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THURSDAY, April 15, 2021

Heartfelt tributes pour in after the passing of Mrs. Paulette Lewis-Moore

Her 27 years at The Chronicle influenced the lives of staff, readers, and others

BY TEVIN STINSON THE CHRONICLE

A Legend. A Jewel. A Sweet Beautiful Soul. An Angel On Earth. Those were just a few of the words used to describe Paulette Lewis-Moore.

Moore, a longtime member of The Chronicle staff, passed away last week.

A native of WinstonSalem, Moore, who is better known as Mrs. Paulette, joined The Chronicle in 1993 as part of the mailing department. It wasn’t long after the founder of The Chronicle, Ernie Pitt, learned that she could type that he decided to make her secretary and administrative assistant.

During her 27 years with The Chronicle, Mrs. Paulette’s title was administrative assistant, but she was so much more; essentially, she was the face and the voice of The Chronicle and the glue that held everything together. She spearheaded The Chronicle’s annual Martin Luther King Jr. Prayer Breakfast, Mrs. Paulette Lewis-Moore the Season’s Greetings ads during Christmas, and was the culture of Black jourinstrumental in the facilita- nalism for over 27 years tion of the annual Gospel in Winston-Salem, and she Fest and Community Ser- was an example of what vice Awards. we can all become when With her warm, kind, we chose to walk in our and loving personality, purpose.”

Mrs. Paulette left a lasting Tim Ramsey, The impression on everyone Chronicle’s sports and reshe met. She really had a ligion reporter, said when knack for connecting with he joined The Chronicle, people and making them Mrs. Paulette was his savfeel like family. ing grace.

James Taylor, pub“Mrs. Paulette was lisher of The Chronicle, one of the nicest and most said Mrs. Paulette shared genuine people I have ever strength and wisdom with met. She was my saving everyone she met. grace when I first started at “A person like Paulette The Chronicle. I will never Moore only comes along forget the kind words and once in a lifetime. She will genuine love she had, not forever be remembered only for me, but for everyfor the love, strength and one she met. I will miss her wisdom that she shared dearly,” Ramsey said. with all who came in Shayna Smith, marketcontact with her,” Taylor ing and communications said. “Mrs. Paulette made manager, said to know countless contributions to Mrs. Paulette was to love

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her and every moment was special.

“I worked very closely with her, she was like my work mother, she always made sure that I was okay.

When I was sad or stressed she would tell me jokes to cheer me up, and she also provided so much wisdom in which I am very grateful for,” Smith said, “She definitely brought so much joy and laughter to the office.

Almost every morning, we would start the day with singing gospel or dancing to gospel. She was a very special woman. I don’t think I will ever meet anyone else like her. I am really going to miss her. We truly lost a Winston-Salem warrior.”

While discussing a special moment she shared with Mrs. Paulette, Bridget Elam, editor of The Chron-

icle, referred to her as “an angel on earth.”

“Ms. Paulette was always on time! It was her day off and I was opening up the office on her behalf.

Yet somehow, I had essentially locked myself in the foyer of the office. I was caught between locked doors - my keys were on my desk. The inner door was locked; if I walked out the main door, I would have been completely locked out. Luckily, I had my phone. But before I could call someone to rescue me, Ms. Paulette pulled up. I didn’t think I was seeing properly; it was her day off,” Elam continued. “She came with key in hand and that infectious smile on her face and freed the one trapped in the foyer! She had to pick something up that morning. But

I felt she was fulfilling her position - angel on earth.”

Judie Holcomb-Pack, associate editor, said Mrs. Paulette had an upbeat spirit and a wicked sense of humor. She also talked about Mrs. Paulette’s keen fashion sense. “Miss Paulette was the office fashionista. With her stylish ensembles and coordinating shoes, I don’t think she ever wore the same outfit twice,” said HolcombPack.

“Her upbeat spirit was infectious and if you came in the door in a bad mood, it would quickly change after just a few minutes being with her. She had a wicked sense of humor that would pop out at the most unexpected times.

She knew everyone who walked in the door, and if she didn’t know you when

you came in, you’d be a friend when you walked out. Whenever I am out in the community and mention where I work, the first thing someone will say to me is, ‘Do you know Miss Paulette?’ Indeed, I do.”

Former copy editor Michelle Woodburn said Mrs. Paulette was a force in her life and many others. “Ms. Paulette filled my hours at The Chronicle with joy, laughter, beauty, kindness and wise counsel,” Woodburn said.

“She was such a warm, gracious, thoughtful, bright light — full of faith and everything that’s good.

Ms. Paulette was a positive force in the lives of many.

She was loved by all who knew her and will be greatly missed.”

On his personal Facebook page along with a picture of himself and Mrs. Paulette, former editor Kevin Walker wrote, “We worked together for more than 15 years at The Chronicle, but we weren’t coworkers; we were family. Like for many, she was my mother, especially after my own mom went on to Glory. Those years at the paper weren’t always easy, but I could always turn to her for a listening ear, a pep talk and a hug before she’d send me off with an ‘I love you’.”

Mrs. Paulette’s ability to connect with people wasn’t exclusive to those she worked with. When word of her passing was made public on social media, dozens of subscribers and others with a connection to The Chronicle talked about how Mrs. Paulette made them feel when they walked through the door or called.

Longtime subscriber RaVonda Dalton-Rann said, “What a beautiful spirit she was … That same spirit is now wearing wings and looking down at us.”

Southside Discount Pharmacy offering COVID-19 vaccine ing

After months of workthrough red tape,

Southside Discount Pharmacy is now a COVID-19 vaccination site.

Ahuma Freeman, who is the founder and owner of Southside Discount Pharmacy, said the process to become a vaccination site took a lot of paperwork and training, but they started receiving doses of the Moderna vaccine last month and they’ve already administered over 1,200 doses.

Southside Discount Pharmacy, located at 3085 Waughton St., has been in operation since 2014.

While finishing up her de-

gree at Campbell University, Freeman completed her clinical training at Wake Forest Baptist Hospital, which brought her to Winston-Salem and closer to her future husband, who was working for Dell at the time. After graduating from college and working at several big-name pharmacies for nearly a decade, Freeman said she realized that she wanted more out of her profession. She said much of the focus at bigname pharmacies is making money, but she wanted See Pharmacy on A2

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to really help people lead healthier lives and understand the medications they were taking.

“I was working at the CVS on MLK and that’s when the lightbulb went off,” Freeman said. “I saw a lot of issues at that location … A lot of patients there needed someone to actually sit down and explain what was going on and the medications and it just wasn’t there because it was always go, go, go, go

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and I knew I didn’t want to keep going back to that.”

Freeman said although she knew she didn’t have enough money to open her own pharmacy, she started doing the research anyway and things just started falling into place. “Me and my husband put a business plan together, presented it to the bank, and just hoped that somebody believed in it,” she said.

And someone did believe. Freeman said it was a lot of hard work in the beginning, but it gave her

the peace she was looking for. “I could go to sleep knowing that I was really healing my patients and that they were listening,” she said.

When talks about the vaccine started, Freeman said she admits she was a little skeptical because not a lot of research had been done beforehand. But after learning more about the vaccine, seeing the number of deaths increasing every day, and continued requests from patients, Freeman decided to get the

vaccine herself and apply to become a vaccination site.

The process took months of filling out paperwork before beginning training could even start and then they had to wait a few more weeks to receive the vaccine.

“It was a learning process for everyone so you can’t be mad, but there were a lot of requests and a lot of paperwork,” Freeman continued. “But we just kept doing the paperwork, doing the webinars,

just trying to stay in the loop and then finally everything was good to go.”

On Wednesday, April 7, Southside Discount Pharmacy administered its 1,000th dose of the vaccine. According to Freeman, the vaccine is free of charge. Southside Discount Pharmacy is taking patients with and without insurance. Freeman said they aren’t focusing on insurance because they want to make sure everyone who needs the vaccine gets it. The pharmacy has

also partnered with other organizations in the area to host vaccine clinics.

“We’ve partnered with a couple of organizations that have interests that are aligned with what we’re doing, the preventive help, and watching out for those people who don’t really have it or may need that extra support,” Freeman said.

To schedule an appointment to receive the vaccine, visit https:// southsidediscountrx.com/ or call 336-830-8774.

16th Annual Piedmont Earth Day Fair goes virtual with FREE events and programs for all ages SUBMITTED ARTICLE

Everyone is invited to join Piedmont Environmental Alliance (PEA) for the 2021 Virtual Piedmont Earth Day Fair, April 19 - 23. The virtual festival is packed with family-friendly activities, educational events, demonstrations, artwork and more – all free to the public.

Sign up today to learn more about the full line-up of programs by going to https:// www.peanc.org/winston-salem-earthday-fair.

Highlights of the weeklong celebration include: Interfaith Panel on Environment, Climate & Justice April 21 at 5:30 p.m. via zoom Join a panel of local faith leaders for an interfaith discussion on the connections between religion, climate change, and environmental justice. Our esteemed speakers this year include: Rev. Willard W. Bass, Rabbi Mark Cohn, Associate Chaplain Naijla Faizi, Bishop Todd Fulton, and Rev. Craig Schaub.

Patio Gardening for Beginners with Wild Roots Garden Market April 19 at 7 p.m. via zoom Growing vegetables in small spaces is not only possible, but a whole lot of fun! Join us for step-by-step advice on how to start a patio garden that’s beautiful, sustainable, and filled with delicious vegetables.

Earth Day Story Time + Calming Yoga with the Forsyth County Public Library April 22 at 7 p.m.

Families will follow along with the

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A young boy visits one of the exhibits at the 2019 Earth Day Fair.

earth-related yoga poses as we read “Good Night Yoga” by Mariam Gates and practice our mindful breathing. This program is recommended for families with children ages 2 and up.

Growing Edible Mushrooms in the Piedmont with Durham Public Schools Hub Farm April 23 at 12:30 p.m.

Enter the wild, magical world of the fungi kingdom. Tune in virtually to learn about the biology and anatomy of gilled mushrooms. Then, come along as we teach you how to inoculate and manage your own edible mushroom log.

And, there’s so much more! Artwork, crafts, on demand videos, and many other ways for people of all ages to celebrate our planet and our community. Sign up FREE before the events to receive the zoom links by going to https://www. peanc.org/live-programs-webinars We send out a special thank you to the City of Winston-Salem, Volvo Group, and all of our community sponsors and partners for supporting this great community event!

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Japanese comfort food ‘ramen’ seeing increased popularity among local foodies

BY ALGENON CASH

Growing up a poor kid in East Winston-Salem, eating ramen didn’t require a night out on the town, but instead we simply grabbed a pack of “Oodles of Noodles” out of the pantry. If we desired to get fancy with it, we’d crunch up a bag of chips, pour in cooked ramen, shake the bag, and then eat the mixed contents from the bag. My uncle learned this recipe in jail.

So last year, I started hearing about numerous ramen pop-up events featuring the popular noodles, but my limited understanding caused me not to give it a shot. The Japanese terminology and wide ranging ingredients honestly intimidated me. But it also inspired me to search for more light in the shadowy world of ramen cuisine.

Japanese ramen is used in a variety of ways in numerous recipes.

One of the many popups that caught my atten- where you source the ‘cue. tion is the White Tiger Trusler prefers Kumamoto Noodle Shop – a seasonal ramen, invented in Kuevent featuring ramen rume Fukuoka Prefecture, hosted by Chef Tim Gran- which is the place of origin dinetti at Spring House of tonkotsu (pork bone) raRestaurant, Kitchen & Bar. men.

Grandinetti, a former exPeyton Smith, owner ecutive chef at Marriott In- and operator of Mission ternational, is well-known Pizza, is unmistakably inlocally for his authentic tense about food quality Italian dishes and surpris- and his restaurant has an ingly for BBQ. He made a established history of fobrief appearance on Food cusing on creativity. After Network’s Chopped: Grill sampling Trusler’s nooMasters Challenge. dles, Smith agreed to proI was eager to sample vide a home for the pop-up his exotic dishes. The events. The next pop-up White Tiger menu features is scheduled for March six appetizers and four 21, but Trusler hopes to actual ramen bowls. Chef move his fledgling ramen started me off with Oko- concept into a brick and nomiyaki ($11) – a sweet mortar restaurant at some potato, shrimp, pork belly point. and scallion pancake with “Cook jobs at most sweet chili aioli – normal- restaurants don’t always ly I would never select this match passion and comitem, but it’s perfect for pensation,” said Trusler, sharing. He then moved to “so it can be hard to work the chicken fried chicken multiple jobs and still fobuns ($9) – the breading cus on your dream.” on the chicken was light My last ramen expeand sweet, combined with rience took me to Fifth a bit of spice from the go- Street where I met Tim chujang chili miso.

Walker, owner and operaThe ramen bowls in- tor of Small Batch, a miclude chicken or pork, but crobrewery located at 241 vegetarians have an op- W. Fifth Street in Downtion with the Vegetarian town Winston-Salem. He Miso Ramen ($16), which also started Burger Batch features dashi vegetable – a niche gourmet burger broth, greens, shiitake and milkshake restaurant. mushrooms, broccoli, cab- which quickly rose to lobage, and sweet peppers. cal fame as social media I decided to sample the gawkers spotted their InsWHITE TIGER Ramen tagram-ready milkshakes. ($17) – it’s a double broth Customers and revenues with pork and chicken and followed after. But the also includes shredded increased traffic caused pork shoulder, pork meat- operational growing pains ball, shiitake mushrooms, as Walker and his team and cabbage. adjusted to the expanding My search to sample demand. local ramen took me next “I literally couldn’t in a surprising direction: sleep at night and just Mission Pizza. Located in didn’t even want to come the Arts District of Down- in the next day,” said town Winston-Salem, Walker, “I wanted to go afMission Pizza is a nation- ter what’s cool again.” ally recognized NapoletaWalker’s brother marna pizzeria. Undoubtedly, ried a cook from Japan and foodies travel far and wide he was introduced to Japato partake of their Old nese comfort food while World approach to pizza. living in San Francisco.

But I was shocked to learn That led him to wanting they were selling out a lo- to create a fun and engagcal pop-up event focused ing restaurant environment on dishing out noodles – centered on ramen, but he Shokunin Ramen. specifically didn’t want to Josh Trusler and his focus on traditionalism, wife Nina are the energy but more so on the dining behind Shokunin – which experience. in Japan, signifies “craftsThat led to Walker’s manship” or “artisan” – next venture, a restaurant the husband and wife team that has no name and no believe the name is a mis- real branding. Walker’s sion statement. Trusler’s menu is easy to read with interest in food is rooted no complex Japanese in his childhood, growing terms. Walker boasts about up with his grandmother in an expansive sake menu, the hills of Kentucky. which he believes is the “I’m all about the pas- “best in the region.” sion – can’t teach you how “It’s all about drinking, to love the food,” Trusler eating, and having fun,” shared.

Walker gleefully shared, Trusler started his first “the sake truly drives the culinary job at the age of menu.”

15 at Milners, completed a Walker is in stark condegree at Johnson & Wales trast to most – his physical University, and worked restaurant is the only one various jobs in Charlotte in the region to serve rabefore returning to Win- men only – others provide ston-Salem. it in combination with othTrusler believes the se- er Asian fare or via food cret to any bowl of Ramen truck and pop-up events is the broth. Most often the only. broth is tied to a certain The restaurant is locatregion of Japan – much ed at 237 W. Fifth Street like barbecue in the United in Downtown WinstonStates is different based on Salem and has no signage,

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just a small “open” light.

Inside the restaurant it is noticeably dark with hip background music playing – this is by design. Walker purposely set up a dark atmosphere to discourage guests from picture taking.

“I don’t want guests on their phones and posting to social media,” shared Walker. “They should be focused on their food, friends, and just enjoying the moment.” He encourages guests to linger for two or three hours, unlike other restaurants hoping to turn tables and maximize sales.

Walker offers five bowls with different base options – duck, pork, beef, chicken, and veggie.

I tried the duck ($18) and beef ($16) and both come with green onion, noodles, and marinated egg. Walker uses a Maple Leaf Farms seared duck breast with delicious pickled radish

and marinated flank steak with tempura veggies.

Ashley, a loyal server for the past three years, “loves working on Walker’s team.” She happily shared, “We have a comfortable, diverse, and fun place to work,” and the changeover from slinging burgers to ramen is “going very well.”

“Ramen allows for immense creativity and so I just freestyle with it,” said Walker. “I’m doing it my way.”

Three different restaurants serving ramen, hundreds of ways to enjoy it.

It’s a foodie’s dream come true.

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

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The politics of exclusion are taking over our country Dr. James B. Ewers Jr.

Guest Columnist

Must everything we do have a political slant to it?

Must every word we say have a political vent to it?

Must we always take sides?

I rise each morning wondering when this nightmare of exclusionary confusion will be over.

When will common sense and not political sense be the call of the day?

Here are just a few examples of how politics have risen to unprecedented highs.

The pandemic has been with us for over a year now.

Even after COVID-19 was called a pandemic, there were those who minimized it and skirted around the problem. They were playing politics with it.

Debra Hunter last week was ordered to serve 30 days in jail, pay a $500 fine, and have a mental health examination and anger management. She coughed in the face of a cancer survivor. This incident happened last year.

The victim, Heather Sprague, was wearing a mask.

At last, we were able to get a vaccine. However, it was slow to be distributed. Some states received it faster than other states.

Why? They were playing the political game.

In November, we had one of the most contentious elections in modern day history. Our system was tested but it prevailed.

Election boards and the courts said that it was a fair election. Not everyone thought that was the case.

As a result, the term “Big Lie” came to be.

The Big Lie was that the election was stolen and that fraud took place.

This lie has been spread throughout the country. It has become a part of the American landscape.

There is unfortunately a segment of the population that carries this Big Lie around with them every day.

The January 6th insurrection on our nation’s Capitol was a result of the Big Lie. Lives were lost and our country was

rocked to its core. This event did not have to happen.

It happened because evil people with evil minds played political games with our beloved country.

Just weeks ago, Georgia governor, Brian Kemp, signed into law legislation that will weaken the voting rights of people of color.

The law is shrouded in illgotten gains. It won’t last long.

Now, we have folks walking around with no masks and too close together. This is after hearing masks work and social distancing does too. These are the people who do not think the pandemic is real and have no need for the vaccine. They are immersed in their own way of wayward thinking.

Families across Amer-

ica have now received the stimulus checks. Obviously, these checks are to help us and the economy get back on its feet.

Are some families misusing the stimulus checks because of the categories they fall into and the amount of money they get?

Yes, there are families that are misusing the stimulus system.

For example, if you have a job, do not quit your job for the temporary relief that you receive from this check. These checks are called stimulus checks, not permanent checks.

If you do, you are doing just what some people said you were going to do.

Do not sit at home when you can be working.

The political climate in this country is unhealthy.

The blame game is ever-

present. We blame each other for what goes wrong.

Yet we do not have gratitude when things go well.

Do not engage in sideways thinking. Be a part of the solution. Be on the right side of history.

It will take all of us working together to make America an America for all Americans.

Do not play the political game.

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.

One small statement from CDC, one giant hope for our humanity Dr. Tom H. Hastings

Guest Columnist

Leslie Gregory

Guest Columnist I (Leslie) am a clinician and have been for many years.

I’ve been Black for many more years, all my life.

More than a decade ago, I started a nonprofit, Right to Health, with the premise that, since rac-

ism is a proven correlate to poor healthcare delivery and worse healthcare outcomes, we need to fix this. The catastrophic COVID-19 numbers showing a terrible disproportionate suffering in communities of color are only the latest in a very long list of such hurtful, life-threatening and life-ending phenomena over the entire history of our country.

Thousands signed my organization’s MoveOn petition to fight institutional racism as a threat to public health.

I traveled from Portland, Oregon to Washington DC and to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) hearings to make my appeals, the primary one of which

is that CDC should declare racism a threat to public health. I did so not to seek affirmation or a simple symbolic nod to political correctness—being woke is not a life-saving technique—but rather to have the CDC then engage.

When CDC announced that smoking was harmful, they began to educate and advertise about it.

When CDC decided that wearing seatbelts was helpful, they began to educate and mandate what they could.

When CDC announced that COVID-19 was a pandemic, they rapidly instituted guidelines and other measures to combat it.

When CDC is left to clinical decision-making, when the science and evi-

dence, the data and the inquisitive method are appropriately at the helm of practice, they live up to their global reputation as the gold standard in public health agencies. They declare threats to public health and then seek to mitigate those threats.

Tragically, under the previous White House direction and interference, CDC became corrupted and overruled, and its reputation is quite tarnished.

With a new leader in the White House and his appointee of a new leader in CDC, we are seeing a massive repair effort and now, with this declaration, that “racism is a serious threat to public health,” even improvement. Key right now is to help CDC

meet its mission by letting them and our federal elected representatives know that we expect solid steps taken to meet this challenge, to mitigate racism in any way possible.

Let me reassure you, dear fellow Americans, no matter how humble your origins or identity, when you stick to nonviolence, when you practice persuasion and civil discourse, you can move that mountain of injustice and leaven that lump of ignorance.

We have both been up close and personal in helping that happen in our land.

It is almost always a long, tough, uphill struggle, one that tempts resignation and acceptance of injustice, but one that we have the power to win, to

gain, for the good of us all.

This was just proven again. Please remember that next time you want to make a change to help your community, your fellow humans, or future generations.

We see steps backward, but we keep pushing and we can see the gains in our search for the best.

Leslie Gregory is a PA-C focusing on preventive cardiology and is executive director, Right to Health.

Dr. Tom H. Hastings is PeaceVoice director and on occasion an expert witness for the defense in court.

Trapped at the border: Their fate is our fate Robert C. Koehler

Guest Columnist You’d think that the “border crisis” begins and ends as a problem for Americans.

Oh, what to do, what to do? All these people showing up at our back door, trying to get in. They want to take our jobs, drink our water … And think about the dangers they pose for the new president.

“For a relatively popular Biden administration,” the New York Times pointed out the other day, “the recent surge of migrants at the southern border has emerged as a glaring vulnerability.”

That is, if he’s not as tough as Trump, he could be declared “soft on immigration.” Wow, what a stain on your record. Politics nowadays is 90 percent public relations. And this country’s potent mixture of racism and money, also known as the Republican Party, has created a red line of public ignorance: If you’re not American, you’re not fully human.

This is a line, largely (but not completely) maintained by the mainstream media, that no moderate

politician would ever dare cross.

The problems created by this ignorance have a global enormity. But as long as such ignorance remains politically viable, change is impossible and hell remains the basic condition of life for the planet’s poorest and most vulnerable people — thanks, largely, to us, the ones who are doing everything we can to keep them out.

Julian Borger, at The Guardian, puts it as simply as possible: “The families in the migrant caravans trudging towards the U.S. border are trying to escape a hell that the U.S. has helped to create.”

The hell looks like this: “In my country, killing is ordinary — it is as easy as killing an insect with your shoe.”

The words are those of an emigrant from Honduras, speaking to Doctors Without Borders. The organization has recently issued a report titled “No Way Out,” which addresses the fact that “migration policies imposed by the United States and Mexico are trapping many Central Americans in dangerous conditions, with severe consequences for their physical and mental health ...

“The medical evidence points to high levels of violence and ill treatment

suffered by migrants and refugees in their home countries, along the migration route, and in the custody of U.S. and Mexican authorities … Now they are trapped in dangerous places with no way to seek safety.”

At the very least, the trapped nature of being a refugee, especially from such countries as Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala — the primary starting places of most asylum seekers at the U.S. border — should, ipso facto, be part of all media coverage of this crisis. Framing it as primarily an American political crisis strikes me as being criminally simplistic, virtually the same thing as being a Holocaust denier.

But the deeper matter is the cause of this crisis.

Why is it happening? The racist explanation, which is generally given far too much media credibility, amounts to: They want our goodies. They want what we have. And if there’s a softie in the White House, watch out, man! They’ll show up in droves.

The crisis has multiple causes — and multiple ironies. And it began five centuries ago. As The Guardian points out, the devastating poverty harks “back to the age of Spanish conquest,” when indigenous social structures

were destroyed, and “small criminal elites have long prospered at the expense of the populations.” The consequences of the age of colonization are still with us.

Of course, these consequences — or rather, the money thus generated — began flowing north well before the refugees did.

The U.S. had (and has) plenty of business interests in Latin America, which it protected militarily whenever necessary from, you know, “political uprisings,” a.k.a, revolutions.

In the Cold War era, U.S. military intervention became ideological as well, and in some countries — Nicaragua, for instance — expanded exponentially.

U.S. interests allied with right-wing autocrats and their death squads, who were able to maintain, or gain, control of their countries with U.S. military aid.

And so the rich stayed rich and the poor grew poorer.

And then things got worse.

Along came the war on drugs, which intensified the internal violence, political corruption and poverty for the many. Drug cartels flourished. So have street gangs. Let the irony begin.

“Gangs have filled much of the space occupied by civil society in healthier societies,” Borger writes, “but they too are largely a U.S. import. The

MS-13 gang, frequently referred to by Donald Trump in justification of his hardline immigration policies, was formed in Los Angeles, and introduced into El Salvador when its members were deported — often to a country they barely knew: another instance of unintended consequences which have rubbed salt in the Central America’s wounds.”

And then there’s climate change, which has begun making itself felt, ironically, once again, in places like Central America, with hurricanes and drought forcing the rural poor off their land.

Add to all this what may be the biggest irony of all, which Julia Young, writing at Time Magazine, called a “pull factor.” Refugees aren’t merely being pushed out of their countries of birth. They’re also being pulled north by the big country that hates — but also seeks to exploit — them.

“Since the 1990s,” she writes, “entire sectors of the U.S. economy have become increasingly dependent on low-wage immigrant labor. Today, undocumented immigrants make up significant proportions of the labor force in certain industries, especially agriculture, the service industry (restaurants and housecleaning), and

construction.

“Despite the demand for their labor, U.S. immigration policy makes it very difficult for would-be migrants from Latin America to come to the United States legally.”

She adds: “Given the complicated and deeprooted reasons behind migration, lawmakers cannot control or ‘solve’ the ongoing crisis at the border simply by pouring money and resources into ever more militaristic border theater.

It’s no wonder that decades of such policies have done little to change the underlying dynamics.”

It’s far too easy to envision the chaos of emigration getting worse, with the world’s poorest (and most deserving) people trapped in ever-intensifying violence and desperation, increasingly walled off from hope by racist ignorance.

Something else becomes possible when we begin to realize that unless we change the world, their fate is our fate.

Robert C. Koehler (koehlercw@gmail.com), syndicated by PeaceVoice, is a Chicago award-winning journalist and editor.

He is the author of “Courage Grows Strong at the Wound.”

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Local police officer creates autism patch to raise funds for Special Olympics

BY BUSTA BROWN

“I have a son that has a rare brain disorder called Bilateral Open Lip Schizencephaly. He was born in 2013 with approximately half of his brain missing. The doctor said that he had a stroke within the uterus. We’ve been going to the hospital a lot, and he’ll have a procedure very soon to correct his scoliosis, and they’re talking about going through his back,” related Officer Mike D. Crider of the Winston-Salem Police Department.

“Having my son has truly humbled me, because he’s just a child that didn’t ask to be here, nor for any of this. I’m his dad and I love taking care of him,” said Officer Crider.

Crider got married in June of 2020 and during their courtship, he learned that his wife’s older son has autism. The more Officer Crider spoke of his biological son and stepson, the more I had to hold back my tears. It was heartwarming to witness such a proud and loving father.

He has one of the humblest spirits of any man I’ve ever met. Yet, when duty calls, he’s tough when it’s necessary.

Not once did he stop smiling nor lose that humbleness as he spoke about his stepson’s autism.

“I’ve always had a heart for special needs children, when I had my son, and now with my wife’s son.

I decided to do something to raise money to fight autism as well. He’s highfunctioning autism and he’s in regular classes. But he does process things differently; he thinks literally.

One day we were having lunch and I said it’s nice to have this moment to break bread together. Then he said, ‘I don’t see any bread.’ We have those moments and we laugh about them, and he understands it afterwards. He knows about the diagnosis, but he doesn’t use it as a crutch. It reminds me of when I was a child with cerebral palsy, and I didn’t use that as a crutch either,” said Crider.

It’s clear that he truly loves being a dad and raising his little warriors. The warmhearted police officer asked his department if they could create a commemorative patch to not only bring awareness to

autism, but also raise funds for Special Olympics of North Carolina.

“I created the design and then showed it to my chief and she just loved it. She’s also a parent of a child with autism. The patches are $10 each and can be purchased through the Community Resource Unit through the WinstonSalem Police Department, from officer K. Ukuzato or myself. My goal is to raise $5,000-$10,000 with this patch, with all the proceeds going to the Special Olympics of North Carolina,” shared Officer Crider.

Crider helps coordinate a lot of the events for the Special Olympics. “I see how much they need the money because they never ask the athletes for a single dime, and make sure they have everything needed to have a successful event.

And with COVID, I know extra help with fundraising was needed, so that’s why I decided to create the patches,” said Mike.

As a biracial child born in Germany, with English as his second language, life wasn’t easy. When his family moved to America, he was bullied because of his German accent and skin tone. “I didn’t know I was Black until I moved to New York. In Germany, I was the American kid, and when I first came to America, I was the mixed kid,” said Crider. “My mom was always there to comfort me. She told me that my skin was the color of love.

It’s because of my childhood I eventually got into law enforcement.

“I always looked to help the little person, it’s naturally who I am. I love what I do! Most importantly, I love to make a difference in the lives of others.

When I arrive on a call, I enjoy sitting down with them to figure out what happened, and also what I can do to avoid the same thing from happening in the future. I love talking to them about making better choices, so they can get better results,” he said.

As a teenager, he was a part of Law Enforcement Explorers, a program for youth interested in careers in the field of law enforcement. “Not a lot of people know what police officers do, so the Explorers help bring light to all aspects of being an officer. Before joining Explorers, I

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Officer Mike D. Crider wasn’t a bad kid, but I did shy away from the police because of what I grew up

hearing. If you do something bad, they’re going to get ya. After I joined

Explorers in High Point, I loved it! The youth did DWI ride-alongs, park-

ing assistance, and a lot of stuff I didn’t know that police did. It gave youth a much broader perspective of what law enforcement is all about and it helped us learn to respect and honor the hard work that goes into being a police officer.

It truly changed my life! I helped seven kids get into the Explorers program and mentored them as well.

One day, they’ll be worldchangers as well,” said Crider.

“I want to change the world, but I know as an individual, I can’t change the world that we live in. But what I can do is change the future by talking to the youth and also making sure I’m OK when I get older,” My phenomenal Person of the Week is Officer Mike D. Crider. If you would like to purchase a patch to raise money for autism and the Special Olympics, call the Winston-Salem Police Department Community Resource Unit at 336-7737835. I’ve purchased five, so the challenge is on!

Let’s Keep it up. we’re not done yet.

Thank you for doing the work to slow the spread of COVID-19.

Until enough of us are protected by the vaccine, we need to keep protecting each other. covid19.ncdhhs.gov

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2021 NCAA Tournament recap Once again, the Men’s NCAA Tournament was full of intrigue, heartbreak and upsets. The Baylor Bears were the last team standing and cut down the nets as the 2021 National Champions.

The Bears easily handled the Gonzaga Bulldogs in the national championship game, winning 86-70. This was the first national championship in the history of the men’s program. The Bears dominated the game from start to finish, as there was never really a doubt about who would win.

The loss by the Bulldogs put a damper on an otherwise tremendous season. They were attempting to finish the season undefeated, however, they came up one game short.

They would have been the first team to finish the season undefeated since the 1976 Indiana Hoosiers.

The championship game was just the icing on the cake to a tournament that was filled with unpredictability, which is why the men’s NCAA tournament draws so many eyeballs to the screen every year.

The UCLA Bruins were probably the biggest surprise of the entire tournament. The Bruins started as a First Four team and began their tournament against Michigan State. Their run lasted all the way until the Final Four, where they lost one of the best games in recent memory to Gonzaga in See NCAA on B2

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Central Piedmont 4A rivals West and East

Forsyth faced one another in an evenly matched girls’ soccer game late in March. Both squads came into the game undefeated; however, the Titans came away with the narrow 1-0 victory.

Glenn wins the battle of Kernersville

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East Forsyth and Glenn played one another for the second time this season last Friday night. Glenn pitched a shutout in week one, winning 18-0, and was looking to solidify a playoff spot with a second victory. The Bobcats took early control of the game and even with a two-hour lightning delay, they easily defeated the Eagles 35-13.

“The kids played hard and we had a great first half and we survived the second half, but nonetheless it was a great game by the guys,” said Antonio Stevenson, Bobcats head coach. “I am just proud of them and I tell people all the time that coaches lose games, but players win games.

“They had a hard week of practice and they just came out and played together. I am proud of the guys because of all of the doubters, but eventually they are going to start giving us some respect, because we only have five seniors. We are setting the bar high now and now making the playoffs is great. Now we have to take it one week at a time.”

The Bobcats set the tone for the game early.

Their plan of getting

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Glenn secured a playoff spot with their win against East Forsyth last Friday night. their skill position players in space and letting them make plays worked to perfection. Before the Eagles could blink, they were down 14-0 by the end of the first quarter, with touchdown receptions from Aronson Cook and Markell Lloyd respectively.

“We have speed everywhere and we take advantage of matchups and that’s what our offense is all about,” said Stevenson.

“The offensive line did a great job of giving Cam time to process and make throws. It was good to see, and we threw a trick play in there to get some momentum.”

As the first quarter came to a close, lightning

was seen off in the distance. Administrators from East Forsyth then stopped the game and promptly cleared the stadium. The delay lasted for over two hours before play resumed.

Luckily for Glenn, they recently went through something similar a few weeks earlier, so they were mentally prepared for the weather delay, said Stevenson.

“We had just went through this two weeks ago against Davie,” Stevenson continued. “We were supposed to play on that Friday, but the lights were out because of a crash. Then we played on Saturday, but we had a stoppage in the fourth quarter because of lightning and a down-

pour. Then we had to come back Monday to finish that game. Then we had to turn back around and play Reynolds on a Thursday.

“So, you are talking about four times in seven days we had to get mentally ready for a game, so I am just happy for the guys.”

The Eagles could not muster any type of sustained offense to match the defensive intensity from the Bobcats. Glenn, on the other hand, picked up right where they left off before the weather delay. On their first drive, Coleman connected with Levine Smith for a 43-yard touchdown pass, his third of the day.

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The teams will match up once again this afternoon and it should be another great game between two quality teams.

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(Quarterback, Glenn High School, Junior) Glenn quarterback, Camden Coleman, saved his best game of the year for when it mattered most. As Glenn faced off against East Forsyth for an opportunity to secure a playoff spot, Coleman threw five touchdown passes against the Eagles in route to a 35-13 victory. Even with a two hour lightning delay, Coleman didn’t allow his team to let up after the restart.

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Points For Points Against 1. Reidsville (6-0) 312 28 2. Mount Tabor (7-0) 286 46 3. Grimsley (6-0) 228 32 4. Western Alamance (7-0) 310 96 5. Glenn (5-1) 220 131 6. Randleman (7-0) 267 46 7. Walkertown (5-0) 141 43 8. Dudley (6-1) 283 63 9. North Davidson (6-1) 215 73 10. Southeast Guilford (6-1) 206 69 11. West Forsyth (4-1) 194 94 12. East Surry (6-1) 252 89 13. Forbush (6-0) 268 54 14. Northwest Guilford (6-1) 248 91 15. Oak Grove (5-2) 174 126 Honorable Mention: Eastern Alamance (5-1), Elkin (5-1), Winston-Salem Prep (5-2), Eastern Guilford (4-2), Southern Guilford (5-2)

West Forsyth’s dynamic duo

BY TIMOTHY RAMSEY THE CHRONICLE

The West Forsyth football team has seen their share of talented running backs over the years and this season is no different. The combination of Jevante Long and Nasion Johnson Jr. have carried on that tradition after the graduation of G’mone Wilson and Zy Dillard.

“I told people last year, G’mone and Zy were really good for us last year, but we didn’t miss a beat with Jevante and Nasion,” said Lawrence Ferguson, West Forsyth running back coach. “They (Long and Johnson) are 1A and 1B and right up there at the top with those two guys.

“We have a strong tradition of running backs at West, dating back to the late 80s and early 90s when I did some research when I first came to West.

Those guys are right up there at the top, especially as a duo.

The pair have been buddies for five years and their friendship extends on and off the field. That connection has allowed the two backs to become the best duo in Forsyth County. They bring different things to the Titan running game which is exactly what a coach would want from a running back by committee backfield.

“For me, I think it’s about how quick I am and how I can make moves once I get out of the backfield,” said Long on what makes him such a dynamic back.

“I think it’s my speed and my strength, because when I’m out, I’m out and no one is catching me,” Johnson added when asked the same question.

Long has always been a running back since he began playing youth football; however, Johnson has played other positions and excels in the slot, as well as in the backfield.

With so much talent between the two running

Jevante Long backs, one would assume that there is a battle for carries. When it comes to Johnson and Long, they actually don’t mind sharing carries with one another, because they want each other to succeed so much.

“I like sharing the backfield because if you go for a long run and you need a break, another one of us can come in so we don’t get fatigued,” Long stated.

Both Johnson and Long say they don’t compete with one another on the field. Their goal during practice and every game is to help one another get better to put the team in the best situation to win.

“What makes them special in my eyes is that they are like brothers,” said Ferguson. “If you call one of them, they are probably going to be at the other’s house. If I need to get in contact with them, I can call one and usually get both of them at the same time.

“They just have a passion and love for the game.

With those guys, they are just so excited when we have a game and then they run so hard. When you see them play, they refuse to go down. I have a thing

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where I stress to the backs not to get tackled by the first guy and as you see, it takes more than one to bring them down normally.”

West Forsyth only played five games this season. Because of COVID-19 protocols, the Titans did not play two of their games on the schedule. Even with only five games, Johnson and Long still put up some gaudy numbers. Johnson had 86 carries for 757 yards with 7 touchdowns and added two more scores on kick returns. Long rushed 99 times for 814 yards and 14 scores.

Because the Titans lost a lot of talent last season due to graduation, the duo knew the offensive load would fall on their shoulders and they were ready for the challenge. It was not a surprise for them that they had such a successful season on the field.

“We put in a lot of work last summer, so we expected this,” said Johnson about the effort put in to prepare for the season.

“We were ready to step up and make things happen.”

At 4-1 the Titans did not make the playoffs this season, because of

an overtime loss to Davie County. Johnson was hoping to have an opportunity to end his career at West with a playoff run, but is satisfied with the effort he put in throughout his career.

“You can only control what you can control, so I am going to just take it as a positive and work on what I need to do for college,” Johnson continued.

The young men have some fond memories of the shortened season. Long touched on the Reynolds game where both of them were severely fatigued due to not having practice for two weeks, while Johnson recalled the Davie County game where he was injured but continued to fight through.

Johnson and Long say their favorite running backs in the league are Alvin Kamara and Dalvin Cook, because of their tenacity, quickness and dual threat ability.

Ferguson says the pair of runners reminds him of backs like Eric Bieniemy, Lawrence Phillips and Ahman Green. “I just look at backs that were tough between the tackles and ran hard, they (Long and Johnson) kind of remind me of those guys,” he said.

Ferguson says it has been a pleasure coaching both backs, mainly due to their tremendous work ethic. According to Ferguson, the young men are “self-starters” and enjoy putting in the work.

“The one thing that makes both of them great are their personalities,” he said. “Nasion is more on the quiet side and Te is more vocal, but they balance each other out really well.”

Ferguson thinks both Johnson and Long have the potential to play on the next level. He says they call themselves “RBU,” which stands for Running Back University at West Forsyth and Johnson and Long have carried on the moniker.

overtime.

After beating Michigan State, something many people didn’t think was going to happen, UCLA reeled off victories against BYU and Abilene Christian to make it to the Sweet 16. Many thought their run would be over against second seeded Alabama, but the Bruins had other thoughts.

The Bruins easily handled the Crimson Tide and won a tight ball game against the Michigan Wolverines to make it to the Final Four. If not for a legendary shot by Gonzaga guard Jalen Suggs, the Bruins could have been in the championship game.

Oregon State was another surprise team from this year’s tournament.

The Beavers came in as a 12 seed and I personally didn’t think they would make it out of the first round, to be honest. They dominated Tennessee in their first game and then took out Cade Cunningham and Oklahoma State in the round of 32.

Next they dispatched fellow Cinderella team Loyola Chicago in the Sweet 16. They were picked to lose, especially since Loyola Chicago had just beaten No.1 seeded Illinois in the previous round.

Those were not the only surprising upsets of the tournament. Other teams such as Ohio, Abilene Christian, North Texas and Oral Roberts pulled off victories against much higher seeded teams.

The unpredictable nature of the tournament is to be expected, especially with a one-and-done format, but what is not easily predictable is which teams will be upset. That is why the tournament brackets will always have people filling out multiple sheets.

I was really surprised by how easily the Bears handled the Bulldogs in the championship game. I was leaning toward Baylor as the probable winner; based on how deep they were, I thought the top players from Gonzaga would negate some of that depth.

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“It’s consequences for naught, and I’ll leave it at that,” Stevenson said about how his team kept up the momentum after the long delay. “It’s one of those things we practice, and we work on. When you are in that situation, you have to be ready to go.

“We say tomorrow is a mystery, yesterday is history, we are worried about today; we are worried about right now. So, that’s what the guys know, that’s what they understand, and that’s how they played.”

Right before the half, Glenn made another push to score once again. With less than 30 seconds left in the half, Coleman found Smith for a second time with a 34-yard touchdown strike to take a 28-0 lead at intermission.

Things started to click for East Forsyth in the second half. The Eagles finally found some rhythm on offense by running the ball and halted the onslaught from the Bobcat offense.

East Forsyth finally got on the scoreboard when quarterback Jaylen Raynor found Ahmarrion Holland for a touchdown reception.

The teams exchanged touchdowns in the fourth quarter when the game was no longer in doubt. In total, Coleman threw five touchdown passes on the evening.

“He has just gotten so much better,” Stevenson said about Coleman.

“Once I stopped confusing him after the Reagan

and Corey Kispert were three of the most talked about players in the country. All three were Wooden award finalists for the Bulldogs, versus only one for Baylor. Even though Gonzaga received most of the press, I felt the Bears were the better team and they showcased that during the championship game.

I did not have a horse in the race, but if I’m being honest, I was kind of rooting for Gonzaga to win.

For some reason I have always liked Mark Few as a coach and I wanted to see him win a national championship. He has come close a couple of times; he has just never gotten over the hump.

Few took over the Gonzaga program in 1999 and during that span, he has turned the program into a topnotch mid-major program. His overall record is 630-124 and is 306-31 in West Coast Conference play.

Over the last decade, Few has attracted better players and has made a couple of Elite Eight appearances and two title games. Even though they lost both national title appearances, the Bulldogs aren’t going anywhere.

They will lose Suggs to the draft and Kispert to graduation, but Few is bringing in two of the best freshmen of the 2021 class with Hunter Sallis and Chet Holmgren.

What I question is whether Gonzaga needs to move to a Power 5 conference to better prepare them for tournament play.

Yes, they play a tough non-conference schedule every year; however, they dominate their conference and are not really tested for months until tournament time.

I think if they joined the Pac-12 for instance, they would face tougher competition more regularly and once tournament time comes around, they would not be surprised by a team with superior athleticism.

Either way, it was a great tournament and can’t wait until the pandemic is put under control so teams and players don’t lose games and we can have a full season as fans. game, it has become simple for him. We simplified some stuff, because I was making it way too difficult for everybody on the offensive side.

“Hats off to the offensive line as well, because they blocked well. When you have those guys up front blocking well and you’re comfortable, it makes it a lot easier.”

Stevenson was pleased with the defensive effort his team put forth. After losing several starters from last year’s team, including Raneiria Dillworth and Jahvaree Ritzie.

“Just motivation, because a lot of people said we were not going to be as good defensively,” Stevenson said about how well his defense played. “The guys read social media and all that stuff and when you lose three D1 players, and two of them were top 300 in the country, I mean I get the mumbles.

“We just had some young guys in here that felt like they wanted to be the next one, so that’s the beauty of this whole thing.”

The win secured a playoff spot for the Bobcats. Glenn will face Butler High School out of Matthews. Stevenson feels this win gives his team great motivation headed into the game.

“We just have to keep it going and the guys are riding high, but come Monday I am going to bring them back down to earth,” he said. “We are just going to put in the work and get ready for next Friday.”

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Elder Richard Wayne Wood Sunday School Lesson

Nehemiah: The captive cupbearer rebuilds a aation Scriptures: Nehemiah 2:11-20 By the end of this lesson, we will: *Examine why Nehemiah decided to restore the wall of Jerusalem and reform/revive the Sabbath law; *Appreciate Nehemiah’s feelings and behavior in restoring the wall and reforming Jewish worship; *Identify ways to restore worn parts of the faith community and revive traditions that honor God. Background: Nehemiah was cupbearer to the King of Persia, Artaxerxes. He had the life-and-death responsibility for the king’s food and drink to ensure against poisoning attempts. Nehemiah used his position to petition the King for an audacious request. His request was prompted by news he’d received of the state of Jerusalem and the remnants left there. His first response was to weep, then he prayed with fasting. In his prayer Nehemiah affirmed God’s sovereignty and his and Israel’s dependence on the Lord’s grace. He identified with Israel as sinful and personally accepted responsibility on behalf of corporate Israel’s sins with humility and honest confession. Paramount in this prayer Nehemiah recognized all of God’s commandments and promises.

He declared his belief in God’s promise of restoration for those who would return to Him. This prayer of Nehemiah marked Israel’s returning to God. Lesson: To really appreciate Nehemiah’s position and his mission read chapter one and the verses of chapter two leading up to the lesson. “O Lord, I beseech thee, … I pray thee, thy servant this day, and grant him mercy in the sight of this man. For I was the king’s cupbearer” (1:11). Prayer is a mainstay for Nehemiah. The king could have responded negatively to his request, but God answered Nehemiah’s prayer and his request to be allowed to rebuild the wall was granted. Check verses 7-10 and see how God assisted Nehemiah because of his actions in verse 4 “… So I prayed to The God of heaven.” Before responding to the king, Nehemiah consults God. Realizing that he now has the king’s ear, Nehemiah takes full advantage. He asked for and was granted a leave of absence, letters of reference, and a government grant for building materials.

Reaching his destination and equipped for his task, Nehemiah must assess the challenges and the enormity of the task firsthand. He spent three days in Jerusalem before he “arose in the night” and carefully and secretly inspected the walls and conscientiously assessed the situation before presenting his plan of action to others (verse 16). Checking specific areas himself, Nehemiah was able to weigh his plan against the reality he saw when evaluating the walls, beginning and ending at The Valley Gate (verses 11-16). Viewing a map of Jerusalem at the time of Nehemiah makes this clearer.

In verses 17-18 Nehemiah charges his attendants to assist him in rebuilding Jerusalem so “we will no longer be a reproach” or “suffer no more disgrace” because of the destruction of the city by Nebuchadnezzar (verse 17). “I told them how the hand of my God had been favorable to me and also about the king’s words which he had spoken to me.” Hearing Nehemiah and seeing his credentials encouraged their spirits to begin the building (verse 18).

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BY BRUCE BOYER

Baseball great Hank Aaron died on January 22, 2021. In 1974 Aaron passed the legendary Babe Ruth for lifetime major league home runs.

I became a fan of Hank Aaron during the 1957 World Series, played between the New York Yankees and Milwaukee Braves. Aaron was early in his major league career at the time. I took a liking to his exceptional skills on the field and positive attitude. As a 10-year old, that was all that mattered.

As Aaron approached the lifetime home run record, I began to hear about people not wanting him to surpass Ruth’s 714 home runs. Aaron hit the recordsetting 715th on April 8, 1974. It was many years later when I became aware of the backstory of Aaron’s life and pursuit of the home run record.

Aaron endured racism and discrimination, forced

to stay in separate hotels from the rest of the team.

Meals on the road were served out of the back door of restaurants. As he approached Babe Ruth’s home run record, the racial slurs, insults, and death threats intensified. What is remarkable is that Aaron handled it all with grace, rising above the insults and staying focused on the field.

Concerning his faith, Hank gave this testimony: “I need to depend on Someone who is bigger, stronger, and wiser than I am … I don’t do it on my own. God is my strength.

He gave me a good body and some talent and the freedom to develop it. He helps me when things go wrong. He forgives me when I fall on my face. He lights the way.” Aaron was a symbol of greatness on the field and dignity off it.

Others have succeeded in the face of public ridicule while displaying great faith. The Bible tells

us about when God asked Noah to build the ark – a boat so big it couldn’t be moved. The water would have to come to it. People ridiculed Noah, but he persisted to finish the task God had asked him to do.

When the rains came, God restored righteousness for the believers on board.

There was a purpose to what God asked Noah to do.

While we may not possess world-class skills or have a humanity-saving role, God does have a purpose for our lives as well.

The distractions of life are attempted roadblocks to our success. Distractions may come in many forms and directions, yet we can remain focused on our task at hand. Don’t let others deter you from using your God-given skills to do what God wants you to do.

In my youth, I was oblivious to the distractions Hank Aaron endured.

My admiration of Aaron was genuine then and is

even greater now because I realize he didn’t give in to the distractions he faced.

What has God enabled you to do well with your life that God might use for His purposes? What outside influences challenge your commitment to achieving success?

The Bible says: Let your eyes look straight ahead; fix your gaze directly before you. Give careful thought to the paths for your feet and be steadfast in all your ways. Do not turn to the right or the left; keep your foot from evil.

Dear Lord. Let us block out the distractions that threaten to divert us from accomplishing what you have created us to do.

Amen.

Bruce Boyer is the author of two devotional books and writes a weekly devotional. A library of his stories is posted on https:// christianfaithstories.org/.

Local nonprofit supporting more than 15,000 North Carolina residents this month SUBMITTED ARTICLE

After delivering more than 3 million pounds of fresh food in the United States in 2020, Zakat Foundation of America has built connections that allow the nonprofit to do even more this year. By mid-February 2021, Zakat Foundation of America distributed nearly 400,000 pounds of fresh produce, dairy, meat and non-perishables to those in the U.S. who struggle to put meals on the table for themselves and their families.

These nationwide distributions started as a way to address food insecurity and have been doing double duty as emergency relief since the COVID-19 pandemic began. Hunger is one of the world’s most urgent problems.

More than 50 million people in the U.S. — including 17 million children — are facing food insecurity, and the pandemic has brought on even worse rates, putting the world on the brink of a hunger pandemic.

The Muslim holy month of Ramadan is coming up, and it’s all about fasting — feeling the hunger. With that comes a delight each night: eating. But not everyone who fasts has a meal guaranteed at the end of the day; many do so with hope and determination to find a way to break their fasts at sunset.

That’s why this Ramadan, Zakat Foundation of America is committed to providing 100,000 meals domestically in a campaign called Feel the Hunger to Do Good — 15,000 of those meals are being provided in partnership with DoorDash. This is in addition to Zakat Foundation of America’s annual overseas distributions, which feed the hungry in about 50 countries.

Zakat Foundation of America is also working with elected officials nationwide to ensure their constituents who struggle most receive the help they need.

Muslims in North Carolina have historically always given back, said Nayma Kose, Zakat Foundation of America’s outreach and community engagement manager. Just last year, they impacted 50,000 North Carolina residents positively with grocery boxes, hygiene kits and hot meals.

“Ramadan is a month of spirituality and generosity,” Kose said. “North Carolina Muslims will be giving back

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Volunteers organize boxes of food during a giveaway of hygiene packages and 250 hot meals in Greensboro.

to their own community this month as they grow stronger in their faith and appreciate their own numerous blessings. With these distributions, we will impact more than 15,000 North Carolina residents just this month.”

Local area Ramadan distribution and event

Friday, April 30, 5-6 p.m.: Carter G. Woodson School (437 Goldfloss Street, Winston-Salem, NC, 27127) hot food (Iftar) distribution.

Sunday, May 2,, 6-7 p.m.: Apex Mosque (733 Center St, Apex, NC, 27502) hot food (Iftar) distribution Friday, May 7, 6-7 p.m.: Islamic Center of Greensboro (2023 16th St, Greensboro, NC, 27405) hot food (Iftar) distribution.

Saturday, May 8, 3-4 p.m.: Islamic Center of the Triad (1203 Frances Daily Ct, Colfax, NC, 27235) grocery box distribution Founded in 2001, Zakat Foundation of America helps generous and caring people reach out to those in need.

Zakat Foundation’s mission is to address immediate needs and ensure the self-reliance of the poorest people around the world. Zakat Foundation conducts humanitarian assistance programs in more than 50 countries.

For more information, please visit http://www.ZAKAT. org.

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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.

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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.

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.

April 18 First Waughtown Baptist Church (FWBC) Livestream Senior Pastor Dr. Dennis W. Bishop will continue the series on “Suggestions for How to Survive a Storm” with the following scriptural references: foundation - Acts 27: 29-32, 42-44; focus for Sunday’s sermon - Genesis 7. Service begins at 10 a.m. Sunday, April 18, on Facebook Live, https://www.facebook.com/ FirstWaughtown/ and on the First Waughtown website, https://www.firstwaughtown.org.

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

April 22 Zoom event “Developing a Moral Imagination: Where Do We Go from Here?” will be presented on Zoom by Michael Robinson, Program Director, National Conference for Community and Justice (NCCJ) of the Piedmont Triad,

on Thursday, April 22, from noon -1 p.m. Sponsored by the Faith and Justice Committee of St. Paul’s Episcopal Church. To register, please email kathyausen@gmail. com.

April 26-29 Baptist Training Institute The Forsyth County Baptist Training Institute will be held this year on Monday, April 26, thru Thursday, April 29. The text this year is “God’s Power to Help Hurting People.” There will be classes for the following unions: pastors and ministers, deacons, missionaries, Sunday school, nurses, trustees and youth and young adults. All classes will be held virtually. More details will follow in the coming weeks.

April 27 Virtual event The Center For Chaplaincy at Hood Theological Seminary, Salisbury, North Carolina, presents via online gatherings: “Keeping It Real: Mental Health In the Church and Community During the Season of Pandemic and Beyond.” This upcoming online gathering will take place April 27, 2021 from 10-11:30 a.m. This didactic will be titled Moral Injury and Spiritual Care. For more information and registration, go to https://www. eventbrite.com/e/moral-injury-and-spiritual-care-tickets-148930492111.

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TO: Sarah Jill Dulaney. You are hereby notified that the above action was filed in Jackson County Superior Court Clerk’s Office, Georgia, on December 2, 2020. A final hearing is scheduled at the Jackson County Courthouse in Jefferson, Georgia, at 1:30 p.m. on June 10, 2021. You shall not be a party to the adoption and have no obligation to file an answer, but have the right to appear and show cause why your rights to the child should not be terminated. If you fail to appear at this hearing, your rights may be terminated. The judge in this case is Judge Wayne D. McLocklin.

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The Chronicle April 8, 15, 22, 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.

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Robin Denise (Fogle) Crawley Fiduciary for Nancy C. Brown, deceased 12330 Hatton Point Road Fort Washington, NC 20744 The Chronicle April 15, 22, 29 and May 9, 2021 noTiCe To CreDiTorS 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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At its April 1, 2021 meeting, the Board of Commissioners (the “Board of Commissioners”) of the County of Forsyth, North Carolina (the “County”) adopted a resolution which: 1. Authorized the County to proceed to (a) finance (i) the acquisition, construction, and equipping of a new children’s museum in the County, (ii) the renovation and expansion of airport facilities at Smith Reynolds Airport in the County, and (iii) a portion of the acquisition, construction, and equipping of a 250,000 square foot courthouse facility (the “Courthouse”) located in the County (collectively, the “Projects”), (b) refinance an Installment Financing Agreement dated as of October 16, 2019 between the County and PNC Bank, National Association (the “2019 Contract”), the proceeds of which were used to finance a portion of the acquisition, construction, and equipping of the Courthouse, and (c) refinance all or a portion of the County’s limited obligation bonds issued in 2009 and 2012 (collectively, and together with the 2019 Contract, the “Prior Indebtedness”), pursuant to an installment financing contract (the “Contract”), in a principal amount not to exceed $160,000,000 under which the County will make certain installment payments in order to make the Projects and the projects originally financed with the Prior Indebtedness available to the County; 2. Authorized the County to proceed to provide, in connection with the Contract, as grantor, a deed of trust, security agreement and fixture filing (the “Deed of Trust”) granting a lien on the real property on which the Courthouse is located (the “Mortgaged Property”) for the benefit of the entity, or its assigns, providing the funds to the County under the Contract.

The Courthouse is located at 175 N. Chestnut St., Winston Salem, North Carolina 27101. The Contract and the Deed of Trust permit the County to enter into amendments to finance additional projects and refinance projects using the Mortgaged Property as collateral and the County may or may not grant additional collateral in connection with such amendments.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, pursuant to Sections 160A-20 of the General Statutes of North Carolina, that on May 6, 2021 at 2:00 p.m. in the Commissioners’ Meeting Room on the Fifth Floor of the Forsyth County Government Center, 201 N. Chestnut Street, Winston-Salem North Carolina 27101, a public hearing will be conducted concerning the approval of the execution and delivery of the Contract and the County’s financing of the Projects and refinancing of the Prior Indebtedness.

There will be no meeting place where members of the public can be physically present. The Meeting will be broadcast live at 2:00 p.m. on local cable channel WSTV 13-The Government Channel, http://winston-salem.granicus.com/MediaPlayer.php?publish_id=29, and https://vimeo.com/forsythcountync.

All persons interested in the execution and delivery of the Contract and the County’s financing of the Projects and refinancing of the Prior Indebtedness are invited by the Board of Commissioners to present their views. If you wish to submit a written comment, please email to sloopam@forsyth.cc by 4:00pm, Friday, May 7, 2021.

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April 17 Vaccination event The Forsyth County Public Health Department is holding a community vaccination event to administer the COVID-19 vaccine for people 18 and older on Saturday, April 17 at St. Paul United Methodist Church, 2400 Dellabrook Road, Winston-Salem, NC 27105. To make an appointment, call (336)-723-4531, M -F, 10 a.m. – 3 p.m., April 12 -15.

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April 19 Medicare workshop The Shepherd’s Center of Greater Winston-Salem is offering a virtual workshop for individuals turning 65 (as well as those who already have Medicare) to learn about the different insurance options available, including “Original Medicare,” Medicare prescription drug programs, Medicare supplements and Medicare Advantage plans. The session will be held on Monday, April 19, 2021 from 3 - 4:30 p.m.

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April 19-23 Earth Day Seminars and Workshops Piedmont Environmental Alliance will hold a series of seminars and workshops April 19-23 as part of its virtual Earth Day Fair. To see the dates and times, go to www. peanc.org. All seminars and workshops are free and will be available on their Facebook page.

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April 22 Story Slam @ MUSE The Willingham Story Slam @ MUSE WinstonSalem” will host a virtual storytelling event on Thursday, April 22, 2021, at 7 pm, with the theme “Foolishness.” The featured storyteller this month is upright bassist and composer Matthew Kendrick. Advanced registration for our free community event is required for storytellers and observers. Donations are welcome. Further details are available at: https://www. eventbrite.com/e/willingham-story-slammuse-winston-salem-foolishnesstickets-147016715955 April 27 Home maintenance workshop The Center for Homeownership is partnering with N.C. Cooperative Extension, Forsyth County to conduct a FREE home maintenance workshop on April 27, 6-8 p.m. The workshop is FREE, but registration is required. To register, go to https://jotform. com/61056148566156.

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The North Forsyth boys’ soccer team had a phenomenal season. Fighting through COVID-19 quarantines and losing multiple seniors from last year’s team, the Vikings clawed their way to an undefeated regular season at 10-0, only to suffer one of the toughest losses in recent memory in the first round of the playoffs.

The Vikings played the Shelby Golden Lions to a 1-1 tie in regulation in the playoffs. The teams played through four overtimes and eight rounds of shootouts to determine a winner.

Unfortunately for North Forsyth, the ball bounced the other way and Shelby came away with the victory.

Based upon what he had coming back and the incoming freshman players, North Forsyth head coach, Dan Proctor, says he knew they had the makings of a good team, but with the lack of an offseason and ample practice time, he did not know how quickly his team could gel as a unit.

“I definitely knew we had the talent, because I had seen it last year when we were training, but anytime you replace seven starters, you’re never 100 percent sure how the season is going to work out,” said Proctor. “Since I have been there as an assistant or head coach, we’ve never had to replace so many starters in one year, so going in, there was a little mystery to how we were going to do and how we were going to come together as a team, especially since we weren’t able to train the way we normally train every year.

“We kind of have this formula that we’ve figured out over the years of what works best to get the kids ready and that didn’t happen. Then we got pushed back and pushed back and we finally get started and then we get hit with a quarantine after a week of practices. So by the time we played our first game, we only had about four practices.”

Because of a rainout, the Vikings had to play their first two games on back-to-back days. According to Proctor, his team figured things out very quickly and made the necessary adjustments to become a better team.

“We played our first game at Atkins and had the normal first game issues with positioning and not executing the way I wanted us to, but it’s what you expect after a first game,” Proctor continued. “I was really surprised with how well and how quickly we

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leaders: Sanballat, Tobiah and Geshem was abruptly shut down by Nehemiah – “The God of Heaven will grant us success, and we, His servants, will start building.” Their success was due to divine support already evidenced, so the opposition was dismissed - “But you have no share or claim or stake in Jerusalem!” (verse 20).

God places His people in strategic positions to accomplish His purposes. God used Nehemiah,

The North Forsyth boys’ soccer team had a very successful season. responded from game one to game two and that was without going out and having a training session.

“Their positioning was a lot better. They were moving the ball around the way we wanted it to and everything was starting to come together and we are sitting there after two games and we haven’t given up a goal and we were like ‘Wait a minute, we may be going in the right direction,’ and then it kept building and building and building.”

The scheduling for this season has not been like any other for Proctor.

He said his team played the first five games of the season in a month’s time; however, they had to play the remaining five games in two weeks.

“This season has been strange,” he said. “Outside of COVID, we have had so many weather issues. This isn’t something you normally have during the boy’s season, because usually during the boy’s season, you play through the rain because it’s 90 degrees, but when it’s 40 degrees and raining, it’s a whole different story.

So, dealing with that was new.”

For the season, the Vikings only gave up three goals in 11 games. The defensive effort was something the team took a lot of pride in.

“We made it through the first six games without conceding a goal and it was a real pride of effort for our defense,” he said.

“We had some games that were kind of lopsided and the defense can sometimes check in and check out, but they were dialed in those games like it was a 0-0 game. They were trying to go the entire regular season without giving up a goal.”

Proctor gave a lot of the credit to the kids for the stellar season the Vikings had. He says there was a noticeable change in attitude for the team that happened last year that carried over to this year.

“A lot of it comes down to the kids,” he went on to say. “This year and last year, the then-juniors last year that are seniors this year, and the seniors last

year; there was very much a change in their attitude.

Those two classes of kids really wanted to put their mark on the program.”

The Vikings were confident heading into their playoff game against Shelby. North Forsyth had a little extra motivation due to the Golden Lions being the same team that put the Vikings out of the playoffs the year before.

“It’s never fun when you have a great season and your first-round game of the playoffs is the team that put you out of the playoffs the year before,” Proctor said about the game. “We were both senior-heavy teams the year before, so it was going to be a little bit different going into the game. It kind of came down to what team was going to dig in more. They played their game, we played ours.”

Proctor says he has not gone back and watched the entire game because “it was a little difficult.”

From what he has seen of the film, his team accomplished what they set out to do when it came to the game plan.

“We just didn’t finish a lot of chances,” said Proctor. “We probably had three or four really good chances where it deflected off the post or it took a deflection off a player. We had one sequence where we had three shots point blank. I think the keeper stopped one, the post got one, then it took a deflection off a defensive player and was cleared out of the zone.

“The kids did everything that we set out to do. It’s just unfortunate in games, sometimes the ball bounces in your favor and sometimes it doesn’t.”

Proctor says his players gave everything they had by never giving up during the game and he was proud of them for that.

“I did not see any quit from anyone that stepped out on the field and as a coach, that’s all we can ask for,” he said. “I just hate that we had such a great regular season and it kind of just fizzles out in the first round. It’s unfortunate, but they played a great game and Shelby played a great

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For Your Consideration: What does Nehemiah’s prayers before his actions reveal? Why was Nehemiah secretive and to

what advantage?

Application: God puts us in specific places to accomplish His vision, giving us positions we can use to bring about good works.

Like Nehemiah, we should prayerfully consider what God is doing in the world around us and discern ways to leverage our influence to bring about His will. More intimately, if we are concerned about rebuilding parts of our own lives, we need to follow Nehemiah’s example and prayerfully assess what will be required.

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game.”

After a grueling game in regulation, Proctor says there was some anxiety as the teams went into overtime. His team had prior experience with overtime and penalty kicks, so Proctor was confident his team could rise to the occasion.

He was disappointed for his players that they were not able to come away with the victory.

The foundation for this season was built last sea-

son, said Proctor. He says the new starters “worked their butt off in practice” to earn more minutes on the field this season. He feels the battles on the practice field last season really helped the new starters in their roles this season.

“If they had not practiced so well last year and been so invested last year, we would not have had the success we had this year,” he said about his team.

“Those kids that stepped up this year, I have got to give them full credit. They worked hard every single practice, all season long and nobody quit on the team.”

Proctor has won multiple conference championships and made a couple of deep runs in the playoffs during his tenure at North Forsyth. He credits the previous coach, John Timmons, for building a “family” with the soccer program. Proctor was an assistant with Timmons for six seasons before taking over as head coach.

Proctor said his team was as balanced as any team he has ever had. If they would have been able to get past Shelby, he would have loved to see how his team progressed because they were so ‘“special.”