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~ _ Chronicle - scents Celebrating 30 yeahs of Community Journalism VoI.xxxi No.3 ?????? _______ _ ^ ' Players sign letters with area colleges - See Page B1 Dentists provide free care for kids - See Page AJ Author Roby to be in city this week - See Page A10 Carver brings the world to gym -.'tee Page CI Photo by Jaeson Pin Chieo Caldwell is the WSSU athletic director. The Chico Way Caldwell seeing results from workout program he created BY COURTNEY GAILLARD THE CHRONICLE ? People around the country are losing inches off their waistlines thanks to a workout system developed by Winston-Salem State University's very own Percy "Chico" Caldwell. The WSSU 'We have people losing as much as three inches after doing (ChicoMetrics) twice.' - Chico Caldwell athletics director created a muscle toning regimen more than a decade ago that he calls ChicoMetrics. It is already a huge hit in Iowa, where Cald well created the program. Caldwell says Iowans have lost 500,000 inches in five years as a result of ChicoMet rics. 'i actually worked my way through graduate school making money doing (ChicoMetrics)," said Caldwell, who has been at WSSU for four years. Before coming to Winston-Salem, Cald well was the director of planning and develop ment for the Iowa Valley Community College Sec Caldwell on AS A Century of Life i mm Photos by Kevin Walker Rev. Sandra L. Thigpen hands a mayoral proclamation to Mary Roberts. . 'Ma Mary 9 strong at 100 BY FELECIA P. MCMILLAN. PH D THE CHRONICLE Church Mother Mary Dobins Roberts sat at the center of the altar prayer line on Sunday morn ing. The members sang the Mora vian birthday hymn "With Your Presence, Lord" to honor Roberts and the 14 church members who have February birthdays. Ma Roberts, as she is affec tionately called, wore a pink tiger lily on the lapel of her brown tweed pantsuit and a white rose on the brim of her black velvet hat. She received a bouquet of pink roses from the members of St. Philips Moravian Church dur ing a reception held in her honor. Conrad Mitchell escorted her to the fellowship hall. Ma Mary was honored as a virtuous woman who cared not only for her household but for others as well. According to her friends. Ma Mary's kitchen was well stocked Sec Roberts on A4 Mary Dobins Roberts acknowledges the applause from the congregation at St. Philips Moravian Church with a big smile. Proven fighter battles cancer Fund-raiser planned for Sunday for Mischi Binkley BY T. KEVIN WALKER THE CHRONICLE News that Elizabeth Edwards - the wife of former Democratic vice presidential John Edwards - had breast cancer hit close to home for M i sc h i Binkley. Late lasi year, BinkUy at about the same time that Edwards announced her condition. Bink ley had discovered a lump in her breast. She had it checked out and learned she had cancer in late November. Binkley, a local die-hard Democrat and activist, is upbeat, vowing to fight cancer just as she has fought for social justice and peace in years past. - "I am tackling it just like any other thing I would tackle," she .said last week. "1 am going to be OK. I am determined. I am not just going to sit here and feel sorry for myself." Binkley is state leader of the Progressive Democrats and always the first person to grab a picket sign or to organize a protest trip to Washington. In 2002. when all indications point ed to a war in Iraq, Binkley was one of the people who helped found Community for Peace. The antiwar group has held sev eral vigils, marches and forums aimed at promoting peace. See Binkley on A5 Task force tries to curb stop arm violations BY T. KEVIN WALKER THE CHRONICLE The school system is revitalizing a task force that was credited five years ago with reducing the number of school bus stop arm violations. The task force was created in 1999. soon alter a driver sped past a T>us stop arm and killed Dalton Fol well, an ele mentary stu dent. Folwell was the son of state Rep. Dale Folwell, who was then a member of the city county school board. The task force, which was made up of representatives, from local law enforcement agencies and various school system divisions, met regularly to devise ways to reduce the number of stop arm vio lations. The task force members' efforts paid off. There were 88 violations in Forsyth Photo b> Kevin Walker School system transportation director Rhon da Fleming makes a point during a meet ing of the task force organ ized to reduce the number of school bus stop arm viola tions in the county. County the year ftiat Folwell was killed. In 2000, that number was down to 57. In recent years, the task force has not been as active, and stop arm violations have increased. Last year, for example, there were 98 violations. A local student was even hit by a car in October. Though the student's injuries were not fatal. Rhonda Fleming, the school system's transportation manager, said she wanted to reactivate the task force because her heart can't take another tragedy. "I can't go through (a child being hit). \ Sec Task Fore? on A10 Play will serve as NBTF tribute to Ossie Davis BYT. KEVIN WALKER THE CHRONICLE Larry Leon Hamlin said this year's National Black Theatre Festival will pay special tribute to Ossie Davis, the leg endary actor of stage and screen. Davis. 87. died Friday in Miami Beach, where he was making a film. Davis and his wife of Yhore than 50 years. Ruby Dee. have been fre quent guests at the bienmal Nation al Black Theatre Festival. The cou ple attended the very first festival in 1989. Davis and Dee served as co chairs of the 1991 festival. Davis Davit last attended in Z(K) 1.. . Hamlin said people like Davis made it possible for there to be such a thing as a National Black Theatre Festi val. "All of us in black theater are standing on his shoul ders. We have a responsibility to ensure that black theater See Ofsie (hi A1 1 In Grateful Memory of Our Founders, Florrie S. Russell and Carl H. Russell, Sr. "Growing and Still Dedicated to Serve You Better^ 3R us sell ffl unreal JCmne Wishes to Thank Everyone For Their Support 822 Carl Russell Ave. (at Martin l.uthcr King Dr.) Winston-Salem, NC 27101 (33ft) 722-3459 Pa* (336) 631-8268 rusfTiome@ bellsouth .net
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