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The Post Office building on Fifth Street between Liberty and Trade Streets
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The western side of One Triad Park adjacent to Cherry Street
Lloyd G. Walter Jr.
Four downtown sites identified ... j
Lloyd Walter presented a thick report
to the City-County Planning Board on
Thursday, telling its members that the doc
ument from the Forsyth County Museum
Task Force is "a lump of clay waiting for
the community to shape."
The task force has been working for
the last II months on a preliminary study
to determine if a museum has potential for
Winston-Salem. Walter is the chairman of
the task force. - -
"There's no question that the kind of
facility we're talking about could be a
valuable addition to Winston-Salem and
Forsyth County," he said.
"We have identified many benefits,
especially in the areas of education and
economic development. Another wonder
ful benefit is the opportunity to share a
common vision of our future constructed
from the labors of our parents and grand
parents.
"However," Walter said, "more
detailed study will be needed before the
extent of the economic benefit and the
community's reception to the idea can be
measured. That's one of the next steps that
the task force recommends," he said.
"One of the challenges we have had is
in identifying what we are," he added.
"The term 'museum* doesn't accurately
describe the facility we envision. What we
see is a place where you can come to learn
about the history of Winston-Salem and
Forsyth County by meeting the people
who made it and participating in the
events that shaped it. It would offer the
same kind of excitement for visitors as
Discovery Place in Charlotte or SciTrek in
Atlanta."
The task force said the mission of the
facility would be "to collect, preserve,
interpret and creatively and ambitiously
present historical materials tracing the
development of Southern life, industry
and commerce, with emphasis on Forsyth
County and North Carolina."
Walter said that the committee agreed
that the facility should be located down
town to take advantage of hotel, conven
tion and visitor services already in the
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area. The task force recommended that the
facility either occupy a "historically sig
nificant" existing facility or a structurally
impressive new structure. He said that in
either case the estimated cost would range
from $12.2 - 14.1 million.
The task force, with input from the
Downtown Development Corporation,
suggested four locations: the Post Office
building on Fifth Street between Liberty
and Trade Streets, the western side of One
Triad Park adjacent to Cherry Street, the
block between Cherry and Marshall
streets, east of the Public Safety Center;
and the block immediately east of the
Sawtooth Building.
Walter thanked the task force for their
efforts in assembling the information for
the report.
The committee chairpersons were
Tom Gray, Site Criteria/Selection;
Gwynne Taylor, Historic Resources; Barry
Miller, Organization/Type; and Will
Mann, Funding.
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The block immediately east of the Sawtooth Center building
East of tha Public Safety Cantar
AIDS program
given recently
Members of the March Ministry
Group (Resourcers) and the Health
Professionals of Grace Presbyterian
Church presented a panel and program
on "AIDS" recently at Grace Church.
The guest speakers were Jean
Levette, Charge and Infectious Control '
Nurse, Forsyth Stokes Mental Health;
and Don Allen, volunteer from Baptist
Hospital.
The Health Professionals of Grace
PresByterian Church are Dr. Myma
Williams, clinical psychologist; Sandra
Thomas, nurse, Baptist Hospital;
Emma Penn, retired health care techni
cian; Christopher Sims, personnel offi
cer, Forsyth Hospital; Verdell Penn,
nurse, medical technologist, Forsyth
Hospital; Dr. Michelle Chenault, pro
fessor at Winston-Salem State Univer
sity in the Medical Technology Pro
gram; and Ernestine Worley, assistant 4
professor of nursing, Winston-Salem
State University.
A film "Black People Can Have
AIDS Too" was shown and a question
and answer discussion and social hour
finalized the afternoon.
Grace Lowery presided the meet
ing and introduced the speakers and
panel members. Willie Gray is the
Resourcers Convener. Dr. Samuel
Stevenson is the pastor.
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