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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
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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.
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in the
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