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? The Chronicle o Community Focus section C Winston-Salem Greensboro High Point March 14, 2 O O 2 The Choice for African-American News 0 KL * mm?A Community Calendar WSSU board of trustees will meet March 15 The Winston-Salem State University board of trustees will meet at 9 a.m. in room 207 A of the Cleon F. Thompson Student Services Center on Friday, March 15. The standing committee meetings are scheduled for the following times: ? Student affairs committee, Thursday, March 14, at 12:30 p.m. in conference room 308 of the Thompson Student Services Center. ? Academic affairs committee. Thursday, March 14, at 3 p.m. in Blair Hall room 200. ? Finance and administration committee. Thursday, March 14, at 4 p.m. in the chancellor's board room, Blair Hall. ? Advancement committee, Thursday. March 14, at 4:30 p.m. in Suite 311. Blair Hall. ? The endowment fund com mittee met on Wednesday, March 13, at 8 a.m. in the chancellor's board room, Blair Hall. Housing Authority of Winston-Salem announces scholarship The Housing Authority of Winston-Salem once again announces the William H. Andrews Scholarship, a fund developed to encourage and enable residents (high school and continuing education adults) of public housing to continue/com plete their education in an accred ited post-secondary school pro gram. Scholarships amounting to $1,000 are available to qualified applicants. For questions and/or applications, contact HAWS office at (336) 727-8500, ext. 104. Mount Zion Baptist will spon sor arts-centered intercession program Mount Zion Baptist Church will sponsor an arts-centered intersession program for Win ston-Salem/Forsyth County year round students. The program will run March 11-29 and will operate from the church. 905 File Street. The hours of operation will be Monday through Friday from 7 a.m. until 5:30 p.m. The program will provide a wonderful mix of spiritual, educa tional and recreational activities, in addition to classes to build arts, reading and mathematics skills. Breakfast, lunch and a snack are included in the fee. Government vouchers are accepted. .Early enrollment is encour aged, as the number of spaces is limited. For an application and additional information, call the church office, 722-2325. from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. or Dr. Gladys W. Bray, the program's director, at 723-5758. Mainville AMK Zion will dedicate fellowship hall Rev. Robert H. Bailey and the members of Mainville AME Zion Church in MocksvijQt invite everyone to come and be with them on Sunday. March 17. at 3 p.m.. for the dedication of their newly built fellowship hall. Dr. Horace C. Walser. presiding elder of the.Winston Salem District of AME Zion churches, will deliver the afternoon message. Refresh ments will be served after the ded ication. Building Together 0 1 ? mm c : ?? -r- j Photos by Paul Collins Marchette Mclntyre, Sandy Streat, Shanetta Feggins, Heather Mills, Josene Perkins, Erica Blackwell, Evette O Neil, Roberta Norales and Barbara Johnson from Saints Home United Methodist Church in Winston-Salem were among the volunteers working last Thursday. House raisings begin on 14th Street in effort to transform neighborhood BY PAUL COLLINS THE CHRONICLE Hundreds of people from United Methodist Church congre gations. volunteers and residents of the 14th Street neighborhood, college students and families who will be moving into the new homes have begun raising seven new houses on 14th Street (between Patterson and Ivy). Offi cials from Habitat for Humanity said that 57 congregations in the United Methodist Church's Win ston-Salem District, Habitat and the city are. of course, contribut ing a great deal to the project, but that the real vision and dream for redeveloping the at-risk neighbor hood came from the North Win ston Neighborhood Association, which went out to look for help to make it happen. This effort is part of Habitat for Humanity's commitment to rebuild the northern end of the u Liberty-Patterson Revitalization h Project in partnerships with the S city of Winston-Salem and the b North Winston Neighborhood n association a "That's what's so special t( about this (project)," said Kay v Lord, executive director of Habi- c tat for Humanity of Forsyth e County. "People have been meet- n ing at St. James (AME Church) t( on a monthly basis. And the a group has been growing and (I growing and growing. They h knew that this street was the S biggest problem in their neighbor- p hood." h "It's absolutely going to turn tl this neighborhood around." Lord a said. "The neighborhood associa- v tion invited Habitat in three years T ago to help them with the plan- l< ning, because we had built those p houses on 13th Street (the 14th a street redevelopment area backs b p to the successful United dethodist/Habitat project on 13th treet, where several houses were uilt in 1997). So I have been a lember of that neighborhood ssociation for three years, going 3 their monthly meetings and /orking with them ... bringing the ity in and the police in and verybody that we needed to lake this happen. It's really going i turn (the neighborhood) round ...We're going to acquire for the most part) the rest of these ouses (on this block). So 14th treet will be transformed....The eople who own those houses ave not yet been approached but lis is all a redevelopment area, nd we're working very closely vith the city to make that happen, "here may be one or two houses :ft standing here, but for the most iart they'll all been gone. They've II been assessed by the city as eing houses that should come dpwn. 1 hope that that will happen of certainly within the next 12 m months, that we'll be back here M building houses. That will be my pr goal..." thi Lord continued, "1 would tir encourage for-profit builders to Ai come join us on this street. I think M once they see it turned around, mi once these houses are down, I'd really like to see a mixture of m builders out here. That would be be my dream, and I think that's the of neighborhood's dream, because or there are a number of vacant lots over here. This won't stop. This is de the beginning." ' 1 In all. Habitat has plans at this wl point to build 11 houses in the 13 14th Street neighborhood. Seven an substandard houses on 14th Street thi were torn down and are being M replaced thanks to a partnership cc between the Winston-Salem Dis- ne trict of the United Methodist Church and Habitat for Humanity Forsyth County. Habitat esti ates that close to 30,000 ethodists are involved in the oject in one way or another - rough donations of money or ne. planning or other support, n estimated 2,000 or more ethodists will be swinging ham ers as the homes go up. According to a Habitat infor ation sheet. "14th Street tween Patterson and Ivy is one Winston-Salem's most danger is and dilapidated areas." Sonja Murray, director of velopment for Habitat, said, "he project started years ago ten we built seven houses on ?th Street. This is a really tough ea. The Methodists built six of ose seven houses....All of the 57 ethodist churches have made a immitment to rebuilding this sghborhood. They have come See Fair on C2 Volunteers building one of the homes Homeowner Monique Vance tmme ? ? eS W BfiST-.. i M Homeowne Odella Conrad D, VISA A Homeowner Karen Davis
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