u Vol XXXVI No. 22 WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. THURSDAY, January 28, 2010 Ish Smith picks up honor from ACC ?See Pane HH Spike Lee will return to Winston -See fane A6 rv , . 75 cents Deltas 6\ebra// promote ^ or. a Room O&a&ln C3W$?IIHllfy Public Lf&ra ty/eit/SS' ~z 660 We^F^treet VJ Winston-Salem, NC 2710xpa;/i\ County battling gang activity Prevention will be large part of effort BY TODD LL'CK THE CHRONICLE The city's first-ever Gang Awareness Week is aimed at the prevention, intervention and suppression of pang activi ty. Events, including work shops for law enforcement offi cials and town hall-style meet ings for the public, began on Monday and will continue Quick through tomorrow. Gangs arc a real and growing problem in F or s y t h County, according to Solomon Quick, the Winston Salem Ponce Department s gang coordinator specialist and the organizer of the week's activi ties. He said there are presently more than MX) known gang members in the county who belong to 37 different gangs. "We as a community must understand that if we ever hope to solve our gang problem, we have to embrace our young people." said Quick "I tend to look at gangs, or our young people's involvement with gangs, as their needs not being met - their social needs not being met. that sense of belonging, that protection of a family." Quick said youth need the discipline. guidance and involvement of caring adults to steer them away from gang life. This sentiment was echoed at Gang Awareness Week's first youth summit held Monday at Goler Enrichment Center. Middle and high school stu dents w ho are part of the city 's Youth Crime Watch program participated in a forum. The Sec (iangs on A.* PbOtM Laylt harmer Ashley students stand near a table filled with sweet treats on Tuesday. sweets for. suFFewNc; Second graders hold bake sale to help Haiti BY LAY I. A FARMER I HI CHRONIC! I Students at Ashley IB Magnet Elementary Sehool lent their support to the ongoing relief effort in the earthquake-ravaged nation of Haiti Tuesday , as part of a week-long project devel oped by Thi Cain, a teacher and grade level chair, and other second-grade teachers. Students from Cain's second grade class donned paper chefs hats and makeshift uniforms and hawked baked goods, lemonade and pins to their peers and Ashley staff mem bers The money the stu dents raise from the donated goods will be given to the Red Cross. Cain said. Cain's father, Pastor Floyd Jackson of Bculah Tabernacle Holiness Church, helped her launch the cam paign with a $100 donation Cain also created pins with the Steppin Up for Haiti (i us Reid, a third grade teacher, and Isidra (iarcia make their selections. logo to be sold at the bake sale. "It's kind of a last minute vision." she said of the proj ect. "We knew that the chil dren would like sweets, and I thought the pins were a way that people could shOfa their support all week long." Cain's students have foj lowed the events subsequent to the tragic Jan 12 disaster closely. "We've been learning that there was an earthquake and we're trying to raise money for them because they have no food or water." eight year-old Malcolm Webb said of the quake vic tim?*. Students from each sec ond grade class will take turns acti-ng as bake sale servers before Steppin l!p for Haiti wraps up on Jan 29. Cain said the hands-on experience of managing monev and providing servic es for customers comple ments what they are alreadv learning in class. "I'm proud of them." she said of the students "I'm happv that we could do this for a good cause, as well as teach the students the cur riculum thev must know for second grade." Sec Sale on V 1 1 FtU" PhiHi Packages of food, toiletries and information were passed out by volunteer counters. Count gauges homeless problem BY LAV LA FARMER THI CHRONK I I Teams of local volunteers were slated to hit the streets Wednesdav night and earlv Thursdav morning, in hopes of finding and counting everv homeless person in the citv Community volunteers arc grouped with repre sentatn i'v from vari ous serv i c e provider agencies and home I e s s liaisons for the annual Hairs ton Point in Time tPIT) count, led by the Ten Year Plan to End Chronic Homelessness n A2 ')r Theodore Igbinigie performs. DON'T PASS THE BUCK BUY LOCAL ?