W nston-5a?em, - The Chron i i TIP? ^-DIGTT 2"T1^1 AT*'T VST? ATT rr.pcivrv CC.'V'V p* fo^Tr LIB?A?Y ACC* M c"nJ ef WIKST^K ?*LEM NC 2"'1(?1-27<?C Vol. XXXVI No. 28 WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. THURSDAY, March 11, 2010 wssu Football takes to the field -See Pane BIO Senate hopefuls sound-off at forum -See Pafie A 10 Library r ,Vebra " tries to ~ attract ? rj\ 3 B GS0L^\r"*/ WF?h'3??* 01 %?HyV> Same-sex couples question YMCA membership policy While other local health clubs have expanded definition of family, Y stands by husband/wife policy I 1 PhoU) by Lavla Farmer A lark Maxwell, right, with his longtime partner, Timothy Young. Residents call for more action in Rolling Hills liY LAY l \ FARMER I HH CHROMIC l.t . . ' . ? ? " . / . / ' Just over a year ago. the City of Winston-Salem and the Housing Authority of Winston-Salem announced that they had agreed upon an action plan to address a long list of health and safety concerns raised by residents of Rolling Hills, an apartment development off of New Walkertown Road that has long been labeled a trouble spot. The plan was imple mented by the city's Neighborhood Services Department, in conjunction with City-County Inspections, the Forsyth County Health Department and other pertinent agen Submitted Photo A resident shows the danger ous wear and tear of a Rolling Hills staircase. cies. The chief purpose of the action plan was to identify violations to city codes and address them, said Neighborhood Services Director Ritchie Brooks. Brooks says the effort was successful. See Rolling Hills on A 10 BY LAYLA FARMER THE CHRONICLE ______ Same-sex couples say that their battle for equal rights is not just being waged at the ballot box and in courtrooms and Statehouses. Mark Maxwell said he was more than a little disheartened late last month when his local YMGA branch told him that he. his partner of 16 years, Timothy Young, and their two sons did not qualify for the Y's family membership plan. "They explained to me that we could do a membership for me and the kids, but we would have to do something separate for Tim," he related. "...They told me it was an IRS issue, that they go by IRS standards." Hachman The YMCA of Northwest NC Offers two member ship options to families, according to its Web site. Husbands and wives with dependents may join a facil ity as a group, and single parents can join as an adult See YMCA on \2 i 1 ? * ii ?i Photo b> Latvia Parmer Ratnona Hambrick stands in front of a boarded-up unit with her four-year-old great-grandson, Chris Wilborn. UNCSA student Chriss Barkley. PhoCo t?> Ji?dd l-uck. Filmmaker Goes There! "Pitch Black Milk" brings issues of dark-skinned stigma and skin-bleaching into the light BY TODD tUCk I HL CHRONIC U \ local film student tackles the issues of racial identit\ and skin bleaching 111 her laicsi short film. "Pilch Black Milk." The film was shot locally last \ear b\ C'hriss Barkley. 22. a senior film production major at University of North Carolina School of the Arts. She wrote, directed and produced the 20 minute film through her own production company. Down In rront mms. llv. At a screening last month. ->he said it got a strong emotion al reaction from the more 40 viewers who attended "When the lights came up there wasn't a dry eye in the house, people were tear ing up." said Barkley. a native of Harrishurg. Pa. "It was amazing." "Milk" tells the -.tors of a young African-American middle schooler named Bella who is ridiculed by her peers because of ber dark com plexion and must confront painful memories tit her mother's attempts to bleach her skin , The title of the movie comes from a line in President Barack Obama's autobiography "Dreams F rom My Father." which reads "That my lather looked nothing like the people around me ? that he was black as pitch, my mother white as milk ? barely registered in my mind ' Barkley said the film was inspired by young girls at her mother's daycare center. During a trip to the toy store to hu> dolls, all the girls, including the African Americans, wanted Sec Film on V5 Grants go to programs that invest in people BY I.AYI.A PARMER rHI: CHRONICLE ' Three local organizations received $9 .(XX) "Weed and Seed" grants from the Center for Community Safety (CCS) of Winston-Salem State University last Friday during a brief program at the agency's Winston Tower headquarters The Center for Community Safety was designated by the U.S. Department of Justice as a Weed and Seed agency in 2(X)7, making it eligible for federal grants over a five-year period to "weed" out crime and other commu nity problems in designated high crime areas through new programs and initiatives, and "seed" the communi ties. which include the Rolling Hills and Lakeside neigh borhoods. with new growth through enhanced social services and economic revitali/ation. The CCS awarded $27. (XX) in sub-grants through the Twin City Fast-West Partnership (TCFWP). as the Weed and Seed initiative is known, to Southside Rides, Union Baptist Church's Character Football League, and the Goler Institute's DIVAS (Dreams Initiating Virtuous Alternative Solutions) program for their work in improv ing the designated communities. See (?rants on A 10 VINSTON WSM Ph?i4?> h> Ciarren < .army Agency represen tatives Cheryl Harry. David Moore and Dr. Seth Lartey offi cially accept the grants as Rill \tcClain ( from left). Gwen Johnson and Allan Younger look on. DON'T PASS THE BUCK BUY LOCAL

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