Winston-Salem, NC 27iui
Vol. XXXV No. 45
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C
THURSDAY, July 9, 2009
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making
kids
STARS
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Agencies
help folks
battle
the heat
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Another
GOP
racism
scandal
Area officials
respond to growing
list of melees
BY LAYLA FARMER .
I ill CHRONICLE
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In the wake of a rash ot
racial missteps made by some
in their party, prominent
A f r i c a n - A m e r i c a n
Republicans in North
Carolina and across the coun
try are on the defensive,
speaking "out against the
McAllister
HI Amin
degrada
tion of
their 'race
and their
party.'
Each
wee k
seems to
bring a
new racist
scandal
involving
a member
of the
GOP and
technolo
gy. Last
month ,
R u s I y
DePass, a
Sou t h
Carolina
GOP
leader and former chair of the
state elections commission,
apologized for his comment
that a gorilla that escaped
from a South Carolina zoo
was First Lady Michelle
Obama's "ancestor." He made
the statement on Face book, a
popular social networking
Web site. A few weeks later,
Sherri Goforth. an aide of
Republican Tennessee State
Sen. Diane Black, sent an e
mail out featuring an image
showing the faces of all 44
American president. The
image of President Obama
was a black box with two
large "spooked" eyes.
Goforth apologized and was
simply reprimanded, despite
calls from around the country
for her ouster.
See GOP on A5
, ?. Photo by Kevin Walker
This city-owned land would become Goler's under the current proposal.
not So Simple?
Routine land swap between city , church has some heated
BY LAYLA FARMER
THE CHRONICLE
City Council Member
Joycelyn Johnson met with
constituents of her East
Ward and others last week,
during a forum at the
Winston Lake Family
YMCA to discuss a pro
posed land deal.
The City Council is
considering an agreement
with Goler Memorial AME
Ziori Church that wdirld
entail exchanging 12-acres
ot city-ownea lana on waterworks
Road, next ""to the Winston Lake Y.
for 14.6 acre* of land directly across
the street from the Y that Goler owns.
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If the exchange takes place, the
city would then develop the former
Goler land for "recreational
purposes anu parking,
according to a news release.
Goler likely would either
give or sell - officals would
not say which option is
more likely - the land it
gets to the Lutheran
Council on Aging, and
work in .conjunction with
the group to construct a
state-of-the-art nursing
home. for area seniors. The
project would' he funded by
the Lutheran Council, and supported
in part by Goler volunteers, according
See Land on A5
Martin happy to be an Aggie again
Former WSSIJ leader
celebrates one-month
anniversary as
A&T chancellor
BY LAYLA FARMER
THE CHRONICLE
Dr. Harold Martin is a
month into his latest, and per
haps his greatest, job: chan
cellor of his alma mater,
North Carolina A&T State
University.
"I'm excited, really and
truly,7' Martin said last week.
When former A&T
Chancellor Stanley F. Battle
announced in February that
he would step down. Aggies
talked openly about Martin
taking his place as the
school's leader. But such an
idea seemed improbable.*
Three years ago, Martin left
his job as chancellor of
Winston-Salem State
University - where he was
credited with changing the
school's fortunes for the bet
ter - to serve as senior vice
president for academic affairs
of the 17-campus University
of North Carolina System.
While he says he loved
his work with the UNC sys
tem. Martin longed to return
to a single campus because
he missed "the interaction
with faculty and staff and stu
dents ... and helping to mold
and shape them for the
future.
"I always felt that I want
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The N.C. A&T State University family welcomes Dr. Harold Martin to campus. .
ed to ... go back to a campus
setting," he remarked.
An Aggie at heart. Martin
said the school's "unstable
leadership" in recent years
was one of the factors that
inspired him to take the posi
tion. Battle had served less
than two years when he
departed. This after the
school's Board of Trustees
had launched an exhaustive
national search for someone
to replace James Renick, who
served as chancellor from
1999 to 2006.
"I felt it was important to
come back and create some
stability in leadership," he
related. "After talking with
so many Board of Trustees
members about the institution
... I felt that it was a noble
cause, and worth the commit
ment to be involved here."
Although Martin was a
strong contender, and many
say the runner-up. for the
chancellorship at the time
that Renick was appointed.
his long list of accomplish
ments at WSSU no doubt
made a big impression on
UNC and A&T officials.
Under Martin's leader
ship. WSSU experienced sig
nificant growth. Student
enrollment nearly doubled
during his tenure, as did the
See Martin on AS
Heart of Gold
Photo by Layla Farmer
School Board Member Vic Johnson, here with his wife. Dr.
Constance Johnson, wrapped up his annual youth golf program
this week. Johnson has hosted the event, often paying for it out
of his own pocket, for years. The Chronicle will profile the lat
est crop of young golfers in the July 16 issue.
Program still making dreams come true
Culinary training
classes turning
lives around
BY TODD LUCK
THE CHRONICLE
Vanessa Lanier had given up on
the American Dream.
Her attempts to make it in the
United States hadn't panned out as she
had planned, so she went online to
book a plane ticket home to her native
Spain. Somehow, she instead ended
up on a Web site that featured infor
mation about the Triad Community
Kitchen, a free culinary cooking
school. She reached out to the chef in
charge of the program.
"I wrote this long e-mail to (the)
chef, and told him 'if you give me a a
shot, if you take me in; I will show up,
1 will follow through; I will change
PboJo t>\ Todd
i-Mck
Graduate
La r r y
Saunders
shakes
hands with
Food Bank
CEO Clyde
Fitzgerald,
right.
this whole thing around.'" Lanier
recalled on Monday.
Her appeal worked. She made the
lengthy drive from Asheboro to
Winston-Salem for the culinary class
es, which are held at Second Harvest
Food Bank of Northwest N.C.
Through the program, she trans
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