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Dems seek to end GOP board control
Republicans have
long called the
shots on Board
of Education
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BY T.KEVIN WALKER
THE CHRONICLE
The Forsyth County
Democratic Party is confident this
election year that it can weaken
Republican control of the city
county School Board.
Republicans have long called
the shots on the board. Seven of
the nine members are
Republicans. The two Democrats
are also the board's only African
Americans. Democrats Geneva
Brown and Victor Johnson have
for years served District 1 , which
is largely African- American.
Democrats over the years have
tried, and ultimately failed, to win
one, two or all three of the School
Board's At-Large seats, which are
decided by every voter in the
county. Democrats have also
come up short in District 2, which
has four seats that are decided by
suburban voters.
. Three of the four Democrats
fighting for a place on the board in
the November election, dftd the
first day of school, Aug. 25, to
point out what they say are major
faults with the current
Republican-dominated board.
They - along with Forsyth County
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Phoio by Kevin Walker
School board member Geneva Brown speaks at last week's news conference. Behind her are three School Board candidates. To
her left is Democratic Party Chairman Harold Kennedy III.
Democratic Party Chairman
Harold Kennedy III and School
Board Member Brown - held a
noontime news conference in
Hanes Park- at a strategically
placed podium that put Wiley
Middle School over the shoulders
of each speaker.
"1 believe in diversity - peri
od," Brown said when asked.
before the news conference, about
her participation. She said the
board needs more political diver
sity. Her Republican colleagues,
she added, have made decisions
that she believes have not been
beneficial to students. She is still
angry about the redistricting plan
that the board passed a decade ago
? See Democrats on A5
Photo by Kevin Walker
Al Shaw Jr. places a bundle of clean clothes on a shelf.
Mr.
Clean
Young entrepreneur opens *
West End laundry service
BY T. KEVIN WALKER
THE CHRONICLE ,
It's a dirty, tedious job - so why should you have to do it?
That is part of the business philosophy of Al Shaw Jr. He
opened Pt^sonal Care's Downtown Laundry last week because he
believes that in today's stressful, competitive world, the last thing
people should have to worry about is whether they have clean
clothes to wear to the office the next day.
"We r a convenient service - fresh, good-smelling cloths,"
Shaw said Friday as he manned the phone at Personal Care's.
"We want to take some of the pressure off of busy people."
Located in the heart of the West End, Personal Care's offers
an array of laundry services - everything from dry-cleaning to an
office/home pickup service. But its bread and butter is its drop
off service, which lets customers drop off their dirty clothes one
day and pick up clean items the next day. Several coin-operated
laundromats in the city offer a drop-off service, but Shaw
believes his business is the only one in Winston-Salem which
focuses primarily on laundry drop-offs.
A city native who graduated frofn N.C. A&T State University
See Shaw on A13
Walk down Memory Lane
Photo by Kevin Walker
Hashim Saleh holds a picture of Ruth B. Lewis, a former principal of Kimberley
Park School. Saleh helped put together a program last week that featured sever
al people who graduated from Kimberley in the '30s and '40s. The alumni
encouraged current Kimberley Park teachers and talked about life at the old
school. To read more, see page AS of this week's Chronicle.
Davis
Garage
plans
unveiled
Developers want to
create transportation,
retail hub
BY T KEVIN WALKER
THE CHRONICLE
A plan to transform a his
toric area adjacent to Winston
Salem State University received
mostly positive reviews during a
community meeting Monday.
Excelsior ? "Street
Development Company, a
newiy
formed
partner
s h i p
between
business
men Bill
Cannon
and Chris
Fran tz ,
wants to
convert
Johnson
u a v 1 s
Garage into a transportation,
retail center with a nearby resi
dential/office building.. About a
dozen people gathered at lshi
Pentecostal Temple, which is a
few yards away from the garage,
to listen to the plans and to
examine architectural render
ings depicting what the finished
project may look like.
Davis Garage was once the
city's train station. Cannon and
Frantz want to revert it back to a
train station. Their plans are to
only restore the three-story
building, which has not been
altered over the years. The
building has been designated a
historic
property.
T he
restored
building
would not
only be a
place for
travelers.
Plans are
to have a
shopping
mall on
the top two floors with a mix of
major retailers, restaurants and
locally-owned shops. A multi
level residential, office building
would be built adjacent to the
train station on property that
currently stores junk cars.
The plans have evolved over
the last two years. Cannon cred
its former WSSU Chancellor
Harold Martin with helping to
cultivate the idea. There are
plans to have pedestrian bridges,
or perhaps, even a tunnel, to
connect the eastsrn side of the
campus with the new structure.
WSSU may also get some space
in the proposed
residential/office building.
Those in attendance were
mostly members of Ishi, which
"has been at its current location
for more than half a century. The
developers assured church
members and residents along
Excelsior Street that their prop
erties would not be affected by
the project.
"We want this to be some
thing that will be a win-win for
everyone here," Cannon said
after telling the crowd that their
property values would skyrocket
if the project comes to fruition.
In its heyday. Excelsior
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