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Supporters gear up to turn state
'Barack Obama Blue' ?
BY TODD LUCK
THE CHRONICLE
A Winston-Salem
event designed to get
locals fired up about
Democratic Presidential
Hopeful Sen. Barack
Obama drew nearly 100
people to Quality
Education Institute last
Friday night.
Obama is trying to
become the first
Democrat in decades to
win so-called "Red," or
Republican, states like
North Carolina. To that end, his
campaign is holding rallies and get
out the votes efforts throughout the
state. The events are also being
used to recruit campaign volunteers
to do things such man phone banks
and hand out campaign literature.
Jules Federle, the Obama for
President field director for Forsyth
and 10 other N.C. coun
ties, was on hand to greet
supporters and thank
them on the senator's
behalf.
"We couldn't ? be
where we are without you
all," she said.
Local attorney Eric
Ellison worked to get the
crowd pumped up, much
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like he did in April when
he was among those that
introduced Sen. Obama at a
Winston-Salem rally. Ellison told
those assembled that they should
already give themselves a pat on
back. Winston-Salem, he said, had
the second highest turn out in the
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Photot by Todd Luck
A resident signs up to take part in the effort to elect
Barack Obama president of the United States.
A Day at the Office
Photo by Jaesoa Pitt
Local artist Leo Rucker takes a break from painting this wall-size tapestry in his Fourth Street studio. Rucker has been
commissioned to create the piece, which he has been working on for months. Later this month, he will be in Salisbury tak
ing part in another project. Read more about that on page A10.
Commissions will hold
first statewide conference
Public invited to discuss issues like
housing and race bias
BY LAYLA FARMER
THE CHRONICLE
Gangs. Hate _
Crimes. Predatory I
lending.
Human relations
commissions across
the state are facing
some tough issues,
and finding solu
tions to the prob
lems that plague
I their communities is
often easier said
I than done.
With this in mind, officials
at the North Carolina Human
Relations Commission and
the state's Department of
Administration will sponsor
the first ever
statewide civil /
human rights con
ference in High
Point later this
month.
"One of my
regional people has
wanted to have a
large civil rights
\iirn-A hraha conference for
years, said Sally
Lind of the N.C. Human
Relations Commission. "We
See Conference on A13
Fife Photo
Joey Sommerville performs recently in Winston-Salem during
a Downtown Jazz event in Corpening Plaza.
All that
Jazz
Promoter strives to spread the
love )ie has for genre
BY LAYLA FARMER
THE CHRONICLE
Tomorrow, Aug. 8, will mark the final Downtown Jazz con
cert of this year's Summer Music Series, but Carl Denerson
hopes the impression this summer's concerts made will res
onate long after the amps
and microphones are
unplugged.
"I think we're making a
good 'impression," said
Denerson. "We really Jiave
been seeing some record
crowds."
Denerson can take a
great deal of credit for that.
The promoter booke8 the
talent that entertained jazz
loving fans this summer
each Friday evening in
Corpening Plaza. The
Downtown Winston-Salem
Partnership, which produces
Downtown Jazz and two ; n.? h, l.vu f?*,"
other similar summer music Carl Denerson
events, hired Denerson's
Post Entertainment compa
ny to promote and spice up the jazz event, which has been a
staple of downtown for more than a decade.
Denerson is Post's sole employee, but for him. promoting
the music he loves is not a job; it's a calling. He moved to
Winston-Salem about five years ago to work for R.J Reynolds
after the tobacco giant bought Brown and Williamson.
He says when he first arrived, the city was virtually devoid
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Local Universalists honor those killed
BY LAYLA FARMER
THE CHRONICLE
Nine candles flickered before an
assemblage of nearly 200 in the sanctuary
of the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship
of Winston-Salem on Monday night.
Outside, a policeman on a motorcycle
circled the parking lot - an unwitting
reminder that "sanctuary" might not
always mean "safe."
Geraldine Zurek, organizer of the
Vigil of Healing and Remembrance, read
the names of each of the victims of the
tragic shooting that occurred at the
Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist
Church in Knoxville, Tenn. on Sunday,
July 27.
Afterward, she returned to her seat,
head bowed in reverence, and a hush fell
over the congregation that gathered to
remember and honor those whose lives
were irrevocably changed by the actions
See Service on All Geraldine Zurek reads the names of victims as Tracey Maxwell lights candles.
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