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15 ' 110807 1 5-DIGIT 27101 NORTH CAROLINA ROOM FORSYTH CTY PUBLIC LIBRARY 660 W 5TH ST WIVSTON SALEM NC 27101-2755 -M Vol. XXXIII No. 13 linston THURSDAY, November 30, 2006 Duo making big plays for Calvary Baptist -See Page B1 Parkland has high hopes for new center See Page A3 Radio legend Anita Dean is honored by friends .-See Page H12 75 cents , c\ebr^ m V <? Service with a Smile WSSU leader, family pitch-in at soup kitchen BY TODD LUCK THE CHRONICI.i: "Enter to learn, depart to serve." That's one of the mottos of Winston-Salem State University. Interim Chancellor Michelle Howard- Vital is often seen illus trating the learning half of that motto by speaking at various events related to the university's academic mission. The day before Thanksgiving, she exem plified the serving part of the motto by volunteering with her family at the Samaritan Soup Kitchen on Patterson Avenue. WSSU students arc required to perform 15 hours of commu nity service at places like Samaritan Ministries. Other organizations that many WSSU students volunteer at include the Boys and Girls Club, Second Harvest Food Bank and the American Red Cross among oth ers. Howard- Vital hopes to get more students involved by set ting an example with her own^ community service "It helps put our lives in per See Howard-Vital on Alt Toddlu Michelle Howard-Vital with her husband, Geri, and their daughter , Madelyn. Racial inequities is the focus of agency 's work BY LAY LA FARMER THE CHRONICLE u It is no secret that racial disparities exist, in nearly every facet of our society. Over the years, several efforts have been made by the state to end Disproportionate Minority Contact (D\1C). Now, with the help of grant funding from the U.S. Department of Justice's Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, North Carolina's Governor's Crime. Commission is getting serious about making some changes that will positively affect nega tive minority statistics. In 2003, Forsyth County was one of four counties chosen by the Governor's Crime Commission to receive grant money to be used in the exploration of DMC, which is defined Wilson as an overreprcsentation of minority youths in the juvenile justice system Forsyth Futures, a nonprofit, community-oriented initiative, has taken the lead on the project in Forsyth County. Along with Guilford, New Hanover and Union counties, Forsyth was chosen because its geographic location, minority youth pop ulation and resource availability were con ducive to the data collecting process. For three years now, Forsyth Futures has worked to find the major contributing fac tors to the problem by examining statistics and gathering data in the areas where DMC is most evident. The agency has chiefly focused on schools, the juvenile justice sys tem and the Department of Mental Health. On Tuesday, Nov. 21, Forsyth Futures hosted a Community Briefing at Winston Salem State University's Anderson Center to highlight the data that has been collected thus far. "The issue of disproportionality and the issue of inequities in systems that affect our children has been probably a 30-year inter est of our organization," commented Jean Sec DMC on A 9 Food Bank 'tree' getting lots of attention at the mall BY TODD LUCK THE CHRONICLE It's early morning at Hanes Mall and a holiday tree is being built. Soon the $tores will be open and, just a rew feet away, children will be getting their pictures taken with Santa Claus under a giant Christmas tree. But the holiday tree under construction is a bit different than the Christmas tree beside it; because it's made almost entirely of food and will stand as a reminder of those in need this holiday season. The Giving Tree was built last Tuesday Blancato morning by employees and volunteers from The Second Harvest Food Bank of Northwest N.C. and Prodigals Community. The 12-foot tree is made from 15, 000 pounds of Lowes Foods products and is a part of Lowes' Friends Feeding Friends Food Drive, which aims to collect 650,000 pounds of food for Second Harvest. The tree will be inside the mall in front of Bclk until the end of the year, when all the food will be donated to Second Harvest. Mark Uren, the local Second Harvest's director of operations, said Lowes and the food bank are looking to attract attention to the issue of hunger "They wanted to do something in a public forum, so (he mall was natural to get a lot of people (during) the hol idays," said Uren. The local Second Harvest collects and distributes food and grocery prod ucts to 380 partner agencies providing 650 programs that feed the needy in 18 counties across northwest North Carolina. This is the twelfth year of Friends Feeding Friends and the third year of the Giving Tree. Collection bins will be available through See Tree on A5 Plato by Todd Luck Volunteers assemble the Giving Tree last week. Photo I j\la l annct Sylvia Oberle speaks at this week's dedication service. Center honors Oberle's late son BY LAY LA FARMER THE CHRONICLE Sylvia Oberle's world was rocked when her son, .Andrew Lane, died tragically- in a car accident early last year. Lane was a junior at Appalachian Slate University when he passed away, just begin- [~ ning his young life But, u n b e - | knownst I to any one I at the I time, he I h a d | already made his Andrew Lane mark on his native Winston Salem. Obcrlc is the founding exec utive director of Winston-Salem State University's Center for Community Safety (CCS). She has since moved on to Habitat for Humanity of Forsyth County, where she serves as executive director. Oberle has maintained strong tics to the center she helped to create, and the CCS staff recognized her and Lane in a special dedication ceremony Tuesday, when the CCS community meeting room was named in Lane's honor "Through working with her over the years and really coming to help shape this work that we have created through the center, I just knew that she was a per son full of passion and commit ment to what she was doing in terms of helping the community be a better place," said Alvin Atkinson, interim director and former deputy director of the CCS. "As we worked through that period (alter Lane's death), it was obvious that Sylvia really had to find herself again because she had lost Andrew, her only son. We wanted to acknowledge our appreciation for what she had done through giving life to the center." The ceremony included the reading of a paper Lane had written as a child, entitled "My Utopia." a story that has taken on very special meaning for Oberle and others in the year since her son's passing. "... Everyone will have a job. No one will live in poverty. Everyone will be treated with respect," line's 'My Utopia' See CCS on A? In Grateful Memory of Our Founders, Florrie S. Russell and Carl H. Russell, Sr. "Growing and Still Dedicated to Serve You Better " jRugggjl ffimtgral iMnmc Wishes to Thank Everyone For Their Support 822 C arl Kussoll Ave. (at Martin l.uther King Dr.) Winston-Salem, NC 27101 (336) 722-3459 Fax (334S) 631-8268 i usfliome<@ iN'llsoiith.not
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