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THURSDAY, May 28, 2020

COVID-19 necessitates changes to in-person court appearances

torney. To use the check in service please follow these directions below.

If you complete the form and submit it online, you will not be required to come in person to your first court date. Instead, you will be notified of your next court date and your attorney or the Clerk of Court will be in touch with you about your case.

The on-line process can be accessed in the three ways listed below: *From the Public Defender’s website: www. forsythcountyclerk.com/ defender *By directly entering this link on your Internet browser: https://forms.gle/ izXysiU7zdzA2QXb8 *If you do not have access to a computer or a smart phone to access the on-line form, please contact the Public Defender’s office and we will assist you over the phone. Call 336-779-6325.

If you have already hired an attorney, please ask them to check you in and contact the District Attorney’s office.

BY PAUL JAMES

Have you recently been charged with a criminal offense?

Is your first court date for this charge between now and June 30?

Would you like to avoid having to go to your first court date? (Just the first one only) Due to the pandemic, we are trying to reduce the number of folks who must come to court, particularly just for initial administrative court dates.

If you meet the criteria above, you can skip your first court date by using our new on-line check-in and request for counsel process. You can also hire your own attorney if you wish before your first court date and your attorney can check in for you as well.

The District Attorney’s office can contact and negotiate with attorneys, whether hired or court appointed, who have checked in for clients prior to the court date. You can use the on-line check-in service even if you are not requesting a court-appointed at-

Parmon chosen to be interim representative for Northeast Ward The Forsyth County Democratic Party (FCDP) has selected Morticia Parmon to serve as the interim representative for the Northeast Ward.

Parmon, who is the daughter of former county commissioner and state legislator Earline Parmon, will fill the vacancy left by Mayor Tempore Vivian H. Burke, who passed away following a brief illness last month. Parmon originally ran to represent the Northeast Ward in the primary election earlier this year, but was defeated by Barbara Hanes Burke who received nearly 60% of the vote.

Under normal cir-

cumstances Hanes Burke would step into her role as representative for the ward, but as reported by The Chronicle in March, longtime city native and community activist Paula McCoy announced plans to run in the general election as an unaffiliated candidate. Which means technically, Hanes Burke hasn’t won the seat yet.

When discussing the process that led to the selection, Eunice Campbell, who serves on the Northeast Ward Municipal Executive Committee, applauded Parmon for her willingness to accept the challenge. During the selection process, precinct chairs and vice chairs that represent the voters of the Northeast Ward had the opportunity to vote on who should fill the vacancy.

Campbell said, “I am very proud of Morticia Parmon for opening herself up to the challenge and becoming a candidate.

She will make an impact during her brief term that no one else could. She has her hand on the pulse of the ward.”

Now that the Forsyth County Democratic Party

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Morticia “Tee Tee” Parmon has made its decision, the final verdict will be left up to the members of the Winston-Salem City Council.

Members of the council

have the power to accept the party’s nomination and move forward with Parmon or decline their nomination and make their own

suggestion, which will be presented to the party before approval.

It is unclear when the city council will make a

decision on filling the vacancy. The next meeting of the full council is scheduled for Monday, June 1.

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WS/FCS approves additional land purchase at proposed site for Ashley Elementary

BY TEVIN STINSON THE CHRONICLE

The possibility of a new elementary school being built in East Winston took a step closer to becoming reality earlier this week. The Board of Education voted to move forward with the purchase of additional land near New Hope Lane, the proposed site for a new Ashley Elementary School.

Talks about the need for an new Ashley have been ongoing for nearly a decade if not longer. The building was built in the 60s and operated as a middle school until it closed in the 80s, and reopened as an elementary school in the mid-90s. And in 2018, after complaints of a lingering mold problem made several students and teachers sick, calls for a new school grew even louder.

A few months later, several community groups including Action4Equity, the Winston-Salem NAACP, Ministers’ Conference of Winston-Salem and Vicinity, and several others, joined forces and filed a discrimination complaint with the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights, against the Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Board of Education and the school system

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On Tuesday May 26, the Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Schools’ Board of Education voted to purchase additional land near the proposed site of Ashley Elementary.

(WSFCS). for the way they WS/FCS made a request expected to be built. The handled the mold situation. to purchase 18 lots from school is expected to be a After linking the mold the City of Winston-Salem focal point of the redevelto outdated HVAC units near East 21st Street and opment of the Cleveland throughout the school, the New Hope Lane for the Avenue Community. board of education voted future home of Ashley ElEarlier this year, the to replace all the units in ementary. To finalize the U.S. Department of Housthe school. But the coali- deal, the city council had ing and Urban Develtion that filed the lawsuit to rescind a previous deal opment announced that said replacing the HVAC for the sale of the lots to HAWS was awarded the units was an inadequate the Housing Authority of Choice Neighborhoods Winston-Salem (HAWS). Grant, which will provide fix.

When discussing the In 2005 the city council funding for the complete complaint, Rev. Alvin Car- adopted a resolution desig- makeover of the Cleveland lisle said, “We feel that the nating HAWS as the “pre- Avenue Community and replacement of the air con- ferred developer” for the surrounding areas. ditioning systems at Ash- property, but HAWS never Although WS/FCS has ley is an inadequate fix. We proceeded with develop- purchased land for the new feel like it’s only a Band- ment, which opened the school and the ball seems aid on a greater problem. door for the school system. to be rolling in the right On Oct. 14 the city direction, it is important Replacement of this building has been the subject of council approved the sale to note that the district will discussion for many years and Tuesday, May 26, the still have to find funding and continually put on the school board unanimously for construction. approved an action item to back-burner.”

According to district In an attempt to get purchase additional land in leaders, a new school will the ball rolling on build- East Winston community, cost about $30 million. ing a new school, last fall where the new school is

Bill filed to add two at-large seats to City Council when there is a vacancy on the council.

A similar bill was filed last year by Representatives Donny Lambeth and Debra Conrad. That bill (HB 519) called for the addition of three at-large seats.

Shortly after HB 519 was filed, the WinstonSalem Local Governance Study was formed to take a closer look at best practices relative to the structure of the council, and make recommendations if it is determined a change is needed. On March 11, the commission voted to recommend that the council add two at-large seats instead of three.

Although adding atlarge seats has been met with backlash from community leaders in the past, the vote to recommend a 10-member council was based on a survey designed to get community input. Of the 921 survey responses, 57% endorsed this option.

Having a combination of at-large and district seats would align WinstonSalem with some of the other municipalities across the state. Raleigh, Charlotte, Durham, Greensboro, High Point, Greenville, and Wilmington all

BY TEVIN STINSON THE CHRONICLE

For the second time in the span of just a year a bill has been filed in the N.C. General Assembly to increase the number of seats on the Winston-Salem City Council.

On May 19 Rep. Derwin Montgomery, who is co-owner of The Chronicle, filed House Bill 1165 in the N.C. House of Representatives. Currently there are eight voting members on the city council who represent citizens of the different wards.

If the bill is passed, that number will increase to 10, with the addition of two atlarge seats.

The bill requires atlarge seats to be elected by registered voters of the entire city and calls for a special election to be held no later Sep. 8, 2020.

HB 1165 will also make changes to the way vacancies are filled.

Right now, the city council has the power to appoint someone to fill a vacancy, let the local Republican and Democratic parties make the selection, or hold a special election.

The new legislation would require a special election

have a combination of atlarge and district seats.

While discussing HB 1165 during the commission’s virtual meeting held earlier this week, Scott Tesh, the city’s director of performance and accountability, said the new bill will make the changes recommended by the commission, but he wasn’t sure if the bill would pass.

“We don’t know whether it’s going to be able to make it through during short session, particularly with everything going on with the coronavirus,” Tesh said.

Commission co-chair Dr. David Branch said after meeting with Rep. Lambeth and Mayor Allen Joines to discuss the bill a few weeks ago, they seemed to understand the nuances of the bill but Rep. Lambeth wanted more research. “That’s what I understand from our conversation,” Branch said.

“I think by our initial charge and the comments made by our Mayor Allen Joines, we have successfully addressed the issue and we’ve certainly learned a lot about how government works.”

Questions were also raised during the virtual

meeting about the abrupt filing of the bill. According to Angela Carmon, city attorney, Rep. Montgomery said he wanted to meet the filing deadline for local bills.

Public information shows HB 1165 was filed and passed on the first reading of the N.C. House of Representatives on May 19, but according to Rep. Montgomery, the bill has been withdrawn and is not going forward for consideration.

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RiverRun announces 2020 Jury Awards winners SUBMITTED ARTICLE

The RiverRun International Film Festival has announced its 2020 Jury Award winners, which were held virtually this year in light of COVID-19 and the cancellation of the festival. Eighteen jurors made up the main film juries and three jurors participated in the Pitch Fest competition. The jurors represented all aspects of the film industry and are leaders in their respective fields in film.

“One of the first things we decided after we wrapped our heads around not having a festival this year was that we should reach out to our jury members and see if they would still be able to take part virtually, given the new situation everyone was facing,” said Mary Dossinger, program manager for the RiverRun International Film Festival. “We had incredible jurors from all areas of the film community set to come to WinstonSalem and we very much wanted to still highlight the incredible work of our filmmakers in some way.

Almost all of the jurors responded with a resounding yes and we got to work sending them the films and introducing them to one another. We are so thankful to them for being a part of RiverRun 2020 and hope to still get them all to our Festival in the future.”

2020 Award winners Re:vision Independent Feature Competition: Best Film: De Lo Mio, Directed by Diana Peralta

Peter Brunette Award for Best Director: Maša Nešković, Asymmetry Best Cinematography: Djordje Arambasic, Asymmetry Best Screenplay: Sasha Collington, Love Type D Best Editing: Christopher Donlon and Sara Newens, Freeland Best Actress: Krisha Fairchild, Freeland Best Actor: Mcabe Gregg, Teenage Badass Documentary Features: Best Documentary Feature: I Am Not Alone, Directed by Garin Hovannisian Best Director: Sam Ellison, Chèche Lavi Honorable Mention: Anbessa, Directed by Mo Scarpelli Narrative Shorts: Best Narrative Short: Tattoo, Directed by Farhad Delaram Special Jury Award: Wonder, Directed by Javier Molina Best Student Narrative Short: Terminal, Directed

by Kim Allamand Special Jury Mention: Nighty Night, Directed by Matt Porter

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De Lo Mio Outstanding Film: Sous la Glace, Directed by Luce Grosjean, Ismail Berrahma, Flore Dupont, Laurie Estampes, Quentin Nory & Hugo Potin Special Jury Award for Experimental Film: Medium Rare, Directed by Luca Cioci Special Jury Award for Design Integration: The Kite, Directed by Martin Smatana Special Jury Award for Best Student Film: Blieschow, Directed by Christoph Sarow

Special Jury Award for Outstanding Craft: Fata Morgana, Directed by Daniella Bokor & Leanna Berkovitch Pitch Fest: FIRST PLACE: Painting Your Room in My Heart, Director: Yuqi Lu, Wake Forest University SECOND PLACE: Clickbait: Stop the Traffic, Director: Madison Rae Reitz, University of North Carolina at Wilmington

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Documentary Shorts: Best Documentary Short: Exit 12, Directed by Mohammad Gorjestani Best Documentary Short: Ashes to Ashes, Directed by Taylor Rees & Renan Ozturk Animated Shorts: Best Animated Short: Petty Thing, Directed by Li Zexi Special Jury Award for

WSSU new police chief SUBMITTED ARTICLE

Winston-Salem State University has named Amir Henry to be the next director of Police and Public Safety, succeeding Chief Patricia Norris, who retired in December 2019.

His appointment will be effective on July 1.

Chief Amir Henry, a native of Bronx, N.Y., has more than 14 years of experience as a law enforcement officer and public servant in the state of North Carolina. He has served in various roles as a law enforcement officer

Chief Amir Henry throughout his professional career and has extensive knowledge in command level supervision, risk management, incident command center implementation, security threat groups training, and intelligence documentation.

Chief Henry has served as deputy chief at Winston-Salem State University Police Department since 2017. During his tenure, he led the day-to-day management of the university police department, providing overall direction and coordination of police operations, as well as advisory support to senior university administrators. His responsibilities include supervisory duties, directing operations during critical incidents that require incident command leadership and operational planning.

He was second in command in the absence of the university chief of police.

Prior to that, Chief Henry was patrol captain for the WSSU Police Department and was responsible for supervising uniformed patrol staff and investigations. Previously, he served as a state trooper with the North Carolina Highway Patrol, where he primarily worked with the Criminal Interdiction Unit under Special Operations.

Chief Henry also served as a United States Marine stationed in Camp Lejeune, N.C., where he was part of

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many deployments to several countries, including Afghanistan, which earned him a Combat Action Ribbon.

Chief Henry received his B.A. in science and technical management from DeVry University.

He also attended and completed the Law Enforcement Executive Program at North Carolina State University, FBI-Law Enforcement Executive Development Association program, and the Administrative Officers Management Program at North Carolina State University.

Chief Henry will oversee all law enforcement services, including 18 fulltime, sworn police officers who provide services to the campus and universityowned properties 24-hours a day, seven days a week.

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Editorial

Tired … so tired!

We are so tired of our black men and people of color being senselessly killed at the hands (or knees) of police officers or those who have self-deputized.

We are so …

Tired of asking questions and getting no real answers; Tired of cowards hiding behind badges; Tired of watching those in authority get away with murder; Tired of seeing loved ones cry and lose heart; Tired of wondering if our son, brother, uncle or dad will be next; Tired of no solutions; Tired of fruitless protests; Tired of having the talk with our young boys about what to do when the police stops them; Tired of being nervous when our boys and men take a road trip.

We are tired … so tired!

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

A Personal Tribute

goodbye but Good Morning!

Rest in peace, my Brother

To The Editor: I’ve known Alderman Larry Womble since the 60s and 70s. My first encounter with Larry was at an Aldermen meeting. After some time, I found him to be a friend and wonderful person who you could call on at any time. He was never too busy to listen to your concerns or what you had to say. In other words, he was a good listener, and he acted accordingly.

In the 70s, I was vice president of Morningside Homeowners’ Association and Alderman Womble faithfully attended many of the meetings. He was kind-hearted, always willing to help and accomplished what he sought out to do for the community. There was a traffic problem at Pleasant and Waughtown Street intersections.

He was instrumental in ensuring that the traffic light was installed for everyone’s safety. This is who he was—I remember there were some issues at the city and I shared those concerns with him. The very next day, he showed up at the city, changed out of his dress suit and tie into a pair of bib overalls and worked as a laborer beside me.

In this way, he was able to see those issues and diffuse them.

Alderman Larry Womble, a warrior and my friend!

Tall in stature, humble in spirit. You will be missed, but your labor of love will always remain in our hearts.

Well done thou good and faithful servant … I won’t say

Richard Brown Winston-Salem

Morticia Parmon Killian will serve us well To The Editor: Congratulations to Morticia (Tee Tee) Parmon Killian!

As convener and member of the Northeast Ward Municipal Committee, I am proud to have worked with leaders using their various knowledge and talents (Thank you Eunice Campbell for your analytical prowess), who produced and put forward a transparent process to elect on Saturday, May 23, our interim representative to city council.

Congratulations to Morticia (Tee Tee) Parmon Killian, our newly-elected interim rep. for Northeast Ward City Council. Thank you for putting yourself in the election process and as a candidate for this interim position. You have served your country, worked in the community, and we know you will serve us well as our Northeast Ward Interim Representative.

Chenita Johnson Winston-Salem

The peace sign: A safe greeting and sign of victory over COVID-19 Laura Finley

Guest Columnist As the Age of COVID-19 demands new rules of social interaction for the immediate future, a South Florida nonprofit organization has an important suggestion for how we can greet one another safely and pleasantly. The handshake is a memory, as are charming habits such as freely hugging anyone who seemed they might enjoy it and kisses on the cheek, so common in many cultures outside the United States especially.

The Humanity Project humbly offers a solution drawn from the hippie past: The two-finger vertical peace sign, which can also double as a V for victory over COVID-19. It’s a win in every way!

According to the Daily

Mirror newspaper in the United Kingdom, Winston Churchill was far from the first to use that famous World War Two symbol for victory over the Nazis: The “V for Victory” was first used by English longbowmen in the 1415 Battle of Agincourt to mock the defeated French army. The longbowmen relied on these two fingers to fire their arrows to deadly effect upon the enemy, which was a key factor in the victory, even though there were more than double the number of French troops and, ironically somehow appropriately, the English troops had been losing many to infectious disease, decimating their ranks leading into the famous battle. The V-sign represented a show of defiance and derision by the English soldiers, and showed the French army that all they needed was these two fingers to win the bloody battle. Even more ironically and timely to us is that the archery—unlike

hand-to-hand combat the French were prepared for with few French archers— didn’t require contact.

Once the martial V evolved into the 60s’ peace sign, it became a sweet symbol of togetherness, of a caring humanity. The Humanity Project founder Bob Knotts recalls those days and flashes back to them frequently, especially when greeting or leaving the company of other longhaired folks of the period.

As he found himself using the peace sign more, especially lately, he reflected that it still means “hello friend” or perhaps “goodbye friend.” As such, it’s a beautiful display of bonding among people.

As an organization devoted to “equality for each, respect for all,” The Humanity Project aims to encourage people to use the peace sign to replace other warm gestures of greeting or goodbye. It is an allpurpose, post-Great Lockdown, socially distanced method of demonstrating

our affection, friendliness or just general pleasantness. It might even provide a way to tap into the large reservoir of loving social consciousness that was one hallmark of the hippie era and that we are seeing globally among many as people cope with and create during the pandemic.

The world needs something joyful, something widely understood and widely shared to replace the handshake, the hug and the cheek kiss, doesn’t it?

The peace sign just could be it.

The Humanity Project will be sharing this idea on Instagram live on Thursday, May 28, at 8 p.m. For more information about The Humanity Project, see our website, http://www. thehumanityproject.com/.

Laura Finley, Ph.D., syndicated by PeaceVoice, teaches in the Barry University Department of Sociology & Criminology.

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HBCUs need their alumni and friends amidst COVID-19 Dr. James B. Ewers Jr.

Guest Columnist The higher education landscape like all of America has been sidetracked

by COVID-19. Historically Black Colleges and Universities have felt even more pain. When predominantly white institutions catch a cold, HBCUs get the flu.

In-class lectures have ended, and all laboratory work is no more. Faculty no longer have office hours. Students cannot sit on the block and talk about what is happening on the yard. College campuses are empty. They are shells

of themselves.

If you are a member of the class of 2020, you thought you would hear your name called and you would go across the stage to receive your college degree. Your parents and loved ones would be in the stands with signs and cheering.

Well, this scene was not to be. The coronavirus stepped in and the class of 2020 had to step out.

Colleges and universities have now had virtual graduations. Maybe in the coming months traditional commencements will be held. But not now.

Students not in the class of 2020 are at home and have been receiving online instruction. Zoom meetings and conference calls have created new ways of receiving information. Their days are structured, just in a differ-

ent way.

New and returning students now are having to confirm and reaffirm their college choices. HBCUs are busy making sure that students will be returning to their schools in the fall. Student and parental engagement are extremely important during this pandemic.

HBCUs need their alumni to support them during this critical time in their history. If you attended a Historically Black College and University, you know the foundation for success that they gave us. My alma mater, Johnson C. Smith University, was instrumental and fundamental to my success. JCSU gave me the academic bearing and the confidence to blaze new paths and to become a difference-maker.

If you are a HBCU

graduate, you have a similar story. You can readily and enthusiastically talk about what your HBCU means to you. Our pride stands out.

Just as we needed them back in the day to provide us with an education, they need us today to provide them with our monetary gifts and donations. Government and private funding streams are giving our schools temporary lifelines. However, they will be short-lived. No one can tell you how much to give.

The important thing is that you give.

Money received by HBCUs from the federal government will be used appropriately.

Whether new monies come in for this pandemic is questionable. Regardless, we must give to our institutions.

Our Historically Black

Colleges and Universities have many needs. Students who attend them have significant financial challenges. As alumni and friends, let us find out and help. It could be providing funds so a student can pay off a school bill. Maybe contributing to the school’s gap scholarship fund will be your interest. Or paying for transportation costs to get a student back to campus.

There are countless ways of helping our beloved schools during this time of uncertainty. My college days are in my rear-view mirror; however, my commitment to JCSU is long lasting and forever. Our HBCUs are towering beacons of academic excellence. They have sealed us with honor and integrity.

Dr. Martin Luther

King Jr. said, “We are now faced with the fact that tomorrow is today. We are confronted with the fierce urgency of now. In this unfolding conundrum of life and history, there is such a thing as being too late.

This is no time for apathy or complacency. This is a time for vigorous and positive action.”

Do not let the days mount up before giving to our Historically Black Colleges and Universities.

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.

Rethinking public safety: Trust vs. force ROBERT C. KOEHLER

Guest Columnist “Guns aren’t just a danger in and of themselves,” writes Noah Berlatsky at Quartz. “They enable a policing philosophy built on violence and forced compliance, rather than one founded on respect, trust and consent.

That philosophy affects every police interaction, even those that don’t involve actual shooting.”

Examples of this, of course, are everywhere.

A recent one is the arrest of Tye Anders in Midland, Texas, on May 16.

Anders, 21 and … what a surprise! … black, may have run a stop sign, though even that is contested. Police flagged him down. Fearing an encounter in complete isolation, he pulled over in front of his grandmother’s house, a short distance away. As he exited his car, the police drew their guns and Anders threw himself on the ground, raising his arms in the air to show he didn’t have a weapon. His grandmother, age 90, came out-

side, stood in front of her grandson — in essence, protecting him with her life — and eventually fell or was pushed on top of him as the officers approached and handcuffed Anders.

The young man was arrested and later released on bond. He has a civil rights attorney, Justin Moore, who maintains there was no traffic violation, no legal reason for the stop, simply “racial profiling.”

Perhaps the worst thing about this incident, not to mention all the others that preceded it — many of them, of course, ending in someone’s death — is how situation-normal they are, at least in neighborhoods that are neither upper-class nor white.

Oh, America! This is an occupied country with the biggest prison system in the world. We “keep order” in the non-privileged areas with armed authority backed up by a history of racism. We need to start over, set down the guns and strip this system down to the bone, with the intention of rebuilding our social infrastructure on a foundation of trust, cooperation and a belief in the sanctity of life. This is the unwritten message behind

every viral video of a police shooting.

“About 1 in 1,000 black men and boys in America can expect to die at the hands of police, according to a new analysis of deaths involving law enforcement officers. That makes them 2.5 times more likely than white men and boys to die during an encounter with cops,” the Los Angeles Times reported last year. “… Scientists, meanwhile, are increasingly studying police violence as a public health problem whose long-term harms radiate far beyond the original victim.”

One of these days that will simply be obvious — but first we have to reinvent the wheel, or so it seems. That is to say, we must disarm our concept of social order. This means a different sort of training for police officers — less target practice, more psychological awareness. Many police themselves recognize this, e.g.: “American police leaders can learn from their unarmed colleagues,” writes Brandon del Pozo, chief of police in Burlington, Vt.. in the New York Times.

“Police academies should ingrain a wide

range of skills, drills and responses in trainees before they ever handle a firearm. Training should start by sending officers into scenarios where they have to solve problems without recourse to lethal force. Unarmed officers will cultivate an instinct to de-escalate: They will keep a safe distance, they will try to assess the true level of threat rather than see a weapon as a cue to rapidly escalate, and they will communicate in ways that reach people.”

But the issue goes far beyond simply a different kind of police training.

How does the concept of policing itself — which emerged in the era of slavery in the form of slave patrols and expanded over the decades as we waged a Jim Crow-driven “war on crime” — separate itself from this past? How in God’s name will American police ever gain respect, trust and consent in nonwhite and low-income communities? This will never happen … until they are created by those communities, not sent into them from above as an occupying army.

This is not an ideological opinion. It’s simply a fact. Philip McHarris, for instance, who is black

and grew up in a low-income corner of New York, writes in The Appeal of his encounter, at age 15, with a gang of boys as he and some friends walked home from a party one night.

One of the gang guys pointed a gun at them.

They ran and managed to escape unharmed, but the point he makes is that he never considered calling the police. That would have accomplished nothing except aggravating the danger.

His essay addresses the idea of “community policing” — something seen by many as a workable alternative to the current system, in which police work to build trust and partnerships in the neighborhoods they patrol. He begs to differ.

“Time,” he writes, “has shown that community policing is merely an expensive attempt at public relations, after a long history of racialized police violence and injustice, and does little to reduce crime or police violence.”

Indeed, some $14 billion have gone into local police departments since 1994 as part of the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act signed into law by Bill Clinton, which has expanded the

reach of police enormously but has done nothing to help the actual communities, McHarris writes.

They have simply been left to flounder in their poverty. The billions invested in police departments would have been far better spent creating jobs and improving housing and education, not to mention changing laws “that criminalize people for being poor and disadvantaged.”

He adds: “The real work lies in developing alternatives to punishment and policing, not nicer cops.”

Policing has institutionalized itself out of the social structure, at least in low-income communities, and established an objective role for itself to play in an obsolete social hierarchy, based on force, threat and indifference. This is a danger both to community residents and individual police officers. No one is safe in a war zone.

Robert C. Koehler (koehlercw@ gmail.com), syndicated

by PeaceVoice, is a Chicago award-winning journalist and editor. He is the author of “Courage Grows Strong at the Wound.”

The Four Horsemen of this Apocalypse Andrew Moss Guest Columnist Recently, while taking a virtual tour of New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, I came across an image of Albrecht Durer’s 1498 woodcut, “The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.” This woodcut was one of 15 that Durer produced for a book illustrating the Bible’s “Revelation to John,” and the image powerfully represents scripture’s Four Horsemen: conquest, war and violence, famine, and death. Earlier artists tended to represent each horseman separately, but Durer chose to present them together, galloping fiercely across a visual field.

Durer created the image more than 500 years ago, yet it continues to startle, displaying the horsemen’s combined energies and inspiring thought about the collective ener-

gies of our own apocalyptic horsemen: economic oppression, racism, militarism, and environmental injustice.

Helping us imagine the horseman of economic oppression, Durer (and the author of the Book of Revelation) lends a symbol to our present day. His horseman representing famine carries a scale indicating exorbitant food costs and economic breakdown.

Today’s horseman of economic oppression trails clouds of suffering, images of desperation: food insecurity increasing dramatically since the onset of the pandemic, long lines of people waiting at food banks, and mothers with children reporting that their kids don’t have enough to eat (one in five mothers today, according to recent surveys). We see millions of people with no health insurance in the midst of a pandemic (up to 27 million losing employer-based insurance, with about 6 million of those people expected to be ineligible for subsidized backup insurance).

The horseman’s demeanor evinces stone-like

indifference and intransigence. We see these qualities exuded by an administration resisting efforts to provide long-term expansion of a successful food stamp program, portraying it as a backdoor opening to the welfare state. Those same stone-like qualities permeate continuing efforts to rule the Affordable Care Act unconstitutional, as well as to prevent the extension of unemployment benefits (“over our dead bodies,” according to one congressional ally of the president).

Meanwhile, one recalls the massive 2017 tax cuts for the wealthy and for corporations – while occasionally catching glimpses of financial dealings of the ultra-rich (e.g. multimillion dollar homes still being sold and bought in the wealthy enclaves of Los Angeles). The horseman of economic injustice did not originate with this administration, but he helped bring it into being, and he now rides ever more emboldened by it.

The second rider, the horseman of racism, has also been around a long time, multiplying the ef-

fects of economic oppression and drawing strength from that oppression. In his wake, the wake of the current pandemic, one sees the gaps and biases of our health care system, gaps and biases bringing grief to thousands of AfricanAmerican families and other people of color across the country.

This horseman has a particular power. He rides with the time-tested strategy of the race-divider’s playbook, using fear and scapegoating to weaken resistance to economic oppression. The current administration channels this energy in a particular way, estranging and criminalizing the migrant, linking him to disease, caging him in for-profit prisons that leave few or no exits from infection and death.

The third rider, the horseman of environmental injustice, links up with his fellow riders by discerning and exploiting places of vulnerability: poor communities and communities of color that endure pollution from chemical plants, port facilities, refineries, mines, and highways. He be-

comes increasingly visible as the dots are connected between pollution and susceptibility to the coronavirus – the dots connecting to asthma, heart and lung disease, and cancer.

This horseman, too, is channeled by special interests. These are the interests, the corporations and their front institutes that equate environmental regulations with infringements on “rights” and “liberty.” The horseman’s weapon is propaganda and the money that sustains it.

Finally, there is the horseman of militarism. He rides along the pathways and channels linking the sectors of the military-industrial-complex: the corporations, the lobbyists, the government agencies. Questions about him are being voiced with increasing intensity, e.g. what kind of “national security” are we buying with a $750 billion defense budget as the nation’s death toll rises above that of the last several wars? But amidst the questioning, the lobbyists still keep their busy pace, touting new weapons and systems of destruction.

There are traditions of interpretation that represent scripture’s four horsemen as portending final judgment and the end of days. There are people today who view the global pandemic and our environmental crises in just such terms. But the current four horsemen can also be seen in another light: as figures looming on a horizon of change. Despite the chaos, destruction, and death they sow, they are not invincible. They can be named, and naming is one form of power over them. They can be described precisely in their relations to one another and that, too, is a form of power. As one era transitions uncertainly to another, these figures can be faced with courage and creativity – the creativity of artists, activists, and visionaries.

Andrew Moss, syndicated by PeaceVoice, is an emeritus professor (English, Nonviolence Studies) at the California State Polytechnic University, Pomona.

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$470.6 million city budget proposed for 2020-2021 SUBMITTED ARTICLE

City services to residents would remain at current levels, but the city would implement a variety of belt-tightening measures to close a $13.4 million shortfall driven by the COVID-19 pandemic, under the proposed $470.6 million budget for 202021 that City Manager Lee Garrity presented to Mayor Allen Joines and the City Council.

The proposed budget allocates $362.2 million for operations, $55.7 million for debt service, and $52.6 million for capital improvements. The property tax rate would remain unchanged at 63.74 cents per $100 of assessed value and all user fees, including water and sewer rates, would remain the same.

The City Council’s Finance Committee has begun reviewing the budget and will hold a public hearing May 28. The City Council is scheduled to hold a public hearing and vote on the budget on June 15. By state law, the council must adopt a budget for 2020-2021 by June 30.

The budget would take effect July 1.

With COVID-19 shutting down much of the economy during the spring and the economic fallout stretching into the next fiscal year, the city is eliminating pay increases, postponing a planned increase in its minimum wage, eliminating vacant positions, instituting a hiring freeze on all but critical positions, postponing all but the most urgent replacements of equipment, and redirecting $4 million that would otherwise have been set aside for economic development. Even so, to fully close the budget gap, the city will have to use $3.4 million more from its fund balance – its “savings” – than it originally expected.

By taking these steps, City Manager Lee Garrity said in his cover letter with the budget, “There will be no reduction in service levels to citizens, no staff layoffs, no delay in moving forward with capital investments and bond projects, and no change in support to community agencies.”

The proposed budget is $25.8 million less than the current budget and reflects a $29.4 million reduction in capital spending and a $6.2 million reduction in spending for operations.

However, debt service would increase $9.7 million to repay general obligation bonds. Spending in the General Fund, which accounts for most taxsupported services, would increase by $2.2 million to $214.1 million.

Garrity recommends eliminating 24 vacant positions: three from Op-

erations, two each from Sanitation, Transportation, Recreation, and Engineering, and one each from the City manager’s office, Planning, and a civilian position with the Police Department. Ten other police positions associated with the school resource officer program that the department is phasing over to the Sheriff’s Office, would be eliminated.

Four positions would be added, one in Risk Management and three in Utilities, to administer a new state-mandated program, for a net reduction of 20 positions in the city workforce.

The proposed budget for capital improvements includes $41.9 million for water, sewer, stormwater and landfill projects, $4.2 million for transportation and transit including $1.8 million for street resurfacing, and $1.9 million for a new ladder truck for the Fire Department. The capital budget does not include bond projects that voters approved in 2014 and 2018, which are handled in a separate appropriation.

The proposed budget recommends $1.2 million in grants to community agencies funded out of the general fund and the occupancy tax, and $707,900 for downtown improvements, financed by the 9-cent levy recommended by the Downtown Winston-Salem Business Improvement District Advisory Committee. The levy would be spent in six areas: improving cleanliness, increasing safety, improving marketing, accelerating development, enhancing downtown appearance and administration.

How to participate in the budget process The proposed budget is posted online on the city website, CityofWS.org.

The City Council’s Finance Committee will hold an online workshop and public hearing on the budget at 4 p.m. May 28. City residents can watch the workshop live on WSTV Digital Media (channel 13 on Spectrum or channel 99 on AT&T Uverse) or online through the city’s website or the city’s YouTube channel. To watch online, go to CityofWS. org and select the clapboard icon under the search box. There will be an option to watch live either through the website or YouTube. Citizens who would like to speak during the public hearing should go to www.cityofws.org/ agendas or call 1-408-4189388. The direct link to the hearing is https://cityofws. webex.com/cityofws/ onstage/g.php?MTID=e5 5229b7d300d9319bcac6 2c051386789.

The Finance Committee will hold a workshop on the budget at 4 p.m.

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June 4 to consider recommending a budget and the property tax rate. This workshop is tentatively scheduled to be held online and can be viewed on WSTV Digital Media and online.

The mayor and City Council will hold a public hearing on the budget at 7 p.m. June 15 before voting on the budget. The location of this hearing will be announced at a later date and will be posted on the city’s website, CityofWS. org. This hearing will be televised live by WSTV Digital Media.

Citizens can also phone in comments about the budget on the city’s Citizen Feedback line, 336-734-1400, or submit comments through a form on the city website.

In every crisis there is the opportunity of a lifetime.

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Kennedy and Reynolds High Schools 2 of 20 in the nation to win MTV 2020 Prom Challenge When We All Vote, a national nonpartisan voter registration organization, has announced that 20 high schools, including WS/FCS high schools R.J. Reynolds and John F. Kennedy, have won the 2020 Prom Challenge and a national virtual prom, in partnership with MTV. Winners also receive $5,000 to spend on other community and/or school civic projects.

During a Zoom meeting Friday, Co-Chair Michelle Obama surprised members of the Class of 2020 to share that they won the challenge, and that When We All Vote and MTV would partner to host a Prom-a-thon on Friday, May 22. Due to Covid-19 and the cancellation of proms around the nation, this virtual event celebrated the Class of 2020 and shone a light on the high schools and students who organized the most creative nonpartisan voter registration efforts in the country.

“One of JFK’s amazing teachers, Sara Church, is always on the lookout for opportunities to inspire civic engagement and build school culture.

The MTV Prom Challenge provided just that opportunity! This challenge encouraged student teams to register to vote so their voices can be heard. As a social studies teacher, this was a great way to relate the curriculum to students’ real world. The icing on the cake was that this contest could earn money for the school to facilitate

student activities,” said Keisha Gabriel, Kennedy High School principal.

“One of our student leaders, Zoe Brockenbrough, has worked very hard to make sure students understand voting and the importance of voting.

When she learned of this contest, she immediately reached out to her teacher and the two began thinking of ways to encourage students to have their voices heard. We had no idea those actions would turn into national recognition,” said Dr. Leslie Alexander, Reynolds High School principal.

Organizers say both Kennedy and Reynolds had impressive student involvement and student leadership. Both schools outlined unique studentled opportunities for student government and other student organizations to encourage students to register to vote.

Kennedy High School was recognized for creating a culture around voting in their school by promoting voter registration during open houses, student conferences and other school-wide events. Reynolds High School started having conversations as a school community about voting, and student leaders worked to get nearly 100 students registered to vote.

Kennedy student Mirtha Medel-Crispin, who was on the surprise call announcing winners, said, “I was very excited to be on the call. I couldn’t believe my eyes when Mrs. Obama joined it. I’m very thankful to have been

chosen for the call.”

Reynolds student Zoe Brockenbrough said, “More than ever, civic engagement is something that everyone, especially young people, need to participate in. Our goal was to create a culture at our school where students actively wanted to be involved in the political process and voting, so that they can truly have their voices heard.”

The Prom-a-thon was held on Friday, May 22, with an all-day on-air takeover on MTV featuring prom-themed throwback movies and short-form original content highlighting the winning schools and students. Following the takeover was the virtual prom party, which was live streamed digitally on MTV’s YouTube.

Surprise celebrity guest appearances and live performances from some of the world’s biggest artists made the special night unforgettable. Students from any high school could take part.

When We All Vote’s My School Votes program and MTV launched the 2020 Prom Challenge in January as a grant competition to challenge and recognize high schools that committed to boosting voter registration in their communities. More than 150 schools from 37 states entered the contest.

A clip of the surprise call with winners was aired on NBC’s Today show on May 15. Students from Reynolds and Kennedy were on the call.

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Bank of America donates new van to Second Harvest’s Providence Community Meals

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A donation of a new delivery van from Bank of America to Second Harvest Food Bank of Northwest NC’s Providence program means that more children who are facing food insecurity in our area will be receiving help in the form of delicious, nutritious meals prepared by Providence Community Meals.

“This significant investment on the part of our dedicated partners at Bank of America comes at a time when Second Harvest is working aggressively to expand our capacity to address increasing needs for food assistance among children and families throughout Northwest North Carolina,” said Eric Aft, CEO for Second Harvest Food Bank of Northwest NC. “While some area school systems are providing grab-and-go meals for students who need them, the reality is that many parents have lost wages or work and need additional support to feed their families. Second Harvest’s Providence Community Meals is supplementing school-provid-

ed meals and, importantly, also partnering with other community-based organizations to reach children who may not be able to access those meals.”

“Food insecurity is one of the most pressing needs, and we are dedicated to supporting Second Harvest and Providence Community Meals with their important work,” said Bank of America Triad Market President Derek Ellington. “As we collectively navigate this time of increased need, we recognize that the private sector can play a pivotal role in helping our communities.”

Amid the increased need for food assistance resulting from families being furloughed or losing their jobs entirely as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, Second Harvest Food Bank continues to innovate and implement strategies to help ensure families, seniors, and children can access the food they need. To support these efforts, Bank of America donated both a new van and operational funding so even more families are receiving meals. By working with community partners, including Bank of Amer-

ica, Providence Community Meals has been able to ramp up production efforts from several thousand meals to now nearly 30,000 meals each week.

Providence Community Meals operates in tandem with Second Harvest’s Providence Culinary Training curriculum and began many years ago with staff and students (when classes are in session) preparing ready-to-heat meals for Second Harvest’s partner agency network. With continuing investments from community partners, the program has expanded to include mass production and delivery of nutritious tray-packed meals and delivery services. The addition of the new van to the program’s fleet is allowing Second Harvest to extend delivery of nutritious, free meals across the Triad.

Second Harvest Food Bank continues to need support for its COVID-19 response initiatives. Community members are encouraged to give safely from home via the food bank’s Virtual Food Drive campaign at FeedCommunityNOW.org.

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Trafficking is a misunderstood crime: 3 facts you should know

BY ASHLEY GARRIS

More people are enslaved today than at any point in human history.

Even the U.S. is haunted by this underground human rights violation. In 2018 alone, 23,078 survivors of human trafficking had their cases reported to the National Trafficking Hotline – a staggering number, but one that likely doesn’t fully capture the true extent of the crime.

Often when people think of human trafficking, they imagine plotlines from movies like “Taken” or “Rambo.”

But the reality is rarely as Hollywood depicts it.

My work with World Relief Triad has opened my eyes to what human trafficking really looks like and dispelled many misconceptions I had when I started the job. I’ve shared some of them below and hope that they empower my fellow North Carolinians to join in the fight to make our state a safe and free place for all.

Myth #1: All trafficking victims are female.

Because the movies and media often focus on sex trafficking incidents, they tend to depict only young female victims – often middle-class teenagers from happy families and nice neighborhoods. But while many victims are female, not all of them are.

Men can be coerced into sex trafficking as well, and both sexes can be coerced into labor trafficking. The Polaris Project reports that of the 23,078 survivors who contacted the National Trafficking Hotline in 2018, 15,042 were female, 2,917 were male, 109 were gender minorities. (The sex of the remaining 5,010 is unknown).

At World Relief Triad, half of the survivors we assist are women and half are

men. Some of them have fled labor trafficking, some sex trafficking and some both. But none of them has a story that remotely resembles a Hollywood movie, and all of them possess extraordinary courage and hope. The more we can dismantle unhelpful stereotypes, the better we’ll be able to help those who are trapped to find freedom and healing.

Myth #2: Traffickers kidnap their victims, often using force.

Traffickers are a lot smarter than the media would lead you to believe. They rarely target and kidnap total strangers. Instead, they carefully select victims from unstable backgrounds, such as foster care or runaways, and groom them over a long period of time until they’ve built a sense of trust and care. Then, they turn on their victims and exploit them, leaving these vulnerable individu-

als totally blindsided and traumatized.

Take John*, one of the survivors we’ve worked with. He met Zack* at a party and the two quickly struck up a friendship.

Zack told John about an opportunity to work at a carnival out of state. It sounded simple enough: They’d set up the show and machinery, explore a town and party, and then move on to another city, with John taking one shift and Zack taking the other.

It sounded like a fun opportunity, so John took it.

It wound up being a typical bait-and-switch scenario: John would work the 16-hour shifts alone and Zack would pick him up at the beginning and end of each shift, so John had no way of escape.

When time passed and John hadn’t gotten paid, he asked Zack what was going on, and the latter responded: “You work for me now.”

The situation escalated. If John went to the bathroom, Zack would text him about getting back to work. Eventually, Zack became physically violent toward John when he hesitated to hand over the money he made during his shift that day. It wasn’t until World Relief service providers intervened that John recognized his situation for what it was and was able to get out. Kidnapping wasn’t the issue here and carrying pepper spray wouldn’t have helped him recognize a trafficker in someone who seemed like a friend. This simplistic advice ignores the complex and manipulative situations many human trafficking victims find themselves caught in.

Myth #3: Sex trafficking isn’t the only form of trafficking.

As John’s story shows, sex trafficking isn’t the only kind of trafficking.

Many industries – includ-

ing the carnival business – thrive off the backs of victims forced to work against their will. Trafficking incidents often occur in domestic labor like nannying and housekeeping, traveling sales teams, or construction or landscaping companies.

In North Carolina, labor exploitation frequently occurs in the agricultural industry. Last year, a story broke about several workers from Mexico who had been hired to work temporary agricultural jobs in our state on the H-2A visa.

The men had been promised generous pay and the chance to extend their stay.

Upon arrival, however, they had their Social Security cards stolen, were given substandard housing to live in, had their wages denied them, and were repeatedly threatened by their employer. They successfully sued for labor trafficking and were awarded $75,000 in a set-

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tlement – a happy ending to an otherwise horrifying story of human rights violation and injustice.

I share these stories not to alarm or frighten, but to equip men and women across our state to spot the signs of human trafficking in all of its forms.

The more we understand about how this industry works and who it tends to exploit, the better we’ll be able to spot victims and pass this information on to law enforcement and other agencies like World Relief Triad that work to end trafficking. This is the first step to helping victims regain hope and rebuild their lives. *Zack and John’s names have been changed to preserve confidentiality.

Ashley Garris is an Anti-Human Trafficking Client Coordinator with World Relief Triad.

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Track standout Smith of SAU among athletes and celebrities giving inspiring messages on ESPN’s The Undefeated

RALEIGH – Track and Field student-athlete and recent graduate Christian Smith (Atlanta, Ga) of Saint Augustine’s University appeared on a starstudded virtual program hosted by ESPN’s The Undefeated on Saturday, May 23.

The program - titled HBCU Day - celebrated the 2020 graduates from Historically Black Colleges and Universities with a collection of videos, messages and written content shared all day on The Undefeated’s various social media accounts (Twitter, Instagram and Facebook) and presented on its website, www.TheUndefeated. com, using the hashtag #UndefeatedHBCUDay. Numerous well-known African American figures from the political, sports and the entertainment world, including former President Barack Obama, congratulated the graduates and gave inspirational messages. Smith is among 22 HBCU ambassadors and valedictorians, including six from CIAA schools, who gave encouraging messages to the 2020 graduates.

The program also included U.S. Senator Kamala Harris, ESPN commentator Stephen A. Smith, actor Anthony Anderson, Hall of Fame wide receiver Jerry Rice, current NFL player Tarik Cohen, and CIAA Commissioner

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Christian Smith was a track standout at Saint Augustine’s University.

Jacqie McWilliams.

Smith, who sports a 3.25 grade point average, graduated May 15 from SAU with a sport manage-

ment degree. A well-rounded student-athlete, Smith was an All-American in the 110-meter hurdles for the prestigious SAU track

& field program, which has won 39 NCAA Division II national titles under legendary Head Coach George Williams. Active

in the community, Smith read books to elementary school kids in his hometown last summer.

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NFL announces major steps to incentive teams to hire minorities for top posts

BY STACY M. BROWN, NNPA NEWSWIRE SENIOR CORRESPONDENT

National Football League teams must now interview at least two minority candidates for head coaching positions under new resolutions that the league hopes will improve diversity among its 32 teams.

In an expansion of its Rooney Rule, which had previously called on teams to interview minority candidates, the league said teams must also interview at least one minority candidate for coordinator openings and one external candidate for positions in teams’ front offices.

“While we have seen positive strides in our coaching ranks over the years aided by the Rooney Rule, we recognize, after the last two seasons, that we can and must do more,” Commissioner Roger Goodell said during a media conference call.

“The policy changes made today are bold and demonstrate the commitment of our ownership to increase diversity in leadership positions throughout the league.”

Troy Vincent, the NFL’s executive vice president of football operations and second-in-command to Goodell, said the league is now in a better position to not only hire minorities and women but to retain their services.

“What the chairman

(Art Rooney II) and the commissioner did today and what the ownership voted on today has been a fight for decades to get mobility that has disproportionately affected people of color,” Vincent stated.

“Just the ability to get an interview, you don’t get hired unless you have an interview. The mobility resolution today was significant and historic, because it has been a fight for decades. That’s the foundation. Frankly, we would call that the linchpin of these inequalities. With these initiatives, the enhancement of the Rooney Rule, which is a tool; it just allows us to have a broader scope of how we look at things.”

The new rules include a provision that begins in 2021, which states that teams will no longer restrict staff from interviewing with other clubs for “bona fide” coaching or front office positions.

Goodell called the commitment to improving diversity throughout the league is “critical” for future success.

Clubs also will be required to “include minorities and/or female applicants in the interview processes for senior-level front office positions such as club president and senior executives in communications, finance, human resources, legal, football operations, sales, marketing, sponsorship, informa-

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Also, league officials stated that they would use an advisory panel to further strategies aimed at fostering an inclusive cul-

ture of opportunity both on and off the field.

Goodell also promised to improve the league’s pipeline for minority coaching and player personnel candidates with assistance from its Bill

Walsh NFL Diversity Coaching Fellowship.

“This fight has been going on for a long time,” said Vincent, who could one day become the league’s first African American commissioner.

“The facts are we have a broken system, and we’re looking to implement things to change the direction in where we’re going, and it’s been south.

Not a gradual south but a direct south.”

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Elder Richard Wayne Wood Sunday School Lesson

Return to Love and Justice Scriptures: Hosea 11:1-2, 7-10; 12:1-2, 6-14 By the end of this lesson, we will: *Compare prosperity as a worldly goal with the godly virtues of love and justice; *Regret the occasions where we have made material prosperity a greedy, covetous goal; *Practice love and justice as key virtues.

Background: Hosea was a minor prophet of the eighth century B.C. The book has four main themes; 1) Israel’s abandoning of the Lord, 2) the Lord’s punishment of Israel for the abandonment, 3) calls for Israel’s repentance and, 4) hope for an ideal future of reconciliation between the Lord and Israel.

Lesson: Hosea uses the father-child relationship as a metaphor for the relationship between God and Israel.

Israel is portrayed as a stubborn and rebellious child who is chastised by God – the father, but the father chastises out of love. The people of Israel were unfaithful to God through worship, social and sexual behaviors and politics as well. (verses 1-2). God’s love for Israel has been described as “inextinguishable.” Looking back at how God’s love in spite of Israel’s continued ingratitude, His love for Israel from the Exodus and Israel’s ingratitude, sacrificing to Baal, God contemplates destroying Israel as He did Admah and Zeboiim (see Deut. 29:22). Those cities were completely and utterly destroyed. (verses 7-8). But God’s love for Israel is so “inextinguishable”… ”I have had a change of heart, all My tenderness is stirred,” that even in the face of His anguish God just cannot totally destroy Israel …”I will not act on My wrath, Will not turn to destroy Ephraim.”… “For I am God, not man, The Holy One in your midst” (verse 9).

God’s reactions are not like that of man; we seek immediate satisfaction, but we must remember that time and seasons to God are vastly different than our conception of the same …”With the Lord a day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years are like a day” (2 Peter 3:8).

God speaks of roaring like a lion not only against Israel in judgement, but also in calling protection and blessing as verses 9-10 speak to future events looking to the Second Advent of Christ’s return to set up the millennial kingdom. Israel will be called from their worldwide dispersion and their greatness will be restored (verse 11).

Chapter 12 speaks to the deceit of Israel. Israel had made treaties with Egypt and Assyria and was depending on them rather than trusting God (verses 1-2). “Yet the Lord, the God of Hosts, must be invoked as “Lord” (verse 6). Hosea made plain for the people that the only way to survive was turning back to God. Hosea pointed out to the people that Israel had become materialistic, filled with greed, and fond of dishonest gain (verses 8-9). The Lord warned that He would humble them “…

I will let you dwell in your tents again as in the days of old” (verse 10). In verses 11-14 Hosea reminds Israel of how God had communicated with His people. God had sent prophets, but the people would not listen. They turned from the Word of the living God and practiced idolatry. This provoked God to anger and the way they shed innocent blood provoked Him even more. Hosea pointed out that the prophets had been what protected the people … but the people did not want to listen or change. (The Jewish Study Bible, The MacArthur Study Bible, the Wiersbe Study Bible, the Oxford Bible Commentary and the UMI Annual Commentary 2019 -2020).

For Your Consideration: What do you think about the roar of a lion? What does the hope of a Messiah offer to the future of the people of Israel?

Application: Seek God daily in every aspect of your life. Ensure that you are keeping God at the head of your life. In our lesson God reminded His people that He was responsible for their prosperity, “but they did not realize it was I” (Hosea 11:3). Ask yourself, what are you faithful to? What do you find yourself idolizing? Then reflect on the fact that God is the one who gives and takes away, who promotes and demotes. This realization should be enough for us to trust God to continue being a provider in our lives and not trust in our own ability to provide.

“The rich and the poor have this in common, the Lord is the maker of them all” (Proverbs 22:2).

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

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 336-722-9841.

May 29 First Waughtown Baptist Church (FWBC) – Youth Mini Message Min. Brian Cager, an FWBC associate minister, will deliver the Flex Friday Mini Message for Youth at 12 noon, May 29 on Facebook Live -- https:// www.facebook.com/FirstWaughtown/, on Instagram - @firstwaughtown, and on the First Waughtown website, https://www.firstwaughtown.org. Click on the MEDIA tab.

May 31 First Waughtown Baptist Church Live Stream Senior Pastor Dennis W. Bishop will deliver a message celebrating members of the Class of 2020 online at 10 a.m. Sunday, May 31. Please join us on Facebook Live, https://www.facebook.com/FirstWaughtown/ or the First Waughtown website, https:// www.firstwaughtown.org - click MEDIA.

Evidence of God at work during COVID-19

BY BRUCE BOYER

COVID-19 has caused the world to make major changes to daily routines and there are many things we cannot do at this time.

Instead of lamenting about the restrictions, let us focus on important lessons learned. Make no mistake about it: God is at work during this time, accomplishing His purposes.

Being in a higher risk age category with the coronavirus, my wife Kathy and I have played it safe.

For more than two months we have stayed close to home and have kept our distance from others. Here are some of the positive God-inspired lifestyle changes I have observed.

Perhaps you are experiencing them, too.

Family is a priority.

When many of our activities are stripped away, what do we have left? Family.

Thanks to technology, we are able to keep in touch with family through Zoom and other communication apps. Family is a God-given gift that we have come to appreciate even more at a time like this. How good and pleasant it is when God’s people live together in unity! (Psalm 133:1) Appreciate those closest to you. God gave me the blessing of a wonderful wife. Kathy has done a marvelous job planning and providing a variety of meals even though we had limited options for grocery shopping. She has also planted a garden for healthy eating during the summer. I have come to appreciate family time at the dinner table even more because I’m not running off to meetings. Because of the absence of distractions, families are spending much more time together. Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her (Ephesians 5:25).

All people are important. Even though we try to be self-sufficient, we have come to appreciate the services others provide. The grocery and drug stores, our church and our town government have continued to function.

Healthcare providers have made great sacrifices to treat the sick. Parents have become more appreciative of the role and challenges of teachers when they have

to homeschool their own children. Rich and poor have this in common: The Lord is the Maker of them all (Proverbs 22:2). For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do (Ephesians 2:10).

People are willing to step up and help us during our time of need. During the past several months there have been times when we needed something that would have required interaction at retail stores and our friends have done the specialty shopping for us. It is a way they have chosen to serve others.

What good is it, my brothers and sisters, if someone claims to have faith but has no deeds? Can such faith save them? Suppose a brother or a sister is without clothes and daily food. If one of you says to them, “Go in peace; keep warm and well fed,” but does nothing about their physical needs, what good is it? In the same way, faith by itself, if it is not accompanied by action, is dead (James 2:14-17).

This is a great time to do the tasks I have put off. There are no excuses for not having the time to do something around home that needs to be done.

Postponed yard projects are getting done this year.

Chances are, if you are not doing something now, it is because you don’t want to do the task, not because you don’t have the time.

But everything should be done in a fitting and orderly way (1 Corinthians 14:40).

There are some benefits to slowing down. I can remember when I was working, how I would squeeze in appointments on my calendar, even though doing so sacrificed family time or added to personal stress. I appreciate having the time now to slow down. “Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.

For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.”(Matthew 11:28-30).

Separating wants and needs. During this time of restricted activity, we have managed just fine.

We have come to realize that we don’t need everything and are still doing OK. Some things, such as watching every big televised sporting event, aren’t missed as much as we thought. We should be content with what we have because we know that God is meeting our needs. And my God will meet all your needs according to his glorious riches in Christ Jesus (Philippians 4:19).

God is present in our home life, too. We are loyal in our church attendance, but during this stayat-home time we have worshiped and attended Bible classes remotely. Partici-

pating online didn’t deter us from seeking God’s Word and direction for our lives. In effect, we have invited the Holy Spirit into our homes. I was amazed at Easter in how many people professed their faith on social media. … But as for me and my household, we will serve the Lord (Joshua 24:15).

Making changes permanent. Let us continue with the positive changes we have made over the past few weeks. Each is evidence that God is working through the coronavirus time. God finds a way to make good things happen during this bad situation. And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose (Romans 8:28).

When conditions improve, allowing us to physically be out in the community, I am hopeful that we won’t revert to the harried pace of life. Activity will increase, but perhaps we will have learned some lessons and made some positive priority changes to our lives. I hope we will appreciate the people who indirectly and directly served us during our time of need.

Bruce Boyer is the author of two Christian devotional books, “24/7 Stories of Faith from Everyday Life” and “Touchpoints of Faith.” He is a retired executive of the Kernersville Chamber of Commerce.

Nationwide reading program connects kids to God all summer long BEDFORD, Texas—An afterschool ministry that empowers local churches to wade outside of their four walls to teach Bible principles to public elementary students in their schools is launching a refreshing summer reading program this week.

The too-cool tool is designed to help parents continue routine summer education in this anything-but-normal year of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Hang 10, a high-energy, funfilled 14-week program developed

by KiDs Beach Club® (KBC) that instills character education in third to sixth graders employing God’s word and prayer, kicked off Memorial Day weekend on May 24. Thousands of students from 11 states and equipped with KBC Explorer’s Study Bibles, participated from the safety of their homes. Parents and children alike can follow the daily lesson plans through Labor Day. “The coronavirus crisis has made KBC even more important to the healthy return of our kids to a semblance of normalcy,” said Jack Terrell, KiDs Beach Club president and founder, explaining why the nonprofit group began holding its afterschool program “calling kids to hang cool with God’s word 10 minutes each day all year round.”

In addition, during this COVID-19 pandemic, Dave Crome, KBC VP of marketing & communications, said that counselors from Beach Club schools have contacted the corporate office in Bedford, Texas, to ensure

the character education afterschool program will resume this fall to help student’s transition back “to an environment that is sure to be new and confusing.”

This summer’s Hang 10 (#Hang10SRP) will walk kids through the Bible, using stories selected from each Bible book. The plan will provide daily Bible readings and additional “bonus” content designed to help kids dig deeper into the “truths of God’s word in such a way that they listen, and the Holy Spirit moves,” Terrell said.

Each eternal truth is integrated into the reading program, reinforced by biblical stories. Day one of the first week, for instance, begins with the valuable nugget that God keeps His promises. The story of Isaac found in Genesis 22 is used to support this lesson.

In 2003, Terrell received a challenge “to make Jesus cool in school.”

Emboldened by the Supreme Court ruling, Good News Club v. Milford Middle School in 2001, which stated schools could not exclude Bible clubs from meeting on school grounds—he mobilized a team and began partnering with volunteers from local churches.

What began as a Treasure Islandthemed children’s Sunday worship service took further shape after Terrell read an influential book by Christian researcher George Barna, titled, “Transforming Children into Spiritual Champions.”

“His book explains that if you want to shape a person’s life, it is during the ages of 5 and 12 when lifelong habits, values, beliefs and attitudes are formed,” said Terrell.

Today, more than 22,000 volunteers have invested in over 107,000 children in Beach Clubs all over the country—and more than 9,200 children have made a profession of faith.

Dr. Shawna DeLamar, principal of Motley Elementary School in Mesquite, Texas, who has been involved with KBC for three years, received her first Bible from a ministry like KBC. “Sometimes our students have a lot on their plates and a lot going on at home, making it difficult for our students to make good decisions,” said Dr. DeLamar. “I can’t think of a better way to help them mature, selfregulate their behavior, learn good character, and make good choices, no matter their circumstances.”

At the start of 2020, KiDs Beach Club unveiled Envision2K25, an aggressive initiative to equip local churches to add hundreds of new Beach Clubs across the U.S. by 2025, to impact 100,000 students per week in more than 2,000 communities, with the assistance of more than 25,000 dedicated volunteers.

For information about the Hang 10 Summer Reading Program (#Hang10SRP), visit https:// www.kidsbeachclub.org/blog/hang10-summer-reading-programstartssunday.

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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 – May 31 – Literary competition Flying South, the annual literary competition sponsored by Winston-Salem Writers, is accepting entries through May 31.

There will be $2,000 in prizes awarded. Best in category winners will be published in Flying South magazine and will receive $500 each. The WinstonSalem Writers President’s Favorite will also receive $500. Entry fee is $25 ($15 for members of Winston-Salem Writers). Multiple entries are accepted.

Submit entries and fees to flyingsouth.submittable. com.

For complete rules and submission details, go to www.wswriters.org and click on the contest tab. Winners will be announced on July 1, 2019.

June 1 – Submission deadline Dr. Donovan Livingston, poet, educator, and author is leading an open mic for students in celebration of the 155th anniversary of emancipation. This year’s annual Juneteenth Festival will be held virtually on Facebook and other platforms.

Selected poems will be included in the festival program.

Students may choose from the following prompts: • If your mind were

a museum, write a poem about the items we would find inside • Write a poem about preserving the legacy of your ancestors, and what lessons you’ve learned from their story.

• Write a poem in the form of a recipe, describing how freedom is made.

List ingredients and directions for mixing and tips for cooking up your concept to perfection.

• Write a poem beginning with the phrase, “The day I got free…”

• Write a poem in the form of a letter to your past or future self about racial identity, mental health awareness, or your definition of the word “freedom.”

Video & written submissions are due by Monday, June 1. Poems can be no longer than 3 minutes.

Students may submit their work at triadculturalarts. org. For more information please contact Donovan Livingston, d_living@ uncg.edu or (910) 3031868.

NOW – June 9 – Free virtual information sessions at Forsyth Tech Forsyth Tech is offering free real-time, online comprehensive information sessions now through June. All events include an opportunity for you to send in questions during the sessions. You may sign up for sessions at eventbrite.com. For more information, please con-

Poem Wear Your Mask

BY CHRIS ROERDEN

To not pose a danger to friend or to stranger, ever since public school you’d followed this rule: “to never cry Fire in a theater or cinema.”

Does that rule differ once you’re on Twitter or join a large crowd to protest aloud: “I have the right to arm for a fight ‘cause my liberty suffers.”

That line is for duffers.

You want liberté?

Where’s your égalité?

What of fraternité?

Before changing policy based on a fallacy, read all of the news, reexamine your views about self-quarantine to slow covid-nineteen.

Chanting just spreads what Granma most dreads, So when out and about stop the droplets you shout, which arm and propel each breath that you yell.

Please use your head, not your mouth instead.

For the doctors and nurses stifle your curses.

Your “rights” best defense is still common sense.

So now I must ask: where the bleep is your mask?

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Topics and dates are: June 1, 7 p.m. – How Can I Take College Classes While I’m Still in High School?

June 2, 7 p.m.– What short-term training is available?

June 3, 7 p.m. – How can I take summer classes at Forsyth Tech?

June 4, 7 p.m. – What is the Hope and Opportunity Grant?

June 8, 7 p.m.– How do I fill out my Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA)?

June 9, 7 p.m. – How do I apply to Forsyth Tech?

June 4 – 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.

NOW - June 3 – Farmer’s workshop N.C. Cooperative Extension is offering a free, online workshop series for Beginning Farmers, Tuesdays at 10 a.m., May 13 - June 3. If you are considering starting a farming operation and are not sure where to begin, this Beginner Farmer Online Series is just for you. Topics include what can be grown, where’s the money, where and how to sell your product, and who can help. There is no registration fee, but registration is required. Learn more by visiting http://forsyth.cc/ CES/Livestock.aspx, or by emailing April Bowman at awbowman@ncsu.edu or by calling 336-703-2855.

June 21- Aug. 29 – 2020 Summer Parks Concert Series The Arts Council of Winston-Salem & Forsyth County has announced the lineup for the 2020 Summer Parks Concert Series with three performances at Tanglewood Park and two at Triad Park. Here’s the schedule: *6/21, 5 p.m. – West End Mambo @ Tanglewood Park *July 4, 7 p.m. – N.C. Army National Guard 440th Army Band @ Triad Park *July 24, 7 p.m. – The Plaids @ Tanglewood Park *Aug. 8, 7 p.m. – Possum Jenkins @ Tanglewood Park *Aug. 29, 6 p.m. – Martha Bassett, Dan River

Girls & Laurelyn Dossett @ Triad Park Aug. 27-29 – Used book sale 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.

Here are online Bookmarks events for the month of April Contact: info@bookmarksnc.org URL for info on all events: https://www.bookmarksnc.org/calendar May 28 at 7 p.m.

Neil Shubin & Some Assembly Required Join us to hear from the bestselling author of Your Inner Fish, Neil Shubin, about his latest book, Some Assembly Required.

Shubin gives us a lively and accessible account of the great transformations in the history of life on Earth — a new view of the evolution of human and animal life that explains how the incredible diversity of life on our planet came to be. This is a paywhat-you-can event.

Donated computers help GEI students study online

BY MANDEZ DOUTHIT

COVID-19 may be a new adjustment to the Quality Education Institute (Q.E.I) of WinstonSalem, but social and emotional learning (SEL) is not!

Two months have passed since COVID-19 has forced remote learning to become a new normal for states across the country. While adjusting to the pandemic, school iinstructional staff nationwide has scrambled to ensure that their students receive the same level of education that an in-school education provides. Amidst these adjustments, mental well-being has departed the minds of many as educators must now adopt new teaching strategies, learn new skills, and encourage families to do the same at home. Although COVID-19 has revealed many new complications for all, the majority of us have not detected one of the most significant issues that this virus has exposed.

Our current pandemic has worsened the one we’ve already been suffering from for centuries—the lack of emotional intelligence.

Amid the pandemicdriven national experiment that is remote learning and homeschooling, QEI has shocked the social norm for educational operations yet again. Like many schools throughout the nation, in only a matter of days QEI transformed itself from a traditional, in-person learning facility to an online learning facility. Their differentiator?

The inclusion of a compulsory social and emotional learning curriculum within their online educational program.

Before the Coronavirus came into play, the exemplary staff consisting of Ms. Reid-Fowler and Ms. Brooks at QEI were implementing an SEL program, The Feeling Friends, into their Pre-K classes. The

Feeling Friends is a cutting-edge, evidence-based, and data-driven educational company that develops tools for educators to ensure emotional wellness for young children. The Feeling Friends positively influences children’s emotional development by strengthening and nurturing a child’s social and emotional competencies by teaching children how to identify, process and manage their emotions.

This company is striving to leave the world better emotionally by growing children emotionally stronger.

When developing their remote learning program with The Feelings Company, QEI understood that teaching social and emotional literacy during our new adjustment to a life filled with social distancing and face masks was vital. The challange that QEI faced was that their children didn’t have computers in their homes.

The lack of a computer/Internet connection prohibits many from obtaining the same education that families with an Internet connection receive.

When faced with this challenge, The Feeling Friends In The Community, a group of ordinary people who come together to serve, and QEI accepted the challenge and both organizations hit the drawing board. After many brainstorming sessions, a solution to an almost unsolvable problem emanated.

Dr. Lauren D. Hargrave, educational psychologist and chief educational officer of GRACE Educational Consulting, began to explore her connections in an effort to solve the dilemma.

After analyzing her contacts, Dr. Hargrave connected The Feelings Company to Cory Holt from The Cory Holt Foundation. The members of the Cory Foundation dedicate themselves to changing communities and up-

lifting the youth through education, recreation and outreach. The Feelings Friends In The Community and The Cory Foundation realized their goals were very similar as they provide children with the materials they need to help them emerge as the best version of themselves. An introduction and a few phone calls later, the two companies agreed on a solution. Together, they provided an entire pre-school class with computers for home use.

On Friday, May 15, the three companies came together to deliver the computers to the QEI staff.

Joy filled the spring air as the three small businesses based in Winston Salem realized they had brought delight to 18 families. Not only will computers be delivered to each family, but families receive a sense of relief. Every parent has the assurance that economic setbacks won’t prevent their child/children from continuing their education.

The CEO of QEI, Tonya Bellanger, stated that she’s grateful for the opportunity to build community partnerships. In meeting each other (while practicing social distancing), members from each organization talked thoroughly about the importance of determination and their ‘WHY.’ The ‘why’ of making sure that children have the tools they need to continue to learn brought these three companies together and allowed them to help 18 families. Bellanger tells us that “our community can help QEI out by donating supplies, reading to our children, and building relationships with each other.”

Throughout this experience we have seen that partnering with other organizations has the ability to create significant impacts for the community.

Even throughout a global pandemic, ordinary people can always serve and bring joy to others.

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It’s okay to laugh during COVID-19

BY JUDIE HOLCOMB-PACK THE CHRONICLE

Humor is a human emotion that brings a smile to our faces, enjoyment, entertainment and amusement to our lives, and makes difficult situations more bearable. It can be a joke, a funny anecdote, an amusing memory retold that pokes fun at ourselves, or a movie that lifts our spirits.

Humor has also been found to be medicinal. Whoever first said, “Laughter is the best medicine,” knew what they were talking about. Research shows that laughter triggers emotional and physical changes in the body and strengthens the immune system, boosts mood, diminishes pain, and relieves stress.

There is no time that laughter is more needed than right now, when we’re all feeling the stress of COVID-19, working

from home or not working at all, home-schooling children, relating to our families 24/7, cooking that meatloaf recipe for the umpteenth time, searching for toilet paper, rice, yeast, or other staples, and trying to keep our sanity until this is over. It’s no wonder that humorous COVID-19 memes are all over social media. Even Baby Yoda and Baby Shark are giving us lessons on how to wash our hands. (Don’t know who Baby Shark is? Just search on YouTube and then try to get that tune out of your head.)

Here are some recent memes I’ve seen: *Cutting your own bangs – before and after pictures, reminiscent of photos from my childhood with my bangs cut haphazardly across my brow, bless my mother’s heart. *How I pictured myself during the apocalypse (decked out in military gear) and now during

coronavirus (staring at empty shelves in a grocery store wearing pajamas and a robe) *A photo from the movie Groundhog Day and the caption, “It’s Quarantine Day again.” *A moonshine still with the caption, “Moonshine? Heck no, we’re making hand sanitizer.” *Day 10 without casinos: A picture of men around a poker table betting rolls of toilet paper and hand sanitizer.

I’m no doctor and I’ve never played one on television, but I’m prescribing some humor to lift your spirits, relieve a little stress and boost your immune system, while you continue to stay home as much as possible, wear a mask when you’re outdoors, and wash, wash, wash those hands!

I hope these humorous stories and poetry bring a smile to your face today

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Keep the toilet paper flowing, never leave an empty roll

By Cindy Argiento In this dire time when toilet paper is scarce in our country, may this bring a little levity to our current situation.

Here’s the deal: If you finish the toilet paper, replace the toilet paper!

Don’t even think that by leaving two sheets of paper on the roll means you’re Scott free (sorry, I couldn’t resist). You’re not. Two sheets to wipe a #2 is two too few. Also, if you do get a new roll, please replace the roll; don’t just sit it atop the old one. What does this tell your loved one? I love you, but, gee, just not enough for such taxing, physical labor.

However, having a loved one at home when you run out of toilet paper can be a blessing; just yell for toilet paper and ye shall receive toilet paper. Only, there’s a risk involved if

Crazy Potty Lady.

There are also risks involved in being home alone and running out of toilet paper. You realize too late there is no toilet paper and the tissue box is empty. So, home alone, you rise and with ankles shackled by your underwear, shuffle to the spare roll drawer. You open the drawer, you reach in the drawer, you curse the drawer - the drawer is empty. Now you try to make a mad dash for the kid’s bathroom, down the hall. Only, with underwear binding your ankles, dashing is hard to do. You feel like you’re running in a three-legged race. You get to the bathroom and realize it’s void of toilet paper.

Not only is there an empty roll on the spool, there’s a second roll atop of it, also empty. While you question the intelligence level of family members, you plan for the trip which must

the loved one who makes the delivery is your child; your young child who has friends over. Friends who are under the assumption they are filming an action movie and bust open the bathroom door; friends who are not shy looking at you in an uncompromising position. These friends seem shocked when told to “Get Out.” These friends go home and spread rumors to their parents about

now be made to the downstairs bathroom. The safest way to make this trip with underwear at the ankles is to slide down the steps, on your belly. It’s risky, but drastic times call for drastic measures. At the bottom of the steps you let out a symphony of curse words because you now have third degree burns. In the third bathroom you hit the jackpot, your search is over.

Using a public bathroom also poses risks.

What do you do when you realize your stall is paper free, after the fact? If the bathroom is empty, do you risk shuffling at high speed to the next stall and being seen by a stranger? If you’re lucky, it won’t come to that and someone will be in the next stall to bail you out. Once their hand pops up in your stall like a ship’s periscope, you’re at major risk. Why? You’re in a public bathroom for Pete’s sake, a place where the unspoken rule is - don’t touch anything. Yet, here you are taking toilet paper from a stranger and you know exactly where her hands have been. So, you take the paper and pray you don’t catch anything.

With all the risks, it’s imperative for the toilet paper to keep flowing. Going to the bathroom should not be a crap shoot.

Meal preparation during COVID-19

BY JUDIE HOLCOMB-PACK THE CHRONICLE

Day 45 of stay-athome confinement. I’ve made every recipe I know and am now searching through cookbooks for something – anything – for which I have all the ingredients on hand.

This one looks doable.

I glance quickly at the list of ingredients and it appears I have all of them: chicken, rice, broccoli. I pull out a skillet and get to work.

The first ingredient is four chicken breasts … too much for just me and besides, I only have one chicken breast. I will have to make adjustments.

Step one: I cut the chicken into thin slices. I look at the next step. Uh oh, I need a bag of frozen

broccoli. Don’t have that, but I do have some fresh broccoli, so I will have to make an adjustment. I throw it in a pot to steam.

No worries.

Next I will need Minute Rice. Stymied again.

I only have Uncle Ben’s Long-Grained rice. I will have to make another adjustment. I start the rice in another pot and focus on the chicken step.

Another roadblock. I need a quarter cup of Italian salad dressing. All I have is a leftover packet from a take-out salad from McDonald’s. Not quite a cup, so I’ll have to add something. Olive oil should do the trick. Another slight adjustment.

I cook the chicken slices in the Italian dressing/olive oil mixture. The next ingredient is a quarter

cup of teriyaki sauce. Yay! I have that! A few dashes of garlic powder and it appears that I’m back on track.

The recipe now calls for a cup and a half of water, then stir in rice and broccoli and simmer for 20 minutes. For a moment I’m stumped. I don’t need that much water since I’ve substituted the Uncle Ben’s for the Minute Rice and fresh broccoli for the frozen. I will have to make another adjustment.

I baptize the chicken with a sprinkling of water and continue on.

Last step: I stir all the ingredients together and voila! Dinner is served. It is good.

Don’t ask for the recipe.

For Seniors only poem Stuck at home during COVID-19

BY DOROTHY E. D’ANNUNZIO

You’re stuck at home, you’re all alone With kids, a man and a dog.

You want some wine but it’s only nine, Some days you’re in a fog.

You try your hand at teaching What else is there to do?

The kids are always screeching, One painted the other one blue.

Your husband is now a couch potato, He flicks through every channel.

He won’t give up the remote control It’s more than you can handle.

He wants a home-cooked meal tonight, He means you and not himself.

Do I look like Betty Crocker? you ask, There’s Mac ‘N Cheese on the shelf.

Your hair’s a mess, your eyebrows are bushy, Your nails are such a fright.

Your stylist is not working because The salons are closed up tight.

You finally brave the grocery store, You wear your gloves and mask.

The shelves have all been emptied.

Where’s the toilet paper? you ask.

This quarantine won’t last forever.

We’ll soon be free to roam.

For now the family is healthy, but crabby.

God Bless our little home.

Dorothy E. D’Annunzio lives in Midway, N.C. with her husband and two cats.

Cindy Argiento is a Greensboro humorist and playwright whose play, “Stanley and Alice,” was performed last year in Winston-Salem. She is also the author of “Deal With Life’s Stress With A Little Humor.” Read more of Cindy’s humor columns at http://cindyargiento.com/.

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Financial Pathwasy of the Piedmont finds a fun way to support seniors

May 28, 2020

What’s Happening NOW in City Government

CityNOW

BY MEGAN W. THOMPSON

Although Senior Financial Care Counselors at Financial Pathways of the Piedmont have been unable to conduct in-home visits due to the current health crisis, our staff has been vigilant in continuing to serve not only our current client caseload, but also reaching out to prior clients for wellness checks.

Even in good times, seniors already face periods of isolation and loneliness.

In addition, with various social programs and senior centers closed temporarily, this potentially eliminated the only socialization they may receive.

Our staff decided to

Staff holds up fun packets sent to seniors. add a little creative fun in their day by assembling activity packets to mail to each of them. The packets included word searches, coloring pages, brainteasers, community referral cards to 211, refrigerator magnets for emergency contact info, along with a small box of crayons and a pen. We topped it off with a card of encouragement

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from our staff. This is one way we have maintained our relationship with our clients and brightened their day with a surprise package.

Megan W. Thompson is the director of marketing & communications for Financial Pathway of the Piedmont.

June Senior Events Calendar: Please note that due to recommendations for social distancing and with the Phase 2 opening of business in North Carolina during the COVID-19 crisis, most meetings and events have been postponed until further notice or are being held online. Below are calendar items that we are aware of that have been cancelled or suspended at this time: *Classes held at the Salvation Army Senior Center, 2850 New Walkertown Road, as well as those a La Deara Crest, have been cancelled until further notice. Call 336-4991196 for updates about classes and services or visit https://www.salvationarmycarolinas. org/winston-salem/. *Classes and activities at The Shepherd’s Center, 1700 Ebert St., have been cancelled until further notice. Transportation for some medical visits including cancer treatments is still being arranged. Call 336-7480217 for information or visit www.shepherdscenter.org. *Senior activities, such as writers meeting, adult coloring, and conversation groups at the Carver School Road Branch Library, 4915 Lansing Drive., have been cancelled and will resume when the library reopens. *Aging Well series presented by Wake Forest Baptist Sticht Center for Healthy Aging & Alzheimer’s Prevention, held the second Tuesday of each month at 6 p.m. at the Central Public Library auditorium, has been suspended until the library reopens. For more information, call 336-713-2378. *Winston-Salem Community Band concerts have been cancelled until further notice. *Salem Band concerts through August have been cancelled.

The next tentatively scheduled concert will be “Beethoven Lives!� on Sept. 20 at 3 p.m. in the Hanes Auditorium of the Elberson Fine Arts Center at Salem College. Admission is free and donations are accepted. For more in-

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formation, visit www. salemband.org. *Clemmons Cookin’ Book Club, (third Wednesday), usually held at 12:15 p.m. at the Clemmons Public Library, 3554 Clemmons Road, is suspended and will be rescheduled after the library is open. *Vets Coffee, (third Thursday), 9 a.m., at PDQ, 285 Harvey St., is cancelled through at least July. A special tribute service scheduled for June 3 to recognize military corpsmen, medics and nurses has been cancelled. For more information, call Don Timmons at 336331-1309 or email don. timmons@trellissupport.org. *Newcomers and Neighbors of Greater Winston-Salem, (fourth Tuesday except December), which meets at 9:45 a.m. at Trinity Presbyterian Church, 1416 Bolton St., has been cancelled until further notice.

For more information, email wsnewcomers@ gmail.com.

Below are the calendar items that are being held via online meetings: *Open Mic, hosted by Winston-Salem Writers, (first Tuesday of each month), is being held on June 2 at 6:45 p.m. via Zoom.

This event offers beginning and experienced writers an opportunity to read five minutes of their work to a friendly audience.

To participate in the Zoom Open Mic, visit www.wswriters.org and click on the June newsletter to get the link to Zoom or call Judie Holcomb-Pack at 336-971-1004. *Online ‘Medicare 101’ seminars presented by McCall Insurance Services will be held on June 4 at 10 a.m. and 2 p.m.

The seminars explain Medicare’s programs and are for anyone turning 65 or on Medicare. Registration is required and can be made by calling 336766-1885 or emailing amy@mccallins.com for details on how to connect to the meeting. *AARP meeting (second Tuesday except July and August), will be held June 9 at noon via Zoom. Email

Geneva Herbert at evaleejr2@gmail.com for more information.

Open to all seniors age 50 and above with an AARP membership. *Adult Children of Aging Parents meeting, (third Tuesday), usually held at Knollwood Baptist Church, 330 Knollwood St., will be held June 16 from 5:30-7:00 p.m. via Zoom. All are welcome, but the focus will be on the needs of adult children who are caring for their aging parents. For more information, visit www. http://acapwinston-salem.org/. *The Shepherd’s Center of Greater Winston-Salem is now accepting registration for an online Powerful Tools for Caregivers class, a six-week course for people caring for a loved one.

Classes will take place

by Zoom on Thursdays, June 4 – July 9, from 1:30 – 3 p.m.

There is no charge, but donations are accepted.

Registration is required and class size is limited. Early registration is recommended. For more information or to register, call Carol Ann Harris at 336-7480217. *Living Healthy at Home, a program of the Area Agency on Aging of Piedmont Triad Regional Council, is accepting registrations.

This no-cost program includes a mailed tool kit containing “Living a Healthy Life with Chronic Conditions� book, “Relaxation for Mind and Body� CD, and an exercise CD. The program topics include nutrition, exercise, medication use, communication and more. One hour weekly phone meetings with an instructor in small groups will be held for six weeks. To register, call MaryLou White 336-497-5610 or email agewell@ptrc.org.

If you have an item for the Seniors Calendar, please email news@wschronicle. com and put Seniors Calendar in the subject line. Items must be submitted by the 20th of the preceding month for the next month’s issue.

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