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Calendar
AARP meeting
The Forsyth AARP Chapter
Number 1797 will, meet on
TXiesday, April 8, at 3:15 pjn. at
The Shepherd's Center of
Greater Winston-Salem. The
center is located at 1700 Ebert St.
April is "weather related and
other disaster preparedness"
month. The program
"Emergency Preparedness" will
be presented by Helen Savage,
associate director of North
Carolina AARP. All programs
and membership is open to per
sons 50-years-of-age and older.
National and local AARP mem
bers are encouraged to attend.
For further details please contact
Nancy Hall at 765-2215 or nan
cappy@msn.com.
What to do with family
treasures?
? Carol Eickmeyer and Leigh
McMillan will discuss how to
organize, maintain and distribute
family heirlooms at BestHealth
in Hanes Mall on April 1 1 at 2
pjn. Call 716-2255 to register.
Annual Homeless Feeding
Rich CDC is sponsoring their
annual spring homeless feeding
to be held on Sunday, April 13
from 3-4 pjn. at Holy Trinity
Full Gospel Baptist Church, 651
Akron Dr. Limited transporta
tion will be provided at the fol
lowing sites: Bethesda Center,
Rescue Mission, Salvation Army
and Samaritan Kitchen with pick
up between 2-3 pjn. For more
information, call 744-9293.
Volunteers needed
The Shepherd's Center of
Greater Winston-Salem has a
tremendous need for volunteers
to provide transportation for
medical appointments and gro
cery shopping for older adults..
Volunteers are also needed to
visit older adults in their homes,
to provide respite for caregivers,
and to do minor home repairs.
Training for volunteers will be
held on Thursday, April 17, 9:30
ajn. - 2 pjn., at First Assembly
of God on University Parkway.
Lunch and training materials are
provided. To register or to
receive more information, call
748-0217.
Poker and Benefit Ride
A Poker and Benefit Ride
will be given by the Carolina
Cruisers M/C for Dedrick T.
Neal, who is in need of a heart
and kidney transplant on
Saturday, April 19. Registration
begins 9-11 ajn. at the Old
Dungeon located at 1419 Liberty
St. The cost is $10 per rider and
$5 per co-rider. Make checks
payable to the Carolina Cruisers
M/C. All donations are wel
come. Contact John
Cunningham of 49 Arita Circle,
Winston-Salem N.C. 27105 or
call 336-767-7656. Rain date is
scheduled for Saturday, April 26.
Call 413-0212 for more informa
tion.
Dessert Auction to Benefit
Komen Race for the Cure
The public is invited to sup
port Komen NC Triad and the
2008 Race for the Cure by join
ing Wake Forest University
Baptist Medical Center and
Allegacy Federal Credit Union
for a Dessert Auction, Saturday,
April 19 at Belk Court in Hanes
Mall. The preview starts at 10
ajn., with the live auction under
way at II ajn. In addition to
sweets donated by area bakeries
and restaurants, there will be
other goodies on auction and
some great door prizes. ,
Members of the Ambassadors for Christ Choir perform.
Photos by Kevin Walker
Speakers included Democracy North Carolina's Jonathan Peterson (from left), State Rep. Larry Womble and the Rev. Carlton Eversley.
Souls to the Polls
Organizations vow to
register every adult
in Forsyth County
BYT. KEVIN WALKER
THE CHRONICLE
Believing the old adage that two
heads are better than one, more than a
half a dozen area organizations are team
ing up for an unprecedented effort to
register every adult in Forsyth County
who is eligible to vote.
The Winston-Salem Urban League
and its Young Professionals program,
the Voting Rights Coalition, the UJIMA
Community Development Corporation,
CHANGE, Democracy North Carolina,
the Winston-Salem State University
Political Science Club, the Coalition on
Black, Brown Civic Participation and
radio station 10S.7 KISS FM are leading
the effort ahead of this year's politically
charged May 6 primary and the
November General Elections.
A kick-off rally for the voter registra
tion campaign was held last Friday
evening at the Urban League's down
town headquarters. The dozens of peo
ple who attended were treated to enter
tainment, food and lots of commentary
on the importance of voting, especially
this election year.
"This year, North Carolina will be in
play, and I am so excited about that,"
said Urban League President Keith
Grandberry, referring to the importance
the state will play, especially, in picking
either Sen. Hillary Clinton or Sen.
Barack Obama as the Democratic presi
dential nominee. ? .
The rally - like the voteV registration
effort - was billed as nonpartisan, but
the crowd was without question pro
Democratic. No Republican elected offi
Nakia Peterson registers to vote.
cials or candidates took part, either,
although they were invited, according to
organizers. State Reps. Larry Womble
and Earline Parmon and City Council
Member Dan Besse (a candidate for
lieutenant governor) were on hand.
Parmon told the crowd that it drives
her crazy when people say that it really
doesn't matter who is elected to the
White House, the State House or the
Governor's Mansion. She called that
type of thinking nonsense. She talked
about the uphill battles she and other
lawmakers are facing in the N.C. House
to get their colleagues to put more dol
lars into education and less into new
prison construction. Such fights would
not occur if more people took time to
vote for people who share their values, -
she said. , .
Womble echoed Parmon's words.
"You just don't go out there and vote
for anybody," he said. *
A voter registration table was one of"
the first things that attendees saw when
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