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Current members of
Second Harvest's Triad
Community Kitchen pro
gram, along with Greg
Cox, senior vice presi
dent, Bank of America
(back left); Clyde
Fitzgerald, executive
director, Second Harvest
Food Bank (front left); '
Derek Ellington, Triad
Market president, Bank
of America (second from
right, front); Stephanie
Moser, senior vice presi
dent, Bank of America
(far right).
Bank of America awards $12,000 grant to support Iliad Community
SPECIAL TO THE CHRONICLE
On Friday, June 3, Bank of America's Triad Market President, Derek Ellington,
awarded Second Harvest Food Bank of Northwest North Carolina a $12,000 grant in sup
port of the organization's efforts to connect individuals to workforce development and
educational opportunities in the community. The funding allows Second Harvest to con
tinue their Triad Community Kitchen program, which empowers unemployed or under
employed individuals to achieve their goals of employment and self-sufficiency through
culinary training.
Since 2Q15, Bank of America has donated more than $30XXX) to Second Harvest,
totaling over 200,000 meals for those experiencing food insecurity.
Second Spring Arts Festival announces Visual And Literary Arts winners
SPECIAL TO THE CHRONICLE
Second Spring Arts Festival recently announced the
winners of the Visual and Literary Arts competition held
during its recent festival. Second Spring Arts Festival is an
annual festival whose mission is to showcase creative
accomplishments and encourage creative discovery for
people 60 and above.
The winners are below:
?Best of Show: Don Moore - "Nana's Scrapbook"
(oil)
?Fine Art: First Place - Lu Stopkey, "Where First
Our Love Did Bloom" (oil); Second Place - Cynthia
Moykins, "Above and Below" (ink); Third Place - Susan
J. Harris, 'Tranquility" (mixed media)
?Decorative Art: First Place - Herschel T. Lamb,
sofa table; Second Place - Robert Belche, fused glass tree;
Third Place - Larry Dishon, praying mantis in green
?Literary Arts Competition
Superior Literary Achievement - Janet Joyner,
"Fire and Ice"
Outstanding Verse: Gold - PhylUstine Poole,
"Passing Through South Carolina"; Silver - Judie
Holcomb-Pack, "The Love Affair"; Bronze - Bill
Gramley, "This Morning"
Outstanding Essay: Gold - C. Kay Jones, "The
Power of My Story"; Silver - Polly Craft, "Lessons Well
Learned"; Bronze - Diane Chatham Calaway, "Finding
Grandad"
Outstanding Narrative: Gold - Helen Walker
Webb, "The Porch"; Silver - Janet Joyner, "Ultimate
Unction at First Methodist"; Bronze - Bill Gramley, "The
Woman Who Tried to Stop Tune"
For more information, visit www.secondspringarts.org
or find us on Face book at www.facebook.com/second
springartsfestival.
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Best of Show, Don Moore,"Nona's Scrapbook,"
Visual Arts Competition.
Creative Corridors Coalition
names 19 new members, new
chair to board of directors
SPECIAL TO
THE CHRONICLE
The Creative Corridors
Coalition named 19 new
members to its board of
directors and appointed a
new board of advisors at
the organization's May 25
board meeting. The new
members join existing
members of the 50-member
board who will provide
leadership of the organiza
tion as its pivotal trans
portation projects along the
Business 40 corridors get
underway in the coming
months.
Nine former members
of the board of directors
were named to a new board
of advisors. They include
Sandra Boyette, Bill Davis,
Stan Kelly, John Larson,
Milton Rhodes, Jim
Sparrow, James Taylor Jr.,
Jason Uriel and Randall
Tuttle.
Kristen Haaf, formerly
the project manager for
Creative Corridors, was
named board chair. Haaf is
the owner of Roots First, an
environmental design and
urban planning studio. She
holds a bachelor's degree
in environmental policy
from Duke University, a
master's degree in land
scape architecture from
N.C. State University, and
a master's degree in city
and regional planning horn
the University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Other board members
elected include:
?Phyllis Alexander
Slye, Community volun
teer and former campaign"
coordinator for Creative
Corridors
* Kelly Bennett, proj
ect planner for the Planning
& Developmfent Services
Department in Winston
Salem and Forsyth County
Submitted photo
Kristen Hoof, Chair, Creative
Corridors Coalition board of
directors
? Jason Bush, director
of operations for the
Ginther Group and profes
sional civil engineer
?Diane Caesar, retired
executive director of the
Delta Arts Center
?Scott Cawood, CEO,
CIO and a- principal of
Arbor Investment Advisors
?Lila Cruikshank, an
integrative health coach for
individuals and in the neu
robiology department of
Wake Forest School of
Medicine
?Marina Davis, pro
ducer of special projects at
the University of North
Carolina School of the Arts
?Fleming El-Amin,
retired educator and
banker, associate consult
ant with International
Negotiating Consultants
? ?Ann Gauthreaux,
regional director of public |
relations at Hospice & i
Palliative CareCenter (
?Pam Joyner, Winston
Salem Police Department
community relations spe
cialist
'Richard Maloy, Jr.,
leads Maloy Risk Services,
one of the nation's oldest
insurance brokerages
'Wanda Merschei,
community volunteer, for
mer four-term member of
the Winston-Salem City
Council and former senior
vice president and chief
marketing officer at
Piedmont Federal Savings
Bank
?Scottie Neill, art con
sultant and community vol
unteer
?Sylvia Oberle, former
executive director of
Habitat for Humanity of
Forsyth County and former
senior vice president of
James A. Fyock &
Associates
'Garrett Owens, vice
president of Winston
Salem Business, Inc.
'Michael Suggs, presi
dent of Goler Community
Development Corporation
?Trent Wall, market
president for NewBridge
Bank's Winston-Salem
market
?Richard Williams^
publisher and editor-in
chief of Black Business Ink
magazine
For more information
on the Creative Corridors
Coalition and its board of
directors, current news,
projects and giving oppor
tunities visit creativecorri
dors.org.
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