’m definitely interested in. It’s a tough industry, but it’s something I have taken great pride in,” said Jones.

“I was raised to be a leader and where I see an opportunity to lead, it’s kind of where I migrate to.”

When asked how she’s able to balance the different ventures she has a hand in, Jones said, “I don’t know what my end goal is, but I know I’m not going to waste this life resting.

I’ll rest when I don’t open my eyes anymore.

“As long as we have breath in our body, our mission should be to live out our purpose. So that’s why I enjoy creating opportunities not just for myself, but to show other black females that they can do the same thing.

We don’t have to be put in these barriers where we just cook and clean; we can be bosses. We can be leaders and as long as we have good faith and good work ethic, anything is possible and I’m an example of that.”

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Street School honor roll students honored at luncheon JUDIE HOLCOMB-PACK THE CHRONICLE

The Winston-Salem Street School honored 11 students who made the first and second quarter honor rolls on Thursday, March 15, at a luncheon held at Tart Sweets Cakery & Sweet Treats Café. The school, which has an enrollment of about 50 students, honors students who achieve straight As or As and Bs with certificates and lunch.

In the past, lunch has been a trip to a fast-food restaurant, but this year Tart Sweets stepped up to host the students with a special menu of chicken salad croissants and tea sandwiches, a veggie tray, chips and dip, cake squares and mini-cupcakes. In addition, each student received a sugar cookie with an A on it to illustrate their achievement. The reception was held in the elegant meeting room

at Tart Sweets.

The following students achieved the honor roll: Andrew Shores, Zhyier Mitchell, Ashley Young, Wesley Kilgore, Talia Ashford, Gabrelle Walker, Jettie Stanley, Shaniya Arzu-Grant, Katia CandleaAbonsa, Chelsea Young, Avery Sonbert, Holly Pandolfo and David Amaya-Munoz.

The Winston-Salem Street School is an accredited, private, nonprofit, alternative education option for at-risk high school students in Forsyth County. The school targets students who may have had difficulty fitting in at a regular school or may have experienced teen pregnancy that interfered with their education. Classes include English, math, history and social studies, along with electives, such as psychology, the Bible, and personal finance.

Upon graduation, they receive a diploma from the Street School, as opposed to a Photo by Judie Holcomb-Pack

Cookies made especially for the Street School honor roll students by Tart Sweets.

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Street School honor roll students show off cookies made especially for them by Tart Sweets. Left to right: Holly Pandolfo, Wesley Kilgore, Talia Ashford, Andrew Shores, Shaniya Arzu-Grant, Zhyier Mitchell, Chelsea Young, and Jettie Stanley.

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The Winston Salem Chapter of The Links, Incorporated, sponsored an oratorical contest in collaboration with the Office of International Programs at Winston Salem State University for study abroad students to emphasize the significance of international experiences and to immerse themselves in other cultures.

The chapter’s International Trends and Services Facet sponsored an oratorical contest for students that will be studying abroad this spring.

As part of the competition, each contestant prepared an oration entitled, “Strengthening Our International Communities Through Globalization.”

WSSU student Sahmon Goodman, a sophomore from Fayetteville, won first place and a $500 award. WSSU student Tajsah A. Armstrong, also from Fayetteville, won

Earlier this month the City of Winston-Salem launched a new initiative to connect with residents, build stronger communities, and strengthen neighborhood associations. The initiative called C.O.R.E. stands for Collaborative Outreach, Revitalization and Engagement.

According to the city’s website, the coalition will include neighborhood representatives, community stakeholders, partner agencies and members of city staff working together to enhance the quality of life in city neighborhoods.

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thing is not to give up and to tell myself I could do it. My mom was so happy!”

Holly Pandolfo, who was honored for earning straight As, said she achieved this by “coming to school every day and doing my work. Coming to school is like an escape for me. I enjoy it. For a long time I didn’t like school. This school made me like school again.”

Because the Winston-Salem Street School is a private school, they do not receive any funding from the state. Their operating budget comes from the support of businesses, churches, individuals, grants and fundraisers. They will hold the Feet for the Street 5K on April 27 starting at 9 a.m. at Salem Lake Greenway.

For more information on the school or to register for the 5k, go to www. wsstreetschool.org.

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Pictured left to right: Earline Richardson, PJ Williams, (Vice President of the Winston-Salem Chapter of the Links), Sylvia Hall, Courtney McMillan, Sahmon Goodman, Tajsah A. Armstrong, Gloria Jackson and Velma Simmons. second place and received a $250 award. Third place winner was Courtney McMillian, a senior from Winston-Salem, who received a $250 award.

The Winston-Salem, N.C. chapter has partnered with Winston-Salem State University for over two decades to provide access to international networking, internship possibilities, scholarships, and

travel opportunities for students at Winston-Salem State. Gloria Jackson serves as the chairperson of the International Trends and Services Facet and Assistant Professor Dr. James Pope is the interim director of the Office of International Programs.

Jacqueline Pettiford serves as president of the Winston-Salem chapter.

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GED certificate.

Students attend classes Monday through Thursday and on Friday they have special programs, visiting guest speakers, or perform community service. They have sorted food at Second Harvest Food Bank, tended to dogs and cats at the Humane Society, read to elementary school students, and tutored students at Awake Church.

Leslie Watt, the director of student services, said, “I have seen a huge transformation in students from when I first interviewed them to when they graduate, not only in their academics, but in their confidence and self-esteem.” She continued, “At the Street School, we believe in them when they come to the school and when they leave, they believe in themselves.”

The students were excited to be recognized for their achievements. Talia Ashford said, “I worked real hard. The hardest

munity Coalition will also play an important roll with the C.O.R.E. initiative.

Other new programs that will now be included in the C.O.R.E. initiative include: *A new Neighborhood Academy that will hold quarterly workshops to help neighborhood associations better understand and take advantage of programs that assist neighborhoods and residents, *A “Front Door Friday” initiative where teams of government officials will go door to door engaging city residents, *An online community calendar that will serve as a common calendar of

events where neighborhoods and city agencies can post their events and other useful information. *A community toolkit that will provide residents with resources and general guidance for neighborhood-specific projects and encourage citizen-led initiatives.

Residents who are interested in learning more about the city’s C.O.R.E. initiative can do so on Tuesday, March 26, from 6 - 7:30 p.m. at the Sedge Garden Neighborhood Center, 401 Robbins Road.

For more information, contact Tabetha Childress at tabethab@cityofws.org or call 336-734-1249.

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principal, but with folk in the community who may have that one positive word or one positive quote to give them that takes them through the re-

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ston-Salem City Council reached out to HAWS to ask that they not sell the building because it would displace citizens, but according to HAWS, the city never made an offer for the building. According to HAWS general counsel and Vice President of Real Estate Development Kevin Cheshire, at least six offers were made on the building between Aug. 20 and Oct. 15.

He said after evaluating all the offers, they identified which one was the best. Cheshire said the Board of Commissioners

mainder of the school year or the remainder of their journey here in elementary school.”

After enjoying breakfast with their special guests, several students said they learned about careers they had never heard

of before. While making their way to class, former NFL player and current head football coach at North Forsyth, Jay Blair encouraged students to have a good day with a big high five.

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call Crystal Towers home, Cheshire said before the contract is signed, they plan to hold a meeting to let residents know whom the building is being sold to and the next steps.

As for relocation cost, Cheshire said residents will have the option to receive a voucher or relocate to another property owned

by HAWS. Voucher amounts will be based on income.

Residents are required to pay 30 percent of their gross adjusted income and HAWS will provide a subsidy for the rest of the total cost.

“All residents will be getting a continued subsi-

HAWS is close to finalizing deal to sell Crystal Towers. has not signed the contract yet because they’re still waiting on the okay from HUD. “Our board has not signed the contract because we’re waiting on some guidance from HUD to make sure we can sign without additional approval from them. We’ve been told by the HUD officials that they think it’s probably okay, but they need to be certain so we’re waiting to hear back from them,” said Cheshire. “We’re hoping to have approval in April, but right now it’s just wait and see if HUD gives us the green light to go ahead and sign the contract.”

When discussing the displacement of the 200 residents who currently

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dy. It’s just some residents may decide that they are better suited for our public housing communities and they’ll relocate there; other residents may decide that they prefer the voucher,” Cheshire said.

Cheshire said what is happening with Crystal Towers is happening across the country. He said HUD’s change to its subsidy formula has had a major impact on how they take care of renovations. Historically, capital subsidies were used to make improvements and renovations to properties, but with the cut in funding Cheshire said the subsidy isn’t enough.

“The capital subsidy is insufficient to meet the need and HUD knows that

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as well. This is not unique to Winston-Salem,” he continued. “I don’t know the exact number, but HUD has published what they identify as the capitol need versus the capital budget and its a billion dollar deficit between what HUD is able to provide for capital subsidy versus the actual capital needs that are existing in the housing facilities across the country. “… This is not something we’re doing because we want to. We exist for the purpose of providing safe and affordable housing to people who otherwise wouldn’t be able to afford it. We’re not in the business of repositioning

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our assets and displacing our residents,” said Cheshire. “We would just rather do it right now when there’s an option and there’s a dignified way of going about it, instead of waiting five years when the building’s falling and the elevators aren’t working and it’s an emergency situation.”

Although the sale is not yet final, funds from the sale of Crystal Towers are expected to be used to build smaller housing developments with about 40 to 50 units. According to Cheshire, they want the units to be spread out across the community with easy access to food, medical care and other resources.

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The Forsyth County Firefighters Association honored local firefighters at an annual awards ceremony on March 12, including five firefighters who helped rescue a man from a burning house.

The Fire Life Saving Award was given to five firefighters who responded to a residential fire alarm on Quail Creek Drive in Pfafftown at 2:34 a.m. on June 29, 2018. The Vienna Volunteer Fire Department (VFD) quickly arrived on the scene, along with Old Richmond, East Bend, Forbush and Lewisville VFDs with support from the Forsyth County Fire Department.

Firefighters worked to suppress the fire and rescued an unconscious man who was in the bedroom of the home. Life saving efforts were immediately initiated and Forsyth County Emergency Medical Services took him to the hospital, where he recovered. An investigation into the fire determined it was intentionally set and a

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Firefighters Charles Hampton, Brandon Crews, Jesse Levy, Scott Wiles and Jeff Heitman received the Fire Life Saving Award for rescuing a man from a fire in Pfafftown last year. woman living in the house was charged with arson and is currently in jail awaiting trial.

The recipients of the award were Charles

Hampton of Rural Hall VFD who was working for Old Richmond VFD at the time, Jeff Heitman of Vienna VFD, Jesse Levy of Lewisville VFD, Bran-

don Crews of Vienna VFD and Scott Wiles of Vienna VFD. Vienna Fire Chief Tim Lasley nominated the firefighters because they were

involved in recognizing someone was in the house, rescuing the victim and resuscitating him.

“It took every one of us to do it, it was a combina-

tion effort, but these gentlemen went above and beyond their normal duties,” said Vienna Fire Chief Tim Lasley.

The other awards given out at the ceremony were: *Rescue Member of the Year: Tim Flinn of Gumtree VFD *Officer of the Year: Eric Stewart of Rural Hall VFD *Community Service: Brad Cheek of King Fire Department *Rookie of the Year: Ben Perkins of City View VFD *Instructor of the Year: Scottie Emerson of Rural Hall VFD *Firefighter of the Year: Austin Flynt of Walkertown VFD Forsyth County Firefighters Association Inc. was established in 1956 by the Volunteer Fire Departments of Forsyth County to coordinate the efforts of all member organizations in order to establish, maintain and standardize countywide fire protection programs, projects, procedures and training curriculum.

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BUSTA’S PERSON OF THE WEEK

Every teacher, student and parent should know Dr. Dawn Tafari

BY BUSTA BROWN FOR THE CHRONICLE

Natural beauty, down to earth, real, raw, extremely intelligent, passionate, kindhearted, and loves to teach – this is how I describe one of my newest heroes, Dr. Dawn Tafari. Let’s get to know this strong sista from the Bronx.

The first question I asked Dr. Tafari was about one of her publications entitled “I can’t hug the kids.” When she told me what inspired the publication, it broke my heart and nearly brought me to tears. As a man and now teaching a radio and public speaking class, I see students who need an encouraging and comforting word and a hug. Not a fist bump or high five, a hug!

Dr. Tafari interviewed some black male elementary teachers and they shared how they just want to love on the children and they care for children.

They became teachers because they love children.

And in this country black men are vilified, because if a black man says ‘I love children,’ the world looks like, ‘what’s wrong with you?’ But women can say ‘I love children’ and it’s okay.”

The latest news about some of our black male celebrities can make this topic extremely uncomfortable, but keep reading.

Dawn is onto something absolutely beautiful. “One of the teachers I interviewed had a child in his second grade class who was crying. He went to hug her and his colleague said, ‘you better not hug that little girl.’ He asked why.

The female teacher said because it can be misconstrued. It led to a meeting with the superintendent and he was told he had to be very careful and don’t ever touch the children.

Fist bump or high five is how you show your affection for these children.”

She became emotional and said, “I wanted to cry because I thought about me as a teacher, if I could only fist bump or high five children who need me. Some of them don’t get affection at all.”

The Winston-Salem State assistant professor started smiling and then jokingly demonstrated how she hugs her college students. “I give them a hug and say ‘how are you doing’,” as she mimicked a patting on the back hug. She continues, “It shouldn’t be reduced to a fist bump or a high five.”

She asked the gentleman what’s the one thing that you don’t like about teaching and he said to me, ‘I can’t hug the kids.’ And I just wanted to cry, and I wanted to cry so bad for him. He loves children, he loves being around them.

He said. ‘they make me feel alive and I just want to show them that I care and sometimes they just need a hug.’” The black male teacher said some of the children come to school hungry, upset and depressed and he can see they really need a hug.

Someone to just love on them, but he told Dr. Tafari, “I can’t, I’ll lose my job and be accused of being a pedophile.”

I’m tearing up as I’m typing, because I have sons who need a hug sometimes when I’m not around to do it. I hug my

Dr. Dawn Tafari teaches her class at Winston-Salem State University. sons daily, when we part ways and then when they get home. I remember a little boy at the school where I teach asked me to hold his hand as I was walking him to class. He said, “Mr. Brown, can you hold my hand please,” and I was honored to do so. As we were walking down the hall, I could see him smiling. I could tell he was feeling safe and knew that I cared about his feelings.

It was a sweet, yet powerful moment. There have been many days when my students came to me and gave me a hug and I really needed one.

Another one of Dr. Dawn Tafari’s publications touched on women.

It’s entitled “They laugh because they assume I’m in prison, but in reality, they’re locked in.” “That’s a line from MC Lyte’s, “Lyte as a Rock.” That piece is about Hip-Hop Feminism,” Dawn said.

Go to the winstonsalem Chronicle YouTube channel to see more about that publication. It’s deep and extremely inspiring and thought provoking.

Dr. Dawn Tafari is an assistant professor at Winston-Salem State University, where she teaches a class she calls “Advancing the Academic Success of Black Males.” In her class she uses Hip Hop lyrics to spark dialogue with the students. “I created this class because I saw how the black male students and teachers were treated in school buildings. The male students were always sent to the principal’s office and often labeled ADHD, or referred for special education. I took the time to get to know these young men. They just needed someone to tune in to them, somebody to care and show them we are there for the long haul, and I saw the change in these young men.” She said if black students failed, it wasn’t that they didn’t know how to do the work, “they were failing because you were boring them. They were bored to death.”

She shared a line from one Rap artist, J Cole’s song entitled “Wet Dreams.” It was clear she loves Hip Hop music, because she began smiling and became very passionate while telling the story.

“J Cole is telling a dream about being in a math class and he’s thinking about a girl. Does anybody pay attention to the fact that he was in math class and all this stuff is happening in his mind between him and this girl? He’s not paying

attention to math class. All these things you would know if you build relationships.”

When she did research on the crisis affecting black males in P12 schools, like the higher dropout rates, suspensions at a much higher rate than their white counterparts, she found that there’s a lack of diversity in the school system. “Black boys don’t see school as a safe place. Because when they sit there and look at the teacher, the teacher doesn’t look like them. As soon as they misbehave, they’re sent out of the classroom. Why would you want to spend time in a place that you’re constantly getting kicked out of?”

In her class, Advancing the Academic Success of Black Males, she uses Hip Hop music as a tool to build one of the most important parts of a relationship with our young black males: Trust. Go to our winstonsalem Chronicle YouTube channel to hear more about Dr. Dawn Tafari’s class. It’s one of the best and most effective in the country. She’s doing some phenomenal work with our young black males.

She also touches on how black male teachers were often relegated to becoming the resident disciplinarians and were treated like servants rather than equals. “I would see faculty members ask the black male teachers, carry this or that, and could you go to so and so classroom. This was something throughout my career that remained consistent.”

Dr. Tafari also goes in deep on how to affectively teach kindergarten to 12th grade and the importance of teacher and parents working together. “When the students know you have a relationship with their parents, they know you care, and if a student knows you care, they’ll listen and do the work.”

Dr. Dawn Tafari is proud to say she’s from the Boogie Down Bronx in New York. She earned her bachelor’s degree in psychology with a minor in anthropology from Hofstra University; her master of arts in teaching with certification in elementary education from The Johns Hopkins University; and a post-baccalaureate certificate in women’s and gender studies and her Ph.D. in educational studies with a specialization in cultural studies from the University of North Carolina-Greensboro.

She has served as an el-

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ementary school teacher in Brooklyn, New York, and in Baltimore, Maryland, and as a curriculum facilitator in High Point, N.C. Dr. Tafari currently serves as an educational consultant for Guilford County Schools and as the interim coordinator for the Birth through Kindergarten education program in the Department of Education at Winston-Salem State University. Dawn is also co-founder of the Greensboro Kwanzaa Collective, a grassroots organization that organizes Greensboro’s citywide seven-day Kwanzaa celebration.

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Press the pause button on college admissions outrage Tragedy in New Zealand The media is baring its rancid teeth again. In the latest frenzy of outrage and recrimination, the collective disdain and finger pointing and “how could they-ism” of the media establishment has new, fresh meat: the wealthy and sometimes famous and sometimes powerful parents who were involved in a scheme to bribe and cheat to get their children into college.

Let me be clear: what these parents did is wrong.

What the coaches did is wrong. What the test-proctor cheaters did is wrong.

But let’s also consider this: the whole college admissions system is rigged, and wrong, and instead of simply tsk-tsking these people who allegedly illegally paid to help their kids, maybe we should also consider why what seem to be otherwise good and upstanding people would be driven to engage in this kind of behavior.

The fact is the whole college admissions system is rigged in one way or another to give unfair advantages.

Parents love their children. They want to do right by them. Most parents would gladly give their lives for their children. Believing that admission to a particular college is crucial for their child’s success or imagining that it is the fulfillment of a dream, these parents looked at a system that is, by any fair account, rigged to favor a few, and they tried to make their children one of those few.

Now here’s where this gets hard: my bet is that 98 percent of the people involved in this scheme are upper middle-class white people. Their children, I bet, are mostly good people. And the fact is, college admissions is rigged against white and Asian students, who often have to have better test scores and better qualifications, simply to gain admittance to a college.

The reality in many of these universities is that by the time you subtract preferences for minorities, the spots reserved for athletes, the preferences given to the children of donors and the places taken by children of the well-connected, college admissions is a process where the only people seemingly ‘guaranteed’ a spot, are people who have the system rigged in their favor. It’s clear, from reading some of the emails that many of these parents were trying to ‘rig’ a guaranteed spot for their kid.

Think about this. Being on the Board of Trustees of a college and giving $20 million and talking to the college admissions officer about your kid or a friend’s kid, is legal. Being a black student with lower test scores than other applicants, but getting a special preference, is legal.

Being Hispanic and having lower test scores than the average applicant but writing an essay about the prejudice your family faced and playing to the sympathies of the admissions committee, is legal. All of it plays to getting a special advantage in admissions. And all of it is legal.

What these parents did was clearly illegal. It is not justifiable. It is wrong. But for anyone who has ever loved his or her child, it is understandable. I’m not justifying their behavior, but I understand it. If you love your kid, wouldn’t you do anything for them? And when you look at a system that is so clearly rigged, why wouldn’t you try to rig it in your kid’s favor?

Everyone knows that the system they’ve set up is rigged. So, let’s unrig it. Make all admissions blind. Instead of names on applications, substitute an anonymous number. No information should be included about race or gender. No contact should be allowed between rich, well-connected donors and college admissions officers.

Applications should be graded in the way that some law school classes are graded – blindly – based on the quality of the application.

Let’s have blind admissions. Let’s unrig the way that America admits young people to colleges. No information should be included about race or gender. What these parents did is wrong. But the system itself is wrong.

Let’s see if the liberal media, the celebrities, and the college admissions officers are willing to ask hard questions about the very system they all support.

Armstrong Williams, NNPA Newswire Contribu-

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To The Editor: The tragedy in New Zealand demands a collective response from every corner of the world that upholds the principles of faith. The human lives lost while praying in a sacred house of worship sends chills into the hearts of anyone who values prayer. The outcry and organized response should sound like thunder from on high. Those 49 innocent Muslim victims to date, is an extension of several barbaric assaults including on a synagogue in Pennsylvania, a Baptist Church in Charleston, S.C. , an assault on a Sheik Temple, an attack on a Coptic Church in Egypt, etc. These planned assaults on faith have included every Abrahamic-based traditional religion, including Islam, Judaism, Christianity and many non-Abrahamic expressions.

There seems to be a direct link from the most recent House Bill on Hate that condemns anti-Semitism and Islamophobia speech and these ongoing assaults on faith.

The published manuscript used by the 28-year-old accused assailant to justify his behavior is rooted in hate and false race superiority pseudo science.

ACGG (American Coalition For Good Government) condemns this barbaric assault on innocent people of faith and supports the efforts of Congress to seriously address the pseudo sciences that promotes hate in a pluralistic democratic society. As a nonpartisan grassroots orga-

nization, ACGG, founded by Imam W.D. Mohammed in 1997, is dedicated to advancing freedom of religion as a foundational principle of a free society.

Fleming El-Amin President ACGG Winston-Salem, N.C.

Adams’ Statement on Donald Trump’s Veto of the Emergency Declaration Resolution To The Editor: The emergency here is not at the border – it’s in the White House, where Donald Trump is abusing his constitutional authority and undermining the separation of powers. His veto of the bipartisan resolution terminating his manufactured emergency is yet another senseless power grab and a betrayal of the will of the American people. I look forward to voting to override the veto on March 26.

Alma Adams U.S. Congress Washington, D.C.

A sustainable local economy requires real jobs Algenon Cash Guest Columnist A recent jobs announcement in Greensboro captured my attention the city council passed a $426,000 incentives package to recruit 213 jobs to downtown. The press release jumped out because I’ve been feeling as if the only growth in WinstonSalem’s downtown in the past few years has been a flurry of new apartment units, hotel rooms, breweries, and restaurants. None of these assets provide true sustainable growth.

The jobs package in Greensboro will provide 213 jobs paying $54,014 a year - median annual earnings for workers in the U.S. is $46,644.

Undoubtedly, some residents may disagree with the idea of using incentives to lure corporate jobs and, of course, the difference of opinion whether these jobs are new or relocated is important to that debate. However, my argument centers on the critical need for the

local economy to grow in a healthy and sustainable manner, which requires an expansion of jobs not solely reliant on residents’ discretionary income.

The success of restaurants and bars are inextricably tied to consumers having leftover income to purchase their goods.

Many of the people working in these businesses actually cannot afford to have a date night there.

Economic development that is void of creating high paying jobs doesn’t increase economic mobility and leaves a majority of residents in a position where they are unable to enjoy all the new urban living units, chef-inspired restaurants, or hipster watering holes.

Just a few startling facts about the local community: Forsyth County is ranked 5th on the list of counties where the American dream is dead, Winston-Salem is the 44th poorest city in America, and 24 percent of citizens live in poverty.

You never hear these facts when local leaders tout the latest national magazine ranking Winston-Salem as one of the top “best places to live” or most “livable downtowns

in America.” How can you truly have a “livable downtown” in a community where a sizable number of residents cannot afford to live in downtown?

I applaud city leaders for having the vision to transform blighted tobacco factories into glimmering hubs of technology and innovation. But the average poverty-stricken resident in Winston-Salem won’t find an opportunity in the Innovation Quarter; in fact, most of those wellpaying jobs go to professionals relocating from other communities.

Likewise, I firmly understand that developing condos, apartments, restaurants, and bars were essential to attracting people back into downtown - but the focus must shift.

We must pivot to more clearly defining what we want our local community to become and what capital, physical, and human resources are necessary to achieve the goal. Then deliberately employ those resources to attract, shape, and retain corporate jobs in select industries that contribute to broad growth - broad in the sense that everyone wins, not simply downtown residents.

Some may argue the lo-

cal small business owners and their new cafes, hotels, and taprooms create jobs - which they do - but they rarely allow for a worker to live more than paycheck to paycheck. Large corporations often develop employment opportunities that lead to higher livability standards, providing key benefits such as healthcare and retirement.

Residents must challenge local public and private sector leaders to diversify the city’s economy in such a way that our top four regional employers are no longer government and non-profits, deploy more capital into workforce development that prepares workers for higher paying job opportunities, less taxpayer funded loans to private downtown development, and more funding toward economic mobility measures such as free and expanded public transit.

Algenon Cash is a nationally recognized speaker and the managing director of Wharton Gladden & Company, an investment banking firm. Reach him at acash@algenoncash.com.

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Putting the poor in the driver’s seat John Railey Guest Columnist For too long in Winston-Salem and Forsyth County, well-meaning efforts to reduce poverty have come from the top down. But that’s rightly begun to change in recent years. Increasingly, organizations are turning to leadership from those living in poverty in eastern Winston-Salem and other areas.

In accepting the 1964 Nobel Peace Prize, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. said, “There is nothing new about poverty. What is new, however, is that we have the resources to get rid of it.” Fifty-five years on, his words have never rung more true.

King spent much of the last years of his too-short life fighting poverty. The battle is even more important now. The war on poverty President Lyndon Baines Johnson declared is far from over. Our national and state governments continue to slash away at

safety nets for the poor even as the growing divide between the Far Left and the Far Right makes it ever harder to find the middle ground on helping our neighbors out of poverty through systemic change.

Yet there’s hope in Winston-Salem and Forsyth County. Individuals from widely varied backgrounds and nonprofits, houses of worship, businesses, colleges and the city and local governments all have good efforts underway in the poverty battle.

Strong leaders in the fight have risen, and continue to rise, from poverty-plagued neighborhoods. They are all part of those resources of which King spoke.

They could be even more beneficial by banding together in the push for long-term victories. We should all put the poor in the forefront of the fight.

That recommendation was just one of 55 called for in a February 2017 report by the Winston-Salem Poverty Thought Force, a group convened by Mayor Allen Joines. That recommendation led to the creation of an initiative that began last month, The Partnership for Prosperity.

As the executive director

of the partnership, I work with Community Engagement Associate Chanel A. Nestor to coordinate the poverty fight, to advocate for policy changes in local and state governments and on public awareness – both in terms of ensuring that people living in poverty know the ways in which many local organizations can help them break down barriers and access resources, and in terms of raising awareness about their challenges among their fellow citizens.

The partnership answers to an advisory board led by Joines. Our work is supported by grants from United Way of Forsyth County, BB&T, the city of Winston-Salem, the Kate B. Reynolds Charitable Trust, the Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation, Wake Forest University and Goodwill Industries of Northwest North Carolina.

My associate, Chanel, has strong personal and professional experience with poverty and community engagement, especially in food insecurity. She spent her early childhood in Happy Hill, one of Winston-Salem’s oldest African-American neighborhoods, before her family

moved to Davidson County and has stayed in touch with neighborhoods in poverty. Chanel earned her graduate and undergraduate degrees at NC A&T in sociology and agricultural education a few years ago, teaches a course there, and is working toward a graduate certification in urban planning and development from UNCG. She founded North Carolina Always, an event-development group celebrating state culture, arts and history, and started the Bailey Conference, named for the first AfricanAmerican extension agent in the state, which promotes agricultural efforts.

I found my way into advocacy through journalism. As the editorial page editor of the WinstonSalem Journal, I joined Democrat Larry Womble of Winston-Salem and Republican Thom Tillis of Mecklenburg County, who were then both in the state legislature, and victims of this state’s forced sterilization program to win those victims $10 million in compensation from the state. I listened to and learned from the victims, just as I am now listening to and learning from the poor. And there is a lot to

learn from them.

Mauricio Miller, who hails from California and wages the poverty fight nationwide, says the old adage about “teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime” is inaccurate.

“The startling assumption is that the man is not capable and therefore needs to be taught. Most don’t consider the real possibility that the man might already know how to fish, or can learn on his own, but only needs money for the equipment, or space, or time to make the choice for himself – or, in my mother’s case, for herself,” he writes in his book “The Alternative: Most of what you believe about poverty is wrong.”

The writers of the Thought Force report drew from numerous meetings with people living in poverty. Now, we’ll update the report through a series of listening sessions with people of low income.

We’ll join with them and others to hammer away at barriers in health care, housing, public education, jobs and transportation.

Poverty costs us all, both in humane and financial terms, ranging from strains on hospitals to the

social service system. “If our morality does not lead us to take action, the economics of poverty should,” Rep. Derwin Montgomery, one of our board members, has said. “We will all pay if we do nothing.”

John Railey is the executive director of the Partnership for Prosperity.

He is the former editorial page editor of the WinstonSalem Journal, a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and the author of “Rage to Redemption in the Sterilization Age: A Confrontation with American Genocide.”

Railey can be reached at john.railey@uwforsyth. org. Chanel Nestor can be reached at chanel.nestor@ uwforsyth.org.

To see the Poverty Thought Force Report, please go to http://www. povertythoughtforce.com/.

For a schedule of the listening sessions, go to http://www.cityofws.org/ News/ID/21066/Partnership-for-Prosperity-toTackle-Poverty-in-Winston-Salem.

Our schools are extraordinary - not low performing Henry Pankey Guest Columnist After 14, 000 hours of K-12 classroom instruction and passing over 112 state mandated standardized tests, students have consistently demonstrated levels of resilience and brilliance never shown by any other generation. Education bureaucrats, politicians and test designers have been bombarded with a gluttony of evaluation results that are analyzed from test results of bubble sheets.

However, the creator of standardized tests, Fredrick J. Kelly states: “These tests are too crude to be used and should be aban-

doned.”

The horse has already left the barn. Flawed tests have become a potent political third rail and lightning rod that can effectively destroy the career of any professional educator that dares to question its validity. It is a very powerful billion-dollar industry.

Kelly never envisioned his creation would become a uniform one-size-fitsall evaluation instrument.

Yet, schools, administrators, teachers and students are given grades that do not adequately measure individual developmental school growth or overall student talent, capability, improvement or categorical genius.

Standardized test may be more of a political trial balloon than a wholistic assessment tool. Yet, we all want to know what students have learned and are

able to demonstrate. Taxpayers, politicians, educators, parents and students have a vested interest and right to review test results to quantify the status of effective teaching and student achievement.

The overriding issue is whether pencil bubble sheets or computer diagnostics are the best ways to monitor academic progress as well as job, career or higher education readiness.

Students with exemplary vocational skills are not given tests or classroom instruction that will prepare them for sound middle class status and life after graduation from high school. Drama, music, dance, interpersonal communication orators, and athletes are not given grades to reflect extracurricular performances.

Non-academic genius and

hours of hard work are not included in any grade given to schools. The cheering at games and standing ovations at stage performances represent an “A” validated by public perception as well as eyewitness audiences.

The current limited poor grading system fails to acknowledge superior accomplishments as evidence that schools are not low performing, but extraordinary.

Teachers teach all day and students learn a multitude of information never tested. Hands-on manipulatives and products cannot be measured in a bubble sheet, but are real world essentials.

We teach students from over 150 countries. They bring to school numerous levels of cognitive ability, limited English proficiency, as well as physi-

cal, emotional and mental disabilities. These students are mandated to take standardized tests and the results are included in report cards assigned to each school.

Teachers work and are trained throughout the school year, summers and weekends. Grading papers, lesson plans, research and staff development are difficult during regular hours that include lunch duty, hall patrol, staff conferences and supervision of students at the bus areas and parking lots.

They should be labeled as heroes instead of low performers.

Teachers have a right to teach and students have a right to learn beyond the limited specifications of state and federal mandated politically motivated curriculum. It is prudent to develop multiple evalua-

tion tools to assess what pupils have learned and are able to do. We do not deny the challenge to creatively improve teaching and learning. We must implement a national equitable test that truly measures student achievement.

We will find our schools are truly extraordinary.

Henry Pankey, CEO of Success Strategies NCUSA is in the National Alliance of Black School Educators’ Hall of Fame, a former Principal of the Year, as well as recipient of the NCAE 2012 Assistant Principal of The Year.

He is the author of eight books, an editorial writer, national school improvement consultant and keynote speaker.

Jobs report shows what ‘African-Americans have to lose’ under Trump Stacy Brown Guest Columnist The latest report from the U.S. Labor Department has provided still another answer to the infamous question of “What the hell do [African-Americans] have to lose?”

That question, of course, was posed by Donald Trump during his successful run for president in 2016. With racial tensions, prejudice and bigotry ever increasing and among

the responses to Trump’s question, another answer for blacks in America is jobs.

The latest jobs report from the U.S. Labor Department revealed that the unemployment rate for black workers moved in the wrong direction for the third consecutive month.

The report shows that unemployment increased from 6.8 percent in January to 7 percent in February.

Overall the country’s unemployment rate declined to 3.8 percent in February, but only 20,000 jobs were created.

President Trump tweeted a quote attributed

to Stuart Varney, who said on Fox & Friends there is no better time to be an American worker and that “we have the strongest economy in the world.”

Trump added, “So true!”

But his tweet ignored the fact that analysts expected the economy to add 180,000 new jobs.

Among the major worker groups, the unemployment rates for adult men (3.5 percent), whites (3.3 percent), and Hispanics (4.3 percent) decreased in February.

The jobless rates for adult women (3.4 percent), teenagers (13.4 percent), blacks (7.0 percent), and Asians (3.1 percent) did

little to move the needle and analysts said the unemployment rate for Hispanics has never been this low.

“Now would be the time for the Federal Reserve to worry,” said William Spriggs, a chief economist at the AFL-CIO and professor in the department of Economics at Howard University.

“Three straight months of increases in the black unemployment rate from three straight increases in unemployed workers.

They better listen to Neel Kashkari, president of the Federal Reserve Bank in Minneapolis,” Spriggs said.

Recognizing the tension between the Federal Reserve’s focus on asset prices and the real economy, Kashkari recently pointed out that, “If the U.S. economy is creating 200,000 jobs a month, month-after-month, we’re not at maximum employment.

“For the three years since I’ve been at the Fed, we have been surprised by the labor market. We keep thinking we’re at maximum employment.

And then wage growth is tepid. And the headline unemployment rate drops further. Inflation has been well under control,” Kashkari said.

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Spriggs said since reaching a low of 6 percent in November, the black unemployment rate has climbed three straight months. “Given the relationship of the black community to predatory subprime auto loans this is not good,” he said.

Brown is a veteran journalist and author of the forthcoming biography: “Aftermath: Michael Jackson’s Dysfunctional Family and the Legacy of the King of Pop.”

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Broad Street bridge to open soon SPECIAL TO THE CHRONICLE

Local drivers will soon see a benefit to the acceleration package agreed upon last fall between NCDOT and the Business 40 contractors.

The Broad Street bridge will tentatively open on Saturday, March 30. Construction on the bridge was originally scheduled to begin next fall.

NCDOT Resident Engineer Mezak Tucker said that the acceleration package “enabled Flatiron, the project contractor, to work extended hours and hire additional subcontractors to complete the work faster, deliver the bridge sooner, and reduce the overall impact to the citizens and businesses.”

He said that the original schedule was for 300 days, but was cut to 240 with the acceleration package. Incentives have allowed the contractor to complete the work in 192 days, 48 days ahead of even that accelerated schedule.

The timetable was also adjusted to separate the closure of Broad Street and Brookstown Avenue. Once the Broad Street bridge is open to vehicular and pedestrian traffic, Broad Street will still have another layer of asphalt that will need to go on the driving surface but will be fully functional. In addition, the Green Street bridge will be demolished.

For more information about the Business 40 project, visit Winston-Salem Business 40 Improvements, on Facebook, or www.Business40.com.

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OPENING SOON – The new Broad Street bridge is expected to open next week, possibly on Saturday, March 30. Originally, construction was not scheduled to begin until Fall 2019. But the acceleration package allowed the contractor to build and open it much sooner. When totally complete, the new bridge will also go across a portion of the Strollway walkway. (Courtesy NCDOT)

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Timothy Ramsey Sports Columnist

The Cleveland Browns are ready to win now Everyone knows that the NFL is a “win now” league. Coaches and front office officials are hired and fired quicker than ever nowadays. With that in mind, the Cleveland Browns are looking to become contenders with the series of moves they have made through the draft and free agency.

The Browns have been the doormats of the AFC North for nearly the past two decades. Before last season, they had only won one game going 1-15 in 2016 and 0-16 in 2017. To their credit, the Browns were more than respectable last season finishing with a 7-8-1 record.

With all those bad recent seasons, Cleveland has had high draft picks year in and year out. Those picks have not worked out until recently. The last two drafts have been very good for the Browns as they have selected players such as Myles Garrett, David Njoku, Denzel Ward and Baker Mayfield. They have also done well in free agency, picking up several veteran impact players.

Mayfield was last year’s overall Number One pick. Many questioned whether the Browns should have taken him in the draft. Baker surprised everyone with his stellar play, breaking the rookie passing touchdown record, finishing with 27 on the year.

With the positive momentum the team built up after last season, they seem to want to win now by surrounding Mayfield with as much talent as possible. First the Browns added Kareem Hunt, who was let go by the Kansas City Chiefs last season and they recently traded for Odell Beckham Jr. in a trade with the New York Giants.

When healthy, Beckham is arguably the best wide receiver in the NFL. Cleveland already had Jarvis Landry as their top wide-out. Now you pair him with Beckham and the Browns may have the best duo of receivers in the league. Giving Mayfield a player like Beckham will help the second-year quarterback build upon his stellar first campaign.

I hope for Cleveland’s sake that Beckham will not have the same issues he had in New York. He had several public meltdowns on and off the field that did not look good. I think the Giants front office were tired of his antics and decided to move on. I think this move will be a wake-up call that forces him to mature and help the team instead of being a distraction.

For me, I think the xfactor for the team will be the impact that Hunt brings to the team after he completes his eight-game suspension for his off-thefield incident. They have Nick Chubb and Duke See Browns on B2

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The Winston-Salem Wolves minor league basketball team is in their first year

as a franchise. The Wolves have gotten off to a hot start to the season. Last Saturday, they improved their record to 3-0, with a 120-80 victory over the South Carolina Upstate Redhawks.

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Freshman point guard shines on varsity level

BY TIMOTHY RAMSEY THE CHRONICLE

For a freshman player to bypass the freshman and junior varsity levels and go straight to varsity says a lot about their talent.

For a freshman to lead the team in scoring and assists is something that is rarely seen. That is exactly what Marc Raye Jr. did for Albemarle High School this past season.

Raye Jr. is a WinstonSalem native, but his father Marc Sr. is the head coach at Albemarle. Raye Jr. was not anticipating making the varsity squad, but was excited about the impact he could have on the team. Just making the varsity team was not enough; he wanted to let everyone know he belonged. At 5 feet 7 inches, Raye Jr. “does not look the part,” as his father says, but definitely plays bigger than his height.

“My freshman year was good, but I think I could have done better,” Raye Jr. said. “I am thankful for the opportunity that was given to me. I was happy to make the varsity team and I didn’t want to get cocky, so I knew I had to stay grounded.

“My expectations coming in was to average 10 points per game, but I wasn’t expecting to have the season that I wound up having.”

Raye Jr. says there were nerves involved when he started the season on

varsity. To help settle himself down, he spoke with the upperclassmen on the team. By season’s end, he was averaging 18 points, 6 assists, 4 rebounds and 3 steals and was chosen as a player on the All-Conference team.

“At the beginning of the season I was nervous, because it was a big step for me,” he said. “As the season progressed, I began to calm down more and become more comfortable with my teammates.”

As his father and head coach, Raye Sr. told Raye Jr. that there is no guarantee that he would make the varsity team.

“I told him going into the season that I did not know if he was going to play varsity,” said Raye Sr. “I wanted him to know that if he earned it, he could play varsity, but I did not want him to think that just because I am the varsity coach, he was going to play varsity.”

Raye Jr. came off the bench to start his first varsity campaign. He got his chance to start during the Christmas tournament the team was playing in due to a shortage of players. Once he entered the starting lineup, he seized the opportunity and never let go.

“The expectations for the year were not what they wound up being,” Raye Sr. continued. “The plan was to just gain experience and enjoy the season, but he played like a veteran as a freshman and gained a lot

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Marc Raye Jr. led the Albemarle Bulldogs in scoring and assists as a freshman this past season. of respect from our veteran players. It was just a phenomenal season for him and I am extremely happy for him.”

Raye Jr. does not just rely on his talent to excel on the court. He is an admitted “gym rat” and routinely watches film after every game to see what he did well and what he needs to work on going forward.

Throughout the years of being around his father coaching other players, several young men have played an important role in the development of

Raye Jr.’s game such as CJ Harris, Mike Grace, Chad Hicks and Tre Irvin, just to name a few. Raye Jr. also gave a lot of credit for the development of his game to his AAU (Amateur Athletic Union) Team, Team Winston, and coaches Ron Bailey and Andre Gould.

Having his father on the sidelines allowed him to be more comfortable on the court, Raye Jr. said. He feels it was “a blessing” to have his father as coach, because several players have told him they would love to have their father

coach them.

Raye Sr. said he and his wife are just as hard on Raye Jr. about his academics as they are his athletics.

He says they have an “academic plan” as well as a plan for him on the court.

Moving forward, Raye Jr. wants to continue working on his game to make himself and his teammates better. He says he knows he will not surprise anyone next season, so he will work as hard as he can to get better at the things he was not efficient at this year.

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Johnson in their backfield, so they are not struggling at the position. Hunt is just a game-breaking player that led the league in rushing during his rookie season two years ago.

The Browns seem to be following the same model for Mayfield that the Los Angeles Rams did for Jared Goff by surrounding the young quarterback with great talent at the skill positions. They are also building a solid defense as well to complement the star-studded offense.

I don’t think the

Browns are ready to compete for a Super Bowl title just yet. I do feel they are ready to make a strong playoff run and possibly be the new kings of the AFC North. I am looking forward to seeing if this team can put everything together and really be a force to be reckoned with for the next decade. We all know the windows for winning can be small in the NFL, so I hope the Browns take advantage of all this talent and not waste it like others in recent years. If you don’t believe me, just ask Pittsburgh Steeler fans how they feel about the missed opportunities of the last few years.

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WSSU to Realign Athletics Program Men’s golf will return as a varsity sport in 2020; baseball will be eliminated

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Winston-Salem State University (WSSU) announced today a realignment of its athletics programs that will return men’s golf as a varsity sport and eliminate baseball.

Men’s golf is expected to debut in spring 2020. The 2019 season will be baseball’s last at WSSU. The decision is a result of a careful analysis of the athletics department budget and roster of sports. In 2017, the Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association (CIAA) eliminated baseball as a conference sport, forcing the university’s program to play as an independent. The costs associated with playing as an independent are significantly higher.

By making this transition, all ten WSSU varsity sports will be aligned with the CIAA. WSSU will continue to honor its agreements with student-athletes on the baseball team who have athletics scholarships. The university will work with any studentathletes who wish to transfer their credits and eligibility if

they choose to compete at another university.

“Eliminating a sport is always painful,” said interim Director of Athletics George Knox. “Our first concern is the academic and athletic experience of our student-athletes. We will work with the team members who are affected by this decision to ensure their success either here at WSSU or at other universities. While we are sad to say goodbye to the sport, the team’s successes will always be a part of this university’s history.”

There are 35 men on the roster for baseball with four scheduled to graduate in May. The university expects to bring on a roster of up to eight student-athletes with the addition of men’s golf. Recruitment for a part-time coach will begin this spring with the goal of filling the position

by July 1.

WSSU’s last Winston-Salem-based baseball game will be on Tuesday, April 23, at BB&T Ballpark. The last scheduled game will be on Sunday, April 28, in Asheboro.

Winter league at W.R. Anderson Center ends with a bang

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For over two decades, Bryant McCorkle, senior supervisor of W.R. Anderson Community Center has brought the kids in the surrounding area together for his annual Winter Basketball League.

With 32 teams in three different age groups, McCorkle says this year was one of the best in recent memory for him. The age groups were 8-under, 11-under and 15-under, with two divisions in the two younger age

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According to McCorkle, this season brought out some of the best talent he has seen in the league in recent years. groups.

“We had a great turnout this year with some great coaches, and our parents were fantastic,” said McCorkle.

Each team played eight regular season games prior to the playoffs. To allow all the kids an opportunity, McCorkle allows all 32 teams to participate in the playoffs where they are broken down into divisions to make the most competitive games.

According to McCorkle, the talent level of the kids in the winter league has continued to grow over the last several years. He says they may have to tweak a few rules for the younger kids because they are more talented than ever before.

“The talent level for these kids is on another level, to be honest,” he said. “These kids are really good and developing at an earlier age than ever.”

McCorkle praised the parents for always packing the gym for the games. He says there were no incidents between the parents or with the referees.

“We try and show the kids good sportsmanship at all times, but it begins with the parents,” said McCorkle.

“We stressed to the parents, coaches and players to respect their opponents along with referees.”

The championship games were all tightly contested, McCorkle said. The biggest margin of victory for any of the games was just five points.

McCorkle wanted to express the importance of the coaches in his winter league. He says many of the coaches have been with the league for several years. McCorkle feels their dedication to the success of the kids shows in their performance on the court.

“Many of the coaches that I have came up through the basketball program and they knew what to expect,” he said. “I have some great coaches, which is why I don’t do a coach of the year award.”

There were many sponsors that McCorkle wanted to thank for giving back to the winter league including, The

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All of the championship games were decided by five points or less.

Josh Howard Foundation, The Winston-Salem Police Department, Pam Peoples Joyner and many more.

“It makes me feel good, because if we didn’t have sponsorships to provide this league on the weekends, a lot of kids might be out on the street getting in trouble,” McCorkle went on to say. “You also have to think about the adults that are there that could be out doing something they aren’t supposed to be doing as well.”

The league champions are as follows: 8-Under (Div I)- The Ballers 8-Under (Div II)- The Aggies 11-Under (Div I)- The Cavaliers 11-Under (Div II)- Ibraham Elementary 15-Under- Department of Athletics

WSSU SINGING RAMS

ANNUAL SPRING CONCERT K.R. WILLIAMS AUDITORIUM

APRIL 7, 2019 4PM

Guest Choirs:

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Northern High School Advanced Chorus of Durham, NC Rachel Spencer, Director Just Music Stacey V. Gibbs, Director/Founder Maestra D’Walla Simmons-Burke, Director Dr. Myron Brown, Accompanist

SOCIAL MOBILITY SUMMIT 2019 Social Mobility Summit 2019: Innovative Approaches on Campus and in the Community

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The 2019 Social Mobility Summit, hosted by Winston-Salem State University, will highlight faculty research, student involvement, and individual stories.

The program offers special insight into the challenges facing the lowest income groups in Forsyth County, N.C., and beyond.

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The academic research portion of the 2019 Summit is spearheaded by WSSU’s Center for the Study of Economic Mobility (CSEM). Path-breaking research by CSEM’s faculty fellows as well as other prominent off-campus speakers will demonstrate how WSSU serves as a key instrument in improving social and economic mobility within our own Forsyth county. Attendees will get a wide-ranging exposure to not only reasons, but potential and actionable solutions to change lives most in need, that can serve as a blueprint for other counties across the country.

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Rescue Mission details program to assist citizens to gain self-sufficiency SUBMITTED STORY

Sunday School Lesson

Calling to Salvation Lesson Scripture: Luke 19:1-10

By the end of this lesson, we will *See social taboos ignored. *Repent of sinful attitudes we may hold toward certain people. *Challenge stereotypes we have of others that prevent us from sharing Christ with them.

Background: The record of Jesus’s interaction with Zacchaeus is found in Luke’s Gospel only. Jesus in the account is on His way to Jerusalem and stops in Jericho, 15 miles out. The encounter with Zacchaeus is the last of three. The first was a conversation with the rich young ruler, the second with Bartimaeus, the blind beggar, and this one in our lesson with a publican (tax collector). Tax collectors were especially despised in first century Israel for two reasons. One was the unfair and burdensome taxes they charged to make themselves rich. The other was the fact that they being Jews collaborated with the Roman authorities.

Lesson: The setting is Jericho city streets and Jesus is approaching Jerusalem where He has predicted His death and resurrection. Zacchaeus is a short but powerful tax collector. He is chief tax collector, meaning he has other tax collectors working for him, so he is rich and despised. Most likely the crowd includes pilgrims on their way to celebrate Passover in Jerusalem, but the definitive crowd is the one following Jesus, those who have witnessed miracles and healing and know of his fame as well as his disdain. No one in the crowd, however, was making room for a short tax collector to get a good view of Jesus (verses 1-3). Zacchaeus, in his desperation to see Jesus, maybe even in a moment of self-realization, does something undignified for someone of his rank and status. He climbs a sycamore tree (fig tree with low, wide spreading branches) and is able to position himself to see Jesus (verse 4). Jesus sees Zacchaeus, recognizes his heart’s desire, and purposefully calls him by name and requests not to merely eat with him, but to stay with him (this is the only place in the gospels where Jesus invited Himself to be someone’s guest) (verse 5).

Delighted of course, Zacchaeus comes down from his tree and the crowd, not just Pharisees, but the entire crowd, those with him and against him, start to murmur that Jesus is gone to be the guest of a sinner (verses 6-7).

The mere contact with Jesus, Zacchaeus’ immediate awareness of His inclusion, mercy and grace triggered an unexpected response. Zacchaeus voluntarily, without prompting, pledges, “Look, Lord! Here and now I give half of my possessions to the poor, and if I have cheated anybody out of anything, I will pay back four times the amount.” Zacchaeus proves here that his conversion was genuine with his willingness to make restitution over and beyond what Jewish law required as recorded in Leviticus 6th chapter (verse 8). Zacchaeus was called by Jesus because of his repentant and humble heart and proclaimed by Jesus as a true son of Abraham. Jesus made clear that he, Zacchaeus, is included within God’s saving act as an heir of salvation - joint heir with Him by faith not by works. With a single act, Jesus demonstrated to Zacchaeus, and the rest of Jericho, that God is approachable (verses 9-10). (The MacArthur Study Bible, NIV Leaders Bible, UMI, Standard Lesson Commentary and the Oxford Bible Commentary.)

For Your Consideration: What safeguards can we adopt to ensure that we don’t block others’ view of Jesus as He should be seen today?

Life’s Application: What would happen in our culture if we moved beyond stereotypes and biases to truly see each other as God intends? Might we see real need, weakness in what we regard as strength? Would we accept indignity to really see Christ? Jesus saw Zacchaeus’ heart and restored him as a son of Abraham. As the body of Christ, we are instruments in bringing restoration and healing to our broken world. “My brethren, do not hold your faith in our glorious Lord Jesus Christ with an attitude of personal favoritism.” (James 2:1).

On Tuesday, March 5, Mayor Allen Joines collaborated with the Ministers’ Conference of Winston-Salem & Vicinity’s Economic Development Committee to host the Winston-Salem Rescue Mission at Emmanuel Baptist Church. Pastor Reginald McCaskill and Pam Peoples-Joyner serve as co-chairs for the Economic Development Committee.

Ken Heater and Dan Narvaez from the Rescue Mission gave a presentation detailing their programs that will assist citizens in becoming selfsufficient. The two primary pillars of the WinstonSalem Rescue Mission are to help men in the need of recovery and to offer community outreach. The Winston-Salem Rescue Mission offers a “Road to Freedom, Hope after In-

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The Winston-Salem Rescue Mission is designed to help men in need and offer community outreach. carceration” program and people in the Triad area so al or ethnic background. a medical and dental clinic. that they might proclaim The Ministers’ ConFor over 50 years as a the gospel of Jesus Christ ference of Winston-Salem Christ-centered ministry, and bring glory to God. & Vicinity voted to colthe Winston-Salem Rescue As a non-denominational laborate with the WinstonMission has been working ministry, they provide ser- Salem Rescue Mission on to meet the physical, emo- vices for anyone who calls future initiatives. tional and spiritual needs on them for help regardless of thousands of hurting of race, religion and cultur-

Beating Guns tour makes a stop in town

real visceral way to handle the trauma they have been through and there is a big Gun violence affects spiritual aspect to that.” many people beyond those “We started doing it involved in the in the ac- because we’ve seen too tual shooting. Family, many lives cut short in our victims, community activ- neighborhood,” Claiborne ists and others gathered at added. “On almost every Great Commission Com- block of our neighbormunity Church on March hood, we can tell you sto12 to address the gun vio- ries of who lost their lives lence present in the city. there. We just decided we The Beating Guns tour needed to do something was created by Shane Clai- concrete, so when people borne and Michael Martin. say, ‘all we can do is pray,’ The two have also written they’re lying. We need to a book by the same name. pray, because we are peoThe event featured music, ple of prayer, but we also art, and stories of people need to take action too.” impacted by gun violence.

The stop in WinstonThe highlight of the Salem was one of 37 for evening was when Martin Martin and Claiborne on fired up the blacksmith the tour. Their plan is to hit Photo by Timothy Ramsey forge and turned a gun a different city every night, Family members of gun violence participated in the into a garden tool. Family sometimes two cities in a creating of the garden tool. members of gun violence day. could pound the scalding They have received believe in them, but I also old,” Claiborne said. “This hot metal and participate phenomenal feedback think for a lot of people we vision in the scripture also in the shaping of the tool. from the victims’ families have to touch them in their inspired the early Christians that said, ‘this is who “Our first event just from each city thus far on heart.”

For Claiborne and we were meant to be,’ is clicked and we thought the tour. “There are althis was an element we ways some really heartfelt Martin, one of the best as- people that turn a world could really offer people to stories from the ground pects of the tour is travel- that’s infatuated with death unload some of that grief and that’s what we really ing to the different cities and violence into folks that by pounding on a gun bar- want,” Claiborne said. “We to see and hear the impacts love the Prince of Peace. rel,” said Martin. “It’s a go to a lot of marches and I of family members. They Jesus turned a horrific said they feel the emotion symbol of torture, humilifrom the stories and feed ation and terror, the cross, off that. into a conduit of God’s “We feel the same love and we are doing the emotions that everyone same thing.” else does,” Martin said.

The two men have “It’s so different that when been working together for people bring their stories six years and plan to conout, it encourages us and tinue bringing their mesgives us that fire in our sage to the masses. Their bones. This is a unique book allows people to feel way to approach this issue the essence of their events and gives people the op- even though they are not portunity to plug in from physically there. For more so many places.” information on Beating Photo by Timothy Ramsey “For us, this is nothing Guns events and merchanThere was a large turnout for the Beating Guns tour new that we have thought dise, please visit beatingheld at Great Commission Community Church last of, it’s hundreds of years guns.com. week.

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RELIGION CALENDAR

Mar. 24 College Day Bishop Phillip G McCloud Sr. and Fresh Fire Worship Center, 1538 Waughtown St., will host College Day on March 24 at 10 a.m. Guest speaker is Youth Pastor Josh Vernon from Mt. Hope Church of Salisbury, NC. There will be college giveaways and Sunday dinner fellowship. Transportation is available upon request. For more info, contact (336) 833-4208 or juneaicenh@gmail. com.

Mar. 24 90th church anniversary On Sunday, March 24, Union Chapel Baptist Church, 300 West 25th Street, will celebrate 90 years of ministry beginning with church school at 9:15 a.m. and morning worship at 10:30 a.m.

The celebration will continue with a 3 p.m. worship service with guest Rev. Dwight Hash and Bethlehem Baptist Church, which has been a great part of this annual celebration for the majority of the 90 years. The public is cordially invited to attend. Rev. Konnie G. Robinson is the host pastor.

For more information, contact Rev. Robinson at (336) 767-7613.

Mar. 24 12th Pastoral Anniversary Solid Rock Missionary Baptist Church will celebrate Pastor Waymon L. Monroe, Jr. and First Lady Leola Monroe’s 12th Pastoral Anniversary on Sunday March 24 at 11 a.m. The guest Preacher is Bishop Tejado Hanchell, Senior pastor of Mt. Calvary Holiness Church.

Solid Rock is located at 3010 Carver School Road. The public is invited to this joyous occasion.

Mar. 24 Worship services The Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, 4055 Robinhood Road, will have worship services on March 24.

Rev. Lisa Schwartz will speak at both the 9 a.m. Awake service and the 11 a.m. Traditional service. She will be speaking on “Skeptical Parenting.” At the Forum, 9:15 a.m., Blake Fleming of the Sierra Club, and Gayle Tuch will present “Getting to 100% Clean Renewable Energy and Green Jobs.” At Explorations, 9:15 a.m., schoolboard member Elisabeth Motsinger will speak on “From Activist to Public Servant.” For more information, see UUFWS.org.

Mar. 24 “Beyond Words” St. Paul Handbell Choir and Grief Care Ministry invite you to join us for an afternoon of healing and hope through music. ‘Beyond Words” will be held on Saturday, March 24 at 3 p.m. at St. Paul United Methodist Church – 2400 Dellabrook Road. All are welcome to attend. For additional information, call (336) 723-4531 or (336) 722-5517.

Mar. 30 Easter play On Saturday, March 30, “The Upper Room to Calvary” play will be presented at Mt. Olive fellowship hall at 6 p.m. For ticket information, contact the church at (336) 721-1959. The church is located at located at 1301 C. E. Gray Drive.

Mar. 30 Leadership Master Class Join St. Peter’s World Outreach for the “Leader-

ship Master Class - Topic: Communication (Leadership Style)” on Saturday, March 30 from 9 – 11 a.m. in the Administration Building. This is an opportunity to develop critical leadership skills that will help you be a more effective leader where you live, work and worship. Guest speakers are Mr. Nigel Alston and Mrs. Michelle Cook.

Host pastors are Bishop James C. & Mrs. Joyce Hash.

These classes are free and open to the public. St. Peter’s is located at 3683 Old Lexington Road. Call (336) 6500200 for more information.

April 6-7 Anniversary celebrations On Saturday, April 6, the Anniversary Banquet for Pastor Charles E. Gray will be held at 5 p.m. at WSSU Anderson Conference Center – the McNeil Room. The attire is Semi-Formal/Church Attire (Black and Gold or combination). The cost is $45. For ticket information, contact the church at (336) 721-1959. There will be a Church & Pastor Anniversary service on April 7 4 p.m.

Rev. Waymon Monroe of Solid Rock Baptist Church will be the guest speaker.

April 13 Community Day and Health Fair Join Great Commission Community Church on Saturday, April 13 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. for our annual Rope of Hope Community Day and Health Fair. There will be live entertainment, free health screenings, games for kids, community resources, FREE FOOD, and much more! This event is FREE to the community! If you are interested in partnering with us or participating in the entertainment, please contact the church office at (336) 577-3420!

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Ministers’ Conference president speaks on monument removal

BY TIMOTHY RAMSEY THE CHRONICLE

The Confederate statue that has been the topic of much debate over the past several months has been removed from downtown Winston-Salem. There were supporters on both side of the equation.

Tembila Covington, president of the Ministers’ Conference of Winston-Salem and Vicinity (MCWSV), wanted to weigh in on the subject.

The MCWSV has been very vocal in their opposition to the statue and Covington recently spoke with The Chronicle about the subject.

Question: Give me your thoughts on the removal of the statue.

Answer: I am elated that negotiations did rule in our favor after a year-long table discussion with the mayor and city manager to where we have a historic moment of the removal of this Confederate monument. It had a stigma of oppression, slavery and racism. We are truly happy to see that it has been removed from that site so that we can focus on greater things and make change in the city to improve the lifestyle for everyone.

Question: What do you say to those individuals and organizations that were upset at the moving of the statue?

Answer: History is made every moment of the day, so I would have to say that history has been recreated, so that the

history of slavery and the pride of racism are no longer monumentalized. So, we understand to them it may have a historical connotation of inheritance, but it’s also a connotation of privilege, which is one that by far, black, brown and tan people find themselves having to fight against in every venue that we are partakers of. It is not that their history is not important to them, but because history is constant, it has been recreated and revolving around a perspective that we are a diverse people and more than just one and that the elite, as they would call themselves, or the privileged as we see them, are no longer that.

We are a city of one regardless of color, we are all part of the city and we should have equal parts in representation for the greater good of everyone. We have now a city that is not looking down on the marginalized, but rather it’s giving a hand up to those who have been oppressed for a long time.

Question: What does it say about the city of Winston-Salem and city officials that heard the plea of those who felt oppressed by the statue and did their due diligence to have it removed?

Answer: I think it shows the change in times that they are sensitive to what the people are saying. Again, at some point in time, it was about listening to those who had the most money or those who were considered the elite, but now it’s saying they are more sensitive to listening to the entire city of Winston-Salem, instead of just a few.

Mrs. Adeline Hodge celebrated her 105th birthday SUBMITTED ARTICLE

Mrs. Adeline Hodge celebrated her 105th birthday on Feb. 23, 2019, at Somerset Assisted Living.

Mrs. Hodge is the oldest contributing writer to the Winston-Salem Chronicle at age 100, submitting articles on being a former resident of “Reynolds Town” and a humorous peak into African-American culture entitled “Rag Baby.”

To help her celebrate were residents, family members, a former student with his family, and her pastor, Dr. Paul Lowe.

Mrs. Hodge is a graduate of Winston-Salem State University with a BS in education and NC A&T State University receiving a MS in education. Mrs. Hodge retired after teaching 30 years in the Stokes

County school system. She has been a member of Shiloh Baptist Church for 92 years, joining at the age of 13, making her the oldest living member with the longest membership.

The Chronicle extends warm wishes to Mrs. Hodge on reaching this significant milestone.

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Community Calendar NOW – April 8 – “Donate 2 Educate” Bring unwanted items to the Goodwill trailer in the school parking lot of Carter High School. Donations will help people in the community find jobs and become more independent. For more information, call Dana Conte at (336) 201-0794 or email at dconte@goodwillnwnc. org.

NOW – May 31 – Annual literary competition Flying South, the annual literary competition sponsored by Winston-Salem Writers, is accepting entries from now through May 31. There will be $2,000 in prizes awarded.

Best in category winners will be published in Flying South magazine and will receive $500 each.

The Winston-Salem Writers President’s Favorite will also receive $500.

For complete rules and submission details, go to www.wswriters.org and click on the contest tab. Winners will be announced on July 1, 2019.

NOW – July 1 – Help Support LEAD Girls of NC From now until July 1 and through the Quotes for Good Program, State Farm agent Donna Jones will donate $10 to LEAD Girls of NC for each call her office receives requesting an auto and home/renters quote. To get a quote and support LEAD Girls of NC, call Donna Jones at (336) 602-2980.

TODAY, March 21 – Volunteer orientation The Shepherd’s Center of Greater Winston-Salem will hold a volunteer orientation from 10-11:15 a.m. on Thursday, March 21 at the center located at 1700 Ebert St. For a list of all of our volunteer opportunities visit our website, www.shepherdscenter.org.

For more information or to register for the session, call The Shepherd’s Center at (336) 748-0217 or email vpoore@shepherdscenter.org.

TODAY, March 21 – Underutilized Business (HUB) Certification Workshop The city is offering a free workshop Thursday, March 21, to assist minority and women-owned businesses with certifying or re-certifying as historically underutilized businesses with the state of North Carolina.

The workshop will be held from 6 to 7:30 p.m. in Suite 150 of the Lowery Street Facility, 2000 Lowery St., Winston-Salem.

Pre-registration is requested by March 20 by contacting Hasani Mitchell at hasanim@cityofws.org or (336) 747-7459.

TODAY, March 21 – Michelle Williams to visit WFU Michelle Williams, formerly of Destiny’s Child, will speak at Wake Forest on Thursday, March 21 at 6 p.m. in Wait Chapel. The event is free and open to the public. Williams will discuss her experience with mental illness and the importance of conversations about mental health.

Her talk is part of Wake

Forest’s Mental Health Week (March 18-22) – a student government initiative created to reduce the stigma around mental illness on college campuses.

TODAY, March 21 – 14th Street School meeting Did you attend 14th St. Elementary School?

We want you to join us on planning our 4th annual reunion on Thursday, March 21 at 6 p.m. at 14th St. Recreation Center.

For information contact President Alfred Harvey at (336) 414-9241.

March 22 – Classic Crossover Piedmont Wind Symphony is proud to announce a special collaboration with the local rock band, The Vagabond Saints’ Society, for a program called Classic Crossover. It will take place on Friday, March 22 at 7:30 p.m. at The Ramkat. Tickets start at $20 and can be purchased online at www. piedmontwindsymphony. com, by phone at 336-7211945, or at the Stevens Center box office. Tickets will also be available at the door.

March 23 – Aviation and Breakfast series The second installment of the Aviation and Breakfast series will be held on March 23 at 8:30 a.m. Jim Shaw’s ACE Academy invites high school boys and girls to have breakfast and learn about aviation.

Come and get experience with flying drones! The event is free and will be at the Ibraham Elementary School, 5036 Old Walkertown Rd. For more information contact us: www.ShawAceAcademy.com (336) 306-8145 www.shawaceacademy@ gmail.com March 23 – Reverse Cash Raffle The Rotary Club of Clemmons will hold their 25th Annual $10,000 Reverse Cash Raffle to support its various charities on Saturday, March 23 at the Village Inn Event Center in Clemmons. Tickets to the event are $100 each and can be purchased from any Clemmons Rotarian.

Tickets are currently available from any Clemmons Rotarian or you can contact Jorge Vidal at (336) 420-6892 or jorge.vidal. pice@statefarm.com. All proceeds from the event go to support local and international Rotary service projects.

March 23 – Habitat Hammerbird 5K and Fun Run Habitat for Humanity of Forsyth County will host its Hammerbird 5K and One Mile Fun Run on March 23. Activities begin at 8:30 a.m. at Kimberley Park Elementary School, 1701 N. Cherry St. Go to https://www.habitatforsyth.org/hammerbird/ to sign up.

March 23 – Multimedia exhibition The Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art (SECCA) will present a multi-media exhibition of the work of Andrew Paul Keiper and Kei Ito. The

exhibition, entitled “Archives Aflame: Works by Kei Ito and Andrew Paul Keiper,” will be on display at SECCA, which is located at 750 Marguerite Drive in Winston-Salem, from March 23 to May 5.

SECCA is free and open to the public Wednesday, Friday and Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Thursday from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. and Sunday from 1 to 5 p.m.

March 23 – Business Expo Superpowers University is hosting a business expo March 23 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Event sponsorship and vendor tables are available. In addition, high school seniors can apply for the first ever Superpowers University Eunice P. Ingram Scholarship.

For more information, call (336) 775-6787.

March 23-31 – Forsyth Creek Week The seventh annual Forsyth Creek Week will be held March 23-31 with exciting new opportunities and old favorites to encourage everyone to get out and appreciate the beauty and importance of our local waterways. See the complete calendar of events at ForsythCreekWeek.org March 23 – Gardening symposium Join the Gardening symposium on March 23 from 1-6 p.m. The event will be held at N.C. Cooperative Extension, Forsyth County Center 1450 Fairchild Road. Registration is not required for this free event. For Spanish interpretation, please call (336) 705-8823. Visit go.ncsu. edu/2019-spring-gardenkickoff for the latest updates and agenda.

March 23 – Wildcat Bazaar Carter High School will host its 1st Annual Wildcat Bazaar on March 23 from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Vendors are wanted. Call (336) 999-4040, for more information. The event will take place at Carter High School Gym, 851 Highland Ave. March 24 – Concert The Winston-Salem Youth Philharmonic and Premiere Strings will present a mid-season concert on Sunday, March 24 at 7 p.m. The concert is free and open to the public and will take place in the Brendle Recital Hall on the campus of Wake Forest University in WinstonSalem.

March 25 – Community Forum Sheriff Bobby Kimbrough will host a community forum on March 25 at 6 p.m. The event allows the community to meet staff and ask questions.

The forum will be held at the Forsyth County Central Library, 660 W. 5th St. March 26 – Community Town Hall Join the Office of Cancer Health Equity and Gramercy Research Group to hear and discuss findings from the African American Community Assessment in East Winston and collectively strategize forthcoming solutions on

March 26 at 6 p.m. This event will take place at the Delta Fine Arts Center located at 2611 New Walkertown Road.

March 26 – Staged reading event The Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art (SECCA) will present Archives Aflame: Voices from the World War II Pacific Engagement, a staged reading of veterans’ stories, on March 28 from 6 to 8 p.m. The reading will be held in the Overlook Gallery at SECCA, which is located at 750 Marguerite Drive in Winston-Salem. This event is free and open to the public.

March 28 – Spring Job Event Davidson County Community College hosts its annual Spring Job Fair Thursday, March 28, from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. in the Rittling Conference Center of the Davidson Campus. This event is free and open to the public. For more information on the Job Fair, including a full list of scheduled employers, visit DavidsonCCC. edu/JobFair.

March 28 – Information session State Representative Derwin L. Montgomery and the North Ward Council Member D. D. Adams will co-host a Joint Town Hall/Ward meeting on March 28 from 6-7:30 p.m. The meeting will take place at Kimberley Park Elementary School, 1701 N. Cherry St. Join your neighbors and receive updates from both your Local and State level of government.

March 28 – Airport board meeting The Smith Reynolds Airport Board will have its next meeting on Thursday, March 21 at 4 p.m. in the Board Room, Suite 204, of the Terminal Building at Smith Reynolds Airport, 3801 N. Liberty St, Winston-Salem.

March 28-31 – “Metropolis” “Metropolis” returns to the Hanesbrands Theatre, 209 N Spruce St., on March 28-31. Opening night is Thursday, March 28 at 7:30 p.m. Additional productions will be at 8 p.m. on Friday, March 29 and Saturday, March 30.

The showing on March 31 will be at 2 p.m. See Winstonsalemfestivalballet.org for tickets prices or call (336) 747-1414.

March 30 – Urban League Gala The Winston-Salem Urban League is grateful for your support of the Whitney M. Young Gala originally scheduled for Oct. 27 will be held on March 30 at 6 p.m. at BioTech Place, 575 Patterson Ave. If you already purchased tickets for the original date (October 27), your purchase will carry over to the new date, so there is no need to re-purchase a ticket. If however, you would like to seek a refund, please contact Kenneth Pettigrew (kpettigrew@wsurban.org).

March 30 – Annual fundraiser

“FlapJacks & Funnies,” a fundraiser, will help Hoops4L.Y.F.E. continue to be committed to the youth and their families in Winston-Salem.

The fundraiser will be held on March 30 from 8:30 a.m. to noon and located at Bib’s Downtown, 675 West 5th Street. See eventbrite.com for tickets and more details.

March 30 – Deacon Dash for Down Syndrome The Down Syndrome Association of Greater Winston-Salem (formerly PDSSN) has announced plans for the fourth annual “3-2-1 Deacon Dash for Down Syndrome,” which will take place on Saturday, March 30 at the Winston-Salem Fairgrounds.

This will be a 5K race starting at 9 a.m. with an additional .11 mile added for a total distance of 3.21 miles. Participants can register for both the 5K and the Fun Run through March 26 by visiting http://pdssn.ezeventsolutions.com/321Dash. Fees for the races will be $40 and $30, respectively.

March 30, April 6 & 13 – Writer’s workshop Winston-Salem Writers will hold three workshops for writers on successive Saturdays, March 30, April 6 and April 13, on various topics on the craft of writing. All workshops will be held at the new offices of the Little Theatre of Winston-Salem, 419 N. Spruce Street, from 10 a.m. – 1 p.m. The cost is $15 per workshop; free to members of WinstonSalem Writers. Nonmembers can join for $36 and attend all three workshops for free. To register, email programs@wswriters.org.

Payment is at the door, cash or check March 31 & April 2 – Concerts The Winston-Salem Symphony will present Classics Series concerts.

The concerts will take place on Sunday, March 31 at 3 p.m. and Tuesday, April 2 at 7:30 p.m. at Wait Chapel on the campus of Wake Forest University Tickets begin at $20 and are available in advance by calling the Symphony Box Office at 336-464-0145 or online at WSsymphony. org.

April 4-14 – RiverRun volunteers needed The RiverRun International Film Festival is seeking volunteers to work during this year’s festival, which will take place April 4-14. Volunteer jobs include film venue ushering, selling and taking tickets, serving at parties, office work, promotional work in advance of the festival and a wide range of hospitality services. Those interested in becoming a volunteer should go to riverrunfilm. com and click on “get involved” for more information.

Ongoing Every third Thursday of each month – Anti-Gun & Gang Violence Meeting Winston-Salem has

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Every day – Donations of blankets, caps & gloves needed The Downtown Bicycle Patrol is soliciting donations of gently used or new blankets, gloves and knit caps to help the homeless this winter. The donation boxes will be placed in the lobby of the Public Safety Center, 725 N. Cherry St. in City Hall outside the Human Relations Department, Suite 109 N. Main St. and outside the Bicycle Patrol Office at 414 N. Cherry St. across from the Marriott Hotel. The donations go toward assisting homeless people.

Every Monday – Youth Program The program, “Making Proud Choices” meets every Monday from 4 - 5:30 p.m. at the Carver School Road Branch Library. The library is located at 4915 Lansing Drive in WinstonSalem. For more information, call (336) 703-2910.

The program will focus on helping teens set and meet goals, making right decisions in their life, keeping proper values, dealing with peer-pressure, sexuality, sharpening communication skills and building healthy relationships.

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Community Briefs Griffin served as Page for North Carolina House of Representatives Nevaeh Griffin, a student at North Forsyth High School, recently served as a Page for the North Carolina House of Representatives. She is the daughter of Saterra Griffin and was sponsored by Speaker Tim Moore (R), Cleveland. Ms. Griffin was appointed and introduced to the Members of the House during session on Wednesday afternoon.

The North Carolina House Page Program offers a unique and firsthand experience to students from across the state. Each year, the program provides a captivating insight into government by connecting students with elected leaders of North Carolina.

Pages are given the opportunity to observe North Carolina lawmakers, lobbyists, staff, and constituents working together in the legislative process. The Pages witness and learn how a bill becomes a law, the structure of state government, and the legislative process. House Pages attend session and committee meetings each day. House Pages are also given the opportunity to provide office assistance to members and staff of the House of Representatives.

Nevah Griffin Wake Forest Baptist Receives $28 Million Alzheimer’s Association Grant Researchers in Finland recently found that lifestyle choices can help older adults stay mentally sharp.

Now scientists at Wake Forest Baptist Health hope to find confirmatory evidence this is indeed the case by coordinating a large, national clinical trial sponsored by the Alzheimer’s Association through a $28 million grant.

An estimated 5.7 million Americans of all ages are living with Alzheimer’s and other forms of dementia. There are approximately 50 million people worldwide with the disease – for which there is no known cure – and that total is expected to double every 20 years.

The Alzheimer’s Association U.S. Study to Protect Brain Health Through Lifestyle Intervention to Reduce Risk (U.S. POINTER) is a $35 million project that will compare the effects of two different lifestyle interventions on brain health in older adults who may be at risk for memory loss in the future.

U.S. POINTER is the first such study to be conducted in a large group of Americans across the United States.

Approximately 2,000 volunteers at five U.S. sites will be enrolled and followed for two years in the study. The site led by Wake Forest Baptist already has begun enrolling participants. Other sites in California and Illinois will begin enrollment later this year. The remaining two sites will be announced soon.

People age 60 to 79 will be randomly assigned to one of two lifestyle interventions. Both groups will be encouraged to include more physical and cognitive activity and a healthier diet into their lives and will receive regular monitoring of blood pressure and other health measurements.

Participants in one intervention group will design a lifestyle program that best fits their own needs and schedules. Participants in the other intervention group will follow a specific program that includes weekly healthy lifestyle activities.

God in Our City

BY LB THE POET

Live fast... die young, I’m still searching the Galaxy for information about that change that sam ... sung ... cause we’ve been waiting a long time for it to come... and I’ve always been taught, you may win the battle, but it’s not over ... until the war is won ... for way too long we’ve been fighting these same wars ... the war on poverty, the war on guns ... but tell me ... who declared war on our sons? On us, as a people? The reality of this situation can take a position from powerful, to fetal ... there’s a difference in those who are righteous and those who are evil, you know like … the people who genuinely want to see you make it ... when you have a vision, they believe you ... verses the ones who only come around when they need you ... the change in perception from what the media is injecting can be lethal ... people sell their souls everyday for the love of money ... better yet, the chance to be equal ...

God... save us from this forsaken place where our leaders are deceitful. Lord knows we need you.

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Livingstone to offer Army ROTC in the fall SUBMITTED ARTICLE

SALISBURY – Livingstone College is in the business of developing leaders and so is the United States Army ROTC. That’s why the Army ROTC program coming to the campus of Livingstone is a perfect marriage of leadership excellence.

Livingstone President Dr. Jimmy R. Jenkins, Sr. announced last month that the Army ROTC program would start in the fall of 2019.

Through classes and field training, Army ROTC provides students with tools to become an Army officer without interfering with their other classes, and gives students money for tuition while enhancing their college experience.

“The most important thing about Army ROTC is that it gives you a solid foundation and a steppingstone in pursuing your career path as a leader,” said Dr. Curtis Dean, assistant professor, who is serving as faculty liaison of the program. “By graduation, students will earn not only a degree, but also a commission as second lieutenant in the Army, Army Reserves or Army National Guard.”

Army ROTC begins with a basic course of instruction taught during the first two years of college. Cadets learn the principles of leadership, Army history and Army organization and structure.

During the final two years of college, cadets participate in an advanced course of instruction that teaches the principles of military leadership and military field craft, and provides opportunities for adventure training, all designed to develop and hone a cadet’s leadership skills and ability, Dean said.

If a student has at least two or more years remaining toward their undergraduate degree but not enough time to complete the basic course, students can enter the advanced course by completing the leader’s training course at Fort Knox, Kentucky, during the summer.

ROTC cadets committed to serving in the program are eligible for scholarships covering the costs for tuition and fees, $800 per semester for textbooks, and a monthly stipend of $420 for personal expenses. As a commission to second lieutenant upon graduation, graduates can earn a

starting salary of $57,000 annually.

Also, graduates interested in pursuing a master’s degree can receive free tuition under the Army GI Bill.

“This new partnership with Army ROTC will help our student population pay for their education and develop strong leadership skills,” Jenkins said. “We believe it is a great partnership for our institution as we prepare young men and women for the world.”

For more information, contact Dr. Curtis Dean at 704-216-6834 or email cdean@livingstone.edu.

About Livingstone College Livingstone College, founded and supported by the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church, is a private historically black institution located in Salisbury, N.C. Through a Christian-based environment suitable for learning, it provides excellent liberal arts and religious education programs for students from all ethnic backgrounds designed to develop their potential for leadership and service to a global community. For more information, visit www.livingstone.edu.

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Having qualified as Fiduciary of the Estate of Ella P. Jordan (19 E 437), also known as Ella Peterson Jordan Ella Ree Jordan, deceased December 24, 2018, 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 June 10, 2019 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.

This the 4th day of March, 2019.

Robert Lee Jordan Fiduciary for Ella P. Jordan, deceased 12715 Glynis Road Cllinton, MD 20735 The Chronicle March 7, 14, 21, 28, 2019 NOTICE OF SERVICE OF PROCESS BY PUBLICATION STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA FORSYTH COUNTY In the General Court of Justice Superior Court Division Before the Clerk 19 SP 27 City of Winston-Salem Petitioner, v EASTER M. WINN n/k/a EASTER MAE MC-CALL and AMERIQUEST MORTGAGE COMPANY Respondents.

Take Notice that a pleading seeking relief against you has been filed in the above entitled civil action. The nature of the relief being sought is as follows: Petition to determine own-ership of $3,344.24 in surplus funds paid to the Forsyth County Clerk of Court after the tax fore-closure sale of real property located at 2731 Teresa Avenue, Winston-Salem, NC 27105, and being known and designated as PIN 684626-0939.000.

You are hereby required to make defense to such pleading not later than ten (10) days from the date of publication; and upon failure to do so, the party seeking service against you will apply to the court for the relief sought.

This the 6th day of March, 2019.

City of Winston-Salem S/: John R. Lawson Assistant City Attorney P.O. Box 2511 Winston-Salem, NC 27102 (336) 747-7406 The Chronicle March 7, 14, 21, 2019 NOTICE TO CREDITORS Having qualified as Fiduciary of the Estate of Annie C. Dew (19 E 70), also known as Annie Clark Dew, Annie Morris Clark Dew deceased December 2, 2018 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 June 24, 2019 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.

This the 17th day of January, 2019.

Charles Edward Gray Fiduciary for Annie C. Dew, deceased 3840 Carver School Road WinstonSalem, NC 27105 The Chronicle March 21, 28, and April, 4, 11, 2019 NOTICE TO CREDITORS Having qualified as Administrator of the Estate of Archie W. Love (19 E 574), also known as Archie Wilson Love, Archie W. Love deceased August 1, 2018 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 June 24, 2019 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.

This the 21st day of March, 2019.

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IN THE GENERAL COURT OF JUSTICE FORSYTH COUNTY DISTRICT COURT DIVISION IN THE MATTER OF: 19 J 038 SAFE FORSYTH SURRENDER AKA ISAIAH FREDRICK FORSYTH DOB: 02-19-19 NOTICE OF SERVICE OF PROCESS BY PUBLICATION TO:

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TAKE NOTICE that a Juvenile Petition seeking relief against you has been filed in the above-entitled action. The nature of the relief being sought is an adjudication of the Juvenile Petition filed by the Forsyth County Department of Social Services alleging Safe Forsyth Surrender AKA Isaiah Fredrick Forsyth to be a dependent juvenile as pursuant to N.C.G.S. 7B-101(9).

You are required to make a written answer to the Petition alleging to adjudicate de-pendency within forty (40) days after the date of this notice; and upon your failure to make a defense to the Petition within the 40 day period specified herein or to at-tend the hearing on the said Petition, the Petitioner will apply to the Court for ad-judication to the above-referenced juve-nile.

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If you are indigent and not already represented by appointed counsel, you are entitled to appointed counsel and provisional counsel has been appointed upon your re-quest subject to the Courts review at the first hearing after this service.

The hearing on the Petition alleging to ad-judicate Dependency is scheduled for 3:00 p.m., on Monday, April 15, 2019 in Courtroom 1-D of the Hall of Justice in Winston-Salem, North Carolina or as soon thereafter as the Court can hear the said case.

This the 27th day of February, 2019 _________________________ Theresa A. Boucher Attorney for the Forsyth County Department of Social Services 741 Highland Avenue Winston-Salem, N.C. 27101 ((336) 703-3900 The Chronicle March 7, 14, 21, 2019 NOTICE TO CREDITORS Having qualified as Fiduciary of the Estate of Donald Warren Herb, (19E410), also known as Donald Herb, Donald W. Herb, Rev. Donald W. Herb deceased February 20, 2019 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 June 24, 2019 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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NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, pursuant to the requirements of Article 19 of Chapter 160A of the General Statutes of North Carolina, that the City Council of the City of Winston-Salem will hold a public hearing in the Council Chamber at City Hall, Room 230, 101 N. Main Street, WinstonSalem, NC at 7:00 p.m. on April 1, 2019, on the following proposed amendments to the Official Zoning Map of the City of Winston-Salem, North Carolina: 1. Zoning petition of Gary Smith and Carol Smith, to amend and change from AG to RS20: the zoning classification and Official Zoning Map of the property located on the south side of Glenn Hi Road, across from Country View Drive; property consists of ±1.09 acres and is a portion of PIN# 6864-75-0196 as shown on the Forsyth County Tax Maps (Zoning Docket W-3399).

2. Zoning petition of Forsyth County, to amend and change from IP to GB-S (Group Care Facility C; Child Care, DropIn; Church or Religious Institution, Neighborhood; Golf Course; Government Offices, Neighborhood Organization, or Post Office; Habilitation Facility A; Habilitation Facility B; Habilitation Facility C; Library, Public; Museum or Art Gallery; Nursing Care Institution; Police or Fire Station; Recreation Facility, Public; Utilities; Academic Biomedical Research Facility; Adult Day Care Center; Child Care Institution; Child Care, Sick Children; Child Day Care Center; Church or Religious Institution, Community; Family Group Home B; Park and Shuttle Lot; School, Private; School, Public; School, Vocational or Professional; Club or Lodge; College or University; Family Group Home C; Recreation Services, Indoor; Recreation Services, Outdoor; Transmission Tower; Access Easement, Private Off-Site; and Animal Shelter, Public): the zoning classification and Official Zoning Map of the property located on the northwest side of Sturmer Park Circle, north of Shattalon Dr; property consists of ±5.49 acres and is a portion of PIN# 682813-9481 as shown on the Forsyth County Tax Maps (Zoning Docket W-3403).

All parties in interest and citizens are invited to attend said hearing at which time they shall have an opportunity to be heard in favor of or in opposition to the foregoing proposed changes.

During the public hearing the City Council may hear other proposals to amend the zoning of the above-described property or any portion thereof. At the end of the public hearing, the City Council may continue the matter, deny the proposed rezoning, in whole or in part, grant the proposed rezoning, in whole or in part, or rezone the above-described property or any portion thereof to some other zoning classification.

Prior to the hearing, all persons interested may obtain any additional information on these proposals which is in the possession of the City-County Planning Board by inquiring in the office of the City-County Planning Board in the Bryce A. Stuart Municipal Building on weekdays between the hours of 8:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m.

All requests for appropriate and necessary auxiliary aids and services must be made, within a reasonable time prior to the hearing, to Angela Carmon at 747-7404 or to T.D.D. 727-8319.

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