NCSA Reaches Out to Neighbors Demsha waited patiently as North Carolina School of the Arts student Curtis Craddock poured a new color onto the paper. Carefully, she dipped her palms in the puddle of paint and pressed down several times, each time on a clean section of the paper. "What does this look like to you." Craddock asked the young ster. "Fingerprints!" answered the preschooler Slightly- exasperated , Craddock asked, "Do they look like fingerprints or do you just know they're fingerprints?" Elsewhere in the visual arts stu dio, modern dance student Dwana Smallwood admired Teressa's work ofart. "Are you going to take it home to your mommy?" she asked, getting a nod of the head and grin in reply. ?About a dozen bright-eyed chil dren, enrolled in the Happy Hill Center on Mock Street, recently vis ited the nearby campus of the North Carolina School of the Arts for per haps the biggest adventure of their young lives. They were invited by Awareness of Black Artist (ABA), a campus organization dedicated to increasing the knowledge of African ? Americans in the arts in society. Smallwood, ABA president, said the invitation to the day-care center came about because ABA had discussed doing something for NCSA music student Johnny Tune , left, pours paint from Bryant , center , a/itf TiW/. (Photo by Michael Lane) sometime. They decided to extend the invitation as their Black History Month project, she said. Craddock, who arranged and supervised the was skeptical about having a suc cess. "But once I got focused on just letting go," he said, "it kind of opened up my mind. can tell ol4hem have an innate sense of color." he said. "These (paintings) are just beautiful." In addition to the art class, the preschoolers participated in classes in dance and drama. But the high light of the visit came when the youngsters gathered for a puppet show enti tled"The Hero in You,' the theme of the ABA project. Teresa, left, gets instruction from NCSA modern dance student Dwana Smallwood, right. "Once upon a time there was a bright little boy named Omar." read Smallwood, the narrator. Omar, she explained to the children, wanted to find a hero because his friends have heroes ? from Martin Luther King Jr. to Michael Jordan to Malcolm X to Hammer. Meeting various people along the way, Omar was given a lot of differing advice. But at the end of his journey. Omar realized "all he had to do was look in the mirror ... and find the hero in you." she said. After the puppet shovs. ABA members gave personalized memen tos to the children, including the smocks they made for them to wear during art class. As ABA members helped the youngsters with their coats and hats for the ride back to the center. Smallwood said. "I think we had more fun than they did!" North America Open Poetry Contest Invites Poets The National Library of Poetry has announced that $12,000 in prizes will be awarded this year to over 250 poets in the North Ameri can Open Poetry Contest. The deadline for the contest is March 31. The contest is open to every one and entry is free. Any poet, whether previ ously published or not, can be a winner. Every poem entered also has a chance to be published in a deluxe, hardbound anthology. To enter, send one original poem, any subject and any style, to the National Library of Poetry, 11419 Cronridge Drive, P. O. Box 704 - XJ, Owings Mills, Md. 21117. The poem should be no more than 20 lines, and the poet's name and address- should appear on the top of the page. Entries must be postmarked by March 31. A new contest opens April 1 . Work and Earn It Program Compensates Victims Forsyth Court Volunteers is pleased to announce that the number of victims of juvenile crime in Forsyth County compensated from its Work and Earn It program has reached 1.000. This means that 1,000 victims of juvenile crimes in the county have received monetary restitution as part of a juvenile offender's sentence. The total dollar value of this restitution exceeds S60.000. Forsyth Court Volunteers assists the court system by having young people who have been sen tenced to pay monetary restitution to victims or do community service work fulfill their responsibility. Ten-to- 16-yeaJ-old offenders are referred by Juvenile Court Coun selors. They are placed in non-profit or governmental agencies through out the community. At these loca tions, they work as a volunteer for an agency. These young people have Ensemble Challenges Youths Talented young musicians yearning to play challenging music with their peers are getting the chance, thanks to a new program at the The University of North Car olina at Greensboro. The UNCG School of Miftic recently formed the Greater Greens boro Youth Wind Ensemble (GGYWE) to give musicians in the 9th through 12th grades an opportu nity in addition to their school bands to practice and perform. Forty-eight students from 25 schools in 10 counties were selected for the GGWYE following auditions. Students from Forsyth County who are participating are: Laura Sawyer. Parkland High School; Sam Coleman. Eric Lennington and Rachel Rhodes, N.C. School of the Arts; Tika Douthit and Deborah Huitt, Reynolds Hill School; and Quincy Lundy. West Forsyth. The GGYWE fills a need for young musicians who want to improve their skills, said Dr. John Locke, and associate professor of music at UNCG and executive director of the ensemble. "There are lots of opportunities for kids who want to do things in other interest (such as athletics or dance)," Locke said. "It's not like there isn't anything in music. There are All-State Band and band festi vals, but most of these events are sort of one-shot deals, a weekend, and that's it." The group will perform its first concert at 3 p.m. Sunday in the High Point Central High School auditorium, 801 Ferndale Dr. in High Point. helped clear land, make nature trails, send out newsletters, clean offices, build shelving and more. If they only have to do commu nity service work, they are given credit for it and that is reported to the court counselors. If they must pay restitution, they earn the money from the Restitution Fund by work ing at these agencies. The commu nity therefore benefits twice from the restitution program. Victims receive payment for damages and the community receives needed vol unteer work. Money for the Restitu tion Fund comes from ticket sales to the annual ACC All-Star Classic Basketball game. Forsyth Court Volunteers will host the next ACC All-Star Classic Basketball came April 14 at the col iseum. Tickets are available at this time. For more information contact Wayne Abraham at 724-9923. The People's Choice The Chronicle Combined Clubs Plan Summer Trip The Flower Niche Flower Club and Prince's Feather Garden Club will jointly sponsor a sum mer trip to Shepherdsville, Ken tucky from June 18 to 21. The non-profit clubs, both members of the fourth district garden council, normally sponsor separate annual trips. Edythe Williams and Hugh Dobson are presidents of the groups. The trip is open to the public for participation. A fee will be charged for the trip. The group will depart on the morning of June 18 for Kentucky and will be housed in the Ramada for three nights. The intincrary will include visits to historic Bardstown, Kentucky Derby Museum, Churchill Downs Race track, Star of Louisville boat ride with lunch aboard Jim Beam Dis tillery, My Old Kentucky Dinner Train, The Olde Stable. Abraham Lincoln birthplace, and the J. Dan Talbot amphitheater for a showing of the Stephen Foster story. Members of both flower clubs may be contacted for trip particulars. NEWS '& C Af E "Food for Body and Mind" 712 8K.OOKSTOWN AV?. WlNiTON-SXLtM 919-723-0858 OPEN DAI LV WEST@N TRAVEL OF THE WEEK Behind every good and successful man. (here is a good and successful woman." Weston Travel is pleased to recognize Mrs. Clara Gaines as Our Ram of the Week. We salute Clara Gaines for her ongoing sup port of Winston-Salem Stale University Athletes and Academics. Her positive attitude and perse verance have been nothing but an asset throughout the years. 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