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WINNING WAYS ? ?mmm* JUNIOR midget vikings know how to win ? " .Sports-' MftMt 7 ? -J The Choice for African-American News and Information . , " , * *? * * , i THURSDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1994 " Power conc edes nothing without a struggle. ? Frederick Douglass J ? , VOL. XXI, No. 7 Officials: Happy Hill to Benefit from SE Gateway ? V' *' v- . V '* > "V. ' V.' '' \ - ' r. ? v' .^T " .?*' "/ ' ? '/ JJT5* ' ? ? * V.',"' ** ' ?* ? ?? . *'? ? ?' * .? ' **' ~V - /? A City official and public housing executive director say gateway will redirect traffic in area By DAVID L DILLARD Chronicle Staff Writer Doug Lewis said people who live in Happy Hill Gardens public housing com munitv are the "salt of ..the earth " and should not be neglected in plans to improve the Southeaptern part of the city. Lewis is a volunteer coordinator of the Southeast Gateway plan adopted by the city in 1992. He said the plan will bring oppor tunity for growth in the area and mak? it safer for residents. * . ? ? "They have some wonderful people over there, but the area has been neglected," Lewis said. ''They have their problems, but there is no employment opportunity there. Having employment nearby would help change their lives." I Lewis said the housing community, which has one entrance from the West and rqst of the area. Opening up the community to the rest of the neighborhood is essential to growth and would reduce crime, he said. "What you have is an economic under class forced to be condemned to the area. There are no businesses around them, and a lot of people don't have transportation," lie said. The road patterns have them isolated, making it easy for people to come in and impose themseWes on the residents who live J there." r However, Lewis believes that the Southeast Gateway will improve living con r ditions for the residents. ' - The Sogtheast Gateway plan, is a long range plan to lure' traffic into the city from the southeast that will bring the North Car see OFFICIALS paged t;- -;. : i ? ? ? " Vy* Gateways Music Festival ? ? ' . - " i ' Hundreds of people attended the recent Gateways Music Festival held last Thursday through Monday. The five-day event featured many out standing musical performers , including renowned classical pianist Awadagin Pratt and Harpist Winifred Garrett. Freelance photographer Hardin Richards caught up with many of the performers and music lovers at Friday night's reception at Richards Arts Gallery. In the top pho tograph is the 1 leid family of Greenway Avenue. In the bottom left photo is an unidentified couple. At bottom right, Winifred Garrett (far right) and New York University music professor Jesse McCarroll chat with classical music fan, . ' ? A Few Good Men A Best Choice Center and 100 Black Men combine for mentoring effort of youths - ^ , By VERONICA CLEMONS Chronicle Staff Writer Arthur Milligan said he stepped forward to be a mentor for young and teen-age boys men because of the need, and because he hopes someone would do the same for his son, now 14 months, if he weren't around. "If anything happens to me, 1 pray to .God that someone would step up and help leach him how to be a man," he said. Milligan. executive director of the Hous ing Authority of Winston-Salem, and 24 other African- American men will step up to do their part in teaching young boys how to become men. They will be participating in a mentoring project that is a result of a partner ship between The Best Choice Center and 100 Black Men of Winston-Salem. The mentoring project was made avail see BEST CHOICE page 77 24 M . 4 It 27 17 This Week In Black History October 10, 1961 Otis m. Smith appointed to Michigan Supreme Court 1 By DAVID t. DILLARD' ? Chronicle Staff Writer . Community and business lead ers held to their positions that the Citizen's Police Review Board should remain, and urged aldertnen to establish guidelines to evaluate the board that will be (fair to citi zens. ^ However, the Rev. Carlton Eversley, pastor of Dellabrook Pres byterian Church and member of Cit izens United for Justice, told the alderman's public safety committee Monday that black organizations and those sensitive to African Americans should evaluate the . effectiveness of the board. i "There is an undeniable history of police brutality against the com munity, especially against African Americans," Eversley said. "We have no change in our position for the continued existence of the police review board. "There have been numerous instances of police brutality and we are finding that it is not only a mat ter of race, but also class and socio economic status," he said. . Eversley said African-Ameri see MINISTER page 9 * Grad Has Been to Every Homecoming Since '47 By JEROME RICHARD ? Chronicle Staff Writer Short of being incapacitated, there is probably nothing that could or would keep Henry Jones from ^attending a Winston-Salem State University homecoming. The retired city-county teacher, coach and administrator has attended every Ram homecoming since graduating from WSSU in 1947. The consecutive attendance string would date back earlier had it not been for a stint in the Army , during World War II, which inter Boil down Jones' reason for attending homecoming for 47 con Ipve df university aiul love of friends. *Tm a graduate of Winston Salem State and I want to support the university," Jones said. "I've always participated in the affairs i f the school. I love the school." . Cheryl Harrison, WSSU's for several years. down to see WSSU page 7 Gov. Hunt Pardons ??$ ' -**' *' n Chronicle Publisher By RICHARD L. WILLIAMS Chronicle Executive Editor Chronicle Publisher Ernest H. Pitt has received a pardon from Gov. James B. Hunt for a conviction on two counts of drug posses sion that occurred 25 years ago. Pitt submitted a letter requesting the par don on Sept. 19, and the governor granted the pardon on Sept. 26 citing Pitt's "responsible civic behavior and community service." - Pitt, 48, said the pardon allows him to close the book on an unfortunate chapter in his >v ' ? ? life. "That's a skeleton that is no longer in my closet,- and it feels good," he said. "That's not something that can come back and haunt me." Pitt, a native of Greensboro, was arrested in 1969 on two counts of drug possession and Ernie Pitt GOV. HUNT page 6 TO SUBSCRIBE CALL 910-722-8624
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