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Volume 40, Number 29 ? WlNSTON-SALEM, N.C. THURSDAY, March 13, 2014
Officials nudge apartment
managers to ban smoking
BY LAYLA GARMS
THE CHRONICLE
Public health officials are
making a push to persuade local
property owners and managers
to implement smoke free poli
cies.
"As landlords and property
managers, you have a huge
opportunity," Forsyth County
Department of Public Health
Director Marlon Hunter told the
contingent of housing owners
and public health advocates
who gathered at the Department
last week for a two hour lunch
and learn workshop that
extolled the benefits of apart
ment smoking bans. "You have
an opportunity to reduce costs
and you also have a huge oppor
tunity to reduce a risk to a
major preventable cause of dis
ease and that is secondhand
smoke."
The U.S. Department of
I
Housing and Urban
Development has taken a strong
stance in support of such smoke
free policies, and its influence
is causing other property man
agers to take note. Health advo
cates say that multi-unit hous
ing complexes that allow smok
ing increase nonsmokers' expo
sure to secondhand smoke by
way of air ducts, ventilation
systems and common areas.
Allowing smoking also increas
es the risk of fire and other
smoking-related damage, they
say.
Implementing smoke free
policies is a "win-win" for
property managers and their
tenants, because it reduces the
risk of property damage and
cleaning costs and improves the
health of the residents, said
Elizabeth Edmonds, a public
health associate for the Centers
for Disease Control who is
overseeing the effort in Forsyth
County.
"From my research, what
I've seen is it's becoming very
popular," the Chicago native
said of the policies. "Everybody
knows the effects of second
hand smoke, so we want to get
as many properties as we can on
board with the smoke free poli
cy."
Although she expected
some resistance in a state with
such strong ties to the tobacco
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Photo by Lay la Ganns
County Health Director Marlon Hunter addresses attendees.
His &
Hers
Wake Forest School of Law Dean
Blake D. Morant und
Experiment in Self-Reliance
Executive Director Twana
Wellman-Roebuck will receive
the Man and Woman of the Year
Awards, respectively, at The
Chronicle's Saturday, March 22
Community Service Awards
Gala. See who else has been
selected to take home awards on
page A2.
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EJ Furches ices one of his mini-cakes.
How Sweet It Is
Furches turns love of baking into lucrative business
BY LAYLA GARMS
THE CHRONICLE __
Moscato. Purple velvet. Blackberry wine.
When it comes to cake flavors, there are no rules,
according to Will "EJ" Furches, owner of A Slice of
Heaven Desserts.
"Where there's a will, there's a way, and I'm Will, so
I'm going to make a way," declared the city native.".. .1 try
to keep my customers intrigued. I just try to be creative."
A Slice of Heaven currently offers more than 40 differ
ent cake flavors, and Furches, 31, keeps a running list of
flavors he has in the works. Peanut butter and jelly. Skittles
and Coca-Cola are among them. ?
"I like my stuff to be really unique, something you
can't get anywhere else, so you'll have to come to me,"
Furchfis remarked. "I like to do stuff that's different and
kind of reminds you of home, too."
His fledging operation offers an array of sweets, pound
cakes, pies, puddings and everything in between. During
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One of Furches' more elab
orate creations.
Hispanic
hopefuls
in the
running
BY LAYLA GARMS
THE CHRONICLE
Dominican Republic native
German Garcia is aiming to become
the first Hispanic American to serve
on the Winston-Salem/Forsyth
County Board of Education.
Garcia, a Democrat, is one of
eight at-large candidates in the 2014
race. Fellow Democrats Suzanne
Carroll, Donald Dunn. Katherine
Fansler and incumbent*<61j^abeth
Motsinger
are also
vying for the
three count y
wide seats, as
are
Republicans
Robert Barr,
Mark
Johnson and
John
Davenport
Jr., a current
board mem
ber repre
s e n t i n g
District 1.
There are
more than
10,000
Hispanic stu
dents in the
school sys
tem, and
Garcia, who
retired in
2000 after
Garcia
Vazquez
two decades in the U.S. Army, says
it is high-time that that demographic
is reflected on the school board.
"I'm bringing a cultural diversi
ty awareness to the board and to the
whole city, too," said the father of
three. "It's a matter of everybody
understanding that I understand you
because I know where you came
from. A human being is a human
being. All you've got to do is nur
ture that human being for them to
become somebody productive."
As president of the Forsyth
County Hispanic American
Democrats and a teaching assistant
at Petree Elementary for the past
two years, Garcia says he has a
unique perspective that would allow
him to understand and effectively
address the needs of students from
all across the county, while giving
special attention to those in predom
inantly minority or low performing
schools.
"Sometimes society stereotypes
people and doesn't look at them as a
whole." said the Webster University
alumnus. "But if you give them the
opportunity, the sky is the limit, and
I'm an example of that."
Susan Campbell, chair of the
Forsyth County Democratic Party,
said Garcia has represented the
interests of the Hispanic community
well.
"They've certainly thrived under
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Hearts, wallets open for tribute scholarship
BY TODD LUCK
THE CHRONICLE
A new scholarship in honor of Brandon P. Mauney, who
passed away unexpectedly last month from heart disease, has
prompted an outpouring of support from the community.
Mauney, 45, was a graduate of Carver High School and
Winston-Salem State University and a member of Salem Lodge
#139. He passed away Feb. 16 from hypertensive heart disease.
The new B. Mauney Heart Scholarship will go to male students
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