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Winston-Salem Chronicle
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'The Twin City's Award-Winning Weekly"
VOL. XIX, No. 17
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Board Gives Vote Of Confidence
? Griggs says he hired
the wrong employee.
By SHERIDAN HILL
Chronicle Assistant Editor
The Citizens Coalition for a Better
Tomorrow Board of Directors has given its
executive director a vote of confidence,
amid recent news reports of financial mis
management.
The board met Sat., Dec. 19 and
reviewed an audit of the agency's financial
transactions for the past six months.
Khalid Griggs, executive director of
Citizens Coalition, said he fired the
employee who mismanaged his agency's
financial records. According to police
records, on Sept. 1,1 992 Griggs filed an
embezzlement complaint against his for
mer administrative assistant, Jimmie Lee
Wilson.
He also said the amount of money in
question is less than $4,000, not $30,000 as
reported in a Dec. 9 Winston-Salem Jour
nal article.
"It was never a large amount," Griggs
said. "Our entire budget is about $90,000.
If a third of our budget were missing, we
would have had to close in August."
According to vice chair Mike Crocker,
several months ago the board's preliminary
look at the agency's financial records
showed $30,000 worth of checks not fully
authorized. Of those, all but a few thou
sand dollars have been accounted for.
The Citizens Coalition is a grass-roots
community agency sponsoring such pro
grams as Hire-A-Teen. Griggs is the
founding director.
Griggs said that during Wilson's six
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Maya Angelou
Angelou Chosen As
Inaugural Poet For
Clinton Ceremonies
Poet Maya Angelou has been asked by President
elect Bill Clinton to compose an inaugural poem and
to recite it during the swearing-in ceremony in Janu
ary.
Angelou will be the first poet to take part in a
swearing-in ceiemony since John F. Kennedy asked
Robert Frost in 1961 .
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Khaiid Griggs
WSSU Alum
Back Blount
For Coach
L A "I would hold a
snake for the job,"
said Kermit Blount.
By MARK R. MOSS
Chronicle Suit Writ*
Alumni and supporters at Win
ston-Salem State University took
put a full -page advertisement ijl
today's Chronicle to show their sU ph,
port for Kermit Blount as the
school's next head football coach.
Blount was a star football player at
WSSU from 1976-80.
School officials, however, have
already interviewed Dave Shep*
- pard, who was once an assistant
- coach at WSSU but is not an alum
nus of the school.
The position became available
last Friday when Pete Richardson
resigned to accept the head footbaB
coaching job at Southern University
in Baton Rouge, La.
"We're rallying around Kermit
Blount," said attorney Larry Little*
a WSSU professor and the orga
nizer of the campaign to promote
Blount "He's one of the sharpest
football minds we've got, and we
can't afford to let him slip away."
Blount, the offensive coordina
tor in the football program at South
Carolina State University, said he it
very much interested in the post*
tion.
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Nefrititi and her friend Lameka Gambrel, were beacons of tight as they led a group of carolers along Martin Luther
King Jr. Blvd. in the chilly air of Sunday night About twenty-five people sang and walked to Sunrise Towers.
Children Carry On Christmas Tradition
The way to pass on a tradition is to make sure the young get
involved.
And that's exactly what happened Sunday night when about
a half a dozen children showed up at the Winston Mutual Build
ing on Fifth Street to join their elders in Christmas caroling.
The walk, which moved along Martin Luther King Blvd.
and stopped at Sunrise Towers, was organized Joycelyn Johnson,
a member of the East Winston Restoration Association, and
attended by two couples from the West End Association. The
East Winston Community Development Corporation also spon
sored the event.
"This is the fourth year we've done this and we're always
happy to do it," said Johnson.
It was a chilly evening, but the weather didn't keep the
smiles from everyone's faces as they walked and sang and toted
battery-operated candles.
"We're just here to show our support," said Wanda Mer
schall, from the West End Association. She shivered, and wiped
away a tear produced by the cold.
In the lobby of Sunrise Towers, the carolers, numbering
about 25, sang to a sparse crowd of senior citizens such stan
dards as "Silent Night," "Deck the Halls/ and MAway In a
Manger."
Outside, the carolers, led by the children, turned off their
candles and dashed towards the McDonalds across the street for
refreshments.
Happy Hill Store Offers More Than Food
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A An impossible dream
turns into reality.
By KAREN M. HANNON
Community News Reporter
What may have seemed like an impossible dream
has come to reality in a neighborhood that continues to
have hope.
After over a year of planning and hard work, work
ers in the Happy Hill Garden Mart convenience store
opened their doors at 6 a.m. last Monday in the Happy
Hill Gardens community.
By lunchtime, they had already served 100 cus
tomers.
Year-long efforts to reopen what was once a neigh
borhood drug-den have come to a head.
The Happy Hill Garden Mart is not vour typical
convenience store. Not only does it sell food, drinks,
and health products; more importantly, the store is on
its way to providing self-empowerment in its own com
munity.
It is established as a non-profit business, managed
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Danelda Wright (left), a resident of the Happy Hill Gardens community who also works at the Happy Hill Gar*
den Mart, displays the store's first dollars earned. Others pictured are (L to r.): Angela White, assistant mor*
agar; Scott Fletcher , manager; Bessie Singletary , consultant ; and Michael Jefferson* senior clerk.
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