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Winston-Salem Chronicle
The Choice for African-American News and Information
THURSDAY, MARCH 3, 1994
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VOL. XX. No. 27
Minister
Arrested for
Refusing to
Leave
Church
^Ousted pastor at Antioch Christian
Church accused of trespassing
and misusing church money
Hv MARK R MOSS
?hr*tnu h' Suft VJ>ruer ? w
Over the past feu weekends, the Rev. Charles W. Kennedy has been
fired as his church's pastor." accused of transferring thousands of dollars
from the church s bank account and arrested on trespassing charges for dis
obeying a restraining order barring him from coming to the church.
The congregation of Antioch Christian Church on Underwood Avenue
voted last year to fire Kennedy, but he refuses to leave. Consequently, he
has been arrested, and during Sunda\ services police often patrol the church
grounds.
"fchoose not to make any comments on this." said Kennedy, when first
contacted Monday night Its like a famih concern and should stay in the
house. I feel the church should take care of business, inside the church and
do its good deeds outside tNe church.'
The 60-year-old church sits on a plateau on the west side of Under
wood Avenue. 1t is a modern, well-maintained structure that overlooks the
Kimberly Park housing community and has about 100 members in its con
gregation.
Kennedy s name was on the church's marquee last week, hut was
removed last Saturday.
The locks on the doors have been changed several times, and harsh
words used. In court documents, church members have accused Kennedy of
transferring the church's bank account - about*S30.000 - from one account
to another. The nev. account lists the pastof\and several of his supporters as
the administers of the finances.
Church members also claim that Kennedy ignored -the rulings of the
Piedmont Minister s Fellowship, an organization of Christian churches of
which Antioch is. a member. The fellowship agreed with the members of the
church that Kennedy should be dismissed. According to a letter addressed
to Kennedy from the Minister's Fellowship, the organization fired Kennedy
because he insisted on pastoring Antioch.
"Why won't he just leave, if he s a man of God." said Carolyn Cooper, a
five-vear member of the church who said she was removed* from the choir
because of her anti-Kennedy activities.
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CIAA:
Success!
Bv MARK R MOSS
Chnmu lc Staf l Writer
It may be a while before t iiy officials can
gather the single statistic every municipality likes
to have after it has hosted a successful event.
That figure is money, of course: How much did
the C1AA Tournament visitors leave behind0
? ? -Judging by-tbv-packe-dhuteU. the bumper-to*
bumper parking and the standing-room-< .lis
clubs and lounges, the city's visuors dropped a
bundle over the six-day basketball tournanment.
And they did so, it's safe to assume, because
Winston-Salem rolled out the red carpet to the
thousands ot African Americans who came to
town~ ' ?
"The main things I've heard haye all been
very positive." said Mayor Martha S. Wood, the
city official who has been given the lion's share
of the credit for helping to bring the tournament
to Winston-Salem.
Although she did not attend all of the games.
the mayor said she was at some function every
niiiht of the tournament. She also said she visited
all but two of the VIP boxes that ring the inside
of the Lawrence Joel Veterans Memorial Coli
seum.' Wood said she talked to most of the chan
cellors representing the 14 schools in the CI A A
and only line had something less than positive to
say: The city didn't have enough hotels. The
mayor said she told the chancellor that it he knew
of someone in the business who was willing to
invest in a new hotel, she was w illing to listen.
She said she hasn t heard from any of the
business people. 4w4--'-Tm eager uxJiear from
them."
Wood said that visitors also complimented
Mayor Martha Wood (2nd from /.) presents scholarship check to CIAA officials ,
the city on the ease of getting to the coliseum
because of the signs.
V1 heard so many good comments about the
city." said A-ldermen Lynne Harpe. who attended
mans of the men's games. "Some people thought
this was a small town, but they came and found it
was a city."
Harpe said she also heard people say how
courteous and helpful the police were. She said
that the. one glitch'' to the ev ent was the problem
cial carpet and prevented the vendors from sell
ing their goods. The rain lasted only one day.
however, and Mother Nature smiled on the ven
dors the rest of the tournament.
I think the city came together and gave the
kind of impression of Winston-Salem that we
wanted the CI A A visitors to have," said Ernest
H. Pitt, publisher of the Winston-Salem Chroni -
cle* and a member of the C1AA steering commit
tee. And the city is to be commended for doing
that.
see CIA A page A9
A capacity crowd of over 14,600 were at Joel Coliseum Saturday night .
Some Behind-the-Scenes Views from tKe CTAA Tournament
B> MARK R. MOSS
Chrom , u Staff Wntcr
An event such as the C1AA Tournament, which ended last weekend, is
composed of man\ small events, or stories. There were approximately
20.000 of them last week - one tor each of the tournament s patrons - and it
\vould be impossible to recount them all here. However, here are a handful
of those stories that made the tournament arguably the most successful
event in Winston-Salem's history.
At the "I'm Ever} Woman Luncheon & Fashion Show" last Friday
.afternoon which was held to honor the first ladies of the CIAA Tournament
member institutions. Ralph Page sat at one of few tables that had empty
seats. He wore a sweater, was tie-less and was unaccompanied at a gather
ing of 1.100 predominantly beautiful women.
Winston-Salem did a good job of getting this tournament and follow
mg through on it said Page, a municipal court judge from Richmond.
where The tournament has been held for~the last three "years. "You ToIFs
wanted it and came up with the money."
He explained that it just wasn't officials who made everyone feel so
welcomeTtTuroTdnw} people. like the employees at the Adams Mark Hotel
where he was staying.
"Everybodv is so solicitous, he said. ?
He chided the city of Richmond for not making the effort to keep the
tournament. -He pointed out that most of the city's officials are African
-Ampriran anH "r^fy ^hnnlH haw dnnr ^vr?n mnro" tn kttop Ifliimnnn-m frnin
going elsewhere.. Page is an alumnus of Hampton University.
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During a first-round game of the men's tournament between Living
stone College and Norfolk State University. Livingstone's coach, the tall
and dapper Stan Lewter. probably had the late Jim Valvano chuckling in 4
appreciation from some otherworldly perch. Lewter threw fits like a spoiled
child, harangued officials and cursed the air at calls that he deemed wrong -
"antics that mirrored Valvarto's when he coached at North Carolina State
University. Lewter was an assistant under Valvano and it was obvious that
some of Yalvano s coaching techniques rubbed off.
Early in the game, when Livingstone was up by three points, two points
were mysterioush taken away which, within a minute or two. helped put
Norfolk in the lead. Lewter went ballistic. He yelled at the referees to stop
the game and find out what happened to those two points. He was justified,
at i J SL'Vi'Ml in ilii' audience nali/id lie viav right 'they, too: started
yelling, But tie had been harassing the officials so much that they didn't take
hjm ypriniuK TlV few in the stands who realized Lewter was right, came to
the coach s defense with \ ells of their own. A referee called a time out and -
went to the storekeeper. Lewter followed.
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Gran' Daddy
Junebug to Highlight Chronicle Banquet
B> D AVID L Dll.LARD .
Chro'u. " Stall Writer
Black pride, slavery and establishing good moral
values are the themes of an African-American griot
know n as Gran DadJ\ Junebug.
GfsrT Daddy J-jrrebug; alias Mitch Capel. has been -*
influenced by the works of Paul Laurence Dunbar
since his childhood when his grandmother used to read
to him.
Capel. 39. started writing his ow n stories at age 12
and in 1984 began reciting professional!) . With the
influence of Dunbar's poetry, he dressed as an old
man. came up with a "down-home' monrker and
developed the craft he calls "sto'etrytelling." or telling
stories in poetic verse.
(Dunbar) was very outspoken for his time."
Capel said. "All of his stories have good morals in
them and the more I read, the more T realized that this
is something that should be passed on." *
Capel's character Gran' Daddy Junebug will be
featured at the Winston-Salem Chronicle's annual
awards banquet on Saturday. March 5 at 6 p.m. at the
Andfrson Center at Winston-Salem^tate University
tape] has performed at numerous schools, univer
sities. festivals, and libraries, and has more than 35
hours worth of memorized material from Dunbar s
works and his own.
He was born in Southern Pines, but now resides in
Fayetteville. Although he's a gifted thespian. Cape!
has studied speech and theater at N.C. A&T and
Bbward.
CapeT' was impressed with Dunbar's poetry
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