to begin Dec. 26
Dec. 26 - UMOJA (unity)
Sponsor: Winston-Salem Urban
League
Location: The Urban League, 20J
W. 5th St.
Hme: 7p.m.
Dec. 27 - KUJICHAGULIA (self
- determination)
Sponsors: Jack and Jill of America
-Inc., Winston-Salem Chapter; North
Carolina Black Repertory Company
Theatre Guild
Location: Arts Council Theatrt
Lobby, 610 Coliseum Dr.
Time: 7 p.m.
Dec. 28 - UJIMA (collective work
and responsibility)
Sponsor: Phi Beta Sigma Frater
nity, Alpha Alpha Gamma Sigma Chap
ter
Location: to be announced
Time: 7 p.m.
Dec. 29 - UJAMAA (cooperative
economics)
Sponsor: William C. Sims Recre
ation Center/ Learning Center, Commu
nity Volunteers
Location: Sims Recreation Center,
J230Alder St
Time: 6:30 p.m.
Dec. ,30 - NIA (purpose)
Sponsors: East Winston Develop
ment
Location: to be announced
Ttae: 7 p.m.
Dec. 31 - KUUMBA (creativity)
Sponsors: Friends of the East Win
ston Library, Winston Lake Family
YMCA, The Arts Council of Winston
Salem and Forsyth County
Location: Winston Lake Family
YMCA, Water Works Road
Time: 7 p.m.
January 1 - IMANI (faith)
Sponsors: Emmanuel Baptist
Church, St. Benedict 's Catholic Church.
Kemet School of Know ledge, Dellahrvok
Presbyterian Church, St. Paul United
Methodist Church
Location: St. Benedict's Catholic
Church, 1624 E. I2th St.
Time: 6:30 p.m.
Kwanzaa Week is being sponsored
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Gillette Fair and Karen Kopfhelp Spencer Reader identify items from the school's A frimn trunk
Karen Kopf's kindergarten
class celebrates Kwanzaa Day
When Kdten Kopf's kindergartners went to
centers on Weu^esday, they had many selections
to choose fromSs^vome of them went to the hair
braiding center, soWto the Kente cloth center,
some to the home/family center and others to the
craft center. Kopf said, "When students get
actively involved with any lesson, they remember
it."
Her assistant, Willette Fair, worked in the craft
center, where the students used red, black and
green paper to create a mat for the kinara candle
holder.
They also used paper to design their own
Kente cloth drapes and crowns to wear. She said,
"The children are so excited about the music, the
drums and the food. They will not soon forget
this."
Felecia McMillan, a parent, prepared a West
African dish called Jollof Rice for the students.
Kopf prepared baked, spiced bananas for dessert.
McMillan also shared African stories with
them and led them in a parade around the school
as they sang a Kwanzaa harvest song. They wore
their Kente cloth drapes and crowns as they
danced for the elders. They danced for Kopf and
Fair, and they danced for Principal Vincent Parker
and Assistant Principal Diane Hooker.
The children also modeled African fashions
for their classmates. The longest line was at the
braiding center. The boys wanted a long braid in
the back of their heads, and the young ladies
wanted a plait in front.
City of Winston-Salem names
Alexander employee of the year
The City of Winston-Salem's employee of
the year for 1996 is Marlene Alexander, com
munity service adviser in the Housing and
Neighborhood Services Department. Alexander,
41, has been a city employee for 18 years.
Known for going beyond the call of duty, she
won the admiration, respect and thanks of the
people she serves and her co-workers in the
Housing and Neighborhood Services Depart
ment.
Her nominators agree that of her many
accomplishments the one that may stand at the
top is the "renewed life" she made possible for a
98-year-old woman who "was living in
deplorable, hazardous and unsanitary condi
tions: and whose family "took no interest in her
living conditions and welfare."
To help the woman. Alexander gave Social
Services information on her condition; with
assistance from the Workforce Development
Department, Alexander did the initial cleaning
of the woman's house, so that other agencies
could come in and help; obtained a home-care
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Three HAWS Voices
Adams shoulders
HAWS transition
By WILLIAM H TURNER Ph D
Special to the Chronicle
D.D. Adams. D.D. ? who
always appears tickled with
enthusiasm and the vibrancy of
this season's hottest toy ?
would not talk about what the
initials stand for.
D.D. lives with her mother
in a neighborhood where many
street names have a Civil War
sound ? like Appomattox and
Harper's Ferry Road. 4'Wit
ston-Salem is an interesting
town, ain't it, but I love it ?
born and raised," she says.
Clearly her family's caretaker.
Adams is the gatekeeper of a of
siblings, relatives and relations
who constantly come and go,
teamed to look after their
bedridden mother, a stroke vie
HAW S alter Milli^an
I'drt III oj 4 parts
tim.
The phone continually
rings. D.D., 42, is widely
known about in the state's
Democratic Party circles as "a
I).I). Adams. HAWS Personnel
Committee chairman
people person it ever there v\as
one." The ever-buoyant Adams
became a b s o I u te 1 > serious
when she began to trace the last
six years of her involvements
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Forbes: Rolling Hills resource
By WILLIAM H TURNER Ph D
Specia 1_ithe Chronicle
Suzie Forbes said she was
"most willing" to speak with the
Chronicle about the HAWS
transition from present director
Art Milligan. "? As long as
you can meet me over at Triad
Blood Center," she said. Her
busy schedule could not be bro
ken; because she had to donate
blood. "I'm having an operation
next week " she said, with the
enthusiasm and optimism of a
woman to whom steadfastness
through adversity is a hallmark.
"First things first," she
declared. "Art Milligan was a
Godsend to Rolling Hills Apart
ments." Forbes, 58, president of
the Residents' Council, has
lived in Rolling Hills for the
Suzie Forbes, Resident Council
president, Rolling Hills Apts.
past seven years. "Before
HAWS took over, it was a mess
around here " She describes her
1 10-unit apartment complex
now with guarded excitement
"The\ have worked with lis
on little, hut very important
things, like lights in the com
mon areas, inside stuff like
plumbing and carpeting. And
now. almost exerx unit has been
remodeled." Before Milligan
took over, she noted, mainte
nance was non-existent from
that "new York crowd that
owned the apartments."
"We are now getting a sense
of pride, because the trash is
cleaned up regularly. We ha\e
constant patrols from the city
police. The HAWS securitx
forces are out here too. and we
have taken a big bite out of the
druc-related crime around here.
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Queen of Piedmont Circle
By WILLIAM H TURNER Ph D
Special to the Chronicle
Queen Black, 10 years the
Residents Council president ol
the public housing community
known as Piedmont Circle, ha*
the self-assured bearing of a per
son who's been around the Circle
a few times. "Twenty-seven
years, in fact," she asserts with
pride, in her raspy voice.
Black is "Miss Queen" tc
her neighbors, young and old
Kenyatta Sykes. 16, standing on
a corner, said, "You don't mcs*
with Miss Queen, and we sho'
don't let nobody mess with her!"
She rattles off her duties: "1
attend the meetings of the
HAWS board, and 1 hold m\
monthly meetings here in the
Circle. Mainly. I fight for .my
people over here. I get to go to
different cities sometimes to look
at what different public housing
residents do in different places. 1
even went to Tampa, where Art
is going. He's got a big job to do
down there. We have it good
here, by comparison, because of
him. I'll miss him like a son who
takes care of me."
"Winston-Salem provides
good public housing, for the
most part. We don't have these
prison-like fences and enclose
ments like a lot of places. No
guard gates. Not a lot of
boarded-up units, and all that
unsightly graffiti."
- Qu een Black does not bite
her tongue when it comes to
advocating public housing resi
dents' rights. She is. straightfor
ward when she "thinks that half
Queen Black. Resident Council
president. Piedmont ( irele
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