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Daughter ofMLK's right hand man breaks silence about abuse
Photo by Ganett Garms
Chevara Orrin is breaking her silence.
BY LAYLA FARMER
THE CHRONICLE
. Chevara Orrin awoke in a
panic; feeling her father's
naked body in her bed, press
ing against her in the darkness.
At 12, she was old enough to
know what he was doing was
wrcJng. Yet Orrin, now 40, says
she felt powerless to stop him.
"I remember being just pet
rified," Orrin said about that
night in Memphis, Tenn. "I
felt like I couldn't breathe; I
was very confused.
Moments later, she says, her father rose and exit
James Bevel
ed the room, leaving his young daughter shaking and
frightened. She would never be the same after that.
"(He) altered my life," she said. "Whoever I was
to become; I am someone else." ?
As soon as her father walked out the door, Orrin
sought the comfort of younger sister, Bacardi, who
was asleep in the room in another bed during the
entire ordeal.
"I immediately woke her up," Orrin said.
The two girls locked themselves in the bathroom,
where Orrin says her sister washed their father's
semen from her thigh. But no amount of soap and
water could quash the memory of what had happened
to her.
The idea that any adult would abuse a child is
See Orrin on A6
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Photos by Todd Luck
Students, parents and community volunteers make their way to Kimberley Park. v
Benefits of health, community touted with walk
BY TODD LUCK
THE CHRONICLE
Kimberley Park Elementary
School students and parents took to
the streets Tuesday morning to tout the
benefits of walking and unity.
The school community observed
Walk to School Day by gathering
together at two locations near the
school and then jointly making the
trek to Kimberley Park. The effort
was part of the Safe Routes to School,
a national program to encourage ele
mentary-and-middle-schoolers to walk
or ride bikes to school as a way to
ward off childhood obesity and save
the planet by reducing the air pollution
created by buses and other vehicles.
Although the majority of the
Kimberley students live close to the
school, many catch the bus, partly
because there have been issues with
crime in the area. But as redevelop
ment projects and police presence
flourishes, the winds of change can
already be felt.
"The neighborhood is changing,
and we're hoping that parents will see
that, in groups, they can walk and it's
okay," said Assistant Principal Shelia
Washington.
The walk Tuesday, which was
along pedestrian-friendly sidewalks,
was a piece of cake for Tammicia
Carter, who walked side-by-side with
her daughter, Timia.
After leaving her daughter at the
school. Carter kept walking toward
downtown to work.
"I walk to work all the time," she
said.
But Carter doesn't like the idea of
Timia walking alone. She is usually
See Walkers on A4
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Photos by Layla Fanner
Rev. Lartey hopes to fill this
trailer with supplies and food
for Haitians.
Pastor
reaches
out to
Haiti
BY LAYLA FARMER
THE CHRONICLE
The Rev. Seth Lartey was
appalled.
He listened raptly as the
National Public Radio (NPR)
reporter described a Haitian
i mother who used a few grains
I of rice to season hot water. It
1 was the only thing she had to
I feed her children. The pastor
knew the
woman's
story
was
hardly
unique.
Two of
h i s
church
members
had
recently
visited
Lartey
Haiti and given similar
accounts of the dire circum
stances there.
"We're talking about a
very, very deplorable situa
tion," said Lartey, pastor of
Goler Memorial AME Zion
Church. "Unlike us here,
where we decide what we
want to eat, over there it's not
even a matter of choice; it's a
matter of whether in fact any
thing exists."
Lartey says he could no
longer stand idle. He knew he
had to do something.
"The Bible says 'Do unto
others as you would have them
do unto you,'" he declared.
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A Change to Listen & Be Heard
Free dinner, childcare offered at public meeting on the future of Business 40
BYT. KEVIN WALKER
THE CHRONICLE __
A black-owned firm that
has been hired to conduct a
sweeping survey about the
future of Business 40 is so
determined that African
Americans attend a public
forum next week that it has
eliminated most of the guess
work.
Winston-Salem State
University's Anderson Center
will be the site Tuesday for the
first of three community-wide
meetings to hear residents'
input about the N.C.
Department of
Transportation'^ plans to
revamp a major section of the
asins highway. To make the
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Drivers make their way along Business 40.
event, slated to begin at 5 p.m.
and end at 8 p.m., as conven
ient and carefree as possible
for residents, free childcare
will be provided, as win
Spanish translators and atten
dees won't have to worry
about what to do for dinner -
that will be taken care of too.
"We are having shrimp Cre
ole, beef stroganoff .... This
will be a real meal," said
Jumetta G. Posey, the CEO of
Neighborhood Solutions.
The Denver, Colo. -based
company has been charged
with gathering public input
about the Business 40 project.
Since October, the company
has hired nearly 100 local peo
ple, most of them minorities,
to scour much of the city to
gauge residents' opinions. In
the years to come, NCDOT
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No Place Like Home
Photo by Todd Luck
Trina Johnson's home is one of five that is being con
structed by local professionals as part of Habitat for
Humanity's Builders Blitz. All the home will be complet
ed in a week. Read more on CI.
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