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Winston-Salem State University will toon
form ? community development corporation
with a $377,000 graat awarded from the
Department of Housing and Urban
Development (HUD). Winston Salem State
University (WSSU) was among 17 hiatorical
ly black colleges and universities awarded up
to $400,000 each from the $6.5 million HUD
gnat for community rsvitalizfttion and eco
nomic development.
The university'a intentions were
announced in a Sept. 24 press conference,
held in Washington, D C. WSSU Chancellor
Alvin Schesnider wu among the representa
tives from the 17 colleges and universities in
attendance.
WSSU had contracted a formal partner
ship with the East Winston Community
Development Corporation under former
chancellor Cleon F. Thompson. But recently
the partnership between the two entities has
seemed to be in name only.
The rift may have begun when Dr.
Constance Johnson, a WSSU professor,
resigned from her post as chair person of the
East Winston CDCs board of directors.
Johnson left her position in Utc spring; with
her departure, communication bet wen the
two organizations broke down.
Relations were further strained when a
national organization that administars
grants to CDCs distanced itself from the
East Winston CDC.
Structured Employment/Economic
Development Corporation (Seedco) footers
partnerships between community develop
ment corporations and historically black col
leges and universities. The organization
assists universities in rebuilding their sur
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The heckler and the heckled meet as friends
|AP Photo/Will Counts)
Blizaboth Bekford, loft, ono of tho Utrt* Hock Nino who intogratod Control High Sthool In 1937, talk* with Haxol
Mattory In front of tho rchool In LHHo Mock, Ark., Monday, Sopt. 32, 1997. MaBBory {whoao noma wob than HomoI
Bryan) wob a Btvdont protOBtmr eaptvrod In photOB hoekling Bekford aftor aho wob tvrnod away from tho Bthool by
tho Arkanaaa National Guard Sopt. 4, 1937.
Little Rock reunion bridges racial divide
&y PEGGY HARRIS
Associated Press Writer
; LITTLE ROCK (AP) ? Elizabeth
Eckfoid made her way through a crowd
of angry whites after Arkansas
National Guardsmen turned her and
eight other black students away from
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Central High School.
Hazel Bryan was in the crowd that
day. Her face grimaced in hate, she
shouted at Eckford, who walked on,
clutching her books, her emotions hid
den behind dark glasses.
That moment?40 years ago ? was
captured by Will Counts, a photograph
er then for the Arkansas Democrat,
now the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette.
His photo immortalized Eckford as a
symbol of the civil rights movement
and Bryan's young face as a symbol of
See REUNION on AS
Aldermen primaries
yield unusual results
By bridget evarts for reelection.
The Chhonicle Stiff writer Only 18 percent of the South Ward's regis
tered voters are African-American; about 1
Low turnout is rarely a surprise during percent of those voted in
primary elections, ihis year, tne surprise
came in the form of some of the alderman
ward results.
Perhaps one of the toughest upsets in the
Sept. 23 primary was Democrat Inez Davis'
victory over incumbent Lynne Harpe. Harpe,
who has served as Southwest Ward alderman
for 16 years, lost to Davis by a margin of
about 20 votes.
Davis chalked up her victory to the sup
port of family and friends, and added that
sfie felt many unaffiliated voters and
Republicans backed her campaign.
"I think many people in this ward know
that I care very much for neighborhoods, and
for this city in general," said Davis, a long
time community activist and mathematics
teacher at the North Carolina School of the
Arts. She thanked Harpe for her years of ser
vice.
Harpe was the only incumbent to lose in
this year's primary, but some were surprised
by former Alderman Frank L. Frye's loss to
Democrat B.G. Hauser. Hauser will face
Vernon Robinson for the South Ward seat in
November.
Robinson took the South Ward
Republican race easily, beating Jere Dailey
with almost 69 percent of the votes.
Robinson was the favored candidate of
Alderman J. Hugh Wright, who did not Tile
Inax
Davis
Lynn*
Harp*
Varnofi
Robinson
the primary election.
However, Robinson noted,
the South Ward is still one
of Winston's more diverse
areas: blue collar workers
and young professionals, as
| well as black, white and
Hispanic residents, live
together in the South
Ward.
"As the South Ward
goes, so goes the nation,"
said Robinson. "The South
Ward is a very nice snap
shot of America." He said
his campaign volunteers
reflected the diversity of the
ward ? some Democrats
worked for him, though
they couldn't vote in his pri
mary.
Robinson said he looked
forward to public debates
with his opponent, and is
confident that he has
tapped the sentiment of the
South Ward.
"I think that thinking
Democrats will join togeth
er ALOCRMCN on A3
LER rebuilds Northeast step by step
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By BRIDGET EVARTS
17JJE ?HKONiCLt Staff Writer
?' Liberty East Redevelopment Inc. (LER)
has-a mission to take back northeast
Winston, one piece at a time. And now, with
the city board of aldermen's blessings, LER
will help tackle one of the most problematic
developments in the area.
Fairchild Hills is a 245-unit property
located off 25th Street. Only 140 of the units
are currently rented out; most stand empty
and boarded-up.
Last week, the board of aldermen
approved a proposal presented by LER and
a Triangle-area developer to acquire and
redevelop Fairchild Hills. This will be the
second time the northeast Winston group
and developer Gordon Blackwell have
paired up on such a project.
Several years ago* Blackwell's Regency
Development Association approached the
city about acquiring 121 units of rental
property on Cleveland Avenue. The apart
ments were dilapidated and crime-ridden,
and city officials had resigned themselves to
handing the property over to the housing
authority.
Blackwell offered to rehabilitate the units
at about a fourth of what the city had esti
mated, had it done so on its own.
"I was very happy when they came
along," said Monica Lett of the city's
Housing and Neighborhood Development
Office. "They went far beyond anybody's
expectations, in terms of the quality of work
done"
Those apartments are now known as
Burke Village named after Northeast Ward
Alderman Vivian Burke. Last year. Burke
Village received the Housing North
See FAIRCHILD on A3
The UK board of directors, Willie B. Conrad Sr., Nonty Carpenter, Minnio
Thomas and Naomi Jones, stand in front of Fairchild Hills Apartments. UK has
partnered wfth a Raleigh developer to rehabilitate the properties.
Bledsoe says Project Homestead signed bond
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? By BRIDGET EVARTS
The CheonkU Staff Writer
, .1 Project Homestead in Oreensboro ha* become
involved in another limousine venture, said the
nonprofit housing provider's former business
associate.
,.? Dale Bledsoe, owner of All Stretched Out
Limousines on West Market Street, said that he
, attempted to get a bond on a 1995 Mercedes lim
I ousine currently in his possession, and found that
' t Project Homestead's president had already signed
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a bond for the limo's co-owner, Lorrance
Lawson. The bond is with Mays Insurance on
East Wbndover in Greensboro.
The bond, said Bledsoe, was for $86,000. "If
the car gets damaged, Project Homestead has to
pay $86,000," Bledsoe explained. He said that
insurance agent Linda Ballance told him Project
Homestead's financial statement backed the
bond, signed Aug. 29.
Bledsoe said that if the Rev. Michael King, the
housing organization's president, signed a bond
Set BOND on A12
HAWS may have missed Drug Elimination Grant
By BRIDGET EVARTS
The Chronicle Staff Writer
A local Department of
Housing and Urban Development
(HUD) official said that several
housing authorities may have
missed an opportunity to fight
drugs and crime in public housing.
Jesse Kome, public affairs offi
cer for the North Carolina HUD
office, said that an unusually high
number of authorities did not
apply for the Drug Elimination
Grant or missed the deadline this
year. The Housing Authority of
Winston-Salem (HAWS) may have
been one of those authorities.
The national HUD office allo
cated $259 million last year for the
grant. Out of 978 applicants, 650
authorities received funding. The
grant can be used to increase
police presence, toughen tenant
screening and eviction practices,
fund security improvements
create youth programs, in order tos
reduce drug activity and crime in
public housing.
Applications had to be deliv
ered to the state HUD office in
Greensboro Aug. 8 before 3 p.m. A
source close to the local housing
authority said that the application
for the grant, which would have
provided about $500,000 funding
for HAWS, had not been submit
ted on time. That office also,
.administers grants to HAWS and
sj
See GRANT o\A7
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