Community Briefs
City names Public Art Committee
During the City Council meeting on Monday,
April 4, the council approved the following nominees
few the City/County Public Art committee, which will
be connecting artists with local governments to create
public art:
?Endia Beat, artist and director of Diggs Gallery
at Winston-Salem State University
?David Finn, art professor at Wake Forest
University
?Darrkk King, high school music teacher
?Janie Wilson, business owner
?Wanda Merchel, retired City Council member
and bank vice president
?Elizabeth Repetti, attorney. Sawtooth board
member
Forsyth County Commissioners previously
approved the following nominees for the board:
?Jane Doub, president of Piedmont Craftsmen
Inc.
?Randolph Henning, architect
?Angela Hudson, owner of Creative Drama
Children's Theatre
?Lane Watson, photographer
County Commissioner meetings move to 4
pjn.
In its March 28 meeting, the Forsyth Board of
Commissioners voted to change the time of its meet
ings from 6 p.m. to 4 p.m. for the months of April
through September. The commissioners regularly
meet on the second and fourth Monday of each
month. The dates for the meetings at 4 p.m. are April
11 and 25, May 9 and 23, June 13 and 27, July 11,
August 8 and 22, and September 12 and 26. The com
missioners also have regular briefings that are open to
the public on Thursday afternoons at 2 p.m. Meetings
and briefings are televised live on Cable Channel 13
and are rerun twice on a regular schedule.
Arts Council launches ArtPop Program
The Arts Council of Winston-Salem and Forsyth
County launched an ArtPop
project April 6 by promoting local artists' original
works through the use of donated outdoor advertising
space. Artists who reside in Forsyth, Stokes,
Davidson, Surry, Davie, and Yadkin counties were
eligible to participate. Five works were chosen to
appear on billboards on major arteries in a 13-county
region as space becomes available on billboard
sowned by Fairway Outdoor Advertising. Artists
whose works will be prominently displayed on bill
boards throughout the region by The Arts Council of
Winston-Salem and Forsyth County during the next
year are:
* Owens Daniel, Winston-Salem. Title of work:
Sorcerer. Medium: Digital
photographer.
?Kelly Keegan. Rural Hall. Title of work: Nature
by design. Medium - Digital photography.
?Kevin Marion, Mocksville. Title of work:
Cylinders 7. Medium: Digital photography.
?Jennifer McCormkk, Winston-Salem. Title of
work: Headspace. Medium: CT of a head and pastel..
?Timothy Porter, Winston-Salem. Title of work:
Fall Feeding. Watercolor. There were 43 submissions
and works were chosen through a juried process
chaired by Cheryl Lindsay, Hanesbrands and Arts
Council board member. Other members of the panel
were Saul Guinto Salinas, Que Pasa Media Network;
Rosa Otero, Salem College Art Department; Tammy
Evans, Winston-Salem State University, Department
of Art + Visual Studies; Will Taylor, Visual Arts
Department at the University of North Carolina
School of the Arts; Anu Williams, Humanities,
Communication, and Fine Arts department at Forsyth
Technical Community College ;and John Pickel,
Visual Art Department. Wake Forest University.
More information and application guidelines can
be found at www.intothearts .org/artpop.
Miss Nia Simone Sweat! named 2016 Miss
Jabfoerwock
The Greensboro Alumnae Chapter of Delta Sigma
Theta Sorority Inc., and the Greensboro Alumnae
Cultural Enrichment Center Inc., sponsored the Miss
Jabberwock Pageant and crowned Nia Simone
Sweatt as the 2016 Miss Jabberwock. The event was
held at the Greensboro Carolina Theatre on Sunday,
March 13. The Master of Ceremonies was Fox 8
Morning News anchor Kerry Charles.
Sweatt is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James L.
Sweatt IV and Ulysesa R. Sweatt. She attends
Ephesus SUA. Church of Winston-Salem and is a
senior at West .
Forsyth High
School. She
is president of
t h e
Technology
Student
Association
and is the
Historian of
her school's
DEC A, hav
ing won sev
eral regional
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awarus. ane
is also an Sweatt
active mem-'
ber of the National Honor Society, National Dance ?
Honor Society and National Science Honor Society.
Nia Sweatt also serves as the Senior Teen President of
the Winston-Salem Chapter of Jack and Jill of
America Inc. She is planning to attend High Point
University, Howard University or Oakwood
University with an intended major in biology and
become an anesthesiologist.
Franklin E. "Mac" McCain III escorted Nia
Sweatt. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Franklin E.
McCain Jr. and Vicki H. McCain. Franklin McCain is
a senior at James B. Dudley High School in
Greensboro. He has committed to North Carolina
Agricultural and Technical University, where he will
play football with his father and grandfather's
beloved Aggie Pride.
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For the week of April 7-13
Anderson Class of 1968
meeting
The Anderson Class of 1968 will
be meeting monthly every second
Saturday at Forsyth Seaford Cafo at 6
pjn. to continue to plan for its 50th
Class Reunion to be held in 2018.
For more information, please contact
Laura Hayes Allen at 336-624-8516
or Reggie Moore at 336-671-7154.
Accepting applications now -
Juneteenth Festival's call for
artists and vendors
Triad Cultural Arts is seeking
performers, choirs, dance teams, spo
ken word artists, craftsmen, artists,
author^ and vendors for the annual
Juneteenth Festival to be held
Saturday, June 18, 11 a.m.-3 p.m. at
Wake Forest Innovation Quarter,
which will include Biotech Place and
Bailey Park in Winston-Salem.
Interested persons should apply
online www,triadculture.org or call
336-757-8556.
Through April 30 - '2016
Invitational' art exhibit fundraiser
"On the Wall," Delta Fine Arts
Inc., is an exhibit and sale of the
"2016 Invitational" works of stu
dents, professional and emerging
artists across the region. On display:
Pamela Cola, Owens Daniels,
Darlene Glenn-McClinton, Jerilyn
Hamey-Baker, Cornell Jones, Joseph
King, Bobby Roebuck, Donald
Sawyer, David Wilson and 13 addi
tional African-American artists. The
public can vote for their favorite
artist in the People's Choice Award.
For more information, call 336-722
2625 or visit
www.deltaartscenter.oig.
Today, April 7 - Job Fair
Job seekers in the community
looking for a fiesh start, a better job,
or a new career direction, will be able
to explore opportuhities at a job fan
hosted by Forsyth Tech, today,
Thursday,April7,from 9ajn.-l prn.
at the Oak Grove Center on Main
Campus, 2100 Silas Creek Parkway.
Nearly 50 employers from both the
public and private sectors will be on
hand to network with job applicants
about full- and part-time job opportu
nities. Applicants are encouraged to'
dress professionally and bring copies
of their resumes to share with
prospective employers. Among the
participating employers will be Tune
Warner Cable, Deere-Hitachi,
Lowe's Hardware, Chick-fil-A,
Maxim Healthcare Services, Forsyth
County Sheriff's Office, and FedEx
Ground. For more information, visit
forsythtech.edu or contact Forsyth
Tech's Student Success Cehter at
336-734-7156.
Beginning today, April 7 -
FitForsyth Spring Challenge
The Forsyth County Department
of Public Health is encouraging the
community to stay active throughout
the year through the spring challenge
online fitness tracking program
called FitForsyth, FitForsyth has
many great features such as Fit Tips,
Food Hacks and Community Comer
to help you on your path to overall
wellness. It is beneficial for all fit
ness levels and encourages partici
pants to eat well and stay
active. Best of all, it is! FitForsyth
is divided into two 8-week long chal
lenges a year. Monday, April 4 was
the start of FitForsyth's spring chal
lenge. You can create/join a team or
compete individually for prizes by
logging your minutes of physical fit
ness each day. The team who logs the
highest average minutes for eaoh of
the team categories and the individ
ual who logs the most minutes will
win a prize provided by the
FitForsyth Team. If you are someone
who is looking for a little motivation
or needs a team to help hold them
accountable, check out
FitFOTsyth.com today. Follow us on
twitter: @FitForsyth and like us on
Facebook: FitForsyth.
Today, April 7 - Fund Do Party
On April 7 from 5:30-7 p.m.. The
Women's Fund of Winston
Salem will hold the first-ever tech
nology-driven fundraiser, the Fund
Do Party, at Wake Forest University's
Biotech place in the atrium located in
downtown's Innovation Quarter. You
will be able to network with mem
bers while raising funds and aware
ness to move women beyond pover
ty, and compete for amazing prizes,
such as the Top Fundraiser and the
Most Social. Tickets are $30 and
include heavy hors d'oeuvres and
wine/beer. You can also register to
watch the online broadcast - it's free
and you are still eligible to
. win prizes. Please visit the event
website at http://funddows.sweU
gives.com/. for more information or
to purchase your ticket.
Today, April 7 - Augustine
. Literacy Project information cof
fee
I
READWS, a local non-profit that
works with our public schools to
improve the reading, writing and
spelling abilities of low-income chil
dren and teens who struggle with lit
eracy skills, will hold an informa
tional coffee for their flagship pro
gram, the Augustine Literacy
Project?, on Thursday, April 7,9:30
- 11 ajn., at Polo Park Recreation
Center, 1850 Polo Road. The
Augustine Literacy Project trains and
supports volunteer tutors who pro
vide free, long-term, one-to-one
instruction to students at their school
during the school day.
Today, April 7 - An evening
with historic novelist Stephanie
Storey
Winston-Salem Writers presents
an evening with historic novelist
Stephanie Storey Today, April 7, 7
p.m., at the Milton Rhodes Art
Center, 209 Spruce St. Stephanie
Storey's latest book, "Oil and
Marble, DqVinci and'Michelangelo,"
just received a positive review in the
New York Times. This workshop
will address such writer's questions
as: How much research was
involved? How accurate must a his
torical novel be? Find out the
answers to these questions and
more! The program is free and open
to members and non-members alike.
Today, April 7 - Screening of
"Off the Rails"
A screening of "Off the Rails," a
film that profiles Darius McCollum,
a man with Asperger's imprisoned
for his obsession with the New York
transit system, will have its world
premiere at the Full Frame
Documentary Film Festival in
Durham, N.C., today, Thursday,
April 7, at 7:20 p.m. Additional
screenings will be during the
RiverRun Film Festival in Winston
Salem on Sunday, April 10, at 4 p.m.
and Monday, April 11, at 5 p.m. For
more information, visit www.full
framefest.org.
Today, April 7 - Lecture on
Health Risks of Exposure to Plastic
Containers
Dr. Kenneth Olden, director of
the Environmental Protection
Agency's (EPA) National Center for
Environmental Assessment, will lec
ture and answer questions about the
public health risks of exposure to
chemicals found in soft plastic con
tainers used for packaging water and
foods on April 7 at 11 ajn. in room
100 of the Donald J. Reaves Center
pn the campus of Winston-Salem
State University. His lecture, titled A
Conversation on Public Health -
What's In Your Bottle? is sponsored
by the Simon Green Atkins Scholar
Society to raise awareness on the
environmental impact of plastic on
health outcomes. Dr. Oldeti made
history as the first African-American
to direct one of the National
Institutes of Health.
Today, April 7, & April 8 -
Racial Equity Training
Neighbors for Better
Neighborhoods will present a Racial
Equity Training workshop at
Experiment in Self Reliance, 3480
Dominion St., on April 7 and 8 from
9 a.m. until 5 p.m. The free work
shop is designed to build the capacity
of educators, health practitioners,
child welfare advocates, representa
tives, other professionals and those
persons who are interested in under
standing and eliminating racial
inequities and disparities within our
society. This 2-day workshop is
important for people who want to
dismantle racism. This workshop
provides an analysis that helps gain
clarity about how racism is well
organized and at work in our institu
tional practices.
April 8 & 9 - Words Awake 2
WFU writers and writing event
More than 40 alumni who are
novelists, biographers, journalists,,
screenwriters, poets and hip-hop
artists return to Wake Forest
University to share their experience
as. professional writers during a two
day Words Awake celebration of
writers and writing on April 8-9. The
event will demonstrate the power of
writing with workshops, panels and
readings that are free and open to the
public. A complete schedule of
events is available https://word
sawake20f6.sched.org/.
April 9 - 17 - RiverRun
Festival offers free films
The RiverRun International Film
Festival will offer several free
screenings during their upcoming
Festival, April 7-17. These free
events include: Saturday Morning
Cartoons, April 9 9:15 am., begin
ning with a live stage performed by
Peppercorn Theatre and the films
beginning at 10 am. at Hanesbrands
Theatre. At 12:30 pm. will be an
episode of Jim Henson's 1983 series
Fraggle Rock followed by an episode
of the new series Doozers, based on
f
characters created for the original
series. On April 16 at 9:15 a.m.
SECCA will present crafts for kids at
Hanesbrands Theatre with films
beginning at 10 ajn. For a schedule
of all films, including free screenings
and more child-friendly cartoons and
movies, visit wwwjiverrunfilm.com.
April 9 - Volunteer Training
Faith In Action volunteer training
will be held on Wednesday, April 9,
9:30 a.m. - 12 noon at The
Shepherd's Center. Faith in Action
seeks individuals as volunteers to
help address the problems of isola
tion and lack of social support
through the Faith In Action Care
Program, which includes home visi
tation, respite care.^binor home
repairs and transportation services
for homebound older adults. Mileage
reimbursement provided. Light
refreshments served. To register, call
Drea Parker at 336-748-0217 or
email dparker@shepherdscenter.org.
April 9 - Can We Save the
Monarch Migration?
Old Salem presents "Can We
Save the Monarch Migration?" on
April 9,10-11 a.m., in the Wachovia
Room, Old Salem Visitor Center,
900 Old Salem Road. Urgent action
is needed to keep Monarch butter
flies visiting our Piedmont North
Carolina gardens. Hear the latest
updates on the Monarch Waystation
Project and how you can help these
creatures in their epic annual migra
tion. Presented by Harriet McCarthy,
Forsyth County Master Gardener;
Volunteer Curator of 1761 recon
structed Medical Garden pt
Bethabara. To pre-register for any
workshop, please email
vhannah@oldsalem.orgor call 336
721-7357 (please leave a message if
no one answers) to register. To join
Friends of the Gardens, call 336-721
7333.
April 9 - Teen Maker
Workshop
The Forsyth County Public
Library and the Center for Design
Innovation will offer a Teen Maker
Workshop for middle school stu
dents. The Library, in collaboration
with the Center for Design
Innovation, will offer a one-day Teen
Maker Workshop blending the use of
3D printing technology and the art of
storytelling. Students will create
objects made with a 3D printer to a
pre-made mask reflecting their per
sonal interpretation of the poem "We .
Wear the Mask" by Paul Lawrence
Dunbar. The middle school Teen
Maker Workshop will be held on
Saturday, April 9,10 a.m. to 4 pjn. at
The Center for Design Innovation.
For instructions on how to become a
participant, go to www.forsythli
brary.org and click on the Teen
Maker Workshop article. Call 336
703-2913 for more information.
Space is limited. Participants will be
randomly selected.
April 9 - Free Document
Shredding Event
Wake Forest Baptist Medical
Center will host a document shred
ding event for the public on
Saturday, April 9, from 9 a.m. until
noon, in the parking lot of the
Administrative Services building at
2200 Cloverdale Avenue. The docu
ment shredding company, Shred-it,
will provide the free service. Visitors
may watch as their documents are
securely shredded and destroyed on
site before being recycled. While
there is no charge for this service,
donations will be accepted, with all
proceeds benefiting the American
Heart Association's Winston-Salem
Heart & Stroke Walk, which will be
held on October 29, and the ALS
Association's Walk to Defeat ALS,
which will be held on May 7.
April 9 - Forsyth Tech Open
House
Forsyth Tech will hold its annual
Open House on Saturday, April 9
from 9 ajn.-l p.m. at the Oak Grove
Center on its Main Campus, 2100
Silas Creek Parkway. This event is
free and open to the public and offers
the community the opportunity to
learn about the variety of programs
available at the college. Pre-registra
tion is requested by completing the
form found at
http://w w w.forsy thtech .edu/open
house. During the Open House, visi
tors will have the opportunity to
interact with representatives from
academic programs, admissions, .
financial aid, and student support
services during a Program Fair in the
Dewitt Rhoades Conference Center
in the Oak Grove Center. Workshops
will be offered to help attendees
learn more about financial aid and
college transfer options. In addition,
visitors can hear about Forsyth
Tech's robust campus life, including
clubs and organizations. Campus
tours will be available. For more
information, contact Eddie Waddell
See Community Calendar on B7
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