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THURSDAY, May 6, 2021

TROSA expands to Triad, breaks ground in Forsyth County

BY TEVIN STINSON THE CHRONICLE

Last week Triangle Residential Options for Substance Abusers (TROSA), a Durhambased nonprofit residential recovery program, took a step closer to expanding services to the Triad when they broke ground for their new facility on Union Cross Road.

TROSA has been serving the Triangle area since 1994 when founder Kevin McDonald set out to help addicts in the area lead healthy, productive lives. Since its inception, TROSA has helped more than 9,000 people from across the state become productive citizens by providing comprehensive treatment and vocational training. Many of the Photo by Tevin Stinson participants in the program Representatives with TROSA, local elected officals and others break ground on TROSA’s new facility on Union work with TROSA’s Cross Road. moving crew or lawn care crew while they complete need, there needs to be off Old Greensboro Road. in the future. TROSA’s was a culmination of a lot more recovery options. They intended to convert expansion is made possible of hard work from a lot of the program.

Keith Artin, president “People used to always say The Commons of Forsyth by the North Carolina different people who were and CEO, said the program we need more programs County, which is located on General Assembly, the all focused on one goal: Regional helping citizens in need has a 90% success rate like TROSA and we Felicity Circle and Felicity Appalachian Commission (ARC), Blue rebuild their lives.

Lane, into a facility that agreed,” he continued. and almost everyone who “Our state and our would serve 250 people. Cross and Blue Shield “I know the City finishes the program finds employment.

“Almost nation has been struggling But during a meeting in of North Carolina, and Council, the Commission, 100% find jobs upon with this epidemic and 2019, the Winston-Salem Peter J. and Prudence the Forsyth delegation, completion of our program. we need more options for City Council voted 7-1 to F. Meehan. Additional all my colleagues in the support is House and Senate, we Over 90% stay sober and recovery … We know the deny rezoning in favor of generous avoid any kind of criminal need is out there and the TROSA. Before voting, provided by the following are ready and able to do Golden all that we can to make convictions in the years need is here in Forsyth several council members foundations: LEAF Foundation, Truist sure that this becomes a encouraged TROSA County and throughout the following,” said Ardin to consider Charitable Fund, Hanley complete reality.” during the groundbreaking state. We’re very fortunate officials to be able to expand opening the facility in a Family Foundation, and When asked about ceremony.

The Winston-Salem location with the zoning our work so that we can TROSA’s move to the TROSA began talks even more they needed already in Foundation. area, Winston-Salem City about expansion in 2018, empower During the Councilmember James when it was reported they North Carolinians who place.

TROSA’s new campus groundbreaking ceremony Taylor, who is publisher were looking to open a are trying to rebuild their facility in the Triad. Artin lives, reconnect with their will be located at 1931 on Friday, April 30, several of The Chronicle, said, said at a place in time families, and reclaim their Union Cross Road and it elected officials spoke in “There are citizens in our is expected to be up and support of TROSA’s move city that have had to deal when the opioid epidemic futures.”

Initially, TROSA running by 2022. The to Forsyth County. Senator with the drug epidemic is getting worse and more the COVID-19 people than ever are in planned to move its facility will begin with 100 Joyce Krawiec said the and facility to 16 acres of land beds and expand to 200 groundbreaking ceremony

pandemic all at the same time. We’re excited to have a program like TROSA in the Southeast Ward to provide more recovery options for residents in our community. I’m thankful that TROSA didn’t give up on Winston-Salem; because we are better as a city by having them as our new neighbors.”

N.C. House Representative Donny Lambeth said, “TROSA Triad will be a great addition to the community.”

Lambeth, who represents District 75, said independent research shows TROSA saves taxpayers millions of dollars in court costs, incarceration, emergency medical care, and other services.

“We know that when people with substance use disorder enter and stay in recovery, lots of good things happen. Individuals throw off the burden of addiction and rejoin society as productive, healthy citizens,” Lambeth continued. ”But it’s not just the residents and their families that benefit when someone receives treatment and stays in recovery; in fact, our entire community and our state benefits. … As public officials, we have a responsibility to ensure that the taxpayers’ money is spent wisely and with TROSA Triad, we know the return on investment will be substantial.”

For more information about TROSA and the nonprofit’s expansion, visit www.trosainc.org.

Ronnie Long suing City of Concord for suppressing evidence Ronnie Long, the N.C. man who spent 44 years in prison for a crime he didn’t commit, is taking the City of Concord and every detective that worked on his case to court. Earlier this week, Long’s lawyers filed a lawsuit alleging that the defendants in the case knowingly kept Long in prison for nearly 50 years, despite having

evidence that proved he was innocent.

When he was only 19 years old, Long, who is Black, was charged with the assault and rape of a white woman in her home on April 25, 1976. According to police reports, the victim was the widow of a top executive at Cannon Mills, a major textile company and employer in the area. The victim described her attacker as a “yellow-looking African American,” wearing a leather jacket, a toboggan, and gloves. She told police her attacker came through an open window before pressing a knife against her neck and ripping her clothes off.

After she was unable to pick her attacker out of a lineup, two weeks after the assault, investigators with the Concord Police Department took the victim

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Ronnie Long, the N.C. man who spent 44 years in prison for a crime he didn’t commit has filed a lawsuit against the City of Concord. to the courthouse and told her that her attacker may or may not be in the courtroom, and asked her to identify anyone who looked “familiar.”

Long was in the courtroom to settle a minor

trespassing charge, but as soon as he stood up wearing a leather jacket, the victim identified him as her attacker. She later picked Long’s photo out of a lineup where he was the only person wearing a

leather jacket.

Despite having an alibi that placed him elsewhere at the time of the assault and no physical evidence connecting him to the crime, on Oct. 1, 1976, Long was sentenced to

serve 80 years in prison.

After spending his entire adult life in prison, following a ruling from the U.S. Court of Appeals, Long was released last September and in December, Gov. Roy Cooper officially pardoned Long. For his time spent in prison, Long received $750,000 from the state.

In addition to the City of Concord and everyone who worked on his case in 1976, the lawsuit also names the current and former chiefs of the Concord Police Department.

The Chronicle began following Long’s fight for freedom in 2019 and we followed his journey until he was freed last year. To learn more about Long and his fight for freedom, visit https://wschronicle.com/ tag/ronnie-long/.

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CSEM-supported group underscores new mode of community mobilization

BY JOHN RAILEY

Michael Banner and Marcus Hill have been chipping away at food insecurity in East Winston, forming a nonprofit, Island CultureZ, to increase land and market access for economically marginalized communities, focusing on urban gardens, more accessible farmers’markets and other strategies. It is sorely needed work in East Winston, which has a high number of food deserts.

Recently, Island CultureZ secured a $25,000 transportation grant from The WinstonSalem Foundation, a grant that affirms a new form of community mobilization.

With the grant, the nonprofit will buy buses to provide transportation

agriculture in the ruddy red clay landscape of Winston-Salem.

With these buses, we are going to at last galvanize the movement so that we can employ camaraderie and popular education as we go about the business of rebranding ‘urban farming’ in Winston-Salem so that it better reflects our call for land reclamation and cooperative economics in building community resilience … Ours is really an organization that organically grew out of the food disparity in East Winston.”

Hill said: “For this grant, one aim was to create a solution for moving food, farmers, and even volunteers around a growing network of urban farms to increase access

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Michael Banner (left) and Marcus Hill (right, in back of photo), with Island CultureZ participants at a discussion on organic land management protocol in 2018. for youth to work at urban and rural farms. It’s timely for Island CultureZ and for another of its supporters, Winston-Salem State University’s Center for the Study of Economic Mobility (CSEM), whose research has helped drive public dialogue and action on public transportation, including by being a major factor in The WinstonSalem Foundation’s decision to establish the transportation grants.

Another grant in the program went to Forsyth Technical Community College, which contracted with CSEM to do a groundbreaking study on challenges its bus-riding students face and ways to resolve those challenges.

Transportation problems figure heavily in equities in education, just as they do in inequities in food access, employment and health care – all of which are barriers to upward economic mobility. CSEM aims to break down those barriers through research and engagement across communities, especially those of low-resources.

The foundation noted that Island CultureZ’s “approach is strategic in proposing something that can be grown from a grassroots perspective and organically over time.”

Banner, the executive director of Island CultureZ, and Hill, the chairman of the board, like the fact that the foundation established a group of residents to allocate the transportation grants. “This is very much a community-grown solution to a long-standing community issue,” Hill said.

“Communitygrown to the extent that funding for it came from a very under-utilized participatory grantmaking process. This is worth noting because as much as our local philanthropic institutions talk about equity, few are employing the infrastructure necessary to achieve it.”

Banner said: “No man nor woman is an island to themselves, although it can get awfully lonely trying to carve out an existence with grassroots

enterprise access to hopefully help usher in a viable local food economy for our neighbors.”

CSEM and many community partners are encouraging such efforts, ushering in a new mode of community mobility.

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

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to land, market, and even agritourism opportunities.

As much research has shown, transportation hardship is significant in Winston-Salem. And it doesn’t only affect people, but the movement of goods, services, and other resources, as well as the ability to generate and meet demand. It directly affects our local economy and ultimately even our culture in that our foodways aren’t nearly as robust as they once were back when Winston-Salem had a thriving Black economy (pre-Highway 52 and other disastrous land use and urban planning policies (very non-participatory decisions certainly)).

Alvin Atkinson, CSEM’s associate director, serves on the board of Neighbors for Better Neighborhoods with Banner, and heard about Island CultureZ from him.

After Atkinson learned more about Banner and the group’s purpose, Banner was named a Community Scholar, and the group received an Economic Mobility Award. This recognition and financial award aim to accelerate the building of pathways to economic mobility in areas including health and wellbeing, of which Island CultureZ is an excellent representation, Atkinson said.

The nonprofit also fits CSEM’s goal of getting more WSSU students involved in economic mobility. It is planning an agricultural education program for students, who can intern with Island CultureZ. Hill said: “One important dimension to our ‘food and farmer’ transportation program is that it’s an effort to be proactive as we continue to develop other facets of our vibrant, equitable, and decolonized local food system rooted in solidarity and cooperative economics via the dynamic and necessarily multi-dimensional work of Island CultureZ. This is to say that the transportation front complements our efforts toward land-, market-, and cooperative

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LEAD Girls NC expanding to Carver and Cook schools In 2015, after she took the daughter of a family friend into her home, Joy Nelson-Thomas set out on a journey to help at-risk pre-teen and teen girls to acquire the tools and resources they needed to become productive adults and leaders in their communities, by utilizing Learning Everyday Accomplish Goals (LEAD) Girls NC, a curriculum-based

And now the program is expanding to two more schools, Carver High School and Cook Literacy Model School.

Cook will be the first elementary school to adopt the LEAD Girls program.

Nelson-Thomas said after several conversations with Paula Wilkins, principal of Cook, Malisha Woodbury, chair of Winston-Salem/ Forsyth County Schools Board of Education, and members of the BostonThurmond community, things just fell into place.

Philanthropy Initiative, the City of Winston-Salem, the Richard J. Reynolds Foundation, along with two other family foundations, have been essential to our overall funding this year, along with the many donors who joined our LEADher Circle in its inaugural year.”

In addition to the programs in local schools, Lead Girls NC also offers a community-based program, which is open to all girls across the state.

mentoring and peer support program for girls ages 9-18.

“I’ve always had a passion for helping people,” Nelson-Thomas said during an interview with The Chronicle in 2016.

“After raising a family friend for about seven years and seeing the hope I gave her, I realized that this was what I wanted to do.”

Since its inception, LEAD Girls NC has impacted dozens of girls through its partnerships with local schools such as Mineral Springs and Wiley Middle Schools and Winston-Salem Preparatory Academy.

“Lots of conversations and meetings led us to do a pilot,” Nelson-Thomas said. She said the goal is to expand the program into other elementary schools in the future. The program at Carver will be a fouryear pilot that will focus on academics and improving leadership skills.

When discussing the growth of Lead Girls over the years, Nelson-Thomas said there would be no Lead Girls without the support of the community.

“I couldn’t do it without them; they are our village,” Nelson-Thomas said.

“United Way, Twin City Development Foundation, The Women’s Fund, the Black

With the communitybased program, LEAD Girls NC has connected with teens in Charlotte, Durham, High Point, and Greensboro. Five years from now, Nelson-Thomas said she believes the program will have a strong pipeline across the state, helping girls who need it the most.

“I think in five years we will have a very strong pipeline and what that looks like I’m not sure yet, but I know whatever it is, it will be very intentional and led by data,” NelsonThomas said.

For more information on LEAD Girls NC, visit www.leadgirls.org.

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Teacher Appreciation Week Editor’s note: In honor of Teacher Appreciation Week, 2020 National Teacher of the Year Tabatha Rosproy is sharing her story, as well as some of the ways Google is supporting teachers this year.

Every year, Teacher Appreciation Week falls near the end of the school year, which is an emotional time for many teachers. Saying goodbye to our students is always tough, and after a year of educating during a pandemic, those emotions are more prominent than ever.

As National Teacher of the Year, I’ve had the honor of hearing hundreds of teachers’ stories over the past 12 months. I can say with confidence that this year, educators have truly given everything they have. There are the things people see, like teaching lessons, holding meetings and keeping kids on track academically. But there is also work most people don’t see, like the 14-hour days, or the extra mile we go to comfort children who are not our own. Those invisible moments are a critical piece of every teacher’s story.

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‘My Tribute to Dr. Maya Angelou’

BY DR. FELECIA PIGGOTT-ANDERSON

There’s a brand new angel struttin’ ‘round Heaven today.

If they are not careful up there, she just might start a parade.

Wearing a crown and Dashiki, carrying a sword and a shield, This Warrior-Womanist is bound to do God’s will.

Wordsmith of Wisdom, yet soldier of the night, The night of racism must bow down at the feet of her mighty fight.

This loving Watcher-Woman is “Big Mamma” to all.

Her words of living water will never let us fall.

She says, “I’ve reached Mt. Zion, the City of the Great King!

But I still remember how to make freedom ring.

I wouldn’t take nothin’ for my journey now.

Our collective memory will show you how.”

She now resides among the ancestors, “Keepers of The Dream.”

Prophesying a future of Peace, Diversity, Hope and Unity.

With Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Mahatma Ghandi, Nelson Mandela, Mother Teresa, Cesar Chavez, Coretta Scott King, Harriet Tubman, Dorothy Height, Malcolm X, James Baldwin, Langston Hughes, Ruby Dee, Ossie Davis, Katherine Dunham--We keep calling the roll.

Dr. Angelou might sing a Negro Spiritual or loose the dancing in her feet!

There is just no telling what this conduit might bring to the Golden Streets.

She may sing a brand new song down the Straight and Narrow Way. This Queen-Mother-Actress-Teacher- Dancer-Activist always has something to say.

Her audacity, sagacity, tenacity, versatility and spirituality Are gifts that enabled her to inspire.

Young prophets for this new day, Dare to glean from her celestial fire.

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Bad laws and loopholes adversely affect Black people Dr. James B. Ewers Jr.

Guest Columnist I am tired of watching “Breaking News.” These days, it is mostly about us.

As an African American man, it keeps me tired and tense.

Is there an end in sight?

Unfortunately, in my opinion, the answer is no.

That is a sad refrain, yet here we are.

The state of North Carolina is now under a social justice watch. Will there be justice? Will it be denied?

At this moment, it is delayed. With this delay comes frustration

and anger. Patience is a virtue, but obstinance is an obstacle.

Elizabeth City, a small town in North Carolina, is in the wrong kind of spotlight. It is the scene of another Black man shot and killed by the police.

Andrew Brown Jr., a 42-year-old Black man, was killed by sheriff’s deputies last Wednesday as they were at his house with search and arrest warrants.

“It’s just messed up how this happened.”

Brown’s son, Khalil Ferebee, said. “He got executed. It ain’t right.”

Chantel CherryLassiter, family attorney, said there were at least seven law enforcement officers at the scene.

It begs this question: Do you need seven police to serve an arrest warrant?

Mr. Brown left his home and then the shooting

began. Reports say his automobile was riddled with bullets. Another Black life lost and now the explaining begins.

A video of this tragic incident has been released by the police. Here is the problem.

Family attorney, Ben Crump, said, “We do not feel that we got transparency. We only saw a snippet of the video.”

R. Michael Cox, Pasquotank County attorney, has only released a segment of the total video. North Carolina law requires that a court approve the full release of the video.

There is this harrowing feeling that comes over Black people when slowmotion justice comes into play. The Brown family is shedding tears and grieving for their loved one. This system has given

them no relief and a lot of disbelief. We are trapped in the clutches of this criminal justice system. It is a vice that will not let us go.

In my opinion, the moment we are entwined with law enforcement, there begins a living and continuous nightmare for us.

Police shootings can divide a community, many times along racial lines.

It appears this is happening in North Carolina.

Pasquotank County where Elizabeth City is located is predominantly white. Elizabeth City is predominantly Black.

Many residents in Elizabeth City, which has a Black mayor and a Black police chief, believe the county is leading this investigation.

Kristie Puckett-

Williams, manager of ACLU of North Carolina’s Campaign for Smart Justice, said, “The people of Elizabeth City are deeply troubled by this.

There is a racial divide amongst the city and the county, and this has only widened the divide.”

Reports say there is little to no relationship between city and county officials. Elizabeth City Councilman Michael Brooks said, “It appears to me that the city-elected officials are the only ones holding the burden when (Brown’s death) was caused by county deputies.”

This information must be a factor when this case goes to court.

These times in America between the races are frayed and fractured. There needs to be more common ground between us. Until

more white people stand up for right, wrong will continue to have its way.

This is my opinion.

Andrew Brown Jr. was shot multiple times by the police. One of the bullets hit him in the back of the head.

Is this law enforcement agency going to be held accountable for its actions?

That question is going to go unanswered for a while.

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.

Biden’s MacArthur moment John LaForge

Guest Columnist Joe Biden has his own Douglas MacArthur moment and should replace the head of U.S. Strategic Command, Adm. Charles A. Richard, just as Harry Truman fired the insubordinate commander of the U.S. war in Korea.

Truman biographer David McCullough reports that in November 1950, “Gen. MacArthur called on the administration to recognize the ‘state of war’ imposed by the Chinese, then to drop 30 to 50 atomic bombs on Manchuria and the mainland cities of China.”

MacArthur then urged that the U.S. “sever” Korea from Manchuria by laying

down a field of radioactive wastes, “the by-products of atomic manufacture,” all along the Yalu River.

In April 1951, President Truman fired MacArthur, replacing him with Gen. Matt Ridgeway.

Adm. Richard wrote just two months ago in the U.S. Naval Institute journal “Proceedings” that the U.S. must “consider the possibility of great power competition, crisis, or direct armed conflict with a nuclear-capable peer.” The language is more nuanced than MacArthur’s, but just as genocidal.

“We’ve assumed strategic deterrence will hold in the future, but as the threat environment changes, this may not be the case,” he said in an interview, as if discussing the strength of a dike and not the death of millions. This terrormongering must not be allowed to grow deeper roots at StratCom.

The Omaha, Nebraskabased agency is nominally in control of all U.S. nuclear weapons systems.

StratCom says its “responsibilities include” overall U.S. nuclear weapons “operations,” “global strike,” and “targeting.” Its day-today business is nuclear attack planning, and Adm. Richard is familiar with these preparations as he previously was commander of Submarine Forces, commander of Submarine Force Atlantic, and commander of Allied Submarine Command.

Adm. Richard wants us to join him in demonizing China, which he says intends be a “strategic peer” of the U.S., and alleges that China is “aggressively challenging international norms and global peace using instruments of power and threats of force ...” according to Bill Gertz,

in the Washington Times.

Yet China’s “near peer” nuclear arsenal totals 350 warheads, while the Pentagon’s stock of 3,800 warheads is 10 times its size. The recent report by Simone Chun points out the elephant in the room here, counting 290 U.S. military bases surrounding China in the Asia-Pacific region alone, and the Pentagon’s request for an astounding $27 billion budget increase in its military buildup there.

The admiral’s psychological projection regarding “instruments of power and threats of force” shows a willful (or imbalanced) blindness to the millions of people that are being, or have been, devastated, displaced, maimed, dismembered, or killed by U.S. warfare in Afghanistan, Iraq, Somalia, Libya, Yemen, and Syria. China hasn’t crossed another state’s

border since its 1951 crushing 300-mile push-back against Gen. MacArthur’s forces in North Korea.

“While [China] has maintained a ‘no first-use’ policy since the 1960s contending it will never use a nuclear weapon first …

This policy could change in the blink of an eye,” Adm. Richard says. But why would it? China’s no first-use policy absolutely reduces tensions of all kinds - compared with the U.S. refusal to make a similar commitment.

Indeed, matching China’s civilized assurance is a goal that Mr. Biden, the Strategic Command, and NATO could pursue, and an accomplishment they could share with China by making the same pledge now a bill in Congress.

As with Gen. MacArthur before him, there is a madness in Adm. Richard’s speech. There is no reason whatsoever for

China to reverse its no firstuse pledge, except in the minds of the irrationally paranoid. U.S. Strategic Command used to be run

by Gen. George L. Butler, who since retiring speaks more sanely about the bomb.

In September 1999, Gen. Butler said, “Nuclear weapons are not weapons at all. They are insanely destructive agents of physical and genetic terror” that are “morally indefensible.” This is a description that now applies to Adm. Richard himself, whom the president should relieve of duty.

John LaForge, syndicated by PeaceVoice, is co-director of Nukewatch, a peace and environmental justice group in Wisconsin, and is co-editor with Arianne Peterson of Nuclear Heartland, Revised: A Guide to the 450 LandBased Missiles of the United States.

Transcending ‘the religion of whiteness’ Robert C. Koehler

Guest Columnist Basically, Derek Chauvin was convicted of enforcing the status quo.

Because his behavior was caught on video - his knee on George Floyd’s neck, oh my God, choking him to death - and looked so disturbing to most of the public, official American “justice” had to take some sort of action.

He became a scapegoat.

I’m not saying Chauvin was innocent.

What he did was horrific: racism plus murder.

What happened had to be addressed, because we’re not the country we were, oh, 60, 70 or 100 years ago, when killing a Black human being - lynching him or her - was not only no big deal, it was often a cause of celebration.

Morally, we’ve moved forward half an inch since then. The police killing of an unarmed Black person, if it’s caught on video, sometimes leads to the officer’s dismissal, if not an actual arrest and trial.

What a caring, fair and morally scrupulous

country this is. But what if … what if … the words I just wrote were actually true?

I refuse to believe this is an impossible fantasy, though undoing the effects of American white supremacy, what Robert Baird, writing recently in The Guardian, called “the religion of whiteness,” is an undertaking almost too large to fathom. It involves digging well past the hypocrisy of the nation’s founding fathers, back to the roots of, that is to say, the justification for, African slavery: the reduction of a segment of humanity to nothing more than chattel. “Whiteness” was invented by Europeans in the Age of Discovery as a way of justifying their belief that they owned the planet.

The effects of this belief encompass and deeply warp everything that has happened since, from privileged individual cruelty to, far more significantly, the building of the modern world. I believe we actually are in the process of undoing this world, even if we don’t know it.

Racism most obviously manifests as individual behavior, often triggered by fear - the fear of nonwhite people crossing

a particular border. In the Jim Crow era, those borders were everywhere, from drinking fountains and bathrooms to the communities in which we lived. The borders may shift and wobble, but the idea of the border itself, whatever it is, remains sacrosanct. Stay on your own side!

For instance, when George Floyd was killed, he happened to be at a significant intersection in Minneapolis, which separated a white community from a Black one. “Police departments don’t exist as independent governmental agencies, but are extensions of the will of the communities and cities that they serve,” Mark Karlin writes at BuzzFlash. That is to say, police departments were established to protect, not humanity in general, but white people in particular. They act as an occupying army. And armies have no purpose whatsoever unless there’s an enemy - that is to say, a dehumanized segment of humanity.

I became familiar with life inside the police world early in my career as a journalist, when my reporting duties included writing three police blotters a week, requiring

that I visit and look through the crime reports at three different Chicago police stations. I got to know lots of officers, became friends with a number of them, but when Harold Washington ran for mayor of Chicago in 1983, the racism in the stations was visceral. It became uncontained. The officers, all white in those days, couldn’t stop talking about how much they hated (and feared) him.

One unforgettable memory: A female neighborhood relations officer - she was a nice person, we got along wonderfully - asked me, out of the blue: “What do you call 20,000 dead (n-words) at the bottom of Lake Michigan?” I stared at her in jaw-dropping silence. She said: “A start.”

The “joke” was uttered in a context of collective certainty. Everyone there knew who the enemy was.

Not surprisingly, another agency created to protect white borders - a.k.a. ICE - has generated plenty of headlines in recent years about its treatment of asylum-seekers and their children at the southern border, not to mention ICE officers’ secret Facebook pages, where they post comments such as “It’s a good day for a choke hold” and make fun of the deaths

of migrants.

These are official government programs. It’s not that they’re populated with bad people. It’s that they’re populated with “white people” - a madeup concept that is likely to bring out the worst in anyone who identifies as such. We’ve tried to turn the concept into something neutral - a color or ethnicity you check on a questionnaire - but the entire concept is a lie with roots that go back to the dawn of African slavery and other forms of European genocide against “nonwhites.”

And not all manifestations of racism are punch-in-the-eye obvious.

Consider something as seemingly neutral and beneficial as building highways and other national infrastructure. Turns out, for instance, the interstate highway program, begun during the Eisenhower administration, was driven by racism, often slicing through, and destroying, vibrant communities of color, even as it avoided doing harm to white communities.

Urban historian Eric Avila, quoted recently in the New York Times, noted: “These highways were essentially built

as conduits for wealth.

Primarily white wealth, jobs, people, markets. The highways were built to promote the connectivity between suburbs and cities. The people that were left out were urban minorities.

African Americans, immigrants, Latinos.”

Fascinatingly, the Times article points out that President Biden’s $2 trillion infrastructure proposal includes allocating money to repair, to whatever extent possible, the racismbased damage of that old program. Exactly what will be done isn’t clear, nor is it certain the infrastructure plan itself will survive Congress, but even still, it opens up a stunning question: Is the Biden administration under the influence of more than the interests of whiteness?

And the question beyond that one is: Are we really changing? Are we transcending the religion that gave us slavery?

Robert C. Koehler (koehlercw@gmail.com), syndicated by PeaceVoice, is a Chicago awardwinning journalist and editor. He is the author of “Courage Grows Strong at the Wound.”

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Forsyth County’s Go Red Woman says, ‘You know your body best!’

BY DRU DAVIS AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION

Born and raised in New Bern, N.C., Xavier Carter enjoyed her life as any young adult would, despite her struggles of living with lupus and fibromyalgia.

Her battle for her health continued and at the age of 23, she started experiencing complications in her daily routine, such as having a hard time breathing or standing for long periods of time. “I constantly felt like I was trying to catch my breath. I could barely even walk up the stairs in my

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house,” Xavier said.

She went from doctor to doctor, but no one could identify the exact problem.

After a series of office visits, it was suggested that she use a heart monitor to better understand the issue. The heart monitor results showed a 75% blockage in one of her arteries.

Her doctor placed a stent in her heart and for a about a year she was doing great.

She participated in cardiac rehabilitation therapy for 12 weeks, where she learned to eat healthy and exercise. After seeing improvement for so long, it came as a huge surprise when her health began to worsen.

“Having lupus attacks my immune system, so one stent just wasn’t enough,” she shared. Xavier needed a second stent placed in her heart and needed to return to cardiac rehabilitation therapy for an additional round.

Along with keeping up with doctor visits, multiple pill prescriptions, and a

series of shots to aid any excess blockage in her arteries, Xavier began to feel like herself again. “I even began line dancing twice a week. It feels amazing to be so free!” Xavier shared.

She struggled with losing excess weight, but with words of encouragement from her loved ones, she began to feel the effects of a healthier lifestyle. “Once I started being healthier, exercising and dancing gave me so much energy and it’s fun,” shared Xavier.

Spreading health awareness holds a high importance in Xavier’s life. She encourages everyone to be aware of any signs their body may send, as it can save their life. “Make sure you know your body,” Xavier said. “Doctors are great, but you know your body best! Make an appointment, ask your doctor what symptoms could mean and if something does not feel right, go get it checked. Just say something!”

Living with these ailments is a day-today struggle. However, Xavier’s new and improved lifestyle skills have her feeling better than ever. “At first, it was difficult to adapt because I didn’t know what foods to eat or how to get active, but I quickly realized how factors like these play a part in keeping your heart healthy and strong,” shared Xavier.

Now, she strives to drink the recommended 64 ounces of water a day, stays away from salt, and eats a balanced diet with lots of veggies. “Don’t fry foods in so much grease, it’s not good for you.

For those of us who just cannot seem to put down the fries, I recommended using an air fryer to avoid all the grease,” she said.

“Every day, I thank God for letting me make it through and continue enjoying my life with the ones I love the most,” said Xavier. “They encourage me so much in everything that I do. I don’t know where I would be without them.”

Xavier Carter is a 2021 Forsyth County Go Red Woman. She is sharing her story to help prevent heart disease in women.

Novant Health is proud to be the American Heart Association’s “Life is Why” and “Go Red for Women” sponsor in Forsyth County, celebrating, supporting and encouraging women to put their health first wherever they may be in their journey.

Dr. Yusef Salaam of the Exonerated Five, author of ‘Better, Not Bitter’ to present in virtual Bookmarks event

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Yusef Salaam is the inspirational speaker and prison reform activist, who at age fourteen was one of the five teenage boys wrongly convicted and sentenced to prison in the Central Park jogger case. In 1997 he left prison as an adult to a world he didn’t fully recognize or understand. In 2002 the sentences for the Central Park Five were overturned and all five were exonerated for the crime they didn’t commit.

Salaam now travels the world as an inspirational speaker, speaking about the effects of incarceration and the devastating impact of disenfranchisement.

He is an advocate and educator on issues of mass incarceration, police brutality and misconduct, press ethics and bias, race and law, and the disparities in the criminal justice system, especially for men of color.

His memoir, “Better, Not Bitter: Living on Purpose in the Pursuit of Racial Justice,” serves as a call to action that will inspire all to turn personal stories into tools for change. Salaam learned that we’re all “born on purpose, with a purpose.”

“Better, Not Bitter” is the first time that one of

Yusef Salaam the now Exonerated Five is telling his individual story, in his own words.

With his intimate personal insights, Salaam unpacks the systems built and designed for profit and the oppression of Black and brown people. He inspires readers to channel their fury into action, and through the spiritual, to turn that anger and trauma into a constructive force that lives alongside accountability and mobilizes change.

This event is presented with support from Wake Forest University’s Slavery, Race, and Memory Project and Wake Law School’s Prosecutor

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Accountability Project.

This event will be the inaugural event in Book with Purpose, Bookmarks’ summer community-wide initiative to read, learn, listen, and respond on the theme of antiracism. This will be a free virtual event held on Crowdcast and will be available for replay following the live airing.

Copies of “Better, Not Bitter” are available for pre-order from Bookmarks and will be published on the event date of May 18. To purchase the book and register for the event go to: https:// www.bookmarksnc.org/ DrYusefSalaam.

CALL 336.727.2000 AT LEAST 24-TO- 48-HOURS IN ADVANCE OF YOUR SCHEDULED APPOINTMENT TO ARRANGE A FREE RIDE.

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BUSTA’S PERSON OF THE WEEK

Black florist credits mom with his shop’s success

BY BUSTA BROWN FOR THE CHRONICLE

“One day I was talking to my Pops and he asked me, if I could have anything in the world, what would you like to have? I said I wanted to move my mom out of the projects. He said, is that what you really want? I said yes. And two days later he bought mom a house.”

Tarreyton Terry Carson truly loves his mother. At a very young age, he would sell newspapers for The Chronicle to have money during the summer to buy her summer dresses at a local clothing store. “I wanted my mom to look and feel beautiful, because she deserved it,” shared Tarreyton, with a smile that outshined my ring light. He’s very proud of his love for his mom.

As a child he was always finding ways to make extra money so he could help his mom. “I’d shine shoes, sell papers for The Chronicle, or whatever I could find.

My slogan was: I love money. I grew up in the Boston Project, so we had to get out and make our own money, because my parents always taught me to work hard. So, working hard became my passion.

It’s what I wanted to do,” he shared. Carson said his mother has always been proud of his efforts as a child, so failure was never an option.

It is because of Tarreyton’s love and respect for his mother, Deborah McCollum, that he’s always admired strong and wise women.

That admiration prepared Terry on how to follow the lead of another woman that would play a major role in his journey to becoming an entrepreneur. “When I was much younger, my friend’s mother owned a florist and I always admired her hard work. So, I used to go to the florist to help during Valentine’s Day, Mother’s Day, and any other time it was extremely busy.

Another reason I worked there was to get my mom flowers for Valentine’s and Mother’s Day,” said Tarreyton. Owning his very own florist became his dream and in 2013, he opened the doors to Zael’s Florist. In no time, he became one of the top florists in the Triad.

He’s been a staple in the community throughout his childhood and now as an adult. So, when he started his own business, the outpouring of love and support was immediate.

The primary reason his business is very successful is his love for the elderly.

“I love to see them smile when they come into my florist, and I love giving them a reason to keep that smile as I watch them out the door. Older women love flowers, so whenever I can, I love surprising them with something nice.

One day I met this lady that is over 100 years old and I asked her to share how she lived so long, and she said, ‘no stress.’ The next day I sent her a beautiful arrangement of flowers because I really admired her wisdom, strength and

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Tarreyton Terry Carson, owner of Zael’s Florist

ability to take great care of herself.

“I remember another elderly lady who loved butterflies, so I added them to her arrangement and she still talks about how wonderful it was to this day. Working with the elderly is a magical experience and feeling. I love it!”

The Winston-Salemborn entrepreneur also has a passion for the youth.

Each year Zael’s Florist does Trunk or Treat for kids, and last year they served over 600 kids. The florist donates to different charities in the WinstonSalem community as well.

“One of our favorites is the little league football.

I love seeing the little guys having fun and staying physically active.

It keeps them healthy, and little league sports also promotes teamwork and the importance of education.

That’s extremely important to me,” said Tarreyton.

Mother’s Day is this Sunday, so of course, Zael’s Florist will be extremely busy. And the staff at Zael’s are ready.

“We make sure our flowers are always fresh and our store sanitized and safe for our customers. Mother’s Day is the largest day for florists. It’s far busier than Valentine’s Day, because most everyone has a mother, but not a girlfriend or wife. This is the week the phones are constantly ringing more than ever. The spirit of love is in the air this week, and that’s how we greet our customers, with love!” said Carson.

He shared something that didn’t surprise me, yet is very interesting to know. “We have a lot of women come in and buy themselves flowers on Mother’s Day and even Valentine’s Day. And sometimes just because they want to feel special.

But this week and every Mother’s Day, it’s 50/50 with men and women. I had to over-buy flowers this year due to COVID, because we wanted to make sure everyone gets exactly what they need.

“The biggest special that everyone is loving this year are the rainbow roses.

Both men and women are buying them quickly, so if you want them as well, stop by soon. We put together arrangements that will make you say wow!

Customer satisfaction is our number one priority at Zael’s Florist.

“I have to give a big shout out to the City of Winston-Salem.

They have really shown me a lot of love, Busta, and it doesn’t go unappreciated or unnoticed. I love my

city!” said the father of four.

Zael’s Florist is a combination of his daughters’ names, Zadia and Jael. He loves his queens and said he admires their mothers for the great job they’ve done raising them.

Tarreyton is a great example of a man who’s not ashamed of his past.

He’s gone through a lot and has gained much wisdom because of his trials and tribulations. Before we ended the interview, Tarreyton wanted to share some special words of love to his mother as well. “She is a wonderful, magnificent and beautiful mom. I thank God she’s still here with us. Still to this day, I try my best to be a good man for my mom.

It’s because of her, I’ve always been motivated to make sure we always have what we needed.”

My phenomenal Person of the Week is Tarreyton Terry Carson.

Zael’s Florist is located at 4500 Indiana Ave. in Winston-Salem.

Open Monday-Friday 9 a.m. - 5 p.m. and on Saturdays 10 a.m. - 3 p.m. Call 336=7448003 or visit zaelsflorist. com and on social media @Zael’s Florist.

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THURSDAY, May 6, 2021

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

2021 NFL Draft storylines The 2021 NFL Draft has come and gone.

There was not as much movement with trades in the first couple of rounds as I anticipated, but as usual, some fans are ecstatic about their team’s picks, while others are left scratching their heads. The best part of the draft is dissecting the players drafted after a year or two in the league to see if the front offices made the right choices and wondering how good your favorite team would have been if they would have taken the right player.

As expected, former Clemson quarterback, Trevor Lawrence, was selected first overall to the Jacksonville Jaguars. The Jags are now led by former college coach Urban Meyer and offensive coordinator Darrell Bevell. Outside of one good season, Jacksonville has been a bottom-feeder team in the league, only making the playoffs once in the past 13 seasons.

A lot will be placed on the shoulders of Lawrence right away. Jacksonville has some pieces on offense and Meyer is hopefully the right coach to bring the Jags back to some sort of respectability. I read a stat that Lawrence has never lost a regular season game since becoming the starter as a freshman in high school. Needless to say, he will have to adjust to some losing this season.

Two other quarterbacks were taken right behind Lawrence in the draft. The New York Jets selected former BYU quarterback Zack Wilson second overall and the San Francisco 49ers took former North Dakota State quarterback Trey Lance, third.

The Jets chose to hit the reset button at the quarterback position by drafting Wilson. They took USC quarterback Sam Darnold with the third overall pick in the 2018 draft; however, that did not work out for either party. The Jets decided to ship Darnold to the Carolina Panthers this offseason and hitch their team to the Wilson wagon.

Wilson brings a fresh start to the Jets. He really shot up the draft board this season with numbers he was able to accumulate.

This season he threw for 3,692 yards, with 33 touchdowns to only three interceptions. He also had a 73.5 completion percentage this season.

His improvisation once the play breaks down, coupled with his other tools, is probably what attracted the Jets to him.

Some analysts wonder if the lower level of competition Wilson played against inflated some of his numbers this season.

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BY TIMOTHY RAMSEY THE CHRONICLE

Mt. Tabor added yet another victory to the

win column and inched closer to a state title.

Last week, the Spartans narrowly defeated the Dudley Panthers in the third round of the 3A state playoffs. Mt. Tabor will face off against

the Cleveland Rams out of Clayton to determine the state champion. Both teams come into the game undefeated.

Sensory gym provides inclusive atmosphere for children of all ages and abilities

BY TIMOTHY RAMSEY THE CHRONICLE

Q’s Corner is an allinclusive indoor play gym that allows children and adults of all ages, and most importantly skill levels, to have fun. Located at 1800 N. Main St., Suite 136, in High Point, Q’s Corner serves people from all over the Triad area.

Q’s Corner’s primary focus is to foster an inclusive judgementfree environment for people of all ability levels to engage in physical activities, gaming and experiencing 360 degrees of virtual reality. Their facility includes areas for interaction such as a large ball pit, motion play equipment, arcades, trampolines, swings and a state-of-the-art sensory room.

The idea for the business came to owner Candace Hayes due to her wanting to find a place where her autistic son could play right alongside those without disabilities, whether physical or mental.

“I remember we were at my daughter’s birthday party at a trampoline park and my son got tired and laid on the trampoline and before I could get to him, the staff kept blowing

The gym has something for everyone. their whistles and yelling at him to get up,” Hayes said about an incident involving her son. “I understand that there are rules and regulations kids have to follow, but I was just wondering as I was walking towards him, when is it going to click to the staff that this child does not understand them?

“It just never clicked and when I spoke with them, they said they didn’t have a clue and I was wondering how they didn’t have a clue. At that point,

I just needed to create a safe environment for parents and kids and not feel embarrassed if a child has a tantrum and starts screaming and yelling.”

Hayes began the process for Q’s Corner six years ago while living in California. She was meticulous with what she wanted to include in the gym, so that no one would be left out.

“One of the biggest things that I did was put myself in a position where I took away some of my

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privilege and that’s what I think a lot of businesses, schools and people should do if they want to be inclusive anyway,” she stated. “I said, ‘Okay, I have a son with autism, this is what he likes,’ so we have swings. Then I said, ‘What if my son had autism and he was in a wheelchair?’ I couldn’t take him to the movies, because he would scream and yell, so what would a kid with autism in a wheelchair be able to do?

“Basically, I just put myself in every situation that I could think about and just created from there.”

As a High Point native, Hayes has wanted to open the business in her hometown because she knows there is a need for this type of sensory gym in the area. Q’s Corner has been open since February 1 and the business has thrived since opening, even during the pandemic.

“I wasn’t expecting COVID, but I felt that people would take to it,” she said about the business. “I felt like it would be a great thing and we don’t have a lot here in High Point, but it is really growing. I wasn’t really sure about the response, but I did think it would be special to some parents who were looking to get their kids out of the house.”

Lakieshia Clarida, manager of Q’s Corner, says the business has exceeded expectations, not only with the number of people who have visited, but also with the positive results families have received from their children.

“So far, business has been above expectations,” said Clarida. “So far, we have had some great See Gym on B2

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experiences with families when they come in. Some of them said their children never sit long for anything and they will come here and spend a lot of time in one area versus running from area to area.

“We have kids who have never swung before due to being in a wheelchair, are able to get in our wheelchair swing and experience something us able-bodied individuals have experienced years ago.”

Clarida wanted to clarify that the gym is not designed just for individuals with autism, but instead was just created with them in mind, as well as able-bodied individuals.

“This gym is designed for everyone,” she said.

“What we are trying to do is bridge the gap between children and adults with disabilities and typical functioning children and

adults. We wanted children and adults to play side by side and not realize or focus on anyone’s disability.”

Clarida says she has been a schoolteacher previously, so she knew the positive effects the gym could have on certain children. It makes her feel “happy and proud” to help families and provide a safe space.

“We have smaller kids that will interact with older kids that are 15 and 16 and they don’t look at them any differently, they just gravitate towards each other and start playing,” she said. “To be able to provide that space and help bridge that gap makes me feel good.”

Clarida stated that parents routinely come in with the expectations that their children would not enjoy the sensory gym or spend much time there, but after they visit, their minds have been totally changed and become regular

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“Parents will come in and say they have heard of our facility, but wanted to come in and see what we have to offer,” she continued. “They don’t think their child would spend much time in the facility or have something for everyone. When they come in, they see that everything in the facility is made for everyone, no matter their age or ability level.”

People have been coming from all over the Triad and beyond. Clarida says people have driven all the way from Virginia to visit the facility.

The gym does proper social distance, as well as use temperature checks and frequent cleanings throughout the day.

For more information about Q’s Corner, please visit their website at www. myqscorner.com or call 336-905-8889.

Top 15 Area Football Teams PICKS BY JAMAAL FOWLER

Points For

Jamaal Fowler

Points Against 1. Reidsville (9-0) 460 71 2. Mt. Tabor (10-0) 367 76 3. Grimsley (9-0) 325 73 4. East Surry (9-1) 403 109 5. Salisbury (8-2)

332 96 6. West Forsyth (4-1) 194 94 7. Western Alamance (9-1) 379 165 8. Dudley (8-2) 408 128 9. North Davidson (8-2) 310 134 10. Forbush (6-1) 289 100

Honorable Mention: Oak Grove (6-3), Glenn (5-2).

North Rowan (5-3), Mount Airy (4-3), WinstonSalem Prep (5-3)

Colon selected by Santeros de Aguada

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Robert Colon SAN JUAN, PR - After a successful collegiate career, former WinstonSalem State University Rams guard Robert Colon will take his skills to the professional ranks after he was selected in the second round of the New Entry Draw of the National Superior Basketball (Baloncesta Superior Nacional) professional league. The selection makes Colon the first WSSU basketball player to reach the professional ranks since former Rams great WyKevin Bazemore.

Colon was selected in the second round of the New Entry Draw by Santeros de Aguada. The team is based in Aguada, Puerto Rico and competes in the National Superior Basketball League. The team is coming off of a successful 2019 season where they reached the 2019 BSN Finals.

The move to the professional ranks comes after a great career for Colon.

He completed his career with WinstonSalem State University with a Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association (CIAA) championship and earning the title of CIAA Tournament MVP. He also earned CIAA all-conference honors and he was named the CIAA Rookie of the Year as a true freshman. He finished his career with 1,737 total points to rank seventh in school history in scoring, including hitting 227 three-pointers to rank second in school history in that category. He also earned a spot on the National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC) All-District team and a spot on the BOXTOROW D2 AllAmerican Team twice.

For more information on Rams basketball, contact the WSSU Office of Athletic Media Relations at (336) 7502143 or log on to www.WSSURams.com.

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results than they received from Darnold.

Lance rounded out the three quarterbacks selected at the top of the draft. He is the one that is going to the best possible situation as the 49ers are a playoff team and just two years removed from playing in the Super Bowl. The Niners still have Jimmy Garoppolo as the starter, but if he falters or gets injured, Lance will be ready to step in.

Lance only had 17 starts in college and played on the FBS level, so there are question marks about how good he actually is.

He is a good decision -maker, only throwing one interception in his college career. He is also an excellent runner, which is perfect for head coach Kyle Shanahan’s zoneread scheme.

The most debated quarterback in this year’s draft was Justin Fields.

Due to some negative press prior to the draft, Fields dropped a bit in the draft. That will probably be a blessing for Fields

in the long run as he was selected 11th overall by the Chicago Bears, who moved up to take him.

The Bears are ready to win now and Fields will have every opportunity to take the starting job as a rookie if he performs well in off-season workouts.

Fields could go down as one of the biggest steals of the draft when it’s all said and done.

The Alabama Crimson Tide had a big day in the first round of the draft. Six Crimson Tide players were selected in the first round, tying a record set by the Miami Hurricanes in 2004. Alabama was loaded with talent and their skill position players at running back and wide receiver usually pan out well on the NFL level.

The Crimson Tide quarterbacks have not panned out as well as other positions and Mac Jones is attempting to turn that around. Jones was taken by the New England Patriots with the 15th pick.

The Pats already have Cam Newton as their starter for next season, so Jones does not have to step in and play right away.

Najee Harris, former Crimson Tide running back, was taken by the Pittsburgh Steelers. In recent years, the running back position has been somewhat devalued, so for the Steelers to take Harris means they really like him.

Harris is the prototypical Steeler running back. He is big, physical, and runs with power. The perfect back for the Steel City.

While it’s great to see how all the draft picks will pan out, especially the ones for your favorite team, it’s the quarterbacks that I will keep an eye on the most. Every year there are multiple quarterbacks that go in the top half of the first round, but routinely only one or two ever pan out to be franchise quarterbacks.

The success of the quarterbacks goes well beyond just their talent.

There are several other factors that come into play such as coaching style, offensive personnel, and injuries. Lawrence has been touted as the can’tmiss project, so the other teams are hoping they made the right decision with their selections at the quarterback position.

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New church opens doors to the community

Elder Richard Wayne Wood Sunday School Lesson

Isaiah: Offering Hope for the Future Scriptures: Isaiah 29:13-24 By the end of this lesson, we will: *Consider how God’s promise of mercy will triumph over God’s judgment; *Believe that an essential characteristic of God’s nature is forgiveness; *Rejoice in the manifestation of God’s love in our own lives.

Background: Isaiah was a major prophet whose name means “the Lord saves” or “God is Salvation” and he is also called the “Prince of Prophets.” Isaiah spoke of the past, the present, the near future and the future far in advance. He spent most of his life in Jerusalem and was thought to be wealthy with a high position in society and yet he understood and championed the concerns of the common man. He advised four kings: Uzziah, Ahaz, Jotham and Hezekiah.

Lesson: God announces in the beginning of this chapter that He will bring an army to put David’s city under siege. Ariel, as the city is referred to, is another name for Jerusalem and means “Lion of God” or “hearth of God.” The whole purpose of God’s judgment is to purify Jerusalem and bring the Holy seed and messianic kingdom over all nations (remember Isaiah speaks of the future).

God confuses the people and they are deliberately misled in verses 9-12. Verses 13-16 speak of the people’s hypocritical and useless rituals, their assumed wisdom – using human wisdom rather than divine wisdom became a spiritual plague for Jerusalem. “ … Should what is made say of its Maker, ‘He did not make me.’” Israel questioned the very sovereignty of God and verses 1316 show how far from the center of God’s will Jerusalem had strayed.

Isaiah switches the message in verses 18-21. Evildoers will be punished, but the humble will be made glad. Isaiah points to the hope of the future when God will intervene and bless Jerusalem and reverse the role between the mighty and the weak. This intervention, however, is dependent on the moral change in the nation that comes after chastisement. After their discipline, the deaf will hear and the blind will see (verse 18).

Referencing Jesus, Isaiah says in verse 19 “… the needy of mankind will rejoice in the Holy One of Israel – the hardships of the oppressed will be replaced by rejoicing and the oppressor’s dominance will be ended” (verse 21).

Isaiah reminds the people of God’s promise to Abraham and Jacob – how He brought Abraham into the land of Canaan to claim it. Israel, in the face of all God had done, suffered disgrace on multiple occasions because of their disobedience. In the future, however, - the messianic era and beyond, because of Jesus the Messiah - the children of Jacob will no longer be a cause of embarrassment to their forefathers (verse 22). Isaiah goes on to say that they will recognize the faithfulness of God and “they will sanctify My name; indeed, they will sanctify the Holy One of Jacob and will stand in awe of the God of Israel.” God will make it so obvious that Israel is His chosen people and He is the One God worthy of utmost respect (verse 23). This newfound See Isaiah on B5

BY TIMOTHY RAMSEY THE CHRONICLE

Living Water Bibleway Temple recently opened their doors in Winston-Salem.

Senior pastor, Bishop Anthony Bazemore, and his wife, Prophetess Q. Ann’Gel, are hoping to bring a new voice to the people that will bring them closer to the Lord.

“Living Water Church was birthed out of a vision that my father-in-law had and his name was Pastor Howard Daniels,” said Bishop Bazemore. “For over 30 years, he pastored in the city of WinstonSalem and the name of his church was Living Water Non-Denominational Church.

“The church has been closed for over 10 years; however, when I married his daughter, and me coming from a family of preachers, I believe in legacy and I wanted to do something to honor him.

After much prayer, we reopened the church, but named it Living Water

shortcomings and failures, she saw that God’s hand was on my life.

“She pushed me to become the man I am today. Not only did she push me, but she trusted me with her legacy, because Living Water was her dad’s church. She trusted me enough to handle not only her, but her father’s legacy and their legacy, because she could have submitted photo rightfully so pastored the Bishop Bazemore and Prophetess Q. Ann’Gel pose with church.”

Bazemore went to their children. prison for writing a Bibleway Temple, because saved him from those bad check and said that I am a part of International flaws and allowed him to experience taught him a open the church.

Bibleway.” lot.

Bishop Bazemore is “My gifting got me “I don’t care how much originally from Baltimore, places where my character you try to do for God, I was Md., but moved to North could not keep me,” raised in the church all my Carolina as a pre-teen. He Bazemore said about life, but we as preachers received the call to preach himself. “I am a gifted are not above the law,” he preacher, but I lacked at the age of eight. said. “The closer you are “After being taken character. I have been with God, the tighter you away from my mom to jail and through all of have to have your stuff because of substance that process, the Lord together. abuse, I moved to North saved me and redeemed “It taught me patience Carolina with my father’s me for real. After a failed and it taught me to love parents and that’s how I marriage of 13 years, the people from all walks of started preaching,” he said. Lord gave me a second life. They didn’t give me Bazemore says he chance and allowed me to a different color uniform had some character flaws marry a beautiful young that landed him in some lady that I’m married to See Church on B7 trouble. He feels God now, who despite all of my

First Waughtown youth donate to WSPD cause Patches support autism awareness and Special Olympics

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Virtual Sunday school hasn’t kept a group of pre-k/primary children from pursuing one of their most fruitful activities – helping others. The A-Team Class of First Waughtown Baptist Church presented $602 to Officer Mike D. Crider of the Winston-Salem Police Department on Sunday, May 2, in front of the church at 838 Moravia Street.

The donation came in response to a story in The Chronicle profiling Winston-Salem Officer Crider.

The article noted that Officer Crider is leading a departmental effort to sell commemorative patches for $10 each to promote autism awareness and to support Special Olympics of North Carolina, both causes that affect his family. The goal for the fundraiser is $5,000 $10,000.

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by Senora Boulware and her granddaughter Jonae Hanna, is noted for its philanthropy. Over the years, the class has raised thousands of dollars for Brenner Children’s Hospital, St. Jude’s

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The A-Team Class of First Waughtown Baptist Church presented $602 to Officer Mike D. Crider of the Winston-Salem Police Department on Sunday, May 2 Children’s Research cookies, popcorn, and Hearts of Albemarle, magnets, a Hospital, and other causes refrigerator girls’ advocacy and running laps for organization in Elizabeth that impact children.

When Ms. Boulware pledges.

City, directed by Dr. read about the patches, she Senior Pastor Dennis Wanda Hughes. saw one more opportunity W. Bishop and several All of the children for the A-Team to help members of the church received snack packs others. “We have had joined the parents to before heading home, children in our class see nine of the children happy that not even a with special needs,” she present their donations to pandemic could keep them said, “and this activity Officer Crider. He thanked from helping others. is another learning and them for their generosity To purchase a patch to sharing experience for us.” and commended them support autism awareness With only two weeks as he gave them patches and the Special Olympics, to raise the money, based on the size of their please call the Winstonparents and children contributions.

Salem Police Department went to work planning Additional donations Community Resources and implementing their came from Harper Marie Unit at 336-773-7835. individual fundraisers, Boulware in Springfield, like making and selling Va., and JUST GIRLS -

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

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

NOW Zoom services New Birth Worship Center (NBWC) in East Bend

has gone virtual. Please join Dr. James L. E. Hunt, Senior Pastor on Sunday mornings at 10 a.m. on Zoom webinar.

The link is https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84789021891 or Dial-In: 1 301 715 8592 ID Mtg. #: 84789021891. In addition, Sunday School is taught by Deacon James Henry at 9 a.m. via telephone conference call #: 1 917 900 1022 ID#: 868433#.

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

May 9 First Waughtown Baptist Church (FWBC) live stream Senior Pastor Dr. Dennis W. Bishop will deliver the Mother’s Day message. Service begins at 10 a.m. Sunday, May 9, on Facebook Live, https://www.facebook.com/

FirstWaughtown/ and on the First Waughtown website, https://www.firstwaughtown.org.

May 9 Mother’s Day celebration The Pilgrim Rest Missionary Baptist Church, 1905 N Jackson Ave., will be celebrating Mother’s Day on May 9 with a very special in-person service at our 11 a.m. worship hour. We adhere to all COVID health guidelines.

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ADVERTISEMENT FOR BIDS WINSTON-SALEM / FORSYTH COUNTY UTILITY COMMISSION NEILSON WTP MODERNIZATION PROJECT Pursuant to N.C.G.S. 143-129, sealed bid proposals endorsed “Neilson Water Treatment Plant Modernization Project” will be received by the City/County Purchasing Department, 101 N. Main Street, Suite 324, Winston-Salem, NC 27101 until 2:00 PM, Tuesday, June 8, 2021, at which time all bids will be publicly opened and read aloud at the City Hall (101 N. Main St.) front steps. The City reserves the right to waive any informalities in the bidding and to reject any or all proposals.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, pursuant to the requirements of Article 19 of Chapter 160A of the General Statutes of North Carolina, that the City Council of the City of Winston-Salem will hold a virtual public hearing at 7:00 p.m. on May 17, 2021, on the following proposed amendments to the Official Zoning Map of the City of Winston-Salem, North Carolina: Zoning petition of Donald A. Joyce Revocable Trust, Michael A. Joyce, and Rachel Joyce Maxcy Heirs from RS9 and LB to GB-S (Convenience Store; Restaurant (with drive-through service); Restaurant (without drive-through service); Services, A; Offices; Retail Store; and Food or Drug Store): property is located on the southwest corner of Union Cross Road and Sedge Garden Road; property consists of ±3.24 acres and is PINs 6875-41-4968, 6875-41-3896, 6875-41-2962, 6875-41-2797, and 687542-1075 as shown on the Forsyth County Tax Maps and on a site plan on file in the office of the City-County Planning Board (Zoning Docket W-3464).

All parties in interest and citizens are invited to attend said hearing (virtually) at which time they shall have an opportunity to be heard in favor of or in opposition to the foregoing proposed changes. If you would like to speak during the public hearing, please visit www.cityofws.org/ccvirtual. If you have questions regarding public hearing participation, please call (336)7272224.

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

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

Written comments will be accepted on the public hearing items until 7:00 p.m. May 18, 2021. Written comments may be sent to the City Clerk’s Office, P.O. Box 2511 Winston-Salem 27102, or by email to sandrark@cityofws.org.

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

BY ORDER OF THE CITY COUNCIL Sandra Keeney, Clerk to the City Council of the City of Winston-Salem The Chronicle May 6, 13, 2021 NOTICE OF SERVICE OF PROCESS BY PUBLICATION NORTH CAROLINA FORSYTH COUNTY In the General Court of Justice, District Court Divison, Before the Clerk Nancy Garcia Prudente & Sergio Rivera v. Luis Orlando Fidgueroa-Oliva; 21CVD2132 (Forsyth County) To Luis Orlando Figueroa-Oliva, Take Notice that a pleading seeking relief against you has been filed in the above-entitled action. The nature of the relief being sought is as follows: CHILD CUSTODY You are required to make defense to such pleading not later than May 31, 2021, and upon your failure to do so the party seeking service against you will apply to the Court for the relief sought.

This the 29th day of April, 2021.

Jessica G. Armentrout Attorney for Plaintiffs Greenwood Law 119 Brookstown Avenue Suite 300 Winston-Salem, NC 27101 336-661-8788 The Chronicle April 29 and May 6, 13, 2021

Having qualified as Fiduciary of the Estate of Ransom L. Brown, Jr. (20 E 765), also known as Ransom Leroy Brown, Jr. deceased April 13, 2020 Forsyth County, North Carolina, this is to Notify all persons, firms, and corporation having claims against the Estate of said deceased to present them to the undersigned on or before June 19, 2021 this Notice will be pleaded in bar of recovery. All persons indebted to the said decedent or estate shall please make immediate payment to the undersigned.

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Robin Denise (Fogle) Crawley Fiduciary for Ransom L. Brown, deceased 12330 Hatton Point Road Fort Washington, MD 20744 The Chronicle April 15, 22, 29 and May 6, 2021 NOTICE TO CREDITORS Having qualified as Fiduciary of the Estate of Nancy C. Brown (21 E 266), also known as Nancy Conner Brown, deceased September 8, 2020 Forsyth County, North Carolina, this is to Notify all persons, firms, and corporation having claims against the Estate of said deceased to present them to the undersigned on or before June 19, 2021 this Notice will be pleaded in bar of recovery. All persons indebted to the said decedent or estate shall please make immediate payment to the undersigned.

This the 15th day of April, 2021.

Robin Denise (Fogle) Crawley Fiduciary for Nancy C. Brown, deceased 12330 Hatton Point Road Fort Washington, MD 20744 The Chronicle April 15, 22, 29 and May 6, 2021 NOTICE TO CREDITORS Having qualified as Fiduciary of the Estate of Mabel S. Dixon (21 E 125), deceased December 22, 2020 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 2, 2021 this Notice will be pleaded in bar of recovery. All persons indebted to the said decedent or estate shall please make immediate payment to the undersigned.

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Waymon Monroe Sr. Fiduciary for Mabel S. Dixon, deceased 1252 Reynolds Forest Dr. Winston-Salem, NC 27107 The Chronicle April 29 and May 6, 13, 20, 2021 PUBLIC NOTICE Carter G. Woodson School (A K-12 charter school): Public/parent views are sought on proposed Federal plans for 2021-2022 school year, for the expenditure of funds for Title 1, Part A (for student help in reading, language arts, and math); Title II, Part A (Improving Teacher Quality); Title III (Instruction for Limited English Proficient Students), Title IV-A (Student Support and Academic Enrichment), and Title Vl-B (Individuals with Disabilities Act). CGWS may provide some special ed. & related services to private schools to comply with Federal and State mandates. Comments will be received prior to submission of grant applications to NC Dept, of Public Instruction through email requests to ATTN: Consulting Compliance Officer at liandaconsultinggroup@gmail.com from May 3-7, 2021. CGWS, 437 Goldfloss St., Winston-Salem, NC 27127.

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In the General Court of Justice, District Court Division, Before the Clerk Sharon Wright v. Paul Osei; 19CVD6092 (Forsyth County) To Paul Osei, Take Notice that a pleading seeking relief against you has been filed in the above-entitled action. The nature of the relief being sought is as follows: ABSOLUTE DIVORCE You are required to make defense to such pleading not later than May 31, 2021, and upon your failure to do so the party seeking service against you will apply to the Court for the relief sought.

This the 29th day of April, 2021.

Jessica G. Armentrout Attorney for Plaintiff Greenwood Law 119 Brookstown Avenue Suite 300 Winston-Salem, NC 27101 336-661-8788 The Chronicle April 29, and May 6, 13, 2021 STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA IN THE GENERAL COURT OF JUSTICE FORSYTH COUNTY DISTRICT COURT DIVISION IN THE MATTER OF: 19 JT 114 JARETH LEE-RHETT HAMMEL DOB: 03-18-19 NOTCIE OF SERVICE OF PROCESS BY PUBLICATION TO: Donald Williams-father of the juvenile TAKE NOTICE that a Juvenile Petition seeking relief against you have been filed in the above-entitled action. The nature of the relief being sought is an adjudication of Termination of your Parental Rights with respect to the above-referenced child pursuant to N.C.G.S. 7B-1111.

You are required to make a written answer to the Petition alleging to Terminate Parental Rights within forty (40) days after the date of this notice; and upon your failure to make a defense to the Petitions within the 40 day period specified herein or to attend the hearing on the said Petitions, the Petitioner will apply to the Court for terminating your parental rights to the above-referenced juvenile.

Any counsel appointed previously to represent you and not released by the Court shall continue to represent you.

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

The hearing on the Petition alleging to Terminate Parental Rights is scheduled for 10:15 a.m., on Monday, August 9, 2021 in Courtroom 1-D of the Forsyth County Hall of Justice in WinstonSalem, North Carolina or as soon thereafter as the Court can hear the said case.

This the 30th day of April, 2021 Theresa A. Boucher Attorney for the Forsyth County Department of Social Services 741 Highland Avenue Winston-Salem , N.C. 27101 The Chronicle May 6, 13, 20, 2021

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Consideration will be given only to Prime Contractors listed below who were selected as a result of a pre-qualification process by the City of WinstonSalem’s Evaluation Panel and who submit evidence that they are properly licensed as required by Chapter 87 of the North Carolina General Statutes to bid and perform the work described herein as the general contractor having proper licenses under the state laws governing their respective trades at the time of bid opening: • Adams Robinson Enterprises, Inc. • Archer Western Construction, LLC • Balfour Beatty Infrastructures, Inc. • Crowder Construction Company • Kiewit Water Facilities South Co. • Ulliman-Schutte Construction, LLC A mandatory Pre-Bid Teleconference will be held at 10:00 AM, Tuesday, May 11, 2021. Note: Contact Issuing Office for Link to Microsoft Teams Meeting. Interested subcontractors are welcome and encouraged to attend this conference.

NOTICE TO BIDDERS Project Based Vouchers in Existing and/or Rehabilitation Housing Request For Proposals (RFP No. 21-0400) The Housing Authority of the City of Winston-Salem is requesting responses for Proposals from experienced housing providers to receive project-based Housing Choice Voucher subsidies for existing and/or rehabilitated housing in the City of Winston-Salem/ Submit responses by Thursday May 20, 2021 by 4:00 PM. For complete information, visit www.haws.org, and click on the Bids tab.

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1 Bedroom Units conveniently located in Winston Salem, 62 yrs of age or older Handicapped and/or disabled. Section 8 assistance available. Income restrictions apply. Call 336-251-1060. 8:30 a.m.-12 p.m. on Mon and Fri, 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. on Wed. Equal Housing Opportunity

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An optional Site Visit will be held on Wednesday, May 12, 2021, at 10:00 AM, at the R.W. Neilson Water Treatment Plant, 5725 Frye Bridge Road, Clemmons, NC 27012. The site visit will be limited to a maximum of two (2) representatives from each of the Prime Contractors listed above. Due to current Covid-19 protocols, all attendees shall wear masks and socially distance to the extent possible during the site visit.

Bids shall be on a lump sum and unit price basis, with alternative bid items as indicated in the Bidding Docments.

Plans and Specifications may be purchased on or after Monday, May 3, 2021 by contacting Issuing Office listed below. Documents will be issued to prospective Bidders upon a non-refundable payment of $650 for each set of plans and specifications. The Issuing Office for the Bidding Documents is Black & Veatch International Company, 10925 David Taylor Drive, Suite 280, Charlotte, NC 28562. Ashley Tucker at 704/510-8464, TuckerA@bv.com Prospective Bidders may examine the Bidding Documents at the Issuing Office M-F, 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM. Due to current Covid-19 protocols, Bidders must contact Issuing Office or Office of the City of Winston-Salem Purchasing Department via phone or email and arrange for purchase or viewing of documents. Bidding Documents also may be examined at the following locations: 1. City of Winston-Salem Purchasing Department, Room 324, 101 North Main Street, Winston-Salem, NC 27101, M-F, 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM; 2. Construct Connect, 2825 Edwards Road, Suite 800, Cincinnati, OH 45209, 800/364-2059 x8221; 3. Black & Veatch International Company, 175 Regency Woods Place, Suite 200, Cary, NC, 27518, MF, 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM. Individual sheets of plans and specifications will not be sold.

Neither Owner nor Engineer has any responsibility for the accuracy, completeness, or sufficiency of any Bidding Documents obtained from any source other than the Issuing Office. Obtaining these documents from any source other than the Issuing Office may result in obtaining incomplete and inaccurate information. Obtaining these documents from any source other than the Issuing Office may also result in failure to receive any addenda, corrections, or other revisions to the Bidding Documents that may be issued.

Bid security shall be furnished in accordance with the Instructions to Bidders.

Compliance with the Clean Water State Revolving Fund (SRF) Special Conditions is required on this Contract. SRF requirements are included in the Bidding Documents.

Compliance with the Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Utility Commission's Minority and Women Business Enterprise program is required on this Contract.

MBE/WBE program requirements are included in the Bidding Documents.

The City reserves the right to reject all bids or any portion of any bid they deem necessary for the best interest of the City, to accept any item or group of items unless qualified by the bidder, to acquire additional quantities at prices quoted on the Bid Form.

Instructions for submitting bids may be obtained by contacting Jerry Bates, City/County Purchasing Department, Room 324, 101 North Main Street, Winston-Salem, NC 27101, 336/7476939 or email (preferred): jerryjb@cityofws.org.

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Check our current opportunities at: SecondHarvestNWNC.org/Employment

Imprints Cares is seeking a family educator. Imprints Cares is an early childhood education nonprofit; our mission is to enrich the lives of young children while supporting families on their journey through parenthood. The family educator is responsible for working with families and their children from prenatal to entrance into kindergarten. Through positive parent education and family support, the family educator will build a strong relationship with the family to enhance the quality of parenting, increase a parent’s understanding of child development, and work with parents to help their child learn, grow, and develop to achieve their full potential.

Bachelor’s Degree in child development, sociology, education, psychology or related field is required.

To apply, please send your resume and cover letter to hopesparked@imprintscares.org.

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Community Calendar NOW – Volunteer Center of the Triad The Volunteer Center of the Triad is responding to COVID-19 by bringing the volunteer community together. We have designated a portion of our website www. volunteercentertriad. org to assist our nonprofit community as their needs arise around the COVID-19 pandemic.

If you are interested in volunteering, visit www. volunteercentertriad.org, click COVID-19 Response and search volunteer opportunities available.

Each Wednesday Marketing outside of the box HUSTLE WinstonSalem is hosting A Thin Line Between Customer Service & Marketing.

Customer service is the new marketing. From the customer journey to customer reviews to the overall customer experience, this series will reaffirm that 2021 is the year of the customer.

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

Now – May 31 Textile art display Delta Arts Center is exhibiting “Raw Edges Textile Art,” a display of quilts and other textile pieces made by local African American quilters, now through May 31. Delta Arts Center is located at 2611 New Walkertown Road. Call 336-722-2625 to arrange an appointment to view the exhibit.

May 8 Community Day event Reynolda’s annual free Community Day event will return as an in-person and virtual hybrid “Pollination Station” program this year on Saturday, May 8, from 9:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. on the front lawn of Reynolda House, inside the museum, and online for those more comfortable exploring digitally or who would like to connect further after their visit to Reynolda. Free event registration includes museum admission and take home art activities (while supplies last). For more information, visit reynolda.org or call 336758-5150.

May 9-15 Carolina Blues Festival The longest-running blues festival in the Southeast returns this May with a Carolina Soul theme. The Piedmont Blues Preservation Society (PBPS) will kick off NC Blues Week on Sunday, May 9th, 2021 with a

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respect of God will cause those who were wayward and disobedient to heed His instruction and change their ways – they will, as a result, gain spiritual perception and come to true understanding (verse 24). (The UMI Annual Commentary 2020-2021, The Jewish Study Bible, The MacArthur Study Bible and The Oxford

special film screening followed by their signature event- the 35th Annual Carolina Blues Festival on Saturday, May 15th, 2021 at LeBauer Park, 208 North Davie Street in downtown Greensboro, North Carolina. Tickets are available for both events at PiedmontBlues. org.

May 28 & 29 Kidswrite 2021 Burning Coal Theatre Company is pleased to announce Kidswrite 2021, a collection of short plays written by young playwrights, selected from submissions solicited from Wake and 13 surrounding counties.

Performance dates are Friday and Saturday, May 28th and 29th at 7 p.m.

Tickets are $10 each and may be obtained at the door. More information at 919-834-4001 or at www.burningcoal.org.

NOTE: if the Coronavirus situation has not cleared by these dates, we will present the performances livestreamed.

May 31 “Teens in House” registration deadline Registration is open for the SECU Family House’s program, “Teens in the House.”

Middle and high school students can immerse themselves in service and learning by volunteering either July 19-22 or July 26-29 from 10 am – noon each day. Monday and Thursday will be in person at the SECU Family House.

Tuesday and Wednesday will be from home and will include Zoom sessions and curated videos and articles to learn more about nonprofits as well as service projects such as welcome bags, door hangers, etc. Register online at familyhousews. org/teens-in-the-house/.

The application deadline has been extended until May 31.

Jul 12-16, 19-23 Aviation summer camps Jim Shaw’s ACE Academy will again be offering aviation-related summer camps for middle and high school students this summer. There will be two aviation summer camps offered for 2021.

July 12–16 will be for middle school students and July 19–23 for high school students. The cost of the weeklong summer camp is $130 per student, which includes meals.

Both aviation camps will be located at SmithReynolds airport.

For more information about the golf tournament or aviation summer camps please contact Jim Shaw’s ACE Aviation Academy at 336-306-8145 or by email at ShawAceAcademy@ gmail.com.

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For Your Consideration: What do you think is the danger of personal or human wisdom in place of divine wisdom? What is the significance of God’s promise to Abraham to us?

Application: As evidenced in the lesson, God will allow circumstances and experiences to chastise and bring us to a place of surrender.

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Jul 23 Application deadline The city is accepting applications for the next class of City of WinstonSalem University, to be held for 11 weeks starting Aug. 26, 2021. This free, in-person program gives citizens a better understanding of city government, including the responsibilities of various city departments and the city’s role in the community.

Applications must be received by 5 p.m. July 23.

The application and more information are posted online at CityofWS.org/ CWSU. Applications can be printed and mailed in, or submitted online.

Applications are also available by calling CityLink 311.

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

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You can also drop them off, Monday through Friday before 5 p.m., or mail your items to WinstonSalem Chronicle, 1300 E. Fifth St., Winston-Salem, NC 27101; or send them via our website, www. wschronicle.com. chastisement, God lovingly restores. Longrange planning can create unforeseen circumstances and unwanted events. To circumvent chastisement and punishment, we should trust and honor God in our planning process and in our action plan. “The steps of a good man are ordered by the Lord: and he delighteth in his way” (Psalm 37:23).

LOVE YOUR HAIR LOVE YOUR HEART The American Heart Association's Hair, Heart & Health program is uniting with barbershops and beauty salons in the Triad. Through this program, salon and barbershop staff have been trained, blood pressure checks are being encouraged, and stylists and barbers are engaging their clients with heart health information to help reduce risk factors for heart disease and stroke. Live Chair Health will also now be joining with Hair, Heart & Health – making health conversations in the barber’s chair even more possible.

“Barbershops are pillars in the neighborhood and imperative to the education of our people. We encourage our neighbors to come in, sit and talk about everything related to having a healthy family,” shared Derek Brooks, Owner of Gentleman’s Grooming Lounge in Winston-Salem.

“As a cosmetologist, we’re able to advise our clients about hair, skin and nails. Now with the parallel for heart health, we will have some training to also advise our clients to have a healthier lifestyle,” said Monique Parks, Owner, Operator of Monique Michelle the Studio in Winston-Salem.

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

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

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Salem College announces Dr. Camara Phyllis Jones as commencement speaker

Dr. Jones noted for her work regarding the impact of racism on health SUBMITTED ARTICLE

Camara Phyllis Jones, MD, MPH, PhD, will be the speaker for Salem College’s in-person Commencement on Saturday, May 8, at Truist Stadium in downtown Winston-Salem. She is a family physician and epidemiologist whose work focuses on naming, measuring, and addressing the impacts of racism on the health and wellbeing of the nation.

Dr. Jones’ allegories on “race” and racism illuminate topics that are otherwise difficult for many Americans to understand or discuss. Recognizing that racism saps the strength of the whole society through the waste of human resources, she aims to mobilize and engage all Americans in a National Campaign Against Racism.

“At Salem’s upcoming Commencement, Dr. Jones will share a powerful story about her incredible body of work that will include her observations regarding racial justice concerns and the COVID pandemic,” Salem Academy and College Interim President Susan Henking said. “Vast opportunities are ahead for the Salem College Class of 2021, and I look forward to hearing Dr. Jones’ inspiring message for our graduates in May as they leave Salem to forge their own paths and make a difference locally, regionally, and globally.

“We are particularly thrilled to have Dr. Jones as our speaker this year because of Salem College’s recently announced Health Leadership transformation,” Dr.

Camara Phyllis Jones Henking added. “I also thank our partners at the Winston-Salem Dash for working with us to provide an in-person Commencement at Truist Stadium for the Class of 2021.”

Henking said it has not yet been determined whether Dr. Jones’ address to the Class of 2021 will be in-person at Truist Stadium or presented via recorded message.

Dr. Jones, who is past president of the American Public Health Association, currently is a Presidential Visiting Fellow at the Yale School of Medicine in the Department of Medicine and the Office of Health Equity Research. She will serve as the 2021– 2022 UCSF Presidential Chair at the University of California San Francisco and was the 2019–2020

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Evelyn Green Davis Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University.

She taught six years as an assistant professor at the Harvard School of Public Health (1994 to 2000), served 14 years as a medical officer at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (2000 to 2014), and is currently an adjunct associate professor at the Morehouse School of Medicine and an adjunct professor at the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University.

For more information about Salem Academy, please visit salemacademy. com. For more information about Salem College, please visit salem.edu.

This exhibition was created by The Olana Partnership at Olana State Historic Site, Thomas Cole National Historical Site, and Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas.

Advance tickets at reynoldahouse.org/crosspollination

Support for this exhibition and its national tour is provided by Art Bridges. Additional major support has been provided by the Henry Luce Foundation. Reynolda House thanks its major sponsors: Patty and Malcolm Brown, The Charles H. Babcock, Jr. Arts and Community Initiative Endowment, and MercedesBenz of Winston-Salem.

Detail. Martin Johnson Heade (1819-1904). Tropical Orchids, 1870-1874, Oil on canvas. Olana State Historic Site, New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation; OL.1981.39.A

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because I went to prison for a bad check than the man sitting next to me and he murdered his whole family. Everybody had the same uniform and you never knew what someone was in there for unless it came through in the newspaper or you heard them discussing their case. So, it taught me how to treat people fairly and more importantly, how to love people and to preach the message of redemption.”

At 33 years of age, Bazemore is at a unique age to where he can connect with both the older and younger generations at the same time.

“Being a young preacher, I was always raised around older, seasoned generals, if you may say,” he said. “I think that one of the problems is it’s almost like Eli and Samuel. The older generation represents Eli. Eli knew how to discern the voice of God, but he could not hear him.

Samuel could hear, but he could not discern.

“One of the problems I have with our generation is, we hear well, but we don’t know what to do with the information that we hear. Our older generation, they don’t hear so well now because of old age, but they have the discernment that we need. As a young pastor, I do my best to bridge the

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gap between the two and to show this generation that we still need the discernment of our fathers and holding them to a high regard.”

Bazemore says he wants to do more with the prison ministry because of his background. He also wants to connect with the homeless community as well. Even though the pandemic has put some of their plans on hold, the Bazemores are happy to have their doors open to the public.

“I love church, and it doesn’t matter how many people are there,” he said.

“I had a word from God and I had a gumption from the Holy Ghost to go and do it, so I knew as long as He was with me, I was going to be all right.”

Living Water is located at 4175 Moat Drive and they have been open for nearly two months. They have not experienced any COVID-19 scares because they have the space to properly socially distance, as well as frequently sanitizing the space.

According to Bazemore, what separates their church from others is that he and his wife are preaching from life experience.

“Everything that I preach, everything my wife preaches, comes from a place of experience,” he continued. “Because we have that experience, we are able to touch the common man and we are able to help those that need to be helped. One of

the things we believe in here is that compassion is the breeding ground for miracles.”

Bazemore said he feels that because both he and his wife are pastors, that makes them better in their craft.

“Everywhere that I lack, she is on it,” he said. “I don’t think that I could do Living Water Bibleway Temple without her. She is a valuable asset to the church, but most importantly, before the church, she is a valuable asset in my life.”

Prophetess Bazemore is a native of WinstonSalem and is happy to carry on the legacy of her father and to speak the word of Christ to the people of the city.

“I believe the Lord is sending people that are hungry and excited about the new things that are going on here,” she said.

“I believe the pandemic has caused people to hope and they are looking for different things. With us being a new church, as people get to know we are there and get to know more about us, I think more people will come.

“With those who have started to come, I believe they are pleased with how it’s family oriented and the spirit of Christ is there, so I think it’s going great.”

Living Water holds services at 1:30 p.m. on Sunday afternoons and on the second and fourth Sundays they hold an additional service at 7 p.m.

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Cyrus selected as guest curator for fall 2021 exhibition at SECCA SUBMITTED ARTICLE

The Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art (SECCA) is proud to present a special exhibition with guest curator Duane Cyrus, coming to SECCA in Fall 2021. A Bessie Award nominated performer and a professor at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Duane Cyrus was selected as guest curator for the exhibition from a pool of more than 30 applicants.

The exhibition is scheduled to open in mid-November in SECCA’s Main Gallery, and will remain on view through early 2022.

In January 2021, SECCA posted an open call for guest curator submissions, seeking new voices and new perspectives for an upcoming project. SECCA hoped to develop a collaborative exhibition that showcases work being produced in response to the current moment, primarily the onset of and quarantine surrounding COVID-19 and the protests and events surrounding the death of George Floyd and the wider Black Lives Matter movement.

After evaluating numerous exceptional applications, SECCA selected Duane Cyrus for the guest curator position based on his exhibition proposal for ”Black@Intersection: Moving Images from Contemporary Black Voices in Art” (working title).

The proposed exhibition draws on Cyrus’ extensive experience in the performing arts while incorporating other artistic disciplines including photography, film, and sculpture.

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B l a c k @ Intersection will feature Black and African Diasporic artists from North Carolina and beyond. The artists simultaneously exemplify and defy, yet continue to redefine the perceived norms around concepts of Blackness as we see it in our world. They resist the nullifying commodification of blackness into a type of monolith and do so by creating works that reify the world on their own terms.

Duane Cyrus previously exhibited work at SECCA in 2020 as part of Escapes and Revelations, a group exhibition of the 21 different artists who received the 2018-2019 North Carolina Arts Council Artist Fellowship.

Duane Cyrus is a Bessie Award-nominated performer and a professor at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, where he teaches choreography, improvisation, repertory, and career strategies for artists. He is also the director of Theatre of Movement, a collective that produces performing and visual art collaborations and curations meshing

Cyrus’ dance background with photographers, filmmakers, actors, poets, and musicians.

Duane holds a BFA from the Juilliard School and an MFA from University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. He danced with the Martha Graham Dance Company, the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, in musical theater (including the original London production of Disney’s The Lion King), on television, and in a variety of other venues nationally and internationally.

He regularly works as an independent artist throughout the United States, Europe, and Asia as teacher, performer, and choreographer.

Duane Cyrus consistently shares his knowledge and experience through his method for creating live performance called Theatre of Movement.

As an educator, Duane has developed curricula for community outreach, intensives, and arts-in-education programs for New Jersey Performing Arts Center, Circuit Productions, Museum of the City of New York, Charlotte Ballet, Ailey Camp, and American Ballet Theater, among others. Duane has received commissions and developed projects for Martha Graham Dance Company, American Dance Festival, and Charlotte Ballet among others. He has received grants from the Princess Grace Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, North Carolina Arts Council, Arts Greensboro, and New Music/USA among others.

WS/FCS names new area superintendent SUBMITTED ARTICLE

Felicia Davis has been named area superintendent - south for WinstonSalem/Forsyth County Schools. Since September of 2020, Davis has served as a school improvement director for WS/ FCS. From 2009 to 2020, Davis worked as a principal at Mango Elementary in Hillsborough County, Florida. Prior to that, she served as the assistant principal of that same school for four years. Earlier in her career, Davis worked as a writing resource teacher, lead teacher, technology

specialist and intermediate teacher, also in Hillsborough County.

Davis has a bachelor’s degree from the University of South Florida and master’s degree from Nova Southeastern University. She is currently working on a doctor of education through the University of South Florida.

Davis has served as the interim area superintendent since March, when Dr. Jesse Pratt was appointed to deputy superintendent. The WS/FCS Board of Education approved Davis as the official replacement for Pratt earlier this week.

She started immediately.

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