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August 2013
The AC Phoenix
Fall Intoa Vanpoo
Share the Ride - Clean
the Air - Rake in the
Savings
DO IT WITH
PASSION
OR NOT
AT ALL.
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The Piedmont Authority for Regionai
Transportation offers 7 and 15-Passen
ger vans to commuters who live at least
10 miles from their workplace and agree
to share the ride. Riders pay one low
monthly fare which includes the cost of
maintenance, insurance, gas and a guar
anteed emergency ride home. Drivers
typically ride for free!
Vanpoolers meet at a specified location,
usually a free PART Park and Ride lot,
park their personal vehicles and board
the van to head to work. Once the work
day is complete, they return back to the
Park & Ride lot. It's that simple! PART
leases vans to groups who either live or
work in member counties of Alamance,
Davie, Davidson, Forsyth, Guilford,
Randolph, Rockingham, Stokes, Surry
or Yadkin. A driver and at least five
commuters are required to start a new
vanpool. PART can also assist in getting
riders for the vanpool.
With Fall upon us, now is the time to
start preparing for the holidays. Van
pooling is a great way to save money
and make the work commute easier! For
as little as $50 per month, you too could
enjoy improved personal time manage
ment and reduced insurance premiums.
If you are interested in Joining or start
ing a new vanpool, contact PART at
1-800-588-7787 or by visiting the web
site: www.partnc.org.
(877)-272-7S43
The
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That
Prays
Together-
Stays Together.
Winston Salem
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KEVIN GATES
3714 Indiana Avenue
Winston-Salem, NC 27105
(336) 725-3840 FAX (336) 777-0016
Take a Black Male
to the Family Day
Celebration
By John Raye
Recently, I wrote that everybody
should go see Lee Daniel's The Butler,
the moving story about a Black man
who was a White Flouse servant for 34
years. I urged parents to take their chil
dren and grandchildren. They need to
know what it was like, "back in the day".
Now, there is another upcoming event
that we ought to go see. This time,
however, it will not be held in the cool
comforts of a movie theater. It will be
an indoor/outdoor event where people
can witness the awesome wonders of
mother nature.
Instead of spending money to buy
some popcorn, they will see the corn
plant that produces the popcorn. They
will see that greens, peas and beans, for
example, are not grown in Lowes, Food
Lion or Wal-Mart.
It is a quiet opportunity for us to be
come acquainted with each other, but
more importantly, to become acquaint
ed with ourselves. A family, we are told,
that prays together stays together. On
Saturday, September 14th, 2013, be
ginning at 9pm, we will have an op
portunity to pray, play, eat, sing ,dance
and tell tall tales together at the beau
tiful CRT farm, 4871 Phelps Dr, located
on the outskirts of Winston-Salem.
This all-day event will be held on a
working farm complete with fun,
games, family, food, music and good
entertainment. It is a sort of old fash
ion family celebration where parents
and children, friends and family mem
bers can relax, have fun and share vital
information that will be lost to future
generations unless we take the time
to teach, tell and engaged each other
in shared experiences.
It will be a day, a time to celebrate and
reflect and to enjoy shared blessings.
It will also be a time to touch the lives
of our young people, especially young
Black males.
Young Black males, we know, are at risk.
This would be a good time to go fin-
some young Black males and bring
them to this event. We all can agree
that our Black males are at risk, a risk
now greater than ever as we witness
the rapid rise in the rate of young Black
males now filling up the nation's jails
and prisons.
A community-based organization, The
l-Care Support Group is hosting this
day-long, Family Day Celebration, and
your participation is both urgent and
necessary. I-Care is a 501C-3 non-profit
organization that works with young
people and ex-offenders as they work
to ease their way back into society.
"We are asking parents, friends, church
es and organizations to come out and
support this Family Day Celebration.
We want to make this an annual event",
says Sabrina Gist, managing director
of the l-Care Support Group, and one
of several event organizers headed by
Minister Aim Razzark and Johnny X
Williamson.
This event is a call to action, a time as
Dr Jackie Mayfield, founder of Compro-
tax, the nation's largest Black-owned
income tax and bookkeeping firm says,
"to go get Leroy and Chiniqua." We all
know Leroy. And we all should know,
Chiniqua.
So on Saturday, September 14th, go
pick up some Leroys. Tickets are just
$8 for youth and $15 for adults. Bring
them to the Family Day Celebration.
This is a good time to change some
lives, and also to save some lives. If
we, who have survived this American
nightmare, don't do it, there is a good
chance it will never be done.
"This time around nobody is com
ing to save or help us, so we must act
to rescue ourselves", said Williamson.
That $ 8 dollar ticket to bring Black
youth to this event could turn out to
be one of the best investments some
of us have ever made", he said.
"And if you can't attend, just buy a
ticket, we will go find some young
people, pick them us and bring them
to our event," he said.
C'mon family; lets go get Leroy! Fley
Chiniqua...we be coming for you too!
Call for tickets and more information:
(336) 577-5869, (336) 995-1082, 336-
782-8383.
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