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NEW OPPORTUNITIES: Job Expo and Franchise Fair set. 1C

August 30, 2010 127th year No. 242

VENDORS NEEDED: Town to host second annual Denton Street Festival. 1B

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Program that helps homeless youth expands to hold a grand opening for its Crossroads II house in Greensboro today. The facility is a transition house for former foster children who have no place to live because they’ve aged out of foster care and have no family. It will serve women using the same model the organization has employed at

BY PAT KIMBROUGH ENTERPRISE STAFF WRITER

HIGH POINT – A High Point nonprofit that serves homeless youth is expanding its outreach to a neighboring city with another initiative aimed at serving those on the margins of society. I Am Now is scheduled

its Crossroads house on Ferndale Boulevard since it was established a few years ago. The High Point site houses several 18- to 23year-old men as part of a program that seeks to help them become self-sufficient. “I always wanted to have a house for young

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faith and decided to open up Crossroads II to serve these young women.” Crossroads II has three women living there with room to accommodate five, Burrell said. He and other I Am Now staff are working to help them fill their housing needs, fin-

women, but we never were in position to do it even though the need was always there,” said Travis Burrell, founder of I Am Now. “Recently, I received a high number of calls from young women who were homeless between the ages of 18 and 23, and they had nowhere to go. We stepped out on

Reamer L. Bushardt was appointed chairman of the Department of Physician Assistant Studies at Wake Forest University School of Medicine. Bushardt comes to Wake Forest Baptist from the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston.

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OVERLOOKED: Forum will give exposure to judicial candidates. 2A OBITUARIES

Lee Brown, 87 Jack Cecil, 86 Aletha Crump, 88 Beulah Harris, 90 Billy E. Hill, 77 Jeffrey W. Jones, 47 Kat Rogers L.T. Stevenson, 72 Johnsie Tilley, 94 Harold Wagner, 79 Glenn Walton, 78 Thomasena York, 65 Obituaries, 2-3B

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The Islamic Center of High Point is located on W. Market Center Drive. Muslim leaders say the city’s mosques no longer provide adequate space.

Muslims: More worship space is needed BY PAM HAYNES ENTERPRISE STAFF WRITER

HIGH POINT – When Uzma Zaman moved to High Point almost 13 years ago, there was a small Islamic community in the city. Fast forward to today, and the local population of practicing Muslims has grown so much that those who pray at the city’s two mosques often have to do so in the parking lots of the worship centers because of overcrowding. “We have three or four families moving here from Pakistan as immigrants every week,” said Zaman, a spokesperson for the Islamic Center of High Point. “They come to High Point because there are low living costs. These fami-

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lies have kids that are growing up fast. As a growing community, we are in bad need of more space for us to worship and teach our kids about their religion.” Zaman spoke of the growing Islamic community at a High Point Planning and Zoning Commission meeting on Tuesday night, where the commission approved two rezoning requests by property owner Malik Hanif that could allow a mosque and educational facility to be built on 7 acres of land at 2801 Allen Jay Road. According to the city’s development ordinance, any place of worship can be built in a residential zoning district, but the land’s current zoning, a residential multifamily-

8 zoning, only allows a place of worship to be built across 3 acres. The property owner requested a public and institutional district zoning to utilize all 7 acres. The city’s two mosques – one on W. Market Center Drive and one on Lexington Avenue – no longer provide adequate worship space, Zaman said, and the closest Islamic school is in Charlotte. The new structure will include an educational facility, worship space, and a computer lab where children can research Muslim teachings and beliefs, she said. It would cater to 700 to 1,000 families. A community center and park also may be added in the future. “A problem we’ve run into is renting out spaces in other churches for our events like birthday parties,” she said. “We aren’t Christians and aren’t members of those churches, so they won’t rent the space to us. We need a space to have our events, too.”

Some neighbors in the community spoke in opposition of the requests citing traffic concerns and religious differences. The commission favorably and unanimously recommended the requests to City Council after they determined that traffic generated by the mosque would not disrupt traffic flow in the neighborhood, where Allen Jay Elementary School and several churches are located. Council will consider the requests on Sept. 20 at 5:30 p.m. in city hall. The new center would provide some relief for the growing community, said Zaman, who estimates there is probably 1 church for every 100 Christians in the area. “We love this neighborhood,” she said. “We can’t worship out on the streets. We just want a peaceful place where we can go.” phaynes@hpe.com | 888-3617

Vision gets backing from community Before you read...

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Second in a two-part series.

BY VICKI KNOPFLER ENTERPRISE STAFF WRITER

HIGH POINT – Pam Stern already has accomplished one of her goals in sprucing up downtown. Members of the community – both individuals and businesses – have stepped up to help. While the The City Project isn’t officially affili-

ated with Stern’s project, Wendy Fuscoe, executive director, said Stern’s BLANK ideas and enthusiasm CANVAS are just what the Helping city needs. downtown “The City through art Project ■■■ vision is community leadership and community leaders,” Fuscoe said. “It’s a civic movement, and this fits right in.

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“The mural will draw attention to something that is happening, and maybe other property owners will decide to do something with their buildings.

“In this environment of people not having lots of money, City Project is trying to do as much as we can with as little as possible, and when you have someone with Pam’s enthusiasm and passion, we’ll support her as much as we can.” Fuscoe helps mainly by sending out press releases and talking up the project, and City Project board member Anthony Belton, also an artist, is a key volunteer. Another board member, Lisa Shankle, and arts promoter Phyllis Bridges

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also are heavily involved, Stern said. Some members of The Downtown District have volunteered. Huffman Paint and Wallcovering and Sherwin-Williams and Duron paint stores will contribute some supplies. The City Project has applied for grants for improvements in the Uptowne area, and if money is secured, Stern and primary artist Nancy Rothrock may be contracted for help there, Fuscoe said. vknopfler@hpe.com | 888-3601

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