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TrKS ?HRO?":LE 75 cents CELEBRATING 30 VI vKS Of COMMUNITY J?l R> from this library Vol. XXXI No. 1 ? ? ? Glenn downs Parkland in game - See Page HI Roseboro picked city's top worker - See Page A3 Family loses home in fire - See Page A9 Kids get holiday grub at hotel -See Page CI Uty launches major cleanup BY COURTNEY GAILLARD THE CHRONICLE City officials announced yesterday plans to clean up the city, one property at a time with 4 new initiative that will join various local agencies with neighborhoods. Residents frustrated with trash, debris and other aban floned junk in their commu n i t i e s can nomi nate a property f o r Opera A n i - mals, unkempt grass and dilapidated structures also fall under nuisance proper ties. Property owners with a history of health, city and safety code violations who have been the subject of pre vious code enforcement are prime candidates for Opera tion Impact. A team of inspectors will visit each property and set a deadline for the owner to comply with city codes or risk court action and fines. As many as 20 properties will be handled at _ a time under Operation Impact to ensure thjit each property - be it residential, commercial or environmental - is cleaned up to meet code. Because no single city department can address the various issues that surround prcJblem properties. Opera tion Impact will bring togeth er several city agencies such as Housing and Neighbor hood Services. Inspections, the Winston-Salem Police Department, the Winston Salem Fire Department and Sanitation as well as the Sec Cleanup on A10 Star Studded Photos by Charlie Pfuff Talk show trailblazer Oprah Winfrey was in town last week for a benefit concert to aid the work of the Maya Angelou Center on Minority Health at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center. Winfrey and Angelou hosted the concert, which featured emerg ing gospel singer Joshua Nelson , at St. Peter's World Outreach Center. The event sold out. The Angelou Center is designed to fight illness and disease. Results of NAACP election are contested State looking into allegations BYT KEVIN WALKER I HI CHRONICLE The state NAACP is inves tigating elections held by the w i n ston- s a lem chapter last ttfeek to determine if proper guidelines were followed. The investigation stems from a complaint filed by a local woman who had sought to become 1 president of the local chapter. JoAnne Allen said she filed the complaint because a number of NAACP rules and proce dures were broken or simply not followed during the elec tions, which took place on Nov. 23. She alleges that peo ple who were not eligible to vote in the elections were Allen allowed to cast votes anyway. Allen also claims that provi sional ballots, which are given to voters whose membership or eligibility has to be validat ed, were given improperly. After elections ended on the night of Nov. 23, Stephen Hairston. chapter president, claimed a "landslide" victory. Hairston. who was seeking his second term as president, said he got more than two times the votes that Allen received. Hairston said the members of his leadership team - which includes vice presidents, a treasurer and secretary - were also winners. But Allen feels that the results Sec NAACP .>11 AS File Photo Stephen Hairston watches a young man play pool at the new NAACP Enrichment Center. Insurance firm settles race-based price case SPECIAL TO THI CHRONK I I N.C. Insurance Commis sioner Jim Long has announced a settlement with Columbian Mutual Life Insurance Co. regarding a race based premium case. Allegations in the case included? charges that the company discrimi nated against minorities in the selling of industrial life and monthly debit ordinary products from ?$58 to 1986. The settlement resulted in about 1,900 N.C. policyholders being eligible to receive adjustments. 1 The adjustments range from aflnual premium reductions, dividend adjustments or addi tjwral term benefits. The com Long pany will provide similar adjustments for about 139.0(H) policies nationwide. "This is not a huge case, but it still could have important benefits for some North Carolini ans." Long said. ' We have one problem, though: Not all of the ? [~K4^-vW!<i?rii are known. We are hoping to get the word out about this case so anyone who pur chased this type of oolicv from Columbian Mutual Life can come forward." Anyone wilh questions about eligibility for adjust ments should call the company at 1-888-830-9372. As part of the settlement agreement. the company denied any wrongdoing. Foundation gaining local support Photo* b> Kevin Walker Katherine Holland (right) thanks students for taking part in Monday's program. BYT. KEVIN WALKER THI.l HKOMCI.H ' In the battle against AIDS in Africa - where the enemy is the axis of intolerance, misinformation, scarce resources - Dr. Paul Wangai is on the ironi lines, ne founded New Life Home in Kenya a decade ago to nurture theJiu tlest victims of the battle. New Life, a refuge for infants with HIV who Wangai have been abandoned by their parents, has saved more than 6(X) babies over the years. "Every one of (those babies) were meant to die," Wangai said. More than 80 percent of the babies that have come to New Life have been adopted. But the diligent work New Sec Amani on ATO In Grateful Memory of Our Founders, Florrie S. Russell and Carl H. 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