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North Carolina Room Forsyth County Public library 660" West fifth Street M ir '27101 ? The Choice for African-American Ne h o THURSDAY, JANUARY 5, VOL. XXI. No 19 Goge Gets Coveted Award . . *? ? ^ . A Corrections officer honored for " professional excellence " By VERONICA ? Chronicle Suff Writer Shirley Searcy Gore didn't have intentions on entering the corrections field. But when 'she learned of an oppor tunity in the Depaitment of Corrections while taking a police science class at Forsyth Technical* Community College she decided to apply. 4 And, from the beginnings of a secre tary, Gore has made her way up the ranks to the position of Assistant Superinten dent at the Forsyth Correctional Center/ For her service in the past 26 years, Gore was recently awarded the H.G. "Gus" Moeller Award, the highest state award in the Department of Corrections. "I was very happy to receive the award/ she said. "I was runner-up last year so I was hoping that maybe it was my turn to get it." The award is named for Moeller who worked 33 years in the Federal Bureau of Prisons, climbing the ladder to Deputy Director prior to his retirement. After that, he began his second career in educa tion, becoming Professor with East Car olina University in 1970. In 1975, he was appointed as the Western Hemisphere Representative for the United Nations by President Richard Nixon to oversee the see GORE page 11 /iff/ Thomas TUmming, a former drug dealer (left) has Joined forces with community leaders to promote peace among teenagers at an all day workshop Saturday at the William C. Sims Center. Alto pictured are Melvin WUkins, Jr. William "Rock" Bitting, Elder Melvin "Rip" WUkins, Ben Piggott, and Gerald, Mock. . Former Drug Dealers to Help Teens A. Community leaders join forces to try to prevent teen crime By DAVID L. DILLARD Chronicle Staff Writer Life iukau t fo> Thou*** Flemming. He grew up in a community in East Winston surrounded by drugs and the J>raggadocious talk of "O.G.'s" (original gangsters) reminiscing of how they used to run the streets. Thinking back, Flemming, 25, says the environment wasn't good for a 14-year-old. "As a boy 1 was around my father's liquor house listening to the w*y they did things; oil the gangster talk," he said. 'They used to tell me I couldn't go through what they did.' It. wasn't a good thing for me to hear because I wanted to prove myself." 5 He dropped out of West Forsyth High School in the 11th grade and started selling drugs. Flemming said he made nearly $l,00(Ta week selling drugs and was on easy street until he got arrested at age 18. While serving a six -year federal prison sentence on possession of a fire arm and possession of 1 1 pounds of marijuana, he changed his life around and now is on a crusade to help deter teenagers from a life of crime. "I was going down and my family was going down. There was nothing in drugs for me so 1 wanted to try some thing else," he said. "I'm just a man that got changed. That's what it's all about" o Flemming earned his GED in prison and now is a full-time painter and raises his three young nephews while his two dder sisters are serving pl^ison sentences on drug related charges. ? Flemming will be joined by Ger ald Mock, Melvin Wilkins Jr., and oth see FORMER page 10 * Pastor Says Community Must Settle Differences A Blacks, whites should work together to avoid racial fighting in '95 By DAVID L. DILLARD Chronicle Staff Writer \ it - Rev. Scth O. ^artey said the entire com munity must settle their differences and work together to avoid racial fighting and truly make Winston-Salem an Ail-American city. Lartey, pastor of Goler Memorial A.M.E. Zion Church, said in an address Sunday that for the city to start off right in 1995, blacks and whites must better under stand each other. - ? ^ - "It is important to work together to * vavoid a racial night mare/' he said. "But with all the intelligence, and all the sophistica tion, why should we sit here and die from racism and violence? We must come together to mak( a j?ifference." Lartey said working together initially' $ould n't be an easy task because it would require both whites and blacks to make^ amends, treat each other right, and for whites to Seth O. Lartey establish a different perspective of blacks. He said whites have a built-in fear of blacks that should be erased. "For there to pc real reconciliation, we must change the perception that whites have of black people," he said. "Black people are by nature very kind people. We must correct the perception of who blacks are. I'm not trying to exalt one over the other because we all must repent for evil done to each other." Lartey's address was centered around $#i PASTOR page /0 ~ Group Wants All Black Schools in East Winston mined in providing our' children 's education " No matter what the school board decides with redisricting, a coalition of African- American orga nizations is proposing that the black community educates its own. The Coalition on African-American Education has devised a proposal, now in its working stages, which calls for two predominantly black elemen Bank Commits $340 Million to CRA Initiative * A BB&T/SNB targets state minority communities Minority communities are expecting to llave an economic boost when Branch Banking and Trust Company and Southern National Bank merge this year. The two banks signed a three-year commit ment with the Community Reinvestment Associa tion of North Carolina (CRA NQ in December to spend $340 million to help the new bank meet the credit needs of low -and moderate-income and * "We must be self deter ONICA CLEMONS le Staff Writer see GROUP page U see BANK page 10 TO SUBSCRIBE CALL 910-722-8624
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