The Chronicle
Volume43,Number29 WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. THURSDAY, March 24, 2016
Board working to finalize vote
South Ward vote is too close
to call; June primary looms
BY TODD LUCK
THE CHRONICLE
With just one vote now separating
Democratic candidates for the South Ward
City Council seat and two contests to be
voted on in June, the primaries aren't over
just yet.
Though most primary contests were
voted on last Tuesday, the UJS. House of
Representatives and N.C. Supreme Court
will have its own primaries on June 7.
And locally, a canvas process is hap
pening at the
Forsyth
County Board
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(BOE) to
determine the
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outcomes of
the March 15
primary.
At a canvas meeting held Tuesday,
March 22, the BOE approved the addition
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of nearly 500 absen
tee ballots to the vote
totals. Carolyn
Highsmith's lead over
John Larson has now
shrunk to just one
vote in the South
Ward Democratic pri
mary. Hie elections
board voted to extend
the process until
oday (Thursday,
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"We've just been overwhelmed with a
significant number of provisional ballots,"
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said Forsyth County Board of Elections
Director Tim Thujii. "We had 890 provi
sional ballots issued on Election Day - 56
issued during early voting - which makes
the total 946."
Officially, results will be determined
during today's meeting. If there's is still no
more than 1 percent difference between
the candidates, then either of them can file
for a recount.
Though the new voter ID requirement
did result in some provisional ballots, most
of the ones with problems presented to the
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People cleaning up in schools might not seem unusu
al, until you realize the people are educators. Members of
the North Carolina Association of Educators (NCAE) did
just that during the 46th annual convention in Winston
Salem. '
About 500 educators attended the convention at
downtown Embassy Suites on Friday, March 18 and
Saturday, March 19.
On Friday, attendees spent the afternoon doing serv
ice projects at local schools. About 100 educators did
things like yard work, staining benches, waterproofing
the school's outdoor stage, painting, organizing library
books and decorating bulletin boards and classroom
doors at Kimberiey Pari Elementary School. At Hall
Woodward Elementary School
nearly 50 educators tutored students.
"As part of our convention we decided this year to
get out into the communities and do some work," said
NCAE President Rodney Ellis, a Winston-Salem native
who taught eighth grade language arts at Winston-Salem
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RaVonda Dalton-Rann to retire from WSSU
Number of freshman
accepted increases 30%
BY TEVIN STINSON
THE CHRONICLE
At the Winston-Salem State
University (WSSU) Board of
Trustees meeting, a variety of news
was announced.
RaVonda Dalton-Rann, execu
tive assistant to the chancellor and
university secretary, was honored
for her 15 years of service. Dalton
Rann is set to retire later this year.
Dalton-Rann has supported
five chief administrators. In this
position, she manages the opera
tions of the Office of the
Chancellor and serves as liaison to
the university Board of Trustees.
She has been employed as a
college administrator, television
promotion officer, school teacher
and researcher and has served on
several nonprofit boards.
WSSU also announced that the
number of incoming freshman
accepted into the university has
increased by 30 percent since last
fall.
During a Board of Trustees
meeting on Friday, March 18,
Provost Brenda Alien said 2 >49
high school seniors have been
accepted for the fall 2016 semester.
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