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<>17# l 1 NT A(w l CHAMPIONS Ighting it out! si! parent group questions selection process .vw A Students who live across from Klmberly Park are bused to other areas to attend school. man. She could have been anybody's child. - crack and then taUnc the money back |0|MW|er. There she was, this little three-year old African-American child whom anthropologist have deemed "l-uriy,* ih* mother of ?n human civ ilization, selling, crack cocaine fa&; downtown crack house alum.; Ml 'But not only was die selling th$dnig, she was also watching over her three siblings ? all mint: younger than she. The house Was roach an&rat infested. There was no food, no lights, no nrnrans Sain rf Aiwriat-i;|#^ti tiflLnd where was her mother? Oh. she was across the stmt in some ktod of drag stupor. Did why didnt she buy any food for the children with the money? Her response, "thii is my money. ? ? ? ?? . ;i.; v. r own money. . | afternoon, a few foBc gathered at the Best Choice Genu* hoe to Wtoston-Salem to Wh the NBC proftam entitled, ' A Closer Look* hosted by l*^panielss|tb<?'Aason^we Low-income kids excluded? By SHERIDAN HILL Chronicle Staff Writer On the corner of North Cherry and 16th streets, a handful of children stand within sight of Kimberly Park Elementary School waiting for the bus to carry them to Bolton Elementary School. They are not the only children in the system who live across the street from one school but are bused to another, but their situation has spumed the wrath of an African-American parent group at Kimberly Park. Few parents agree with the way their children are bused to achieve integration, but the African-American parent group takes exception to the student selection process for Kimberly Park .They believe that students from Kimberly Park Terrace, a low-income housing development, were excluded from the Kimberly Park district in order to attract middle class and upper middle class white students to the school. "The black community fought to keep at least one black school open in our communi ty/ fumes Gail Burnette, who can stand on her porch and see the school. "That school was Kimberly. Since it became a magnet school, we see Lincoln? and Mercedes every morning dropping off kids and picking them up, but we don't see many black children from the neighborhood going there." Perched on a hill at the corner of 17th and Cherry, Kimberly Paik Elementary is at the edge of its district. The district stretches equally to the east and west, and extends far Please see page A2 District lines prevent these kids from attending Kknber ly Park Alternative School. Turner forced out of New Walkertown project By SHERIDAN HILL Chronide Staff Writer New Walkertown Market Associates has quietly worked out an agreement to change developers, a move which should lay to rest some, if not all, of the on going controversy surrounding the proposed shopping center. Herman Turner, the Durham developer who worked with the project for over two years, will step aside. Originally planned as a catalyst for development in East Winston, the project has been set back with law suit s, counter suits, and a foreclosure sale which was to take place today. On Wednesday, attorneys finalized an agreement with Southern National Bank on an agree ment to postpone the sale for 30 days. James Grace, director of the East Winston Com munity Development Corporation (CDC), confirmed yesterday that the board of directors will work on a restructuring plan. Herman Turner will no longer serve as president of New Walkertown Market Associates. A new president and a new developer will be selected at next week's stockholders meeting. "As a pioneer of this project, I've had to be very aggressive in order to make some things happen, and in the process I've ruffled a few feathers," said Turner, in a prepared statement "To facilitate further progress of 555SS9S5SS9S5S5BS9S39B9BSBS559ESS5995 _ ". . . I've had to be aggres sive . . . I've ruffled a few feathers ..." - Herman Turner the shopping center project, I have volunteered to step down as project developer." A PUBLIC-PRIVATE VENTURE New Walkertown Market Associates was estab lished as a corporation with three voting directors: James Grace for the East Winston CDC, the law firm of Michael Greeson and Michael Grace, and Herman Turner for Turner Development. Michael Grace is James' brother. Greeson and Grace have represented the corporation as well as Turner Development. Herman Turner served as president of New Walkertown Market Associates and president of Turner Development. "Greeson and Grace represented Turner Develop ment before New Walkertown Market Associates was formed," said James Grace. While some have questioned the close ties of the arrangement, James Grace notes that it is a unique arrangement that helps a non-profit group such as the CDC become more active in the commercial develop ment process. "You'll rarely find a deal put together with three vested parties like this. A number of cities are trying to work out this kind of arrangement. It is new ground, and a learning experience for everybody." Grace feels that the legal community is also just Please see page A3 Bon Henderson, the principal at Petrae Middle School, looks on while a student goes over an aaalgnment. Getting a helping hand Project HELPP started By YVETTE N. FREEMAN - Chronicle Staff Writer An optional middle school for students who suffer from emotional and behavioral problems has begun an effort to help those students adjust better when transferred back into Winston Salem/Forsyth County's regular middle schools. That effort is Project HELPP, which stands for Honor, Encouragement, Learning, Prevention, and Prepare. It is a collaboration between Petree Middle School and the other middle school^ based on the fact that Petree students often have a hard time adjusting when they are mainstreamed back into the regular schools from which they were transferred to Petree. ~ To help the students adjust more successfully, Project HELPP was initiated in August of this year, to provide a support system for them. "What we're doing is preventing them from coming back," said Benjamin Henderson, princi pal of Petree Middle School. "We're out there counseling. They're out there learning too about middle school concepts." There are a number of objectives for Project HELPP. According to a written overview of the project, provided by the staff at Petree, the objec tives are 1) "to provide assistance to middle school instructional teams who are assigned for mer Petree students," 2) "classroom observation of the students in their home school instructional setting," 3) "to provide individual and small group counseling when appropriate," 4) "to provide intervention for students who are at risk of being excluded," (banned from a middle school). 5) "to Please see page A2 ACLU opposes N.C. redistricting plan RALEIGH (AP) ? The American Civil Liberties Union has asked the U.S. Justice Department to reject North Carolina's legislative and congressional redis ricting plans, contending they discriminate against minorities. v In a 45-page letter dated Wednesday, the ACLU argues that the plans violate the federal Voting Rights Act by failing to create as many black-majority districts as possible. All three plans "are infected" with a "racially discriminatory purpose," diluting the strength of black voters to ensure the reejection of white Demo cratic incumbents, the letter said. "The purpose behind each of the plans was the pro \ tection of the Democratic majority in North Carolina," the ACLU said. "Districts that admittedly could have been drawn were not, and racial majorities in existing districts were reduced ... so that black voters could be used to protect Democratic incumbents in nearby dis tricts." The Justice Department is reviewing the redisrict ing plans adopted by the General Assembly. If the department finds the plans do not meet federal require ments, it can send them back to the Legislature for revi sion. On Monday, a legislative delegation is scheduled to travel to Washington and defend the redisricting plans. Later in the week, Republican lawmakers are expected to meet with federal officials on behalf of the state Republican Partyv Democrats, who control the General Assembly, prepared the redistricting plans. The drafters of the plans have said they sought to avoid excessive "pack ing" of blacks into minority districts. But the ACLU said Democratic lawmakers reject ed black districts in areas where white Democrats depended upon black voters to win; where white Democrats face increasing opposition from Republican challengers; and where white Democrats hold impor Ptease see page A3 i uR HOMf ()* I I VI HV CAt I ? 7??-bh?A ?
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