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Volume39,Number20 WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. THURSD AY7 jluSary 10., 2013
Photos by Layla Harms
Protestors gather on the grounds of the LJVM
Coliseum on Sunday.
Protestors
target
gun show
BY LAYLA GARMS
THE CHRONICLE
Gun owners say they are not the problem. ?
Protestors say enough is enough.
Both viewpoints were highly visible Sunday at a gun
show put on by Blacksburg, Va.-based C&E Gun Shows
Inc. at the Lawrence Joel Veterans Memorial Coliseum
Education Building.
More than 5,000 attended the weekend-long gun show,
which is held regularly in Winston-Salem. More than two
dozen protestors lined the walkway leading into the build
ing. staging a silent protest in hopes of calling attention to
the danger they say many of the weapons that are sold at the
show present.
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"We're just
ad-hoc group that
can't take it any
more," said Gail
McNeill, a retired
professor who
served as the
spokesperson for
the protestors. "...
The Newtown mas
sacre was a tipping
point for this partic
ular group."
McNeill and her
husband Hayes
have been calling
for stronger gun
regulations for more
than two decades.
Mrs. McNeill
attended . 2002's
Rev. Paul Lowe takes part in
Sunday's protest.
Million Moms
March in Washington, D.C., which advocated for gun con
trol among other issues, and the couple has amassed the
handprints of hundreds of local school children for their
"Hands without Guns," where kids pledge never to use
guns. Mrs. McNeill said she ran a seat on the Forsyth
County Board of Commissioners in 2010 because she
opposed the Commissioners' decision to allow concealed
weapons in county parks
"Do you know how many people got murdered in North
Carolina by guns last year?" she questioned. "Three hun
dred thirty five, that's just in North Carolina. It's over 8,000
a year in this country."
Mr. McNeill, a retired assistant to the president of Wake
Forest University, said stricter laws are needed in order to
protect the American people from tragedies such as the
shooting in Newtown.
'To me, the real danger is most people think that there
are reasonable gun laws in place but there's not," he said.
. .1 have to sign in the drug store to get antihistamines, but
I can get 100 AR-15's with no record."
North Wilkesboro resident Danny Howard, a salesman
and grandfather of one, is an avid gun collector who owns
several weapons that he says would fall into the "assault
type weapon" category that the protestors want to outlaw.
"My daddy taught me when 1 was old enough to stand
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Local advocates troubled j
by singers' reconciliation
BY LAYLA GARMS
THE CHRONICLE
Singers Rihanna and Chris Brown
have seemingly moved on from their
violent past and rekindled their rela
tionship. The couple was pho
toeranhed
o r
enjoying a
Los Angeles
Lakers game
on Christmas
Day, and both
celebrities
posted photos
on Instagram
showing them
cozying up as
they brought
in the New
Year.
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While
both have chided the public for cri
tiquing their private lives, local
domestic violence advocates worry
that Rihanna - an international super
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Photo by LayUOanm
Imani McClure, a sen
ior at Parkland
Magnet High School, I
poses with authentic
African fabric. She
plans to use the fabric
to create original
clothing to showcase
in a fashion show this
spring. Proceeds from
the show will benefit
the nonprofit The
Pocket Project. More
about the project will
be featured in the Jan.
17 issue.
I Program for active seniors seeks newcomers
BY TODD LUCK
THE CHRONICLE
Eighty-five-year-old
Sarah Brooks is one of
hundreds of local seniors
getting ready for this
year's Piedmont Plus
Senior Games.
Brooks has played in
the games for the last two
decades, accumulating too
many medals and good
memories to count.
She was drawn to the
olympic-style sports com
petition for competitors 55
and older by a recommen
dation from a friend.
Brooks had just moved to
the Twin City from New
York to be closer to her
daughter.
She said the competing
was a great way to get to
fun and you meet a lot of
people."
Other seniors who
want to shine in dozens of
sports and arts/crafts
events or who simply want
to be social are being
invited to join the
Piedmont Plus Senior
Games family. An open
house of sorts for this
year's competition will be
held Friday, Jan. 25 at
from 10 a.m. to noon at
Hanes Hosiery Recreation
Center, 501 Reynolds
Blvd. Seniors will have an ?
opportunity to sign-up for
events and learn more
about the games. The
event will also feature
games, refreshments* and
booths manned by repre
See Seniors on A8
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Bill Gramley holds two of his paintings.
know Winston-Salem.
"I've always been ath
letic, I've always been
involved in community
affairs," said Brooks, a
retired educator, "and it is
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This Big
Belly
trash can
and recy
cling unit
sit along
wide
Main
Street.
BY TODD LUCK
. THE CHRONICLE
Solar powered trash cans are among the newest tools
being used by the City's Sanitation Division to make
Winston-Salem more environmentally kind.
"Big Belly" trash cans, named for their large Capacity,
compact the trash that is tossed into them, allowing them
to hold up to five-times the amount of waste as a tradition
al trash can.
The cans let sanitation workers know how full they are
See Waste on A2
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