WAAA fnm pane AI claimed the station owed back rent. Evans said the issue was not i about tent, but about the land J lord's desire to sell his property. - For the past year, loyal listen ers of the station and Evans' friends have initiated a series of '.fund-raising efforts to help . "WAAA buy a new building and | new transmitter. At a fund-raising Jvent last September, organizers ; raid that about $1(X),(XX) was ? needed to get the station up and I funning again. Evans said the money gener !ated through fund-raising has helped some, but the bulk of the ;? money used to help the station ? resume broadcasting came from I other sources, which she would Sot reveal. Evans would not give t Jte location at which the station is ? ^broadcasting, but she said the site ?* frill be changing soon. ? "We will be building a studio land office space," she said. It* Evans said the new WAAA :*headquarters will be located on same plot of land on which old building stands (on Indi ? ana Avenue). Evans said she has already purchased some land at that site for the new WAAA head quarters. O She said the rejuvenated WAAA is still very much a work in progress. The station had sever al popular features before it went f off the air. including a regular talk show featuring local issues and a segment during which local obitu aries were read. No shows or spe cial programs are currently on the station's schedule. For now, Evans said, listeners have been pleased with the station's all-music lineup. "The response has been very positive from people who have really missed us." Evans said. She is in the process of con tacting on-air personalities that worked at the station before it went oft the air. She said she hopes to get many of them back on board, but she added that the station's personalities could change. "It has been a year, but a num ber of the (on-air) personalities have stayed in touch and are ready, able and willing to come back to work. But there has also been other people who are inter ested in working at the station," Evans said. Evans is much more comfort able talking about WAAA's future than its rocky past. While the sta tion was off the air, Evans was critical of some churches for not financially supporting the sta tion's fund-raising effort. She felt thai churches would provide s6me assistance because for years her station has provided free publicity for local churches. Evans said she holds no hard feelings, though. The last year has provided her with more to think about than the fate of WAAA. Her mother died last September: she also lost an aunt and a close friend last year. Evans joked that she could till a hook with all the lessons she has learned over the last year. Mostly, she said, she has learned to appre ciate the people who love and care about her. "This last year. 1 have learned even mbre keenly to appreciate the (selflessness) and true loyalty of my true friends." she said. "1 will never take true friendship lightly." WAAA ? "980 TRIPLEfl" ? W-S NAACP. W-S HUMAN RELAWUM rile Photo Mutter Evans speaks at the most recent MLK service that her radio station has sponsored for the past several years. Sanitation from page A / and discard yard debris such as leaves, grass or limbs in them. The automated truck then comes around and uses its mechanical arm to lift the cart and empty its contents into the truck. Becky McBride, who over sees the Sanitation Depart ment. said the new system will allow for more efficient and timely collectiofi of yard debris. "We really had to take a long look at and change the way we were doing things," she said. "We were using regu lar garbage trucks and utilizing ?a three-person crew. But that wasn't very efficient. This enables us to do the job whether it's raining, snowing or in any other type condition. It also effectively eliminates the number of injuries, because the drivers don't get out of the truck." Other cities in the region had already gone to the system before Winston-Salem. Offi cials from Winston-Salem looked long and hard before finally deciding to make the move. Then there was the busi ness of finding the trucks that would best accommodate the collection. E.H. Weddle. environmen tal officer for the city's Sanita tion Department, was involved early on in the process He helped prepare the drivers for the task. "These trucks were built just for this operation. " Weddle said. "I went through the train ing program with the drivers and rode the routes to make sure that it would go smooth ly" It is a gargantuan task. The seven trucks have a list of 18,000 residences scattered throughout the city. There are six routes, and regular collec tion is from Monday through Thursday, with Friday as the day for picking up missed calls and taking out new carts. Mark Foreman, assistant supervisor, said coordinating the project is no easy task, "This is about a year and a half process," he said. "We've done a lot of leg work, going to Durham and Raleigh to look at their operation and we've had a lot of practice. We know peo ple are going to be watching, and we are proud of what the drivers have done so far." Before being sent off on the first day on Monday, the driv ers were given an appreciation breakfast and given commen dations by the department's staff. "If it wasn't for them we wouldn't be able to roll today," Weddle said of the staff, which consists of James Burts. David Jackson. Michael McFadyen. Marvin Mitchell. Michael Wesley. Kenneth Singletary. Ricky Kirby, Ernest Burts and Morris McCall. "They've worked very hard to get them selves ready." Mclwain concurred. "We are very fortunate to have these type people on this staff," she said. "I feel confident that they will do an excellent job." Mcllwain said any city res ident can subscribe to the serv ice. which costs $50 per year for each cart collected. The carts can be purchased at the City Yard for $60 or $65 deliv-' ered to your house. The city has also published a brochure that describes the program's guidelines. For more information, call the city Sanitation Department at 727-2638. Cheryl Mcllwain displays one of the new carts. Photos by I nuts Sivad Workers from the city's Sanitation Department prepare for the first day of the Automated Yard Waste Card Collection Service. Pictured here are: back row, left to right - Mike Wes ley, C.H. Weddle, Marvin Mitchell, Ricky Kirby, Ernest Burts, Mark Foreman, David Jackson and Steve Covington; front row, left to right - Morris McCall, Becky McBride, Ken neth Singletary, Jerry Spain, Lamont Jenkins, James Burts, Nathaniel Belin, Mike McFadyen, Cheryl B. Mcllwain, Ron Stewart, Ed Sheridan and Bob Alspaugh. Art imitating life Church staging bilingual play that revolves around relevant topics BY WAL1 PITT THE CHRONICLE This week Winston-Salem will experience a "Nuevo Amanecer" (or new sunrise) tic an i nnpr.pitv gram for Hispo ics of the same name puts on ^ a ground breaking pla about violence. The play se be ripped today's headlini revolves arour teen-age boy wl relentlessly pii on by every even his own ents. These fru tions cause him go to school a I kill. This play is u n i ,ne around you. Organizers also e the play will fur er construct a >ridge between 1 Hispanics and the est of the commu and, hopefully. oring Mi new dawn for everyone in the city. The remaining perform ances of the play will he staged tonight, Friday and Saturday at Nuevo Amanecer, 2920 Greenway Ave., behind Joel Coliseum. The show is free but donations will be accepted. ^FUN^BONEj July 23rd & July 24th Showtimes: Tuesday & Wednesday 7:30 pm & 9:45 pm TRIAD BUSINESS CONNECTION "Proud To Serve You" ? 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