The Chronicle
Volume41,Number6 WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. THURSDAY, October 16, 2014
HAWS
planning
another
revamp
BY CHANEL DAVIS
THE CHRONICLE
The Housing
Authority of Winston
Salem has received a
half-million dollar grant
from U.S. Department of
Housing and Urban
Development to explore
ways to breathe new life
into Cleveland Avenue
Homes and Sunrise
Towers.
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wnn residents
and communi
ty groups, the
Housing
Authority says
a plan will be
developed to
not only alter
the decaying
housing com
plexes, but
Woods
infuse the area with eco
nomic and educational
resources. Committees,
which residents will be
asked to serve on, will be
formed to address hous
ing, employment, health
and safety.
"We are working with
local community groups,
churches, hospitals,
municipalities, nonprofit
groups, universities and
community colleges ... on
(the) committees to deter
mine what are the under
lying problems, what are
some of the solutions and
what the community
should look like," said
Housing Authority CEO
Larry Woods.
The agency touted its
goal on Saturday, Sept.
27 during a daylong com
munity celebration in
Cleveland Avenue Homes
- a sprawling public
housing complex off 14th
and Liberty streets.
"There were over 400
individuals that partici
pated," Woods said. "It
was very positive. We had
vendors there that had
never before come into
the community and they
were very excited. The
community was very
pleased that someone was
trying to take a look at
their situation and trying
to improve it."
The
] Cleveland
Avenue area has
been a focus of
the Housing
Authority
recently. It built
and opened The
Oaks at Tenth
(Street) this
year exclusively
for working
public housing
clients. A block away,
construction vehicles are
making way for another
complex - Camden
Station. Both projects are
sandwiched between
Cleveland Avenue Homes
and Sunrise Towers - an
aging high-rise for senior
citizens and those with
disabilities.
Combined, The Oaks
at Tenth and Camden
Station cost about $9 mil
lion - money that was
mostly secured by the
agency through bank
loans. Whatever plan is
devised for Cleveland
Avenue Homes and
Sunrise Towers will be
much more costly. Woods
is hoping the agency will
be eligible to apply for a
federal Choice
Neighborhood
Implementation Grant,
which he said could be
between $17 million and
See Plan on A8
Voters to give verdict
on trial process
Amendment asks if defendants should be allowed to waive jury trials
BY CHANEL DAVIS
mi CHRONICLE
Voters will decide on how some
criminal trials are carried out.
A ballot amendment asks resi
dents to vote for or against chang
ing the state constitution to allow
those accused of crimes the right to
waive a trial by jury and allow a
judge to decide their fate. Jury tri
als would still be required in all
cases with the possibility of a death
sentence.
Last year, the General
Assembly approved the ballot
amendment after then-Sen. Pete
Brunstetter of Forsyth County
introduced the bill. Brunstetter left
the Senate in December to serve as
Novant Health's chief legal officer
and general counsel. He could not
be reached for comment.
The state constitution currently
states that "a person accused of a
crime and who is not pleading
guilty to that charge cannot be con
victed unless a jury decides the
person is guilty."
If the amendment is passed,
those waiving their right to a jury
trial must state so in court or in
writing. A judge would then have
to sign-off on the request.
Wake Forest University Law
Professor Kami Simmons said that
the amendment is important for
several reasons.
"It results in greater freedom of
choice for accused persons, but
could also result in greater effi
ciency and improved court admin
istration. While many defendants
may still choose to have a trial by
jury, there are some situations in
Set- Amendment on A7
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Kami Simmons
Photon by Todd I.uck
Noelle Brown tosses a football as her mother, Marcella, looks on.
A Grand Time
Grandparents
compete alongside
their grandkids
BY TODD LUCK
THE CHRONICLE
Intergenerat ional
teams of grandparents
and grandchildren com
peted in a variety of
sports at Miller Park
Saturday during the
Second Annual Grand
Games.
About 15 teams com
peted. Kids ages 6 to 14
were coupled with either
their grandparents or
other adult. City
Recreation and Parks'
Adult Recreation
Program Supervisor
Chuck Vestal said the
Grand Games grew out of
the popular Senior
Games, which pits older
adults against one another
in sports and arts and
crafts events.
"What I see happen
ing, the fun part about it,
is instead of the grand
children hanging around
John and Cheryl Valenzuela with their grandchil
dren, Ian and Alex Capps.
being on the PS3 and X
Boxes, they're out here
with their grandparents,
learning something." said
Vestal. "They've never
heard of bocci before and
they're enjoying that."
In addition to bocci, a
sport where players try to
get a ball close to a small
er ball, the teams tested
their skills at football
tossing, basketball shoot
ing. horse-shoes and corn
hole (bean bag tossing).
The rules and set-ups
were similar to those used
during the Senior Games.
For example, basketball
goals were lowered for
easier shooting. Other
rules were tweaked to
allow for scoring by pairs
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Complicated Past, Present and Future
Panel tackles Palestinian/Israeli conflict
BY TODD LUCK
THE CHRONICLE
A panel of professors and clergy gave their takes on the reasons behind the
decades-old conflict between Palestinians and Israelis on Thursday, Oct. 2 at
Wake Forest University.
Divisive issues were tackled, including whether Israel has committed war
crimes and if a two state solution - or any solution - is possible to quell the con
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