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Diners'
safety
spawns
new rules
Health inspectors
will now prioritize
eateries
BY TODD LUCK
THE CHRONICLE
Restaurant health inspectors
will now focus their efforts on
places
where
the threat
of food
contami
nation is
greatest.
The
change is
the result
of new
statewide
regula
tions that went into effect in
August.
Regular health inspections
used to be given uniformly to
all establishments that prepare
and serve food to the public for
sale. Inspections were done
four times a year (once every
three months) to each establish
ment. Under the new rules,
eateries will be inspected one to
four times a year, depending on
the type of establishment.
For instance, places that
have a very low risk of food
contamination, such as soft
drink stands or coffee shops,
will only be inspected once a
year. On the flip side, places
where many different types of
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died and served, where the
potential for food-borne illness
is greater, will be inspected the
most. Sites such as catering
businesses, full-service restau
rants, school facilities serving
preschoolers and nursing
homes will get four inspections
a year, as they do under the cur
rent system.
Sheryl Emory, supervisor of
the county Health Department's
Food, Lodging and Institutional
Sanitation Program, said this
change should let health depart
ments to put their limited
resources where they are need
ed most.
"It helps us be focused on
the higher risk places and to
spend more time there and
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Brothers in Sobriety
Substance abuse recovery hub brines together current and former residents
BYT KEVIN WALKER
THE CHRONICLE
The road to recovery can be
long and lonely.
One of the beauties of the
Fellowship Home is that the
men who enter its doors, never
have to walk it alone. For nearly
50 years, it has been one of the
city's most successful, and
understated, drug and alcohol
recovery programs, helping a
countless number of men kick
the habit and regain control of
their lives.
Many of the former resi
dents returned to the home, an
actual spacious house in West
End, Saturday for the program's
annual alumni reunion. The
event is part celebration and part
workshop. In between the spirit
ed outdoor cookout, there were
lectures for former and current
Fellowship Hall residents and
an evening candlelight vigil that
paid homage to former residents
that have passed away; some as
a result of their demons catching
up with them.
"We have some former resi
dents who have died as a result
of their substance abuse," said
Executive Director Thom
Elmore.
But successes are much
more common than failures at
the Fellowship Home. Each
year, about 50 men enter the
home for stays that average
about 22 weeks. They live there
under extremely structured rules
designed to instill discipline and
focus, something most new resi
Photo by Kevin Walker
Waller Gray welcomes his parents, Eva Gray-Allen and Harrison Allen.
dents have very little of. Each
resident must get a job and save
most of his wages for his new,
post-Fellowship Home life. The
home offers a 12-step-like
recovery program thai includes
regular support meetings and
counseling. The reunion,
Elmore said, has become a key
element in the recovery for
many residents.
"It provides that peer men
toring for the guys who are cur
rently in the program." he said.
"It is good for them to see men
who have been where they are
and have made it and are suc
cessful."
The Fellowship Home
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Police Department has new eye-catching recruiting tool
BY LAYLA FARMER
THE CHRONICLE
The Winston-Salem Police Department's
mobile station has an eye-catching and func
tionai new iook.
A component of the department
for the past decade, the mobile unit
is used as a home away from home
for officers at major crime scenes as
well as job fairs and high profile
events.
The mobile station was decked
out with a graphic wrap from
Specialty Graphics of Greensboro
earlier this month. The wrap
depicts officers at work, along with
a police car and the familiar depart
ment logo. Helpful contact information, such as
the WSPDs non emergency number and web
address, add to its functionality.
The graphics the mobile station dons are
designed to .promote awareness about the
department's ongoing recruitment of officers.
A growing trend in advertising for many dif
ferent entities, the idea of "wrapping," struck
members of the recruitment department when
they dined at McAllister's restaurant,
which also utilizes the medium.
Because it is mobile, the advertising
method is more versatile than the bill
board advertising and radio spots the
department has relied on in the past,
according to Sgt. Danny Watts, head
of the recruitment arm of the police
department. The distinctive wrap is
meant to draw the attention of the
public, he explained. It has been suc
cessful in this realm so far.
"We made our maiden voyage to a
job fair in Fort Benning, Georgia." he
stated. "We had the bus parked outside and peo
ple were just streaming to the bus to look at it."
The mobile unit's new look will allow
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Former rehab patients reunite
Men and women
regained ability to
function during their stays
BY TODD LUCK
THE CHRONICLE
Rehabilitation patients were
reunited with one another and the
medical professionals that helped
them down the road to recovery last
week at a unique reunion at Wake
Forest University Baptist Medical
Center.
The 25th Annual Rehab Reunion
was held at the J. Paul Sticht Center
on Aging and Rehabilitation, which
houses the hospital's 25-bed inpa
tient physical rehabilitation unit.
Former patients ate and fellow
shipped during the two-hour
reunion. At one time, they had each
found themselves in the rehab unit
for a variety of reasons, everything
from injuries
from automo
biles accidents
to strokes.
Many for
mer patients
were eager to
share their
amazing suc
cess stories.
One such
patient was
James Parker,
who attended
the event with his wife Gloria.
"I'm the one they said who
would never walk, use his hand,
never get out of bed and never do
nothing and I can tell you right now
God ... can make it happen," said
Parker.
In 2004, Parker had just come
home from his first day back at
work after a Christmas vacation
with his family when he passed out
and hit the floor. It would be four
months before he woke up again. It
turned out he had a large blood clot
in his brain. He had suffered a
stroke that completely paralyzed
one side of his body.
With time and work, he recov
ered. Parker had no trouble moving
around the reunion, enthusiastically
sharing his recovery story with
everyone he met, his big boisterous
laugh often filling the room. He said
he still takes medication to prevent
further strokes and can't lift any
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Former patient James Parker and his wife, Gloria.
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