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HHHS S&T'J Lift % rv Uf-, "J! court 1 mm Hp] as roy tnim be kttied until 1 tmfa the IfegnnM minorities, riminattoft the practice, ftfcdby : expected to chal r'-based schol ispanics and National racial; exclusively Arthur ASH' YORK Arthur ?V|* At* m currently b from the mm handling. . -:vv :v, WASHINGTON *-A new Research Council has AIDS as becoming | minorities. While concludedf'Tfie most Americans?? on American society as a dence of HIV infection among black gay men have been little affected* mtvinH, i are not in those two higli risked affected." The National etny of Sciences and ha$ advice to ^ onwrmwnt Ashe symbolized one of the most tragic people who contracted the is believed Ashe became 1983 open heart surgery. Famous HOUSTON ? John R. role in court battles that Houston this month at S3. 1962 with the order aUo*s|ii all-white University of More . |miIM ? NEW YORK ? Led beset with 16 different t; later this year at least three alism. And, two pf the speaker Les Brown and into the fray by early September. The cism for sensationalism and Brown say that he promisedtotte his | Black * WASHINGTON ing that increasing numbers for government " ! has compiled a "Credit re-establish positive rftjj ative credit is turning zens. This non-prqfit Better Life Club, P.O. Boot Interested persons are Winston I>ke YMCA Hopes To Stem Erosion B\ SHERIDAN HILL Assistant Editor Eigtu years ago. there was much excitement about the opening of the Winston Lake YMCA. The S3.1 million facility, with its six-lane, heated .swimming pool, handball and basketball courts and fully equipped weight-training cen ter, sits on 1 1 acres bordering the picturesque 450-acre Winston Lake Park. A year after it opened, enroll ment reached its peak with 1,415 members. But since June 1986, membership has steadily dropped. And today, the YMCA has only 534 members, despite an initial feasibil ity study that indicated 2,000 poten tial members. Why then is membership so far below potential? "You answer that one and Cormier, chief executive officer of the four YMCAs of Greater Win ston-Salem. "It's not because we don't have a quality facility. It's not because we don't have quality pro grams. It's not lack of minority input." Marcellete Orange, hired in 199has flirector~of the Winston Lake YMCA, vows to improve membership. Orange said one of her biggest obstacles was to destroy the ' perception that the area is crime-rid den. "When I came here, people told me stories about things that hap pened out here, but those things aren't happening today," said Oranje, referring to instances of crime that had occurred in the area. "I feel very safe out here." She might also want to attract YMCA * ' . ? * jy'i' "f Programs It's not that people don't use the Winston Lake YMCA ? they're just not members. - * Programs offered there serve an estimated 4,500 people each year. On any given weekend, the ? basketball courts are filled with wide-eyed, enthusiastic youths. > Structured health and sports pro- ;? grams include aerobics, senior stretch, basketball, raquetbalh] and swimming lessons for all ^ ages. V. Youth programs include the Black Achievers, Kadets March ing Team, drill team, majorettes, J" cheerleading, community incen In addition to structured^ programs, the YMCA is used for ' " ; ' v- V v? ? practice site for high school swim teams ^ v , ->Vi ? two Head Start classrooms > . ? meeting site for senior citizens | groups ? voting precinct ? weightl ifting competition ? raquetball competition ? regional Amateur Athletics Union basketball program * ? Bridge Club meetings ? fraternity, sorority meetings site members of the downtown Central YMCA. which. Cormier said, has nearly 1 .000 black members? Why aren't t hey member* -<rt Winston^Lake? Ben Ruffin. a Win ston Lake YMCA board member, has his own idea as to why. "People don't know the Win ston Lake Y is competitive," h\ said. "The facility is superb. The \ equipment is modern, and you don t have to stand in line to use it." He said blacks should join the YMCA to serve as role models to the hundreds of youths that use the facility daily. "The real question about this Y is not why aren't more black people members, but why aren't we as black men volunteering and taking on some of these kids," he said. "We ryeedto become involved in the work of the Y." Cormier said nearly 80 percent of the kids who attend programs at the Winston Lake Y are from sin gle-parent families. Nigel Alston, also a board member and who serves on the membership committee, said the Winston Lak? Y is an overlooked gold mine in a beautiful setting. "Right next door, you've got the park; you've Winston Lake Estates and the new development. Lake Park Estates, both over the siooV>o price range," he said. "They're attracting higher income families. And it s a fatfGlous facility. " Cormier says the YMCA has the services and facilities to attract a solid membership. Transportation shouldn't be a problem, Cormier says, because of public transportation. Transporta tion is also provided at some neigh borhoods for summer day camp and after-school child care. Officials do not think it is membership fees that have eroded enrollment. The new -member fee at Winston Lake is half ($25) that of other branches and one-fourth that of the Central YMCA ($100). The monthly adult membership fee at Winston Lake is $20, compared with $23 at the Kernersville branch and $26 at the downtown branch. A child's membership is $5 month. Winston Lake has also received improvements totaling $300,000, which include a hardwood gym Marcelette Orange, director of the Winston Lake Family YMCA, said she wishes that the community would recognize 'Uhe quality, commitment and integrity that is displayed throughout our YM&A." floor, glass backboards, a hard wood aerobics floor, a youth-center room and an upgraded Nautilus weight-training equipment room. The men's and women's locker rooms have been remodeled to include showers, a whirlpool, sauna and a steam room. Cormier saicTlhe YMCA orga nization has provided financial sup port to the Winston Lake branch. "We have eliminated 100 per cent of our United Way support to :our central branch and redirected that money to the Winston Lake Y for scholarships.". Cormier said. "We have cut the budget at other branches and directed that money to Winston Lake. In facile only bud get increases we requested this year were for the Winston Lake Y.M He added that 1 2 percent of the organization's] 992 funding was produced by United Way. Of that. 70 percent went to the Winston Lake YMCA^'l wish someone ? could tell me what the problem is," he said. "Only a small percentage of the adult minority membership is interested in supporting the branch in their own community. We raised the money, built the facility, put in the programs the community sug gested, but ... its not a bottomless pit. The community has -to- support it: 6 Directors Not Members At Y As the Winston Lake Family YMCA launches its membership drive, six members of the group's Board of Directors either have memberships aft other clubs or none at all. Marcellete Orange, director of the YMCA, said a membership was not required to serve on the board. She said board members contributed to the YMCA in ways other than financial. She said she would not ask those serving who do not have a membership to resign. A board members' duty, among other things, is to offer input that might help increase enrollment. One board member who does not have a member ship admitted that he was a setting a bad example. Rembert Malloy, who said he served on the board with an active membership for 17 years from 1944 to 1957, said he rejoined the board several years ago but did not reactivate his membership. "I'm guilty," he said when contacted this week. "I'm setting a bad example. I think it's a shame that I and others on the board don't' have a membership. I think out of loyalty every board member should have a membership. I think that each person who comes on the board should be asked to join. " The other board members without memberships at the Winston Lake YMCA are Nigel Alston, Larry But ler. Jean Irvin. James Rousseau and Claudette Weston. Alston, Rousseau and Weston belong to the Central YMCA.. "1 am not a member and I have no reason," Weston said. "My real thrust over there is young people. I work with AAU basketball and raise money for mem bership scholarships. I've been so active with the Y and with my new business, that I don't leave the office until nine o'clock. They laugh at me at central because I've held a membership for two years but haven't worked out." r Irvin said she has had a membership at the Winston Lake YMCA for the past four years, but did not renew her membership when it expired in December. Alstrffi and Rousseau could not be reached for com ment. Lawyers Ask High Court for Retrial from page A 1 An investigator working for Hunt's attorney's , the documents say, could not find McBride for Hunt's 1990 re-trial. Shortly before the second trial, McBride was serv ing time in the Forsyth County Jail, and according to the documents, two detectives from the police department told her boyfriend that "the best thing he could do was to get Lisa out of town" once she got out of jail. A month before the trial began, McBride and her boyfriend went to West Virginia, the court documents said. Winston-Salem Police Chief George Sweat would not comment on the allegations in the docu ments. However, Claire r McNaught, the department's attor ney, said that the state has been provided with affidavits from the detectives refuting the charges. Hunt, now 27, was convicted in 1985 and is serving a life sentence at Caledonia Correctional Facility in Tillery in the killing of Sykes, who was a copy editor for the Winston Salem Sentinel, which no longer exists. She was attacked around 6 a.m. on Aug. 10, 1984, while walk ing from her car to the newspaper's offices. Autopsy results indicated she had been stabbed, raped and sodomized. "The murder itself sort of shook up the city," said Larry Little, a city lawyer and professor at Winston Salem State University.^' And after Hunt got arrested, not too much was said." Little said there were things about the case that he found trou bling, including the prosecution's key witness, Johnny Gray. According to the documents introduced yesterday. Gray, who is serving a 53-year sentence for mur der in an unrelated case told another inmate he had killed Sykes. The inmate, identified in the court documents as Damen Vega, told Hunt what he ha# learned from Gray. Vega and the other three would-be witnesses have given Hunt. sworn affidavits in which they claim Sendor refused to comment on Gray confessed to the killing. Gray what motive city officials might used the name of a friend of Hunt's have in sending an innocent man to when he initially called the police prison. But Little, who helped form about a suspect in 19^4? Gray later the Darryl Hunt Defense Committee admitted he used someone else's that raised $50,000, said local offi name when he called the police. The cials were interested in "saving documents say Gray discussed with face." another prosecution witness the "Ive put more time in this case identity of the man he finally picked than I have in anything in my life," out of a line up. That man was Little said. BLACK HISTORY is every month, week after week, in the m Chronicle

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