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parents
discuss
principal
concerns
Many want current
assistant principal
to take over for the
late Larry Fields
FROM STAFF REPORTS
The city-county Board of
Education got an earful Tuesday
night as several people urged
school officials to hire a current
, . assistant
jt principal
at Latham
f Elemen
t a r y
School as
t h e
school's
I new prin
cipal.
Lath
am has
h p n
Fields
without a permanent principal
since September when Larry
Fields, the much-loved leader of
the school, died unexpectedly of
an aneurysm. An interim princi
pal has been at Latham since
Fields' death
Fields had done amazing
things at Latham in just 10'years.
The school had some of the low
est test scores in the county
before Fields came to the school.
At the time of his death. Latham
?v ? A
ii a u
become
the first
E q u i t y
Plus
school to
earn
School of
Distinc
tion hon
ors on the
A B C s
tPCt
Brown
As an assistant principal at
Latham. Gwendolyn Johnson
was by Fields' side as he imple
mented the changes that took
Latham to the top.
Parents and supporters of the
school say the decision about
Latham's next principal is a no
Sec Latham on A9
Airport comes up short in landfill battle
SMITH |
REYNOLDS
AIRPORT S
P ' 1 ,* J ^L: 4 - Jf Pi r ' v k. 1
Local black Republicans
have little to cheer about
BYT. KEVIN WAKLR
THt CHRONICLE
John Davenport is the kind of young man
that the African-American community
wished it could clone.
The affable 34-year
old is happily married
with four kids and
makes his living run
ning his own engi
neering firm.
So more than a
few people were sur
prised last week when
Davenport fell far
short in his bid to win
a seat on the Forsyth
County Board of
Commissioners. The Democrats who won the
two District A seats, Walter Marshall and
Beaufort Bailey, got nearly twice as many
Davenport
voles as Davenport, a Republican.
"It pains me that I was raised in East Win
ston, went to church with these folks, grew up
with these people, and they still will not vote o
for me," a clearly frustrated Davenport said
two days after the election. "I don't think it is
as much about me as it is about my party
affiliation"
Although Republicans around the nation
had much to cheer about on Election Day, the
party's success did not trickle down to local
black Republicans, who had the dubious task
of trying to convince black voters to look past
their party affiliations and focus on their ideas
and qualifications.
Davenport and Vernon Robinson, the
black Republican who lost a bid for the 72nd
State House seat, made inroads, but in the
winner-takes-all world of politics, almost
doesn't count.
Both men now say that if they were
See Republicans on A10
A Photo by Courtney Guillard
CIAA Commissioner Leon Kerry joined Natalie Taylor, a vice
president for Food Lion, last week at Winston-Salem State to *
announce the new partnership.
Grocery chain to
scour HBCUs to
recruit managers
BY COURTNEY GAILLARD
nil CHRQNICI i
Supermarket chain Food
Lion has developed a manage
ment training program geared
toward graduates of historically
black colleges and universities
(HBC'Us). The establishment of
the Retail Management Trainee
Program was announced last
Thursday on the campus of Win
ston-Salem State University.
r o o d
Lion,
based in
Salisbury,
is one of
t h e
largest
supermar
ket chains r
in the |
country, |
with more
t* h a n
1,200 stores across the South
eastern and Mid-Atlantic states.
' Beginning in July of 2003,
participants of the training pro
gram will spend a year learning
low the entire grocery supply
:hain operates from a retail store
ocation to the Store Support
Center, Food Lion's corporate
leadquarters. Upon completing
he program, trainees will he
issigned to store management
positions to gain additional
ikills to progress into other
ireas of the company.
Food Lion will select 12 of
he most qualified candidates to
Merdis McCarter
participate in the training pro
gram from the HBCUs, and all
will be paid as regular employ
ees of Food Lion as they
progress through the program.
Natalie Taylor started out as
a part-time cashier at a Food
Lion store in Radford. Va? more
than 20 years ago to pay her way
through college. Today. Taylor is
the vice president of diversity
for Food Lion and hopes that the
program's future trainees will
follow m her footsteps at the
grocery store chain.
"Once I got there I realized
that there are so many opportu
nities in this industry, things 1
didn't know about...but once I
talked to people from (human
relations) 1 realized that there
were opportunities at the corpo
rate office for me. So 1 decided
to stay with the company." said
Taylor, who. before overseeing
the diversity division, was direc
tor of diversity planning for
Food Lion.
Under Taylor's leadership,
the NAACP awarded the com
pany two Fair Share Awards for
its minority vendor program and
for its overall efforts in support
of the organization.
According to Taylor, Food
Lion hopes that this program
will increase the number of
African-American college grad
uates entering into the grocery
industry and provide them with
comprehensive training. Taylor
looks forward to working with
Set- Grocery on A4
BY T. KEVIN WALKER
THE CHRONICLE
The
Zoning
Board
o f
Adjust
m e n t
sided
with
people
who
live
around
Smith
Burke
Reynolds Airport last week
when it voted 5-1 to deny the
airport's request for a special
use permit that would have
cleared the way for an inert
debris landfill to be estab
lished on airport property.
Residents showed up in
force last Thursday, telling
the board, which is made up
of appointed volunteers, that
they feared the landfill
would become a health haz
ard and bring unwanted
noise and dump-truck traffic
to their communities.
"The apprehension that
we have is tremendous." said
Joe Rogers, president of the
Castle Heights Neighbor
hood Association. "We
would like to have the sym- '
pathy of this board....We feel
as though there ought to be
some sort of alternative."
Airport officials have '
argued that their alternatives
are limited. The inert landfill
would not have accepted
trash, only concrete, dirt.
Sec Airport on AS I '
File Photo
Planned runway resurfacing and safety area construction have
been put on hold for the time being at Smith Reynolds Airport.
MMHMM ,,1C (fu,y Choicefor A frican-American findViftnritWiitf Nesrs ?
Photo by Kevin Walker
U.S. Senator-elect Elizabeth Dole is joined by U.S. Education Secretary
Rod Paige and former Howard University President James Cheek (far left)
during a campaign stop at Salem College Nov. 2.