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5-MGIT 2710 19 120409 1 NORTH CAROLINA ROOM FORSYTH CTY PUBLIC LIBRARY 660 W 5TH ST. "? WINSTON SALEM SC. 27101-27 Vol. XXXV No. 36 WIN THURSDAY, May 7, 2009 WSSU golf finishing another season ?See Paxe BIO Attorney Kennedy honored by school -See Pae* A4 Small town comes., to g$Lf e t ? Photo hy LayU Fanner Adonis Brown heads the Advocacy Leadership Committee for the NC Council for Developmental Disabilities. Can-Do Attitude Challenges faced head-on at conference on self-determination BY LAYLA FARMER THE CHRONICLE More than 300 people from across the country and around the world flocked to the Twin City to take part in the International Conference on Self-Determination, held May 3-5 at the M.C Benton Convention Center. The annual conference, now in its second year, is put on by the Michigan-based Center for Self-Determination. The decade-old organization describes itself as "the primary clearinghouse, training and technical assistance source on Self-Determination in the United States and other coun tries." "We're trying to break new ground, reconceptualizing the use of public dollars for people with disabilities," explained Tom Nerney, executive director of the Center for Self Determination. "We're very committed to moving supports into the communities where people live." Self-Determination, in a nutshell, is giving individuals with physical or mental disabil ities and those who are aging, control over their own des tinies. The Center advocates for the transference of public funding from an institutional Sec Conference on A12 Residents, airport in tug-of-war Castle Heights feeling brunt of construction at Smith Reynolds BY LAYLA FARMER THE CHRONICLE "~?at;tle Heights resident Joe Rogers has lived in his home for nearly 38 years, but con struction at nearby Smith Reynolds Airport has him thinking seri ously about leaving the neighborhood for good. "At 70 years of age, T think it's' one of the greatest objectives that you have to be peaceful," commented Hk Kogers. Kaplan . . Peace, and namely quiet, have been hard to come by in his neighborhood in recent months, Rogers says. Construction began oh the airport's main runway behind Rogers1 property last November to extend the runway safety area and add an arresting system (which absorbs the See Airport on A12 Photo by La via Fanner Emma Davenport looks at the piles of dirt at Smith Reynolds Airport that art visible from her living room window , Coming 'Home' Alumni oforphange return for reunion BY TODD LUCK THE CHRONICLE Hundreds of people attended a reunion dinner at The Children's Home last Friday night. The Home, founded by the Methodist Church, has provided shelter and support for young people in need of both for iuv pa :?i ivu years. Some of the the alumni on hand for the din ner ended up at the home because they were orphans; others had par ents who simply couldn't care for them. The image of orphanages as places of loneli ness and cruelty was not the real ity for the alum ni. Most called it, "the best piace i vc cvci been." Bobbie BowlesTfetto ended up at the Home after her mother died. Her father, a traveling salesman, wasn't home enough to take care of her. Hutto left the home to attend college. The retired teacher came to the reunion with her own family. She described growing up at the Home as "wonderful." "I made friends for life, and we were taught to work, to be responsible, to get along with people," she said. To call the Home simply an orphan age doesn't dc/ it justice. The children stayed in cottages under the watchful eye of adults. The huge Reynolda Road campus, contained its own school, which had sports teams max were renowned through out the county. It was a com pletely self-sustain ing place. Students grew vegetables, milked cows, pas teurized milk, canned food and did many other chores to keep the Home going. "For me it was the best thing that could happen." said Fred Tanner, one of Photos by Todd Luck A view of the home's new Alumni Memorial Plaza. the "true orphans." He lost both of his parents at an early age. ana uvea at trie Home in the 40s and 50s. He wrote a book about his experiences titled "Tanner (Boy Orphan)." Tanner joined the military after leaving the Home. He said boot camp was playtime compared to life and chores at the Home. Sec Reunion on A4 Comic ?mjsmhhs Photo by Todd Lack Volunteers from the Heroes Alliance don custom costumes of superheroes Wolverine and Black Panther to entertain the hundreds who waited in line at Acme Comics in Greensboro on Saturday for Free Comic Day, which is held each year on the first Saturday in May. F ormer Children 's Home teacher Jo Anne North Goetz. Society's banquet honors past, celebrates future BY LAYLA FARMER THE (^HRONICLE More than 200 local residents braved the rain, and later the dark, to attend the Society for the Study of Afro American History's Annual Banquet Tuesday evening The McNeil Banquet Hall at WSSU's Anderson Conference Center was a virtual who's who of the local black community, drawing leaders from virtually every segment of the public and private sector. Politicians, edu cators, business leaders community organizers and the like greeted one another warmly as a slide show of black and white images from another era flashed on the wall at the head of the room. The nonprofit was founded in the mid-1980s as a means of preserving and highlighting local black history, The annual banquet, one of its chief events, has become something of a reunion, with many attendees returning year after year, said SSAAH Board Member Doris Herrell. "This is a long line of years that we have sponsored this event," she said. "And most of you have persevered with us." The wind and rain extinguished the power midway Sec SSAAH on A12 Photo by Lavta Firmer Blake Moranl gives the keynote address. DON'T PASS THE BUCK BUY LOCAL
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