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Local hospital, government officials and doctors participate in the ground breaking cere
mony for Winston East Health Care, a new facility at New Walkertown Road and 14th Street.
New Facility to Provide Health Care
A Officials break ground for Winston East Health Care
from Chronicle Staff Reports
Local hos-pital officials, physi
cians, and government leaders broke
ground this week for Winston East
Health Care, a new primary health
center at the corner of New Walker
town Road and 14th Street in the
East Winston community.
The construction of the 30,000
square-foot Winston Fast Health
Care facility will be completed this
summer and will open for patient
care in August 1996.
The facility is part of Aegis
Family Health Centers, a network of
centers that makes family health care
services more convenient and acces
sible for residents of Winston-Salem
and surrounding counties.
"This new building will allow us
to do all the things that we need to
do," said Dr. Charlie Kennedy, a
local pediatrician who will practice'
in the facility with four other
African-American doctors.
"Winston East Health Care is a
symbol for all black physicians who
strived to give their best health care
to the citizens of this community,"
Kennedy said.
The other physicians who will
practice at Winston Last Health ( ate
are Drs. Pamela S Dockery, Ihoma
L. Clarke, Lawrence L) Hopkins
and Kenneth B Rhinehart Wilhcn
D DiJiard will he a physician assis
tant in pediatrics.
Winston Last Health Care and
all other Aegis centers provide com
prehensive services to all ages, with
particular emphasis on prevention
and patient education
More than 300 people attended
the ground-breaking ceremony
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Dedicated to the Memory of Ciarence E. Nottingham: 1903-1995 vol. xxii. No. 36
Taylor Attacks Helms in NAACP Address
Pastor Compares
Senator to Satan
By JOHN HINTON
Chronicle Senior Staff Writer
Dr. Gardner C. Taylor, pastor emeritus of Concord Bap
tist Church in New York City, attacked U.S. Sen. Jesse
Helms, R-N.C., last week, comparing the conservative sena
tor to Satan.
"You have sent to Washington someone whose very
name is closer to the devil than anyone in America ? Jesse
Helms," said Taylor, the keynote speaker at the 1996 Free
dom Fund Gala of the Winston-Salem Branch of the
NAACP.
Eddie Woodhouse, a campaign spokesman for Helms,
would not comment on Taylor's statement.
Helms, who is seeking his fifth term in the Senate, will
face the Democratic winner of the May 7 primary between
former Charlotte Mayor Harvey Gantt and Charlie Sanders,
former president and chief executive officer of Glaxo Inc. of
Durham.
NAACP President William Tatum, left, stands with keynote
speaker, Dr. Gardner C. Taylor.
Helms, who was first elected in 1972, built his following
in North Carolina by attacking civil-rights leaders and liber
als during the 1960s. Critics have described Helms as a
racist and a segregationist.
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Gantt: Black Leaders Should
Take Public Stance on Campaign
By CASH MICHAELS
A stafter for The Carolinian _
CHARLOTTE - African-American
leaders across the state supporting -his
rival, Dr. Charlies Sanders, in the Demo
cratic U.S. Senate primary, should "have
the guts" to say they don't believe a
black man can bean Sen. Jesse Helms,
says Harvey Gantt.
In an exclusive interview last Friday
with The Carolinian at his architectural
Firm's offices, Gantt, 53, expressed both
suprise and anger at growing reports that
noted black leaders, including Benjamin
S. Ruffin of R.J. Reynolds, Rev. John
Mendez of Emmanuel Baptist Church in
Winston-Salem, and businessman Mar
ion "Rex" Harris of Fayetteville, among
others, are either leaning toward or
actively backing Sanders, because they
feel a whUe-Deroocra^has a better
chance to unseat Helms, the four tenn
Republican incumbent.
"My suprise comes only when 1 hear
that folks are doubting whether I can \\in
on the basis of my race That is some
thing we didn't hear in 1990,'' Gantt
said, referring to his close loss to Helms
six years ago
"Here, following a vigorous and
competitive campaign in I99<), lor folks
to speculate Six years later, four years
from the 21st century, that we could not
win simply because of the color of ?>ui
skin, it really makes me angry, and Sur
prised."
Gantt went on to say he doesn't
believe that sentiment is shared by
"average black families" across the state,
however, adding. "1 think it borders on
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Ministers Vow To Clean Up Block
By MAURICE CROCKER
Community News Reporter
A new center to help ex-offenders, drug
addicts, and alcoholics obtain the skills necessary
to function in society began serving the commu
nity last week with a clothing drive and food give
away.
More than a thousand Winston-Salem resi
dents participated in the kick-off celebration of the
new facility, Reception Center.
The idea for the center began when two minis
ters saw the need and joined forces to help less
fortunate people in the community.
"The center is an outlet for other outreach
ministries to operate," said Elder Rip Wilkins,
founder of Outreach Ministries.
Wilkins founded Outreach Ministries six years
ago and is prepared to expand it to its fullest
potential.
Wilkins joined with Bishop T.R. Rice of
Mercy Seat Holiness Church to develop the idea
for Reception Center.
"What you have here is two different min
istries coming together as one in the Reception
center," Wilkins said.
The center is located at a house on the corner
of 18th and Liberty Streets, which was donated by
Jerry Gilmore of Gilmore's Funeral Home.
"Before we got the house, it was just here for
people to go in and out and do whatever they
wanted," Rice said.
Rice said one of his expectations for the cen
ter is to clean up the block.
"When we say clean up the block, that doesn't
mean we're going to bust the drug dealers, or the
alcoholics, but we are going to show them there is
another way," Wilkins said.
. According to Wilkins and Rice, the center is
for youth, adults, and homeless people. The
agenda for the center is to offer meals, clothing,
job training, placement, counseling for substance
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Residents from Winston-Salem, along with Elder Rip Wilkins, participate in the kick-off celebration of Recep
tion Center.
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Elizabeth Vah, an employee at Mechanics and Farmers Bank,
escaped from war-torn Liberia in November 1992.
Liberian Native Had to Flee for Life in Monrovia
A Elizabeth Vah's family members were killed in war
B> JOHN HINTON
Chronicle Senior Staff Writer
Elizabeth Vah had to run for her
life four years ago in Monrovia,
Liberia's war-torn capital.
"The plane was moving, and I
was running to catch it," Vah said.
"The airport was being shelled. The
war was at its height."
Vah, a community customer ser
vice representative at Mechanics &
Farmers Bank in Winston-Salem, is
referring to a seven-year civil war in
Liberia.
Last week, mobs broke down
the gates at the United Nations head
quarters, and looters jumped walls at
the U.S. Embassy compound in
Monrovia.
The fighting has claimed more
than 150,000 lives and left half the
country's 2.3 million residents
homeless.
Vah said her father, grandfather
and a brother were killed by rebel
factions in Monrovia in 1992. Her
father, Joseph L. Barchue Sr., was a
judge, and her grandfather, Samuel
G. Bowe, was a commissioner.
She decided to leave the country
in November 1992 after rebels
threatened to kill her when she was
pregnant with her third child, Vah
said.
"They burst down our door and
put a gun to my chest," Vah said. "A
soldier cocked the weapon, but it
didn't fire for some reason. They ran
out, but they threatened to come
back and kill me."
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