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BTr KEVIN WALKER
THE CHRONICLE
Parents interested in
enrolling their young ones in the
first arts-based elementary
school in the county toured last
w?ek the site where the new pro
gram will be housed beginning
iij August.
-* The Arts Based Elementary
School (ABES) will call home a
suite with six classrooms on the
boltom floor of Atkins Middle
School. The site is much more
meager than Diggs Elementary
School, where ABES officials
Wanted to house the school
before
parents
voted
down the
idea earli
er this
year.
H a I
Johnson,
the chair
man of
the ABES
board,
said the
the Diggs vote was "disappoint
ing," but that board members are
relieved to finally have a space
where the school can take root.
"We were looking forward to
the challenge and the opportuni
ty that Diggs presented," John
son said. "Finding an appropri
ate location for the school has
been challenging. Opening at
Atkins will provide our students
with a first-class facility."
The level of cooperation
between the arts-based program,
which is a charter school, and
the public school system is
unusual, and it is believed that
no charter school in the state has
ever been housed in a public
See Arts School on A10
Photo by Kevin Walker
Goldie Irving
watches as her
sons, Matthew and
Andrew, play in the
piano lab at Atkins
Middle School. Irv
ing was one of
about 20 parents on
hand for an open
house for the new
arts-based elemen
tary school that will
be housed in a por
tion of the Atkins
building this fall.
Sunday
Jazz
ri Photos by Bruce Chapman
he Mulgrew Miller Trio closed the
2002 Piedmont Jazz Festival Sunday
with a performance at UNC-Greens
boro's School of Music. This year's festi
val included a slate of dozens of artists
and events in all three Triad cities. In
addition to Miller, right, the trio also con
sists of drummer Ulysees Owens and
bassist Darryl Hall.
Shotgun houses to be historic exhibits
Photo by Courtney Gaillanl
At part of an ongoing rovitaliiation effort in Happy Hill, houses like
this will be cleared away to make room for new onet.
BY COURTNEY GAILLARD
THE CHRONICLE
As part of plans to revi
talize the Happy Hill neigh
borhood. two historic shot
gun houses will be pre
served and transformed
into cultural exhibits called
"Across the Creek: The
Story of Happy Hill 1816
1952." The restored homes
will be included in the new
Cultural Heritage Center,
which will be built on
Alder Street.
During the first half, of
the 20th century, the shot
gun house was a common
structure found in black
neighborhoods, particularly
in many black areas- in.
Charlotte. The rooms are
lined up front to back, with
no central hallway. It is^
believed that the name
"shotgun" stems from the
fact that a gun could be
fired from the front door
out the back door without
hitting a single wall.
The shotgun houses
were moved to a temporary
storage location owned by
Duke Power last week so
that they could be saved for
future renovations. The
preservation of this struc
ture. which originates from
Africa, is significant in that
many slaves built and lived
in these homes.
"We didn't realize how
old the (shotgun houses)
were," said Edith Jofles.
president of the Happy Hill
Community Association.
Jones explained that once
the rest of the houses are
moved and cleared from
Alder Street, the two shot
See Houses on A9
Committee's role
is made uncertain
BY T. KEVIN WALKER
THE CHRONICLE
The City-County School
Board voted Tuesday night to
allow the superintendent to pro
duce a yearly report that will
update the board on equity
issues at schools in the system.
By doing so, the board made
ambiguous the duties of a vol
unteer committee that has been
looking at issues of equity in
schools for the last seven years.
Members and supporters of
the Equity Committee - which
the School Board established in
1995 when it adopted its con
troversial redisricting plan,
which did away with cross
town busing and, in turn, creat
ed a great number of one-race
schools - urged the board to
continue to let them do their job
and not pass that responsibility
on to Superintendent Don Mar
tin.
They argued that the board
first established the committee
so that statistics on equity could
be examined and reported on by
an independent group of people.
"Tl
l nc
only
watchdog
that we
have is
this com
mittee,"
said the
Rev.
Carlton
Eversley,
the head
of thf
local N AACT's Education Cau
cus and a longtime critic of the
redistricting plan and Martin.
f he Rev. John Mendez went
a step further, saying that put
ting Martin in charge of report
ing equity issues is like letting
the "fox guard the hen house."
Mendez told board members
before their vote that the Minis
ters Conference" of Winston
Scc Committee on AS
Mendez
Walkers survive
breast cancer
and bad weather
BYT. KEVIN WALKER
THE CHRONICLE
The rain and chill in the air
Saturday were non-issues for
the thousands who took part in
an annual fund-raiser for breast
cancer. Many of the participants
- those who have gone toe to w
toe with the disease that affects lt
one out of eight women and
have lived to tell about it - had
weathered more turbulent and
uncertain storms in the past.
"It is nice to be able to Say
that I am here, and I am walking
and supporting all the others
that are here and letting them
know that it does not have to be
a death sentence," said Pearl
Bacote, a 30-year breast
cancer survivor who was
among those who walked
or ran in the Susan G.
Roman Breast Cancer
Foundation Race for the
Cure,
It was the third year
for the fund-raiser, which
relies on donations from
individual walkers/run
ners and teams from vari
ous businesses and organ
izations to aid local breast
health programs and proj
ects.
But organizers say the
event has become more
than a fund-raiser. The
event brings together sur
vivors with people who
have been affected by
breast cancer or those who
simply want to do their ?
part to help find a cure.
bacote. who walked
' ith the YWCA Sisters Speak
?am. was one of the women at
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Photo by Kjjyin Walker
Linda Lindsay and her grandson, 1
Brandon, enjoy a concert after the
Race for the Cure Saturday. |
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