? AXT T/^T T4 NORTH CAROLINA ROOM K I I ? H ? FORSYTH CTY PUBLIC LIBRARY I ? , ? 660 W 5TH ST I H / H A H_X WINSTON SALEM NC 27101-2755 JL ^ THURSDAY, April 12, 2007 Vol. XXXUI No. 31 Wiley runners competing very well See Page Bl Critic Crouch speaks at NCSA .. 75 cent* College \ebr^ Dems rally ^ r\^r^ for peace North ^ Library m Iraq 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 Set Powers on A9 Boulevard of Shaw BV LAY LA FARMER ?fire CHRONICLE . p r ' 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