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icote is a survivor,
years ago, she was diagnosed
cancer. Bacote had her surgery
time when people didn’t talk
t cancer. “It wasn’t until I retired
ed about it,” she said. “It was
that you kept to yourself; you
about it.”
gs have changed over the last 20
Bacote is talking about breast
in effort to get other African-
women to get the testing they
their lives.
started My Sistahs Keeper in
he group is an interfaith breast
stry. Breast cancer survivors and
spread the word about the dis-
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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 5, 2
will rely on the faith community
ease and how to detect it.
This Sunday the group is uniting with
black churches in the city to observe Oct. 8
as a day of prayer and breast cancer aware
ness.
My Sistahs Keeper will provide free
mammograms for eligible women that day in
the first Million Mamms Crusade. This
event will be held at the Ephesus Communi
ty and Educational Center, 1225 N. Cleve
land Ave.
There also will be a breast self-exam
training class for teens and adults, and clin
ical breast exams will be performed by
health care professionals.
Bacote said any female who is developing
breasts should attend the event.
“Young girls need to come to the class,”
she said. “We need to catch them early.”
One in eight African-American women
will develop breast cancer, but many
African-American women don’t see breast
cancer as a problem in the black community,
Bacote said. That is why the Million
Mamms Crusade was organized.
“Some women say it is God’s will (for
them to have breast cancer). There is lack of
insurance for some women to get mammo
grams, or they think no one in my family
had breast cancer so it is not my problem,”
she said.
But statistics from the American Cancer
Association indicate that 75 percent of the
women who are diagnosed with breast can
cer do not have the disease in their family
history.
“As you get older, the risk increases,”
See Million Mamms on A4
Local breast cancer survivors gather to show their support for the
Million Mamms Crusade,
Belle of the Ball
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Tio’s Who of Winston--.
bed elbows at the Main
Library last Friday
They gathered to pay
a woman who has in
touched each of them,
known throughout the
ler sweet smile, steady
nd strong resolve,
aise and attention were
ew for Irene Hairston,
in the minds of many
jecome one of the
)f this city through her
ommunity service.
;she is a person who has
i for libraries,” said
ounty Library Director
rinkle-Hamlin. “I con-
jewel.”
on retired this summer
erson of the Forsyth
Library board of
iving up a position she
early a quarter-century,
ng appointed to the
1976, Hairston was
the board to serve as
)n the following year
unanimously selected
in up until her retire-
Grant hopes to aid two
communities in closing
decades-long quarrel
BY JOY SCOTT
THE CHRONICLE
Photos by Don Dwiggms
Irene Hairston is overcome with joy as friends and family members honor her. County Commissioner
David Plyler, right, and Nat Irvin II, who served as emcee, share in the moment.
s, colleagues and family
spoke much about
passion for libraries
sire to make them “the
university.” Hairston
sed a trustee meeting
went toe-to-toe with
junty officials to ensure
bounty’s libraries were
funded adequately.
“She (transformed) our
library from a good library to one
of the best in the Southeast,” said
Ben Ruffin, chairman of the Uni
versity of North Carolina system
and a longtime friend of Hair
ston’s.
Under Hairston’s leadership,
the county’s library system grew
by eight locations and the Main
Branch Library downtown
underwent many facelifts. Sprin
kle Harrilin, who is the first
African American to serve as
director of the county library,
said Hairston also made sure that
the library was diverse - “not
only in terms of the people who
work there, but also the materials
there and the services offered.”
But Hairston’s city involve
ment did not begin, and will not
end, at the library. Hairston has
See Hairston on A2
Jim Jordan, a library staffer, leads Hairston in a dance to the song
"Wind Beneath My Wings."
North Forsyth High School opened this year with what Princi
pal Ron Jessup called “the best (opening) we’ve ever had.” In addi
tion to pencils and books, students came prepared with mediation
skills to solve their problems.
A $5,000 ECHO Fund grant is helping the students in their bat
tle to end a longtime feud, with Meeting Common Ground, a peer
mediation program, implemented in the school.
With the program, Jessup said, the students have found “they
have more in common than dislikes.”
The ECHO Fund was established in 1999 to celebrate the Win
ston-Salem Foundation’s 80th anniversary and increase social cap
ital. In that year alone, the foundation awarded almost $12 million
in grants, including 93 discretionary grants totaling $1.5 million.
According to Donna Rader, vice president of grants and pro-
See Grant on A4
College Foundatioii wants
to be one-stop source for
college financing info
BY PAUL COLLINS
THE CHRONICLE
Representatives of the College Foundation of North Carolina are trying to
spread the word about the services it provides. The College Foundation provides
information about college financial planning to all North Carolinians free of
charge.
College Foundation provides only finance-related information about col
leges and does not recommend specific colleges.
Some other facts:
• Launched on May 4, 2000, the Foundation’s comprehensive Web site has
received more than 2 million hits, while the call center, staffed with financial aid
planning specialists, has received more than 24,000 calls from families needing
information on paying for college.
• The most requested information by users of the College Foundation’s Web
site; information on need and merit based scholarships and grants, financial aid
searches, the College Vision Fund (a savings plan) and student loan programs.
• College Foundation of North Carolina is a service of the state of North
Carolina, provided by the N.C. State Education Assistance Authority
(NCSEAA) and College Foundation Inc. (CFI). NCSEAA is an agency of the
state, established in 1965 to administer “grants, loans, work-study or other
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NAACP recruits voters at young voters
BYT. KEVIN WALKER
THE CHRONICLE
the
rolling
ensure
f voter registration bus is designed to get attention even as
way from state ta state.
With the much-hyped
November election just
around the corner,
national NAACP is
out all the stops to
that the African-American
vote is loud and exuberant.
The civil rights organiza
tion’s spiffy voter registration
bus made its way onto the
campus of Winston-Salem
State University Monday
afternoon for a two-hour
campaign aimed at getting
the youngest voters registered
and geared up for November.
The eye-catching bus -
which is decorated with the
organization’s logo and mes
sages like “Lift every voice”
and “We ain’t goin’ back’
-IS
on a 50-city tour, stopping at
college campuses, shopping
centers, community centers,
churches and in actual neigh
borhoods. The bus is one of
two NAACP has on the road
currently.
The “Get Your Vote On”
bus is making its way across
the land as well, mostly stop
ping on college campuses.
The bus that stopped at
WSSU was dedicated to Earl
Shinhoster, a well-known
NAACP official who died
earlier this year in a car crash.
The NAACP’s stepped-up
efforts this campaign season
are in tribute to Shinhoster,
who was a strong advocate of
voter registration and educa
tion.
“So far we have gotten a
lot of people coming out and
a lot of excitement,” said
Philesha Gough, a
spokesperson for the
NAACP’s Earl T. Shinhoster
Voter Empowerment Cam
paign.
Gough said the official
kick-off for the bus tour was
Sept. 12 in Atlanta; but unof
ficially, she said, the tour
began Sept. 8 in Selma, Ala.,
where the empowerment
campaign staged several
voter activities to get locals
pumped up about the local
mayor’s race. In that race,
James Perkins Jr., an African
American, made national
headlines for defeating the
longtime incumbent.
Gough said she believes
the efforts of the NAACP
paid off big the day of the
mayoral election.
“I think we were a con
tributing factor in his victo-
Photos by Kevin Walker
Linda Sutton, right, helps Winston-Salem State
senior Cherevita McCaskill register for the upcom
ing election.
See Voters on A10
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