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Photo by Olivier Doultcry/Abaca
Press/MCT
America's new First
Family - Barack
Obama, his wife,
Michelle, and their
daughters Malia, 10,
and Sasha 7 - greet
the thousands gath
ered in Chicago's
Grant Park on
Tuesday night. Their
appearance came
about an hour after
Obama secured
enough electoral
votes to become the
44th President of the
United States. He
will be the nation's
first black president
when he takes office
in January.
Long-awaited
Liberty Street
station opens
BY LAYLA FARMER
THE CHRONICLE
Jim Shaw couldn't stop smiling during the
grand opening Monday of the Fairway One Stop
in the 130Q block of Liberty Street ,
Shaw, the Liberty Community Development
Corporation pres
ident and chair
man. has worked
for years to revi
talize Liberty,
one of the city's
oldest and most
important roads.
He has especially
made it his mis
sion to bring new
businesses to the
Liberty Street
Corridor - the
stretch between
12th Street and
City Council Members New Hope Lane
Joycelyn Johnson and (formerly 18th
Vivian Burke help open the Street) - which
station. had fallen into
disrepair in the
years before the CDC was formed.
Shaw's joy Monday was justified. The new
gas station/ convenience store is just the latest of
See Liberty on A4
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Church hosts early Thanksgiving dinner
BY TODD LUCK
THE CHRONICLE
Thanksgiving came early for many of those
who call local shelters their home.
Piney Grove
Baptist Church
bused men and
women from home
less shelters to its
Family Life Center
near Indiana
Avenue on Saturday
for its Community
Thanksgiving
Dinner. The event
has become an
annual tradition for
the church, which
has 1,500 members.
Pincy Grove
Pastor and Mrs. Fim Lad Renita
Linville Thompkins
Linville, a local
attorney, came up with the idea after she said
God moved her heart to do something for the
homeless.
"We just want to show love to' people to let
them know that there are people'in the commu
nity that still care about them, they're not for
Volunteers serve food on^aturday.
gotten and lost," said Linvilj^.
Though it was open to any and everyone,
most of those who partook in the meal came
from the Samaritan Inn, Bethesda Center and
the Winston-Salem Rescue Mission. The Life
Center's gym was converted into a banquet hall
Needle in a Haystack
Local family searches for marrow donor
BY LAYLA FARMER
THE CHRONICLE
Malia Hardin has been sick
as long as she can remember.
Blood transfusions have long
been a way of life for Hardin,
who suffers from sickle cell dis
ease. Fatigue, weakness and
pain plague her body daily. The
simplest pleasures - riding a
bike with friends, vacationing
with family - have eluded her
almost since birth.
Now, Hardin is hopeful a
local resident will be able to
offer her a freedom she's never known: lib
eration from her disease. Hardin's doctors
Sanders
say she needs a bone marrow transplant to
make her well. Unfortunately, very few
African American donors exist on the
National Bone Marrow Registry.
"Of the seven million people on
the (national bone marrow donor)
registry, in the US, less than 500,000
are African American," says the
National Marrow Donor Program's
Addie Sanders. "That need is
increasing because now transplants
are becoming a treatment for sickle
cell, which is a predominantly
African American disease."
Hardin and her family want to
help change that.
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PtKXm by Todd Luck
- filled with dozens of colorful tables. A full
Thanksgiving meal was served, including
turkey, rice with gravy, yams and green beans
On the way out, attendees received "to go"
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Photo courtesy of Hardin family
Malia Hardin is fighting sickle cell.
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