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" I"xj T? D For Reference i XT l ? ? ? J Not to be taken I J ? J 29 _2022g car-rt-lot* "c022 "^pi w^v n c room ^ _ Winston-Salem ? Greensboro ? High Poim from this library vol. XXIX No. 39 forsyth cnty pub lib w 5th st # q j i^hnwtt9tmfttvhwv!w^h 1 . winstgk sale:! nc !| iliuaiialflmubaflaaal h Cruel Summer Kids in two communities may lose recreation facilities Stinson BY COURTNEY GAILLARl) THECHtONlCLE _ This may be the last summer that young people have to enjoy two of the city's recreation cen ters. City Man ager Bill Stuart is proposing that the North Hills and Northampton centers be shut down to spare me cuy $42,(XX). The proposed closings are one of many recommendations in a proposed budget that will go before the City Council. If approved by the council. North Hills will close in August and Northampton will close in January, once the remodeled Hanes Hosiery Recreation Center reopens. Hanes is located ahout a mile from the Northampton Center. Some city offi cials have pointed to Hanes as a possi ble alternative for kids that will be dis placed by the possible closings. According to the Winston-Salem Recreation and Parks Department, use of both centers has declined in recent years, forcing the city to reduce the See Ree Centers on A10 Council is jeered at annexation public forum Decision by members on proposal is set for next month BY T. KEVIN WALKER THE CHRONICLE Joines Robinson Members of the Winston-Salem City Council began a public hearing on the pro posed annexation Tuesday night. They went home Wednesday morning. During the nearly five-hour hearing, the council heard from a steady stream of folks upset about plans to annex several unincor porated areas around Winston-Salem. Supporters of the annexation, including Mayor Allen Joines, said the areas in ques tion are more urban than rural and that many of the people who live in them take advantage of city serv ices without paying city taxes. Those who oppose annexation said they can't afford the hefty city taxes and that the services the city would provide in return would not be worth the price they would have to pay. Marcel Little, who waited in line with hundreds of others before the meeting to sign an anti-annexation petition, said he sees no benefits to annexation for pqople like him. He moved a few miles outside of Winston-Salem about a decade ago. He likes the low taxes he pays (about $1,000 a year), but he expects that to j LI . :c u .. : UUUUIC II lie in annexed. "I just don't see any great benefits to it," he said. Little was one of about 2.000 people who came to Joel Coli seum for the hearing. City officials expected a strong turnout. Coun cil memhers voted to move the meeting trom City Hall South to the coliseum to accom modate the throngs. There was a palpable circus atmosphere in the coliseum at times, as annexation opponents - some of whom hoisted up home-made protest signs - jeered members of the council and the brave few who spoke in supppft of annexation. Alfred Harvey was booed and hissed as he advised council members to support annexation. "If this city is going to change...we'll have to make concessions for the change." Harvey said. More than 20.0(H) people would become Winston-Salem residents if the council votes to proceed with annexation on June 16. Those who would be annexed turned a deaf ear to City Manager Bill Stuart as he explained the services the city would pro vide to areas it annexes - things such as fire Sis- Hearing on All | File Ph?u> North Hills is one of two recreation centers that the city is proposing to shut down because of low attendance. Photos by Kevin Walker Clarence "Bighouse" Gaines and his wife, Clara, greet well-wishers after last week's banquet. For the Boys Troop 898 from Union Baptist Church prepares to present the col ors at the Benton Convention Center. 'Bighouse' Gaines hopes honor helps bring more blacks to scouting BYT. KEVIN WALKER llll CHRONICII Everyone from a CBS sports com mentator to a basketball legend came to Benton Convention Center May 21 to help the Boy Scouts of America Old Hickory Council honor Clarence "Bighouse" Gaines. The legendary former Winston Salem State University basketball coach became the first African-Amer ican to receive the council's Distin guished Citizen Award. The award is given to an individual who embodies the main tenets of scouting, such as See Gaines on AS Photo by Kevin Walker Hashim Saleh talks to parents outside Barbara Hills on Tuesday as Sonya Tol liver signs his petition. Concerns raised over the closing of centers Northwest Child Development Council will shut down three inner-city child-care facilities BY T. KEVIN WALKER THECMKOMCLE . . The closing of three inner-city child-care centers may put some parents in limbo. The Northwest Child Development Council Inc., which owns or operates 10 child-care facil ities in the city, sent letters to parents earlier this month notifying them that the council's board has decided to close the child development cen ters at Barbara Hills. Cleveland and Model City. The council plans to shut the centers down next month, although the Cleveland facility, locat ed in the heart of Cleve land Avenue Homes, will be kept open as a kitchen to provide meals for the council s remaining child-care facilities. Tony Burton, chairman of Northwest Child Development Council's board, said the decision was made because the three centers are greatly underutilized as a result of what he calls a satu ration of child-care facilities in the areas in which the three centers are located. "You have a lot of different day cares that are there." he said. About 20 children are enrolled at each of the centers being closed. Burton said. That is at least two times less than the centers can hold. Burton said the children at the three centers will be moved to the Franciscan Child Develop ment Center on Hattie Avenue. That center, he said, has a capacity of 143 children, but just 50 are enrolled ttifcrc. An employee at one of the centers being closed said workers at the centers have been told that they w ill be relocated to other facilities! Because the council does not provide trans Sec Centers on A10 Burton Neighborhood contest awards best-looking yards nx#o hy Kc\ m Walker Robert Greer and Lix Clayton look at a map of Waughtown Street on Saturday as they prepare to hand out best yard honors. BY T KEVIN WALKER Till ( HRONIC11 The prize patrol came a-knocking on Broadus Campbell's door Saturday. Patrol members didn't have a check for Campbell, but what they gave him made him feel like a million bucks. Campbell was one of the latest resi dents in an area of Waughtown Street to have their properties picked in a Yard of Week contest. Campbell's yard on Mar tin Luther King Drive was cited for its closely cropped lawn and well main tained hedges. Campbell works in his yard at least once a week. He was happy that his hard work is not going unno ticed. "I wasn't expecting it." said Camp bell. who like the other winners got a red yard sign and a certificate. The Waughtown Street Neighbor hood Association is sponsoring the con test with a Winston-Salem Foundation grant it received from Neighbors for Better Neighborhoods. Yard of the Week honors have been handed out each week since late March. The association plans to wrap up the contest for this year in July, after hand ing out 80 awards in four categories. "It just kind of encourages people who are keeping their yards up. bringing beauty to the neighborhood." said Liz Clayton, the immediate past present of the Waughtown Street Neighborhood Association. "We want to tell people we really appreciate that." Clayton came up with the idea of bringing the contest to her neighborhood after hearing about a similar program in Columbia. S.C. She said the contest is a perfect fit for Waughtown. an area that has become one of the city's most racial See Contest on At 0 The Only Choice for African-American and Community News
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