Community
Calendar
Basketball tryouts
Winston Lake Lakers 12U
' AAU boys basketball try
outs are being held at Winston
Lake Family YMCA, 901
Waterworks Rd. Call Head
Coach Sam at 409-2202, 767
7976 or Ed Plowden at 416
0077.
Dancers year round program
Parents, if you have a child
or children ages 5-10 that would
like to twirl or daughters^ges
11-16 that like to dance, come
sign up for the program at
Rupert Bell Recreation Center
* on Mondays and Wednesdays 6
, - 7:30 p.m. Space is limited and
the deadline is Jan. 18. The cen
ter is at 1501 Mt. Zion Place.
Emergency Food Assistance
The R. I. C. H. Food Pantry
located at Holy Trinity Full
Gospel Baptist Church, 651
Akron Dr. is offering emergency
food assistance every second
and fourth Saturday, 10 - 11:30
a.m. For more information, call
744-9293.
Aggie Nite 2008
Tonight, Jan. 17 at 7 p.m. at
the Sawtooth Arts Council, 226
N. Marshall St. in Winston
Salem, A&T State University
will be hosting Aggie Nite 2008.
All prospec
tive students, parents, school
administrators, and alumni are
invited to attend. The public is
asked to support prospective
Aggies and A&T by attending or
inviting a student who may be
interested in A&T to attend. For
more information, call 336-624
3669 or e-mail kerns
fam4@beirsouth.net.
Emancipation meeting
The annual meeting of the
Winston-Salem/Forsyth County
Emancipation Association will
be held Monday, Jan. 28, at 12
noon at the Hanes Hosiery
Community Center.
All financial members are invit
ed to attend and participate in
the election of officers and
board members. There will be
other business items on the
agenda. Rudolph V. Boone, Sr.
is president. Call 767-4087 for
more information.
Tiny Indians board
positions open
The Winston-Salem Tiny
Indians are having an open
Public Meeting, Jan. 29, 6 p.m.
at Rupert Bell for the following
available
Executive Board positions: pres
ident, secretary, treasurer and
field managerr
Anyone interested, please con
tact Ulyssess Hunter at ulysse
shunter59@yahoo.com.
Annual bowling tournament
The I Joshua's Camp
Critical Life Advancement pro
gram held at Diggs Elementary
School will sponsor its first
annual bowling tournament on
Saturday Feb. 9 at the
Creekside Lanes, 1450 Trade
? Mart Blvd. Sign in time begins
at 11 a.m. Bowling begins at 12
p.m. There will be four bowlers
per team. Adults $15 each,
youth $10 each and children
under five free. Reserved team
lanes are $50 each. Prizes will
be given out for all ages for high
game, adult and youth
male/female; high series, adults
and youth male/female; team
^ series, adult and youth and door
* prizes. Entry deadline is Feb. 2.
Call 767-9338 or 432-4172 for
more information or how to reg
ister.
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Photos by Todd Luck
Imam Khalid Griggs, Rabbi Mark Strauss-Cohn and the Rev. Laura Spangler were among those who spoke.
Singers from Reynolds High School bring music to the service.
United
for Peace
In wake of Bhutto assassination, leaders of various
faiths come together to reflect
BY TODD LUCK
THE CHRONICLE
Christians, Jews and Muslims gathered together last week to reflect on the
life of Benazir Bhutto, the history-making former prime minister of Pakistan
who was recently assassinated. But the service, held at the Community
Mosque, was noj^necessarily an occasion to uplift Bhutto.
*Tri~r Ui rff till 'iiHtff J}i>iassinated," said the Khalid Griggs, the imam at
the mosque ."Not that Bhutto was a symbolic or the personification of peace
or hope because there are very strong feelings about Benazir Bhutto on both
sides. So we're not he?e...to memorialize or glorify or anything like that but
we are a group of people from all faith traditions who want to share hope and
desire, a process to bring hope and peace to us... and spread it as far as it can
go."
More than a dozen local leaders representing various religions and tradi
tions were on hand for the service to deliver messages of hope and peace to
a crowd of more than 100. ?
Questions and controversy still surround Bhutto's death. What is clear is
that she died Dec. 27, 2007 after a campaign rally in Rawalpindi, Pakistan
(Bhutto was vying to win the country's 2008 election to become its leader
once again). Her supporters say that she was shot by an assassin seconds
before an explosive device was detonated. The Pakistani government, which
Bhutto was constantly at odds with, says she died after hitting her head on the
sunroof of the SUV in which she was travelings Just before her death, Bhutto
was standing in the SUV with her upper torso through the sunroof. Video
shows her dropping back into the vehicle after the explosion. It was then, the
government says, that she fatally hit her head. England's famed Scotland
Yard is conducting an independent investigation to try to bring some clarity.
Like much of "the world, the Rev. Laura Spangler, of Llyod Presbyterian
Church, said that she was shocked when she heard about the assassination.
She felt then that the faith community needed to respond with love. She said
not everyone accepted or agreed with Bhutto but to many she was a symbol
of courage and dignity.
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