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Thf ~ 1 35 110806 CAR-RT-LOT**C022 | ? Mf V NORTH CAROLINA ROOM Or FORSYTH CIV PUBLIC LIBRARY L H / WINSTON SALEM NC 27101-2755 A _JL B ) ? J Vol. XXXII No. 33 THURSDAY, APRIL IJ, 2006 ?% Lightening fast track star breaks records ?See Page B1 Sudan silent vigil held at NCSA ?See Page AS Heath new ki ' and a neu^^: gospel CD -See Page A3 ^2 75 cents :w Forum looks into Winston's * crystal ball Economic and racial diversity are in the city's future BY TODD LI CK THE CHRONICLE Mayor Allen Joines presented a glimpse of what the next 20 years may hold for Winston Salem in both the areas of economics and race relations during a forum held last Thursday at Joel Coliseum , The forum took place around the same time that a local doctor, Anthony Atala, made national news after successfully grow ing human bladders using the patients' own cells. There are hopes that Atala's success will revolutionize organ transplants by producing organs that can't be rejected b by the body. Joines' praised Atala's success as a boon for both health and the city. He said the city i? in talks. with Tengion, a com pany founded by Atala that will manufac ture facilities for growing organs. FTwto by Todd Luck The mayor Sat Irvin addresses the crowd. said technology will also play a critical rofe in Winston-Salem's future success. Joines said that plans are to unite local govern ment and businesses in an effort, to make the entire city wireless. Joines said the city will soon be looking at proposals to make that dream a real ity. Change in the years to come will come in all forms, said Nat Irvin, president of Future Focus 2020 and a Wake Forest professor. He gave a presentation on how the population is expected to grow and change in the next few decades. Future Focus 2020 works with groups and organizations to examine issues that are expected to effect urban communities by the year 2020. Irvin's presentation on the changing trends of the future show ed how change is happening faster now and how old concepts no longer applied. "One of the things we always pick up about Winston-Salem is how tied we are to the past and See Forum on A12 Taking a Stand i?s-~ ' Ph"1" b? Todd Luck The j^ffrPt^er a proposed Congressional immigration bill that has been raging across the country came to Winston-Salem Monday as thousands of people, mostly Hispanics, held a rally at Corptning Plaza. Waving American flags, the ralliers called for immigration measures that won't punish the nation's millions of immigrants. To read more about the event, see page Al3. 3 . Baskets of Love t Agency helps families of newborns with gifts BY SANDRA 1SLEY THE CHRONICLE Gift-giving has become more than a job for Phyllis Bonds. It's become a way to give back to the community. In 2005, she formed Outreach Alliance for Babies, Inc., a grassroots nonprofit organization that tends to the needs of newborn babies whose families can't provide essential items needed to care for them. 'The reason that this organization is so helpful is that every now and then there are people that don't have friends or families who can give them a baby shower," said Bonds. The idea for the nonprofit grew from Bonds' home-based business simplyelegant Xpressions, which sells gifts specially-created by Bonds. She was inspired to start Outreach Alliance for Babies after meeting a young couple in a grocery store parking lot. Bonds kept in touch with the couple and delivered a basket of gifts once their baby was born. Today, Outreach Alliance for Babies regular See Babies on A Photo by Sandra Itlcy Phyllis Bonds started Outreach Alliance for Babies last year. Black Demon Deacons return to their alma mater Photo by Kevin % Walker Wake Forest V niversity alumni Marcus Ingram, right, and Omari Simmons chat after a panel discussion. Alumni concerned about black enrollment, faculty numbers BY T KEVIN WALKER THE CHRONICLE After the reception and in between the continental breakfast and late-night dance, black graduates of Wake Forest University spent hours pondering ways to improve their alma mater. On the surface, it would appear that Wake, one of the nation's most pricey and elite schools, needs little help in the improvement catego ly. 1 he school is regularly named one of the best irt America and a degree from the school has been a passport Tor success for alumni. Black alumni argued during a weekend reunion that Wake's prestige and exalted reputation will be jeopardized if close atten tion is not paid to the campus' racial diversity "Life is multicul tural. The world is mul ticultural. This can't be a white, elitist school," said Chris Leak, a local investment banker who graduated from Wake in 1985. Leak and about 100 other African American alumni returned to the campus last weekend for the first-ever reunion of the AsvxiaHon ol Wake honest University ' Black Alumni Association members had stayed connected over the years via get togethers during homecoming Members thought the reunion would provide them with a more extended period to make connec tions and find ways to stayed con nected to their alma mater "We have alumni here from as far back as the '70s," said Paye Rodman, a '98 grad who serves as the association's vice presi dent. "Some of them have not stepped foot on this campus since they left." Some 2000 African American, mostly undergradu ates. have left the Wake Forest campus with degrees since 1960s, when the school first opened its doors to blacks. The 100 or so who show ed up for the reunion may seem paltry in com parison. Rodman said the atten dance was stellar compared to the SeeWFUon All Grateful Memory of Our Founders, Florrie S. Russell and "Growing and Still Dedicated to Serve You Better' Kussfll 3* ixnev&l ffijgtre Wishes Uf Thank Everyone For Their Support ! 822 Carl Russell Ave. (at Martin Luther Kins Dr.) Winston-Saletn, NC 27IOI (33c> 722-3459 Fa* (336) 631-8268 riMfhome@ bdUouthJMl
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