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$2.2 million addition planned for Granville Plaza by fall, '94 The Winston-Salem Housing Foundation has received an initial funding ?bmmitment enabling it to proceed with plans for Granville Plaza. The 42-unit housing and con gregate services complex will be located adjacent to Granville Place, the lOO-unit retirement copm unity for older adults developed by the foundation at the site of the old Granville School. Pending the project's approval by the City/County Planning Board and the Winston-Salem Board of Aldermen, and final qualification for funding, construction on the $2.2 million project is planned to begin in the summer of 1993. The facility should be open by fall, , 1994. ? Funding for the project will providers part of a $375.6 million Housing With Supportive Services Program recently unveiled by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development to make appro priate housing more affordable for lower-income elderly Americans. Under the program, HUD pro vides a capital advance to private non-profit sponsors to finance new construction or rehabilitation of rental or cooperative housing for the elderly. The capital advance does not have to be paid back to HUD, as long as the sponsor restricts occupancy for the first forty years of operation to low income elderly people. 'HUD also enters into Rental Assistance Con- . tracts with the non-profit sponsors for a twenty-year period to help cover operating costs. - Foundation's application for the Granville Plaza project is one of only 24 projects in nine southeast em states to receive an initial fund ing commitment from HUD. In making the announcement, foundation President William B. Cash noted that the commitment meets a growing need for appropri ate and affordable housing for the elderly that includes services neces sary to allow residents to remain independent "According to the most recent census statistics," Cash said, "while Winston-Salem's total population has grown by 8.8 percent over the past decade, our percentage of older adults (age 62 and over) has grown 25.3 percent In 1980, older adults represented 14.7 percent of the city's population. Today, they repre sent approximately 17 percent "We are pleased and gratified by this initial commitment from HUD," Cash noted, "because it will allow us to continue to address this growing need for effective, nonin stitutional housing alternatives for f older people in Winston-Salem liv ing on fixed incomes. At the same time, I believe the funding commit ment affirms a strategy the founda tion has followed for a number of years that links basic meal, trans portation and other services in such a way that residents can remain as independent as possible in their later years." Barrier-free in design, each of Granville Plaza's 42 units will include a bedroom, a combination living room and dining area, a kitchen and a full bath. Plans Call for the construction of several units specifically fitted for the hearing and visually impaired An enclosed, temperature-controlled walkway will connect both Granville Plaza and Granville Place to a shared food service unit Community-based support ser vices envisioned for Granville Plaza include home health and skilled^ nursing care, medical supplies and equipment, transportation and homemaker services. Discussions on how best to coordinate these ser vices are now underway with Senior Services, Inc., a local non profit organization that specializes in applying existing community ser vices to meet the special needs of older adults. "The- linking of these and other support services to barrier-free, affordable housing will allow even more frail elderly people in our community to live independently longer and with a greater sense of dignity/ said Richard Gottleib, executive director of Senior Ser vices. Like Granville Place and other retirement communities developed by the Winston-Salem Housing Foundation for the elderly living on low fixed incomes, monthly apart ment rents at Granville Plaza will be based on each resident's ability to pay. NWe are also very pleased with the West Salem neighborhood's ini tial response to the project," Win ston-Salem Housing Foundation's Cash added. Their comments about the project have been valuable and their continuing support for Granville Place speaks well of the partnership that exists between the neighborhood and the retirement community." "Granville Plaza is a wonderful project," said West Salem Residents Association President Gail Cruise, "that complements the association's efforts to build a strong neighbor hood." Formed in 1968 by the Mayor's Committee on Housing and the Urban Coalition, the Winston Salem Housing Foundation, Inc. encourages the development of affordable housing for low and mid dle income people through the part nership of business and govern ment. Over the past 25 years, the foundation has developed more than $25 million in new housing^br low and middle income families and is playing a key role in the recently announced study to devel op a long-term housing plan for Winston-Salem. Housing initiatives undertaken by the Winston-Salem Housing Foundation, Inc. include University Place and Granville Place in Win ston-Salem, Koerner Place in Kern ersville, and Mock Place in Mocksville. ; , #* a 4* . I Few blacks in power in rural Ga. schools ATLANTA (AP) ? Deseg regation sent the number of black school principals in Geor gia into a sharp' decline and the number of black administrators remains low outside the Atlanta area, a study shows. "Things have definitely regressed in the schools/' said Horacina Tate, a doctoral stu dent at Gark Atlanta Universi ty who conducted the study. "We just don't have black edu cators in the rural Georgia counties."** Her father, state Sen. Horace Tate, D-Atlanta, served in the pre- and post-integration educa tion systems as a teacher, princi pal and executive director of the Georgia Teachers and Education Association. In the old days, he said, "the black principal was to the black community what the mayor was to the whole town." Although their resources and facilities were inferior, principals had authority in their schools and respect in their communities, he said. The figures suggest that Georgia compares favorably with other states in the number of black teachers and adminis trators it employs; 23 percent of public school teachers and 25 percent of principals are black, according to a 1990 survey by the state Professional Practices Commission. For the South as a whole, less than 10 percent of principals are black, the study showed. But statistics also show that in 1956, there were 401 black principals in non-metropolitan Georgia; now there are 177. Statewide, the number of black principals is 426, down from the 1956 level of 521. | "Before we had integration, Ve had black teachers and prin cipals in the schools who could tell black students, 'You can do it! You arc expected to do well,'" said Barbara Holmes, a Denver based minority-education expert. "Blacks have been hit where it hurts most," she said. "These were the people who held us together." Linda Lee Aikens- Young, who has three advanced degrees, endured 14 years of rejected applications and four years in court ttr become the first black principal since integration in Rockdale County schools. She has been assistant prin cipal at Salem High School and will become principal at the C.J. Hicks Elementary School in the fall. "I tell my kids at least 50 times a day, "You can be any thing you want to be, if you apply yourself and work hard,1 but I was beginning to question what I was trying to impart to them," she said. First black named Chaplain at Yale By LARRY ROSENTHAL Agwodsted Pm?a Writer NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) ? A Baptist minister named chaplain of Yale University says he will try to foster unity in New Haven, and believes he can succeed Although the city is divided along many lines, "we think we have the opportunity to create, nur ture and sustain a true multiethnic, multicultural coalition in this com munity," said the Rev. Frederick J. Streets. Streets, the 42-year-old pastor of Mount Aery Baptist Church in Bridgeport, will be the first black and first Baptist to hold the post at the school founded by Congrega tional ministers. "Yale University is in an urban ; center, so I do not consider myself ; leaving an urban ministry," he said. His appointment was announced Wednesday by Yale President Benno C. Schmidt Jr. Streets assumes his new post July 1. He succeeds the Rev. Harry Adams, who is retiring. In choosing a minister with experience in dealing with urban problems, Yale is recognizing it is "'not an island in this community/ Schmidt said. "Religion is one of the most important ties between the universi ty community and the larger com munity, and the chaplain's relation ship between the two is pivotal," Schmidt said. Streets graduated from Yale's Divinity School in 1975. He served as a New Haven alderman during his last year there. An adjunct assistant professor of pastoral theology at Yale, he is pursuing a doctorate in social work at Yeshiva University in New York. While in Bridgeport, Streets established an AIDS ministry, an after-school program for latchkey children, a mentor program for minority youths, and a health and social service referral program for low-income and elderly people. Streets also has served as chap lain at Quinnipiac College in Ham den, taught at the Hartford Semi nary and served as an associate psy chiatric social worker. The university chaplain serves the entire Yale community, officiat ing at functions such as commence ment and memorial services and working with leaders of the 12 denominational ministries on cam pus. Rabbi James Ponet, the Jewish chaplain, said the appointment rep resented "a clear embrace of plural ism and multiculturalism at Yale." From Yale's founding in 1701 until 1899, the school's president, who was also a clergyman, was responsible for the spiritual life of the university. The Divinity School dean assumed those duties until the first chaplain was appointed in 1927. Streets will be the sixth uni versity chaplain. Open Doors To Your Child's Education c Vote For A Lady Off Principle Geneva B. Brown District # 1 Candidate Board Of Education Punch # 125 On May 5th Paid For By The Committee To Elect Geneva B. Brown To The Winston-SelenvToreyth County Board Of Education ?il . ^ ? ? ? There's only one individual in this picture who can't do something about drug abuse. T hat's right: Spot can't prevent or fight drug Call today, toll-free, for more information and abuse. But everyone else can, including you. our free catalog of affordable pamphlets, videos, booklets and other educational material for chil To help, you need facts. And you can get them dren, teenagers and adults. ffem us. 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