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Vol. XXXUI No. 31
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Recipe for Success
WSSU's top chef
claims another
cooking honor
BY TODD LUCK
THE CHRONICLE
Winston-Salem State
University's Executive C'hef
Derrick McCorkle recently
beat out the best chefs in the
region to take first place at a
catering competition held in
Greensboro.
Along with first place
prize from the judges, who
scored contestants on things
such as the taste and presen
tation of their cuisine,
McCorkle also won the
People's Choice Award voted
on by the audience that was
in attendance.
He prepared a three -
course meal that included
Asian smoked roasted chick
en, a green salad garnished
with fried spaghetti, pork
tenderloin stuffed with
spinach and a caramel sugar
basket with fruit to top it all
off
?7 McCorkle will now team
with two other chefs from
the Southeast to compete
against the nation's best
chefs in a competition slated
for the summer in New
Orleans. The winning team
will receive a trip to Italy.
McCorkle says he has a
real passion for food presen
tation. He uses competitions
to show how creative he can
be and to see the looks on tht;
faces of all who witness his
work.
"My passion is just
watching people smile," he
See McCorkle on A9
Photo byTddd Lack
Chef Derrick McCorkle prepares a mouth-watering sweet.
Film probes aftermath of massacre
"Greensboro .-Closer
to the Truth " will be
screened at upcoming
RiverRun Fest
BY TODD LUCK
THE CHRONICLE
A documentary depicting
Greensboro's painful struggle
to come to grips with the 1979
Greensboro Massacre will be
shown locally as part of the
RiVerRun International Film
Festival.
f "Greensboro: Closer to the
Truth" show s the struggle of
the Greensboro Truth and
Reconciliation Commission to
investigate what happened on
Nov. 3, 1979, when Klansmen
and Nazis opened fire on pro
testers during a Death to the
Klan march, killing five and
wounding ten. The film
explores what happened to the
people involved in the shoot
ing and Greensboro's struggle
to deal with its painful past.
The movie will be shown in
Greensboro at the Carolina
Theater on Thursday, April 19
at 7 p.m. It will also be shown
in Winston-Salem at the Main
Theater of the N.C. School of
the Arts on Saturday, April 2 1
at 4 p.m. as part of Riverrun, a
festival of independent films
that w ill be in town April 18
23.
Adam Zuckcr, a lifelong
New Yorker who produced
Zucker
Icesola Powers passed away last week.
Good fight
is over for
Icesola Powers
BY LAY-LA FARMER
THE CHRONICLE
Patricia Oliver lost her
mother, her confidant and
her biggest fan when Icesola
Powers took her last breath
on the morning of
Wednesday, April 4. Yet she
gained a strength she had
never known, inheriting a
spirit that has allowed her to
find joy, even in the midst of
a chance to hear the mar
velous things that people
know about them, i refused
to allow my mama to he in
her casket and people not
tell her how wonderful she
was and how she helped
them - 1 wanted her to hear
that now."
The months that have
transpired since the celebra
tion have been especially
difficult for Oliver, but she
me uarKesi uays
she has ever
known.
Powers was
diagnosed with
terminal cancer in
January of this
ytear, just before
her 67th birthday.
Oliver organized a
special celebration
for her mother at
Second New
Oliver
says she drew her
strength from her
mother, who
remained charac
teristically joyful
throughout the
waning days of
her life.
"It was real
hard for me, but
you could not be
sad because my
mother was
Baptist C hurch, where
Powers was a faithful mem
ber. It was a time to pay
tribute to Powers and the
good deeds she had done,
while she was still able to
witness it. More than 200
people came out for the cel
ebration, which was fea
tured in the Jan. 25 edition
of The Chronicle. It is a
moment in time both Oliver
and her mother remembered
fondly
"She told her sisters after
the celebration ... 'I was at
my funeral and 1 heard what
everybody said about me ...
I didn't even know I was so
well-loved,'" Oliver related.
"A lot of people (don't) get
always joyful," Oliver said.
"Anytime you asked her
how she was fet'ling, she
said, 'Girl, 1 feci good!'"
With the help her of
aunts. Powers' two doting
sisters, Oliver worked to
meet her mother's every
need was met in death, just
as she had in life.
"She got whatever she
wanted; I made sure she
did," Oliver said. "When
you've got a good mother
like that, you will just do
whatever it takes to please
her."
Oliver will celebrate her
50th birthda\ on Monday. It
is an occasion she had
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' A small crowd gathered at the corner of
liberty and 25th streets Thursday
Portion of Liberty named for longtime advocate
Shaw, now retired, currently chairs the
Board of Directors of the Liberty Street
Community Development Corp., a nonprofit
organization charged with revitalizing the
Liberty Street Corridor. The corridor
morning to honor the contributions
Of James W. Shaw, Sr., who has
made the city his home for more
tfcan five decades. A special procla
mation designating the intersection
'Jim Shaw Blvd." and authorizing
t|ic installation of signage to that
offcct was given during the ccremo
rty
; Shaw has long-standing ties with
the area. A former R.J. Reynolds
employee, Shaw opened his first
Garrity
extends from 12th Street to New
Hope I^anc (formerly 18th St.).
"James W. Shaw works consis
tently <o improve the Liberty Street
Corridor and surrounding areas by
working with area business owners,
community leaders and elected offi
cials to improve the economic status
and development of the communi
ty," the proclamation reads. "His
commitment to the community will
leave a lasting legacy for his family
Ijusiness, Shaw Gull Service on
liberty Street in 1967. He was the first black
HI Ckxtdrich-franchiscd tire dealer and the
largest volume ( iulf dealer in the Southeast for
tfcree years running
and those he sclflcssly serves."
Mayor Pro Tempore Vivian Burke praised
Shaw for his work and commitment
"Jim Shaw w orks every day to improve the
See Shaw on A12
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Mayor Pro Tempore Vivian Burke speaks as Jim Shaw and Mayor Joines stand nearby.
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and dircctcd the film, said he
was interested in doing a film
about truth commissions,
which are groups that have
formed around the world to
investigate past wrongs such
as apartheid in South Africa.
The commissions, generally
made-up of a cross-section of
a community, typically come
up w ith ways to make amends
When Zucker heard that
the first ever truth commission
in the United States was in
Greensboro, he came down
and began filming in 2(X).?,
when the commission was still
in its planning stages. He was
immediately struck by the
people he met there
"I thought that would be a
See Film on A5