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Effort
afoot to
rename
library
Doctors donated
land used to build
East Winston site
BYT KEVIN WALKER
THE CHRONICLE
A proposal to rename the
East Winston Heritage
Library in honor of African
American doctors who donat
ed the
land for
t h e
facility
will
face lit
tle if
any
opposi
t i o n
when
t h e
Forsyth
Womble
County Board of County
Commissioners votes on the
issue early next month.
With the commissioners'
OK. the name of the library
branch would change to the
Jordan Malloy East Winston
Heritage Center. In 1953. Dr.
J.C. Jordan. Dr. H. Rembert
Malloy, and his father. Dr.
H.D. Malloy, donated the
land, along Seventh Street,
for the county's first "Negro"
Sec Library on A4
Locals
take sides
in debate
about pill
Agency says over the counter
morning after pill may lower
the county's infant mortality
BY COURTNEY GAILLARD
rHH CHRONICLE
The infant mortality rate in
Forsyth County, which contin
ues to be
one ot
the high
est in the
state,
could see
a dramat
ic decline
if the so
called
"morn
ing-after
pill" is
made
Nelson-Weaver
more readily available.
J. Nelson-Weaver, the direc
tor of the Forsyth County Infant
Mortality Coalition, said that the
pill is one of the best ways for
women to prevent unplanned
pregnancies and abortions.
"The biggest thing we can
do to help reduce infant mortali
ty is to help all women be
See Plan B on A9
Feeling the Kwanzaa Spirit
City will celebrate
Kwanzaa over
seven nights
again this year
BY T. KEVIN WALKER
THE CHRONICLE
One only has to walk into
Dana Suggs' Trade Street
shop to see how the popular
ity of Kwanzaa has grown by
leaps and bounds since it was
created more than a quarter
century ago. Suggs' Body &
Soul stocks a wide assort
ment of Kwanzaa-inspired
items, everything from
unique jewelry to tree orna
ments.
A native of New York,
Suggs has been celebrating
Kwanzaa for most of her life.
Today, she is part of a plan
ning committee for the city's
annual Kwanzaa week cele
bration.
"I look at (Kwanzaa) as
something really very sim
ple," she said. "It is seven
days of positive thinking and
promoting principles we
should all carry throughout
the year."
See Kwanzaa on A5
Dana Suggs assembles a Kwanzaa kinara to display in her Trade Street store, Body A Soul.
Look, Mom, No Sleigh
( Photo b> Kevin Walker
Matthew Peacock Jr. and several of his classmates at Whitaker Elementary School
found a unique way to travel the route during the recent Christmas Parade - they
peddled unicycles. Peacock, a fifth grader, was not ready to put away his unicy
cle after the parade ended. Here, he takes a few more laps at the parade's stop
ping point near Brookstone Avenue.
Photos by Courtney Gail lard
Barry Partridge works with young students.
Training Champs
Martial arts instructor unites people
through Tae Kwon Do
BY COURTNEY GA1LLARD ;
THE CHRONICLE ;
I
Tae Kwon Do is more than a {
sport arid business for Barry j
Partridge, owner and master
instructor of United Tae Kwon
Do Academy on Jonestown
Road. It is a way of life. The
evidence is in the medallion he
wears around his neck that bears
the academy's logo.
"Tae Kwon Do helps in so
many aspects of life. It teaches
you discipline, respect, commit
ment. concentration and coordi
nation," said Partridge. His
facility offers beginner and
advanced Tae Kwon Do train
ing, cardio kick boxing and self
defense to people of all ages.
His students range in age from 4
tt?'55. "The act of martial arts
teaches a person to combine
their mind, body and spirit."
Partridge is a fifth-degree
master instructor of Tae Kwon '
Do. which means he has been
practicing this form of martial
irts for a long time - nearly 30
/ears. The three-time U.S.
tational Tae Kwon Do champi
in has traveled the world com
teting in tournaments and is
consid
ered to
be the
top black
T a e
K w o n
D o
instruc
tor in the
country.
Partridge
h a s
trained
Partridge
nany nationally and intema
ionally ranked athletes.
The Raleigh native, who is
>ne of 10 children, dreamed as a
youngster of becoming a profes
;ional football player. That
lream shifted once a military
nan introduced him to the
!.000-year-old art of kicking
See Partridge on A9
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