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THURSDAY, January 3, 2008
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being completely rebuilt, redesigned
BY TODD LUCK
THE CHRONICLE
After being closed for more
than three months for an
CAIiClIlC IIIOKCUVCI,
the McDonald's on
Martin Luther
King, Jr. Drive is
back as a bigger,
faster and sleeker
restaurant.
The East
Winston
McDonalcFs had
not changed much
over the last three
decades-, but that
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September when the old build
ing was closed, completely torn
dOwn and rebuilt into a modern
McDonald's, onfc with more
room inside for customers, an
eye-catching interior and light
fixtures and a double drive-thru
lane that's designed to cut
down on the amount of time
customers have to wait.
Customers inside can
expect faster service too, said
Restaurant Manager Cynthia
Moody.- The new restaurant,
which opened two weeks ago,
has three registers, while the
old one only had two. The crew
working is also much
bigger. While the old
restaurant had 35
employees, the new
one will have 55 to
60 with about 17
people working at a
time. Moody said the
increase in employ
ees was needed to
meet the higher
demand that ? the
revamped restaurant
CApCClS.
"With this rebuild, we will
show at least a 20 percent
increase in sales," said Moody,
who has managed the MLK
McDonald's for 11 years. The
new dining area can accommo
date more customers. There is
enough room to comfortably
seat 115.
Moody said that the restau
rant's owner, Ron Bailey, Jr,
See McDonald's on A4
Moody
Photos by Todd Luck
The MLK Jr. Drive McDonald's has a new look and style.
- Pnotot by Todd Luck
Scholarship winners Brit' ny Towns, from left, Britney
Onuma, Joshua Price and Brittani Mcknight.
Freedom speaker
urges blacks to
keep faith, focus
BY TODD LUCK
THE CHRONICLE
The new year opened with
a celebration of freedom and a
commitment to Continue' to
preserve it at the Annual
Celebration of
Emancipation held
Tuesday at Union
Chapel Baptist
Church-.
The service is held
at a local church on
Jan. 1 of eafih year by
the Winston
S a 1 e ml Fo r s y t h
County Emancipation
Association. It cele
brates the signing of
the emancipation
Proclamation by President
Abraham Lincoln. The procla
mation, signed on January 1,
1863, freed slaves in the
rebelling confederate states.
The ratification of the 13th
Amendment of the
Constitution, two years later,
would formally end slavery.
The service featured the
annual reading of the
Emancipation Proclamation by
local attorney Dionne Tunstall
and singing by Ralph Meadows
and the Union Baptist Church
Choir. There were also appear
ances by many
community leaders
such City
Council Member
Nelson Malloy,
who opened the
program.
"It's very
appropriate we do
this every year
because in 1863
President Lincoln
signed the procla
mation freeing the slaves, and
we have to be reminded every
day of our lives that freedom is
not free," said Malloy.
N.C. Rep. Larry Womble
used the service to announce
that in February a ceremony
will be held to complete the
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Rev. Stevenson
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Luther Jones, a deacon at Union Baptist , hands over the last meal to a thankful man on
Christmas Day. Beside Jones are sisters Shawn Brandon, left, andNekeesha Dover.
A Touch of Love,
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BY T. KEVIN WAfcRCR
THE CHRONICLE
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It was the day of
Christmas - and all through
downtown - not business
was open ... well - that's not
exactly true.
A Liberty Street beauty
salon was open Christmas
Day and bustling with activi
ty. But there were no emer
gency perms being performed
at A Touch of Love Hair Salon
that day. no dye jobs or trims
either. For the second consec
utive year, sisters Shawn
Brandon and Nekeesha Dover
spent much of their Christmas
Day at their salon handing out
"Meals of Love" to the less
Downtown salon
. opens on Christmas
solely to pass out
food to the homeless
fortunate."
"Jesus is the true reason
for the season," Brandon said
when asked aboutjthe motiva
tion for the event. "The best
gift is bringing smiles to peo
ple's faces."
For several hours, the
salon opened its doors and
welcomed any and all in need
of a hot meal and some holi
day cheer. The sisters - with
the help of "dozens of their
church members, friends and
salon regulars - filled close to
400 compartmentalized styro
foam containers with fried
turkey, rolls and traditional
holiday fixings. As gospel
music blasted from inside the
salon, volunteers took turns
standing outside, welcoming
those who passed by to take a
dinner. The section of Liberty
where the salon sits gets a lot
of foot traffic from the city's
burgeoning homeless popula
tion. Several shelters are in
close proximity. ^ '
Word of the salon's gen
erosity spread quickly. By
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Residents
urged to
comment
on police
Tuesday's forum
part of probe into
missteps during
Hunt investigation
CHRONICLE STAFPREPORT
Residents will get. a chance
Tuesday to share their
thoughts - good, bad or indif
ferent - about the Winston
Salem Police Department's
Criminal - Investigation
Division.
An independent security
firm will hold a public forum
Jan. 8 at Hanes Hosiery
Recreation Center from 6:30 -
8 p.m. to collect comments
rrom res
idents ,
especial
ly those
who
have had
dealings
with the
detec
tives
who
make up
the crim
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Hunt
investigation arm of the police
department.
The forum is part of an
ongoing review by a city
appointed committee that is
looking into what went wrong
two decades ago when the
police department investigated
the murder of Deborah Sykes,
a 25-year-old white woman,
whose body was found off of
West End Boulevard in August
1984.
A mpnth later. Darryl
Hunt, then only 19, was
charged with the_?rime, based
on investigative work by
police detectives. The arrest
and eventual conviction of
Hunt, who is African
American,' created a racial
divide in the city because most
blacks believed that police and
prosecutors, in their rush to
find someone responsible for
the crime, got the fcrong man.
Most local whites, though,
believed that Hunt was guilty,
although there was no physi
cal evidence linking him to the
crime.
Despite the doubts held by
many. Hunt would spend near
ly 20 years in prison for the
crime. DNA evidence won
him his freedom on Christmas
Eve in 2003. DNA collected at
the crime scene also led inves
tigators to Wizard Brown,
who confessed to killing
See Forum on A12
In Grateful Memory of Our
Founders,
Florrie S. Russell and 4
Carl H. RusseU, Sr.
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