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Teen takes dog bite to save kids A Amar King called a hero by friends,family BV JOHN HIV! ON Chronn lc Senior Stall Writer Amur K. King prevented two local chil dren from being bitten by a neighborhood dog last week. "My friends and family are calling me a hero," King said. "I'm not a hero. 1 classify myself as a person being in the right place at tlie right time." King, a freshman at Piney Woods Country Life School in Piney Woods, Miss., was walking with his friend, Tamica Robinson and her two children, along the 2(X) block of West 23rd Street last Wednesday, when the incident occurred, according to police reports. A female German shepherd tried to bite Robinson's children, but King stood between the dog and the children. He was bitten once in the buttocks by the dog, whose name is "Lady." "The dog had jumped over the fence into someone else's, yard." King said. "I was blocking the dog until they got out of the yard. The children were hollering, but I wasn't going to let the dog get them." Lt. Tim Samuels of the Winston-Salem Poliee Department said the dog was untied, and its attack was unprovoked. Robinson told police that the dog had attacked other people in the neighborhood. King said he suffered a minor wound as the the dog dug her teeth into him. He has beeui treated with antibiotics, but the wound is still sore, he said. "I don't sit on my side a lot," King said. Please see TEES 11A Amur kin% was bitten by a Herman shepherd while protecting 1arnica Robinson v children. Winstnn-Salem Chronicle 1 205 9 6DA01 FORSYTH CNTY PUB LIB 6 60Rw?5Th st # 3 The Choice for African-American News and Information winston-salem nc 27101-2755 THURSDAY, June 6,1996 Dedicated to the Memory of Clarence E. Nottingham: 1903-1995 vol. xxii, no. 43 mM ski mwmmm I ASJjrtVt*.rja W; ' Ha Michael L. Clements, left, assistant administrator at Reynolds Health Center, recently discussed procedures with the staff at the facility. Michael L. Clements works through the system to improve health care. Clements works system to improve RHC service B\ JOHN HINTON Chronicle .Senlor Staff Writer When Michael L. Clements was a teenager living in Bronx, N.Y.. he accompanied his mother to a local community health center, where they waited five hours to see a doctor. "If 1 eould do something to make it a little better for folks. 1 should do it." said Clements, the assistant administrator at the Reynolds Health Center. "I had to learn how to do that in a sys tem." _ ;f Clements deals with complaints from patients at Reynolds Health Center, which include gripes about long waits to see their physicians. The average waiting time for a patient to see a doctor is from 40 minutes to two hours at RHC, Clements said. "There are times when a patient may wait longer." he added. "There are times when physicians are delayed." Please see CLEMESTS A11 West principal refuses to allow black students to wear Kente cloth APeoples equates Kente cloth with KKK regalia B\ JOHN HINTON ? - Chronicle Senior Staff Writer I ! III' The principal of West Forsyth High School has refused to allow a black student to wear a Kente cloth with her robe at the school's graduation ceremony on Frida\ June 7 This is the type ?f Kente cloth Principal Jerry W. Peoples Hawanya Miller wanted to wear at said. "If we allowed her to wear her gradation. those colors (the Kente fabric). and they offended someone, then a student could wear a KKK outfit. We would have to allow that too. wouldn't we'.'" Hawanya B. Miller. 18. a senior at the school, has requested to wear the Kente cloth during graduation exercises. Miller, who will attend Spelman College in Atlanta in August, said she has a right as a citizen to wear the Kente cloth. "1 pay taxes, and 1 vote." Miller said. "1 should be allowed to cel ebrate my heritage on a da> of greatness." Peoples disagrees. "We don't allow anything on the white robes." People said. "It is a uniform procedure. It hasn't been a problem." West Forsyth will hold its graduation ceremony at 7:30 p.m. in the West Stadium on its campus ot't-of Lew isv ille-Clemmons Road. More than 350 students, including 30 African Americans, are expected to graduate. Sue Carson, a spokesperson for the Winston-Salem/Forsyth Count) Schools, said there is no swemwide policy regarding the wearing of accessories with graduation robes. Fach school sets its policy regarding its graduation ceremonies. James C. Miller. Haw ansa's lather, said her daughter and several other black students should be allowed to wear the Kente cloth. "I don't think it would make much ot a difference." Miller said. "It's a pretty cloth. It's nothing disrespectful. It's no swatiska or rebel flag." Her mother. Jo Dow ell. said she was proud of Haw any a for seek ing permission to wear the cloth. "This is her African-American heritage." Dow ell ^aid. "She should be able to wear the cloth." Hawanya Miller and her father recently asked Peoples if she could wear the Kente cloth at the ceremony. "He did not giye me a solid aiisuei." the elder Miller said. "He Please see HA.SI II \ CLASSIFIEDS B-13 OPINION a-12 ENTERTAINMENT B-10 OBITUARIES B-12 SPORTS B-1 This Week in Mack History June 10, /<V5*/ James Augustine Heal}, first black American Roman Catholic bishop, ordained a priest in Notre Dame Cathedral. Paris Agnew scholar prepares for Harvard By MAI RICH CROCKER Community News Reporter With the appearance of shiny caps and gowns, pomp and circumstance, and teary eyes, it's evident graduation is near. Thousands of high school graduates will walk across a stage and embark upon a new journey. For most graduates, the journey will include at least two more years of school. Some will seek employment, and others will join the armed forces. For LaTonya Wright the journey will seem especially challenging, as she prepares to enter Harvard University, in Camhridge. Mass. Wright, 18, from W inston-Salem, is a recent graduate of Salem Aeademv. "I don't think it's hit me yet; it mav hit me when I have to leave," Wright said. Wright has been a student at the Aeademv since the ninth grade. While at the Aeademv. Wright excelled in academics. Although she says being accepted to Harvard is one of her greatest accomplishments, Wrights has received numerous awards for her academic achievements. Please see A (tSE W All kathy Agnew and her husband. Kay Jr.. present Ixitnnya Wright *ith the 1996 Ray Agnew Schorlarship, Wright's mother. Carlxn. looks on. FOR SUBSCRIPTIONS CALL (910) 722-8624 ?
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