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THURSDAY, JANUARY 8, 2
Local
player
making
waves
.
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Kids
seeking 0
mentors
plentiful
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Student's
hard
work
pays off
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Church
celebrates
new year
at Benton
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Smokers
clinic will
offer new
promise
Hospital's program
aims to help people
finally kick the habit
BY COURTNEY GAILLARD
The chronica E
Dr. John G. Spangler
won-t scold srrtokers who
have unsuccessfully tried to
quit smoking. But he does
want to help smokers kick the
Spongier
nicotine
habit
this new
year
through
a new
compre
hensive
tobacco
inter;
vention
clinic
that he
.created at Wake Forest Uni
versity Baptist Medical Cen
ter. Spangler is confident that
his clinic, which focuses on
cigarette smoking and
smokeless tobacco use. can
help smokers put down their
cigarettes once and for all.
"This is a really strong
addiction, and nicotine is as
addictive as cocaine and
heroin. I don't think people
really realize that," said
Spangler. who is a leading
tobacco intervention expert
and associate professor of
family and community medi
cine. "I really shy away from
fussing at patients or scolding
patients. I want to be objec
tive and tell them the truth
about the health aspects of
their tobacco habits but also
help them through their
addiction because I know it
can be really hard."
Last year, he received a
$1.6 million federal grant to
develop a model curriculum
to teach medical students
how to help future patients
quit smoking. Aside from
several classes offered
around the community. Span
gler said, this is the only
Wj>acco intervention clinic in
See Clinic on A4
i Photo* by Kevin Walker
Tiitiothy Smith and his 4-year-old nephew, Zyrah Smith , pick out the bike they like best.
The Lottery
Kids try their luck in drawing for bicycles
BYT. KEVIN WALKER
THE CHRONICLE
On New Year's Eve, 18
young people came to the Sims
Recreation Center by feet, and
It ft by bike.
The center's annual bike
giveaway raffle had youngsters
frorn 4 to 18 years old feeling
lucky. And luck would have had
to be on their side with about 60
people vying for the coveted
bicycles, which ranged from
slick dirt hikes to Classic 10
speeds.
Center director Ben Piggott
decided that a raffle would be the
fairest way to give out the bikes.
The red raffle tickets were in
high demand. Little hands
clasped the tickets. Some used
their other hand to cross their
fingers, an old good-luck trick.
"We w ish, of course, that we
could give all of them a bike."
Piggott said, "because for a lot of
these kids, this is the closest they
will come to something like
this*."
The Sims Center is in the
heart of Happy Hill Gardens, a
public housing community
Sims Center Director Ben Piggott hands 8ut raffle tickets.
where residents are far from
affluent: The New Year's Eve
bike giveaway is similar to the
center's popular Peace Toys for
War Toys program, which gives
children nonviolent toys such as
dolls and sports equipment in
exchange for their toy guns. The
peace toys program, held Dec.
19, provided toys to more than
3(X) children.
Piggott said the bike give
away also gives youngsters who
may not have gotten a peace toy
the chance to get a late Christ
mas present.
The new and slightly used
bikes were donated by Paul's
Schwinn Cycling and Fitness.
The company has been one of
the Sims Center's best friends. It
regularly gives items for the
peace toys program and last year
the company gave eight bikes for
the giveaway. The Harrell fami
ly, which has owned and operat
ed Paul's Schwinn Cycling and
Fitness for the last four decades,
said they were happy they were
able to more than double the
number of bikes this year.
"We want to give back... and
Ben is just such a super guy, and
we belieVe in the things he is
doing at the center." said Dennis
Harrell. who runs the company
with brothers Dale and Paul Har
rell Jr. The brothers' father, Paul
Harrell Sr.. founded the busi
ness. Paul Harrell Jr. and Piggott
are old friends. They attended
East Forsyth High School
together in the mid-1970s.
By the time Piggott ?and
Frank Williams Jr.. a Department
of Parks and Recreation com
missioner. began drawing num
Si'c Bikes on A10
Church
ignites
'City'
project
Macedonia will
build new north
campus community
BYT KEVIN WALKER
THK CHRONICLE
The True Vine Pentecostal
Holiness Church of God
wants to turn a rough-looking
patch of land off Old Walker
town Roacl into a spiritual
City of Hope.
The church broke ground
Sunday on its long-anticipat
ed City
of Hope
complex
that
come
2 0 0 6
will
include a
5.000
seat wor
ship cen
ter and
i n d e -
Johnson
pendent and assisted living
dwellings. The new worship
center will he a cousin to
Macedonia TVP Holiness
Church on Kinarif Drive.
Church leaders said both wor
ship centers will be opera
tional and serve their own
purposes. '
The groundbreaking cere
mony nearly shut down Old
Walkertown Road as more
than 200 people fought for a
space to witness the event.
Macedonia members were
joined by Mayor Allen Joines
and City Council members
Vivian Burke and Joycelyn
Johnson. The, ceremony fea
tured prayers" and songs.
Apostle Sylvester Johnson -
head of the church - along
with several bishops and the
invited dignitaries used gold
colored shovels to scoop up
bits of soil at the site, which Is
currently heavily wooded.
"Building buildings is
great but building ministries
is greater," Johnson said. City
See 'City' on A10
Somewhat F ree
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Leaders say problems still enslave blacks
b?t kevin Walker
Tgn CHRONICLE
On the 141st anniversary of the
signing of th.& Emancipation Proclama
tion. locale leaders said racism and
1 inequality Tiave replaced chains and
whips as the greatest barriers to free
dom for African-Americans.
"Emancipated, we have been, but
- liberated we are not at this point." said
County Commissioner Walter Mar
shall, who was one of several leaders
who spoke on New Year's Day. at the
Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Eman
cipation Association's Annual Celebra
tion of Emancipation.
Marshall cited several problems in
^ the county that he said keep blacks
from achieving true freedom. While
applauding the school system for eas
ing the achievement gap between black
and white students. Marshall s^fljtfhere
is still much work left lo he ufme to
help black students reach the academic
promised land.
This year's emancipation program
took place at Mt. Zion Baptist Church
and drew more than 100 people. The
annual event recalls the day (Jan. I,
1863) President Abraham Lincoln
signed the Emancipation Proclama
tion. which stated that most slaves
would be free. Though" widely cele
brated. the proclamation was only cer
emonial because the end of slavery
would come two years later with the
Sec Emancipation on A4
Photo by Kevin Walker
The Rev. Carlton
E v e r si e y
( from left),' mayor
Allen Joines and
Rev. John Mendex
interlock hands
while singing "We
Shall Overcome "
last week during
an Emancipation
Proclamation cele
bration.
In Grateful Memory of Our
Founders,
Florrie S. Russell And
Carl H. Russell , Sr.
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