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Hickman
on his
future
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pushes
storm
runoff'
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reunion
is well
attended
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dine in
style for
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Ifeachers,
officers
prepped
on safety
Each school now
equipped with
emergency kit
BY COURTNEY GAILLARD
THE CHRONICLE
Local educators and law
enforcement officials learned
ways to make N.C. schools
safer last week during a sem
inar titled "Threat Assess
ment in Schools." Members
of the U.S. Secret Service
were on hand to share tech
niques that they say will bet
ter prepare schools to handle
or prevent acts of violence
from occurring.
N.C. Attorney General
Roy Cooper was also on hand
tor tne
event,
which
was held
Aug. 27
at the
W e s t
Campus
o f
Forsyth
Techni
Cooper c a '
Commu
nity College.
"Public education is so
important to our future, and
we can't have good public
education unless we know
that our schools are safe.
We've seen the rash of school
shootings across the country,
and we want to do everything
we can to prevent that type of
tragedy from happening in
North Carolina." Cooper said.
School safety is of impor
tance to Cooper professional
ly and personally. As the par
ent of two school-aged chil
dren, Cooper said he too wor
ries about his children's safe
ty when he sends them off to
school each day.
Holding a Critical Inci
dence Response Kit at the
podium. Cooper said we owe
it to our teachers, students
and parents to be prepared for
the good and the had. The
kits, which were distributed
to every school in the state,
include evacuation routes,
blueprints of school build
ings. master keys to doors.
See Sofety on AS
Photo by Bruce Chapman
Julian "Kitty' Williams stands inside the garage at Williams 76, which he has owned and operated since 1944.
Life and Liberty
... * *
LUL s new board,
president promising
noticeable change
BY T. KEVIN WALKER
THE CHRONICLE
Williams 76 has been pro
viding tune-ups and oil ehanges
since '44.
Through ail those decades.
Julian "Kilty" Williams, the
station's owner, has enjoyed a
steady stream of clients, even
when mega-chain repair shops
started to pop up in the 1980s.
While Williams 76 has thrived,
the same cannot he said about
the street it calls home.
Williams remembers open
ing his shop on a Liberty Street
that many considered the jewel
of the city. He was neighbors
with family-owned restaurants,
clothiers and beauty shops
Most of those businesses have
long since vanished, and today
Liberty is a skeleton of what it
once was.
"It ifias just deteriorated
quite a bit. It is still thriving in
ways, but it ain't like it
used to be." Williams said.
A rejuvenated Liberty Com
munity Development Corp is
vowing to breathe new life into
Liberty. The CDC has a new
board of directors and new
board chairman. They were on
hand last week for a news con
ference to unveil a plan of
attack to revitalize Liberty.
"I feel good about this," Jim
Shaw, president and board
chairman of CDC, said about
the plans for Liberty. "We are
going to move with this proj-.
?V
ect.
The Liberty CDC was
formed in 1999 by the city to
come up with ways to give the
area an economic boost. Since
20(H. the CDC has been funded
with dollars from the city,
Sec Liberty on A9
Jim Shaw holds
street signs that
will be placed
along Liberty
Street. The bricks
on the sign recog
nize George
Black, a famous
local African -
American brick
maker who made
the bricks that
built many city
buildings. The Lib
erty Street CDC
hopes to use the
late brick maker
as a symbol of
black entrepre
neurial spirit.
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Odessa Carelock is surrounded by her three surviving children. Carelock turned 102 Tuesday.
Locals to
resurrect
King's
speeches
Four-month project
aims to remind young
people of King's vision
CHRONICLE STAFF REPORT
To commemorate the 40th
anniversary of Martin Luther
King Jr.'s landmark "I Have a
Dream"
speech,
local
groups
are
organiz
ing a
series of
events to
spotlight
issues
that Wilson
King
stood for such as improved
racial relations and social
action.
"The Trumpet of Con
science" project will be pre
sented over the next four
months at local universities
and religious facilities. The
project -
which is
being
coordi
nated by
members
of the
Winston
Salem
Minis
ters Con- L
ICICIIIC.
Commu- Mendez
nity for
Peace and several other organ
izations - will feature local
leaders reading famous King
speeches that deal with topics
such as racism, poverty and
war.
"We believe that both the
content and the moral vision
of these speeches are as rele
vant today as they were in
1967, and this motivated the
organizers to bring these lec
tures to the public." Mischi
Binkley of Community for
Peace said in a statement.
The goal 'of the project,
organizers said, is to build a
bridge through time by keep
ing alive King's ideas for a
new generation. Organizers
also hope to inspire younger
See King on A10
Family counts blessings
as matriarch turns 102
BYT. KEVIN WALKER
THE CHRONICLE
They just don't make them
like Odessa Hunter Carelock
anymore.
That was the consensus of
her family last weekend as
they came together to cele
brate the matriarch's 102nd
birthday by recalling good
times and praying for even
more.
Carelock actually turned
102 on Tuesday, but it has
become a family tradition to
celebrate Carelock's birthday
during the Labor Day weekend
so that family members front
places such as Monroe will
have more time to enjoy the
festivities.
Carelock. who is recuperat
ing from having a toe amputal
ed recently, rested comfortably
during much of the celebra
tion. She let family members
"She has four chil
dren who died while
she was having them.
She is living on some
body's time."
- Mary McManus,
b daughter
O
know that she was aware of the
stories being told by flashing a
big smile and directing her
bright eyes at certain people in
the room.
"We are ail blessed to have
her here for this long." said
Ada Starnes, who at 73 is
Carelock's oldest surviving
child. With the help of her
children. Lisa, Curtis and
Trudy. Ada Starnes has taken
care of her mother for the past
several years.
"She eante to visit me for a
week and that week never
ended." Starnes said. In all.
Carelock and her husband of
more than 50 years. William
Carelock. had 12 children.
Four of them died during
childbirth. She has outlived
her husband, who died in the
1970s, and all but three of her
children.
Mary McManus. one of
Carelock's surviving children.
Sec Carelock on A10