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New garden to offer many community-friendly benefits THE CHRONICLE BY TODD LUCK Latch Key, Inc. broke ground Friday on its Easi Winston Community Garden on Bramble Brook Lane, near Alpha Anc Omega Church. The youth enrichmeni nonprofit is using lane owned by the City of Winston-Salem and the church for the two-acre garden, which will have 52 rows of vegetables and another 20 rows of fruits Plans also include adding benches, picnic tables, i playground and raised beds for easier access foi the disabled. A small portion ol what the garden reaps wil! be sold at the nearby Rebecca's Store; the resi will be given away to resi dents of the community The garden will also be used as a teaching tool. "What we want to dc with kids in this communi ty is teach them how to eai healthy," said Latch Key CEO Michael Burton. Burton was program director of a fatherhood initiative at the Greenville (S C.) Head Start before he founded the organiza tion in 1997. Latch Key offered students a safe haven. "We wanted to give kids somewhere to go aftei school that was a safe, supervised environment and during the summer hours. said Burton, adding that the program started with 70 kids at a single site and grew to 500 young people at numerous sites in Greenville. The program also included a community garden, but one much smaller than the new site. Burton said. At the urging of friends. Burton came to Winston-Salem in 2010 to see about offering Latch Key services here. He ended up finding a new home and transferring Latch Key to the Twin City, leaving a small pres ence in Greenville. The organization will host a summer enrichment pro gram that will include entrepreneurship training and math and reading clubs at Alpha and Omega Church. Young partici pants will also be provided with a healthy lunch At last week's ground breaking, Burton gave East Ward City Council Member Derwin Montgomery a quick tour of the site. Montgomery hopes that the project will ; PtolOft b\ Todd Lucfc I I Right: Alpha and Omega r Church of Faith Bishop John Huntley, First Lady f Deloris Huntley and I Latch Key CEO Michael , Burton break ground. t bring neighbors closer : together. "That's one of the great ' bi-products of having a community garden: you 1 have people who are in the neighborhood who come together to make it hap pen," said Montgomery. The garden truly is a community effort. The City's Community and Business Development Department helped Burton find the site and allowed him to use the city-owned portion of it. The Forsyth branch of the N.C. Cooperative Extension provided seeds and guid ance. Alpha and Omega provided not only land but many of the dozens of vol unteers who've worked to make the garden a reality over the past two months. Some of the volunteers are veteran gardeners who helped the church with its own garden, which has now become a part of the East Winston Community Garden. Russell Johnson, an Alpha and Omega deacon, was a big help. The former construction worker grew up on a farm and has done a little bit of everything plant-related, including using donated bricks to create garden flower beds. "It's been a big old blessing; it's going to help a lot of people, and when people come to see it, they're going to be proud to see it because it's going to be a nice place to look at," Johnson said. Alpha and Omega First Lady Deloris Huntley envisions hosting a lunch eon at the garden for the ladies of the church. "It's going to beautify this community," she said. Russell Johnson "It's going to allow people to see what can be done." The church-owned portion of the garden was originally purchased to be converted into a parking lot, but when money could not be raised to pave it. Bishop John Huntley began to plant a personal garden there. The garden soon became a church/community garden with 14 rows of mixed greens. Plans are now much grander for the space. "When we had the small (garden), we had over 30-something fami lies we (gave) mixed greens to." Bishop Huntley said. "They'd come up there and pick them: we'd give them the bags." For years. Bishop Huntley said he'd dreamed of expanding the garden to the adjacent city-owned land. He's glad that the church and city's proper ties are now finally merged for a great pur pose. The land has been abundant for his church, he said, and he looks for ward to seeing the bigger harvests to come. Latch Key still needs the following items: lum ber for six wheelchair accessible-beds (2" x 12" x 8'(legs and ends). 2" x 12" x 12'(sides). 5-3/4" x 6" x 12'(bottom) and machined corners for six beds), gar den tools, benches, picnic tables, landscape materi als (shrubs, trees A flow ers), soil, compost and hauling. Educational gar den programs and volun teers for a project advisory board are also being sought. To volunteer or donate, call Burton at 336 483-7572. Residents to get chance to question police chief finalists Putney Scott Rountree CHRONICLE STAFF REPORT A public forum will be held Tuesday, May 21 from 4-5:30 p.m. in the City Hall Council Chamber to give local residents the opportunity to hear from the three finalists for the police chief job. Deputy Police Chief Kerr Putney of the Charlotte-Mecklenberg Police Department; Deputy Police Chief Don W. Scott Jr. of the Greensboro Police Department; and Assistant Chief Barry Rountree of the Winston Salem Police Department are the finalists. City Manager Lee Garrity announced yesterday. Citizens will have 90 seconds to ask their ques tion. Citizens who cannot attend can submit ques tions online at CityofWS.org, however, online submissions will be addressed only as time allows. Online questions must be submitted by 5 p.m. Monday, May 20. The finalists were selected through a nation al recruitment process managed by Developmental Associates LLC of Chapel Hill. A diverse pool of 44 applicants from small and large police departments throughout the United States applied for the position. This applicant pool was narrowed down to the three finalists through interviews; a comprehensive assess ment center process in which more objective, systematic and accurate methods are used to recruit, screep and evalu ate candidates; and back ground reviews. The forum will be tel evised live on WSTV 13, channel 13 Time Warner Cable and channel 99 on AT&T U-verse. Current Police Chief Scott Cunningham will retire at the end of June. The new chief will lead a department with 569 sworn officers and 166 civilian positions, and an annual budget of $61.6 million. The Chronicle (USPS 067-910) was established by Ernest H. Pin and Ndubisi Egemonye in 1974 and is published every Thursday by Winston-Salem Chronicle Publishing Co. Inc.. 617 N. Liberty Street, Winston-Salem, N.C. 27101. Periodicals postage paid at Winston-Salem, N.C. Annual subscription price is $30.72. 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