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THURSDAY, AUGUST 3, 2
Vol.XXVI No. 51
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U has high hopes
programs
they are ready to carve out a
name for the MPT program in
the Triad. The physical therapy
department’s five-member facul
ty are planning to bulk up their
training to better teach the pro
gram, and a new anatomist from
Howard University has just been
nabbed by the department.
“Fm proud that the first mas
ter’s program at this university
comes out of health sciences,”
said Sylvia Flack, interim dean
of the school.
Flack said it was natural for
Winston-Salem State to choose
to go with physical therapy as its
first graduate program.
She recalled the physical ther
apy program’s beginnings in
1992.
The program came about
because of
what she
calls a com-
m u n i t y
effort. Both
hospitals
lobbied for
the program
as well as
influential
individuals
and commu
nity groups.
Physical
therapy has become one of the
university’s most popular pro
grams. Similar success is being
hoped for the master’s program.
“Physical therapy is very
much needed in this area,” said
Gloria Green, chair of the physi
cal therapy department.
Both Flack and Green
referred to a recent study that
showed that physical therapy
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Photos by Kevin Walker
Adolonio Hernandez and son Oscar work on lanterns. Below, members of Greensboro's Cambo
dian Temple prepare to perform traditional dances.
Lanterns of Hope
draws many colors
BY T. KEVIN V/ALKER
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Lanterns of Hope started a decade ago with a
mission of bringing city residents of all ages and
races together for an evening of multicultural
entertainment and exchange.
It’s a mission that many still strongly believe
in. More than 400 people showed up Saturday at
Salem Lake for Lanterns of Hope 2000.
The crowd was the largest ever for the event,
according to Jon Sundell, coordinator and
founder of the event.
“The most exciting thing for me has been see
ing such diverse crowds the last few years,” he
said.
Sundell also said Saturday’s crowd was more
diverse than ever before. It included a large num-
See Lanterns on A10
Blacks being
left out of
downtown
redevelopment,
protesters say
BY CHERIS HODGES
THE CHRONICLE
Hasan
With change, there is bound
to be conflict. There is a pocket
of conflict surrounding the
downtown redevelopment pro
ject in Winston-Salem.
Ghali Hasan, president of
the Minori-
ty Business
Association
and owner
of a dispos
al company,
said the city
of Winston-
Salem is try
ing to stop
African-
American
business
owners from making any money.
“With all the redevelopment
going on downtown, it is being
done without African-American
representation.” he said. “When
the building is completed, there
won’t be any black ownership of
businesses.”
Not only that, he said, but
blacks will not have been partic
ipants in the construction of the
new downtown district.
Hasan was once a part of the
construction team. His compa
ny was involved in the hauling
of debris. But his permit was
taken away.
According to city officials,
his permit was taken away
because the site where he was
See Protest on A4
A Legacy of Tragedy
jil Volfe poses with a young RhShawn one Easter.
Son never recovered
after mothers
death, family says
BY T. KEVIN WALKER AND SAM DAVIS
THE CHRONICLE
A young life snuffed out at the
tender age of 18. Four young chil
dren left motherless. Two families
and a community left in mourning,
wondering just how the pieces of
the puzzle fit together that set off a
chain of events that brought two
lives to a tragic end June 3;
The hard facts are important to
the authorities, but for family and
friends they seem irrelevant, even
now, exactly two months after this
tragedy unfolded. What did matter
to both families was the agony, grief
and sense of loss that they felt when
they learned the two had died. Even
now family and friends are strug
gling to deal with their loss.
The end came quickly and
unexpectedly for both. Authorities
say that two bullets were fired
quickly in succession from a 38-cal-
iber pistol. Although no one knows
the exact details, authorities believe
that RhShawn Wolfe, an 18-year-
old high school student, waited out
side the apartment of 36-year-old
Deitra King before gaining entry.
Upon entering the apartment,
which is in the LaDera Crest
(Fairchild) community in East Win
ston, Wolfe and King, the mother
of four young children, went into a
room together. After a period of
time, which some have described as
a lovers quarrel, Wolfe took a pistol
and shot King to death. He then
turned the gun on himself and fired
a single fatal bullet into his head.
According to authorities, both died
instantly.
Friends and colleagues
described Wolfe as a vibrant, well-
mannered, but troubled teen-ager
who was just looking to fit in with
his surroundings. Others said Wolfe
was engulfed by a hostile environ
ment that manipulated him and
ultimately led to his demise.
Although he was never in any seri
ous trouble with the law, Wolfe was
well-known in the Fairchild/25th
Street area.
That helped earn him the
friendship of several street-level
drug dealers. Not long after these
friendships began, Wolfe began
working with and alongside them.
His career as such didn’t last long.
His penchant for fast money
helped to short-circuit his athletic
career, in which he took much
pride. But friends say he was trying
to find a way to get his high school
career back on track.
“The last time I saw him was on
Wednesday (May 31), when he
asked me if I would wash his
clothes so that he would be ready
for school the following Monday,”
said Norma Jean Wolfe, his grand
mother. “I never saw him alive
again.”
Friends say Wolfe talked about
attending summer school at LIFT
Academy to make up several class
es so that he would be eligible to
play football in the fall. Although
his attendance at school had
, become erratic in the final months
of his life, Wolfe came to school
enough to remain on the active roll.
His final trip to the school came
three days before his death when he
See Wolfe on A10
jiders attend community credit union’s official opening
BY CHERIS HODGES
THE CHRONICLE
Photos by Cheris Hodges
! ^oft cuts the ribbon as leaders from the city's business
communities watch.
Victo^ Masonic Mutual Credit Union
and Truliant Federal Credit Union opened
the Community Credit Union Center Mon
day in 5-Star Supermarket, on Waughtown
Street in the King Shopping Center, to offer
financial service to a community that was in
need.
Political leaders on the national, state and
local levels and community residents attended
the grand opening of the center.
“The new center helps add to the re-emer-
gence of the southeastern Winston-Salem
community,” said Alvin Atkinson, Victory
Masonic president and chief operating offi
cer. “We will serve members who might not be
able to meet the minimum balance require
ments of other financial institutions or pay
the fee of check cashing outlets and payday
loan stores.”
. According to Marcus Schaefer, president
and CEO of Truliant, the process for this
partnership started two years ago.
“We were aware that there were some of
these payday loan stores coming into the area,
which was a concern to us. We originally had
our headquarters on Waughtown (Street). We
were concerned that this community was not
being served by financial services,” he said.
Schaefer said his company felt an obliga
tion to have a presence in the community.
“We wanted to establish a branch our
selves here, but we were prohibited at the time
because of a dispute we had with our
bankers,” he added.
But Victory Masonic is a community
chartered credit union and can serve any per-
See Credit Union on A9
Watt gets a brief lesson on banking from Mitzi Hig
gins of Victory Masonic.
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