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v Photo by Courtney Gail lard
A nursing student checks the blood pressure of a
W5TA user at the Transportation Center.
Students offer
health checks
to bus riders
Winston-Salem State expands
its popular wellness program
BY COURTNEY GA1LLARD
fHE CHRONICLE
Free health screenings are now available to the com
mgnity at the Downtown Transportation Center. Winston
Salem State University's Community Family Practice
Wellness Center has teamed up with the Winston-Salem
Transit Authority (WSTA) to allow
nursing students the chance to pro
vide the public with some basic
health services such as blood pres
sure screenings. The Community
Family Practice Wellness Center,
which opened in 1997. aims to pro
mote the holistic health and pri
mary care among low-income resi
dents, including those in the city's
public housing communities.
WSTA used to have a parish
nursing program on site at the
Transportation Center providing
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Barnes
the same type of services, hut that program was canceled
due to loss of funding. Art Barnes. WSTA general manag
er, said WSTA had bean looking to once again offer some
kind of health service to the general public.
"We believe the Transportation Center is an ideal place
to provide services for the gommu
i my uevjauNC uicic are so many
people that come through the cen
ter each day," said Barnes, who
mentioned that between 10,000
and 11,000 people pass through the
center each day.
The Wellness Center is part of
WSSU's School of Health Sci
ences. School officials hope the
program will assist residents with
disease prevention and health pro
motion. The School of Health Sci
ences already offers clinics at Sun
i mL i
Melton
rise Towers. Piedmont Park. Sarah Austin Head Start and
Azalea Terrace.
"Our whole purpose is to reach those people that other
wise don't get to a medical facility." said Rodger Melton,
director of CFPWC. He added that the new partnership
with WSTA will allow the nursing students to serve people
See WSTA on A10
Photo by Paul Collin*
Here are a few of the photographs in "Corapeake/' an
exhibit currently on display at WFU's Hanes Gallery.
Photo by Kevin Walker
Earline Parmon, left, shares a laugh with Denise Hartsfield and Larry Womble during an impromptu rally
held by local Democrats outside of the Board of Elections last Thursday, the first day of early voting.
72nd House race gets ugly
BYT. KEVIN WALKER
THE CHRONICLE l_1
Neither Elizabeth Dole nor Ersk
ine Bowles has a patent on negative
campaign advertisements this election
season.
Political showman Vernon Robin
son, a Republican, recently rolled out
his first two radio spots for his cam
paign for the 72nd state House Dis
trict. The spots, which have been air- '
ing op WQMG 97.1 and WSJS 600
AM. take direct aim at his Democratic
rival. Earline Parmon, for her voting
record as a county commissioner and
for her handling of LIFT Academy, a
charter school she founded in the
1980s and headed until 2001 when the
state revoked the school's charter
because of
financial irreg
ularities.
Robinson
recruited
A n s y 1 e n e
Mitchell, a for
mer LIFT
teacher, for the
most contro
versial spot. In
the ad
Mitchell, who
raised a stink
in 1999 when she discovered that
money was not being paid into her
403-B retirement account at LIFT,
criticizes her former boss' handling of
Robinton
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LIFT, saying thai 16 teachers lost their
jobs and 175 students were put on the
streets as a result of the state closing
LIFT. Mitchell also claims in the ad
that more than SIO.IKX) was withheld
from her paycheck at LIFT and
implies that the money was used to
pay for a new car for Parmon.
"I still don't know what she did
with my money," Mitchell says in the
ad. "Ms. Parmon was too busy driving
around town in her new l-exus 'to
answer my question's."
The ad ends with Mitchell, whose
husband is a Robinson campaign vol
unteer. urging voters to choose Robin
son. "If you care about integrity, if you
See 72nd on A10
Biggs looks
to her base
to reach out
BYT. KEVIN WALKER
THE CHRONICLE 1
Judge Loretta Biggs is not used to
having to sell herself to voters.
Here in Forsyth County, Where she
earned a reputation as a no-nonsense
yet compassionate District Court
judge, her record speaks for itself.
Outside the county, however. Biggs is
having to prove to people who are
unfamiliar with her heroine status that
she is worthy enough to remain on the
N.C. Court of Appeals.
"The greatest part of.the challenge
is hoping you leave voters with
enough information to make a deci
sion," Biggs said of her statewide
Photo by Kevin Walker
Judge Loretta Biggs rides in the WSSU Homecoming Parade.
election campaign.
Biggs was appointed to the N.C.
Court of Appeals in January 200].
becoming one of only four African
Americans on the 15-judge court.
Judge Wanda Bryant, one of the
court's other African-Americans, is
also running to keep her seat.
Biggs' appointment was one of the
last acts of former Gov. Jim Hunt.
Biggs joined the court after serving
seven years as a District Court judge
and another seven years as executive
Six- Biggs on A9
Life through art
'Corapeake' exhibit
is not about racism;
it's about humanity,
photographer says
BY PAUL COLLINS
THE CHRONICLE
"Corapeake" is a multime
dia exhibit documenting per
sonal histories of the people
of Corapeake. a tiny village in
Gates County, N.C., that is
about 10 miles from the Great
Dismal Swamp. The exhibit,
which opened Oct. II at
Wake Forest University's Char
lotte and Philip Hanes Gallery,
and the documentary Film of
the same name are not about
racial prejudice; they are about
growing up. work, churches,
small-town living, a different
time passing away, said pho
tographer/producer/director
Kendall MessiCk.
"I want them (viewers) to
realize the preciousness of
stories of our older people.
There is a universality to
these stories. It really does
cross over race....My goal is
to show that we are the same.
It's about acceptance, seeing
the humanity in all of us. and
. See Corapeake on AS I
Natives
essay in
book by
Smiley
Daughter of former
alderwoman shares
school integration
stories for new book
BY COURTNEY GAILLARD
THE CHRONICLE
Dr. Virginia Banks-Bright
hasn't been back to Needham
B. Broughton High School in
n .. l' .. L
ixaic ign
since she
graduat
ed in
19 6 6.
The
memo
ries of
her expe
rience at
t h e
exclu
sive.
Banks-Bright
predominantly white high
school during the height of
^he Civil Rights Movement
are too painful.
Instead of attending her
high school reunion, she
shared her high school experi
ence, which she says was "a
day from hell," every day in
"Keeping the Faith," a book
by famed
i a i k -
show
host and
social
commen
t a t o r
T a v i s
Smiley.
Smiley,
included
Banks
Bright's
Newell
personal narrative along witn
other life lessons from
African-Americans, ordinary
and famous, in this book,
which was released last week.
Banks-Bright's experi
ences did not prevent her
from achieving her dream of
becoming a doctor.
Today, Banks-Bright,
daughter of former Winston
Salem Alderwoman Virginia
Newell, is the division direc
tor of infectious diseases at
Allegheny General Hospital
in Pittsburgh.
"I sort of felt that, obvi
ously, for anybody who reads
See Essay on A4
Photo by Kevin Walker
Judge Roland
Hayes hugs
Denise Harts
field at a
political
forum last
week at Unit
ed Metropoli
tan Mission
ary Baptist
Church.
Hartsfield is
trying to suc
ceed Hayes
on the District
Court. Hayes
said thank
you and
goodbye to
supporters at
the forum. He
is retiring.
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