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First Night 1992: A community celebration $y YVETTE N. FREEMAN Community News Editor I ????, I ! Winston-Salem is gearing up (or "First Night 1992," an alcohol And drug-free celebration of the New Year. ! The community celebration, tyhich is sponsored by the Sub Stance Abuse-Free Environment (S.A.F.E.) Initiative and the Arts Council, will take place in down town Winston-Salem on Tuesday, Dec. 31, from 4 p.m. to 12 mid night Businesses and organizations located in the downtown area will open their doors to offer the com munity a wide range of alternative activities to the traditional New Year's Eve festivities, which nor mally involve the consumption of alcohol. The main emphasis and pur pose behind First Night is to pro vide fun and entertaining activities to bring in the New Year without the use of alcohol or drugs. "If we can create an attitude where people can celebrate safely on New Year's Eve downtown, then one of the best things jhat we could be doing is trying to keep them from drinking and driving," said Mary Stromski, director of the S.A.F.E. Initiative. "And it's a kind of attitude that takes several years to change, but we feel if you keep plugging away and you keep striving towards these efforts, then eventually, the results will be positive." The results, so far, have indeed been positive. During "First Night 1991," the first New Year's Eve effort by The S.A.F.E. Initiative, police reported fewer drunk driving incidents in the city. Stromski said that although that's good news, it is uncertain whether the lower statistics are a result of First Night. "Of course, I'd like to think they were," she said. "But the police department statis tics did say that last year, New Year's Eve, the drunk driving incidents were lower than they had been in the last 10 years." During the evening, activities for the entire fam ily will be avail able throughout the community, including a series of arts and crafts workshops de signed especially t for children, a choirfest featuring several local choirs, a teen dance, live perfor mances of jazz, country, classical. rhythm and bluest reggae, and blues music, dramatic presentations and art exhibitions, plus much more, The grand finale will be a laser light show at 11:30 p.m. at the Hall of Justice Building on Second Street. The various activities will take place in bank lobbies, city and county buildings, churches, the aters, private businesses, perform ing arts centers,parks,.plazas, and other indoor and outdoor areas. The S.A.F.E. Initiative was organized in 1989 by the Forsyth County Commissioners as a com munity-wide program to meet the Mary Stromski, director of the S.A.F.E. Initia tive, says First Night 1992 will offer a variety of activities for the entire family to en|oy. needs of public concern and aware ness of drug issues in the communi ty. The mission of the Initiative is to involve the total community in changing attitudes which promote an environment where people can live free from alcohol and other drugs. Other sponsors of First Night include Forsyth County, The Cros by, the City of Winston-Salem, RJ Reynolds Tobacco USA, Sara Lee Hosiery, Wachovia, Charter Hospi tal, and Parents for Drug-Free Youth. Admission to all activities is available with a $4 First Night 1992 button. Children 12 years of age and under will be admitted free. Buttons for admission can be pur chased at all First Union Bank loca tions. They will also be sold Dec. 30-31 at the Sawtooth Center and at all facilities during the festival. For more information about First Night* call 724-7339. Continued from page A1 your freedom of speech. To this day he is proud of his many efforts in Cleveland and Chicago where he worked to organize people to fight for their rights. He is an actor, yes, but always considers himself to be political! ; Since women and their works are not as often presented in the Iheater, Bellary Darden decided that she would do something, about it. She co-founded^Hrameleon Pro ductions which she describes as a culturally diverse theater serving as an important avenue available for women writers and directors seek ing to have their works performed. Bellary also travels around the country as an instructor for an a. ior based communications focus com pany called STRIVE. These three very talented actors will be looking for you during the production of Dividing the Estates. They each love the play written by Horton Foote who many will recall wrote the screenplay. To Kill A Mockingbird. They believe that the play's three black characters display an especially strong and useful mes sage for today's audience. They just hope that they see you there. After all, there is only so much laughing white folks can do when the folks that would really understand the message are black. ? Stevens Center ? Something for Everyone For ticket information 1 Call 721-1946 i ?92 and beyond Continued from page A4 racial hostility among white voters because of the rapidly changing demographic character of the nation. Duke sees the "browning of America" as a curse rather than as a blessing. Like Wallace, Duke wants to get 50 to 60% of the southern whites to vote to put Bush into a qorner. The problem is that Bush and Duke are already in the "same corner" when it comes to multiracial progress and empowerment. Thus, rhuch of the 1992 Presidential race will be viewing a crowd of persons "Running backward" on racial jus tice issues in order to politically move toward the "White House." ; Millions of "new" voters need tf> be added to the voting polls in ?very state. The truth is that not yearly half of the potential elec torate in the United States actually viotes. Participatory democracy in t^e nation has still not been fully achieved. One possible counter-bal ance to Wallace-Bush-Duke politi cal tendencies is for [l^ople of color communities across the nation to engage in massive voter education and mobilization efforts. The religious community, in particular the Christian church, must not allow Mr. Duke's pervert ed theology to go unchallenged. This is very important because Duke skillfully equates this soci ety's "overwhelmingly Christian" character with its "overwhelmingly European descent." 1992 and beyond ultimately will be determined not by the David Dukes of this world, but by people of goodwill not only coming togeth er for a political moment, but also by "staying together" in a united justice movement for the sake of all peoples in the nation and through out the world community. 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