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The Honorable Logan Todd Burke has a new position downtown.

The judge is adjusting to his new role as the 21st Judicial District of the Fifth Division senior resident superior court judge for Forsyth County. “The job comes with more administrative responsibilities,� Burke said.

He is managing a staff of four that consists of trial court clerks and trial court coordinators. “It’s been good service to the state

of North Carolina and immediately to the counties that I serve,� he said.

Superior Court judges are attorneys who are elected for each district in non-partisan elections for eightyear terms. Burke was re-elected in 2012.

Regular Superior Court judges must reside in the district in which they are elected, but rotate from one district to another within their division.

The senior resident superior court judge has the most seniority of the superior court judges in the district

After striking down a key provision of the Voting Rights Act in 2013, the U.S. Supreme Court is preparing to weigh in on another key piece of Civil Rights legislation: the 1968 Fair Housing Act. The Supreme Court heard arguments in Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs v.

The Inclusive Communities Project in January and is expected to rule on it this summer. The case involves a key provision of the Fair Housing Act that states even if Moye there is no intentional racism, that housing practices cannot have “disparate impact� against a particular race, color, gender, religion, national origin, or people with disabilities.

Both local and state organizations that deal with Fair Housing cases are waiting to see what the court does, since many of their cases involve more subtle forms of discrimination.

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and is responsible for carrying out various administrative duties, such as approving personnel hirings.

He has jurisdiction in both civil and criminal cases.

Burke also holds court in Guilford, Stokes, Surry, Rockingham, Wilkes, Yadkin, Ashe, Alleghany, Randolph and Montgomery counties.

Even with all the work Burke puts in at his new job, he couldn’t imagine it any other way. “It’s been a pleasant experience.

Commissioners renew commitment to prayer before meetings

BY CHANEL DAVIS THE CHRONICLE

Forsyth County Board of Commissioners is moving to resume prayer before its board meetings.

The Board voted to adopt an updated policy regarding opening invocations before the board meetings, after an injunction to prohibit the sectarian prayer before meetings was thrown out in 2014.

The vote was unanimous, with the motion to approve the updated policy made by Commissioner Gloria Whisenhunt and seconded by Commissioner Ted Kaplin. The sevenmember Board of Commissioners holds

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two business meetings each month, on the second and fourth Mondays.

The meetings are held in the County Commissioners Meeting Room on the fifth floor of the Forsyth County Government Watts Center, 201 N. Chestnut St. in downtown Winston-Salem.

The updated policy states that the invocation will not be recognized as an agenda item, is not considered part of the public

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“We are going to go ahead and place those ads and start scheduling as early as late March or April,� said County Manager J. Dudley Watts Jr. “We’ll do that every year and just keep a rotation going like we did before the lawsuit.�

An ad is in this week’s Chronicle.

Forsyth County previously invited clergy before commissioners meetings. In 2007, the county was sued. The lawsuit, Joyner v. Forsyth County, was filed by the local branches of the American Cilvil Liberties Union and Americans United for Separation of Church and State in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of

To record law enforcement or not: Is it wrong?

BY CHANEL DAVIS THE CHRONICLE

“For many people,

their first viewing of a citizen recording, not a recording by a photographer or news reporter, was the Rodney King beating in 1991. This was powerful and the recording had an impact on public opinion and the trials,� said Kimya N. Dennis, assistant pro-

fessor in the department of Sociology and Criminal Studies at Salem College. “Yes, citizens have the legal right to record law enforcement as long as it does not interfere with law enforcement’s job or cause a distraction.

This ongoing debate across the coun-

try over the years has been driven by overall distrust of law enforcement and the push for citizens to be proactive in holding law enforcement accountable.�

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In these days, in which many in urban

communities distrust the police because of recent incidents in New York, Los Angeles and Ferguson, Missouri, the need to record it all is enhanced.

Those videos have become more of a checks and balances for many law enforcement officers.

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Effort to ‘right-size’ the UNC system in the works UNC SYSTEM UNDER FIRE

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Significant changes may be on the horizon for the state’s higher education network, as the University of North Carolina’s governing board considers “right-sizing� the 17-campus system. “The model should be much smaller than it is,� UNC Board of Governor member Harry Smith Jr. said about the UNC system in late February, during a committee meeting discussion about tuition and fee increases.

The system-wide review could result in recommendations to consolidate or shutter campuses and follows recent decisions by the UNC Board of Governors that have attracted public attention and criticism. The board, all appointed by a Republican-led state legislature, decided in January to replace UNC President Tom Ross by next year, and then last week moved to shut down three academic centers, including a poverty center run by a law professor critical of Republican state leaders.

The public comments about the upcoming system-wide review were repeated in early March by Smith, who chairs the governing board’s budget and finance committee, during a debate before the full UNC Board of Governors about tuition and fee increases.

Several members objected to the 2 to 7 percent in-state tuition and fee hikes, calling the increases unsustainable patches for gaps in the university system’s budget and unfair to students and families. North Carolina taxpayers contributed $2.6 billion of the $4.3 billion university budget. “We’re getting ready to plow into the sustainability of the model,� said Smith, a Greenville businessman, before the 16-9 vote to approve the tuition increases over the next two years.

with a shortfall from lower-than-expected tax revenues and competing requests from other branches of state government for funding.

Republican Gov. Pat McCrory’s proposed budget for 2015-17, which was released earlier this month, would have the Board of Governors cut an additional $50 million to “achieve efficiencies,� while carving out $8 million additional funds for East Carolina University’s medical school, which has faced financial difficulties.

House and Senate leaders will parse through the details of McCrory’s budget before passing a finalized two-year budget this summer.

Smith, the UNC Board of Governors member, said he’s hesitant to continually ask for state money for the university system without examining what he sees as inefficiencies.

He questioned whether the system,

New direction for UNC Board?

The University of North Carolina’s governing board has spent much of 2015 in the spotlight, somewhat of a departure from past years. The UNC board is tasked with overseeing the system’s 16 university campuses, as well as the N.C. School of Science and Mathematics, a residential school in Durham for advanced high school students, and UNC-TV, a statewide public television network.

Their appointments come from the state legislature, which has been controlled

by Republicans since 2011. Half of the board is currently up for re-appointment, with both House and Senate members expected to vote on nominees later this month.

Two contentious decisions by the UNC Board of Governors – the unexpected move in January to get rid of Ross and last week’s closure of three academic centers – has brought the public’s gaze, and scrutiny, to the board.

James Moeser, a former chancellor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, wrote in an essay published this month that recent actions by the board has him concerned about the future of the university system.

He is worried about “collateral damage to the university from these actions and from statements from people in high places that suggest a lack of support for academic freedom, a lack of understanding of the real purpose of a public university,�

Moeser wrote.

Funding remains a major challenge for the state’s university system, which has seen the state’s share of per-student funding drop by 25 percent since the recession began in 2008 while tuition and fees have gone up by more than that, according to the Center on Budget and Public Priorities.

State coffers aren’t likely to cough up much more money for the university system this year, as the legislature contends

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This shortfall follows more than 26,400 uncollected blood and platelet donations in February due to severe weather across 27 states. Despite the weather, hospital patients still rely on transfusion.

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In an interview this month with N.C. Policy Watch, Smith said the fact-based review could include consolidations, closures or mergers with regional community colleges. He doesn’t know when it will begin, but hopes to start soon.

Campuses with low enrollments, subpar graduation, retention and job placement rates, as well as the state’s five public historically black colleges (HBCUs) will face tough questions, he said. “It’s my personal opinion that it’s way too big,�

Smith said, about the UNC system. “I’d like to look at the entire system and see how many campuses we See more on UNC need.� on pages A4, A5 He anticipates fielding criticisms from faculty, students, alumni and others, but says the review is long overdue. “People have been ducking this conversation for a long time,� Smith said.

Ross, the UNC president, told reporters last week he wasn’t sure what the upcoming review would entail, but would be following it. “I will be interested to watch and hear,� he said.

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which educates more than 200,000 students, needs to be as large as it is or have as many distinct campuses in order to satisfy the state’s needs. “We’re supposed to be preparing kids to make an economic impact on North Carolina,� Smith said.

The upcoming review introduced by Smith could dismantle academic programs that are serving their regions as well as students well, said Steve Leonard, a UNCChapel Hill political science professor and chair of the UNC system’s Faculty Assembly. “You have to have institutions that are doing different things if you’re going to have intellectual innovation and intellectual diversity,� Leonard said.

Smith said he wants to remove as much as emotion as he can from the analysis and use figures about retention rates, economic impact, job placement and graduation rates as guides.

Historically black colleges will also be a focus, Smith said. North Carolina, with five campuses, has more public HBCUs than any other state.

A budget provision last year would have closed Elizabeth City State University, a small HBCU in the impoverished northeastern corner of the state which has struggled to keep enrollment up, but did not make the final budget. “You’ve got to have a conversation about HBCUs,� Smith said. “And how many you need; we’ve got five.�

The scrutiny will come at a time when HBCUS have fewer proponents in the state’s political leadership, with Democratic members who traditionally served as the boosters and defenders of the schools now out of power. All but three of the 32 current Board of Governors are white, and no members attended any of North Carolina’s five public HBCUs. Another campus at risk may be the University of North Carolina at Pembroke, a small campus on the state’s southern border with South Carolina.

Kyle Carter, the UNC-Pembroke chancellor, said he understands the need for a review by system leaders and hopes the unique value of his smaller campus is understood by the board.

UNC-Pembroke is located in a part of the state that traditionally has had some of the highest poverty and unemployment rates, and nearly 60 percent of its students are minorities.

In addition, 60 percent of last year’s graduating class were the first in their families to get college degrees, a sign that the school is providing opportunities to those that need it, said Carter, who is retiring in June. “Before a system board begins to make decisions about right-sizing, they have to ask some questions about what is the value of an institution and what would happen if it wasn’t there,� Carter said.

In his part of the state, an area also saddled with high rates of poverty and few available jobs, it could be disastrous, he said. “I don’t know what would happen to Robeson County if UNC-Pembroke was not here,� Carter said.

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Schools to sponsor arts show

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W i n s t o n Salem/Forsyth County Schools will showcase art from their students at a Spring Arts Extravaganza, Wednesday, March 18 through Wednesday, March 25, at the Milton Rhodes Center for the Arts in downtown Winston-Salem.

The opening reception is 5-7 p.m., Friday, March 20. The show and the reception are both free and open to the public. Modern Automotive’s “Artists of the Future� contest winners and certificate recipients will be announced at the opening reception on March 20.

Arts Extravaganza is sponsored by Modern Automotive in collaboration with the WinstonSalem/Forsyth County School System.

It features the best artwork from elementary, middle schools and high schools in the system,

including painting, drawing, sculpture, photography and mixed media.

Each year hundreds of students, parents and family members, teachers and arts enthusiasts attend the largest annual arts show in the county. “The creativity demonstrated at Arts Extravaganza by students in our public school system is absolutely amazing,� said Jim Sparrow, President and CEO of the Arts Council of WinstonSalem and Forsyth County. “It speaks well for the high level of instruction that students receive and the educational value of arts programs in our schools.�

Art by elementary students will be exhibited in Reynolds Place in the Milton Rhodes Center and artwork by middle and high school students will be displayed in the Davis Gallery of the Sawtooth School, which is located in the center, also.

Modern Automotive will award Sawtooth School scholarships valued at $250 each to winners in each division along with a family membership to Sawtooth. In addition, the students will appear in a TV commercial for the company.

Runners up will receive student memberships in the Sawtooth School. The art teachers of the three winners will receive certificates to purchase supplies at Dick Blick Art Materials.

Opening night will have a special activity for the kids sponsored by Modern. “Color the City� will allow kids to place iconic images and automobiles on a Winston-Salem skyline which they can then color or paint with material of their choice and take home as souvenirs.

Winston-Salem, known at a “City of Arts and Innovation,� has a robust arts community.

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Students at Carter G. Woodson are learning new moves that they’ll be ready to show off at the end of the week in a multi-cultural showcase.

The Hispanic Arts Initiative and the school have teamed up to create a program that will allow students to participate in a cross-cultural program between Latino and African-American communities, the school’s largest demographics.

The Initiative, a nonprofit, is dedicated to ensuring that Latino culture and artists are authentically represented and integrated into the Triad communities.

“The shifts aren’t really being addressed in the school system so the idea of this three-week residency is to explore the shared cultural heritage between Latinos and African-Americans because Latino is very diverse and it has many elements in it,” said Executive Director Maria H. Sanchez-Boudy. “We certainly have a lot of indigenous and African influence. In fact in Cuba, our music is called AfroCuban music since it has so much influence.”

The program is funded by the The Arts Council of Winston-Salem and Forsyth County through a Wells Fargo Arts-InEducation Grant and allows for artists to come into the school and work with students for three weeks. Each week a different cultural influence is addressed.

“We get a grant every year to work in the schools and I already had an earlier relationship with Carter G., so for this year I dedicated to address social topics and work it through the arts,” Sanchez-Boudy said.

“I know that there have been tremendous population shifts in this country over the past 10 to 15 years.”

The artists work with third-, fourth-

Iara Calheira Kendrick teaches the children dance moves.

and fifth-graders using interactive dialogue, music and dance to focus on the positive aspects of the school’s diversity.

The school, which started out as an African-American charter school, has seen an influx of Latino students within the last few years, according to Sanchez-Boudy, due to the school’s location.

“Waughtown and Vargrave is really the heart of the Latino community. There’s been a shift in their (Carter G. Woodson’s) student body, which has gone from 100 percent African-American to a 50-50 percent very fast,” Sanchez-Boudy said.

“With that comes challenges with cultural integration.”

Sanchez-Boudy said that the best way to help with the integration is to use the arts, especially dancing.

“The arts, in my opinion, become a very good platform to explore what we have in common and bridge the cultural gap. The arts are neutral,” she said. “ When you're watching someone dance salsa, what’s going through her mind is not “gosh they’re Latino” or this or that. You just move to the music, your body dances and you enjoy the moment.”

The school has also appreciated the

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Daniel Diaz played drums to teach the children about Latino music and dance.

program bring- we possibly could for this grant,” SanchezBoudy said. ing the opportunity to the area.

Hopkins also invites parents and the “The opportunity for children, in any community out. too, so that students can school environment, particularly ours, to become educated on the global behavior of share the information they’ve learned and a shared culture is important historically,” hopes that attendees come prepared to said Ruth Hopkins, executive director at learn something new about each other.

“There has been a great response and Carter G.Woodson school. “It is important participation from students. The best thing that this initiative has been set up to ensure the correct dissemination of information we could do to share this information with about cultures. They’ve been able to set up the community is to try and get them to a classroom setting, in our library, every come together on Friday to see these difTuesday this month where they’ve brought ferent costumes, instruments and do a seriin enriching artists that showed the style of ous teach-in with the information and art, dance and musical song that twines the enjoyment around the cultures. We are more alike than we are different in this two cultures together.”

The session culminates with a final world,” she said.

For more information, go to http://hisperformance on Friday, March 20, called panicartsinitiative.org.

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UNC Board appears set Is insanity a requirement for people on reversing to be black and Republican in U.S.? historic gains

The Republican-controlled UNC Board of Governors appears to be going full-throttle to find ways to dismantle the University of North Carolina system as we know it. A board member told NCPolicyWatch.com that the board is moving to "right-size" the 17-campus UNC system. This means possibly closing the five historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) in North Carolina.

The state's HBCUs – Winston-Salem State University, Elizabeth City State University, Fayetteville State University, North Carolina A&T State University and North Carolina Central University – have been a part of North Carolina for more than a century.

First, there was the University of North Carolina, which was chartered by the North Carolina General Assembly in 1789. In 1877, the General Assembly began adding institutions of higher education, diverse in origin and purpose. The five historically black institutions were added, and another was founded to educate Native Americans. Several were created to prepare teachers for the public schools.

Others had a technological emphasis. One is a training school for performing artists. Other schools were added in 1931 and 1971. The last school was added in 1985.

WSSU was founded by Dr. Simon Green Atkins as Slater Industrial Academy. To see that the school has developed into Winston-Salem State University, a four-year institution, says volumes about how HBCUs have evolved. With so much history and successes behind them, HBCUs should be touted.

However, the UNC Board of Governors is targeting the HBCUs, which seem to be easy targets. What is the Board's thinking? That North Carolina doesn't need smaller schools that cater to specific populations? Does the board want North Carolina to return to the 19th century?

North Carolina is known for its wide array of educational opportunities for students and expertise opportunities for professors and staff members.

North Carolina is known for its HBCUs, which have graduated minority and non-minority students who have gone on to be outstanding, productive citizens.

The list of those students could go on and on. What would have happened if the colleges had not been there to educate them?

UNC Board of Governor member Harry Smith Jr., who is chairman of the UNC Board's budget and finance committee, told NCPolicyWatch.com that “You’ve got to have a conversation about HBCUs. And how many you need, we’ve got five,” which is more public HBCUs than any other state. He seems to think the UNC system is too big.

Although Smith said the Board will look at the entire system for inefficiencies, he seems to think it will be easy to target the HBCUs because of the number there are in North Carolina. How many should there be? Then again, why are there any statesupported schools of higher education? Why do we even need a UNC Board of Governors? Why do we need 32 members?

The North Carolina Senate and House will be voting soon on which 16 citizens will be appointed to the Board because 16 of the 32 positions are up for renewal this year.

Why can't the Republican-controlled North Carolina General Assembly change the number of members on the board, like members are changing the number of members of several cities' lawmaking bodies? If lawmakers can change Greensboro's lawmaking body, for instance, why can't they change the Board of Governors? The Board of Governors seems rather large.

The line of thinking supported by the UNC Board of Governors is terribly flawed. The rich history of higher education in North Carolina is threatened. The Board appears headed toward arbitrarily deciding what is best for North Carolina's higher education system. That's not how the system was built.

If the Board continues on this path, the history of the higher education system in North Carolina will read more like a tragedy than a drama with a happy ending.

Bill Turner

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In early March, when as-yet unannounced 2016 Republican presidential candidate Dr. Ben Carson stated his views on gays, I turned to an old saying that explains what some blacks do to become authentic and valued figures in conservative circles: “First, they fill their mouths with marbles.

Next, they start talking.

Then, when they have lost all of their marbles, they become legitimate and respected Republicans!”

Dr. Carson is on an ever-lengthening list of blacks who, in order to cozy up to the extreme right wing of the GOP, will utter the most conspicuously offensive words, all in service to firing up right wing support.

Black Republican Vernon Robinson of WinstonSalem – Dr. Carson’s campaign director, himself a perennial candidate, while running recently for NC’s 5th congressional district – used the slogan: “Jesse Helms is back. This time he is black!” Mr. Robinson might want to add rightwing nut job to his impressive resume, which includes study at the US Air Force Academy and University of Missouri MBA School.

If Dr. Carson – a highly acclaimed pediatric neurosurgeon – is right when he says that "a lot of people who go into prison straight, and when they come out, they're gay," then it could be assumed that a lot of blacks who go into the Republican party stable and sane become flat-out foolish and say things that are disreputable, divisive, hurtful and very, very stupid.

Dr. Carson joins the ranks of Associate Justice Clarence Thomas who

came up with several sharp and disgusting insults against affirmative action during confirmation hearings for his Supreme Court seat. Both The College of Holy Cross and Yale Law School are on record for the programs they put in place in the 1960s to compensate for the exclusion of black students l i k e

USA will cease to exist.”

When Mia Love, a Haitian-American Mormon, became the first black Republican woman elected to the U.S. Congress last fall, she pooh-poohed the premise of a question about the role of her race or the immigrant status of her parents in her election. “I think what we need to mention here is this had nothing do

blacks believe in uplifting, personal responsibility, family values, and religious virtue. Once on the mountaintop of media attention, however, these black believers in God and country, say, in the words of former Florida Congressman Alan West, “As conservatives, we don’t care about the color of your skin; we care about the color of our flag.”

“As conservatives, we don’t care about the color of your skin; we care about the color of our flag.”

Cain

Carson

Love

–Former Congressman Allen West

Clarence Thomas.

Godfather Pizza CEO Herman Cain often fueled his 2012 run for the Republican presidential nomination with belligerent statements such as: “Don’t blame Wall Street, don’t blame the big banks.

If you don’t have a job and you are not rich, blame yourself!”

Who can forget – or remembers – black Republican Alan Lee Keyes, whom President Ronald Reagan appointed to the State Department in 1985 and who later moved to Illinois in an attempt to take the Senate seat once occupied by Barack Obama, about whom he said: “Obama is a radical Communist ... we are either going to stop him or the

with race,” she said.

“Understand that Utahans have made a statement that they’re not interested in dividing Americans based on race or gender. That’s really what made history here. It’s that race and gender had nothing to do with it. Principles had everything to do with it, and Utah values had everything to do with it.” Wearing blinders or rose-colored glasses dismiss and distort, but they do not drive out reality.

Black Republicans running for office not only start at the political center, at the very least, but, once acknowledged publically, they quickly move to an over-the-top message that deliberately ignores the historical fact that most

People like Herman Cain, Ben Carson, Allen Keyes, Mia Love, Vernon Robinson, Clarence Thomas, Alan West, and many other black conservatives, including Thomas Sowell and Condoleezza Rice, are all very sharp, quick-witted, and exceptionally intelligent people.

Too bad that in order to be appealing and saleable inside the predominantly white Republican Party they feel obligated to perform a version of themselves that is equivalent to having lost their marbles.

No matter one’s political affiliation, in that game, we all lose.

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Dear Governor: Help protect HBCUs Ken Spalding

Guest Columnist Governor Pat McCrory Office of the Governor 20301 Mail Service Center Raleigh, NC 27699-0301 Dear Governor McCrory:

I call upon you to join me in supporting all of our state supported Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) and in opposing attempts to close any of these most valuable institutions of high learning. These institutions have produced tens of thousands of proactive and successful North Carolinians including a governor of this state and a nationally renowned astronaut.

I bring this to your attention at this time because countless N o r t h Carolinians a r e extremely concerned about the previous unwarranted actions of the Republican controlled University Board of Governors and what those actions portend for the existing state supported HBCUs. The unjustified termination of Dr. Tom Ross, University President, and the underserved elimination of the three universitybased centers which focused on the environment, poverty and voter engagement demonstrate a proclivity of this Board to

go after those who are not ideologically in agreement with t h e m .

Academic freedom and education, in general, should be allowed to exist for the full benefit of the students, faculty, and our state as a whole.

Under the guise of cost savings, it is anticipated that the next ideological target will be our state's HBCUs. I wish to point out that these important institutions provide a wide range of educational opportunities to thousands of minority students along with non-minority students, as well.

These institutions provide essential aca-

demic skills which create a pathway to success and a productive economic future for so many of our young people.

The financial impact of HBCUs on the communities which house them are critical to their vitality and economic security. The inter-relationship between "town and gown" is unmistakable and important to our state's success.

Therefore, as Governor and leader of your party, I call upon you to make it clear to your Republican controlled Board of Governors that funding should be secure for these productive and successful HBCUs in North Carolina. We need no further divisive actions in this state.

Educational opportunities in our HBCUs continue to open doors for all North Carolinians who choose to avail themselves of their culturally rich and important value.

Sincerely,

Ken Spaulding

Doomed UNC centers sang the wrong songs Steve Ford Guest Columnist

It’s easy to imagine what the conservative Republicans who rule North Carolina’s legislative roost were thinking: “Here we’ve gone to all the trouble to take control of the General Assembly. We appoint the University of North Carolina system’s Board of Governors. We set the system’s budget.

“So why should we have to put up with the jibes of an impudent Democrat law professor who uses his university job to accuse us of ignoring poverty? What do he and his liberal pals know about putting more money in poor people’s pockets?

They don’t even understand that tax cuts are the way to boost the economy.

“We may not be able to shut this guy up completely, but we’re counting on our minions on the Board of Governors to knock him down to size. After all, we didn’t put those folks on the board just because we liked their looks!”

There’s no telling what sort of signals Republican legislators may actually have sent to board members regarding the fate of UNC-Chapel Hill’s Gene Nichol and the anti-poverty center he has headed since 2008.

But after a months-long evaluation of 240 scholarly centers and institutes across the UNC system – an evaluation ordered up

by those same legislators – a grand total of three flunked the test. Nobody could have been the least bit surprised that among the trio hit with an administrative death sentence was Nichol’s Center on Poverty, Work and Opportunity.

That organization must close by Sept. 1, as must NC Central University’s Center for Civic Engagement and Social Change and East Carolina University’s Center for Biodiversity. Of course, if there hadn’t been such an obvious desire to whack the poverty center, the other two might have avoided being dragged down with it. But with their emphasis on social justice issues and environmental protection, they proved to be expedient targets as well.

To those of us who think that promoting civic engagement in pursuit of social justice and encouraging the study of the effects of climate change and other environmental threats are good things, zapping those two centers rubs salt in an already painful wound.

Certainly, it reflects conservative animosity toward agendas that are commonly assigned a liberal label – even if encouraging people to vote and following the paths of science where they lead are activities that should appeal across ideological lines.

Freedom flummoxed

The common denominator here is a stifling of academic efforts that run afoul of conservative

orthodoxy and Republican political convenience.

That’s a blow to academic freedom, almost by definition. It risks tarnishing one of North Carolina’s most precious assets, its nationally renowned system of public higher education.

No wonder there’s been an outcry up and down that system’s ranks – from fac-

side of state leaders who he insisted were not doing enough to fight the poverty that plagued North Carolina’s inner cities, struggling small towns and rural outback. Democrats weren’t spared from his barbs, but the Republicans who took over the legislature in 2010 really felt the heat.

ulty, students, and administrators.

There’s no getting around the fact that the poverty center, for all of Nichol’s important efforts to rouse North Carolinians to the scale and consequences of poverty in their midst, has operated with a certain Democratic flavor.

Nichol himself, during an earlier phase of his career in Colorado, ran in Democratic primaries for the U.S. Senate and House, losing both times. Fast-forward to 2005, when as UNC’s law school dean he helped recruit former U.S. Sen. John Edwards as the center’s first, part-time director. The center thus gave Edwards, the Democratic candidate for vice president in 2004, a temporary base of operations as he geared up for what became his failed populist bid for the party’s presidential nomination in 2008. Republicans were not amused.

After Nichol was named to the director’s job, he became a thorn in the

Their patience might well have snapped during 2013, when the Moral Monday protests led by the NAACP focused national attention on the state’s rightward lurch. Nichol and the N.C. NAACP chapter under the Rev. William Barber had teamed to explore and expose the poverty problem, with Nichol contributing a series of op-ed articles that ran in The News & Observer.

Although Nichol was justifiably proud of those articles – listing them as among the poverty center’s accomplishments in his attempt to convince the Board of Governors to keep the center alive – his message was clear: Republican leaders, including Gov. Pat McCrory, were doing nothing of substance to alleviate the poverty in which many thousands of North Carolinians were ensnared, and indeed were making matters worse.

Still, Nichol’s outspokenness was not among the

(Ken Spaulding is a Democratic candidate for governor of North Carolina.)

reasons cited by the Board of Governors committee in recommending that the poverty center be closed.

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The committee noted that UNC-Chapel Hill “is working on other, multidisciplinary poverty efforts” – as if that would eliminate the value of a center focused solely on examining poverty’s reach, causes and remedies.

Perhaps it was fair for the panel to question the poverty center’s tie to the law school as opposed to, say, the university’s School of Social Work or Department of Public Policy – although a fair response would be that it was a law professor who figured out how to make the concept work and secured outside funding to run it.

But the most telling critique was that the center “did not provide a widerange (sic) of alternatives for addressing poverty.”

In other words, the center didn’t favor tax cuts to help the “job creators” of whom Republicans are so solicitous.

It didn’t favor cutting back on unemployment benefits so that people would be even more desperate to find work that often simply isn’t there.

It didn’t favor blaming poor people for their own predicament.

Among the steps the poverty center has conspicuously, and properly, favored is a robust investment in public education – the kind of investment that’s made even more dif-

ficult by the legislature’s fixation on lower taxes.

Nichol – recipient of the Council of Churches’ Faith Active in Public Life award – has written forcefully for the Council about education’s power as an antipoverty antidote.

Now the Board of Governors, in cracking down on three university centers whose agendas challenge Republican dogma, moves to enforce a needlessly constricted view of how public universities can serve the people in whose name they operate.

Even when the affected personnel such as Nichol hold tenured posts and thus have a degree of job protection if they continue to speak out – as Nichol says he intends to do – the board’s action hampers work that’s entirely consistent with the mission of a public university system.

That’s especially so in the case of the UNC system, which over the decades has spearheaded so much of North Carolina’s social and economic progress. All those who want that progress to continue – and to be shared by our neighbors who still find themselves on the outside of the prosperity window, looking in – should be sad to see the universities’ legacy of activism in behalf of positive social change now being eroded.

Steve Ford, former editorial page editor at Raleigh’s News & Observer, is now a Volunteer Program Associate at the North Carolina Council of Churches

The bullying politics of revenge continues in Raleigh

Anybody still holding Chris out hope that bitter parFitzsimon the tisan politics Guest of revenge, Columnist bullying and raw power grabbing on display in Raleigh during the last four years was on the wane can’t have much hope left after watching the Senate leadership last week.

The Senate not only voted to change the election districts in county commission races in Wake County and city council contests in Greensboro, they refused to even allow debate on the Senate floor about allowing people in those communities to have a say about the changes in their own local elections.

The political arrogance and overreach is breathtaking, even for the crowd currently in charge in Raleigh — and that’s saying something.

The Senate approved plans by Sen. Trudy Wade to change Greensboro elections and Sen. Chad Barefoot to change districts for the Wake County Commission with both senators using the same justifi-

cations, that power in the current system in both areas has become too concentrated and the districts needed to be redrawn to better serve all the people of Greensboro and Wake County.

Putting aside the irony of Senate leaders complaining about an undemocratic concentration of power, the justification is absurd on its face.

The bills to change the elections didn’t come after a popular uprising in either area. No mass of voters in Greensboro or Wake County came to the General Assembly demanding a different way to select their local leaders.

No, what happened is that votes in both areas elected Democrats and the Republicans in control of the General Assembly simply can’t have that, especially in two of state’s largest urban areas. So after losing the elections, they used their supermajorities in Raleigh to change the rules of the elections the next time the voters go to the polls.

As brazen and appalling as the abuse of power seems, taken in the context of the last few years it’s not all that surprising.

There’s been a war on urban areas of the state since the Republicans took over the House and Senate, from attacks on the

water system in Asheville to attempting to change who runs the Charlotte airport.

They have already changed the elections in school board races in Guilford County and Wake County and they abolished the privilege license fees cities charge businesses, costing cities millions of dollars. They don’t like the urban areas and they certainly don’t like the way the elections in cities are turning out these days.

And not just liberals are complaining about the heavy-handed tactics. Gov. Pat McCrory, a fellow Republican, said recently that the General Assembly should stay out of local issues. The next day, Senator Barefoot introduced his bill to distort the Wake County Commission races for Republican advantage.

Senate Republicans don’t listen to their own governor. They don’t listen to anybody. And they are not too interested in what the people of North Carolina think either.

That was made clear during the debate on the Senate floor about the Wake County and Greensboro power-grabbing proposals. Democrats offered amendments to both bills to put the changes up for a referendum, to let the people affected by the

proposal actually have a say in it.

But in both cases, Senate leaders wouldn’t even allow the subject to be debated, much less voted on by the entire Senate. Instead they used a parliamentary move to kill the idea.

The people can’t vote on changes to their own elections and the people they send to Raleigh can’t even talk about whether they should have that right.

Senate leaders know best.

The episode brings to mind the quote from Senator Tommy Tucker a couple of years ago when he famously told someone expressing a contrary point of view, “I am the senator. You are the citizen. You need to be quiet.”

Senate leaders just told the people of Raleigh and Greensboro the same thing last week. They know better and they’ll decide who runs your school board and city council and don’t really care what you or the people who represent you in the Senate think about it. You need to be quiet.

Chris Fitzsimon NCPolicyWatch.com.

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Of course, it’s the kind of job where 50 percent of the people are going to be happy with you and 50 percent of the people are going to be upset with you because you can’t make decisions to please everyone,” he said. “I try to be respectful and courteous as I can and not make things personal with litigants or parties in both cases.”

Lawyer Frederick Adams agrees that Burke is fair in his practices.

“I’ve appeared in front of him many times. I think it is a well-deserved appointment.

Judge Burke’s works and service to his community speaks for itself,” Adams said. “Of all the times I’ve appeared in front of Judge Burke, I felt that he took the time that was necessary to make sure that my client had a fair opportunity to be heard, which is all that you can really ask for when you have a client appearing in court.”

The life-long WinstonSalem resident, and son of former North Carolina Rep. Logan Burke and Mayor Pro Tempore Vivian H. Burke, graduated from East Forsyth High School.

Burke is a 1983 graduate from Morehouse College and received his Juris Doctor degree from the North Carolina Central University School of Law in 1986.

After graduation, Burke became a prosecutor in Kinston before returning to his hometown, where he opened up his own practice, the Law Firm of Friende & Burke.

In December 1994, Gov. James B. Hunt appointed Burke to the Superior Court bench, making him the youngest serving resident superior court judge in the state at the time.

He was also the first African-American male to be named to the senior resident position and the first black male prosecutor in Forsyth county.

Burke gained national attention after hearing a case in Wilkesboro where a drunk driver killed another driver in an accident. As a result of a guilty plea, the woman was ordered to wear a sign that stated she was a convicted drunk driver and as a result someone lost their life. The sign was to be worn for an hour once a month outside of the courthouse for a year.

She was also to maintain a memorial site at the scene of the accident, go for alcohol treatment, serve six months in jail and serve on probation.

He appeared on Nancy Grace’s “Pros and Cons” TV show, Fox national

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While he comes from a long familial legacy of service to the community, he wants to forge his own path.

“I had an opportunity to observe my parents in leadership roles all my life as a child,” he said.

“I bring with me their experiences and how I’ve observed them interact with and serve the community.”

Burke said that he hopes to be remembered as someone who made fair decisions.

“I just hope that it would be that I was a person of integrity and I abided by the rule of law while I upheld my oath to do so,” he said of his legacy.

Adams said that he has known Burke for a number of years and would consider him a friend.

“He’s active in the Winston-Salem Bar Association. He is very helpful to young attorneys by giving them advice and mentoring them,” Adams said.

“It’s very seldom where you get a case that has a smoking gun, you know, have someone who maybe used racial slurs or someone who put in writing they don’t rent to certain people who are in those protected classes, so the cases don’t come neatly packaged that way,” said Wanda Allen-Abraha, director of the city’s Human Relations Department that handles housing complaints.

Human Relations Department, which mediates landlord/tenant disputes, has about 110-120 residential cases a year. Of those, about a dozen are usually fair housing claims, which involves a belief or accusation of discrimination by a tenant who is part of a protected class. As a partner with the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, the case is filed with HUD and investigated by Human Relations staff, who act as a neutral party in the dispute. If a case for discrimination is found, then its referred to the city attorney, though Allen-Abraha said they’re usually settled before they go to court. Of the 60 discrimination cases the department has had in the last five years, 33 have been based on national origin, 17 on race, seven on gender and seven on disability. Cases can be appealed to the Human Relations Commission and legal action can be pursued regardless of the department’s ruling.

The Winston-Salem office of Legal Aid of North Carolina, currently has 11 fair housing cases open. Liza Baron, supervising attorney of it’s General Practice Unit that includes housing cases,

said discrimination can take many forms, including not making accommodations to the handicap and fabricating reasons to evict an interracial family. She said the provision being debated is both clear and needed.

“I think it’s very alarming and very disconcerting because if they do come down the way some folks think they will, it will make it much harder to litigate on behalf of victims of housing discrimination and probably reverse years of advocacy and gains in the courts.”

However, she said, North Carolina has it’s own Fair Housing Act that is equivalent to the federal one. This would allow lawyers to use disparate impact with the state law, though without the federal law and the option to go to federal court, the case would be weaker. Most other states, however, don’t have disparate

impact in their housing laws.

Jeff Dilliman co-director of the state Legal Aid’s Fair Housing Project, also said the provision is needed because discrimination is rarely overt anymore. He said he’s concerned the high court is taking the case just to change the law, since there’s no disagreement on it in the lower courts.

“Every court of appeals that has looked at this across the country has come down on the same side, that there’s a right under the Fair Housing Act to bring what’s called the disparate impact case,” he said.

But it’s not just individual tenet cases that it’ll effect. Richard Moye, an assistant professor of sociology at Winston-Salem State University, is concerned it’ll effect cases of discriminatory practices in lending and other housing policies that lead to segre-

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gated housing.

The case before the Supreme Court, is one example. It involves the non-profit Inclusive Communities suing the Texas state authority for assigning most of its affordable housing tax credits to black neighborhoods.

A federal judge didn’t find intentional racism, but that it unacceptably increased housing segregation and that the tax credits should have been more evenly distributed.

Moye said there have been gains in desegregating neighborhoods every decade since the Fair Housing Act went into effect, most of which have come from blacks moving into white neighborhoods.

He said if the court strikes down disparate impact, that progress may come to a halt.

“I think it’s been a powerful tool,” he said of the Housing Act.

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Criminal Justice Program at Wake Forest University, also said that the use of cell phone cameras is an incredible tool for police accountability. “A lot of police officers are aware that citizens, and public faces, are under video surveillance. In many cases, there are dashcams to record the behavior of police officers,� she said. “There are studies, one in Rio Alto, Calif. and Mesa, Ariz., that confirms that when officers are wearing body cameras that complaints against those police and uses of force decrease. Part of that is when the public knows that they are also being recorded, then they change their behaviors as well.�

North Carolinians have the right to record officers' interaction with another resident if that resident gives permission.

According to the American Civil Liberties Union, taking photos of things that are plainly visible from public spaces is a constitutional right and that

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includes federal buildings, transportation facilities’ and police and other government officials carrying out their jobs.

When in public spaces where you are lawfully present, you have the right to photograph anything that is in plain view, except when you are on private property, where the owner can set the r u l e s .

Officers cannot conDennis fiscate or demand to view photos or videos without a warrant.

T h e Simmons U . S .

Supreme Court has ruled that police may not search your cell phone when they arrest unless they have a warrant.

In June 2014, the Supreme Court unanimously ruled that police must obtain a warrant before searching the contents of a cell phone seized by someone who has been

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North Carolina.

Those named on the suit stated that they were suing because the board did not have “a policy which discourages or prohibits those whom [the board] has invited to deliver prayers from including references to Jesus Christ, or any other sectarian deity, as part of their prayers.�

The injunction was thrown out by U.S. District Court Judge James A. Beaty Jr., who reminded board members to be inclusive in their policy choice. His ruling was made possible by the U.S. Supreme Court ruling in the Greece, N.Y. v. Galloway case, where justices voted 5-4 that the town didn’t violate the U.S. Constitution by allowing ministers to deliver Christian prayer at meetings because the town had an inclusive policy.

The Commissioners’ clerk will complete the invocation schedule and

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arrested, in the Riley v.

California case.

Chief Justice John Roberts wrote in the court’s opinion that cell phones are not just a modern convenience but that they contain the privacies of Americans. “The fact that technology now allows an individual to carry such information in his hand does not make the information any less worthy of the protection for which the Founders fought,� he said.

Dennis said that there have been instances of officers seizing recording devices but those do not override the rights of citizens to record law enforcement. “Two most noted instances are Felicia Gibson, 2009 in Salisbury, and Emily Good, in Rochester, N.Y. in 2011.

These are illustrations of how it is not always as simple as a citizen having a recording device and, from the perception of law enforcement, conducting a recording of the incident that is not distracting,� she said. “Felicia Gibson, for example, was considered by the law enforcement officer to be causing a distraction during a traffic

make sure the speaker will not be scheduled to offer an invocation at consecutive meetings or two meetings in a year. There will be no prior inquiry, review of or involvement in the content of the invocation. Other potential speakers can be added to the list at any time.

While the Board did not include many stipulations in the updated policy, they did include this: “The Board requests only that the prayer opportunity not be exploited as an effort to convert others to the particular faith of the invocational speaker, threaten damnations, nor to disparage any faith or belief different than that of the invocational speaker.�

Commissioner Everette Witherspoon said that he is happy with the updated policy and said so are his constituents. “For many, including African-Americans, our decisions are faith-based. We’ve always had to fight for what we felt was right ... it is right for Christians to

stop and high speed chase�.

The ACLU believes that the law applies to standalone cameras and other digital data.

That can change if courts approve the temporary warrantless seizure of a camera in extreme circumstances where the device would be necessary to save a life, or to prevent the destruction of evidence.

Officers can’t delete photographs or tamper with memory/data cards and they may legitimately order citizens to stop recording if they are interfering with law enforcement operations. “Depending on the circumstances, recording law enforcement does not necessarily inhibit or distract law enforcement.

Citizens have to be careful not to interfere, distract, or place themselves in harms way,�

Dennis said. “Citizens also need to be careful not to “take the law into their own hands�.�

If you are stopped or detained for taking photos, the ACLU asks that residents remain polite and never physically resist an officer.

In many states, there has been talk of passing

be able to say ‘Jesus’ when praying, just as it would be right if they were Muslim and saying ‘Allah,’ or Buddhist and calling upon ‘Buddha,’� he said.

Charles F. Wilson, president of the local chapter of Americans United for Separation of Church and State, and an ordained Baptist minister, said that the group is happy that the county is inviting all religious groups to participate and calls that an improvement of the previous policy. “Our position overall is the same as it’s always been. We had rather there be a moment of silence. That’s not going to happen unless the person who has it that evening has a moment of silence,� he said. “It’s a government meeting, and we don’t think they should necessarily have any kind of prayer at a government meeting.�

Watts said, “The law of the land now is that invited ministers can come, give an invocation according to the dictates of their own faith, and that’s acceptable.�

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legislation that would make it difficult or illegal to record, audio or visual, in a public place because it violates wire tapping or eavesdropping laws.

In Illinois, a bill was passed that made it a felony to secretly tape private conversations. That law has since been revised so that the part that would make it a felony for citizens to record public interaction with law enforcement and residents was removed.

While it is technically legal to record on-duty police officers in every state in the country, residents should be aware of other laws that deter it.

Residents are often creating a sense of accountability for those officers that have sworn to protect and serve. So have we come to the point where residents are policing the police? “The Eric Garner incident reminds many people of the Rodney King incident. Law enforcement have dash-cameras in their cars and many law enforcement departments use recording devices on their uniforms,�

Dennis said. “Citizen recordings only create

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checks and balance for law enforcement if we can trust citizens are catching the full incident, are not editing the recordings, and are not interfering with law enforcement’s job.�

Simmons said that some people, both the general pubic and officers, fear that the cameras can change officers behaviors that could endanger them or the public. “The idea is, are they concerned that something on that tape could be misconstrued as unnecessary force or improper, and we call that the chilling effect undo cameras may have on policing. There is an important balance that we need to strike between being transparent and protecting officer safety,� she said. “I think the cameras are good for transparency and accountability. “You don’t want officers to risk their safety, but at the same time, as long as they are executing their job properly, the law is actually very favorable, as we have seen in the Eric Garner and Michael Brown cases.�

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WS Prep girls win their first state championship

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The game clock ticked off the waning seconds.

Jada Craig flashed a high-beam grin as she dribbled and waited for the time to run out. The final buzzer sounded and the dream became reality. Winston-Salem Prep whipped Riverside Martin 58-31 to claim its first state championship in girls’ basketball.

For Craig, it wasn’t one of her better offensive outings (8 points), but she more than compensated with eight assists and two steals. It was a fitting way to close out a season in which the Phoenix put together one of its most complete performances.

The championship game played at Carmichael Arena proved to be a replay of Prep’s outcomes in earlier rounds of this year’s state playoffs. The Phoenix (24-3) won in blowout fashion again.

In the Class 1-A final, Coach Eugene Love’s team was dominant. The game was never tied and there were no lead changes. As a team, Riverside didn’t score in double digits until the

fourth quarter.

Winston-Salem Prep overwhelmed the Knights in every way possible, especially on defense. Riverside shot 25.5 percent from the field and 35 percent from the free throw line.

The Knights top offensive threat Kayla Jones (21.5 points per game) was limited to 12 points and 11 rebounds on 3-of-16 field goal shooting.

She was the only Knight to score in double figures.

Much of Jones’s shooting woes were caused by the defensive presence of Dominique Claytor, who at 5-feet-10 was able to match-up well against Jones, a 6-feet-1 swing player who does most of Riverside’s ball-handling. Claytor, the championship game MVP, scored 10 points and pulled down eight rebounds.

“There was never a question as to who would guard Jones,” said Love. “Dominique is tall enough and athletic enough to handle that match-up. She did an outstanding job in making Jones work for everything she got.”

Claytor embraced the challenge and more than held her own in the one-on-one duel. “I just

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Jada Craig is fouled trying to score.

could to win. But on this day, the better team came through.”

Neither team was able to fully impose its will on the other.

The game featured eight ties and 17 lead changes. The largest For the first time in five trips to the state basketball finals, lead for either team was 5 points. At different stretches of the Winston-Salem Prep ended up as the runner-up. In a back-andgame, fatigue was evident on both sides. forth contest that had the feel of a The crowd of nearly 7,000 created an elec12-round boxing match, the tric atmosphere worthy of a postseason setPhoenix suffered a 67-64 loss to ting.

East Carteret in the Class 1-A state “This was an intense game and the fans championship game played at really got into it,” Kwa’Tre Hollingsworth Carmichael Arena last week. said, who was voted Most Outstanding Entering the final, WinstonPlayer for Prep. “There were times when I Salem Prep (20-8) had won three got very tired, but I had to find a way to fight state titles in a row. This time, the through it. This was a fun game to play in.” script ended differently. East Prep took the lead for the last time at 57Carteret’s mini-armada of shooters 56 on Hollingsworth’s 3-pointer with 3:38 converted enough shot attempts to left to play in the fourth quarter. From that avenge last year’s state title game point on, Simmons scored a couple of basloss to the Phoenix. Ty Simmons, kets and Brown converted five free throws to Sam Johnson, Jacque Brown and account for 9 of the Mariner’s final 11 Brennan Lewis combined to score points.

62 points for the Mariners.

The Phoenix, down 62-59 with 37 sec“People saw two evenlyonds left in the game, still had an opportunimatched teams go back-and-forth ty to make a comeback. Hollingsworth from start to finish,” said Coach launched a 3-pointer that would’ve tied the Josh Gould of Prep. “Coming down game, but his shot was off and the Mariners the stretch, they made a few more grabbed the rebound.

Photos by Craig T. Greenlee plays than we did. There are no excuses. We did everything we Prep's D.J. Hairston battles for posiSee Prep Boys on B2 tion in the paint.

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Phoenix’s Nequan Carrington (in red) rises to block shot by East Carteret's Jacque Brown.

Reynolds girls' wrap up season on high note

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Reynolds was short-circuited in its efforts to win a state championship in girls’ basketball. Even so, it was a special time that people will remember for all the right reasons.

The school record books will note that when it comes to the 2014-15 season, no Reynolds girls’ team has ever done it better. The Lady Demons won 27 games in a row before bowing out to Charlotte Myers Park in the semifinals of the Class 4-A West Regional earlier this month.

Myers Park topped Southeast Raleigh in the state final to repeat as state champions.

Reynolds has gone through a transformation under second-year Coach Johnathan Gainey. With the exception of one game, the Lady Demons bedazzled the opposition with their speed, quickness and athleticism. Gainey posted a 16-11 mark in his first season.

Keyera Eaton, Aloni McFarland, Dominique Adams, Hannah Semke and Photos by Craig T. Greenlee Candice Hodge provided the senior Point guard Tierra Wilson had a break-out leadership necessary for RJR to maxiseason as a sophomore.

WSP's Keeshon Patrick (21) tries to pressure the inbound pass from East Carteret's Trevor Willis.

mize the talent on its roster.

“We were competitive and we continued to get better with each game,” said Gainey. “When that happens you have a chance to be pretty good. Once they started to play together and believe in themselves, they realized that the sky was the limit.

The seniors are gone, but they paved the way and left their mark.

Because of those seniors, the players coming back understand what it takes to compete and win at the highest level.

Now it’s their turn to leave their mark.”

RJR has three returnees who figure to play prominent roles for next season.

All three gained valuable game experience as underclassmen.

Point guard Tierra Wilson, who averaged 16.5 points and 5.1 assists, blossomed as a bona fide game-changer. Freshman combo guard Amari Cuthbertson (9.6 points) provided instant offense coming off the bench and swing player Jayme Byers emerged as a solid contributor at both ends of the floor.

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Keyera Eaton (3) played a key role in RJR having its best-ever season in girls basketball.

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WSSU Rams baseball splits pair of games with Concord

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The Winston-Salem State Baseball team split a double header against the Concord Mountain Lions on Wednesday evening, March 11, dropping Game One before rebounding for a thrilling walk-off win in the nightcap, off the bat of Alex Grubb at BB&T Ballpark in downtown Winston-Salem.

In Game One, Concord broke open a scoreless game in the fifth inning, when the team was able to reach the WSSU pitching for two runs on three hits to take a 2-0 lead.

WSSU answered back with a run in the bottom half of the fifth, when Jacob Barber led off with a single followed by another single from Alex Grubb. After a walk from Taylor Idol, Gavin Culler would bring home Jacob Barber with a sacrifice fly to right field, cutting the Mountain Lion lead to one, at 2-1.

Concord University added another run in the sixth inning, on two hits, and helped by two WSSU errors, to push out in front 3-1. And would add two more runs in the top of the seventh to increase their lead to 5-1.

Winston-Salem State to add one more run in the bottom of the seventh inning when Des Roberts would bring home Gavin Culler, to close out the scoring.

With the loss, WSSU falls to 14-5 overall, while Concord University improves to 3-4 overall on the 2015 season.

Jordan Carlton took the loss for WSSU, pitching 5.0 innings, allowing two runs and four hits while walking

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three and striking out three. Hayden O’Neal pitched 2.0 innings of relief, allowing three runs on three hits while walking three.

Gavin Culler and Barber led the WSSU Rams, with each going one for three with a run scored, while Culler also added a run batted in. Connor Andrus, Nathan Steger and Alex Grubb also each went one for three. Roberts finished one for four with a run batted in.

In Game Two, Winston-Salem State manufactured a run in the bottom half of the seventh inning, and Alex Grubb would single to right field, scoring Connor Andrus to give Winston-Salem State a 1-0 walk-off win.

The Rams used five pitchers to combine for the shutout, getting some weekend starters some mid-week work in preparation for CIAA play last weekend. Sam Burton, the starter, along with Aaron Hatch pitched the first two innings, of hitless baseball. Eric Corlett would pitch two innings allowing two hits with a strikeout, and Jordan Cummings also pitched two innings, allowing one hit while striking out two. Devin McLemore picked up the win, pitching a hitless sixth and struck out two Mountain Lion batters.

Gavin Culler, Des Roberts, Dylan Dombrowskas, Connor Andrus and Alex Grubb each went one for three, while Andrus scored the winning run, and Grubb picked up the RBI on the hit.

Winston-Salem State will travel to Murfreesboro, N.C. this weekend to open CIAA play, when they face the Chowan Hawks in a four game weekend series.

Charlotte’s Time Warner Cable Arena becomes smoke-free

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Time Warner Cable Arena will became one of Charlotte’s smoke-free government grounds, on Wednesday, March 18. As a result, smoking will not be allowed anywhere on the Time Warner Cable Arena property (building, grounds, sidewalks, etc.).

Also, the designated outdoor smoking areas currently available during Charlotte Hornets games and other arena events will also be eliminated. Per this policy, no lighted smoking products will be allowed in the building or on the grounds.

Since Time Warner Cable Arena is a city-owned building, it falls under the new smoke-free government grounds regulation. In October, an ordinance was adopted by the Mecklenburg County Board of Commissioners that bans smoking in county-, city- or town-owned buildings, vehicles and grounds in

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tried to stay active and keep in front of her,” Claytor said. “Coach talked to me during the week and he explained all the different things she likes to do when she has the ball in her hands.”

The Phoenix pushed the pace to a faster tempo in the second quarter. Mychala Wolfe, Chrisalyn Boston, Kayla Robinson and Claytor led the charge on a 13-2 run and Prep led 32-15 at the half.

The long-awaited moment for a championship-game victory was not lost on Claytor. After Prep won West Regional two weeks ago to advance to the state, Claytor ended a press conference by saying “Hey, we’re going to the ‘ship’ y’all.”

A week later, she was nearly speechless.

“Right now, I’m just too excited,” she

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Prep pulled to within a basket at 63-61 on Daivien Williamson’s drive. But Johnson hit a pair of free throws and Simmons got free for an uncontested layup to put East Carteret up by 6 (67-61) with 12 seconds to go. Josh Gould hit a 3-pointer to account for Prep’s final points of the contest.

Hollingsworth led all scorers 25 points in his final game wearing a Prep uniform. Zaire Williams came close to posting a double-double with 9 points and nine rebounds.

For East Carteret (282), Brown delivered a vir-

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said in a post-game interview. “Words can’t describe how I feel. When that buzzer went off, I knew it (winning the ‘ship’) was a done deal.”

At the start of the season, Prep’s girls were on a mission to make amends for the previous season that ended in a nightmare. The Phoenix lost by 3 points in regionals to Bishop Love McGuinness, which went on to win its ninth straight state championship.

The Phoenix players were haunted by that memory and Love used it as motivation to keep his team focused and hungry. “We felt like we beat ourselves in that game because we missed so many free throws,”

tuoso performance (17 points, seven rebounds and six assists) as the championship game MVP. Simmons contributed a team-high 23 points.

East Carteret issued some payback on Prep, who beat the Mariners in last year’s state final on Hollingsworth’s put-back with less than two seconds left to play. “After going through what they went through last year, we knew they’d be ready,” said Gould. “They’re a scrappy bunch that likes to compete. We didn’t give it (title) to them. They took from us what we wanted to keep.”

This season’s crew at Prep could be viewed as

overachievers. Gould lost eight seniors from last season. It was a core group which won three straight state championships. Five of the eight are now playing college basketball. In contrast, this year’s group had three seniors who got a lot of playing time. The rest of the squad was comprised of freshmen and sophomores who got a lot of seasoning as varsity newbies.

“We’ll be back (to the state championship), I can promise you that,” Gould said. “If we don’t, it won’t be because we didn’t give it our best shot. We’ve established a culture here and we’re not going anywhere.”

BRIDGEPORT, W.Va. - Winston-Salem State University senior forward WyKevin Bazemore has been selected to the Daktronics/Division II Conference Commissioners Association All-Atlantic Region second basketball team.

WyKevin Bazemore is a rarity, as he was selected to the All-CIAA Team for the fourth consecutive year. He is only the fourth player in the history of the CIAA to earn that honor four times.

Bazemore started all 28 games this season and averaged 13.3 points and a team and CIAA high 9.8 rebounds per game. He scored a season high 25 points versus Johnson C. Smith and also pulled down 17 rebounds versus Fairmont State.

Bazemore He finished his career with 1,337 points and 984 rebounds. His rebounding total ranks him 3rd All-Time in WSSU history behind Carlos Terry’s (1975-78) 1,467 and Mike Robinson’s (1976-80) 1,242.

West Liberty’s Seger Bonifant has been named the Atlantic Region Player of the Year and headlines the 2014-15 Daktronics/Division II Conference Commissioners Association All-Atlantic Region Men’s Basketball Team.

Bonifant, a junior from Berlin, Ohio, was the Mountain East Conference Player of the Year after averaging 24 points per game for the Hilltoppers. WLU finished the season ranked fifth in the country and is the host for the NCAA Atlantic Regional Tournament.

Joining Bonifant on the All-Atlantic Region first team are Adam Blazek of Gannon, Devante Chance of Indiana (Pa.), Nick Harney of Fairmont State and Matt Tobin of East Stroudsburg.

The second team consists of WyKevin Bazemore (Winston-Salem State), Tyree Gaiter (Notre Dame College), Wali Hepburn (Lock Haven), C.J. Hester (West Liberty) and Cameron Knox (Bowie State).

Sports information directors from NCAA Division II Atlantic Region schools and conferences selected the two Daktronics All-Region teams and voted on the Player of the Year. The process concludes with AllAmerican selections announced later in the month.

The team is sponsored by Daktronics Inc., an acknowledged world leader in scoring, timing and programmable display systems for virtually every sport at every level of competition.

Winston-Salem to host national track and field championships

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Winston-Salem will be host to the 2015 USATF National Masters Indoor Track and Field Championships from Friday, March 20 to Sunday, March 22. The competition will be on March 21 at 7 p.m. at the Village Inn Event Center, the official meet Headquarters Hotel, 2505 Empire Drive.

USATF and JDL Fast Track are set to bring over 2,100 athletes, coaches and spectators from across the country and internationally. The three-day event will feature former All-Americans, Olympians and World Champions ranging in age from 30 to 95+.

Competition at each age group will display their speed, strength and endurance in the world's first sport Track and Field. Track events will range from 60 meters to the 3,000 meter race-walk, while field events will include the full range of jumps and throws.

For more information on the competition contact event organizer and facility director, Craig Longhurst, at 336-722-2033 and craig@jdlcastlecorp.com. Website is www.visitwinstonsalem.com/Masters

said Love. “So, we went back to work and found ways to improve in every game. I give a lot of credit to these ladies for keeping their passion to work and win games.

We’re going to enjoy this for a while.”

Aside from Claytor, the Phoenix had three other players to score in double figures, which included two with double-doubles. Boston contributed 14 points and 11 rebounds and Robinson added 13 points and 10 boards. Wolfe finished with 13 points on 5-of-10 field shooting from the field.

“I just came out and did my job,” Boston said, who was voted Most Outstanding Player for the Phoenix. “I take the shots when I’m open. When a shot goes up, I grab the rebound and kick the ball out so we can get our running game going.”

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Mychala Wolfe scored in double figures in the title game.

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“She’s such a good shooter that you can’t afford to give omore, draws as much her a step. That’s why we attention as a polished ball- put our most athletic player handler who has the total (Aliyah Mazyck) on her.

Aliyah’s length package. Wilson is forced her to crafty with the ball take shots from in her hands, and further out than she has the speed usual.” to get to the rim. If Reynolds, the lane gets who finished the crowded, she’s season at 27-1, developed a was overdependable pull-up matched against jumper and she’s Myers Park in lethal from 3-point Gainey the playoffs, range. especially on the “When I scouted Reynolds during the state front line. The Lady playoffs, she was the one Demons made a game of it player who really had me early and the first quarter worried,” said Coach ended in a 10-10 tie. After Barbara Nelson of that, RJR went into an from page B1

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offensive tailspin and the end result was a 64-36 blow-out defeat.

“One game didn’t define our season,” said Gainey. “This team accomplished a lot and wrote a new chapter in the history of the school. The key now is to establish consistency because the bar has been set very high.

“We’re going back to work. It’s important that everybody continues to buy in to what we’re doing, to have that willingness to fill their roles. This is about establishing a legacy and establishing the right habits. When you outwork your opponents, you will be successful.”

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Recently at the Hanes Hosiery Recreation Center, in the 6-to-10-year-old age basketball championship game, the Wolfpack and Deacons went down to the wire in a double overtime shootout. The Wolfpack, coached by Ashlee Johnson and Ashlee Ware (pre-law students from Wake Forest) gained a 23-20 win over the Deacons.

The Wolfpack were led in scoring by the man in the middle, big man Even Dunlap (9 points) and led the team in rebounds. A big blow to the Wolfpack was when Dunlap fouled out of the game in the first overtime.

Coach Ashlee Johnson was able to bring her team together and fight hard for the rest of the first overtime to tie the game up and take it to another overtime.

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points) took over the game and willed his team to a win.

Backing Dunlap and Paige were Legend with 4 points and many key blocks and rebounds, Zaire Friend with 2 points — he hit a key mid-range jumper to seal the game — Jayden Coleman with 1 point and Omari Hunder with 1 point to help push the Wolfpack to victory.

Other standouts for the Wolfpack were Zachary Motsinger, Montrel Austin, Samorian Kuirby, Curtis Scales and Kenar Hinkson. All made some big hustle plays and key defense stops to also contribute to the Wolfpack’s championship win.

Even though there had to be a losing team, the Deacons deserve a tip of the hat for their hard-fought play.

They were coached by Christian Dorsmond (a pre-law student from Wake Forest).

Hanes Hosiery Director, Coach Art Blevins, in the back, and other coaches stand by their winning team, the Hanes Hosiery 2015 10 and under Winter League champions.

Hanes Hosiery Director, Coach Art Blevins stands with the 2015 MVPs of the 10 and under Winter League. From left are Antwon Mitchell, Nick Paige and Zahki Mitchell.

QEA team prepares for tournament in Kentucky QEA in action during the last game of the regular season.

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While most high school basketball players are bidding their teammates farewell, Winston-Salem’s Fighting Pharaohs of Quality Education Academy are gearing up to fight on at the Mid America National Championship held in Paducah, Kentucky, on Monday through Wednesday, March 23-25.

Practices are still underway as The Fighting Pharaohs prepare to bring another victory home to Winston-Salem.

Excitement filled the air as QEA recognized its seniors, honoring them as well as their parents for the final regular season home game.

Parents and family members as close as Charlotte and as far away as Las Vegas traveled to be a part of the halftime honors. Although the first quarter was touch and go, The Fighting Pharaohs reigned victorious over Shooting 4 Greatness (S4G Prep) with a score of 93-45.

The Pharaohs put on quite a show from dunks to alleyoops, fakes and spins from beginning to end. QEA’s seniors went out with a bang with high point man Jerron Love

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scoring a whopping 40 points with 12 assists. Nate Grimes followed up with 10 points and 12 rebounds. Bamba Jaye put up 4 points with 7 rebounds. Derrick Farquharson hit 14 points and Andrien White scored 15 points, with 5 assists and 4 steals. The Fighting Pharaohs season ends with a record of 27-5.

QEA is putting the finishing touches on its annual Bestowal of Blessings ceremony scheduled for Friday, March 20 at 5:30 p.m. in the high school auditorium. It is a time when family members and friends of students pack the house to let V O I C E S O F the students know how important they are to both the present and the future of the school, the city, our community and the world.

For more information, go to www.qeschools.org or call 336-744-7138.

TONEY Junius D. Toney the son of the late Junius T. Toney and Wessie B. Toney was born on November 23, 1955. He departed this life on 6, March 2015. an At early age he joined St. J o h n C . M . E .

Church in WinstonS a l e m , N o r t h Carolina.

He later joined Hamlet Chapel C.M.E. Church where he served on the Steward Board and was a member of the Christian Men Organization. He was also a member of the Male Chorus which he loved being a part of.

He worked at UNC Hospital for 28 years before retiring. He was currently employed with Biogen, Inc. He is survived by his

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wife Eva Toney, his sister Sandra T. McIlwain (brother-in-law Roger McIlwain), one stepdaughter Amy Green (Apex), one step-son Justin Green (Greensboro), aunts: five B. Blanche N e s m i t h (Florence, S . C . ) , Josephine S t e e l e (Baltimore, M . D . ) , Berthenia P o t t s (Washington, D.C.), Fostina West and Shirley Sadler (Melton) of Winston-Salem; one uncle William Toney (Bernice) of WinstonSalem; and a host of other beloved family and friends.

Services were held Tuesday, March 10 at 2 p.m. at Hamlet Chapel in Church C.M.E. North Pittsboro, Carolina. Rev. Charles E. Robertson officiated.

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MDA Muscle Walk set for Saturday Seniors and their parents are honored during halftime.

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More than 500 people from the Northwest Piedmont Triad area are registered to take a small step to fund powerful progress at 9 a.m. on Saturday, March 21 for the Muscular Dystrophy Association during the fourth annual MDA Muscle Walk to raise critical funds and awareness that will help the Muscular Dystrophy Association.

The NW Piedmont Triad Muscle Walk is scheduled to be held at Proehlific Park, 4517 Jessup Grove Road in Greensboro.

The MDA Muscle Walk is the largest, most inspiring event of its kind, bringing communities together — donors, families, partners, sponsors and volunteers— to fight back against muscle disease.

Approximately 150 walks throughout the nation are scheduled throughout the year and the local walk expects over 500.

Funds raised through the Muscle Walk program build on decades of research progress, helping push science to its limits

in the search for treatments and cures.

The dollars raised from the Muscle Walk also helps support MDA’s lifeenhancing programs such as state-of-theart support groups and clinics, including the MDA Clinics at Wake Forest Baptist Health, Brenner’s Children, Duke Medical Center, UNC, and CMC. They also make MDA summer camp possible so kids with muscle disease can enjoy “the best week of the year” at YMCA Camp Hanes in June 2015.

Last year, more than 40,000 people participated in 140 MDA Muscle Walks across the country that raised a recordbreaking $8.5 million. More than $26 million has been raised since the Walk's inception in 2011.

To start a Muscle Walk team or to join a team, visit the link below: http://www2.mda.org/site/TR/Walk/Gener al?pg=entry&fr_id=16129 to register, or call the local MDA office at 336-8561591.

Three former UNC athletes join McAdoo in lawsuit against school

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) – A former women's basketball player at the University of North Carolina has joined in a lawsuit which alleges the school failed to provide athletes a quality education by guiding them toward sham classes.

Kenya McBee has joined the class-action lawsuit filed by ex-football player Michael McAdoo in federal court last November.

Another former women's basketball player, Leah Metcalf, and former football player James Arnold have filed a similar class-action lawsuit in state court.

McAdoo's lawsuit said he was guaranteed a good education while being recruited, but was ultimately directed toward three options, one of which was African-American Studies– the curriculum that formed the basis for the long-running academic scandal.

UNC spokesman Joel Curran said in a text message that the school wouldn't comment on pending litigation.

M ARY ROB I NSON Mary Robinson is president of the Mary Robinson Foundation—Climate Justice, a center for leadership, education and advocacy in the struggle to secure global justice for people vulnerable to the impacts of climate change but who are usually forgotten: the poor, the disempowered and the marginalized. She served as president of Ireland from 1990 until 1997 and United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights from 1997 until 2002. Robinson has received numerous honors and awards, including the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

Thursday, March 26, 2015 at 6 p.m. Wait Chapel voices.wfu.edu Free and open to the public

Presented in conjunction with “The Human Face of Environmental Inequality” interdisciplinary symposium, March 26–27, sponsored by the Wake Forest University Humanities Institute, its affiliate Human Rights and Global Justice research group, and the University’s Center for Energy, Environment and Sustainability. For information visit humanitiesinstitute.wfu.edu.

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Poetry series centenary United Methodist church’s Music and the arts Ministry will host “poetry as prayer, prayer as poetry: the struggle for faith in the poems of John Donne and Gerard Manley hopkins,” a discussion by anthony “tony” abbott, at 7 p.m. on March 10, 17 and 24 (with 31 as a bad weather date) in centenary’s Memorial auditorium, 646 W. Fifth St. WinstonSalem (use the 4 1/2 Street entrance). abbott, who is a retired Davidson college english professor, former department chair, poet, novelist and pulitzer prize nominee, will examine the extraordinary lives of these two poet priests, Donne as an anglican and hopkins a roman catholic, and then examine how each used poetry, particularly the sonnet, to speak openly and intimately to God out of their deep spiritual needs. handouts will be available at all lectures. abbott will recite poems at the beginning of each session. Weekly topics include: March 24-Gerard Manley hopkins, the Welsh Sonnets and the “terrible” Sonnets. the event is free.

Career Fair Genesis Baptist church, 2812 east Bessemer ave. in Greensboro, will be hosting a two-day career Fair on thursday, March 19 and Friday, March 20 from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. and 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., respectively. nc Joblink and nc Works are partners. Day one of the event is dedicated to preparation. a series of seminars, symposiums and breakout sessions will be conducted, all designed to help people to get started.

Day two is dedicated to job placement. representatives from a variety of local employers will be on hand to meet prospects, conduct on-site interviews and in many cases make on the spot offers of employment. contact careerfair@genesisbaptistchurch.com or visit the website at genesiscareerfair.com. For additional information, or to participate in the career Fair contact Minister price at jamesvpricesr@yahoo.com.

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Job fair love community Development corp., 3980 n. liberty St., will hold a Job Fair on Friday, March 20 from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. people who need help creating or updating a resume are welcome to use the Job link and get help Monday through Friday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. interested people should sign up at the front desk.

March 21 Gospel Showcase & Soul Food Saturday, March 21 at 6 p.m., the Worship and arts Ministry of exodus United Baptist church, 2000 Wilbur Street, near the old Boys and Girls club on Martin luther King Jr. Blvd., will sponsor a Sylvia’s of harlem, n.Y., style Sunday Gospel Showcase & Soul Food event, with $7 specials. they include, one entrée, two sides, one drink, extra items and dessert for additional cost. there will be live entertainment and great fellowship. pastor alvin carlisle is senior pastor. For more information contact: ronee Walker at 336-422-3259 or elder ron Wilds at 336-9265191.

Millionaires seminar on Saturday, March 21 from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., Genesis Baptist church, 2812 Bessemer ave. in Greensboro, will host a seminar called “Building Millionaires for a higher purpose.” it’s free and open to the public. the church is on a mission with a purpose to make “2015 a life-changing experience of growth.” the Financial literacy Ministry is sponsoring the program. the three program facilitators and topics include: todd leverette (a young adult entrepreneur): “entrepreneurship: turning Your Dream into Your Job”; Jackie King: “Making Sense of investing”; Joe Dudley Jr.: “Discover Your entrepreneurial personality.”

Uptown Saturday Night Goler Memorial a.M.e. Zion church, 630 n. patterson ave., will have Uptown Saturday night on Saturday, March 21 from 6 to 9 p.m. Donation is $15, which includes dinner and entertainment. this event is sponsored by parent Body Missionaries.

College readiness workshop the college connection Ministry at emmanuel Baptist church will host a seminar titled "Straight talk: a college readiness Workshop for high School Students” on Saturday, March 21, from 12:30 to 4:30 p.m. at the church, 1075 Shalimar Dr. the topics that will be discussed include: selecting appropriate high school courses, FaFSa process, saving money, scholarships, importance of extra curriculum activities, essay writing and living as a college students. the facilitators for these session are Whitney Mclaughlin, Karen harris, rachel King and carolyn Burns-Speller. pastor Dr. John Mendez and Jamie Woodyard will facilitate separate sessions for the male and female participants on importance social issues. the workshop is open to all high school students. to register for the workshop or obtain more information, please email ebccollegeconn@gmail.com.

Starting on March 22 Men's Revival life changing transformation church Ministry, 2001 n.e. 25th St. (corner of ansonia and 25th), will be having Men's revival starting Sunday, March 22. the theme is "From Boys to Men, Man Up!" the guest speakers are as following: Sunday, March 22, Bishop preston Mack from Jesus ressurection power will be speaking at 5 p.m.; thursday, March 26, pastor Johnny Johnson from United Deliverance church of God will be speak at 7 p.m.; Saturday, March 27, apostle edward allen of ambassador cathedral will be speaking at 7 p.m.

Doors will open early.

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Pastors discuss race at forum

Salem, or so it was referred on this night, time on the night of and time again. tuesday, March 10, in “all of you a building that perhaps that are here (in many Winston-Salem attendance) — residents drive by your willingness without ever paying it to be here — is a much attention, a constatement about versation was had, and the kind of it was one for all.

Winston-Salem housed at the you want to see. enterprise center on and i commend Martin luther King you all for takDrive for all to gather, ing your time to this community diabe here,” logue was held to Williams said, photos by erin Mizelle explore “faith commu- Panelists give their opening remarks. in opening the nity pathways” to evening’s sesensuring an impartial and thriving city of Winston-Salem sion. “While religion has been a tool of oppression, givfor all those who call it home. ing legitimacy to the systems and institutions an unjust titled “community conversation for the Good of our misuse of power, it has also served as sustenance and city,” the community faith-based dialogue was sponsored inspiration for those suffering from racism. tonight, we by the institute for Dismantling racism (iDr) and was seek all forms and traditions that will deepen commitment hosted by a panel of clergy from churches in the Forsyth to the work that we are all here to do.” county area. occurrences of racial injustice in Staten throughout the two-and-a-half hour event, one point island and Ferguson, in rang clear — regardless of race — as each speaker stood particular, were to blame to take the microphone and address all in attendance: in for the sense of urgency order for changes to occur behind the night’s comin Winston-Salem and munal dialogue. across the nation, these “When we began to issues of social justice, talk about our communiand the lack there of, must ty and what it could be, first be brought to the the thing that became forefront of every citivery clear is that we zen’s conversation. couldn’t have what we “We will remain vulwanted — what we nerable to each other, deserved — unless the knowing that racism has vast majority of the peotaught us to be deceptive ple in the community to self and others and that began to work together. we need one another for and the first step to that accountability and integriSchwartz Scovens is to at least talk to, (then) ty. But here, our work hear and finally begin to understand one another,” said the begins with empathy for those who have been destroyed rev. Willard Bass as he opened the night’s special event. and wounded by the pathology of racism and with seeking “this is iDr’s effort to start that conversation,” said the healing of the systems and institutions so that they Bass, who is director of iDr. the organization has held a might provide quality of access and equity in the distribuprevious discussion session. tion of power and resources,” Williams said. the conversation between the panelist of local pastors March 10 was the second attempt to do just that. and the people of Winston-Salem addressed three specific “healing takes time. Miracles take time. and what questions, and started a dialogue that will continue for we are asking for is healing,” Scovens softly remarked as weeks and months to come: he and the panel beside him 1. What does a vision of the began to close out the future of our city look like in which evening’s discussion. “it does all communities flourish? not — and it will not —hap2. What are the obstacles for pen overnight, but we will not realizing this vision and the options lose sight of what could be.” for overcoming them? a third “community 3. how will we negotiate these conversation for the Good of obstacles successfully? our city” is already planned “We have to be ashamed of ourto happen in the near future. selves and we have to take personal panelists were rev. Darryl responsibility because there was a aaron, pastor, First Baptist time when we couldn’t,” said pastor church; rev. Steve angle, nathan Scovens. “and we have to pastor, Southside community Attendee Jay Harris gives his opinion. accept that personal responsibility church; rev. tembila to make things better for everyone.” covington, cross the red Sea Ministry of rockingham the event was open to the pubic, allowing the conver- county; rev. nathan parrish, pastor, peace haven Baptist sation to be a “collaborative and continuous improvement church; rev. nathan Scovens, pastor, Galilee Baptist project with the help of the community’s involvement,” as church; rev. lisa Schwartz, pastor, Unitarian iDr had publicly hoped it would be. Moderated by jour- Universalist Fellowship ; Bishop todd Fulton, pastor, nalist and minister Dr. Bryan Williams, iDr made every Moriah outreach center of Kernersville; and rev. chuck attempt to relay the national conversation about racial dis- Spong, Senior pastor, WS First. crimination and injustices to the future of “our” WinstonBY erin MiZelle For the chronicle

St. Peter’s presents program to help strengthen families

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St. peter’s church and World outreach center launched a sixmonth program to strengthen families in the Winston-Salem and surrounding communities. the Strong Family Movement kicked off on March 1 with Bishop Dale c. Bronner, founder/senior pastor of Word of Faith Family Worship cathedral near atlanta.

Bishop Bronner delivered a dynamic message that challenged families to reframe their thinking and reach God’s best for their lives. the Strong Family Movement continues. St. peter’s will hold informational sessions on relevant family

topics on the third Wednesday of each month and fun family outings on the fourth Wednesday of each month from March through august. the current itinerary is as follows: •March 18, topic: “We are Family” • March 25, topic: “Family, Food and Fun night” • April 15, topic: “Balancing life and Family part 1” • April 22, topic: “Balancing life and Family part 2” • May 20, topic: “healthy Sex education For the Family part 1” • May 27, topic: “healthy Sex education For the Family part 2” • June 17, topic: “effective parenting at every age part 1”

• June 24, topic: “effective parenting at every age part 2” • July 15, topic: “the Wealthy Family part 1” • July 22, topic: “the Wealthy Family part 2” • July 26, topic: “Fatherless Generation, Motherless Generation” • Aug. 2, topic: “Strong Family Movement culmination & Family Fun Day” learn more about the Strong Family Movement by visiting www.SpWoc.com/theMovement.

Dr. James c. and Joyce hash Sr. are senior pastors of St. peter’s church and World outreach center (www.spwoc.com). Services are held each Sunday at 9:30 a.m.

Jesus Appears to the Disciples

Lesson Scripture: John 20:19-23 By the end of this lesson, we should: • Understand the significance of Jesus’ appearances • recognize the calm that Jesus brings • Deepen our commitment to him

Background: the women reported, “the tomb is empty!” the disciples ran to see. Mary Magdalene talked with the risen lord and reported that conversation to the 10 (thomas was absent). they didn’t understand as their fear, grief, chaos and doubts mounted. they were confused at the last Supper and now words couldn’t express their feelings.

Jesus’ teachings over the last three years were running through their minds as they attempted to make sense of everything. there was no earthly kingdom as they envisioned. they made spectacles of themselves

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parading around with Jesus. not only were the pharisees out to get them for making a mockery of the law but the romans couldn’t be far behind! at this point, they were replaying the events that took place among themselves, but no resolution came.

Lesson: on the evening of resurrection Day, Jesus visits the hiding disciples behind locked doors. he greets them in the usual manner, “peace be with you” (hebrew “shalom”). i’m sure they were star-

tled and probably more afraid than ever. they recognize him as he shows them his hands (wrists) and his side. the Gospel of luke records in 24:36-49 that he ate fish with them. Jesus’ appearance proves that his body was not stolen and that he is alive! this is visible proof that Jesus is not a ghost. While they do not fully understand, their burden has been lifted! the 10 are now calm and encouraged because Jesus is with them. Verse 21 reminds them of their ministry. What Jesus says really isn’t new to them. You see, God sent his Son into a dying world (sinful) to redeem humanity back to him.

Sometimes we forget the real mission. the miracles were the signs of his authenticity and authority. through the highs and lows of christ’s earthly life, he endures it all to fulfill his mission to save! he depended on his Father to complete that mission. therefore Jesus sends

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Selma March photos The Four Churches -Emmanuel Baptist, New Bethel Baptist, St. John C.M.E. and Union Baptist -- will hold their quarterly worship service on Sunday, March 22 at New Bethel Baptist Church, 1016 N. Trade St..

Photographer Owens Daniels, who covered the 50th anniversary of “Bloody Sunday,” the Selma-to-Montgomery March, will be the guest lecturer and will show images from the march.

Preaching will begin at 6 p.m.

Rev. Omar L. Dykes, pastor of St. John C.M.E. Church, will deliver the message. The services are free and open to the public. For more information, call 336-7249305, Ext. 231. New Bethel Baptist Church’s pastor is Kendall D. Jones Sr.

Speaker The Rev. James A Gilliam of Antioch Christian Church, 1432 Underwood Ave., will be the guest speaker at

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the disciples and all believers out on the mission – to win souls to Christ. He is telling them that all things are possible through God. There are several theories about Jesus declaration, “Receive the Holy Spirit.”

I’m sure that your Sunday school commentaries address this. In Acts 1:1-3, the disciples, now only 11, don’t seem to be scared, confused or have the mindset of orphans as Jesus tells them to wait for the Holy Spirit in Jerusalem. Their task according to verse 23 is to announce the availability of forgiveness of sins. Forgiveness comes from God alone through His Son’s sacrifice. To fulfill this task, they must receive the Holy Spirit.

Youth and the Young Adults The Youth and the Young Adults will be in charge of the 11 a.m. service on Sunday, March 22 at New Direction Movement Cathedral, 3300 Overdale Drive. For More information call 336-771-2111.

Missionary Union meeting The Forsyth County Missionary Union meeting will convene at 3 p.m.

Sunday, March 22 at Red Bank Baptist Church, 6405 Red Bank Road, Germanton. Youth and Young Adults will meet at 1:30 p.m. Seniors will meet at 3 p.m. Nancy Green is president of the Red Bank Union. The president of the Forsyth County Missionary Union is Lenner P. Jefferies. For more information, call R. Gore at 336-817-8424.

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Pastoral Anniversary The Rev. Waymon L. Monroe Jr. is celebrating eight years as pastor of Solid Rock Missionary Baptist Church, 3010 Carver School Road, with First Lady Leola Marie at his side on Sunday, March 22. The speakers for this occasion: at 11 a.m. is Bishop Tejado Hanchell from Mt. Calvary Holy Church, and at 4 p.m. is Dr. Chad Armstrong and the Phillips Chapel Church. The theme is “A Pastor with a Heart to Serve” with Scripture reference at 2 Chronicles 21:31.

Life’s Application: I’ve researched so very much on verse 22 of this lesson. I still can’t explain it with clarity and confidence; so I left it alone. On this journey called life at times we are fearful and unsure as chaos swirls all around us. We are lost and confused but we ask for help and when the Spirit comes a calmness sets in even when there are no answers. This, my sisters and brothers, passes all understanding! His presence empowers and directs our paths. We can’t do anything for God without the power of the Holy Spirit.

Some of us tried and failed.

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Economic justice The Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Winston-Salem, 4055 Robinhood Road, will hear the Rev. Lisa Schwartz speak on “Upside Down World: Economic Justice in a Global Economy” at 9 and 11 a.m. Sunday. At the 9:15 a.m. forum, Jerry Thomas will lead a discussion of current events.

Visitors are welcome.

Find more information at www.uufws.org.

Pastoral Anniversary New Life Community Church Ministries, 390 Parkwood Ave., will honor Pastor Antony E. and First Lady Valgean Johnson’s 25th pastoral anniversary on Sunday,

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March 28 5-Star empowement The 5-Star Lady Corp with founder and empowerment speaker Lady Catherine Newsome present “5-Star lady Empowerment -- Queen Status (True Identity)” on Saturday, March 28 at 11 a.m. at the Enterprise Conference & Banquet Center, 1922 S. Martin Luther King Jr. Drive. The 5-Star Lady is a lady built and designed: spiritually, mentally, physically, educationally and financially.

The event stands to help women of all backgrounds discover, embrace and develop their “True Identity.” Registration is $25.

Special Entertainment by: “Music in Action of WinstonSalem State University.”

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Call 336-744-5759 for more information.

Deacon & Deaconess Day New Hope Missionary Baptist Church, 1201 New Hope Lane, will hold a Deacon & Deaconess Day service at 4 p.m. on Sunday, March 22. Pastor Donald Stowe of Second Calvary Baptist Church will be the guest speaker.

Deacon John and Deaconess Cellestine Evans are the service leaders. Bishop John C. Parks is the host pastor.

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March 22 ‘Ten Virgins’ St. Mark Baptist Church’s Inspirational Choir will be presenting the “Ten Virgins” in drama and song on Sunday, March 22 at the church, 1100 Manley St. Doors will open at 3:15 p.m. and play will start at 4 p.m. This play is under the direction of First Lady Hattie Fulwood. The public is invited to attend.

Rev. Dr. James Fulwood is pastor and teacher.

Senior Choir event The Senior Choir of Oak Grove Missionary Baptist Church, 3978 Pine Hall Road, will sponsor “The Seven Last Words of Christ,” at 4 p.m. Sunday, March 22. Everyone is welcome to attend.

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This service will conclude with Holy Communion. The public is invited to these services.

The Rev. Konnie G. Robinson is host pastor.

March 22 at 5 p.m. The guest speaker will be Overseer Bishop Theotis White, pastor of Zion Hopewell Full Gospel Worship Center in Gilbert, S.C. The public is invited to attend. Dinner will be served.

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Walk Spirit Week for Lupus The lupus Foundation of America, north Carolina Chapter (lFAnC) will be holding a statewide Walk Spirit Week through Saturday, March 21 in support of its Walk to end lupus now events in the spring. Spirit Week consists of a full week of team and individual fundraising events that are open to the public. The following are a list of Spirit Week events being held in Winston-Salem.

The first two will offer a lupus awareness event and light refreshments.

Proceeds from all three will benefit Team Beautiful Butterfly Warriors: Cut for a Cure, Friday, March 20, 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. at nu Dimensions hair, 8001 north Point Blvd. Contact Contillus Myers at contillus@gmail.com for more information.

Manicures for lupus, Friday, March 20, 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. at lotus nails, llC., 454 Knollwood St. Contact Monica at monicaosinowo@hotmail.com for more information. We Don't Sweat We Shine: The Color run, Saturday, March 21, 10 a.m., at Winston-Salem Fairgrounds, 421 27th St. n.W. Team Beautiful Butterfly Warriors will be running The Color run.

Contact Monica at monicaosinowo@hotmail.com for more information.

Tiny Indians The Winston-Salem Tiny indians Football and Cheer organization will have early registration/Sign-ups for the 2015 Season. Children between the ages of 5 and 13 are welcome to join. registration will be in the east Winston Shopping Center from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Saturday, March 21.

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please contact: leonard for football at 336Green 765-7515

or Charlene Bracley for cheering at 336-995-2045.

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be inducted into the rock & roll hall of Fame in Cleveland, ohio on April 18. All of the original members are dead, but many of their family members will attend the March 19 proclamation. A reception will follow with light refreshments.

Advance ticket sales will be available for the ‘Sock-hop’ dance, a fundraiser that will be held in early April.

For more information, contact Bobby ray Wilson at 336-406-5138; xxxzoology55@yahoo.com; or Kim Bell at 336-354-9836 or kimskreations63@yahoo.c om.

Black Chamber mixer The Winston Salem Black Chamber of Commerce (WSBCC) will have its first mixer of 2015 on Thursday, March 19 starting at 6:30 p.m. at Carolina Vineyards & hops, 1111 S. Marshall St. We will recognize the Founders and Charter members of the WSBCC, which began January 15, 2002. This event is open to business and non-business owners, members and nonmembers. For additional information contact: randon Pender at 336575-2006

Fun And Fund night.”

Funds raised from this event will be used for scholarships to high school seniors planning to attend WSSU in Fall 2015.

Tickets are available in advance for $25 person.

For more information contact , Vera hillian, Fundraiser Committee Chair or randon Pender, President at 336-757-8894 or 336-575-2006.

Class meeting The A.h. Anderson high School class of 1966 will meet at 4 p.m. on Saturday, March 21, at 3705 el Santos Court in Winston-Salem. All members interested in working on the 50-year class reunion are encouraged to attend. Please rSVP your attendance to 336-971-6196.

Americans United The Triad Chapter of

Americans United will meet on Tuesday, March 24, at 7 p.m. at the Polo recreation Center, 1850 Polo road. The meeting will cover the U.S. Court of Appeals ruling in Joyner v. Forsyth County. Bill J. leonard, James and Marilyn Dunn Professor of Baptist Studies and Professor of Church history at the School of Divinity, Wake Forest University, will speak.

'The Prince and the Pauper' Spring Theatre will present "The Prince and the Pauper" Friday, March 20 and Saturday, March 21 at 7 p.m., and Sunday, March 22 at 2 p.m.

Performances will be at the Mountcastle Forum (Milton rhodes Center for the Arts) on 251 north Spruce St. Tickets are $8 per person.

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Ol’ Fashion House Party in the spirit of the founders of the WSSU Brown Alumni Chapter, the Brown Alumni Chapter will be having an ol’ Fashion house Party in observance of its Founders' Day, Friday, March 20, at 6 p.m., Forsyth Technical C o m m u n i t y College/Mazie Woodruff Center, 4905 lansing Drive. The theme for this year is; “Food, Fellowship,

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Tre’ Town, Tre’ Town, which performs a wide variety of music styles such as

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Beautiful is still accepting volunteers for the annual Great American Cleanup in Winston-Salem to be held Saturday, March 21, in conjunction with Forsyth Creek Week. During the annual Great American Cleanup in WinstonSalem, local roadways, parks and schools will be cleaned of litter from 9 a.m. to noon with the assistance of families, individuals and church, civic, school and scouting groups. For more information or to volunteer, go to www.KWSB.CityofWS.or g, or call Citylink 311.

The ‘5’ Royales proclamation The ‘5’ royales, Winston-Salem’s homegrown band that helped defined r&B in the late 1940s, will be honored with a proclamation from the city at noon on Thursday, March 19 at the hanesbrand Theatre, 209 n. Spruce St. WinstonSalem Mayor Allen Joines will recognize the groundbreaking group and proclaim that day in their honor. The ‘5’ royales will

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An Invitation to Provide Invocations Before Meeting of the Forsyth County Board of Commissioners

The religious leaders or chosen leaders of any assembly that periodically and regularly meets in Forsyth County for the purpose of worshiping or discussing their religious perspectives are invited to offer an invocation before a meeting of the Forsyth County Board of Commissioners.

Those interested should contact the Clerk to the Board in writing by e-mail or U.S. Mail.

The Board generally meets on the second and fourth Monday nights of every month except the month of December, in which it meets on the first and third Monday nights This opportunity is voluntary, and invocation speakers are free to offer the invocation according to the dictates of their own conscience. The Board requests only that the prayer opportunity not be exploited as an effort to convert others to the particular faith of the invocational speaker, threaten damnation, nor to disparage any faith or belief different than that of the invocational speaker.

Carla D. Holt Forsyth County Government Center 201 N. Chestnut Street Winston-Salem, N.C. 27101 holtcd@forsyth.cc

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M/WBE BID NOTICES HUB SUBCONTRACTOR BID SOLICITATION

DeVere Construction Company, Inc. is currently soliciting quotes from interested HUB certified subcontractors and suppliers for the following project bidding on Tuesday, March 25, 2015 at 2:00 pm.

Please submit prices to estimating@deverecc.us or Fax to 919-363-6575 no later than 12:00 noon on bid day.

Project: Muddy Creek Waste Water Treatment Plant , Influent Transfer Force Main, Winston Salem, NC Scopes to include: paving, concrete, aggregate, hauling, erosion control, jack & bore, seed & mulch.

Plans, specs and detailed bidding requirements can be viewed at the following:

Devere Construction Company, Inc. office at 8541A Glenwood Avenue, Raleigh, NC 27612, Devere FTP Site – www.deverecc.us/bid , password: MUDDY City/County Purchasing Dept., City Hall Rm. 324, 101 North Main St., Winston Salem, NC iSqFt plan room at www.isqft.com , 800364-2059 Black & Veatch International, 10715 David Taylor Dr., Suite 240, Charlotte 28262 For more information or to quote prices contact Dalton Walker (Estimator) @ 919-363-6551.

DEVERE CONSTRUCTION COMPANY INC. IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER - WE DO NOT DISCRIMINATE ON THE BASIS OF RACE, RELIGION, SEX, COLOR, NATIONAL ORIGIN, AGE OR DISABILITY The Chronicle March 12, 2015

ADVIRTISEMENT FOR BIDS

Ruby-Collins is soliciting bids from MBE and WBE firms for the Muddy Creek Wastewater Treatment Plant Influent Transfer Force Main Project in WinstonSalem, NC.

This project bids on March 25, 2015, therefore, we will need subcontractor pricing by close of business March 24, 2015.

Ruby-Collins is willing to review any responsible quote and will negotiate terms, if appropriate. We will notify your firm if your bid is accepted for this project. Please contact me if you have not heard from us

by March 26, 2015 and I will let you know the status of your bid.

Items to be subcontracted are EROSION CONTROL, GRASSING, HAULING, ASHPALT, and JACK & BORES.

To aid M/WBE firms in soliciting bids, Ruby-Collins is willing to assist with obtaining bonding, loan capital, lines of credit, insurance or joint pay agreements, please contract us and we will review your needs and direct you to available agencies for assistance.

Ruby-Collins will look at the possibility of a joint venture or partnership arrangement, if appropriate.

Ruby-Collins will offer quick pay agreements, if appropriate.

The contract document can be found on our website www.ruby-collins.com.

Please call me at our office with any quesemail or 770-432-2900, tions scline@ruby-collins.com.

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State Utility Contractors, Inc. solicits subcontract proposals for the following work: Erosion Control, Asphalt Paving Repairs, Seeding & Mulching, Material Hauling, Concrete Repair, Bore & Jack for Muddy Creek WWTP Influent Transfer Force Main, Winston Salem, NC. The bid date for this project is March 25, 2015. Minority businesses are encouraged to submit proposals for this work. If additional information is needed, please contact Justin Collins at (704) 289-6400. EOE M/F The Chronicle March 19, 2015

EMPLOYMENT

TOWN OF KERNERSVILLE SOLID WASTE EQUIPMENT OPERATOR II

Operates automated refuse truck and commercial front end loader truck on a daily assigned route. Services commercial dumpsters (refuse and recycling) and collects household refuse and yard waste rollout carts. Familiar with all types of sanitation collection equipment. MIN QUALIFICATIONS: CDL Class B. Must successfully pass physical exam and drug screen. PAY RANGE: $12.93 $19.14/hr App Deadline: 5pm, Fri, 03/20/2015. The Town offers a progressive pay plan as well as competitive benefits.

Women and minorities are encouraged to apply. All applicants must complete Town of Kernersville Application which may be obtained from www.toknc.com or Town Hall (336)9920306, 134 E. Mountain St., Kernersville, NC, from 8:30 AM -5:00 PM Mon. – Friday. EEO Employer.

Executive Assistant

Winston-Salem based foundation is seeking well-organized, detail-oriented individual to provide administrative support (including travel logistics) to the Executive Director and Deputy Director and to provide meeting planning and support for board and committees. Excellent interpersonal skills and knowledge of office systems and procedures are essential. Written communication and proof-reading skills required. 5+ years administrative experience required; 2+ years executive support preferred. High School Diploma or GED required; Bachelors degree preferred. We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. This is a full time position with benefits. Submit a resume and letter of application to Jennifer Barksdale, Finance Officer, at applications@mrbf.org by March 23, 2015.

No phone inquiries please.

The City of Winston-Salem is looking to fill the position of a

Rehabilitation Loan Officer - 164 Please visit: www.cityofws.org for job description and application process.

The City of Winston-Salem is looking to fill the position of a

Sanitation Equipment Operator - 877 Please visit: www.cityofws.org for job description and application process.

REAL ESTATE

Arbor Oaks & Aster Park Apartments

2 & 3 bedroom - 2 bath apartments convenient to downtown. Amenities include W/D connections, self-cleaning oven, refrigerator w/ice maker, microwave, DW & disposal. Ask about our rental specials.

Units available from $535 and up. Office Hours 8:30am -4:30pm Mon-Fri. For application information call-336703-0038, Handicap Units Available Equal Housing Opportunity Managed by Community Management Corp.

AZALEA TERRACE APARTMENTS

A Community for Mature Adults (55 and Older) Located on the corner of Trade Street and Northwest Blvd in Winston-Salem An income based multi-level building with 2 elevators consisting of 100 one BR Apts, with handicapped accessible units, Section 8 Assistance Available; just minutes from the downtown business district, city bus depot, farmers market, main public library Office Hours: 8:30 am-4:30 pm Monday thru Friday for applications call 336-723-3633.

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REAL ESTATE Bethabara Garden Apartments

Located on Bethabara Road at the corner of Silas Creek extension near Wake Forest.

One bedroom apartments with washer-dryer connections, pool, and water furnished.

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Towergate Apartments

Quiet, peaceful and affordable one and two bedroom apartments starting at $410.00 per month.

Pool and playground in a country setting near Bethabara Park Blvd. on Bethabara Road.

Please call 922-4041 for information

ASSEMBLY TERRACE APARTMENTS A Community for 62 and older is now taking applications. Conveniently located in Winston Salem with Handicap Accessible units and Rental Assistance available. Call for an appointment at 336-759-9798.

Office hours are from 8am – 4:30pm Monday thru Friday. TDD Relay 1-800-7352962 Equal Housing Opportunity Professionally Managed By Community Management Corporation

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Raleigh man wins Winston-Salem IFB’s first “Blind Idol” MARCH 19, 2015

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Shane Dittmar of Raleigh, N.C. was named the winner of the first-ever “Blind Idol” singing competition held in Winston-Salem on Feb. 28.

Hosted by Winston-Salem Industries for the Blind (IFB), the event was open to individuals who are legally blind and residents of North Carolina. “Blind Idol” is believed to be the first competition of its kind in the country.

“Blind Idol” showcased the incredible talent of the singers who performed and, perhaps more importantly, underscored the message that people who are blind have many talents, abilities and skills,” said “Blind Idol” co-organizer and IFB employee Anastasia Powell. “Being blind is just one piece of who we are as individuals and does not limit us in any way.”

Dittmar was one of five finalists who performed in front of a sold-out audience at the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art. Dittmar sang two original songs and played the piano.

Submitted Photos A native of Raleigh, he graduated from The winner of Winston-Salem Sanderson High School and plans to attend UNC-Greensboro later this year to Industries of the Blind’s first “Blind study music composition.

Dittmar Idol” was Shane Dittmar of Raleigh. received a grand prize package valued at $3,000 including a $1,000 cash award, own right, knows the talent pool runs deep recording time in a professional studio, in North Carolina. “You don’t need to see professional headshot and wardrobe gift to be a performer or to enjoy music. You card. just have to feel it in your heart,” he said.

The other four finalists were Jennifer Powell hopes the competition will Finley of Winston-Salem, Taffany Bolger reinforce the message that people without of Winston-Salem, Charity Hampton of sight should pursue their professional and Rural Hall and Lucille Mahoney of personal dreams. “Losing my sight as a Asheville. The competition began in the teenager was very difficult, but I never let fall of 2014 with audio submissions that my blindness stand in the way of pursuing led to the selection of 20 semi-finalists my goals,” she said. “Today, I have five who auditioned on Dec. 6 at the Shirley beautiful daughters and a rewarding career Recital Hall at Salem College to a crowd with IFB.” of more than 240. The judges then selectPowell said that IFB plans to expand ed the five finalists to perform in the finale “Blind Idol” in 2016 to include contestcompetition. ants from across the United States.

“Music has always been such a big Details are available at part of my life; through music, I’ve www.blindidol.com. formed deep friendships, made unforgetWinston-Salem Industries for the table memories, and discovered my Blind (IFB) is a nonprofit corporation strength, independence, and freedom,” founded in 1936 that provides employsaid Dittmar. “I am unbelievably thrilled ment, training and services for people who and inexpressibly thankful to IFB, A are blind or visually impaired.

Brighter Path, SECCA, my fellow contestAs one of the largest employers of ants, who are my new friends, and every- people who are blind or visually impaired one else who helped to make ‘Blind Idol’ in the United States, IFB operates manuthe success that it was for the chance that facturing facilities in Winston-Salem and they gave me to bring my music to life.”

Asheville in addition to more than 40 As one of the largest employers of office supply stores and optical centers people who are blind or visually impaired across the country. It recently held a in the country, IFB organizes company grand re-opening of the Mattress Store at choirs, bands and other music groups, but Winston-Salem Industries for the Blind. it was two employees who came up with IFB also provides outreach through A the idea of a statewide competition.

Brighter Path Foundation, which operates Powell, program associate for IFB’s A Community Low Vision Centers across Brighter Path, and Chris Flynt, director of North Carolina and Tracy’s Little Red A Brighter Path, are both blind and huge School House based in Winston-Salem. music fans. Flynt, a gifted musician in his Learn more at www.wsifb.com.

Pictured (L-R): “Blind Idol” emcee and WXII traffic anchor Busta Brown, Anastasia Powell and the Blind Idol Finalists – Lucille Mahoney (Asheville), winner Shane Dittmar (Raleigh), Jennifer Finley (Winston-Salem), Taffany Bolger (Winston-Salem) and Charity Hampton (Rural Hall).

Dancing for a good cause

The Magnificent Seniors Social Club sponsored its annual Sweetheart Ball on Saturday, March 7, at The Hawthorne Inn, 420 High St. There was dinner and dancing.

The event benefited Hospice and Palliative Care of Winston-Salem.

Photos by Charles E. Leftwich Jr.

A couple dances at Magnificent Seniors Social Club’s Sweetheart Ball.

Sharron Clark takes a chance to relax after having danced to the energetic sounds of DJ King and Benjamin Thompson III.

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IT’S OFFFICIAL. “Raise the Rooof!” because Winsston-Salem State University is the Tom Joyner Foundation (TJF) Schhool of the Month for March.

Beingg the TJF School off the Month means scholarships p for students.

Four outstanding WSSU have been selected to receive the Hercules Scholarship. A scholarship winner will be announced a each week. Make sure to listen to the Toom Joyner Morning Show® every Thursday to hear the name of that week’s awaardee.

We are wrapping up our Alumni Call Program in March.

WSSU students will be calling our alumni to ask theem to make gifts to the TJF Scholarship Fund. This is an excellent e opportunity for alumni and friends to make a new gift g or a follow-up donation to support the TJF Scholarship.

The Alumni Call Program is challenging our donors to “raise the roof” on their levels of giving. Please participate and reach your new “personal best” in giving.

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