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Community paq e 7 Your stories, your voices July 17 20C8 Community Calendar Memorial walk The "Memorial Walk to Remember Children" will be held Saturday, July 26 at 9 a.m. at Miller Park, on the comer of Queen and Knollwood streets. The two-mile walk is to memorialize all children who have died too soon and to help bereaved families in their jour ney through grief. To register to walk or for more information v ? s i t http://www.memorialwaIktore member.info. o Fashion show/ fundraiser The Essence Dance Group will sponsor a fashion show on July 26 at 2 p.m. at the Winston Lake Family YMCA. The event will serve as a fundraisier for the group. Donations are wel comed and refreshments will be served. For more information contact, Priscilla at 336-997 6184 or 336-997-4949. LEAP program accepting applications Kennedy Learning Center is accepting applications for 2008 2009. There are limited 6-7, 7 8, and 8-9 Leap slots available. Students must have been retained and be over the age for his or her current grade. Students must apply to LEAP and participate in a par ent/student interview with KLC personnel. Students most likely to be successful are those who are proficient in reading and math with few behavior or attendance problems. KLC is at 1000 Highland Avenue. Call 336- 727-2085 for more infor mation. Baptist Association meetings The High Point Educational and Missionary Baptist Association, Inc., under the leadership of the Rev. Dr. John Jackson, will host its 14th General Session, July 20 - 25. The opening session will be Sunday at 4 p.m. with the Rev Dr. Gregory K. Moss, president of the General Baptist State Convention of N.C. Daily sessions, Monday through Friday, will start at 9 a.m. at Ashley Elementary School, 1647 East 21st St. inWinston-Salem; and nightly sessions will convene at Phillips Chapel Baptist Church, 132 South Glenn Ave. in Winston Salem. Art show opening 5IVE & 40RTY in the Downtown Arts District will present "Michael Northuis, eye cons (fine art cartoons)" July 25 - Aug. 30. The exhibition is the first regional showing of new works by Northuis in more than five years. There will be an Opening Reception with the artist on Thursday, July 24 from 5:40 - 7:40 pjn. For more infor mation call 336-724-2474 or email amy@5iveand40rty.com. Trip to Crumpler The Funtime Club will trav el to Crumpler, N.C. Aug. 16. There, the group will tour the Cheese Factory and store and visit the Farmer's Market and enjoy traditional county food. The bus will leave Northside Shopping Center at 7:30 a.m. and return by 6 p.m. Call 336 767-0105 for more information. Phottw. by Kevin Waikcr A young girl surveys a bingo card during the weekend reunion. Sonya Brown enjoys the day with her kids, Emmanuel, Isaiah, Brianna and Jordan. Roots Former neighbors recall the old Happy Hill BY T. KEVIN WALKER THE CHRONICLE ^ - Were it not for one fateful day more than 40 years ago in his toric Happy Hill, Joe Robinson may have been a plumber, a fire man - a lawyer, even. He would've never blown into a horn; the world would have been cheated out of one of its great jazzmen "We were walking in the woods one day and came across this beat-up, old bugle ... seeing it, just triggered something in me," Robinson recalled Saturday during the annual Happy Hill Reunion. As he spoke, Jerry Hinson - who was among the group of youngsters with Robinson that day - stood near by, adding his own memories of that day. "(Robinson) was welcome to it," Hinson said with a chuckle. "I wasn't gonna put my mouth on something lying in the woods." Robinson and Hinson have told the story dozens of times and peo ple have heard it dozens of times. But it never gets old, not for the storytellers or the listeners. Keeping the past Founders Ben Piggott and Rock Bitting. anve nas oecome a main pillar ot tne Happy Hill Reunion, which began 15 years ago during a time when it seemed a wide gulf existed between the community and its historic roots. "There was a lot of violence and things happening at the time," said Rock Bitting, who founded the reunion with Ben Piggott. "We wanted to remind people how great this communi ty was. Everything that you can imagine came out of this neigh borhood - doctors, lawyers, teachers, athletes ..." The city's oldest African-American community, Happy Hill's roots date back to the late 1700srf when slaves from the nearby Salem community settled in the area. Happy Hill resi See Happy Hill on Bll Left: Joe Robinson with his longtime friend, Jerry H ins on. Right: Earl Byers has a chat with Eugene Baskins. Artists Derek Stallings and Derrick Monk create masterpieces. Kids take a break from the heat. Q u i I I a S mi t h enjoys the event with Patricia Sadler. Far Right: Two youngsters pass the time by playing with an action fig ure.
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