Sports Week
Bobcats score 32
runs in two wins
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Crossing 52 is
happening on court
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Community
Famous dance troupe
shows kids good time
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Depression among
kids fairly common
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CDC begins
push for
city money
BY SHERIDAN HILL
THE CHRONICLE : _
At Monday night's meeting of the Board of Aldermen,
representatives from the East Winston Community Devel
opment Corp. made an impromptu plea for financial sup
port for the long-proposed cafeteria in East Winston. The
Audit to be
conducted,
official says
BY SHERIDAN HILL
THE CHRONICLE
An audit is forthcoming in
response to questions about
how the East Winston Commu
nity Development Corp. spent a
$250,000 federal grant desig
nated for
the East
W i n's t on
cafeteria
project.
Robert
M o t t .
deputy
director of
communi
ty servic
es. told the Grace
The
Chronicle that when the Health
and Human Services' audit
agency first attempted to sched
ule a visit to audit the CDC's
expenditure of the grant. Grace
had a medical condition that
kept him out of the office, for
several weeks.
In a Jan. 20 memo to the
CDC, the audit agency outlined
areas of.review and asked for
supporting documents. The goal
of the visit was to determine if
the funds were spent for the
purpose intended. According to
Mott. the agency rescheduled
and visited the CDC on Feb. 11.
Mott said that during the
second week of May. HHS audi
"tors gave the CDC a document
of their findings and asking for
the CDC's response. He said an
organization is usually given
30-45 days to respond.
Set' Audit on A 0
(_DL has been rais
ing funds for the
project since 1998
when it established
David Capital, a for
profit corporation,
and sold stock to
local churches and
individuals.
Alderman Joyce
lyn Johnson asked
the board to make an
exception to the
evening's approved
agenda and allow 15
minutes for a busi
ness presentation by
the CDC.
Wanda Merschel,
who heads the
board's Finance
Committee, voiced
her concerns that by
giving a presentation,
the CDC was bypass
ing the Finance Com
mittee.
She agreed to
give the CDC time -
"as long as their pres
entation is not meet
ing a requirement for
?other funding and
does not qualify nor
imply their qualifica
tion for funding."
Four representa
tives spoke on behalf
of the CDC and the
cafeteria project:
Bonnie Moorman,
who was elected as
the chair of David
Capital in a stock
holder meeting last
October; Steve Sex
ton. a general con
tractor ' recently
brought on board;
James Grace, the
director of the CDC;
and Gregory Chin, a
consultant.
Grace told the
aldermen that the
CDC wanted to
appear before the
board; "not to get
Sa'CDC on A10
Resurrected
East Area Council
is revised, has
a new mission
BY T. KEVIN WALKER
THE CHRONICLE
Talk concerning the
demise of the East Area
Council has apparently
been premature. *
The council, an arm of
the Greater Winston-Salem
Chamber of Commerce, is
back in action after a brief
and controversial hiatus.
"We are now going to
be more philanthropic in
our service." Mose Belton
Brown, president of the
council, said of the EAC
revised focus. Thefoouncil
had been largely a business
networking vehicle for
minority businesspeople.
The council held monthly
breakfast meetings where
invited guests spoke on
Members of Delta Fine Arts accept a check from the SAC steering committee.
various business topics-and
business owners fellow
shipped.
Chamber President
Gayle Anderson replaced
the council last December,
citing a lack of attendance
at the council's breakfast
meetings and the council's
inability to recruit new
blood into the chamber.
The East Area Counci
was to become the Minori
ty Business Council with ;
Sec EAC on Al
Parents decry testing system
Photo by Kevin Walker
Daniella Cook of Common Sense addresses parents.
BY T. KEVIN WALKER
THE CHRONICLE
Rick Poston said his daughter
was so nervous about taking the
end-of-grade test that she broke
out in hives. She was even more
distraught, Poston said, when she
learned she tailed the test by a
single point.
Stories like Boston's were
common last week during a
forum featuring a representative
from the Common Sense Foun
dation Fair Testing Project, a
Raleigh-based public policy
think tank that touts itself as a
champion for the "locked out and
left out." About a dozen parents
attended the two-hour forum at
Emmanuel Baptist Church. They
shared their children's negative
experiences with the state's high
ly praised accountability testing
program, which financially com
pensates schools and districts
whose students perform well on
standardized tests.
Although the state has
received kudos from outsiders for
its strict accountability standards,
many say the testing system has
gotten out of hand.
"1 left my classroom a little
bit tired and frustrated with the
testing system in North Caroli
na," said Daniella Cook, a former
teacher who left the profession to
head Common Sense's fair test
ing wing.
Cook said that since the
state's accountability program,
called ABC's, compensates
See ABCS on A4
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Commencement Day
Photo courtesy of Wake Forest University
Former U.S. Surgeon General David Satcher, left, receives an honorary degree Monday from Wake
Forest University President Thomas Hearn during the school's commencement. Satcher was
appointed surgeon general during the Clinton administration. He decided to leave the post late
last year. Satcher was one of five people who received honorary degrees at the graduation.
Among them were Sen. John McCain, this year's commencement speaker, and Marian Wright Cdel
man, who delivered the pre-commencement baccalaureate address. To read more about Cdelman's
speech, see AS.
Chronicle
family
mourns
FROM THE CHRONICLE STAFF
This has been the toughest
issue of the newspapeq for The
Chronicle staff to produce. Our
hearts have been heavy, our tears
have been many and our thoughts
have been far away from the con
fines of our office and the news
paper
business.
Fri
day, a
member
of The
Chronicle
family
passed
away
unexpect- [I
edly. Vic- Warren
t o r i a
Davis Warren, or Vickie as we
called her. was only 4(). She had
worked at The Chronicle for
sevan years, most recently as the
.circulation clerk. She was also a
valuable part of our front office
staff. Many of you may have ?
encountered her as you brought in
news articles. Her big smile was
her trademark as was her ability
to make everyone feel at ease.
Of course none of us knew
last Thursday that it would be the
last time we saw her famous
smile and heard her trademark
laugh. We have found some sol
ace this week in recalling that
smile and laugh, but there will
See Warren on A4
Student has not missed
day of school in 13 years
BY COURTNEY GAILLARD
THE CHRONICLE
Juana (pronounced Je-nay)
Richardson hasn't missed a day
of school in 13 years. Neither
cold nor flu nor even a family
death has kept Richardson from
being absent a single day at
Rural Hall Elementary School.
Mineral Springs Middle School
or North Forsyth High School,
where she is a senior.
And no. Richardson has yet
to come down with a case of the
chickenpox. unlike her brother
and sister did when they were
much younger. Richardson will
graduate from North Forsyth
tomorrow and is headed for
N.C. State University in the tlill
to study biology.
If you ask Richardson how
she feels about accomplishing
this unbelievable milestone, you
will find that she is amazed as
See Student < n A9
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Photo by Courtney Gail Ian)
Juana Richardson stands in a hallway at
North Forsyth High School.
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