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H DEARTH OF BL r V . \ y programs. aaa? ammo#'' v :mmm Winston-Salem \j THURSDAY, JANUA ? r/6, 1994 Power concedes nothing without a struggle w \\ \ ' F rederiWBflTuglass VOL. XX, No. 19 Residents hgve run the llappy /# ill Harden Mart sinew It first opened its doors Dec < 21, 1992, right are : Scott Fletcher, manager; Dane Ida Wright; and Angela White, assistant manager. A couple of years ago, the comer of Liberia ami l;a*o streets in I Ik Happy Mill (Janteiw <,iwww% SKper a year of fund raising, rebuilding and vortpcf^* tioiK the corner haw become one of jthc nnphNtr "I was pari of a^team." said'Oliftot) Oraves, i HAWS* assistant, executive (litycbwr. "We wanted Hie ' store to be a shining star in flic community." ? -si ?, " r Happy Hill's Resident-Run * - ? '' C ' * ' ? \* "" ? . > ? * '??? > ,.** . ' ' *'?* ''*)]*'. V ? '> ?? v : >>? *" t : V. |Tv Store By SAHKINA KlNliS < ht mm lr Sinn. liHlrn hangout for undesirable people." % October 1991 community leaders Maggie lidwanfs -and Yvonne Jefferson worked to clean up the streets. With, donations from organizations such ndatkw: mc co?,cp? of ievi withi n store moved from being a n to a rew<>ty>-)^;(:' "I Started dreaming about things I con do Wifh hood s most valuable assets. : ? * i siartco oreamittg ahout tilings I can do With y Ik rcawiti.' Happy Mill (tarden Mitfl Hie store, the store if it was available,** Edwards' said. "And managed and operated by residents nf the commu* K)W afH, bchold.it was available nity. lirst opened its doors Dec. 2 1?, ll>92.. Rd wards said that Jefferson went to the United anniversary ceremony will be held l-rklay. Ian, 14, at "Way, which pfty^ided money purchase the store the stoic. Officials hom- the Housing Authority of after it was offered for sale at an auction. Winston Salem are excited about flfe store's success. *?*-' r... 1 prttinfr s more tlnln they ? or'" *. ' \ - ? ? ? . T . ' " " v ? > - iltc Happy Hills Garden Mart has done i K part Originally, the comer of Liberia and Tree streets jn bem^feg tlie community. From its inviting cot- ' . was a drugrintested area, said Ciraves. TW original tagclike exterior to the clean. well-lighted corridors store sold alcohol and attracted shady .characters to separating shelves of goods ranging from detergent ' rt*n^hh.rl?,,H.. ? . _ . wTrfAPPYHIW.4J It was a community eyesore, lie said. It was a, ? ; Owners Still Bicker vloyeerMinit Mart owner asset to community :? By DAVID L. DILLAR0 Chronicle Staff Wflter Jervis.MdTk walked into a crowded Minit Mart store *Monday afternoon and picked up a loaf of bread, a pack of sausage and a beer. v Mack didn't have the money to pay for it but told Mike Sarsour. the -store's owner. "You know I'm good for it tomorrow." Sarsour smiled and said. "Take it. I'll see yoti next week." * Mack is one of many poor customers from the Lib erty Street neighborhood who receives credit from Sar sour. ' ; ? "A lot of times they don t always have the money right now." he said. "Where else can they go and get what they need when they're broke? If I don't help the people, no other business will." ( ; Sarsour said his business is successful because it runs like a family environment to the residents. "They trust me.' he said. I go-to their houses and do whatever I can. I treat them like family. These are low-income people. I cannot take advantage of them." Last week, Sarsour's competitor, Curtis Carpenter, who owns the Music Box and Andrea s One Stop across the street from the Minit Mart, complained that Sarsour, a Palestinian, was taking advantage of the black com munity. ; While Carpenter vehemently continues to claim that he pressed charges against Sarsour for selling coun terfeit cassette tapes. Sarsour denies the allegations, and the police have no record of a charge against him. "Everything t told you was true,"* Carpenter said. "And he's %till doin^it when nobody's around." see LIBERTY A7 _ BLACK & WHITE After Work, Racial Socializing Ends By nvyio t diui.ardI ( 'tfromclc Stall Writer Ron, a young, white worker at R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co., said he doesn't care much for blacks. He - doesn't associate with them and, if he had his druthers, would not work with them, cipher. f Ron. (not his real name - he requested and was 7 granted anonymity) feels race relations here arc not pood hut docsnX-helicve tensions are getting any worse. Me apparently cprtomizes how most members of the black and white races here feel about' each other. Though they peacefully co-exist for more than a third of each week day, that is often where the interaction stops. "4 got my friends; they got theirs," he said. "I'm not a racist; I just do my job and go home." see AFTER WORK A3 Tension Gould Lead To Race R^ot: Study By DAVID L. DILLARD Chronicle Staff Writer minaf\pn are serious problems in North Carolina. Wcordjnk to a recent survey sponsored by the Z. Smith Reynolds Foun dation. That discovery was made from data collected from over 800 North Carolinians by researchers, see SURVEY A3 ? ? . 4 ? r Arthur Mitchell to Teach Craft at NCSA By MARK R MOSS - Chronu /< Staft Writer For the two hours that Arthur Mitchell sat and watched students go through their dance routines Monday afternoon, there was noth ing in his face to betray how he felt about what he saw. Occasionally, he whispered into an assistant's ear 'or offered a smile when the dance instructor glanced in hi> direction. fTiiull). imji tin end of the1 sion. Mitchell, the legendary dancer and director of the Dance Theatre of Harlem, began to offer his own crit icisms. The chest should expand at the sides, he said, demonstrating by holding the armpits of a student. "Let your belly button touch ( your backbone." he told another. ou have no-wRsts."4ie~u>ki a woman for the benefii of all who . weren't using their hands right. And when the North Carolina School of the Arts students tried what Mitchell suggested and got it rignt. tnere came rrorfTthe master in a thunderous and exuberant voice. "Yes! Yes!" And, "There, you have the power!" Or^' There we go! There we go! That's nice dear. Very ni?e!" Mitchell is in town this week to share his knowledge of dance with the School of the Arts students. obj^rv-anc^. of Monday's class was the first step in selecting those students whom he will work . with -on "Holberg Suite." a 17 minute piece Mitchell choreo graphed in 1970. Befofe they were dismissed. - the students, having sh ,wn off their ~jbert, paused *o give MiichelLa hearty applause. > Lorraine Graves, a stage direc tor and a former director with the Dance Theatre, is assisting Mitchell this week. "It's my life," Mitchell said. "I think that's, what I'm here to do, It's the essence of what I am about." Mitchell is 59 but looks and moves more like he's 39. Even when he flashes his toothy, bright, beguiling smile, there are no facial lines to hint at his age. .see FAMED A3 WHERE TO FIND IT fll'SIM ss " \s'SlM!t'S' C'nMNH NIIA NFWS Ediimriai S f ??""RrviwiFsr ( ; 'i \ k 1 f s .... Rfi KilOV Spor r.s 4 Trirs W ffk /\ Rr.uk ItikrnK) (hi ./,;// /. /<>/*. the fit st is Mir t >/ Jonmnl of Negro HiMory piihfislwti Bin m: \4 A I M Ullf Mitchell instructs students during auditions at the V.C. School of the Arts . * TO SUBSCRIBE CALL 919-722-8624 n Ballet Co. Dance and Life By SABRINA JONES Chronicle Staff Inicm ??ft ? , Regeania Singletary has always known what she waited to do. While growing up in a rough section of Trenton. N.J., she knew that she wanted to participate in dance classes to occupy her idle time and to avoid winding up like some of the people around her. Now as the assistant director of Dancers Unlimited Ballet, Sin ? <? gletary helps other young girls escape into the soothing and esteem-building work! of dance. "We just need to do some thing for our gentration coming up -*? to correct a problem;" she said. Dancers Unlimited began JO Matthews, a former health nurse at Winston* State University, sought to f"*** dance lessons for \ her community. ; With the Clarence Gaines, ketbal! coach at tf Matthews and her able to use the their 'She [Matthews] . herself," Sin would go bankrupt kids." . -/ All of the company are non-paid said Singletary. IT* ; charged dues that other things, to and for
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