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Forum introduced candidates running for school board, although several did not attend

BY TEVIN STINSON THE CHRONICLE

For the past three weeks candidates vying for seats in this year’s primary election have had the opportunity to discuss their plans for the future during a series of nonpartisan forums. Last week candidates looking to serve on the Winston-Salem/Forsyth County School Board of Education took center stage.

The Winston-Salem/ Forsyth County Board of Education is composed of nine members elected to four-year terms of office. Board members are elected from two districts within our county. District 1 elects two members, four are elected from District 2, and an additional three are at-large seats.

With all nine of the Photo by Tevin Stinson seats on the board up for At-large candidates for the Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Schools (WS/FCS) Board of Education during the Candidate’s Fourm held last grabs and more than a week at Central Library. dozen challengers in the questions from the audi- attendance were Sabrina (D). Jimmie Boyd (R), responses and the en- air live on The Chronicle’s Coone-Godfrey (D), re- Holly Pegram (R), incum- tire forum that was live- Facebook page. two districts and at-large, ence.

The District 1 candi- tired principal Richard bent Leah Crowley (R), streamed, visit The ChronSponsors for the sethe race for the board of ries of candidate forums education may be the most dates who attended the fo- Watts (D), Allen Daniel and incumbent Lida Cal- icle’s Facebook page.

The next Candidate’s include the Black Polititalked about race locally rum were incumbent Alex (R). Incumbent Deana Ka- vert Hayes (R) did not atand probably the most an- Bohannon (D), Trevonia plan (D), Kimberly Stone tend the forum. After their Forum will be held on cal Awareness League, the Urban ticipated forum in the se- Brown-Gaither (D), Ricky (D), Michael Hardman introduction, candidates Thursday, May 5, at the Winston-Salem “Lightbulb” Johnson (D), (R), and Millie Williams answered questions about Winston-Salem Urban League, the Ministers’ ries.

To begin the forum, and Chenita Johnson (D). (R) did not attend the fo- equity within the district, League, 201 W. 5th Street Conference of Winstonthe future of Ashley El- and will feature the can- Salem and Vicinity, the lowhich was held at Cen- Tarsha Shore (D), who is rum.

Candidates in atten- ementary, violence in didates running for U.S. cal branch of the NAACP tral Library last Thursday, also running for a seat in April 28, candidates had District 1, did not attend dance vying for seats in schools, and several other Senate and N.C. General and The Chronicle.

Assembly. The forum will District 2 were Stan Elrod pressing issues. two minutes to introduce the forum.

At-large candidates in (R) and Jennifer Castillo To see the candidates’ begin at 6 p.m. and will themselves before taking

St. Anne’s, St. Stephens hold fundraiser for local Freedom Schools Last weekend members of St. Anne’s Episcopal Church and St. Stephens Episcopal Church joined together to host a fundraiser for local Freedom Schools. Although the threat of rain never materialized, the chill in the air couldn’t dampen the spirits of the attendees.

Winston-Salem Freedom Schools is a six-week summer program designed to increase literacy, self-

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Local students take a moment to enjoy story time at the Freedom School Fundraiser held last weekend. esteem, socio-emotional skills, a love of learning, and civic engagement for children in grades K-12.

Through a research-based and multicultural program model provided by

Children’s Defense Fund (CDF) Freedom Schools, students are inspired participants, known as “scholars,” who spend their summer learning about and believing in their ability to

make a difference in themselves, their families, and their communities, with hope, education, and action.

Each morning of Freedom School, scholars,

instructors and college students shake off the morning rust by participating in a Kenyan tradition called “harambee,” which means “all pull together” in Swahili. During haram-

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bee, students get to share interesting facts about themselves, sing popular songs infused with motivational chants, and practice the latest dance moves.

After the morning welcome, students split into groups and a day filled with learning, fun, and excitement begins.Throughout the six-week program, special guests stop by and read to students.

During the fundraiser held on Saturday, April 30, parents and students had the opportunity to see what Freedom School is like.

The event included storytelling, STEM, activities and guest speakers. There was also food, live music, arts and crafts, a cake walk, and a raffle with the chance to win several different prizes.

Although the total raised wasn’t available on Saturday, early estimates exceeded $5,000 in donations.

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Financial Pathways honors inaugural Financial First Responder of the Year

BY TEVIN STINSON THE CHRONICLE

For her hard work and dedication to helping individuals reach their goal of becoming homeowners, last week Financial Pathways of the Piedmont named Bianca Green as Financial First Responder of the Year.

For the past 50 years Financial Pathways has helped families across the Piedmont reach their financial goals. The nonprofit, which was known as Consumer Credit Counseling Services of Forsyth Photo by Tevin Stinson County until the name was Bianca Green (left) is embraced by Phyllis Caldwell-George, CEO of Financial Pathways of the Piedmont. changed in 2012, offers mile and give focus to in- do it for the recognition, programs such as credit well-being.

After nominations were dividual situations. They it felt good to be acknowland debt counseling, fisubmitted, the list was narare listeners and doers all edged. nancial education, Senior rowed down to ten finalists She said what she enrolled into one.”

Financial Care, debt manbefore a winner was chojoys most about her job is The winner, Bianca agement, and homeownersen. “It has been an honor Green, is a loan officer for witnessing the impact she ship service.

Every year Financial to be a part of the creation the Forsyth County Com- makes in people’s lives.

“Although I haven’t Pathways holds a luncheon of the inaugural Financial munity & Economic DeHealth First Responders velopment Department. done it for recognition, it as a fundraiser for the proAward,” said Harding durGreen’s colleagues said feels good and it confirms grams they offer, but this is the first year the Financial ing the luncheon last week. it’s impossible to describe that I’m doing the right “We are excited to be their coworker without us- thing,” Green continued.

First Responder of the Year acknowledging and cel- ing the term “above and “What I enjoy most is Award was presented. beyond.” seeing the impact on the ebrating ten individuals According to Andy In her role as the pripeople that I help … the who make it a part of their Harding, a member of the Financial Pathways Board daily job to focus on those mary loan officer for the impact on their families. of Directors, nomina- who need financial assis- First Time Homebuyers They’re lifting up generations were open to finan- tance and counseling. Dur- Program, Green is re- tions when they reach that cial counselors at local ing this time of the year a sponsible for qualifying goal of becoming a homenonprofits, organizations, lot of awards are given - and underwriting second owner and I love being a companies, and financial CEO of the Year, CFO of mortgages. But oftentimes part of that.”

For more information institutions who exemplify the Year, CIO, Best Places Green serves as a counselor, realtor, inspector, to Work and those winon Financial Pathways of the mission of Financial coach, and therapist to supners are all very deservthe Piedmont or the FinanPathways and have gone port her clients.

After acing.

But today’s award is cial First Responder of the above and beyond to help individuals improve their for those who walk among cepting her award, Green Year Award, visit https:// financial health and overall us, those who go the extra said although she doesn’t financialpaths.org/.

Local citizens, business owners due more than $500,000,000 in unclaimed property

BY TEVIN STINSON THE CHRONICLE

Citizens and business owners in Forsyth County are owed more than $500,000,000 and NC State Treasure Dale Falwell has launched an initiative to get the unclaimed money back to the rightful owners.

NCCash Match is the Department of State Treasurer’s new program designed to make it easier for unclaimed property owners to receive their money.

With the NCCash Match program, unclaimed property owners do not need to take action to receive their money. The unclaimed property division will research records and iden-

tify qualifying claims of $5,000 or less.

According to Falwell, when the program launched in 2020, his office had more than $800 million in unclaimed property. And since that time that number has grown to more than $919 million.

Unclaimed property can mean items such as uncashed checks, forgotten bank accounts, utility deposits, life insurance policies, stocks, bonds and other funds that have been abandoned and no owner can be found.

The funds were turned over to the N.C. Treasurer by companies that did business with citizens and business owners at one point in time. When that

company could no longer contact the citizen or business, by law they were required to send the money to the state treasurer for safekeeping.

Here in Forsyth County there are 619,645 claims listed on the NCCash website totaling $50,175,969.34. In a press release issued on National Unclaimed Property Day, Falwell said one of the most rewarding parts of his job is sending checks to those whose money has been kept, often unknown to them.

“Our Unclaimed Property Division (UPD) is working hard to put money back into the owners’ wallets,” Treasurer Folwell said. “We are slowly com-

ing out of the damaging economic effects of the COVID lockdowns, and are now confronting rapid inflation. We have heard from many individuals, businesses, churches and charities that the money we are putting back in their hands makes a welcome difference in their financial circumstances. That’s why we have initiated new programs with the help of the General Assembly and continue researching other methods to speed up the process.”

For more information, including how to find out if you are owed money, go to https://www.nccash. com/ (link is external).

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Dr. Travest Hunter to release inspirational CD

BY TIMOTHY RAMSEY THE CHRONICLE

As we break out of this pandemic, people are in need of inspiration now more than ever. Born and raised in Winston-Salem, Dr. Travest Hunter aims to be that voice of inspiration with his CD that includes scriptures from the Bible, healing prayer and inspirational music in the background.

Hunter noticed a need for such a CD and was divinely encouraged to make the CD to help others in their time of need.

“I was at home in meditation mode and during the pandemic I looked at the sickness, I looked at the deaths and I was looking at all of the churches closing down, jobs shutting down, people going through things, burying their loved ones and just out of my spirit I was thinking, ‘Lord what can be done?’” said Hunter about how the thought came to him to make the CD. “From there I was inspired spiritually to come up with the inspirational healing CD and from there I started compiling all of the healing scriptures in

said Hunter. “He (Summers) said ‘because you are a friend to Bernard, I am going to help you do this,’” He stayed with me through this whole process to make sure that everything was set up. I want to say this was a three- or four-month process.

“The whole process of this project was seamless. No complications, no nothing. I have to credit Jesus for all of that. He is the source of inspiration and he is the source of all spiritual goodness. That was one of the highlights of the project.”

Upon hearing the finished project, Hunter was overjoyed at how well his original thoughts translated into what he was hearing.

“When I heard it, I had to sit down because the biggest thing about hearing your own voice is ‘oh my God, I sound like that,’” said Hunter. “I had my own apprehensions and I use this CD myself.

I use it every morning during my meditation time.

“One of the things that we forget is that healing is still a benefit that God offers. We always praise God for the big things like

lem has helped me and I never forgot that.”

Hearing positive feedback about his CD and knowing he helped someone in their time of need are the exact affirmations Hunter was looking for while putting the project together.

“It’s a confirmation as to what you’ve been inspired to do,” said Hunter. “There are no doubts, no reservations, no hesitations that this project comes from God. I didn’t give myself these thoughts.”

You can find Hunter’s CD on digital platforms such as IHeartradio, Pandora, Amazon Music, Deezer, YouTube, iTunes and Facebook.

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Dr. Travest Hunter will release his inspirational CD at his launch party on Friday at Taste of the Triad Restaurant from 5 to 7:30 p.m. the Bible. I wanted to set them to inspirational music and then on the CD, as well is a prayer for the nation. It’s a prayer for national healing, state healing, local healing, people with coronavirus and all its variants. It was totally birthed out of watching the pandemic and all of the depressing news. I was trying to bridge the gap between people getting hope, people building on their faith at the time. That was the total premise of the project at the time.”

Hunter said people can listen to the scriptures, the music and the prayers to keep themselves in a positive frame of mind during such a depressing time.

What further convinced Hunter that he was on the right path was how everything seemed to fall into place while putting the CD together. Hunter says he was on a phone call with a good friend, Bernard Scales, about how to make it work. Scales connected Hunter with a producer friend, Justin Summers, and they soon went to work.

“Those two (Scales and Summers) had already paved the way for the project to be materialized,”

cars, houses and money, but we forget about healing as a benefit that comes from our inheritance through Christ.”

Hunter will be holding a launch party for his CD tomorrow, Friday, at Taste of the Triad Restaurant from 5 to 7:30 p.m.

For more information or to RSVP, call Hunter at 336-287-2572. There will be food and entertainment during the event.

“I wanted to officially release the project because it is already out on several digital platforms,” said Hunter. “I know that we live in such a digital age, but I can never forget my home. I am a Winstonian from the heart and my generation, when we want to do powerful things, we always leave and come back.

“I never left, and I never wanted to lose sight that I am a product of East Winston, I am a product of the Black church in Winston, I am a product of the school system and Winston-Salem State. I am a product of Winston-Salem in every way. My whole family was born and raised here. With everything that I have done, Winston-Sa-

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President Biden issues first pardons, including first Black to serve on a presidential detail

The State of Our City Mayor Allen Joines

BY LAUREN VICTORIA BURKE, NNPA NEWSWIRE CONTRIBUTOR

On April 26, President Biden used his pardon powers as President for the first time.

The White House announced three pardons and the commuted sentences of 75 nonviolent drug offenders.

The move by President Biden follows calls by justice reform activists to use the pardon power to correct disproportionate justice impacting minorities in the U.S. Biden’s pardon list included Abraham Bolden Sr., an 86-year-old former U.S. Secret Service agent who was the first African American to serve on a presidential detail.

“In 1964, Mr. Bolden was charged with offenses related to attempting to sell a copy of a Secret Service file. His first trial resulted in a hung jury, and following his conviction at a second trial, even though key witnesses against him admitted to lying at the prosecutor’s request. Mr. Bolden was denied a new trial and ultimately served several years in federal custody. He has steadfastly maintained his innocence, arguing that he was targeted for prosecution in retaliation for exposing unprofessional and racist behavior within the U.S. Secret Service. Mr. Bolden has received numerous honors and awards for his ongoing work to speak out against the racism he faced in the Secret Service in the 1960s, and his courage in challenging injustice. Mr. Bolden has also been recognized for his many contributions to his community following his release from prison,” a statement from the White House regarding Bolden’s pardon read.

Dexter Eugene Jackson, 52, of Athens, Georgia., was pardoned by Biden for his 2002 conviction for using his business to facilitate the sale of marijuana. “Since his release from custody, Mr. Jackson has converted his business into a cell-phone repair service and hired local high school students through a program that seeks to provide young adults with work experience. Mr. Jackson has also worked to build and renovate homes in a community that lacks quality affordable housing,” the White House release stated.

Betty Jo Bogans, 51, of Houston, received a pardon for her 1998 conviction of possession with intent to distribute crack cocaine. Bogans, a single mother with no record, received a seven-year sentence because of harsh penalties at the time. “At the time of her conviction, Ms. Bogans was a single mother with no prior record, who accepted responsibility for her limited role in the offense. Because of the harsh penalties in place at the time she was convicted, Ms. Bogans received a seven-year sentence. In the nearly two decades since her release from custody, Ms. Bogans has held consistent employment, even while undergoing treatment for cancer, and has focused on raising her son.”

The number of pardons indicate Biden may have many more to come. The use of the pardon power varies from President to President. Donald Trump used it several times to send political messages in celebrity cases.

Lauren Victoria Burke is an independent journalist and the host of the podcast BURKEFILE. She is a political analyst who appears regularly on #RolandMartinUnfiltered. She may be contacted at LBurke007@ gmail.com and on twitter at @LVBurke.

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It’s an understatement to say that this has been a difficult two years for everyone in Winston-Salem.

More than 92,000 city and county residents caught COVID-19 and almost 800 died. Families endured lost or reduced wages. Parents had to juggle jobs and at-home schooling.

Restaurants, businesses and entertainment and tourism venues suffered – and some went under. And city government lost $20 million due to plummeting receipts from the sales tax, occupancy tax, parking fees and other sources of revenue.

I noted all this in my recent State of the City address. But I also noted how our community and city government rose to the challenges brought on by the pandemic. Together we raised $4.4 million to help displaced workers and businesses, we devised a workable application and distribution system from scratch for federal money that kept people in their homes, and we found a way to balance our city budgets without a tax increase.

Beyond COVID, I am encouraged by positive developments in other areas.

DOWNTOWN. Twenty years ago we started a concerted effort to revitalize downtown with such initiatives as the Fourth Street make-over, the Nissen Building conversion and the Restaurant Row program. Since 2000, more than $2.1 billion has been invested in downtown. Multiple large apartment projects have been completed and five more projects are underway.

Two projects under construction – the new Kaleideum museum and Merschel Park with its 30foot high kinetic sculpture – will inject even more energy into downtown.

THE ECONOMY. Our economy remains strong, despite perceptions in some quarters that we are lagging the other cities in the Triad. Case in point:

Just before the pandemic hit, our metro area had the highest rate of net new job growth – 3.9 percent – of all metro areas in the Southeast. The latest number is 3.5 percent, which is higher than every other Southeast metro area except Savannah and Birmingham.

And we are tied with Charlotte and Austin, Texas, as the number one city in the country for the percentage of new business startups.

More evidence: In 2021 our construction permits exceeded $1 billion for the first time; our unemployment rate is below 4 precent; and we continue to attract new companies. The recent plant announcements from Boom and Toyota bode well, too. Economic developers tell us that many of their suppliers will want to be within 60 miles – but no closer than 30 miles – to the plants themselves. That puts us in the sweet spot.

The Innovation Quarter continues to grow with another $200 million investment coming in the next two years.

TRANSPORTATION.

The long-anticipated Northern Beltway is becoming a reality. By the end of the year, the eastern leg will be complete from U.S. 52 to Salem Parkway.

The rest of the eastern leg will soon be under construction and all sections of the western leg have been funded.

CHALLENGES. Although much of what is happening in the city is positive, there are challenges we cannot ignore, most significantly in the areas of crime, housing and poverty.

Homicides and violent crime have been trending up here, as they have been throughout the nation. In response, Police Chief Catrina Thompson has initiated a number of programs, including the Violent Crimes Task Force and the Real Time Crime Center that uses cutting edge technology. Also, the city recently earmarked $1.3 million for social programs that prevent violence and gang activity.

Affordable housing is a pressing need for many, including police officers, teachers, firefighters, store clerks and others. At my

recommendation, our city council has set a goal of creating 750 units of affordable housing per year for ten years and has identified $40 million to get started. But this will not be enough. Experts tell us we will need 15,000 new units over the next eight years.

Before the pandemic hit, we had reduced our number of chronically homeless persons by 92 percent.

But since then the number has crept back up.

Poverty is closely tied to the need for affordable housing. Currently one in five – 20 percent – of our residents are in poverty.

That’s too high. But it is down from 26 percent several years ago. There are some long-range programs that will make a difference, including the free college program, paid internships for high school juniors and seniors, and a robust third grade reading initiative.

Taken as a whole, the state of Winston-Salem is positive. Yes, we face some significant challenges, but we have solid plans in place to overcome them.

And we will.

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NBA champion J. R. Smith has now earned academic honors at North Carolina A&T State University Dr. James B. Ewers Jr.

Guest Columnist

The NBA Playoffs are now in full swing. The remaining teams are battling each other tooth and nail.

They aren’t giving an inch as each team wants to win the National Basketball Association Championship.

Just a few months ago I coined the expression, “Records can be broken but championships can’t.”

With great respect to other players, there are players who have set records, but have not won championships.

On the other hand,

there are players like Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, LeBron James and Robert “Big Shot Bob” Horry who have records and championships.

Two of the championships won by LeBron James were with the Cleveland Cavaliers and the Los Angeles Lakers.

He shared those championships with J. R. Smith.

Smith was an NBA player for 16 years. That’s a long time. He played for the New York Knicks and the Denver Nuggets in addition to the Cavaliers and the Lakers.

Make no mistake, J. R. Smith was a prolific player.

He was drafted out of high school with the 18th overall pick in the 2004 NBA draft. He also received the Sixth Man of the Year trophy in 2013.

J.R. Smith retired in

2020. At his age and with his savings, the world was his oyster, maybe several oysters.

With the many choices he had available to him, what would the next chapter of his life look like?

There are many retired professional basketball players who have gone into coaching. Don Chaney (Houston Rockets) and Avery Johnson (Dallas Mavericks) come quickly to mind.

J. R. Smith chose the road not frequently traveled by many professional athletes. His road led him to enroll at North Carolina A&T State University, an historically Black college and university (HBCU) in Greensboro.

According to those who know, he was encouraged to go to college

by Ray Allen, who went

to college at the University of Connecticut. He later played professional basketball with the Boston Celtics and the Miami Heat.

J.R. Smith gave those of us who reside in the public square a glimpse of his college life through a series of tweets.

Here are a few of them: “Joined a study group for my African American Studies class on #groupie and my classmates don’t think it’s me.”

“Man, I’ve been eating junk food my whole life and now I got to quit cause I’m learning about nutrition in my #FCS class.

African Americans especially have to cut out so much fast food and sugar in our diets. Diabetes rate is way too high and going higher.”

“Is it natural to switch

majors? Just asking.”

These tweets are genuine and speak volumes for the seriousness that he takes in his academic pursuits.

As new students, back in the day, we had multiple questions and our curiosity ran rampant. The college experience, no matter the era, is just different.

J. R. Smith wanted to play golf at NC A&T State University. His appeal to the NCAA was approved.

Not only was he on the golf team, he was named North Carolina A&T’s Academic Athlete of the Year.

He earned a 4.0 GPA and is pursuing a liberal arts degree.

All of the applause, all of the accolades, and all of the achievements that have been a part of the basketball life of J.R. Smith, he is now achieving in the class-

room with a new set of teammates and challenges.

His three-point shot on the court is now an A in the classroom. We are happy and excited for him. This is a great story.

Let’s toast him by raising a book in honor of J.R. Smith.

Cheers!

James B. Ewers Jr., Ed.D., is a former tennis champion at Atkins High School in Winston-Salem and played college tennis at Johnson C. Smith University, where he was all-conference for four years. He is a retired college administrator. He can be reached at overtimefergie.2020@yahoo.com.

No more Earth Days!

Dr. Kent Shifferd

Guest Columnist

We don’t need, indeed can’t tolerate, any more Earth Days during which we salve our consciences and then go back to a world that is grossly and unsustainably overpopulated, fantastically littered with thousand-year plastic, poisoned with tens of thousands of chemicals unknown to the evolution of life on the planet, polluted with climate disaster carbon, and disfigured

by warfare and threatened with nuclear holocaust.

So how can we even have hope? How can we not despair? What’s the use? We don’t just need an Earth Week, or an Earth Year, or for the UN to declare a “decade of the Earth.” It won’t even be sufficient for us to think in terms of a generation.

If we are to be the ones who begin the process of saving ourselves by saving the Earth, we must face the hard fact that it will take many generations. After all, it took 300 years to change from a sustainable civilization to this disaster we now mistakenly call by that name.

Let’s face it, we are losing and will lose many

battles in this struggle, just as the British lost at the beginning of World War II. They could not see the road ahead, the road to victory, but they fought on anyway because defeat was not an alternative.

Nor is it for us. Gradually they began winning some battles at great cost while still losing some, and then winning more than they lost, and then after great sacrifice, the war was won. That scenario is what we can look forward to unless we just decide to give up and call in the giant asteroid like the one that extincted 99% of life when it hit 60 million years ago.

What do we do? Where do we start? We take

to heart the instruction: “Don’t just do something, stand there.”

Why? Because before we act, we need to rethink ourselves. This great trashing of the Earth is the result of our holding the wrong ideas. We need a conceptual revolution.

More is not better, nor is it faster. We are not lords of the planet, not the most important species. (Actually, the insects are.) The good life is not defined by acquiring more goods or bigger houses.

We are not fit in the least to be the directors of the further evolution of the planet, as the Apostles of the Anthropocene think.

We are foolish if we think the great corporations

know best.

We should not have thought we were smart enough to tamper with the insides of the atom and the gene, we who sprayed the world with DDT, CFCs, PFAS, etc. We need to realize the utter folly of thinking we can have unlimited economic growth on a finite planet. Any third grader can see that, but not our economists and politicians.

We cannot make it on our own. We humans are not even possible without the bee and the dung beetle, the lowly earthworm, and the oxygen-generating, life-making plants.

So, we need to turn these old and dysfunctional ideas on their heads and

find new ways of living, each of us starting with ourselves and each of us, banded together, fighting the ideas and the social organizations that are driving us along the road toward ruin. The fight will be long and costly, but the victory will be worth it and, in the end, all the children will be safe.

Dr. Kent Shifferd, syndicated by PeaceVoice, is the author of several books and is the former executive director of the Wisconsin Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies.

The coming Old New Order Mel Gurtov Guest Columnist

From Cold War to Cold War A principal lesson of the war in Ukraine is that the Cold War never ended.

German reunification, the Soviet Union’s collapse, new entries in NATO, democratic springs in Poland and Hungary, Ukraine’s independence, the removal of nuclear weapons from eastern Europe, including Ukraine - all these events once augured a new era in Europe.

Russia would embrace perestroika and glasnost, globalization would fully integrate the eastern European economies with the European Union, and demilitarization would free up funds for social wellbeing and environmental rehabilitation.

American triumphalism was at its height, with President George H.W. Bush proclaiming a “new world order” after the Iraq intervention, and Frances Fukuyama prophesying “the end of history.”

Those dreams were shattered by subsequent events in the Middle East, the rise of China and, in Europe, developments both unforeseen - such as

large-scale immigration from the Middle East and north Africa, and the resurfacing of Russian authoritarianism - and unwise, such as the unequal impact of globalization on working classes and NATO’s eastward expansion.

These new sources of European division provided fertile ground for the rise of right-wing populism and white supremacist nationalism.

The 1990s proved to be a transitional period, not the start of a new era. We’re now in Cold War 1.5, not Cold War II. Regardless of the outcome in Ukraine - a Russian occupation of the eastern regions, an unending insurgency, or a Ukrainian victory - the European security order will continue along an East-West divide.

As Stephen Kotkin puts it, geoeconomics has not replaced geopolitics.

Vladimir Putin is trying to create his own new order by force - an order in which a Russian-dominated east faces a U.S.NATO-dominated west.

Neutrality has become a thing of the past as Sweden and Finland seem ready to join NATO, Germany has broken with tradition on military aid in a conflict, and even Switzerland has contributed to Ukraine’s defense against Russia’s invasion. It’s us-versusthem again.

The Stakes A central principle of post-World War II international politics was that

aggression must not pay.

That principle has been under fairly consistent assault since, but never so profoundly as it is today.

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said in a statement that the Russian invasion “Is not only a defining moment for our continent, but also for our relationship with the rest of the world.”

She specifically meant to include China. General Mark Milley, the U.S. joint chiefs chairman, tells CNN: “What’s at stake … is the global international security order that was put in place in 1945 …

And underlining that entire concept is the idea that large nations will not conduct military aggression against smaller nations, and that is exactly what’s happened here, by Russia against a smaller nation.”

Therein lies the importance of how the war in Ukraine ends.

One possibility is that Putin will not survive, a return of some semblance of democracy in Russia is possible, and the threat to democratic and semi-democratic states bordering Russia will subside.

Human rights and pro-democracy forces in currently pro-Russian authoritarian regimes such as Belarus, Hungary, and Kazakhstan, may bring on a new wave of color revolutions. Europe would essentially be back to 19891991 and the post-Soviet upheaval, though with the ever-present danger of

Russian revanchism. It would be an uneasy peace, however, with parallels to Europe in 1945 when another great power was defeated, the Americans went home, and Europe quickly faced political and economic upheaval.

In Asia, China’s close ties with Putin’s Russia would have been proven bankrupt, forcing China to reconsider its global strategy and giving the Chinese military good reason to shy away from reliance on a Russian army that has proven grossly incompetent.

U.S. alliances in Asia with South Korea, Japan, Australia, and with India in AUKUS and the Quad would all be given a boost.

China would charge all those countries with seeking to contain it, and would likely invest more heavily in its naval and air forces.

That could spell trouble in the Taiwan Strait and, with North Korea, on the Korean peninsula. The nuclear issue could then become more salient - with South Korea wanting its own nuclear deterrent against North Korea and Japan not just expanding its military, but considering having a nuclear deterrent against China. A new Cold War in Asia, already much discussed these days, might be unavoidable.

Worst-Case Futures If, on the other hand, Putin emerges with new territorial gains in Ukraine, unpunished for his war crimes and determined to

refurbish his military’s damaged reputation, the battle lines for the next confrontation in Europe will be apparent.

A new Iron Curtain is likely to descend on Europe: Georgia, Moldova, and possibly Poland may face serious security threats from Moscow even though Russia’s economy has been seriously weakened, the Russian military had gotten a black eye in Ukraine, and the quality of life for Russians will have been dramatically scaled back. The U.S.-NATO alliance system will have to be fortified for another long haul.

That scenario may not bode well for the alliance.

Long-term economic sacrifice could cause some EU populations to drift from generosity with Ukraine to indifference. Central Asia’s security picture may become more dire as well. Countries that are dependent on Russia for security and trade, such as Kazakhstan, or host Russian military forces, such as Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan, may worry about where Russian hyper-nationalism will move next.

The immediate future of Europe may feature prolonged fighting in Ukraine without any clear outcome.

That eventuality means further increases in military spending and armed forces throughout Europe, deeper political divisions within countries, and the dashing of hopes for combating climate change and other social problems.

Talk of a nuclear confrontation will grow more ominous, not just in Europe but in East Asia too.

Above all, think of what Ukraine, in victory or defeat, will be like. It already is a completely devastated country, with a huge refugee population, splintered families, industry reduced to primitive levels, and severe food, water, and electrical shortages. Ukraine, in short, will be a basket case after the war, dependent on the West for many years and constantly facing threats from the East.

Like Western Europe after the Nazi defeat, Ukraine and possibly its neighbors will need a Marshall Plan and security guarantees.

Where will the money and the guarantees come from?

Cold War I was enormously costly to all countries and to the planet. With pandemics and the climate crisis now ongoing threats to species’ survival, the last thing the world needs is a new round of Cold War that not only detracts attention from those existential threats, but adds a new one: use of a nuclear weapon.

Ukraine must be rebuilt and European security must be reinforced, but there should be less talk about a “new order” and Cold War, and more talk about human and environmental security.

Mel Gurtov, syndicated

by PeaceVoice, is professor emeritus of political science at Portland State University and blogs at In the Human Interest.

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BUSTA’S PERSON OF THE WEEK

Abandoned at birth, now class president

BY BUSTA BROWN FOR THE CHRONICLE

Angel Thomas was abandoned at birth and left to die under a stairwell at an apartment complex in Greensboro. This coming month, Angel will be a proud college graduate.

But there’s so much more to this story, so let’s start from the beginning.

In 1999, according to Angel Thomas, she went through the unimaginable.

“It was in November, on one of the coldest nights of the year. I was left under a stairwell by my biological father and his original plan was to kill me. My biological mother had no clue what had happened to me or where I was, because she went through so much,” shared Angel.

As I struggled to hold back my tears, the Gibsonville, North Carolina native remained cool and calm. Her demonstration of strength and resilience were remarkable. Angel was very relaxed, with the sweetest smile, and kept a warm and soft delivery as she continued.

“A resident was walking out of her apartment to go to work and she heard the sound coming from under the stairs of her apartment.

She looked under the stairwell and she said I was just lying there. Her son called me his angel.”

She was treated at the hospital for hyperthermia, released into the foster care system, and then was processed into the home of her now adopted parents.

“My mom and dad said as soon as they got me into their home, they knew I would never leave,” said Angel.

The 22-year-old was raised in a loving home, with two amazing parents. But there were a few challenges along the way.

“When I was four I was outside playing with my cousin. I’m not sure what happened, but I made her mad and she said, ‘You’re not my real cousin, you’re adopted.’ I ran into the house and asked my mom, what is adopted? She said, it means we didn’t have you, but we love you the same. My mom said I told her thank you for loving me and then went back outside to play.”

Angel was never ashamed of being adopted, but the verbal bullying during middle school became unbearable. “I was bullied every day about being adopted and tall. I had to go through therapy because of my depression of dealing with the emotions it caused,” said a cool and still calm Angel.

It wasn’t the therapy that helped beat Angel’s depression and insecurities.

It was her resilience. “I finally realized that I had to allow myself to be happy and get rid of the anger, resentment, and guilt. I learned how to love me and how to be me, without worrying about what others think of me, or where I came from,” shared Angel.

As I continued holding back my tears, at this point in our conversation she did as well. But it didn’t last.

She lit up the room with her big beautiful smile, “I’m very happy with the woman I’ve become. My mom always told me that it’s not where you come from, but where you want to go. You have to want things for yourself,” said Angel.

She calls her mom three times a day. “She’s my best friend. She loved me through all of those years of trying to find myself.”

After graduating from middle school, Angel’s mom had big plans for her

Angel Thomas future. “My mom said it’s this school in High Point called T. W. Andrews Aviation Academy, and I want you to be a pilot. We applied and I was accepted,” said Angel. But there was one big issue … She lived in Gibsonville. Yet, she has something that all successful people possess: Tenacity and rigor! “I would hop on the bus every morning from Gibsonville to High Point and back. It was an hour and a half bus ride every day, but that’s where I wanted to be. They had some amazing teachers at Andrews that truly cared about us.”

During high school, Angel began to soar and develop into a true leader, while participating in various youth and leadership development activities. In 2018, she won Miss Teen Greensboro and was the first runner-up in Miss Teen North Carolina. “I’ve never done a pageant before, so I was nervous.

My mom would laugh at me because I would walk around in heels every single day because I’m so clumsy. Although I did it just for fun, I also wanted to do well.”

Her passion for being a pilot landed Angel at GTCC Aviation, and then Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, where she earned a degree in aeronautics and minors in business and occupational safety. Then Angel’s hopes of becoming a pilot changed. “One day while I was flying, I looked out the window and realized I don’t like flying,” she said while laughing. She switched her major to aeronautics with minors in business and safety. “I love safety and keeping people safe. I look forward to becoming a health and safety specialist and then the director of a health and safety firm.”

Angel Thomas overcame being abandoned at birth, going through the foster care system, bullying, depression and anger. Now at 22, she’s the president of her graduating class at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University.

I asked the future health and safety director if there is anything that is intimidating about graduating college. “Delivering that speech!” she jokes.

While we continued laughing, she added, “I’m not a planner, so if I can just walk across that stage and not fall, I’m good.”

She will officially graduate on May 7.

My phenomenal Person of the Week is Angel Thomas. “I haven’t made plans for the next five years, but I know I’m going to be happy and very successful. You can’t stay focused on what’s in front of you, because there’s always something else on the other side of the mountain.”

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Kernersville development is blueprint for scaling up workforce housing

BY JOHN RAILEY

In the early 2000s, Deidris Reynolds, a hospital secretary, was living in an apartment in southern Winston-Salem.

Crime was rampant. She wanted to buy her first home in a safe neighborhood for her three young boys. She enrolled in the Forsyth County Homeownership Program (FCHP), which included financial literacy courses. “I was just determined to move,” she said.

With $6,000 in downpayment assistance from the FCHP in 2004, Reynolds bought a home for $120,500 in the brand new housing development of Berry Garden in Kernersville. She raised her sons in the house, which now has a market value of $231,000. Her oldest two sons graduated from college and have good jobs.

“Berry Garden really is the American Dream,” Reynolds said in a recent interview.

Her neighbors agree, reporting similar increases in the value of their homes.

Berry Garden sets a needed model for meeting a huge challenge in Forsyth County: that, in the next decade of building thousands of homes affordable for our workforce, including firefighters, restaurant, hospital and biotech workers.

As Winston-Salem State University’s Center for the Study of the Economic Mobility (CSEM) studied the efficacy of the FCHP in recent months,

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Deidris Reynolds it made a realization. “As effective as the program is, the few dozen clients it puts in homes annually are just a drop in the bucket at meeting the county’s needs,” CSEM Director Craig Richardson said.

One solution to the crisis is scaling up the efforts of organizations, including Habitat for Humanity, the Simon G. Atkins Community Development Corporation and the FCHP. What’s needed is neighborhood after neighborhood of good homes – like Berry Garden, started in the early 2000s by the Housing Partnership of Winston-Salem/Forsyth County and the FCHP, and

still thriving. Its 32 houses on a quiet street ending in a cul-de-sac are eclectic and well-kept-up, with children playing, diverse neighbors often chatting and only two or three rental houses. “It’s amazing,” said longtime resident Mark McKinney, a truck driver whose home has increased in value from its $120,000 purchase price to a current market value of $218,500. “I didn’t know how the neighborhood would hold up, whether it would turn into crap. But look around: It’s great.”

A data analysis by CSEM bears out the sucSee Housing on A8

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Invested more than $1 million to assist our small businesses.

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A mother’s love and a servant heart Tonya D. McDaniel many may know as Bell, NaNa, Zeta Phi Beta Sorority Inc, Nu Tau Chapter Soror, SiStar to the Order of Eastern Stars (Meridian #308), Daughter to Sethos #105, 2nd vice chair of the Winston-Salem Branch of the NAACP, member of the WinstonSalem Chapter of the Top Ladies of Distinction, Inc., member of the National Association of University Women of the Winston-Salem Chapter, member of the National Association of Achievement of the Kernersville Chapter – just to name a few. But what is most important is my mother’s mission, which is continuing the work and serve the constituents of Forsyth County. My mother is no stranger to this community. I’ve had to overcome my selfishness, because I often witness her giving her last to community members in need. God has and will always be her protection. As her daughter, I understand what trust and faith in God looks like through the lens of my mother. She has one of the cutest taglines, I.F.R.O.G. It means: I fully rely on God. It’s her immeasurable faith that makes me proud to call her Bell, Mother and our Forsyth County Commissioner (District A).

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cess of the neighborhood: *The average value at time of purchase (adjusted to 2022-dollar values) was $168,655 and, as of April 2022, the average value is $223,778. *For a sample of 24 properties purchased through the FCHP from 2005 to April 2022, the values have appreciated by 33.1% (inflation adjustment). *Only two purchasers in the sample underwent foreclosure, one in 2007 and one in 2008, during the 17 years of the sample analyzed. (8.3% rate).

Jane Milner, the former president of the no-longeractive Winston-Salem/ Forsyth County Housing Partnership, planned the neighborhood, working with the Town of Kernersville and its chamber of commerce. Dan Kornelis, a founding member of the partnership, and his staff at the FCHP supplied downpayment assistance and financial literacy courses through the nonprofit Experiment in Self-Reliance and the Center for Homeownership.

“Upon completion, they received about $5,000 toward their down payment,” Milner said. “They could choose between five builders who offered a variety of design choices.

Two families had Habitat homes, but the rest had a tiny bit higher income and were able to have bank mortgages. The homes had an energy conservation grant which guaranteed their energy costs for two years.

“The houses ranged from $90,000 to $120,000 in purchase price; household incomes were typically in the $20,000 to $30,000 range.

Now the houses are valued at $200,000 and more. Many owners have made improvements to their homes including garages, room additions, porches and even solar panels. This development is a wonderful example of public-private partnerships combining public and private resources. It takes a village and more.”

The Berry Garden residents are Black, white, Hispanic and Asian. They are students and whitecollar workers and bluecollar ones. A few have lived in the development since its inception. Several have moved there in recent years and were unaware of the partnership that conceived it. Some said their real estate agents steered them to the development.

All of those interviewed praised Berry Garden.

“Nobody knows it’s back here,” said Brenda Beyer, a businesswoman who moved in recently to

be near family. “It’s a quiet neighborhood. I have good neighbors, and that’s really important.” A banner bearing the words “Welcome Friends” hangs in her front yard.

Her next-door neighbor, Courtney Whelan, purchased her house with her husband, a qualitycontrol inspector, in 2017 for $130,000. Now, it has a market value of $225,000.

The Whelans and their two small children enjoy the neighborhood, but are selling their house to move to Madison so they can be closer to family.

Kornelis, who helped start the FCHP when he was the head of the county’s community and economic development department, said, “The truth is that the program provided a template for success, but the real work was done by the participants who purchased their homes and who have continued to stay in their homes, building equity and wealth in places like Berry Garden.”

Reynolds said: “We need a lot more neighborhoods like this one, because so many more of our residents need to own their homes and build wealth to pass on to their children.”

John Railey, raileyjb@ gmail.com, is the writerin-residence for CSEM, www.wssu.edu/csem.

THURSDAY, May 5, 2022

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

2022 NFL draft recap The 2022 NFL draft has come and gone. Some teams achieved their goals of filling roster holes and upgrading positions of need. Some teams drafted well, while others fumbled their picks. This year also showed us that several teams value experienced players over draft capital.

The 2022 NFL draft was one of the more unique drafts in recent memory due to lack of high-profile quarterbacks.

There was only one quarterback taken in the first round, which was former Pittsburgh quarterback Kenny Pickett.

Teams in the league saw this lack of potential at the quarterback position in the draft and instead chose to shop around the league for their potential starters. Russell Wilson, Carson Wentz and Deshaun Watson were all traded to different teams and Marcus Mariota was signed in free agency.

Other starters like Jimmy Garoppolo and Baker Mayfield are also still on the trading block and I’m sure teams are more comfortable with those two than the crop of quarterbacks in this year’s draft.

I guess that was the reason why Malik Willis fell all the way to the third round and Desmond Ridder was selected in the second round as the second quarterback off the board.

For years it has been commonplace for teams to panic and over-draft a quarterback because they are the most important position on the field. Teams realize now that they can trade draft capital for a proven commodity instead of praying for production from a rookie. There were also eight quarterbacks drafted in the first round of the last two drafts, so those teams are still waiting to see if their investment pans out.

One NFL source told ESPN’s Matt Miller that “None of these [quarterbacks] were seen as can’t-miss starters. And this league right now, you’re either a franchise quarterback or you aren’t, so why waste a pick on a guy you’re not convinced about?”

While the quarterback position was down this year, the wide receiver position was as strong as ever. There were 17 receivers taken in the first three rounds of this year’s draft, which is tied with 1994 and 2007 for the most in the first three rounds in draft history.

It seems as though the receiver position has skyrocketed in value over the last few years. Teams are trading for Pro-Bowl caliber receivers and givSee NFL on B5

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BY TIMOTHY RAMSEY THE CHRONICLE

The Atkins Lady Camels lacrosse team was

looking to avenge a loss from earlier in the season against West Stokes. The Lady Camels lost the first contest 7-4 and were looking to end their regular season on a high note with a

win against the Wildcats. Unfortunately for the Lady Camels, their season came to an end with a 14-2 loss against the Wildcats.

The League now has something for the ladies

BY TIMOTHY RAMSEY THE CHRONICLE

The League, brought to you by the Josh Howard Foundation, has established itself as the premier adult basketball league in the Triad area and beyond. Players from all around the state come together each season to battle it out for supremacy. After much demand, Steve Nivens, The League commissioner, has finally put the pieces together for a much-anticipated women’s league.

Nivens has contemplated putting together a women’s league for several years. After bringing the men’s league to a place where he wanted it, he finally had the opportunity to focus more on putting the women’s league together by finding the right talent to play and a good venue to host the games.

“After I posted it a few times when I was trying it out, the feedback I was getting was kind of delayed,” said Nivens. “The girls were coming to the spring league, they were coming and inquiring about it, so I hopped on it and said, let me try it. I am getting good feedback now and we will see how it goes once we get everything situated.”

Nivens is currently accepting more players and putting the final touches on the women’s league.

He has a start date of May 25 and will have all teams finalized by May 18. The games are going to be played at the Sprague Street Recreation Center.

“We will decide about the teams after the 18th and my target goal is to have at least six teams,” said Nivens. “We will play on

Wednesdays and call it Women’s Wednesdays. I am just going to try and go forward with it this time.

“I guess they are enjoying watching the fellas play, so the ladies want their part. I am just trying to give them what they are asking for.”

There will be no shortage of talent when it comes to the women’s league. According to Nivens, he is looking for the best available talent in the area to participate in the league to make it as competitive as the men’s league.

“I am pretty sure with the la-

dies that will be playing, they will be former or current players,” he said about the league. “That’s what I am going for - ladies that can play just as good as the guys.

I definitely want those ladies that can go hard.”

Nivens admits there is a little apprehension about starting the new women’s league. He says with any new venture there will be nerves, but he is excited about the opportunity.

“I am always nervous, but I am always hoping for the best,” he said. “I just want to give it a try

and I hope I get a good turnout with the ladies. I know it will be difficult to get it to where I got the guys, but I definitely want a good turnout. Sixty ladies will be good for me.”

Nivens has been able to establish The League as a well-known brand around the Triad area. Nivens has plans to continue new avenues with the league to branch out even further and the women’s league is the next step in that plan.

“I am in the middle of trying to do some big things with the brand, but I know with enticing the ladies, it expands my ideas and what I am able to do with the league,” Nivens said about his brand. “The women are definitely going to take me to the next level.

Always being humble, Nivens felt he could bring The League to the heights he has it currently; however, he didn’t want to be overconfident, so he took things slowly.

“I am surprised and happy. The work that I have put in, I am glad that it is prospering out to the vision that I had,” he stated. “I definitely put in the work and I guess with the positive feedback, the guys and the sponsors around me helping me be able to advance it every year, I am just excited and wondering what I can do next with it.”

For more information about the women’s league, please visit The League’s Instagram page at theleaguenc, by email at steve@ thejoshhowardfoundation.com or call the Sprague Street Rec Center.

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Bo Gilliam hosts fundraiser for advancement in sickle cell treatment

BY TIMOTHY RAMSEY THE CHRONICLE

Sickle cell anemia is a rare disorder that affects approximately 100,000 Americans and is more prevalent in the African American community. Bo Gilliam aims to bring more awareness to the disorder by holding a fundraiser this Saturday, May 7, from 3-7 p.m. at the Honeypoo Acres Ranch, 2032 Mahaney Rock Road in Yadkinville.

This event will be a Kentucky Derby themed semi-formal event and will include music, dancing, food, games, prizes, guest speakers and more. Tickets are $75 per person and can be purchased through Eventbrite.

“The main objective is to keep sickle cell in people’s minds, especially young people,” said Gilliam. “We are focused on awareness, research and finding a cure for sickle cell. Sometimes sickle cell gets pushed under the rug.”

Gilliam says he is committed to the sickle cell cause because it afflicts several individuals in his family and he has seen firsthand how they had to suffer through the disorder.

“Back in the day, I saw my brother suffer with the

disorder and they didn’t have the knowledge that they have now, so I kind of grew up with it,” said Gilliam. “My great-grandfather had the trait and he passed it on down to my grandfather and my mother passed it down to me and my brother, who had sickle cell because my brother’s father had the trait.

“I passed it down to my daughter and my daughter passed it on down to my granddaughter. That’s how it moves around through genetics.”

Sickle cell disease is an inherited group of disorders where red blood cells contort into a sickle shape.

The cells die early, leaving a shortage of healthy red

blood cells and can block blood flow, causing pain and other symptoms.

“It can cause paralysis, body aches, muscle aches, and that is because the red blood cells are sickled and they can’t go through the veins properly, so that causes oxygen flow to be a factor,” he said. “Even people who have the trait suffer. I wondered for years why I couldn’t run for long distances and I figured out this was why.

And it also affects your organs.”

The proceeds from the event will go toward the advancement in treatment for children and adults suffering from sickle cell.

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Sunday School Lesson

Freedom for the Future Scriptures: Romans 8:18-30 By the end of this lesson, we will: *Understand the role of the Holy Spirit in our relationship with God and Jesus; *Feel empowered by the Holy Spirit even in the midst of suffering, weakness, or loss of direction; *Live with hope as we seek God’s purpose and calling.

Background: The Oxford Commentary uses the sub-title “The Creation’s Eager Longing” for Romans 8:18-39. It informs that Paul is telling us that “God in Christ is not saving individuals only; God is at the task of saving creation, of swallowing up Adam’s entire loss in Christ’s complete victory.” The assertion is that just as believers long for sanctification, so also the whole created order awaits redemption from bondage (Genesis 3:14-19). In all arenas, God intervenes to sustain and redeem.

Lesson: Freedom for Creature and Creation (Romans 8:18-25). “For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory that is to be revealed to us.” Paul says, seen in the proper perspective, present suffering is unproportional to future glory. The glory to come will far exceed the sufferings of present times, not only for humanity, but for all creation as well. “The glory which shall be revealed” looks forward to the resurrection of the body and the subsequent complete Christlikeness which is the believer’s eternal glory (verses 18-19). “For the creation was subject to futility… in hope. God Himself subjects creation to futility. Because of man’s sin, God cursed the physical universe. Now by God’s purpose, futility is transformed from despair and death into hope - a certainty not yet realized, that is secured by Christ (verses 20-22). “And not only the creation, but we ourselves …” “Those first fruits of the Spirit” provide hope that we will one day be like Christ. Yet, like all creation, believers groan inwardly while awaiting the “redemption of our body.”- the basis for the believer’s hope are the clear and certain promises of the Word of God (verses 23-25).

The Spirit’s Freeing Intercession (verses 26-27). “… for we do not know how to pray as we ought, the Spirit Himself intercedes for us with groanings too deep for words …” When we as believers know not how to pray, the advocacy of the Spirit surpasses words, interceding with divine articulations that cannot be expressed in words. It is “the mind of the Spirit” that the Father understands and agrees with (verses 26-27).

Free to Hope (verses 28-30). “And we know that all things …” This verse testifies to God’s sovereignty, and that God works in all things for the good of those who love Him, and are called to His purposes. This is God’s effectual calling of His elect that brings them to salvation (verse 28). “For whom He did foreknow, He did predestinate …” There are two schools of thought on Paul’s “elect” doctrine expressed here. The first is See Future on B6

The Gilead COMPASS Initiative Faith Coordinating Center at Wake Forest University School of Divinity will host a national conference focused on faith, healing and HIV. The Proclamation at the Intersections Conference will take place in Dallas, Texas, from June 21-23.

The conference will provide an unprecedented opportunity for interdisciplinary and cross-sectional learning and collaboration between faith leaders, lay ministers, religion scholars, public health scholars, health providers, nonprofit organizational leaders, and graduate students. The conference will feature workshops on how to integrate programming and messages about HIV and faith into spiritually-integrated counseling, community religious education, ministry work, and preaching; how to establish partnerships with medical providers, public health institutions and HIV nonprofit organizations; and how to engage faith leaders in training about HIV, sexuality and health.

Dr. Allison Mathews, executive director of the Gilead COMPASS Faith Coordinating Center in the School of Divinity at Wake Forest University, said about the upcoming inaugural conference, “In a time when we have assaults on Black and LGBTQ lives in the social and political arenas, we have a responsibility as Black faith communities to stand up for love, justice and healing. This conference is a much needed convening of a cross-section of local and national leaders committed to resourcing Black faith communities to be a part of the solution to ending the HIV epidemic.”

Mathews, who is originally from Dallas, hopes the conference will be the beginning of a national movement to engage Black faith communities, as the Faith Coordinating Center relaunches the Black Church and HIV:

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Dr. Allison Mathews A Social Justice Imperative, originally developed by the NAACP. The Faith Coordinating Center has chosen a new name for the website, “Black Faith and HIV: A Social Justice Imperative II,” to incorporate interfaith perspectives. The initiative will provide a national database of interfaith communities committed to HIV engagement, professional development and training opportunities, and opportunities for networking and partnership.

The conference is one component of the larger work the Faith Coordinating Center is engaged in to address HIV stigma in faith communities in the U.S. South. In the center’s first year they provided nearly $1 million in grant funding to different organizations focused on the mission of equipping faith leaders to engage in HIV work in meaningful ways.

Some of the grantees will have their work and achievements highlighted at the conference. Applications are currently open this year for organizations to receive up to $200,000 to continue this mission.

Along with grantee highlights, the conference’s speaker roster includes preachers, scholars, and activists who will lead workshops ranging from evidence-based faith engagement to building stra-

tegic partnerships. Public religious leaders have been invited to lead worship at the conference, including Rev. Dr. Michael Joseph Brown, president of Payne Theological Seminary, and Rev. Dr. Leslie Callahan, pastor at St. Paul’s Baptist Church in Philadelphia.

In addition to speakers and worship leaders, conference attendees can expect to experience various artistic expressions throughout the conference, including music, poetry, and dance. The arts will be woven throughout each day, including a pre-conference forum on gospel music led by Dr. Tony McNeill, to sacred moments of hip-hop and poetry performed by the center’s own Rev. Demi “Day” McCoy. The National AIDS Memorial Quilt will also be on display, including new panels from the Call My Name project, which features African American faces from the South.

The panels were made by faith-based communities to increase the representation of African American people on the quilt who have been impacted by HIV/AIDS. Rev. Dr. Shonda Jones, principal investigator of the Gilead COMPASS Faith Coordinating Center, said, “The conference gathering is an opportunity to gather pioneers who

have helped make significant gains in addressing HIV with faith communities, alongside those who are just discovering how people of faith can help destigmatize HIV and contribute to ending the disease.”

As the founder of the Faith Coordinating Center, Jones has been instrumental in planning the conference and bringing communities of faith into the HIV conversation. Jones, who is also from Dallas, has worked with the center’s advisory board to ensure that the conference and subsequent efforts are interfaith in scope. She believes “the center is in a unique position to equip faith communities with the tools needed to transform narratives about HIV and leverage our collective power to embrace all persons, test and treat those who are most vulnerable, and promote understandings about the intersections of theological and epidemiological realities that can be barriers to care in Black communities.”

Those who would like to attend the Proclamation at the Intersections can register to attend the conference in person or virtually at divinity.wfu.edu/ PATIConf22.

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

Each Sunday Worship services Green Street United Methodist Church, 639 S. Green St., Winston-Salem, invites you to join online worship services on Sundays at 11 a.m., or in-person services at 8:45 a.m. The 11 a.m. service, which is available via Facebook and YouTube, is a celebration of the diversity of the human family, a no-frills service that is thoughtful, personal, and deeply spiritual. The 8:45 a.m. service is a quiet, contemplative space including prayer, scripture, preaching, and communion; masks and social distancing will be in effect in the sanctuary. Join us at www. greenstreetumc.org, on YouTube, or on Facebook.

Each Sunday Sunday service Transformation Ministries will have service every Sunday at 10 a.m. We are located at 4880 Burnette Drive. Masks are required.

3rd Friday of each month Women’s fellowship The Antioch Baptist Church (ABC) Women, 5061 Lansing Dr., cordially invites all women to join us the third Friday of each month at 7 p.m. for conversation as we share and embrace each other in these challenging times. Join us via conference call. Dial in: 267-807-9601 Access Code:189545592#. Rev. Frederick L. Barnes, Jr. is the senior pastor. For more information, call 336-9923751.

May 6 CD launch party On Friday, May 6, Travest Hunter Global Ministries, LLC presents the CD launch party for its new “Inspirational Healing” CD. The CD includes the healing scriptures from the Bible, healing prayer, and inspirational music playing in the background. The actual CD is $8 and the companion bookmarks are $2. The launch party will be held at Taste of the Triad Restaurant from 5-7:30 p.m. Travest Hunter Global MInistries Inspirational Healing can also be purchased on Pandora, Amazon Music, iTunes, Deezer, Youtube, and Facebook. For more information or to RSVP call Dr. Travest Hunter at (336) 287-2572.

May 8 First Waughtown Baptist Church (FWBC) Online Dr. Dennis W. Bishop, Senior Pastor of First Waughtown Baptist Church (FWBC), will deliver the Mother’s

Day message for in-person worship service Sunday, May 8. Doors will open at 9:15 a.m. for screening prior to the 10 a.m. service. Completed waiver forms and masks that cover the nose and mouth are still required. The form can be submitted electronically on the FWBC website – www.firstwaughtown.org -- click on RE-ENTRY 2022, and printed copies will be available in the lobby prior to service. Other in-person protocols and information about 6 p.m. virtual Sunday School are accessible via the FWBC homepage RE-ENTRY link. Persons who prefer to continue worshiping virtually are invited to join us on the following platforms: YouTube, https:// www.youtube.com (First Waughtown); Facebook, https://www.facebook.com/FirstWaughtown/; and the First Waughtown website, https://www.firstwaughtown. org. (NOTE: Services are posted on a one-week delay.)

May 8 Mother’s Day service Emmanuel Baptist Church Missionary Circle welcomes Rev. Melanie Hill, as the annual Mother’s Day service guest speaker on Sunday, May 8, at 10 a.m. Rev. Hill earned a bachelor of science degree with honors in Business Management from High Point University and a Master of Divinity from United Theological in Dayton, Ohio. The Sunday service is a tribute to all mothers and surrogate mothers recognizing the sacrifices and extraordinary contributions of mothers as nurturers, entrepreneurs, volunteers, elected officials, corporate executives and more.

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Community Calendar Every Wednesday in April Marketing workshop HUSTLE Winston-Salem is hosting Marketing Outside the Box: Secrets and Success of Selling.

Join us for this 3-week interactive series where you’ll learn strategies, secrets, and success of selling. You’ll have the opportunity to practice these strategies one-on-one, as well as solidify your company’s secret sauce (USP).

These sessions will help you master the art and science of selling! Join us every Wednesday 12:30-1:30 p.m. Register by going to www.hustlews.org/eventsprograms. Contact us at hustlewsinfo@gmail.com.

NOW- May 31 Literary contest Flying South, the annual literary competition sponsored by WinstonSalem Writers, is accepting entries in fiction, nonfiction, and poetry from March 1 through May 31. $2,000 in prizes will be awarded. Best in Category winners will be published and will receive $500 each. One of the three winners will receive the Winston-Salem Writers’ President’s Favorite award and will win an additional $500. All entries will be considered for publication.

For complete rules and submission details, visit www.wswriters.org/flying-south. Winners will be announced on or around July 1, 2022.

May Volunteers needed The Piedmont Plus Senior Games needs volunteers to help with a variety of events during the month of May. Some events include: Bocce, shuffleboard, tennis, chair volleyball, billiards, golf

and field events. Each event is only a couple of hours, most on weekdays, some are indoors, some are outdoors. For more information and to sign up, visit the signup page at:https://signup.com/go/ ksXQJQo OR contact Kevin (kevinw@cityofws. org) or Anna (annam@ cityofws.org) or call the Senior Games office, 336725-2325. Piedmont Plus Senior Games, a program for adults age 50+, is offered through the City of Winston-Salem Parks and Recreation. Come join the fun!

NOW - May 7 Used book sale The Shepherd’s Center of Greater WinstonSalem will hold its 35th Annual Used Book Sale on Thursday, May 5, and Friday, May 6, from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m., and on Saturday, May 7, from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. (1/2 Price on all items!). The book sale is one of the largest in our state! Parking and admission are FREE! The sale will be held in the Education Building at the Winston-Salem Fairgrounds.

Entrance for parking is through Gate 5 from Deacon Blvd. There is no admission and there will be thousands of used books and other items on hand at exceptional prices.

May 6 - June 11 “Mediums in Motion” Arts Council of Winston-Salem & Forsyth County will host “Mediums in Motion” -- a dynamic and captivating exhibition featuring local artist and designer Affee Vickers. An opening reception is scheduled for Friday, May 6, 2022 from 5-7 p.m. in the Main Gal-

lery with an opportunity to speak with the artist. This exclusive exhibit will be on display at the Milton Rhodes Center for the Arts May 6 – June 11.

May 7 Anderson alumni annual meeting Anderson High School former students will reunite for the 2022 Annual Meeting on Saturday, May 7, at 6 p.m. at the Delta Arts Center. Theodis Foster will deliver the president’s address and leaders from each class will give an update on their activities over the past year.

The event is an opportunity to reconnect, fellowship and reminisce about the good old days at Anderson High, which served African American students from 1962 to 1971 before the integration.

The program features videos and poetic renditions by Alice Bitting and dinner will be served. All former students and their guests are warmly invited to attend. RSVP to pasa55@aol.com.

May 8 Mother’s Day lunch Bookmarks is excited to host a Mother’s Day Lunch with bestselling author of Sunset Beach, Mary Kay Andrews on Sunday, May 8 at Reynolds Place Theatre inside the Milton Rhodes Center for the Arts. This is presented with support from Wilkinson ERA Real Estate Winston-Salem. Tickets are $45 for each person and include a signed hardcover of The Homewreckers, a boxed lunch from Mrs. Pumpkins, parking, and author talk with See Com. Cal. on B5

June 18 Juneteenth registration Triad Cultural Arts’ Annual Juneteenth Festival will take place on Saturday, June 18, at Innovation Quarter — Biotech Place from 1 – 5 p.m. and Bailey Park from 1 – 8 p.m. Our theme for this year is Celebrate Freedom & The Will to Be Free with a focus on African American healing rituals & traditions.

If you are interested in performing at this year’s festival, please complete the Performer Application form. Be sure to add a URL link to your website/social media page or a link to a video of your band performing in the comment section. https://form.jotform. com/220527954068158.

If you are interested in participating as a Merchandise/Business, NonProfit, or Food Vendor,

Crown Castle is proposing to replace several utility structures and install 37-foot telecommunications utility structures at the following sites in Winston-Salem, Forsyth County, NC:

Having qualified as Executor of the Estate of Nicholas A. Schnyder (22 E 734), also known as Nicholas Andrew Schnyder, deceased February 14, 2022, Forsyth County, North Carolina, this is to Notify all persons, firms, and corporation having claims against the Estate of said deceased to present them to the undersigned on or before August 9, 2022 this Notice will be pleaded in bar of recovery. All persons indebted to the said decedent or estate shall please make immediate payment to the undersigned.

This the 5th day of May, 2022.

Michelle Renee Witherspoon Executor for Nicholas A. Schnyder, deceased 5126 Royal Coachmen Dr. Wake Forest, NC 27587 The Chronicle May 5, 12, 19, 26, 2022 NOTICE TO CREDITORS Having qualified as Executor of the Estate of Hazel S. Hollingsworth (21 E 2822), also known as Hazel Scott Hollingsworth, deceased October 28, 2021, Forsyth County, North Carolina, this is to Notify all persons, firms, and corporation having claims against the Estate of said deceased to present them to the undersigned on or before August 9, 2022 this Notice will be pleaded in bar of recovery. All persons indebted to the said decedent or estate shall please make immediate payment to the undersigned.

1184 West 4th Street, 27101, Lat: 36.093032N, Long: 80.259489W, in the public right of way south of the West 1st Street and West 4th Street intersection; 619 West 1st Street, 27101, Lat: 36.0940273N, Long: 80.2501988W, in the public right of way west of the West 1st Street and Poplar Street South intersection; 1081 West 4thStreet, 27101, Lat: 36.0950848N, Long: 80.2600014W, in the public right of way north the West 4th Street and Forsyth Street NW intersection; 337 Corona Street, 27103, Lat: 36.087507N, Long: 80.261437W, in the public right of way at the Corona Street and Queen Street intersection; 411 Beaumont Street, 27101, Lat: 36.0872987N, Long: 80.2546103W, in the public right of way south of the Beaumont Street and Wachovia Street intersection.

Crown Castle invites comments from any interested party on the impact of the proposed action on any districts, sites, buildings, structures or objects significant in American history, archaeology, engineering or culture that are listed or determined eligible for listing in the National Register of Historic Places and/or specific reason the proposed action may have a significant impact on the quality of the human environment. Specific information regarding the project is available by calling Monica Gambino, 2000 Corporate Drive, Canonsburg, PA 15317, Monica.Gambino@CrownCastle.com, 724416-2516 within 30 days of the date of this publication.”

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May 14, 28 Happy Hill Cemetery cleanup The next Happy Hill Cemetery cleanup will be May 14 and 28 at 10 a.m.

Location - Pitts and Willow Street, 888 Willow Street. Bring gloves and any yard equipment you have. Bring your form if you need credit for community service.

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Receivers are coming into the league more proready than ever before. It was rare for a receiver to come into the league and look pro-ready from day one years ago. Over the last decade we have seen receivers become more productive earlier and earlier in their careers. Just look at Justin Jefferson and Ja’Marr Chase; they are two of the best receivers in the league and they only have three years of experience combined.

Another thing I noticed in this year’s draft was the continued dominance of SEC (Southeastern Conference) players selected.

For years the SEC has been the dominant conference when it comes to talent and NFL teams want that talent on their rosters.

There were 34 players selected in the first three rounds of the draft this year and Georgia had a total of 15 players se-

lected overall, which is the most by any school all time since the draft was reduced to seven rounds in 1994. A total of 65 SEC players were taken this year, which is ridiculous if you really think about it.

NFL teams want the most pro-ready players they can find, and the SEC continues to collect the most talent of any conference. NFL teams see that these players are able to perform at a high level against the best talent in the country and realize that their skills would most likely translate to the next level.

I don’t foresee any changes anytime soon as long as Alabama, Georgia, LSU, Florida, Auburn and Texas A&M continue to gobble up all of the top tier talent across the Southeast and beyond. And with Oklahoma and Texas joining in the coming years, it’s only going to get better for the SEC. The league will continue to look to the SEC first for their talent to draft.

The draft always gives teams new hope every year. The hope is that the players that they selected pan out to help them achieve the ultimate goal of winning a Super Bowl.

The entire league saw that the Cincinnati Bengals went from worst to first and nearly won a championship, so I am sure teams have the hope they can do the same. I hope that this at least is the case for my Washington Commanders.

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that God’s foreknowledge involves His future knowledge of the people who will respond to Him by faith and those who will not. The second viewpoint sees God’s foreknowledge as an unconditional choice.

Anyone who is saved, according to this view, is saved only because God chose some that they would believe. The commonality of both views is every person, apart from God’s intervening grace in Jesus, is hopelessly lost, and the only way to salvation is through His grace and mercy. It is God who, through Christ, changes the human heart, removes the scales from the eyes of some, and gives them the gift of faith that allows

them to believe and know that the eternal hope and goal of redemption is to be made brethren of Christ, conformed to the image of God’s Son. In both cases worship is inspired by the knowledge that Christ is our only hope. (The UMI Annual Commentary 2021-2022, The Modern Life Study Bible, The Jesus Bible, The MacArthur Study Bible, The New Interpreters Study Bible and The Oxford Bible Commentary).

For Your Consideration: What does the Spirit do when our prayers do not align with God’s will?

Does the Spirit still intercede for us then?

Application: Considering verse 28, whether we find ourselves at the giving or receiving end of Paul’s

T he C hronicle words. Keep in mind that all things work together for good, but not all things are good. We must put up with, on a daily basis, much that is not good. Good can, however, come out of bad.

Look for the good in compromising circumstances, because God is in all and is wholly good. (UMI).

FYI: Forsyth County Sunday School Union will meet “virtually” Sunday, May 15, at 1:30 p.m.

Please join us for our annual Bible Bowl, where our youth will display an amazing knowledge of biblical facts in a fun-filled competition. You may join using the following “Zoom” credentials: ID 819 7872 9662, Passcode 787444, Phone: 1-301715-8592.

Outstanding volunteers in Forsyth County are recognized with Governor’s Awards SUBMITTED ARTICLE

HandsOn Northwest North Carolina, in partnership with the United Way of Forsyth County, Salem College, and The WinstonSalem Journal, presented the 2022 Governor’s Volunteer Service Awards to 15 recipients from across Forsyth County. HandsOn, whose mission is to mobilize people and organizations that inspire community change, presented the awards at an in-person breakfast on April 26 at Salem College’s Bryant Hall, for the first time since 2019.

Sizemore of Wake Forest University’s Office of Civic and Community Engagement.

These volunteers give their time to a variety of different organizations. Dollie Jo Steelman works with individuals with disabilities and the horses they ride at Riverwood Therapeutic Riding Center. Mr. King instills a sense of pride in the cultural history of the at-risk students enrolled in the SURGE program.

Camry Wilborn Mercer mobilized the volunteer power of Wake Forest University students to create a

adults can own their own cars. Tiffany Parms, who also won the People’s Choice Award at the event, works with LEAD Girls of NC to make sure that middle-school girls of color have what they need to succeed. Peter Jennings leads tough conversations that build relationships with his peers at The Shepherd’s Center of Greater Winston-Salem.

Cindy Ball Wall knows first-hand the benefits of a school like The Center for Exceptional Children and works to create a high-quality learning experience for the children

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Winners were selected by a volunteer committee from a diverse pool of nominees.

Award recipients are: Dollie Jo Steelman (Animals); Ethan-Sharman B. King (Cultural); Camry Wilborn Mercer (Directors of Volunteers); Dinah Ashcraft (Disaster); Luis Nixon (Faith-Based Entity); Teresa Hampton, Keith Fowler, and Anne Morehead (Group/Team); Sara Quandt (Health and Human Services); Karla Mounts (Latino); David Roddick (Lifetime Achievement); Tiffany Parms (Marginalized Populations); Peter Jennings (Senior); Cindy Bay Wall (Serving Youth); Stan Shuman (Veteran/Military); and Ashley Silva Martinez (Youth).

The People’s Choice Award winner, chosen from among all of the nominees by voters at JournalNow.com, was Tiffany Parms, marking one of only a few times in the history of the People’s Choice Award that they chose a category winner.

The program featured the winners sharing their individual and inspirational stories of service.

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200-member strong virtual tutoring program during the height of the pandemic that continues today.

Dinah Ashcraft worked tirelessly to share COVID-related information with her neighbors and other clients of Whole Man Ministry in order to keep others as safe as possible during the pandemic.

Luis Nixon was honored for “loving the often unlovable” unhoused clients served by City with Dwellings. While the team of Teresa Hampton, Keith Fowler and Anne Morehead were recognized for helping SECU Family House more effectively make the house a home for families facing medical crises, one line of data at a time, Sarah Quandt does the same by providing home-cooked meals.

Karla Mounts redirected her life’s work to increasing the entrepreneurial spirit among Latinx students with her 2009 founding of Soy Emprendedor. David Riddick has culminated a lifetime of service by cofounding the The CARes Project as a non-profit community development financial institution that ensures credit-challenged

enrolled there. “Sweet” Stan Shuman understands the power of fresh-baked goods to spark joy within the clients of Trellis Supportive Care. High school student Ashley Silva Martinez works to recruit her Spanish-speaking peers to serve as part of the ViP Tutoring and Peer Guides Program.

The Governor’s Volunteer Service Awards have been awarded by the Governor’s Office and its Commission on Volunteerism and Community Service for nearly 40 years. The award honors citizens who have shown significant concern and compassion for their neighbors through volunteer service. In Forsyth County, the awards were coordinated for over a dozen years by the United Way. Since 2007, the United Way and HandsOn NWNC have worked together to co-host the awards breakfast. Salem College joined the planning team in 2013, and, in 2014, The Winston-Salem Journal helped launch an online nomination and voting system for the awards, including a “People’s Choice Award.”

Registrations accepted online & at all recreation centers

YOUTH CITIZENS’ POLICE ACADEMY WE’RE LOOKING FOR A FEW GOOD TEENS A free program for teens 16 and older interested in learning about the Winston-Salem Police Department or a career in law enforcement.

June 20-24 9 a.m.-3 p.m.

• Forensic Services • Drone Unit Demonstration • SWAT Demonstration • K-9 Demonstration • Youth Safety • Service Project

Application Deadline May 31 Apply at WSPD.org

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

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

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