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The Chronicle
Volume40,Number22 WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. THURSDAY, January 23, 2014
Moving Forward
JUSTICE
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Photo by Todd Luck
Hundreds march along Martin Luther King Jr. Drive Monday - which was the federal holiday dedicated to the slain civil
rights leader - to the Anderson Center at Winston-Salem State University to hear a series of speakers talk about some of
' the most pressing issues of our time. The march and program were sponsored by the Ministers Conference of Winston
Salem and Vicinity. Read more in this week's special MLK tabloid.
Submitted Photo
Forsyth County resi
dent Arthur Hardin
pauses for a photo
earlier this month in
the Superdome in the
days leading up to
the recent Sugar
Bowl.
Sweet officiating gig for local man
BY LAYLA GAKMS
THE CHRONICLE
Football fans across the city may have
recognized a familiar face when they tuned
into the 2014 Sugar Bowl on Jan. 2.
Winston-Salem resident Arthur Hardin
graced the small screen as a part of the 11
member crew of officials at the Sugar Bowl
at the Mercedes-Benz Superdome in New
Orleans, La. this year. The game, which fea
tured a 45-31 upset of the No. 3 Alabama
.'Crimson Tide by the No. 11 Oklahoma
Sooners, was the most watched Sugar Bowl
? since 2004, according to Neilsen ratings,
which put the viewership at nearly 17 mil
lion. It was a pivotal moment in Hardin's
career as an official.
"I was a little bit shocked that 1 would
get a BCS game," confessed the 56-year
old, whose career spanned the better part of
three decades. "...For me to even achieve
that is still a little bit unreal."
Being selected to work a bowl game is
an honor reserved only for the best officials,
and the prestige of the moment
wasn't lost on Hardin, an aca
demic success counselor at
Winston-Salem State University
for the last decade.
"This might be my Andy
Warhol 15 minutes of fame," he
said, "but I'm very humbled by
the whole experience."
Hardin said he could never
have reached the levels he has
attained as an official without the
guidance of his elders, folks like
Vince Parker, a retired Winston
Salem/Forsyth County principal who spent
29 years as an officiant before retiring his
stripes three years ago. Parker, a city native
and WSSU alumnus, said he met Hardin on
the football field over a decade ago, and
decided to take the younger official under
his wing.
"He was very articulate. He was very
smart. He wanted to be a part of
the game," recalled the lather of
two. "Just like me, he loved the
game and he was very motivated
to learn. His love and his desire
for the game just caught my
interest and 1 said. 'Well you can
tag along."'
Hardin, a native of Beckley,
W.Va., began officiating recre
ation league basketball in 1983,
and worked his way up the
ranks to junior varsity and varsi
ty high school basketball and football
games and later, collegiate football.
Although he has begun encountering the
grandchildren of some of his former players
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Parker
Photos by Lay la Garms
Council members unveil new plaque.
MLK
plaque
hung at
City Hall
BY LAYLA GARMS
THE CHRONICLE
City leaders paid homage to a piece
of local history Tuesday, with the unveil
ing of a commemorative plaque in his
toric City Hall.
The plaque, which adorns the wall
just outside Council Chambers, denotes
the Winston-Salem Board of Aldermen's
unanimous vote on Dec. 16. 1985 to rec
ognize Martin Luther King Jr. Day as a
city holiday. Mayor Allen Joines praised
the action of the Aldermen (which is
what City Council members were called
up until 13 years
ago), calling il a r
" courageous
vote."
"At that time,
there were still
states across the
United States that
had not made I
Martin Luther I
King Day an offi
cial holiday," ?
Joines noted.
The city
observed its first King Day on Jan. 20,
1986 in accordance with the federal hol
iday, which was also recognized for the
first time that year. Mayor Pro Tempore
Vivian Burke said she conceived of the
plaque as a means of educating citizens
and visitors to the city about its storied
history.
"I believe that we were one of the
early cities to make this an official holi
day, and I felt that we needed to have a
plaque to hang up (denoting that fact),"
commented Burke, who has served on
the Council since 1977. "It needs to
show somewhere in City Hall so when
people tour City Hall, they will see that
we respect the work that Dr. King did. .
Anything to reflect and show that diver
sity is important."
Approving Burke's motion to com
mission the plaque was among City
Council member Jeff Macintosh's first
actions on the Council.
"1 think it's great. 1 was here in
Winston when it was going on and it's
kind of interesting to look back on it
from our perspective now," said
Macintosh, who was elected to the
Northwest Ward seat in November. "...
There were definitely elements of the
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Caldwells, Pauls help make new center a reality
BY LAYLA GARMS
THE CHRONICLE __
Youngsters at the Salvation Army International
Corps Boys & Girls Club now have state-of-the-art tech
nology at their fingertips, thanks to a collaborative effort
led by two organizations with local ties.
Officials held a ribbon cutting ceremony at the facil
ity on Jan. 21 to celebrate the opening of the Project
Phoenix Learning Center at the International Corps,
See Center on A7
Robin and
Charles Paul
Ptxxos by Ijylt Cianm
From left:
D a m a r i
Martin,
Tiffany
Garcia
P e t a t a n ,
Gabriela
Loyd try out
the new com
puters.
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