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President still
enjoys strong
local support
Nationally, even Democrats second
guessing Obama 's leadership
BY L.AYLA FARM BR
THE CHRONICLE
President Barack
Obama's time as the nation's
first black president may be
short lived, according to
recent national
polls.
As a whole,
only about half of
those polled
believe the presi
dent deserves a
second term, but
what is perhaps
more surprising is
the number of his
own party mem
bers who feel
Ohama s time is running out.
Forty seven percent of the
Democratic respondents said
they would like to see
Obama face off against a
Democratic challenger in the
2012 primary - a statistic
that has some saying the
president's luster has all but
disappeared.
The results of last week's
little
Midterm Election, which
saw Republicans gains in
both state houses and
Congress, are not helping to
silence critics.
But local Obama sup
porters say that the president
is far from down
and out. Theldora
Williams was an
Obama supporter
long before he
became the darling
of the 2008
Presidential
Election. She hit
the road to cam
paign for him dur
ing the crucial '08
South Carolina
Democratic Primary - which
Obama won - and says her
feelings about the president
have never wavered.
"He's my president. I
support him." said Williams,
the co-owner of TES
Engraving and Sign
Company. "He came into a
Sec ( )bama on A 1 1
Official White House. Photo b y Pete Sou/a
President Obama enjoys a moment of reflection in the Green Room of the M hite
House on Oct. 5 before being introduced at the Summit on Community Colleges.
Longtime chef feted at 90th birthday celebration
PholM by Todd Luck
Samuel
Caldwell with
his sister,
M a g d a I i n e
Moultrie,
daughter.
D e I p h i n e
Jones, and
grandson, Sam
Jones.
BY TODD LUCK
1 HI CHRONIC1 I
Samuel Caldwell's relatives
and church family showed up in
force on Saturda\ to celebrate his
win uii inuav .
More than 80 people
gathered at Hanes
Memorial CME Church
for the party for
Caldwell, who many
remember and know
from the six decades
that he worked as a cook
at local restaurants.
A farm-hoy from
Summerton. SC..
Caldwell moved to
Winston-Salem us a teenager alter
"he got tired of working on the
farm." He landed a job at a down
town eatery as a dishwasher. He
still remembers how he transi
tioned to a cook.
Re r. Cox
"I was washing dishes, one
day. the cook laid out and I looked
... and saw they ain't got nothing
out there to sell," recalled
Caldwell, who rolled up his
sleeves and prepared all the food
in the cook s place that
day. "The owner of the
place came in and said
Boy. did you do that?'
Wasn't no one back
here but me,' I said. "T
had to do it.'"
Generations of diners
have eiyoyed Caldwell's
cooking. For many
years, he was the chef at
Flynn's Lunch in down
town. which became
Archie's Lunch. He then cooked at
K&W for more than 30 years,
starting at the former Coliseum
Drive location before going to the
Hanes Mill Road location
See Caldwell on A 10
Plans for
growth
eyed for
new Atkins
Enrollment at school
has been lackluster
BY LAYLA FARMER
I HI CHRONIC! I
Members of the Winston-Salem/
Forsyth County Schools Board of
Education heard from system offi
cials Tuesday evening about a new
plan that could boost enrollment at
two historically black high schools:
Atkins Academic and Technology
High School Complex and Carver.
If approved by the board, the new
plan would allow school system offi
' cials to use funds from President
Obama s "Race
to the Top" ini
tiative for per
sistently low
a c h i e v i n g
schools to make
some fundamen
tal changes at
Atkins, which
opened in the
2005-2006
school year
Atkins cur
rently functions
as three separate
schools
Biotechnology.
Computer
Technology and
Pre-Engineering
- under one roof.
Each school has
its own curricu
lum and admin
istration. and
Johnson
Martin
serves both a residential population
and magnet school students, who
come to the school to take part in a
particular course of study. Atkins was
opened with the help of a grant from
the Bill & Melinda Gates
Foundation, which at the time
favored small schools over large con
glomerates, said Theo Helm, a
spokesperson for the school system
Because funding from the
Foundation is ending, the system is
now free to "close" the three school
model and immediately reopen as
one school with three different cur
riculum tracks. Helm explained
Under the new plan, the adminis
trative offices would be streamlined
with one principal, and the three
schools would operate as one. The
academic offerings available at
Atkins would stav exactly the same
as they are now. Superintendent Don
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Ph?*o KHirifx\ of ihr OfTVr ef the
Governor Rev Perdue and First Gentleman Roh Eaves wel
come a steady stream of trick-or-treaters to the Govenor's
Mansion in Raleigh.
Student organization focuses on service, fun
BY l.AYLA FARMER
THE CHRONICLE
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Boredom inspires creativity.
Raleigh native Lorenzo Kornejjav can
McCorklr
certainly attest to that.
Kornegay. a junior.
Information Technology
(IT) major at Winston
Salem State University,
founded Ram
Representatives (Ram [
Reps), a successful stu
dent organization, on
campus two years ago
simply because he wa>>
bored .
"We know there aren't a lot of things on
campus that students can/ want to do."
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by 1 ?vla Farmer
Shamika Saddler works with a youngster at the Anderson Rec Center.
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