Community
Section B \\s0 SpOrtS, Religion and Classifieds November 28, 2013
Community
Calendar
McCrory to speak
The Forsyth County
Republican Women will hold
their annual Christmas
Dinner, auction and the
installation of its 2014 offi
cers on Tuesday, Dec. 10 at
the Forsyth Country Club,
3101 Country Club Rd. The
social and silent auction will
begin at 5:30 p.m. The din
ner starts at 6:15. The speak
er will be Governor Pat
McCrory. Tickets per person
are $50 and payment must be
mailed to FCRW, P. O. Box
30160, Winston-Salem, NC
27130. For more informa
tion, contact Sue Wingate at
sewingate@juno.com or 336
972-2074. RSVPs are needed
by Friday, Dec. 6.
'Black Nativity'
The North Carolina Black
Repertory Company will per
form Langston Hughes'
"Black Nativity" on Dec. 6,
7, 13 and 14 at 8 p.m. and
Dec. 7, 8,14 and 15 at 3 p.m.
Tickets are $15-$24, and
group rates are available. Call
336-723-2266 or go to
www.ncblackrep.org to pur
chase tickets.
Cemetery clean-up change
Happy Hill Cemetery
Friends will have a slightly
different clean-up schedule
next month. Clean-up efforts
at the cemetery in the Happy
Hill Gardens community will
be held from 9-11 a.m. on
Saturday, Dec. 7 in lieu of the
previously-scheduled second
and fourth Saturday of
December. Volunteers with
chainsaws are especially
needed.
Equalization and Review
meetings
The Forsyth County
Board of Equalization and
Review will meet at 3 p.m.
on Thursday, Dec. 5 in the
Board of Equalization and
Review room on the first
floor of the Forsyth County
Government Center, 201
North Chestnut St.
HOF applications
The 2014 Atkins High
School Hall of Fame
Inductee applications are
available at Russell Funeral
Home, 822 Carl Russell Ave.,
by writing to: Atkins High
School Hall of Fame; P.O.
Box 1072, Winston-Salem,
NC 27102; or by contacting
Rev. W. Cockerham at 336
829-8748 or any member of
the Hall of Fame Committee.
The deadline for application
is Saturday, Nov. 30.
'TVust Talks'
The Winston-Salem
Police Department and the
Human Relations
Department are seeking citi
zens who are interested in
participating in "Trust Talks"
next year. The Talks give
police officers an opportunity
to interact and improve rela
tions with residents. Pre-reg
istration is required due to
limited seating. Interested
citizens should call Pam
Peoples-Joyner of the Police
Department at 336-773-7962
or Jayme Waldeck of the
Human Relations
Department at 336-734-1228.
Day trip
The Funtime Group will
sponsor a day trip on
Saturday. Dec. 7. The trip
will include a Christmas
shopping outing and holiday
lights tour. Call 336-767
0105 or 336-724-4432 for
Set Community on B2
v Phocofc by Todd Luck
The women in the Centering Pregnancy group take part in an activity last Thursday.
Expectant moms experience ups
and downs of pregnancy together
BY TODD LUCK
THE CHRONICLE
Part check up, part
support group, the
Centering Pregnancy pro
gram at Wake Forest
Baptist Medical Center's
Downtown Health Plaza
is helping to reduce the
county's staggering pre
mature birth rate and
improve the experience
of pregnant women.
A national program
offered at more than 700
sites across the nation,
the program regularly
brings together a group of
young expectant mothers,
usually eight to 10, who
are due to deliver at
roughly the same time.
The women build
camaraderie at the gath
erings by checking one
another's blood pressure
and vital signs. They
weigh themselves. A
health care professional
also gives the women
physical exams. Meetings
also include a group dis
cussion led by a facilita
tor who guides the
women in chats about
nutrition, healthy living,
newborn care and other
pregnancy-related issues.
Mary Fitzmaurice, a
certified nurse-midwife
and coordinator of
Centering Pregnancy at
the Downtown Health
Plaza, facilitated a ses
sion last Thursday morn
ing. The Health Plaza,
located on Martin Luther
King Jr. Drive, welcomes
low income, uninsured
and underinsured patients
See Pregnancy on B2
Above: Papers for an
activity dealing with
labor lay on the floor of
the meeting room.
Left: Facilitator Mary
Fitzmaurice speaks to
the group.
Sisters Inez Nunez and Angelica Nunez praise the sessions.
Victoria Hayes pregnant for a third time.