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THURSDAY, June 25, 2020

Stepping up to a healthy lifestyle

BY TEVIN STINSON THE CHRONICLE

While you may not be able to get into your regular gym due to restrictions from COVID-19, Louis Lowery III, a local trainer, is offering a healthy alternative to your normal workout routine as we continue to navigate through these uncertain times.

A few weeks after Governor Roy Cooper ordered the closure of all gyms in the state, Lowery, a graduate of N.C. A&T University and a Winston-Salem native, started 21/90 Hip-Hop Step Reloaded, an aerobic workout routine infused with hip-hop music and dance steps. Lowery said he started using the workout as a way to stay in shape himself, but

soon realized that others could benefit from it as well.

“When the gyms first closed, I just saw it as a way for me to stay active while the gyms were closed,” Lowery said. “So I started and then the idea came to me to bring it to the community so everybody can stay active.”

Lowery said he decided to infuse simple dance moves and music into the workout routine to make it more enjoyable and it seems to be working. “I knew I had to do something that was fun and people would enjoy,” he said. Participants say Lowery’s approach helps make the workouts feel less strenuous. “It honestly doesn’t even feel like you’re working out and he lets you work at your own pace. I re-

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Louis Lowery III leads a workout session on Saturday, June 13.

21/90 Hip-Hop Step Reloaded is an aerobics class that infuses hip-hop music and dance moves into the workout.

ally enjoy it,” said Toni Melton following a recent session.

Michelle McMiller said she heard about 21/90 Hip-Hop Step Reloaded from a friend and decided to give it a try. She said after the first session with Lowery, she knew it was the perfect class for her. Mahogany Huff said she was looking for an alternative to working at home when she started attending sessions with Lowery.

“Gyms aren’t open ... and I was tired of working out at home. I was constantly seeing posts on Facebook, so I decided to join,” Huff said. “Instead of being at home, I get to be outside together, having fun while still getting a good workout.”

When discussing the name, “21/90 Hip-Hop Step Reloaded,” Lowery said his goal is to

help the community make lifestyle changes and it all begins with making working out and living a healthy lifestyle part of your routine. “I like to use that rule you know: 21 days to form a habit and 90 days to make it a lifestyle.”

Lowery said physical fitness plays a major role in overall health and 21/90 Hip-Hop Reloaded is designed to help you get on track to living that healthy lifestyle.

For more information on 21/90 Hip-Hop Reloaded, including information about sessions and cost, visit https:// calendly.com/louislowerylll/219 0 - h i p h o p - s t e p reloaded?month=2020-06 or contact Louis Lowery III at 336413-4025.

Local law enforcement discuss recent demonstrations, internal “No Snitching” rule In the midst of calls for police reform and defunding law enforcement agencies across the country, earlier this week the Ministers’ Conference of Winston-Salem and Vicinity invited assistant police

chiefs William Penn and Natasha Miles, and Sheriff Bobby Kimbrough to participate in a virtual town hall.

During the virtual town hall held on Tuesday, June 23, Penn, Miles and Kimbrough discussed the peaceful demonstrations held here in WinstonSalem, law enforcement training and policies, and several other topics including the “No Snitching” policy among law enforcement.

One of the hardest hitting questions during the town hall came from Bishop Todd Fulton, pastor of Mt. Moriah Outreach Center and chair of the Ministers’ Social Justice Com-

mittee. He said while he has a working relationship with local law enforcement agencies, there is concern about the silence of police officers when it comes to calling foul play within the force.

Fulton mentioned an effort last year by the Winston-Salem Police Department that called for the end of the “No Snitching” policy throughout the community to help bring a close to several unsolved murders. He said, “The same way we went on television and asked the community not to subscribe to the no snitch policy and the no snitch code in the African American community, we’re asking the

sheriffs and police officers to speak to their officers about the no snitch policy among officers.”

In response, Kimbrough and Miles briefly discussed their “Duty to Intervene” policies. According to Kimbrough, the policy means if any officer sees wrongdoing and doesn’t report it, they could be in jeopardy of losing their jobs. Miles said when she was in rookie school, she was told that it was her responsibility to intervene and it’s something the department still practices today.

“I was told it was my responsibility to intervene when I saw something wrong and I’ve remained

committed to that,” she continued. “And that was in 1993 and to this day, we still instill the same values in our recruits that we did almost 30 years ago and more. So they do hear the message.”

Miles also mentioned that the WSPD has a reporting system where officers are reporting incidents.

Chief Penn mentioned that Chief Thompson has met with every officer and employee about the Duty to Intervene and the “8 Can’t Wait,” list of recommendations. She said the WSPD update their policies regularly to incorporate the best practices.

Since he was elected to serve the citizens of For-

syth County in 2018, Kimbrough said he has been big on training. He said in addition to the required training, he has brought in some of the best professionals in the country to conduct training on cultural diversity, self awareness, and racial equity.

Prior to 2018, the Sheriff’s office didn’t offer racial equity training.

Kimbrough also mentioned instead of annually, the FSCO conducts training quarterly. He said training is something that should be ongoing. “This once a year … all that is to me is a seminar training, it has to be an ongoing See Law on A2

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Congress moves George Floyd Justice in Policing Act measure forward

BY STACY M. BROWN NNPA NEWSWIRE SENIOR CORRESPONDENT

The House Judiciary Committee has introduced the George Floyd Justice In Policing Act, the firstever bold, comprehensive approach to hold police accountable, end racial profiling, change the law enforcement culture, empower communities, and build trust between law enforcement and minority communities by addressing systemic racism and bias.

In a conference call with the Black Press of America just before voting on the measure, members of the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) said the bill should help save lives.

“This is a real historic day here in the Capital as last week we introduced the Justice in Policing Act, and today we amend the bill,” CBC Chair Karen Bass (D-Calif.) said during the conference call.

“We call it the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act, and I call it historic because this is the first time in many years that Congress has taken up a bill dealing with policing and I’m sure it is the first time that Congress has introduced such a bold transformative piece of legislation,” Bass stated.

The George Floyd Justice in Policing Act would establish a national standard for the operation of police departments and mandate data collection on police encounters.

If it becomes law, the bill would reprogram existing funds to invest in transformative community-based policing programs and streamline federal law to prosecute excessive force and establish independent prosecutors for police investigations.

It would also eliminate no-knock warrants and ban chokeholds.

“The idea that a chokehold is legal in one city and not the other, the idea that no-knock warrants are okay in one jurisdiction and not in another, is very important. That must end,” Bass proclaimed.

A bill crafted by Republican South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott, and an executive order issued by President Donald Trump, ask only for studies to be done on matters like noknock warrants and chokehold bans and have little bite, Bass and her CBC colleagues noted.

“In essence, their bills take the teeth out of this bill. This is not the time for superficial action,” Bass warned. “This is the time for us to demonstrate our ability to address the people who are peacefully in the street every day with comprehensive legislation.”

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continuous thing,” Kimbrough said.

When discussing recent demonstrations held downtown and in other parts of the city, Kimbrough applauded community leaders for keeping demonstrations peaceful.

He also praised local leaders for leading the push for Executive Order 145, legislation signed into law

by Governor Roy Cooper

The George Floyd Justice in Policing Act of 2020: *Prohibits federal, state, and local law enforcement from racial, religious, and discriminatory profiling. *Mandates training on racial, religious, and discriminatory profiling for all law enforcement. *Requires law enforcement to collect data on all investigatory activities; saves lives by banning chokeholds and no-knock warrants. *Bans chokeholds and carotid holds at the federal level and conditions law enforcement funding for state and local governments banning chokeholds. *Bans no-knock warrants in drug cases at the federal level and conditions law enforcement funding for state and local governments banning noknock warrants at the local and state level. *Requires that deadly force be used only as a last resort and requires officers to employ de-escalation techniques first. *Changes the standard to evaluate whether law enforcement use of force was justified from whether the force was “reasonable” to whether the force was “necessary.” *Conditions grants on state and local law enforcement agencies’ establishing the same use-offorce standard. *Limits military equipment on American streets; requires body cameras. *Limits the transfer of military-grade equipment to state and local law enforcement. *Requires federal uniformed police officers to wear body cameras and requires state and local law enforcement to use existing federal funds to ensure the use of police body cameras. *Requires marked federal police vehicles to have dashboard cameras. *Holds police accountable in court. *Makes it easier to prosecute offending officers by amending the federal criminal statute to prosecute police misconduct. The mens rea requirement in 18 U.S.C. Section 242 will be amended from “willfulness” to a “reck-

lessness” standard. *Enables individuals to recover damages in civil court when law enforcement officers violate their constitutional rights by eliminating qualified immunity for law enforcement. *Investigates police misconduct. *Improves the use of pattern and practice investigations at the federal level by granting the Department of Justice Civil Rights Division subpoena power and creates a grant program for state attorneys general to develop authority to conduct independent investigations into problematic police departments. *Empowers our communities to re-imagine public safety in an equitable and just way. *This bill reinvests in our communities by supporting critical community-based programs to change the culture of law enforcement and empower our communities to reimagine public safety in an equitable and just way. *It establishes public safety innovation grants for community-based organizations to create local commissions and task forces to help communities to re-imagine and develop concrete, just, and equitable public safety approaches. These local commissions would operate similar to President Obama’s Task Force on 21st Century Policing. *Changes the culture of law enforcement with training to build integrity and trust. *Requires the creation of law enforcement accreditation standard recommendations based on President Obama’s Taskforce on 21st Century policing. *Creates law enforcement development and training programs to develop best practices. *Studies the impact of laws or rules that allow a law enforcement officer to delay answers to questions posed by investigators of law enforcement misconduct. *Enhances funding for pattern and practice discrimination investigations and programs managed by the DOJ Community Relations Service.

*Requires the Attorney General to collect data on investigatory actions and detentions by federal law enforcement agencies; the racial distribution of drug charges; the use of deadly force by and against law enforcement officers; as well as traffic and pedestrian stops and detentions. *Establishes a DOJ task force to coordinate the investigation, prosecution and enforcement efforts of federal, state, and local governments in cases related to law enforcement misconduct. *Improves transparency by collecting data on police misconduct and use of force. *Creates a nationwide police misconduct registry to prevent problematic officers who are fired or leave one agency, from moving to another jurisdiction without any accountability. *Mandates state and local law enforcement agencies to report use-offorce data, disaggregated by race, sex, disability, religion, age. *Makes lynching a federal crime. *Makes it a federal crime to conspire to violate existing federal hate crimes laws.

that establishes the Racial Equity in Criminal Justice Task Force, and encouraged everyone to speak out against injustice and for policy change.

“As most of you saw, Executive Order 145, the Task Force on Racial Equality and Criminal Justice, that was spearheaded out of this county,” Kimbrough continued. “It’s the leadership that everybody in this county is giving that is making a difference ... but we’ve got to continue

what we’re doing ... all of us have to lift our voices.”

According to Kimbrough, Executive Order 145 put more accountability on officers. He said under the new policy, call complaints against officers will go to the Attorney General. He said the policy will ensure internal complaints aren’t fabricated.

Penn said other communities are calling and asking how they’ve been able to keep protests

peaceful. He gave the credit to the community for keeping things peaceful.

“Credit goes to the community and leaders within the community,” Penn said. “As for the agency, we like to pride ourselves on being an empathetic department; therefore when the demonstrations took place, we wanted to immediately show ourselves to be the guardians as opposed to warriors. We’ve been out

in the community walking with demonstrators, speaking with the demonstrators, and allowing them to let their voices be heard.”

Following the town hall, Pastor Tembila Covington, president of the Ministers’ Conference, thanked Miles, Penn, and Kimbrough for participating. She said the candid conversation shows that the community and local law enforcement have a working relationship.

“We are very appreciative and I believe this shows clearly that there is relationships between our community leaders, our pastors, and lay members with our law enforcement and we continue to work at it to ensure that we have clear understanding and know what is going forth for the good of our citizens here in Forsyth County and in Winston-Salem.”

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Guest Editorial

We can’t let this moment pass This week I convened a bipartisan group of senators to read aloud Martin Luther King Jr.’s “A Letter from a Birmingham Jail.” This was the second year I’ve done this, and I hope to make it an annual tradition. I was struck by the thought of Dr. King in a small, dirty jail cell writing in longhand on napkins and scraps of paper and newspaper to a group of ministers that were not hateful as much as they were questioning the need for action at that particular moment in 1963. We usually picture this man on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial eloquently and passionately describing his dream for America, or behind a pulpit in Memphis urging his audience to press forward, to not be discouraged in their quest for civil and equal rights because he had been to the mountaintop and he had seen the promised land. I was deeply moved by the reading, and felt it was critical in this moment that a United States senator from the Deep South stand on the Senate floor and declare that Black Lives Matter.

The last few months have made the truths of being Black in America clear to all. We have watched as a pandemic killed Black people at the rate of almost two and a half times that of other Americans. Not from a mutation of the virus, but from an underfunded system that too often deprives Black Americans medical care for diabetes, heart disease and other health issues that are now described as pre-existing conditions. We have watched as Black-owned businesses failed at twice the rate of others, and unemployment for Black Americans rose faster and will stay higher than the rest of America.

As we witnessed the truths of the system and society revealed to us by the pandemic, we were met with a profoundly haunting video, which I need not describe and trigger the pain it has caused. George Floyd’s cries of “I can’t breathe” were not just the cries of an innocent man pleading for his life, but the cries of so many of our fellow Americans that are killed by police, choked by a healthcare system that denies them access to quality healthcare, and in Dr. King’s words, are smothered in “an airtight cage of poverty.” They are the cries of Black Americans who simply have to hold their own breath when they themselves or their sons and their daughters venture away from their home fearing a police encounter that will take their life.

I truly believe that the soul of America has come to the streets of America, looking for a way for all of her people to live in a more just society. We are finally coming to understand that “What affects one directly, affects us all indirectly.” That we see in this moment how poverty and economic disparities are connected. It’s why in this moment it’s so important to reject those voices looking to divide us. We must come together to end racial injustice.

As a people, as a Congress, we cannot let this moment pass. Surely reforms are needed, but the greater need is not just to reform, but to transform, to make a dramatic change in the nature and character of our institutions toward a more just government and society.

Since our country’s inception, we have said the words “all are created equal,” we have pledged that we are a nation for all — not for some —all, but we know that we have never lived up to that ideal. We all know it. In response to the protests that are taking place across this country today, where voices and t-shirts and facemasks proclaim and insist that Black Lives Matter, and of course they do, but we will not be a country where we are all truly equal and where justice is for all until we can all say the words Black Lives Matter and mean it.

That is my pledge, and I pray America joins me.

U.S. Senator Doug Jones (D-AL)

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Bigoted Facebook rant demands response from elected officials To The Editor:

We, the people of the Southeast United States, have been stereotyped. Thanks to decades of images featuring Confederate flag-waiving citizens, water cannons pointed at Black demonstrators, and public figures like George Wallace and Bull Connor spouting racial hatred, it’s no mystery as to why most of the nation and the world look down upon the American South, seeing us as a region filled with white racists and oppressed people of color.

On June 10, that worldview was once again validated when a bigoted rant appeared on the Facebook page of Brunswick County Commissioner Mike Forte. The public outcry has been swift and fierce. A petition demanding the commissioner’s resignation was signed by over 1,500 people in a matter of days. Letters and editorials

from angry citizens appeared on opinion pages in every regional newspaper.

One thing, however, has been missing. Not a single Brunswick County mayor or commissioner has issued a statement publicly condemning Mr. Forte. There is an expression that we hear often in the Trump era: Silence equals consent. Only two possible explanations exist for this silence. The first is that these public officials agree with Mr. Forte’s Facebook rant and that their failure to speak out represents a tacit endorsement of its content.

The second explanation is that they are too frightened to make their opinions public. There is no third explanation.

North Carolina officials were not elected to represent white citizens. They were elected to represent all citizens. If they are too bigoted or cowardly to stand up and condemn racism, they have no business serving in any public capacity. They have betrayed our constitution and those they swore an oath to protect.

Jeffrey Zalles Southport

Quarantine quarrels and 10 helpful hints Robert J. Gould

Guest Columnist My wife and I are both professionals who teach and counsel individuals and couples about how to better handle their conflicts. This is especially true during this pandemic staycation. Many of us have woken to the truism that “everyone annoys everyone.”

In our home, we also try to handle our conflicts better. We have been together for 27 years, so we have had a lot of practice.

And we are getting better—though we are far from perfect.

We would like to maintain a calm, meditative, Zen state of mind, watching the flow of life, and the news, with no perceptible anxiety. In reality, we’re as troubled as the rest of the world, shaken by this horrendous COVID-19, stuck in an impromptu Groundhog’s Day—Contagion Edition, greatly ampli-

fied by the horrific filmed deaths of African Americans by police.

Like most of us, my wife and I bicker with each other about washing dishes, preparing meals, and house-cleaning. Because of our professions helping others with their conflicts, we know (on some level) that we are handling our own conflict sub-optimally.

Luckily, we also know that conflict resolution is a somewhat imprecise science, as it depends on many variables, including what one ate this morning and how much sleep one got. We also know that, even with the precise science of the computer technology, our Wi-Fi refuses to get along with our printer.

So, we suggest that those of us who are stircrazy at home try to be mindful of the following rules: 1. Accept that, on some level, everyone eventually irritates everyone else. Therefore, people are sometimes snappish with each other, even in less stressful circumstances.

It’s part of the drama of life.

2. Generally speaking, there are two ways to look at any given conflict: the right way and the other right way.

3. Nonviolence is always best, unless your partner has a sharp object in their hand, and even then, try soothing, de-escalation techniques first.

4. Don’t yell! And no, you are not just talking loudly. (Any anxiety in the air will fuel the fire.)

5. If the two of you cannot calmly discuss your differences, consider taking a 30-minute break and retreat behind a closed (not slammed) door. Rinse and repeat, as needed.

6. Try to paraphrase what the other person is saying. Be assured that your paraphrasing will always be wrong, so try it again. At the very least, the other person will know that you are genuinely trying to listen—even when you miss the mark.

7. Don’t forget about the 30-minute break; you may need another one, or at least a little refresher.

8. Try to find some

common ground or a compromise that will last until the next dust-up. No conflict is perfectly resolved-peace and conflict come in episodes—stay tuned for the next one. We reboot our partnerships, as we reboot our technology— hopefully learning, as we move along.

9. Try to regularly say how much you both love and appreciate each other.

(Keep your inevitable regrets to yourself.) Yeah, we are both idiots.

10. And finally, escalate the politeness and civility. Contrary to the film “Love Story,” love is saying you are “sorry,” and a “please” and “thank-you” help rebuild the bonds that get frayed.

We can do this! May your household host a pandemic of peace.

Robert J. Gould, Ph.D., is an ethicist, writes for PeaceVoice, and co-founded the Conflict Resolution Program at Portland State University.

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The changing face of policing in the United States of America Dr. James B. Ewers Jr.

Guest Columnist

We have always had the police in America.

They have provided law and order for this country.

Personally, I have always feared the police, as my experiences with them have not been good.

Now with the racial unrest, there is a mounting effort to defund the police.

As this term enters America’s lexicon, there seems to be different interpretations as to what it means.

The police have been

in the news for the wrong reasons lately. They are here to protect and to serve yet this longstanding motto does not apply to all police. The police should uphold the law, but they are not above the law.

Their credo is lost with some officers, as they have hidden agendas. They lack moral judgment in times of crisis. Being a police officer requires a high level of decency and humanity.

The recent killings of Breonna Taylor, George Floyd and Rayshard Brooks have shown the fallibility of these officers.

Unfortunately, these Black people lost their lives because those in power abused their power.

Their crazed indiscretions have torn communities and this country apart.

I believe the nation’s po-

lice are in for some changes.

Charles Ramsey, former police chief in Washington D.C., said recently on CNN that the police are being demonized. He is correct. I suspect that until there is systemic change, the police as a body will continue to be criticized.

Systemic change took place within the Camden Police Department. In May of 2013, the Camden City Council abolished the city police department and created a new one under county control. Former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie said, “You had to change the underlying principles of the way police officers were being trained and taught. The most effective way to do that was to start over.”

Is the Camden Police

Department perfect? No, but it is much better than it was. Citizens there now trust the police and do not have the fundamental fear they once had.

In my mind, defunding the police does not mean getting rid of them. While some may disagree, we as citizens could not get along without them.

Defund the police means a few things to me. Community policing has been around for a few years, however how many cities practice it?

The term sounds good and looks good on paper, but for many law enforcement agencies that is where it stops.

Police have some of the most powerful unions in the country, yet they are beginning to see that you cannot blindly protect offi-

cers who are guilty. Derek Chauvin, Garrett Rolfe and Brett Hankison are the latest examples.

Jamal Bailey, New York state senator says, “Folks have been complaining about police brutality for so many years and it just goes away. It could not go away this time. Not only are we going to the street, but we are also going to push for changes in the legislature.”

In recent days, some states have acted judiciously in curbing bad police behavior. Andrew Cuomo, Governor of New York, repealed a law keeping police disciplinary records from the public.

Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds signed a bill prohibiting chokeholds.

However, not every state is onboard, not yet

anyway. Kansas State Representative Rui Xu proposed a bill condemning police brutality and racism. It did not pass.

As the weeks go by, there will be police reforms. What terms we use to describe these changes will be left up to us.

The one thing we can be crystal clear about is that changes are on the way.

James B. Ewers Jr. is a former tennis champion at Atkins High School and played college tennis at Johnson C. Smith University where he was allconference for four years.

He is a retired college administrator and can be reached at ewers.jr56@ yahoo.com.

Rayshard Brooks (and so many more) should still be alive Wim Laven Guest Columnist Police departments all across America keep proving the same point: they are not training officers to honor the protection of human life.

The narrative from the police unions and from Trump himself continues to talk about bad apples and poor judgment—and this is a worthy cause; there are corrupt officers victimizing those they are sworn to protect.

The truth, however, is that when the police culture is so close to the line of state-sanctioned crime, the bad apples tend to stay on the force and therefore those crimes are more frequent. In the recent case from Atlanta, Rayshard Brooks, like so many other people of color killed by police, should still be alive. In 2016, for example, fewer than one in

three Black people killed by police were armed or suspected of a violent crime.

Clearly, for some police the predatory instinct is strongly expressed as, “he shouldn’t have resisted … tried to flee …”

The 4th Amendment protections, as ruled in Tennessee v. Garner (1985), which found that use of deadly force to prevent escape is an unreasonable seizure, guarantees “the right of the people to be secure in their persons.” Lethal force cannot be legally used for the purpose of preventing an escape, only to prevent imminent death or serious injury to officers or others.

About 20 miles north of the Wendy’s where Rayshard Brooks was killed, it was hard to teach about the rights and liberties enumerated by the Bill of Rights, but I did. Students would rightly point to examples of contemporary cases that clearly contradicted precedent set by the Supreme Court. So the class was always left to discuss: why do you think this is not being made

clear in training?

In reviewing the police force in Ferguson, Missouri, another example, the Department of Justice found in 2015 that, “Officers expect and demand compliance even when they lack legal authority,” and continued, “they are inclined to interpret the exercise of freespeech rights as unlawful disobedience, innocent movements as physical threats, indications of mental or physical illness as belligerence.”

Police officers in Kern County, California, in a 2015 Guardian report, have killed “more people per capita than in any other American county.” In 2004 the Department of Justice made recommendations to address use of force policies that failed to address problems with excessive force. The DOJ stated that the policy’s authorization of force “to gain and maintain compliance with the law,” was too ambiguous and could lead officers to believe they were justified in using force in situations in which it was not reasonable.

To better educate myself, and to enhance my ability to teach about the role of policing in the U.S. practice of law and order, I went on a police ridealong. It was made clear to me in multiple ways, that officers were expected to be able to pull the trigger—when necessary.

During the ride-along, I discussed killology with the lead trainer. Killology is the study of reactions of healthy people in killing circumstances (such as police and military in combat) and the factors that enable and restrain killing in these situations.

Lt. Col. Dave Grossman has examined the steps taken in the U.S. military to improve the ability of individuals in overcoming their aversion to taking life. His scholarship is featured in the movie adaptation of “American Sniper,” and presents police departments with “a model for action that ensures professionals can train for and overcome the unique mental stressors of possible violence.”

Ultimately this is the problem. The structural

and systemic apparatus of law enforcement has gone in a militarized direction.

It is highlighted in training intended to overcome the normal human aversion to violence and death. It is reinforced in dangerous manifestations in the police culture. Officers who call out excessive force or brutality by other officers are seen as disloyal and are retaliated against. The military culture describes the us-and-them mentality: I’d rather be judged by 12 than carried by six.

The continued focus on the specific individuals involved fails to address the broader and deeply held challenges in law enforcement. It is part of why the call to defund the police makes sense.

Rayshard Brooks was accused of being asleep in his car in a parking lot.

Firing the officer who shot and killed him does not address the larger police culture problem. We know because we see the same problems over and over: killed while sleeping, killed during minor traffic stops, killed while unarmed and in lethal holds,

killed talking on the phone, killed playing with a toy gun, killed with hands up, killed during a response to a mental health disturbance or for suspected suicidal thoughts, etc. The unnecessary death of so many people, frequently unarmed and innocent, is the manifestation of failed systems and policies.

Our Constitution lays out clear directions for freedoms and equality. A disservice to the Constitution continues through the violence perpetrated by law enforcement officers.

We all lose when policies and training promote and perpetuate the violent use of force against citizens. In this war against citizens, the protection of the rights and freedoms is the first casualty. We have to stop arming and training our police to believe they are at war with the citizenry of our cities, of our country.

all of these efforts.

What needs to be added to these proposals are proposals for securing the broadcast voices of our communities. The National Association of Black Owned Broadcasters submits that, if our corporate and government leaders are serious about effecting change, they should include plans to strengthen the voices of the Black community over the nation’s airwaves. We propose these specific concrete steps that can be taken to enhance the voices of Black communities across the country: 1. Invest advertising dollars in Black-owned broadcast stations. If a corporation has a message it wishes to share with our communities, it should share it on our communities’ stations.

2. Our federal, state and local governments spend billions of dollars a year on paid advertising.

Each level of government should reach out to Blackowned broadcast stations to make sure that their messages reach neglected parts of our communities.

3. Access to capital is an ongoing problem for all Black entrepreneurs.

Investment firms and lending institutions should examine investment proposals and loan applications from Black-owned broadcasters with a view toward strengthening the entire community by expanding the ability of our stations to tell our stories.

4. The Federal Communications Commission should restrict industry consolidation, not promote it. Industry consolidation squeezes out small, Blackowned broadcasters.

5. Congress should pass Congressman Butterfield’s H.R. 3957 and bring back the tax certificate to promote minority- and women-owned broadcast stations.

6. The boards of directors of the largest media companies fail to reflect the racial diversity of America. Many members of NABOB have the knowledge, experience and standing in the industry that justifies being considered for board positions. The largest media companies should look to the NABOB membership to add much needed diversity to their boards.

Wim Laven, Ph.D., syndicated by PeaceVoice, teaches courses in political science and conflict resolution.

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Guest Columnist A letter from The National Association of Black Owned Broadcasters: The National Association of Black Owned Broadcasters (NABOB) shares the anguish, frustration, and anger in our Black communities across the country. The disproportionate impact of the COVID-19 pandemic creating sickness and death in our community has been a heavy burden. The massive unemployment caused by the pandemic shutdown added another burden.

The senseless murder of George Floyd proved to be the last straw, and Black people took to the streets across this country to say, “Enough is enough - Black Lives Matter!”

Fortunately, the murder of George Floyd grabbed the attention and touched the hearts of many white Americans. Seeing the video of this brutal murder at the hands of a police officer made many white Americans recognize that the discrimination and mistreatment of Black Americans continues today in many ways as it did a hundred years ago.

As a result, we have seen expressions of support for the Black Lives Matter

movement from government leaders and corporate CEOs. And we have seen and heard statements that these government leaders and corporate CEOs will work to promote diversity and inclusion within the government and corporate America.

What is lacking from many of these statements is concrete actions that these government leaders and corporate CEOs plan to implement. As broadcasters serving the Black community, the members of NABOB are directly impacted by the social and economic disadvantages experienced by our communities. Our communities look to us as the trusted voices that they depend upon to give them news and information unfiltered by those with agendas that are not in the best interest of our communities. And they look to us to share our stories with each other and the broader community. In 1968, after the civil unrest in many Black communities, the Kerner Commission Report said that one of the underlying causes of the unrest was a sense of a lack of control of the media and that their voices could not be heard. That sentiment has been heard again in the streets today.

That sense of lack of control is heightened by the small number of broadcast stations that remain Black owned today. The number of Black-owned stations is vastly below an acceptable level. Blacks make up 13% of the American pop-

ulation, yet we own fewer than 180 of the more than 11,000 commercial radio stations in the U.S., 1.6%, and we own only 25 of the 1,374 full power television stations, 1.8%. This low ownership level of broadcast stations by Blacks means that we cannot have the voice we need to make our concerns adequately heard or addressed by our leaders. Given the small number of Black-owned broadcast stations today, 52 years after 1968, it is understandable that many Black people continue to feel that they are not being heard.

To address the small number of broadcast stations owned by Black people and other minorities and women, Congressman G.K. Butterfield has introduced H.R. 3957, “Expanding Broadcast Ownership Opportunities Act of 2019,” which would reinstate the tax certificate as a means of increasing ownership of broadcast stations by minorities and women. During the years that it was in effect, 1978 to 1995, the tax certificate was by far the most effective policy for promoting minority broadcast station ownership. Since its repeal, Black radio station ownership has steadily declined.

In addition to the fact that there are too few of us, many NABOB members are hampered in our efforts to serve our communities by unfair and discriminatory government and corporate policies that

prevent us from achieving the business success we need to fully serve our communities. These unfair and discriminatory policies include: (1) advertisers and advertising agencies that refuse to advertise on Black-owned stations, (2) federal, state and local government advertising practices that spend billions of dollars, but almost none with Black-owned broadcasters, (3) financial institutions that refuse to invest in or loan money to Black-owned broadcasters, (4) Federal Communications Commission policies that promote consolidation of the broadcast industry into the hands of a few large companies, squeezing many small, Black-owned broadcasters out of business, and (5) the failure of the largest media companies to include adequate levels of Black participation on their boards of directors.

The nation’s leading Black civil rights, business, and government organizations, such as: the NAACP, National Urban League, National Action Network, U.S. Black Chambers and Congressional Black Caucus have laid out excellent proposals for broad reforms to address the many aspects of income and wealth inequality, widespread poverty, lack of capital going to Black-owned businesses, inadequate educational opportunities, mass incarceration and police brutality that sent people into the streets. NABOB supports

This op-ed was penned

by Jim Winston, NABOB; Arthur Benjamin, A Wonder Media Company, American Urban Radio Network; Michael Carter, Carter Broadcast Group; Carol Moore, Cutting Edge Broadcasting; DuJuan McCoy, Circle City Broadcasting; Steven Roberts, Roberts Radio Broadcasting; Karen Slade, Taxi Productions; Melody Spann-Cooper, Midway Broadcasting; and Lois Wright, Inner City Broadcasting. For further information, email nabobinfo@ nabob.org or visit www. nabob.org.

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BUSTA’S PERSON OF THE WEEK

Former news anchor says Jesus is the answer to bringing us together

BY BUSTA BROWN FOR THE CHRONICLE

When you’re in the presence of Frank Mickens, the spirit of love and peace are infectious. And boy do we need that right now more than ever! The former superstar news anchor at WFMY News 2 went from sharing worldly news to sharing the good news of Jesus Christ.

Frank got a job offer in Indianapolis that he couldn’t refuse, the job that would eventually set him up for that national news anchor position he’s always dreamed of. It was no surprise to anyone in the news industry that Mickens became a superstar in Indianapolis, but when his contract was up for renewal, something hit his spirit like a ton of bricks. As he and his wife Chasattee sat in their brand new dream home, he asked her, “Do you feel like this is home?” And without hesitation she replied, “No I don’t.”

Frank said, “And Busta that kicked off a two-anda-half-year process of God taking us away from where we were in our lives, to do something totally different.”

God’s purpose for Frank was clear and plain, but he fought it. “I had an argument with the Lord, because I felt like what I was feeling was a hero complex. Who am I to go out and save the world?

God made it very clear that I was to drop everything I was doing and do ministry full time. Moment by moment, the Lord put things in my life that forced me to give something else up,” Frank said.

Then the day finally came when he was forced to give up his 20-year career in TV and his hopes of becoming a national TV news anchor. As he was looking at a new lucrative

contract from the CBS affiliate in Indianapolis, he couldn’t bring himself to sign it. “Something didn’t feel right. I know people can relate to when you’re doing what you love, but something’s not right. Then the Lord created a very uncomfortable situation and I had to ask myself, is this where you want me to be?”

He and his wife of 13 years eventually sold their beautiful dream home.

“We’d only been there for two years and I felt the Lord say, save the money.

So we moved into a rental home and saved. Before God spoke to me, my wife and I had a 10-year plan, but it was all based on stacking dollars. What I learned is, when you bring money into the picture, you cannot clearly hear the Lord. He wanted me to tune in to his heart and when I did, I started feeling so much better. Now, in order for me to put food on the table depends on my obedience. My margin for error is much lower now, because I gotta hear and do what he tells me to do. And it’s great, because instead being addicted to the things of the world and my past, I’m now addicted to sitting with Jesus.”

Frank Mickens’ past is like most of us, one that we’d all love to forget and wished never happened.

He also credits his wife’s love, support and forgiveness for his confidence to step out on faith. When they wake up each morning, both immediately begin to pray, “God what do you want me to do today and where do you want me to go? Every move I make is driven by God. I’m literally eating out of his hands every day and I absolutely love it.”

Frank’s journey wasn’t an easy one. He was out of work for a while, and every time it seemed like

Evangelist Frank Mickens a door was opening, it would quickly shut. Yet, instead of complaining, he never stopped praying.

Not to say he didn’t have some weary days, and even then he helped others.

He and his wife purchased and then donated a ton of masks to nurses. “Remember early on masks were hard to find, so it was in our hearts to do anything we could to help nurses,” he said.

I noticed he had an American flag bandana as a mask. With the extreme racism that Black men are experiencing in America, I felt compelled to ask if he was trying to make a statement. “When my wife and I went to purchase masks for the nurses, these were the only ones left, so we bought them all.” Then he followed that with a very controversial statement that’s extremely difficult for most of us to accept. “I

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believe the coronavirus is from the Lord. I’m not sure God is trying to kill us, yet he allowed it because he’s trying to do something with our country. So I’m praying into what God is trying to do with our country through COVID and through George Floyd’s unfortunate death. I believe through Jesus we’ll get the answers that we need. I’m all about prayer right now.”

Frank said, “There’s been a lot of sleepless nights. I’ve been up ‘til 4 in the morning most nights, disturbed after seeing the pain, hurt and anger in so many people because of what’s going on, and I knew the answer was Jesus Christ. I also designed a t-shirt that says ‘I love black, white, and all people,’ because the Lord said, ‘Frank, we can’t get into our separate corners.

We have got to come to-

gether.’ And you got to do it even if the person on the other side doesn’t want you to. I was called to be an evangelist because God wants me to initiate conversations about unity, love, peace and humility, and initiate bringing God into it.”

The former news anchor said his message is all about bridging gaps, and that he’s not the kind of person who likes to sit in controversy, “but the media loves controversy because it’s emotional and people love to watch it,” he said passionately. But in one of his Facebook videos, Frank is seen washing the feet of a white pastor.

At that point, the controversy was hard to avoid.

“God told me not to look at any of the comments after the post. He said, post it and let me work. And for four or five days I didn’t look at that post. A person of color that I know very well said the image of me washing my white brother’s feet was like me bowing to the slave master.

And I can understand why they would think that. But when I washed his feet, the Lord immediately said, ‘Look at his face, Frank.’

I didn’t want to because it was kind of embarrassing, but in return, the pastor washed my feet as well.

And God said, ‘That’s me in him washing your feet.’

God said when we serve one another, we’re really serving him as he served us. The Bible says in John 13, ‘as I have washed your feet, wash each other’s feet.’ We lost sight of that because the gospel message is the cross we have to bear in order to love others. It’s a sacrificial love that we all need to grow in,” said Mickens.

His next comment didn’t leave much room for debate, if any at all.

“They put him on the cross to crucify him. Yet, he still

volunteered to take their pain. As they were mocking him, he said, ‘Father forgive them for they do not know what they’re doing.’ So sometimes we can have blind spots because we’re bitter. Busta, I’m talking about all people, not only Black people.

What the devil has brought into our lives makes us bitter. He’s using George Floyd’s video to separate us, because he knows pain hurts, and it metastasizes when it doesn’t get healed.

So when something reminds us of that pain, we respond as if it was the first time. So when I see the police’s knee on George Floyd’s neck, I see me and Trayvon Martin. And now I’m reliving the pain, rejection and oppression in a very negative emotional moment. And I’m angry now, and we cannot love from that place. We cannot do it,” he said nearly in tears.

I felt his pain and passion. Frank smiled as he quoted Mathew 7:14, “The Lord Jesus said himself, how can you take the speck out of your brother’s eye if you have a plank in your own? One of the things I got from that, you cannot see a person accurately if you’ve got stuff going on in your heart.

What if what happened that day had nothing to do with George Floyd’s race?

What if the officer was going through something terrible before he got that call? No one knows for sure. I don’t know what was in that officer’s heart, but because many of us as Black people are hurting from all the things we’ve endured before, we now cast assumption on this entire situation and the devil gets what he wants, division and hate towards one another. So for our own spiritual health, we gotta See Anchor on A7

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pray for even that officer, to make sure our anger is not coming from a place in our hearts that’s not

healed. Jesus is the healing, so let’s search for him with all of our heart so we don’t miss out on everything he has for us,” he said with a huge smile.

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T he C hronicle heart! My Person of the Week is evangelist Frank Mickens. If you’d like to hear more from Frank, join him for Noon Prayer this and every Friday at the Governmental Plaza

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in downtown Greensboro.

If you’d like Frank to visit your church or organization, call 202-735-1347 or on social media @Frank Mickens.

SECU supports the African-American Credit Union Coalition with $125,000 donation RALEIGH – State Employees’ Credit Union (SECU) is pleased to announce a donation of $125,000 to the AfricanAmerican Credit Union Coalition (AACUC). The gift, made on behalf of the 2.5 million members of the SECU, reinforces a commitment to partner with the AACUC to advance the mission “to increase diversity within the credit union community through advocacy and professional development.”

In addition, the donation will support the AACUC tenets in the Statement on Diversity which “recognizes the differences and distinctions of each individual, group or organization that are represented in society and within the credit union movement.”

SECU is actively involved in the AACUC Southern Regional Chapter of the organization, with two SECU vice presidents, Jamie Keith and Kelli Holloway, currently serving as

chapter president and vice president, respectively.

The African-American Credit Union Coalition is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization of African American professionals and volunteers in the credit union industry. Affiliation with AACUC offers a unique opportunity to influence and shape the credit union movement and its governmental affairs. The organization works to promote personal and professional growth of its members and advocates to improve eco-

the importance of diversity, equity, and inclusion in all facets of work and life pursuits,” said Mike Lord, SECU president/CEO. “As a member-owned cooperative, we encourage and value the diversity of our members and our staff.

We operate with a ‘Do the Right Thing’ focus and a ‘People Helping People®’ philosophy, and we’re proud to support the mission of the AACUC with this donation.” nomic development of sur“Corporate partners rounding communities that like State Employees’ are often underserved. AA- Credit Union provide beaCUC supports programs cons of hope for the credit that include expanding the union movement. We are interest and increasing the hopeful that other credit number of minorities in the unions and organizations credit union movement, will follow their example increasing outreach of the and invest in the future credit union movement in of credit unions. We are African countries and in grateful for the support, the United States through but more importantly, the mentoring, scholarship partnership, Mike Lord programs, and much more. and SECU have definitely “The board of direc- demonstrated a committors, staff, and member- ment to change,” said ship of State Employees’ Renée Sattiewhite, AACredit Union understand CUC president/CEO.

BB&T Ballpark renamed Truist Stadium Truist Bank and the Winston-Salem Dash recently announced that BB&T Ballpark will be renamed Truist Stadium as a continuation of its naming rights partnership with the Dash. Truist Stadium will continue BB&T Ballpark’s legacy as the community’s gathering place for safe, fun, and affordable entertainment.

Truist Stadium features 5,500 fixed seats, lawn seating, numerous group and hospitality areas, and the extremely popular Flow Club on the suite level. The ballpark also features a large Kids Zone and Left Field “Foothills Brew Pen.” Truist Stadium’s branding will include the Truist logo and signature color of Truist Purple.

The full brand transition will take place in June with expected completion by the end of the summer.

“Truist is very committed to the Winston-Salem and the Triad region.

We’ve had an excellent partnership with the Winston-Salem Dash over the past 10 years as BB&T and we look forward to continuing our legacy with them as Truist,” said Cantey Alexander, Triad regional president for Truist.

“Truist Stadium remains a great familyfriendly destination in the community. Some of the best memories I’ve had with my daughters have been while attending games at the ballpark.”

“For the past decade, BB&T Ballpark has served as a prime example of BB&T’s commitment to making our community an enjoyable place to live, work and play,” said C.J. Johnson, president of the Winston-Salem Dash. “We are thrilled to transition to a new chapter of creating memories at Truist Stadium.”

Due to COVID-19, the start of the 2020 season has been delayed indefinitely.

The Dash is working with the Carolina League, Minor League Baseball and Major League Baseball to determine when games will be able to begin. The Dash will adhere to all local and state guidelines for ballpark activities. Once it is safe to entertain guests, the Dash and Truist will host several community events.

Over the past ten years, the Dash and BB&T Ballpark have reached numerous milestones and received many accolades: *2010 Ballpark Digest Minor League Baseball Organization of the Year *2010 Ballpark of the Year by BASEBALLPARKS.COM *2015, 2016, 2018, 2019 Carolina League’s top honor, John H. Johnson Award for “Complete” Franchise *2016 Class A Advanced Facility of the Year award by Ballpark Digest *2018 honored as the Class A recipient of the Bob Freitas Award by Baseball America (Top Organization out of 60 ClassA Franchises) *Winston-Salem Journal Readers’ Choice “Top Family Entertainment” all ten seasons *Fastest Class A Advanced team to reach one and two million fans in a new stadium *Ranked in top two in attendance out of 30 Class A Advanced baseball all ten seasons *Based in large part on the success of the Dash, Winston-Salem has been named the ninth best market in the country out of 211 minor league markets

by Sports Business Journal.

In addition to the Dash 70-game regular season schedule, the facility annually hosts over 200 events, including movie nights, weddings and proms, truly making it an entertainment destination for the entire community. Also, through

the Dash MVP Program, which Truist supports, teachers at over 70 schools across seven counties are provided prizes to positively impact the educational experience for over 40,000 students.

The Winston-Salem Dash is the Class A-Advanced Minor League affiliate of the Chicago White Sox. For more information, please call 336714-2287 or visit www. wsdash.com.

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Aligning to give vulnerable students the gifted teachers they need

BY JOHN RAILEY

The challenge of how to get the best teachers in the lowest-performing schools in the Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Schools system is one that has confounded educators for years. It is an issue that involves teachers and students under stress, stress now increased by the COVID-19 pandemic. New community leaders are making a fresh commitment to resolving the problem, recognizing that the pandemic has underscored longstanding inequities.

“It’s about the kids,” said Katie Sonnen-Lee, whose two children go to Speas Global Elementary, a Title 1 magnet school. “We have to keep the focus on the kids.

The kids that need the most should have the best. If we don’t care about giving these kids what they need, then that’s a moral failure on us as a community,” said Sonnen-Lee, who is the vice president of the board of Action4Equity, which pushes for equity in the local school system.

The teacher issue is a complex one, she noted, and there is no silver bullet that can solve it. Solutions range from financial incentives to giving teachers a greater role in decision-making at their schools. The pandemic, forcing the system into virtual reality, has illuminated that strong teachers are especially needed now, when new pressures include students lacking easy access to the Internet.

Several entities are aligning to tackle the broader issue. Sonnen-Lee’s group, the chairwoman of the local school board, the new school superintendent, The Winston-Salem Foundation, and Winston-Salem State University’s Center for the Study of Economic Mobility (CSEM) are among those involved in the effort. This past winter, CSEM published a paper, “Teachers, Disadvantaged Students and School Performance: The Case of Forsyth County Elementary Schools,” that made clear this issue impacts economic mobility.

“Research regularly demonstrates that disadvantaged children have the greatest need for high-quality teachers,” CSEM Research Manager Zach Blizard writes in the paper, which builds on the work of CSEM Research Fellows in exploring equity issues in the school system.

“Having an effective schoolteacher, as early as kindergarten, can result in significant increases in lifetime earnings. Since Forsyth County’s disadvantaged children are less likely to benefit from this, they are missing out on valuable opportunities to improve their upward mobility.”

Sonnen-Lee said: “If a kid has a bad teacher for a full year, that’s a year in their life, just the way that it can affect the child’s confidence and their willingness to learn … We have tons of good teachers in the classroom already, but we have some that aren’t that great.”

As the CSEM paper was published, Angela Hairston, the new superintendent of the local school system, was continuing her plan to improve the district’s underperforming schools. She removed the principals of four elementary schools and reassigned other principals to those schools, in addition to two other elementary schools.

Malishai Woodbury, the chairwoman of the school system board, said one of Hairston’s aims in the reassignments was to get the best teachers in those schools, and that effort will continue in the fall semester and beyond, regardless of whatever level of virtual or conventional classrooms on which the board decides.

Woodbury noted that good teachers typically follow good principals and that is already proving the case, with several teachers signing up to follow the principals to their new schools. Woodbury is a former teacher in the Guilford County school system.

The move was controversial. Tripp Jeffers, a teacher at Parkland High School and a former president of the local chapter of the North Carolina Association of Educators, noted that new principals at the schools received supplements ranging from $25,000 to $30,000 annually from a state program, a big boost to salaries that were already higher than those of teachers.

Blizard wrote in his paper that incentives to get good teachers to low-performing schools are a viable strategy if carefully carried out: “The more effective incentives include opportunities to participate in school-level decision making, work for supportive administrators, and join faculties that foster collegial relationships.”

The state legislature once provided incentive funding, then greatly reduced it. State Rep. Donny Lambeth, a former chairman of the local school board, said more money from the state is needed, as well an internship program for new principals, recognizing that they are a draw for good teachers. System officials say they are already doing that by participating in a national initiative, the Principal Pipeline. Other districts have seen a direct correlation between the program and improving student outcomes in reading and math, according to Karen Roseboro, the instructional superintendent of school transformation and Inspire 340 schools.

The local school system is using limited local money for teacher incentives through its Inspire 340 program for low-performing schools. For the 2020-2021 school year, that program offers incentives ranging from $2,500 recruitment bonuses to local salary supplements of up to 14.2 %, Roseboro said.

She added that with the new school year, the local system will incorporate an initiative called “Opportunity Culture” in its Inspire 340 schools. “Opportunity Culture allows WS/FCS’s excellent teachers to extend their reach by leading teams, supporting teachers and students while earning additional pay up to $12,000 annually,” she said in an email to a CSEM writer.

Woodbury and others say incentives and better pay are crucial. “Pay them more and even more when they have kids’ test results go up,” said school board member Lida Hayes-Calvert. “Give them the training they need to get ahead. Reward them with additional time off occasionally, with pay, and say ‘thank you’ when their days go well.”

Involving teachers in decision-making is important as well. Tripp Jeffers said teacher turnover has been high in the local system’s low-performing schools, and one reason for that is teachers feeling that they are not re-

spected. In the 2018-2019 school year, Roseboro said the system’s overall teacher attrition rate was approximately 13.3% and 18.8% for Title 1 schools, the category that includes low-performing schools.

School board member Marilyn Parker, who volunteers at Cook Literacy Model School, a low-performing elementary school, said teachers sometimes feel a public stigma working at such schools, and believe they would feel more valued at schools with higher performance records. The best teachers at low-performing schools, she said, are passionately dedicated to their work and the children they serve, and incentives and respect from administrators help.

So does a program the system offers, The Teacher Leadership Academy, funded by The Winston-Salem Foundation, which addresses this issue.

There is high student turnover at low-performing schools. In the 2018-2019 school year, school officials said the overall student mobility rate was 12.54% and 20.43% for low-performing schools. That rate measures the percentage of students that enroll and exit within a school year.

That, coupled with the high teacher turnover rate, constitutes what Roseboro refers to as a “double-jeopardy” situation. In addition to incentives and the other measures, officials are trying to address the teacher turnover rate through a policy that would have to be approved by the school board, of requiring teachers to stay at a school for three to five years, instead of the current requirement of two years.

Addressing the student turnover rate is even harder.

One reason is the city’s high eviction rate – more than 3,000 residents in 2016, according to a Princeton study.

Teachers say they have to help students moving from school to school catch up with their studies and deal with the stress of the moves.

Teaching in low-performing schools is challenging for those and many other reasons. Sonnen-Lee noted that the low-performing schools are minority ones and said the issue involves racism and oppression.

School board member Elisabeth Motsinger said, “Don’t put down teachers as ineffective without understanding that they are on the front lines of all the pain in our society. The issues must be looked at as systems: loss of economic mobility, poor public transportation, lack of access to healthcare. For example, many parents work two jobs, or rely on city buses that take long commutes, and waits between buses limit time available to help their children.”

Delivering more of the best teachers to these students will not be easy. The school system, Sonnen-Lee said, is not going to be fixed overnight. She and others, however, including CSEM researchers, will not back down.

John Railey is the writer-in-residence for the Center for the Study of Economic Mobility (CSEM). He can be reached at raileyjb@gmail.com. To learn more about CSEM, go to www.wssu.edu/csem.

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NASCAR raises the bar In a shocking move, NASCAR has banned the Confederate flag from their races. They still have a long way to go on their journey of inclusion, but this is a step in the right direction that was spearheaded by it’s only Black driver Bubba Wallace.

For many Black NASCAR fans, or just Black people in general, it was long overdue. I for one have enjoyed watching a race from time to time, but when I catch a glimpse of that flag, it immediately turns me off. And for context, the popular flag that is most prominently flown during NASCAR events is a Confederate battle flag, not the flag for the entire Confederacy, but it still holds the same racial undertones.

It seems like this was the perfect time for Wallace to make this push against the flag to NASCAR. With racial justice being such a hot topic around the entire country right now, NASCAR had no choice but to look at themselves in the mirror and assess what could they do to contribute to the cause.

Wallace has received a lot of backlash from NASCAR fans about this issue, claiming he is infringing on their rights.

Many claim that the flag is a symbol of Southern heritage and not a symbol of racism. Some of Wallace’s fellow racers also have an issue with the new rule.

“Well it’s been a fun ride and dream come true, but if this is the direction NASCAR is headed, we will not participate after the 2020 season is over, I don’t believe in kneeling during Anthem nor taken ppl right to fly what ever flag they love. I could care less about the Confederate Flag but there are ppl that do and it doesn’t make them a racist all you are doing is f#@%!?& one group to cater to another and I ain’t spend the money we are to participate in any political BS!! So everything is for SALE!!,” NASCAR truck driver Ray Ciccarelli posted on his Facebook page after hearing the news of the ban on the Confederate flag.

What confuses me about the uproar from fans is, why so angry?

The Confederacy only lasted for about five years or so and they lost the war. I’m sorry, but who still idolizes the flag of the side that lost. This country fought an entire war and the Confederacy came in second. We also fought a war against Nazi Germany, but we don’t see people fighting for the right to fly that flag at sporting events.

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Sportsmen Club awards Mary Garber scholarship

BY TIMOTHY RAMSEY THE CHRONICLE

Last week, the Winston-Salem Sportsmen Club presented their 2020 Mary Garber Scholarship at the Winston Lake YMCA. This year’s recipient is Tatiyana Cannon of Parkland High School.

According to the website, the scholarship is awarded each year to one outstanding senior female varsity basketball player from a Winston-Salem/ Forsyth County high school. Selection is based on academic record, extracurricular activities and community involvement, and their pursuit of education.

The Sportsmen Club has been awarding this scholarship for 15 years and the scholarship rotates to a different school each year. The scholarship is worth $1,000 and is to be used to assist with financial

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The Winston-Salem Sportsmen Club. Bottom row from left to right, Jacques Holiday, Cornell Gwynn. Middle row, Richard Daniels, Donald Scales, Ken Leak and Aldeen Smith. Back row, Ronald Palmer, Robert Wynn Chris Kirkpatrick and Mike Kimbrough.

Tatiyana Cannon, the 2020 Winston-Salem Sportsmen Club Mary Garber Scholarship award winner, stands with her head coach Ken Leak.

obligations as the athletes pursue their higher education.

Ken Leak, Parkland girls head basketball coach, said he and his staff chose Cannon based on her performance at the Mary Garber Tournament.

“She put on a show for three games, she really did,” said Leak. “She stepped up and did what she had to do as a senior and as a captain of the team, she led the team.

“When she came to Parkland, the first thing she said was ‘Coach, I made the all-tournament team last year and we lost in the championship game.

I want to win it (Mary Garber Tournament) before I graduate.’ She put us on her back, she had some ups and downs, but she did her thing this year. She is a good kid and I couldn’t ask for anything else as a coach.”

It was a surprise for Cannon when she found out she was the scholarship recipient for this year.

“I felt shocked and I was like ‘Did they pick the right person?,” Cannon said jokingly. “I thought that I did well in the Mary Garber, so I guess that’s what made them choose me.”

Cannon says she was unsure about how she was going to play heading into the Mary Garber Tournament, but her coaches and teammates gave her the necessary confidence to

play well. Even though her season was cut short, Cannon feels she has progressed more during this season than her first three years combined.

“Before I came to Parkland, I wasn’t really progressing as I should,” said Cannon. “Once I got here to Parkland, Coach Leak told me to not think about how I used to play, but instead to think positively.”

Cannon was very thankful to the Sportsmen Club for her scholarship.

She will be heading to Montreat College to further her education and this scholarship will help with that transition.

“I am very, very thankful for them presenting me with this scholarship,” she continued. “I didn’t think that I was going to get a scholarship for the Mary Garber and they just made me feel excited and confident in myself.”

Robert Wynn, president of the Winston-Salem Sportsmen Club, says he gets excited to present this scholarship in honor of Mary Garber, because of her dedication to women’s sports in the Triad area.

“It means a great deal to us and it makes me feel good to help these young ladies,” said Wynn. “It’s a beautiful thing for me and as I look back on the young ladies that have won this in the past, and they are doing well, which makes me smile.”

WSSU cancels Homecoming 2020 SUBMITTED ARTICLE

Based on guidance from public health officials, feedback from alumni, and the university’s overriding concern for the health and wellbeing of the Ram Family, WinstonSalem State University has made the difficult decision to cancel its 2020 Homecoming events.

The week-long celebration, originally slated for Sept. 13-19, was expected to bring more than 10,000 people to the campus to participate in nearly

40 events. The decision to cancel was made to proactively protect the health and wellbeing not only of guests, but also the individuals who study, live and work on campus.

The goal of this deci-

sion is simple: to decrease the number of situations that require the campus community and beyond to gather in large groups.

Officials wanted to make this decision early enough for people to change their

travel plans for September.

COVID-19 has had a tremendous impact on nearly every aspect of North Carolinians’ lives; the university regrets that its traditional Homecoming festivities are among

the casualties of this pandemic. Depending on North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services guidelines, university leaders hope to invite alumni and friends to an event in spring 2021.

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Pastor Richard C. Miller, Sr. retires as senior pastor of The Trinity Center

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Sunday School Lesson

Wisdom’s Feast Scriptures: Proverbs 9:1-6, 8-10, 13-18 By the end of this lesson, we will: *Compare and contrast the call and promise of wisdom with that of folly; *Desire to walk the path of wisdom and receive its benefits, avoiding the peril of foolishness; *Grow in the fear and knowledge of the Lord as the first step in walking the way of wisdom.

Background: Proverbs 9 is referred to in The Jewish Bible as an “interlude or a place or space in life where you reflect and decide on choices. Wisdom is presented as two figures, Lady Wisdom (rich yet prudent) and Lady Folly (enticing but poisonous). Invitations are extended by both to a banquet – the choice of acceptance is the issue at hand.

Lesson: Lady Wisdom’s “feast” (verses 1-6). Wisdom is the host and the venue is described as a newly-built house that is completed and set for guests. All feasts serve drink – the beverage here is wine – “mixed wine” meaning the wine is not what you would refer to as strong drink. The wine is diluted with water and spices are added – a clever way to satisfy the palate, but not intoxicate and alter good judgement (wisdom is the sustenance of the soul) (verses 1-2). The call of wisdom is not secret (we’ve stated this before); wisdom is available to everyone – the call is a public call (verses 3-5).

There are some people who are constitutionally unable to learn – they are urged to “Give up simpleness and live, walk in the way of understanding.”

Verses 8-9 inform us that wise people receive reproof and rebuke with appreciation; fools do not. Wisdom requires the right attitude, namely the respect of God’s Word - “The beginning of wisdom is fear of the Lord, and knowledge of the Holy One is understanding (verse 10).

Lady Folly’s “feast” (verses 13-18). Lady Folly is compared to Lady Wisdom – and is called “The stupid woman, she bustles about; she is simple and knows nothing.” (verse 13). Unlike Lady Wisdom, Lady Folly is boisterous and puts no effort into her feast. She just sits in her doorway or even in a public place, calling out to passers-by (any and everybody) (verses 13-15). She entices with forbidden delights. She brags that her delights are sweeter and more pleasant because of their risk and danger. “Stolen waters are sweet … “ The waters may also hint at sexual pleasures and other pleasures as well (verses 16-17). The words of Lady Wisdom promise life and understanding, but Lady Folly’s words lead to death (verse 18). (The Jewish Study Bible, The MacArthur Study Bible, The New Interpreter’s Study Bible, The Oxford Bible Commentary and the UMI Annual Commentary 2019 -2020).

For Your Consideration: How do you think you would recognize folly if it tried to entice you into doing something that may lead you down the path of destruction?

Application: Whether you have the wisdom to share with others or are in need of wisdom yourself, a meal is a perfect setting to engage others in the wise discussion. Prepare a special meal or order in, and invite those whose wisdom you desire or those who you think need to hear yours. Those you invite should be responsive to discipline and have a fear of the Lord. (UMI)

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Pastor Richard C. Miller will be retiring from his position as senior pastor of The Trinity Center of Winston-Salem, effective Sunday, June 28, during the 11 a.m. service.

His retirement from dedicated pastoral leadership comes as he also celebrates his 36th pastoral anniversary at The Trinity Center of Winston-Salem. The speaker at the 11 a.m. service and celebration will be his son, Minister Richard (Scooter) Miller, Jr. from Chesapeake, Virginia.

The Trinity Center, formerly known as Holy Trinity Baptist Church, was formerly located at the corner of East 11th Street and Cleveland Avenue. It was founded in 1936 and pastored by the late Edward Gholson, whose pastorate lasted 31 years. After Rev. Gholson’s death in 1969, Holy Trinity was without a full-time pastor until 1983, when Rev. Richard C. Miller, Sr. was

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Pastor Richard C. Miller called to serve as minister. After 11 months in that capacity, Rev. Miller was ordained as pastor of Holy Trinity Baptist Church.

In 1995, under Pastor Miller’s leadership, Holy Trinity joined the National Full Gospel Baptist Church Fellowship and the name of the church was changed to Holy Trinity Full Gospel Baptist Church. On March 20, 1997, the church moved from 11th and Cleveland to their for-

mer location at 651 Akron Drive. On April 20, 2011, the church’s name was changed to Holy Trinity Full Gospel Fellowship Center and is located at 5307 Peters Creek Parkway.

The membership is still thriving and doing great things in the community, as it goes after God’s glory with passion, sacrifice and faithfulness.

We give thanks to God for Pastor Miller and the focus he was given us for 2020: In Pursuit Of God’s Love.

We thank God for His continued blessings because we strongly believe that God is not through with us yet. The best is still yet to come!

Pastor Miller is happily married to Ernestine W. Miller and is the father of seven children (one deceased), all of whom work diligently alongside him in the ministry. We cheerfully and lovingly give him our most sincere and loyal support as he retires as senior pastor of The Trinity Center of Winston-Salem.

Spiritually Speaking: Wear your armor

BY JAMES WASHINGTON JR. CO-PUBLISHER, DALLAS WEEKLY NEWS

With everything going on in our world today, my question to you is: how does one put on the full armor of God in the midst of pandemic, the continuation of overt racism, state sanctioned discrimination and even murder? The Bible says, “Put on the full armor of God so that you can take your stand against the devil’s schemes” Ephesians 6:11. This passage may not tell you how to put on the armor, but it certainly lets you know why you need it.

That’s kind of why I pose the question.

I wish I could say most of this is original, but it’s not. I’m paraphrasing most of it, but I think it’s important to understand when people talk about warfare, Satan’s power in the physical world, or just plain battling against sin, this is what they’re talking about.

Spiritual warfare, as my Bible says (for believers), is fought in the mind, in the emotions, and in the will.

It is in these areas that we do battle and most times we think we’re struggling with ourselves, our own weaknesses of flesh and blood, and discipline and integrity, pride and envy.

When in actuality, we’re really struggling against “the devil’s schemes.”

Let’s not overlook or be complacent about where a lot of this is coming from.

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At these rather intense times, we sometimes lose sight of the fact that Satan and his forces have already been defeated and to a large extent disarmed.

We give him power when we forget this simple little fact. Our emotions take over and, in a state of complete exasperation, judgment gets clouded and actions happen in the spur of a moment.

I’ve said on many occasions that the fight is fixed in our favor, but we do have to go through the mental reality of this in order to maintain control and think ourselves into the solutions we so des-

perately need to navigate, what some believers term a temporary existence called “life.”

Here is something that sums it up pretty well straight out of my Bible: How do we put on spiritual armor?

We do so by daily absorbing scripture as truth, living in obedience to God, sharing the gospel and trusting Christ. That’s how to put armor on: study the Word, live according to biblical principles, and believe that we live in a place infused with Jesus’ protection. That knowledge will protect us as we come under spiritual at-

tack. It doesn’t protect us from spiritual attack, but it does make us less vulnerable, less susceptible to the “devil’s schemes,” i.e., better able to handle what comes at us.

You see, in this world Satan is free to tempt, deceive and entice, but he has no authority over you. My Bible says when we overcome temptation in the spiritual sense, we play out the victory in the physical world.

We win emotionally.

We win physically. Pure and simple, we win. The point here is you’ve got to recognize that a lot of what you’re going through is the direct result of coming under attack and not because of some great flaw within you. Success, or better yet victory, necessitates controlling the mind game.

When you put on the armor of which I speak, you know this. It’s like knowing that it’s going to rain and taking an umbrella. But you have to pay attention to the signs of bad weather in order to be prepared. You can’t be prepared for the devil properly unless you know Jesus Christ personally. He is your and my umbrella, so to speak. And please don’t take my word for it. Just read the Bible. The streets are dangerous. Please be safe and aware of who you are and who’s coming at you. Protect yourself.

May God bless and keep you always.

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tion has requested that all statewide prayer day observances be held at 11 a.m. The program outline will be sent out to all missionary presidents.

Thursdays and Saturdays 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 Tuesday and Thursday from noon until 1 p.m. at the church’s location. For more information, call 336-7229841.

June 28 First Waughtown Baptist Church live stream Senior Pastor Dr. Dennis W. Bishop will deliver the sermon online at 10 a.m. Sunday, June 28. Please join us on Facebook Live, https://www.facebook.com/FirstWaughtown/ or the First Waughtown website, https:// www.firstwaughtown.org and click on MEDIA.

June 27 The Forsyth County Missionary Union meeting and prayer The Forsyth County Missionary Union Business Meeting and Program will not be held this month. The 39th Annual Missions Prayer Day will be virtual and is scheduled for Saturday, June 27 at 11 a.m. The Conven-

June 28 Pastor’s Drive-by Parade Members and friends of FWBC are invited to participate in a Pastor’s Drive-by Parade at the church, 838 Moravia Street in Winston-Salem, at 1 p.m. Sunday, June 28. Cars will begin lining up in the lower parking lot at 12:30 p.m. Youth are encouraged to make and

display signs/posters and release balloons, if they like, as they greet Pastor Dennis W. Bishop, “Papa Dennis” to many of them. This is a way to honor and show appreciation to Dr. Bishop in a social distancing family reunion. Due to COVID-19, FWBC has not assembled in person since March 15.

June 28 Pastoral and retirement celebration The Trinity Center also known as Holy Trinity Full Gospel Fellowship Center located at 5307 Peters Creek Parkway will have a 36th pastoral and retirement celebration for Pastor Richard Miller on June 28 at 11 a.m.

The guest speaker will be Richard Miller, Jr. For more information please contact the church office at 336-7849347

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Community Calendar Please call ahead to make sure your event is still happening. We will post cancellations/postponements announcements when received.

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

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

NOW – Girl Scouts on Facebook Live Every Monday through Friday at 11 a.m., 4 p.m. and 7 p.m. and on Saturdays at 11 a.m., Girl Scouts and anyone who is interested can tune into Facebook Live workshops with topics ranging anywhere from STEM and gardening to life skills and family game night. They even host a weekly campfire on Thursday evenings.

To receive information for these newly forming troops, families can visit www.BeAGirlScout.org/ connect. There will be specific troop times for each girl grade level.

For more information about virtual Girl Scout opportunities or to learn more about Girl Scouting in your community, please visit www.girlscoutsp2p. org. Questions about virtual programming can also be directed to info@ girlscoutsp2p.org or 800672-2148.

NOW – July 15 – ESR offers free tax preparation ESR will resume tax site services at one location only – ESR’s office at

3480 Dominion Street in Winston-Salem. This site will be open for appointments only from 9 a.m.- 3 p.m., Monday –Thursday.

Residents with a household income of $56,000 and below are invited to have their taxes prepared at no cost using ESR’s free tax preparation services.

Appointments for these services may be made by calling ESR at 336-7229400 ext. 164 or 172.

NOW – July 9 – Powerful Tools for Caregivers Registration is now underway for a virtual Powerful Tools for Caregivers class. This is a 6-week course for anyone caring for a loved one who is frail or ill. Classes will take place by Zoom on Thursdays, 1:30 - 3 p.m., June 4 - July 9. There is no charge, but donations are accepted. Registration is required. To register or get information, call Carol Ann Harris at The Shepherd’s Center of Greater Winston-Salem, 336-7480217. Class size is limited, so early registration is suggested.

June 27-28 – Amateur Radio Field Day Amateur Radio Operators (Hams) in Forsyth County will be take part in an international event to test their radio equipment by making contacts with other radio amateurs for twenty-four hours on June 27-28. Because of the pandemic most hams will be operating from their homes. This is also a time to check out their equipment in case of a national emergency. Approximately 50,000 hams in the U.S. will take part.

July 7, 15 – Pedestrian plan feedback sessions The city is in the early stages of updating its pedestrian plan and is seeking feedback about the safety, accessibility and comfort of walking routes throughout the city for everyday and recreational trips alike. Two online meetings are planned for July 7 and 15 to collect public input and provide an overview of the update process. Times and specific instructions on how to participate in the meetings will be announced at a later date. For more information about the pedestrian plan, visit WinstonSalemWalks.com.

July 11 – Battle of the Badges Come out to show your support for the WinstonSalem Police Department “Peacekeepers,” the Winston-Salem Fire Department “Overhaulers,” the Forsyth County Sheriff’s Office “Enforcers,” or the Kernersville Police Department “Blue Bloods” as they compete to be the winner of the second annual Battle of the Badges softball tournament on July 11 at 8:30 a.m. – 8:30 p.m. at David Couch Ballpark, 401 Deacon Blvd.

Admission is three items per person (nonperishable food, over the counter medications, cleaning products, or personal hygiene items) to support Crisis Control Ministry.

There will be Silent Auction items you won’t want to miss! This year, there will be a raffle for a 2020 Chevy Silverado 1500LT Crew Cab thanks to Modern Chevrolet.

Raffle tickets are $100

each. Only 1500 raffle tickets are available. Stop

by Crisis Control Ministry of Winston-Salem and ask for Abbey Riesett to purchase your raffle ticket. **Minimum of 750 tickets must be sold or revert to 50/50 raffle** Contact Abbey Riesett at ariesett@crisiscontrol. org or 336-770-1621 with questions.

Here are online Bookmarks events for the month of June Contact: info@bookmarksnc.org URL for info on all events: https://www.bookmarksnc.org/calendar June 25 at 6:30 p.m.

Romance Book Club Join us to discuss Recipe for Persuasion by Sonali Dev. Sonali will join us virtually for this discussion and we will have a fun cooking element to the event! All are welcome to join by e-mailing kate@ bookmarksnc.org.

June 27 at 6 p.m.

New Adventures Book Club Want to try something new, but aren’t sure where to start? Many readers are looking for a comfortable book to help them ease into a new genre or new type of reading. Sometimes it is hard to make that choice on your own.

Our New Adventures Book Club will help introduce readers to new genres each month by selecting welcoming “first reads” into new genres. This will be a virtual book club and following the initial meetings, the books will be selected by the whole group.

All are welcome to join by e-mailing staff@bookmarksnc.org.

June 28 at 4 p.m.

LGBTQ Book Club Join us to discuss “What is Not Yours is Not Yours” by Helen Oyeyemi. All are welcome. Email info@bookmarksnc. org to sign up.

June 29 at 7 p.m.

Book Trivia Join us for our monthly book trivia with Caleb!

Now on YouTube live.

June 30 at 6:30 p.m.

Bookmarks Book Club Join us to discuss The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller. All are welcome. Questions: email Jamie@bookmarksnc.org.

Canceled events: Aug. 27-29 – Used book sale - Canceled The Shepherd’s Center of Greater Winston-Salem will hold its 33rd Annual Used Book Sale on Thursday, Aug. 27, and Friday, Aug. 28, from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m., and on Saturday, Aug. 29, from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. (1/2 Price on all items!). The book sale is one of the largest in our state! Parking and Admission are free. The event will take place at the fairgrounds.

2020 Summer Music Series - Canceled The Downtown Winston-Salem Partnership is cancelling the 2020 Summer Music Series (would have been the 23rd season) which consists of Downtown Jazz on Friday nights and Summer on Liberty on Saturday nights. The cancellation is due to global COVID-19 pandemic and concern for the safety of everyone involved. We

plan on returning to the event in the summer of 2021 as we have since it started in 1998 and was instrumental in the resurgence of our downtown.

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NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING BEFORE THE WINSTON-SALEM CITY COUNCIL ON PETITIONS FOR ZONING CHANGES

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Spring/Wachovia Hill Apartments Managed by Community Management Corp.

Zoning petition of John L. Dyson Sr., Phyllis Dyson, and Nancy S. Wall, to amend and change from AG and RS20 to RS20-S (Residential Development): the zoning classification and Official Zoning Map of the propery located north of Patsy Drive, east of Glenn Landing Drive; property consists of Âą 19.17 acres and is PINs 6864-31-1929, 6864-32-1660, and 6864-32-7378 as shown on the Forsyth County Tax Maps and on a site plan of file in the office of the City-County Planning Board (Zoning Docket W3436).

Site Plan Amendment of Wachovia Bank N.A. for additional accessory structures on a site previously approved for Services A in a GO-S zoning district: property is located at the northwest corner of the intersection of Sunnynoll Court and Silas Creek Parkway.;property consists of Âą8.56 acres and is PIN 6817-82-3532 as shown on the Forsyth County Tax Maps and on file in the office of the City-County Planning Board (Zoning Docket W-3440).

Zoning petition of W.R. Vernon Produce Company, H-850 Trade LLC, and Indust1y Hill Properties LLC, to and change from LI to PB-L (Arts and Crafts Studio; Banking and Financial Services; Bed and Breakfast; Building Contractors, General; Church or Religious Institution, Community; Church or Religious Institution, Neighborhood; Combined Use; Convenience Store; Food or Drug Store; Funeral Home; Furniture and Home Furnishings Store; Government Offices, Neighborhood Organizations, or Post Office; Hotel or Motel; Institutional Vocational Training Facility; Library, Public; Micro-Brewery or Micro-Distillery; Museum or Art Gallery; Nursing Care Institution; Offices; Park and Shuttle Lot; Parking, Commercial; Police or Fire Station; Postal Processing Facility; Recreation Facility, Public; Recreation Services, Indoor; Recreation Services, Outdoor; Residential Building, Duplex; Residential Building, Single Family; Residential Building, Twin Home; Restaurant (without drive-through service); Retail Store; School Vocational or Professional; Services, A; Services B; Shopping Center; Shopping Center, Small; Special Events Center; Stadium, Coliseum, or Exhibition Building; Swimming Pool, Private; Testing and Research Lab; Theater, Indoor; Transmission Tower; Urban Agriculture; Utilities; Veterinary Services; Warehousing; Adult Day Care Center; Child Care Institution; Child Care, Sick Children; Child Day Care Center; Family Group Home B; Family Group Home C, Group Care Facility A; Life Care Community; Residential Building, Multifamily; Residential Building, Townhouse; School, Private; School, Public; Helistop; Access Easement, Private Off Site; and Storage Services, Retail): the zoning classification and Official Zoning Map of the property located on the east side of North Trade Street between west Eighth Street and West Tenth Street; propery consists ofÂą 4.02 acres and is PINs 6835-19-5759 and 6835-19-5549, and portions of PIN 6835-19-5455 and 6835-19-5350 as shown on the Forsyth County Tax Maps (Zoning Docket W-3441).

Zoning petition of Industry Hill Properties, LLC and IH850 Trade, LLC to amend and change from LI to E-L (Arts and Crafts Sh1dio; Banking and Financial Se1vices; Club or Lodge; Combined Use; Conve1ience Store; Entertainment Facility, Large; Food or Drug Store; Ftm1iture and Home Furnishings Store; Hotel or Motel; Manufacturing A; Micro-Brewery or Micro-Distille1y; Museum or Art Galle1y; Offices; Police of Fire Station; Recreation Facility, Public; Rcreation Services, Indoor; Recreation Services, Outdoor; Restaurant (without drive-through service); Restaurant (with drive-through service); Retail Store; Services, A; Shopping Center; Special Events Center; Storage Services, Retail; Theater, Indoor; Utilities; Veterinary Services; Warehousing; Wholesale Trade A; Residential Building, Multifamily; Residential Building, Townhouse; Residential Building, Twin Home; and Residential Building, Duplex): the zoning classification and Official Zoning Map of the property located on the north side of West Eighth Street be-tween North Trade Street and Oak Street; property consists ofÂą 1.67 acres and is a portion of PINs 6835-19-5455 and 6835-19-5350 as shown on the Forsyth County Tax Maps (Zoning Docket W-3444).

All parties in interest and citizens are invited to attend (virtually) said hearing at which time they shall have an opportunity to be heard in favor of or in opposition to the foregoing proposed changes. If you would like to speak during the public hearing, please visit www.cityofws.org/agendas or call (336)7272224. If you have questions regarding public hearing participation please call (336)727-2224.

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

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

Written comments will be accepted on the public hearing items until 7:00 p.m. July 7, 2020. Written comments may be sent to the City Clerk’s Office, P.O. Box 2511 Winston-Salem 27102, or by email to sandrark@cityofws.org.

Public comment period will be conducted at the end of the meeting. It will be limited to a toal of thirty (30) minutes and each speaker will be limited to three (3) minutes.

All request for appropriate and necessary auxiliary aids and services must be made, within a reasonable time prior to the hearing, to Angela Carmon at 7477404 or to T.D.D. 727-8319.

BY ORDER OF THE CITY COUNCIL Sandra Keeney, Clerk of the City Council of the City of Winston-Salem The Chronicle June 25 and July 2, 2020

Having qualified as Administrator of the Estate of Taylor Mark Bays (19 E 1339), deceased May 29, 2019 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 September 4, 2020 this Notice will be pleaded in bar of recovery. All persons indebted to the said decedent or estate shall please make immediate payment to the undersigned.

This the 4th day of June, 2020.

Deborah Koper Administrator for Taylor Mark Bays, deceased 2101 Walker Ave. Greensboro, NC 27403

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

Having qualified as Fiduciary of the Estate of Bobby Ray Wilson(18 E 2597), deceased November 29 2018, 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 September 4, 2020 this Notice will be pleaded in bar of recovery. All persons indebted to the said decedent or estate shall please make immediate payment to the undersigned.

This the 4th day of June, 2020.

Darryl Willis Little Fiduciary for Bobby Ray Wilson, deceased 1801 Hattie Circle Winston-Salem, NC 27105 The Chronicle June 4, 11, 18, 25, 2020

All persons indebted to said estate will please make immediate payment to the undersigned at the above address.

Boykin Edwards Jr. Attorney At Law 3735 Memorial Drive Suite 100 Decatur, GA 30032 The Chronicle June 18, 25, and July 2, 9, 2020

NOTICE TO CREDITORS Having qualified as Fiduciary of the Estate of William Boyd Oglesby (20 E 768), deceased February 14, 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 September 4, 2020 this Notice will be pleaded in bar of recovery. All persons indebted to the said decedent or estate shall please make immediate payment to the undersigned.

This the 4th day of June, 2020.

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Winston-Salem Street School celebrates Class of 2020 SUBMITTED ARTICLE

With larger gatherings still not an option, the Winston-Salem Street School, like other schools, was forced to forego their traditional graduation ceremony for the Class of 2020, for now. The school will have a proper graduation celebration for students and their families when distancing restrictions have been lifted. For now, drive-by celebrations will have to do.

Last week, braving rainstorms and the challenges of keeping a car caravan together for over 200 miles, Street School staff set out to personally visit each of the 14 members of the Class of 2020. From Monday through Wednesday, ten teachers and administrative staff visited students from northern Davidson County, Kernersville, Rural Hall, Winston-Salem and points in-between. Adhering to social distancing guidelines, students were presented with gift bags full of goodies and a custom yard sign, signifying their hard-fought accomplishments.

Most of these students who are proud members of the Class of 2020 would more than likely not have earned their diplomas if

Talia Ashford and mother not for their experiences at the Street School. Each found what they needed at the school, whether it was smaller class sizes, oneon-one attention, acceptance with no judgment, or just an environment that was safe and encour-

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aging. Many will go on to further their education and some will enter the workforce, but all now have that which they thought would elude them: a high school diploma.

Congratulations to the Winston-Salem Street School Class of 2020: (Adult Online Program) Ashley Klinger, Adonis Jones, and Litzy Rivera; (High School Program) Steven Goodwin, Giovanni Guzman, Judith Roble, Talia Ashford, Aysia Williams, Nikki Gattison, Amy Gonzalez-Garcia, Gabby Walker, Leeanna Smith, Jettie Stanley, and Tim Phillips.

For more information on how the Street School is reinventing itself during this challenging time, call 336-721-1110. To learn more about the organization as a whole or to see how you can become involved, visit www. wsstreetschool.org.

Livingstone College wins one for the books with award of $15,000 Big Read grant SALISBURY – Livingstone College was awarded a $15,000 grant to host the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Big Read in Rowan County.

Livingstone was one of 84 nonprofit organizations selected to receive an NEA Big Read grant to support a community reading program between September 2020 and June 2021. The NEA Big Read is an Arts Endowment initiative in partnership with Arts Midwest. Its purpose is to broaden the understanding of our world, our communities, and ourselves through the joy of sharing a good book.

The NEA Big Read in Rowan County will focus on Adrian Matejka’s “The Big Smoke.” Activities will take place April 2-May 7, 2021. “Our text is an exquisite collection of poetry that depicts the heavyweight champion Jack Johnson as a social phenomenon through a literary lens,” said Dr. Da’Tarvia Parrish, program director and history and African-American studies professor at Livingstone College. “As literature allows the imagination to exist where often perceptions can be reconstructed and redefined, I’m eager to unfold how this communal lesson can increase the complexities of self-awareness and acquire new perspectives.”

Livingstone College will host shared activities with several community partners to include the Rowan Public Library, Families and Communities Together (F.A.C.T.) and Hornets’ Nest Girl Scouts Troop 454.

“For over 140 years, Livingstone College has provided leadership to the global society, whereas our effort in the Big Read is simply another way the college does its best to serve,” said Livingstone President Dr. Jimmy R. Jenkins, Sr. “We are thankful for the friends we have in Rowan County who have partnered with us, and we are grateful to NEA for this opportunity to recognize the importance of literacy and community.”

“During this time of social isolation throughout our country, we have become even more aware of the important ways the arts help us connect with others, and how they bring meaning, joy and comfort to our lives,” said Mary Anne Carter, NEA chairman. “By bringing the NEA Big Read to the Rowan-Salisbury community, Livingstone College will provide thoughtful and fun programming while also strengthening community bonds.”

The NEA Big Read offers a range of titles that reflect many different voices and perspectives, aiming to inspire conversation

and discovery. The main feature of the initiative is a grants program, managed

by Arts Midwest, which annually supports dynamic community reading programs, each designed around a single NEA Big Read selection.

“We are honored to continue our partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts on this incredible program,” said Torrie Allen, president and CEO of Arts Midwest.

“For more than 14 years, this national effort has invested in communities as they gather to discuss the stories and ideas that connect us to one another. We are especially inspired by the projects and organizations that are finding new, virtual ways of creating those connections with their communities and are thrilled to support them at this critical time.”

Since 2006, the National Endowment for the Arts has funded more than 1,600 NEA Big Read programs, providing more than $22 million to organizations nationwide. For more information about the NEA Big Read, including book and author information, podcasts and videos, visit arts.gov/neabigread.

For more information about Livingstone College, visit www.livingstone.edu.

June 25, 2020

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that flag is a sign of oppression and racism? It’s not a sign of Southern heritage, because if it were, then everyone from the South would be proud to fly that flag.

This was a necessary move made by NASCAR. Over the years, the sport has tried subtle ways to try and include minorities into the sport. They have internship programs with several HBCU’s across the country that allow individuals from those schools to be included in the sport, from being on the pit crew or even the administrative side. But those measures have only done so much to include minorities. The sport needs to continue to push forward if they want to make the sport marketable to minorities.

Other sports, such as tennis and golf, had similar issues, but had the benefit of having a minority that rose to the top of the sport.

Arthur Ashe, Althea Gibson, the Williams’ sisters, Sloane Stevens, and now Coco Gauff have brought

eyes to the sport of tennis over the last half century. For golf, Tiger Woods made it cool for more African Americans to head to the country clubs in the late 90s. The question remains, is Bubba Wallace going to be that same catalyst for NASCAR? Hopefully so, but it remains to be seen.

Since I am not as familiar with NASCAR as I am with other sports, I decided to reach out to an avid fan that would be able to give me more insight on the subject and the conversations taking place among fans.

“For the most part, everyone has been kind of positive about it and they realize it is a thing of the past,” said Ryan Sparks about what he has heard from fellow NASCAR fans about the new rule. “It is a part of American history, but that’s where it belongs, in the history books.

We want to get the stands packed with all kinds of people and new fans that haven’t been fans in prior years.

“You don’t want anything offensive flying at a NASCAR race, whether they mean it as being of-

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Some people do take it as being offensive, so as part of being a good human, I don’t think it should be there.”

In response to what Ciccarelli said, Sparks added, “It just shows people’s ignorance. I try to be sensitive to other people’s beliefs and thoughts, even though it may not be something I believe.”

Sparks stated he hopes this new rule will bring more minorities into the sport, because he is a proponent of bringing as many people to the sport as possible.

“I don’t see anything but positive from this,” he continued. “I think the more we can work together and get along, it will be better for sports and our country in general.”

Going to a NASCAR race has been on my sports’ bucket list for a long time. With this new rule in place, this may be the perfect time to give the sport a chance, because now I feel NASCAR is making a sincere effort to be more inclusive.

Way to go, NASCAR.

Ag Biz Planner and Ag Biz Basics applications now being accepted by Carolina Farm Credit STATESVILLE – Carolina Farm Credit is now accepting applications for the 12th year of the Ag Biz Planner program and the 5th year of the Ag Biz Basics program. These e-learning courses teach financial and business planning, budgeting, and other farm management topics that are essential to a farm’s success. The ten-module and four-module courses are facilitated by Farm Credit University, in conjunction with AgCarolina and Cape Fear Farm Credits in North Carolina and Farm Credit of the Virginias and Colonial Farm Credit in Maryland, West Virginia, and Virginia.

Ag Biz Planner and Basics aim to support Young, Beginning, Small (YBS), and veteran farmers throughout our territory. Participants range from YBS and veteran farmers who are just starting their farming ventures, to those who have been farming for several years and are looking for guidance to improve their operation. The program offers online modules and videos, application exercises with relatable examples, and a fun and interactive final conference to wrap

up the course. Several leading speakers and advisors in the agriculture industry will be the highlight at the final conference. The course topics include trends in agriculture, working with your ag lender, personal finances, farm growth and transition management, creating the most useful farm financial records, and much more.

By the end of the course, each Ag Biz Planner participant will also have a complete farm business plan for their farming operation. Additionally, participants will be assigned a Carolina Farm Credit loan officer to serve as their mentor throughout the course.

Carolina Farm Credit will accept up to five participants for each program.

All applications are due July 15, 2020. The program will begin with a kickoff webinar on Sept.

21. The course will conclude with a conference in Raleigh January 6-7, 2021.

Applications, a course outline, and program information are available at carolinafarmcredit.com/about/ resources/educational-programs. Individuals selected for the program will be notified after August 15.

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is a stockholder-owned cooperative providing financing to full and part-time farmers and agriculturalrelated businesses and also provides financing for the construction and purchase of homes in 54 counties through 29 branch offices. Other financial services available are credit life insurance, appraisal services, leasing programs, and financial planning.

For over 100 years, Farm Credit has been supporting rural communities and agriculture with reliable, consistent credit and financial services.

Carolina Farm Credit serves over 11,000 members with loans outstanding totaling more than $1.7 billion. The association’s territory covers the western half of North Carolina, with branch offices located in Albemarle, Asheboro, Asheville, Browns Summit, Burnsville, Carthage, Conover, Ellerbe, Graham, Hendersonville, Jefferson, Lenoir, Lexington, Lincolnton, Monroe, Murphy, Pilot Mountain, Roxboro, Rural Hall, Salisbury, Shelby, Siler City, Sparta, Spindale, Statesville, Taylorsville, Wilkesboro, Yadkinville, and Yanceyville.

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Medal winners announced in Senior Games/SilverArts competition

BY CHUCK VESTAL

Despite the challenges Piedmont Plus Senior Games/SilverArts faced due to COVID-19, we were able to hold the SilverArts competition this year, except for the Performing Arts competition, which had to be canceled.

Due to the nature of this virus and the risk potential, and after several conversations with our judges, we developed a plan to have the Visual and Heritage Arts judging online.

Each artist forwarded photos of their entries and the judges viewed them online and scored each entry. We would like to thank Bob Campbell, Lisa Miller and Barbara Campbell for their willingness to adapt to this different approach to judging so that we could continue with this competition.

The Literary portion of SilverArts was handled the same way as in the past since there is no direct contact with the judges.

Each judge received packets of each literary subcategory with the entries to judge. Each genre – poetry, short story, essay and life experience/memoir – was judged by three members of Winston-Salem Writers. We would like to thank Phil Cohen, John Hohn, Judith Dancy, Steve Lindahl, Howard Pearre, Vinita Singh, Anita Diggs Thomas, Christy Vance, Sue Williams and Deborah Wood, for taking time to read and score the entries.

We expected the number of Visual and Heritage Arts entries to be lower than usual and they were, but we were blessed to still receive many entries.

Those who entered were enthusiastic and excited to have an outlet by which to share their talents, even during a pandemic! You can view photos of all the Heritage and Visual Arts entries on the Piedmont Plus Senior Games Facebook page.

The number of Literary entries was pretty much in line as in past years. We will have the literary compilation printed soon and it will be available for purchase for $5. Copies can be purchased at the drivethru window at the Black Phillips Smith Government Center, 2301 N. Patterson Ave. We congratulate the following medal winners: Heritage Arts Crocheting: Gold medal, Brenda Smith Silver medal, Rosemary Graham Bronze medal, Annette Collins Jewelry: Gold medal, Rosemary Graham Quilting (hand

stitched): Gold medal, Patricia Brantley, “Tractor” Quilting (machine stitched): Gold medal, Jeannie Romano, “Hearts” Weaving: Gold medal, Irma Jackson, “Circles and Rectangles” Visual Arts Acrylics: Gold medal, Laura Reynolds, “Yellow Flower” Silver medal, Jeannie Romano, “Cardinal” Bronze medal, William Gramley, “Red Apples” Drawing: Gold medal, William Gramley, “Portrait of a New Yorker” Silver medal, Jerry Sneed, “Boat” Mixed Media: Gold medal, William Gramley, “This House is Empty” Silver medal, Brenda Smith, “Paper Roses” Bronze medal, Margaret Miller, “Black Cat” Oil: Gold medal, Jeannie Romano, “Big Boy Tomato” Silver medal, Bruce D. Ingle, “Bridge” Bronze medal, Sarah Brooks, “Cabin Snow” Pastels: Gold medal, William Gramley, “Fall Scene” Photography: Gold medal, Charles Swanson, “Spanish Shadows” Silver medal, Judie Holcomb-Pack, “Moon over Myrtle Beach” Bronze medal, Sarah Brooks, “Sunset” Photography (film): Gold medal, Jerry Sneed, “Leaving San Francisco” Watercolor: Gold medal, Laura Reynolds, “White Pelican” Silver medal, Myrna Mackin, “Flowers in Vase” Bronze medal, Jerry Sneed Literary Arts Essay: Gold medal, Helen Webb, “The Lifeboat” Silver medal, William Gramley, “Here’s a Suggestion” Bronze medal, Jessie L. Crockett, “Back in the Day” Life Experiences/ Memoir: Gold medal, Annette Collins, “Pandemic” Silver medal, Sondra Wainer, “Lucky” Bronze medal, Helen Webb, “Memories of a Beloved Companion” Poetry: Gold medal, Peter Venable, “Crab Nebula” Silver medal, William Gramley, “Little Bird, Who Made Thee?”

Bronze medal, Sondra Wainer, “Reflections on a Photo” Short Story:

Gold medal, Leslie Lavender, “The Clock” Silver medal, Peter Venable, “Black Ankle Road” Bronze medal, William Gramley, “A Therapy Session” We will award medals on Thursday, June 25, from 10 a.m. until noon, with winners picking up their medals at the drivethru window at the Black Phillips Smith Government Center . We will be congratulating winners and taking photos as they leave the parking lot (weather permitting).

Piedmont Plus Senior Games/SilverArts 2021 will start accepting registrations in mid-January 2021. We pray that life will be back to normal by then and the 2021 games will be held as they have been in the past. In the meantime, we thank everyone who registered to participate this year, even if your event had to be canceled, and appreciate the flexibility of the SilverArts participants.

And please, remember to frequently wash your hands and wear a cloth mask while staying 6 feet away from another person!

Chuck Vestal is the adult recreation supervisor and Senior Games coordinator for the City of Winston-Salem Recreation and Parks Department.

Reach Chuck at 336-7272325 or email chuckv@ cityofws.org. For more information about Piedmont Plus Senior Games/SilverArts, go to www.WePlay. ws.

Local band gives ‘porch concerts’ for neighbors

BY JUDIE HOLCOMB-PACK THE CHRONICLE

Even though the band Landreth & Webb has been performing all over the state and country, they are the epitome of “garage band,” holding their practices in Ron Landreth‘s garage behind his house off Country Club Road.

Both Ron Landreth and Tim Webb began playing guitar while in high school, but didn’t know each other then. If you grew up in Winston-Salem, you may remember Ron’s band, The Eradicators, that was popular in the ‘60s. They

work, he spotted Tim outside playing his guitar. As a guitarist himself, he was excited to meet a fellow musician and introduced himself and said that he also played guitar. “Tim was unimpressed,” recalled Ron, but he brought out his guitar and played along. Eventually they started playing together and after a while people began to “just show up and ask us to play,” according to Tim. Their first paying gig at The Wolf’s Lair restaurant at the Black Wolf Vineyards in Dobson netted them $60 each and they were thrilled with getting

cians.”

Then about two years ago, as Ron and his wife were preparing to move and as he was cleaning out old boxes of miscellaneous items, he came across a cassette tape (remember those?) of Ron and Tim playing together, which brought back a lot of fun memories. He still had an email address for Tim, so he reached out to him and told him about the cassette tape. Tim responded, they reminiscenced about old times, and the conversation turned to friends who had died. Ron said, “We need to get together for

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Ron Landreth and Tim Webb perform rock/folk and original songs as Landreth & Webb. Landreth & Webb, along with Rainy Chewning, perform for neighbors at their Porch Concert. opened for the Yardbirds, Sam the Sham, Bobby Hebb, and other acts at the Dick Clark Caravan of Stars.

Tim was also busy with local bands, playing guitar, writing music and singing in bands such as White Light that opened for the Avett Brothers and the Honeycutters at the Garage.

Fast forward to the mid-‘90s and Ron and Tim found that they were neighbors. One day when Ron came home from

paid for having fun.

But as often happens, life got in the way, they moved away and eventually lost touch with each other.

For 14 years, Ron stayed busy playing contemporary Christian music and touring with an awardwinning contemporary Christian artist. Tim was also playing with different bands, but his focus was more folk/Celtic. As Tim explained, they experienced “the traditional checkered past of musi-

old times’ sake,” and Tim agreed. They met for dinner with their wives and reconnected as friends, as well as musicians.

Although their musical styles are different – Ron’s is more rock & roll and Tim’s is more folk and Celtic - they have found a way to merge their talents into a blend that’s all their own. They perform some cover songs, but much of their music is written by Tim. They recently deSee Band on B7

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cided to add another voice to their vocals, so Ron’s daughter, Rainy Chewning, has joined the group.

Rainy has been singing with her father since “she was in pigtails” and is the music teacher at Moore Magnet School. Landreth & Webb had gigs booked throughout the spring, but all were canceled due to the pandemic.

Disappointed, Tim asked, “Now what do we do to amuse ourselves ?”

And that’s when the idea came to them: a Porch Concert Series, or as Tim calls it, “Music in the Time of Plague.” Ron decided to send an invite to his neighbors to come

where people can bring their chairs and socially distance. They hope to alternate locations as long as the pandemic keeps them from paying gigs.

Both men said that although they have played at venues from bars to wedding receptions, they prefer to play in front of people who come to hear good music and who have an appreciation for original songs. They especially want to introduce young people to music they’ve never heard before.

In the meantime, they are recording a CD at a studio in Beaufort, S.C. Tim mentioned that as much as they love playing for their friends, “we do play for money, too.” Hopefully, they can start scheduling

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Tim Webb and Ron Landreth rehearse with Rainy Chewning in Landreth’s garage watch them play and was unsure of the response he’d get. Sure enough, his neighbors brought chairs to sit outside in their yards as he, Tim and Rainey performed on Ron’s front porch. Ron said he and Tim were “overwhelmed at the enthusiastic response.” Although it was a “captive audience,” they saw that there was a pent-up demand for entertainment. A couple weeks later they did it again and even more neighbors came out to watch.

Tim, who lives in High Point, is now planning a concert in his large yard,

gigs for when the pandemic is under control and the state moves into opening more during Phase 3.

Ron, who is 70, and Tim, who is 73, plan to continue playing music “forever.” Tim noted with a laugh, “Mick Jagger is 77, Charlie Watts is 79 ….”

Landreth & Webb are in their prime.

For more information about Landreth & Webb, follow them on Facebook at Landreth-Webb.

For booking information, email Tim Webb at timwebb@triad.rr.com.

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June 25, 2020

Gold medal, Poetry

Crab Nebula

BY PETER VENABLE

Over a year the alien shrouds her lower kidney, major vessels swell the way leaven does dough.

It is ravenous, relentless, ruthless Strangles her urethra until one Monday night searing pain buckles her knees, she collapses; spouse dials 911, sirens deafen, EMS holds a hand, propels her NASCAR speed into the ER.

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Neighbors for Better Neighborhoods stays busy even during pandemic

BY MARVA REID

Since the COVID virus took hold in this city, Neighbors For Better Neighborhoods began to look for ways we could be of help to our community.

We applied for a small grant and solicited help from various groups such as Maya Angelou Health Center For Equity, Partners For Prosperity (Chuck Byrd), Love Out Loud (Chuck Sprong),

ters and I planted beautiful flowers at Harambee Park located 14th Street and Jackson Avenue, which will soon be blooming and brightening that corner.

We also passed out lilies for Easter blooming.

We are currently encouraging our neighbors to submit their Census information and to register to vote, as well as to request an absentee ballot for the November election so they can safely cast their ballot.

Morpheus numbs her into delirium.

MRI exposes the pitiless parasite Impervious, indifferent, immune to probing eyes, fingers. “You have a mass below your left kidney.”

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First round chemo. Five-day marathon twenty-six miles seems a stroll.

The alien, agitated, feeds in frenzy, snickers at her nausea, her frailty, her apparition in the hospital mirror.

Hundreds of prayers radiate it.

Spirit stings, shrinks, shrivels it as sniveling dark energies flee like bats out of a cave.

She knows she shall be free.

Young men show off their free masks from Neighbors for Better Neighborhoods.

Piedmont Triad Regional Council, and anywhere that we could to get masks for people in our community. We have been able to give out many masks to help people protect themselves from the virus.

We were able to supply ready-to-eat type meals for our seniors, along with snacks, juices, household cleansers and hand sanitizers. We included information on how to follow up with our community members throughout the duration of this pandemic.

Partnering with Keep Winston-Salem Beautiful (Joe Stilphen), Joe Wal-

We enjoy helping where we can to pay it forward because we all live together and should help where we can. It’s a great way to make friends and build a better neighborhood.

Marva Reid is the president of Neighbors For Better Neighborhoods and a member of Age Friendly Forsyth’s Community Engagement Council. Reach her via email at Godstrlblzr@gmail.com.

For more information, visit www.nbncommunity.org.

Beauty Flourishes Here

I United Methodist Retirement Community

N OUR FULLY EQUIPPED STUDIO, artist Steven loves to share

his experience and guidance with fellow residents as they tap into

their creative spirits. At Arbor Acres, our residents celebrate the endless

variations and possibilities of beauty. What is beautiful to you?

www.arboracres.org 1240 Arbor Road, Winston-Salem, NC 27104 336 -724-7921

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JUNE 2020

OUR MISSION

Helping seniors

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in Forsyth County remain in their own homes for as long as possible, living with dignity.

OUR PROGRAMS Elizabeth and Tab Williams Adult Day Center Meals-on-Wheels Help Line Home Care Living-at-Home Senior Lunch Elder Care Choices

CONTACT US Senior Services 2895 Shorefair Drive Winston-Salem, NC 27105 seniorservicesinc.org 336-725-0907

WATCH FOR US Watch for AgeWise

each Monday. Submit your questions to agewise@ seniorservicesinc.org.

D O N ATE O R VO LUNTEER TO DAY!

The COVID-19 pandemic has caused many things to change but it has not changed the needs of older adults in our programs. Once again we are partnering with our friends at Piedmont Federal Savings Bank to collect vitally needed food, health, and personal care items for the seniors we serve. Please view the list of most needed items at seniorservicesinc.org or consider making a donation to support this year’s Christmas in July campaign. Donation days and times will be different this year so please visit seniorservicesinc.org for details.

COVID-19: Things to Know About Our Services as NC Re-Opens

Due to the nature of our services and the unique needs of the older adults we serve, Senior Services has not removed any restrictions or safety precautions that we’ve put in place related to the pandemic.

We will continue to be cautious about removing protections and resuming programs that have been suspended. Our staff remain committed to finding creative ways to continue to meet needs and support seniors and their families despite operational changes. We will update our website and share any changes related to COVID-19 here as well as on our social media platforms. You can always visit seniorservicesinc.org for the latest information about our operations.

Part-Time Americorps Opportunity Available

Senior Services is thrilled to announce an opportunity to serve older adults living with dementia and their caregivers through a special partnership with the Servant Center and Americorps. If you or someone you know may be interested in working with us part-time as an Americorps member in the coming months, please visit seniorservicesinc.org to learn more about the opportunity and to be linked to the application.

Steadfast in our Commitment to Racial Equity As a community service provider with a mission that includes support of people being able to live with dignity, the Board and staff at Senior Services are committed to racial equity. To read our Board of Director’s full statement please visit seniorservicesinc.org.

Find local events of interest to seniors by visiting seniorservicesinc.org/events.

Too many local seniors are alone, hungry and struggling to meet basic needs. Your gift will change their lives.