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* 1 StePageBU "jjity 1 Q J 33 072107 1 ????"CAR-RT-LOT PERIODICALS ? FORSYTH CNTY PUB LIB 660 W 5TH ST # 2 WINSTON SALEM NC 27101-2705 wwIN IvLC Vol. XXXII No. 44 THURSDAY, June 29, 2006 Hughes produces tine crop of runners ?See Page B Students learn science at institute * u/ Mother Peter's lavish B-Daf celebration HAWS tries to write new chapters Phoios by Kevin Walk* Earl B r a n bi e looks over plans for the single family homes thai will he built in the for m e r Kimberly Park. In the background are Kelly Trexler and K r i s t e n Short, the daughters of builder Sandra Anderson Groat. New homes coming to former Kimberly Park BY T KEVIN WALKER THE CHRONICLE Even more change is coming to the area once known _____ as the Kimberly Paik housing projects In the months to come, 82 single-family homes will sprout in the new Glenn Oaks com munity, which has taken on the look and feel of a downtown suburb thanks to a multi-million dollar HOPE VI revitali/ation that has been ongoing for the past six years. The Commissioners of the Housing Authority of Winston Salem have selected Greensboro based Sandra Anderson Builders and Habitat for Humanity of Forsyth County to construct and manage the sale of the homes. Sandra Anderson Builders, owned and operated by newly-elected Greensboro City Council Member Sandra Anderson Groat, will be respon sible for 76 of the homes; Habitat will handle the remaining six. HAWS officials made the announce ment last Thursday during a reception at the central office in ihe lormer Kimberly rark. rulton Meachem Jr., ihe interim execu tive director of the Housing' Authority, reminded the crowd w hat the community w as like just a few short years ago Sec HAWS on A9 Meachem Legal eagles flying higher through union Black-owned Atlanta firm and powerhouse Womble Carlyleform unique partnership by jaeson "rrr THE CHRONICLE There are not many minority owned law firms whose client list is made up, almost exclusively of big business and corporate clients. Adanta-based Molden Holley rergusson Thompson & Heard is one of the very few. "Just because you want your own firm, doesn't mean you have to take on per sonal injury cases or criminal defense, not to disparage that at all, but that's what you (usually) see", said Oni Holley, who along with Regina Molden, start ed the firm a little more than a year ago. The firm wasted no time before entering into a* partnership with Womble Carlyle Sandndge & Rice, one of the nation's fore most law firms with offices m Winston-Salem and throughout the Southeast. The local Womble Carlyle office welcomed Holley and Molden to Winston-Salem earlier this month. Under the deal, the firms remain separate entities. They will share client work, consult with each other about the individ ual needs of clients and work jointly to secure new clients. "We get to continue to do what we did before, and we have been all over with Womble lawyers, introducing our alliance team to businesses," said Maiden "They (Womblc) have really been on the fore front of diversity, and we were right away interested in forming the partnership " Womble Carlyle, which was founded in Winston-Salem more than 125 years ago, has been highly praised for its racial inclusion efforts In addition to its broad in-house minority recruitment retention programs, Womble Carlyle offers a popular scholarship internship program for minority students at law schools throughout the Caroliiias, Virginia, Georgia and Washington, D.C. "In order to solve legal prob lems in today's world - today's world being defined as a very diverse community - we need people from all kinds of back grounds and perspectives bring See Union on A9 Vaughn Photo by Ja?aon Pin Oni Holley, sealed, and Regina M olden pose in Womble Carlyle's Fourth Street offices. Service earns alumna award BY TODD LUCK THE CHRONICLE Forsyth Technical Community College recently honored a globe-trotting graduate with its 2006 Distinguished Alumni Award. Elizabeth Pack w as honored for her volunteerism, which has taken her all over the world. She graduated from Forsyth Tech in the early 1990's with an associate degree in adminis tration, marketing and retail ing; she is currently an advisor for an adult edu cation program a t uaraner- . " Webb University. She has taken several mis sionary trips with various church es. Missionary work has taken her everywhere from Eastern North Carolina, after Hurricane Floyd; to Honduras. Most recent ly she w ent to the tsunami-devas- * tated island of Sumatra in Eastern Asia. Pack said that her tnps to help people have affected her deeply "It changed my life forever. I'm ready to go somewhere else now. It's like a bug bites you and you just have to keep doing it," she said. It was March of last year ? when Pack went to the village of Stiwak Temah in Sumatra. A few months earlier, the now ? infamous tsunami had decimated South East Asia. Though cleanup efforts had begun, there was still massive amounts of debris when Pack arrived. Pack described the devasta tion of this once vacation destina tion as being so total that out of nearly 100 structures there, none were left standing Where once great hotels stood, only founda tions remained. The inhabitants of (he island w ere living in tents provided by the intemaUonal community. The team of volunteers she was a part of, cleared rubble, which she described as "hot, sweaty work" In the week they were there, they cleaned out the debns that w as clogging 40 wells in the village. She said w ells are See Pack on A5 Pack n Lights, Camera, Disaster Local firefighters, others take part in training video BY TODD LI CK THE CHRONICLE A fire truck with lights flashing and sirens screaming pulls up to Forsyth Technical Community College's Woodruff Center. Two firefighters get out and tell everyone milling around outside that there's an emergency situation and to get inside of the building immediately The bystanders do so. but within a few minutes, they're back outside and not because the emergency's over There real ly was none Director Gordon Massingham stopped the action because he wanted another take This w as the scene last Thursday as a film crew from the Emergency Film ( iroup grew close to completing a training Photo hy Todd L*k Firefighters Charlie Croy and Engineer Marvin James. movie about taking protective actions dur : ing disasters The film group shot the movie in the area for four days last week, using extras hired through a talent agency and personnel from city and county agen cies to demonstrate the proper emergency evacuation and sheltering procedures. According to Massuigham, the Darn ing movie will be about 30 minutes long. The film will be part of a training program that will include other materials such as a book and testing materials The matenal will be used mainly by firefighters, police officers and emergency management per sonnel. The title of the training program will be "Protective Actions: Evacuation Sheltering-in-Place. " The Emergency Film Group has been making training videos for nearly 20 years See Video on A9 Cheeeeese! Phtxo ty Kevin Wallur Five-year-old Jaden Sutton strikes a pose for the cam era during the recent J uneteenth F e s i v a I . Holding the child is his grandma, noted com m u n i t y activist Linda Sutton. H. Russell. "Growing and Still Dedicated to Serve You Better' Jiitserll iffutteral Hume ? i ? c Wishes to Thank Everyone For Their Support Cart Knmrll Ave. 1 (at Martin Luther King Dr.) Winston-Salem, NC 27IOI ? .vw) 722-3459 Fax (33?) 631-8268 rusfhomc- <S> helLsouth j*e? I
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