C OMMUNITY
Also Sports, Religion, Obituaries and Classifieds September 24, 2009
Community
Calendar
Community meeting
The residents of
Kentucky. Maryland and
Cameron avenues and First,
Third and Fifth streets will
meet on Monday, Sept. 28 at
6 p.m. at Mount Zion Baptist
Church. 950 File St.
Representatives from various
City of Winston-Salem
departments will be in atten
dance to answer any ques
tions or concerns residents
may have.
Seniors festival
The 4th Annual Seniors
Fall Fun Festival , for ages
50-plus, will be held on Oct.
12 from 10 a m. - 1:30 p.m.
at 14th Street Recreation
Center. 2020 N.E. 14th St,
There will be fun, fellowship,
health screening and prizes.
Admission is $3 and includes
a light meal. Call 336-727
2891 for more information.
School seeks exercise bikes,
magazines
Ward Elementary is look
ing for donated exercise bikes
and magazines for its new
Read and Ride program, in
which classes pedal on the
bikes while reading. Staff
will pick up bike(s) if needed.
Please call Scott Ertl at 336
774-4674 for more informa
tion.
Free West End walking
tours
The YWCA Glade Street.
1201 Glade St.. is hosting
free walking tours through
the West End. The leisurely
strolls are done every
Monday and Wednesday
beginning at noon. Walkers
should meet walking leader
Brandi at the front of the
Glade Street YWCA. For
more information, contact
Sabrina Slade at 336-7?
5 138, ext. 225.
Paisley alumni D.C. trip
The J W. Paisley High
School Alumni Association is
sponsoring a Washington.
D C excursion from Oct. - -+?
Activities will include shop
ping. tours, a casino visit and
the Winston-Salem State vv
Howard University football
came. For additional infor
mation, .contact Carolyn
Spton at 336-817-48,6 or
Robert Noble at 336-764
0980.
WSSU game trip
There will be a bus trip to
the WSSU verses South
Carolina State football game
on September 26 For &more
information, call 336 764
3601 or 336-301-2087. ,
Big Four Dance tickets
Tickets to this year s Big
Four Dance will be on sale
from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the
pSW u. of
Mutual Building. 1-? ??
St., on the next three
Saturdays (Sept. 26, C*1- -
and Oct. 10). Tickets are $2!
each or $250 for a table.
EnVision and Signature
Sound/ will provide enter
tainment. Manard Bust*
Brown will serve as emcee
The Big Four Dance is Oct.
24 at 9 p.m. at the Benton
Convention Center.
To obtain tickets at other
times, call Judy Brown a
336-767-1487 or Linda Davis
at 336-767-2714.
Men don women 's
shoes for awareness
campaign
BY LAYLA FARMKR
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A crowd of 150 men,
many of them in women's
heels, embarked on a mile
long journey Saturday morn
ing, as part of a international
effort to raise awareness about
violence against women.
- The "Walk a Mile in Her
SMoes* event was founded by
Frank Baird in 2001 as a sort
of light-hearted way for men
to acknowledge the power
they have to end the very seri
ous problems of rape, sexual
assault and- other acts of vio
lence against women.
Saturday's trek marked the
first-time Winston-Salem has
signed on to host a Walk a
Mile in Her Shoes event, but
it won't be the last, said Lloyd
Leonard of Family Services
Inc., which sponsored the
event, *
"We needed to create
some type of awareness in the
community about violence
against vvomen," explained
Leonard, Family Services
rape prevention and education
specialist, "..i but we also
wanted the men to come
together and hold themselves
accountable, because we are
the solution to ending vio
lence against women."
Local men were asked to
show their support for the
cause by signing up to literal
ly walk a mile in women's
shoes. Those who answered
the call found that this was no
simple feat. Many of the men
were visibly uncomfortable as
they made the walk from
Family Services' Southeast
Gateway headquarters to
Salem College and back.
They hobbled, limped, and
wobbled in an effort to bal
ance in the heels. Leonard
said that the awkwardness is
part of the goal of the walk.
"We want them to feel
uncomfortable; we want to
step outside the box," he stat
ed. "That's the purpose - to
empathize about what
(women) go through on a
daily basis."
Sixty-two year-old Yoshi
Nagaishi walked backwards
most of the way, in an effort to
take the pressure off his heels.
"My toes are numb, my
calves are tight, and my
ankles are very wobbly," he
related with a laugh. "I can
see why sometimes I see
women toward the end of the
day walking barefooted."
Despite his sore feet,
Nagaishi, who has worked as
a family therapist for the last
three decades, said he felt it
was important to lend his sup
port to the walk.
"It's both men's and
women's responsibility to
really do something about the
level of relational violence,"
he commented. "It's a matter
of really literally getting into
somebody else's shoes and
High-Heeled Hike
Dozens of men begin the trek on Saturday morning.
Photos by Layla Farmer
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One of the fellas gels help while walking in heels. Men wore a variety of women's shoes for the event.
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Scott Abdul-Salaam (center) of the ScottCares Foundation (one of the sponsors of the event) walks with other guys.
Yoshi Nagaishi
Chester Coleman Jr.
Mar-Qui Harris
Two guys make it look easy.