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Calendar
Plant sale
The 2008 Forsyth County
Master Gardener Plant Sale will
be held Friday. Sept. 19, from
noon to 6 p.m. and Saturday,
Sept. 20. from 8 a.m. to noon.
The sale takes place rain or
shine at the Forsyth County
Agricultural Building. 1450
Fairchild Rd. Funds raised by
this annual event support
Master Gardener projects and
outreach programs for adults
and children in Winston-Salem
and Forsyth County. Master
Gardener Volunteers will be on
hand throughout the sale with
advice on selecting and grow
ing plants, which are donated
by local nurseries and garden
centers and by volunteers.
Black Chamber meeting
The Winston Salem Black
Chamber of Commerce will
meet Tuesday. Sept. 16 at 7 p.m.
at the Hewitt Business Center,
1001 S. Marshall St. Lisa Lide
of the United Way will be the
guest speaker. The meeting will
conclude with Speed
Networking. Contact Randon
Pender at 336-575-2006 for
more information, or go to
ww w.wsbcc .org .
Aging Services meeting
The next meeting of Forsyth
County Aging Services
Committee is Friday, Sept. 19 at
the Central Library on Fifth
Street. This group includes
older adults, health care
providers and government rep
resentatives who meet to ensure
that efficient and high quality
services are available to meet
the needs of older adults. The
group meets on the third Friday
of each month. Call 703-3883
for more information.
Big Sweep needs volunteers
Keep Winston-Salem
Beautiful is looking for volun
teers to clean local waterways
during this year's annual Big
Sweep, scheduled for Saturday.
Oct. 4, from 9 a.m. to 12:30
p.m.
Keep Winston-Salem
Beautiful plans to target more
than 30 sites this year, including
Peters Creek, Silas Creek,
Salem Creek, Monarcas Creek,
Mill Creek, Tanner's Run,
Salem Lake and the Yadkin
River.
For more information or to
volunteer, call Keep Winston
Salem Beautiful at 727-8013 or
e-mail georges@cityofws.org.
All supplies and lunch are pro
vided.
Big Four tickets for sale
Tickets for this year's Big
Four Dance are on sale at the
Carl H. Russell Recreation
Center on Carver School Road.
The dance will be held on
Saturday, Oct. 25 at the Benton
Convention Center. Tickets are
$25 each. Personal checks will
not be accepted.
This year's Big Four
Celebration, hosted by the
Atkins High School Alumni
Association, will feature activi
ties Oct. 23-26. The Big Four
Celebration is a reunion of
alumni and friends of the cities'
four historically black high
schools - Anderson, Atkins,
Carver and Paisley. For addi
tional information , contact
Sheila Astnop at 336- 744- 1 228.
Nurse Practioneer Tiffany Gibson , Dr. Kristen Gill-Hairston and Vanessa Hood take part in a panel discussion.
Photos by Fclecu Long
Remembering Self
Health symposium
attracts hundreds
of women
BY FELECIA PIGGOTT-LONG
THE CHRONICLE
More than 1,000 gospel
music lovers gave Grammy
nominated singer Kelly Price
a standing ovation after she
closed Saturday's Women's
Health .Symposium with a
rousing rendition of "God's
Gift to the World."
The singer, known for hits
like Heartbreak Hotel (with
Whitney Houston and Faith
Evans) and "You Should've
Told Me," encouraged the
enthusiatic female crowd
inside of Winston-Salem State
University's K.R. Williams
Auditorium to keep on reach
ing for their highest and best.
"It's not about wearing
size three jeans. It's about
feeling better. We have chil
dren, and we have career
goals, but the gift of life is the
greatest gift," said Price, who
has become a breast cancer
activist since her mother and
mother-in-law were diagnosed
with the disease in the late
1990s. "We must preserve it.
We do so many things for oth
ers, we need to be our best for
the rest of our lives. We must
maximize this moment. Take
this info and apply it."
Winston-Salem state
University's Center of
Excellence for the
Elimination of Health
Disparities, Wake Forest
University School of
Medicine's Maya Angelou
Research Center on Minority
Health and the BET
Foundation were among the
key sponsors of the sympo
sium, a daylong event filled
with health screenings, exer
cise demonstrations and lec
Attendees Tarsha Shore, Angela Gordon, Janet Gordon and Beverly Reed.
r
Reynita McMillan and Asha Piggott pose with the BET Foundation's Lynda Dorman, center.
tures by health experts. With
the theme, "Remembering
Our Health," the symposium
was designed to provide black
women with tools to protect
their health and save their
lives.
The BET Foundation, the
charitable arm of the enter
tainment company, is hosting
similar events in cities around
the nation.
According to Lynda
Dorman, director and vice
president of the BET
Foundation, the WSSU stop
was among the tour's most
well-attended. More than
1,300 women pre-registered.
"We want the women to
take the knowledge they
learned the become health
advocates, to be so charged up
about health." said Dorman.
"We want them to be excited
about their health first, then
about those they love ... We
want them to know that health
See Health on B13
Attendees
Patricia
Jefferson and
Robin Green
pose with Sgt.
Barr of the
Forsyth
County
Sheriff's
Department.
Right: Siiiger
Kelly Price
pumps up the
crowd.
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