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Neighbors, friends gather for last Pond Reunion
BY T. KI-.VIN WA1.KI R
I III CHRONIC! I
As one of the historians
of The Pond community, one
Carvana
I .1 If
always
depend on
Barbara
Carvana
for a good
slory or
two.
She
remem
bers when
a shiny
nickel could buy a kid a bag
full of sugary treats and
when she was "colored" and
"Negro." but her fondest
memories are of the people
and places that she says
made The Pond a neighbor
hood like no other.
"It was one village,"
Carvana said Saturday as
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Ciesta F underburk and James Bowen escort Alberta Black
(center) during Saturday's Reunion.
former and current residents
gathered for an annual
reunion. "Everybody was
your mama. We had Mama
Ida. Mama Annie ..."
The weekend gathering
at the Martin Luther King
Recreation Center marked
the 20th anniversary of The
Pond Reunion. Carvana and
other community elders
hope that the stories and his
tory they have shared at the
reunions over the years stay
fresh in (he minds of atten
dees because Saturday's
gathering was the last for
The Pond Reunion.
The small committee that
stages the annual event has
gotten even smaller over the
last two decades, as some
members have gone on to
Glory and others have sim
ply become overwhelmed or
sidetracked.
"We have had a good
time doing it, and I think the
20-year anniversary is a
good time to end it."
Reunion Committee
Chairwoman Delores Scales
said.
Scales says she is sad,
but happy that the Reunion
has served a great purpose
by educating neighborhood
residents and the city as a
whole about the storied
Pond, one of Winston'
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UNCSA student Samuel Pennington works with students in the .'POWAR! project last week.
1P0WAR! to the People
Program gives teens alternative to graffiti
Marianne DiN apoli-Mylet
BY LAYLA FARMER
THE CHRONICLE . ' .
Local teens got the opportunity this
summer to have their artwork immortal
ized.
IPOWAR! (People of Winston-Salem
Art Reclamation), now in its second year,
was developed by longtime muralist
Marianne DiNapoli-Mylet and Gang
Prevention Specialist Soloman Quick of
the Winston-Salem Police Department to
help case the city's growing graffiti prob
lem and give young people a creative alter
native to joining gangs.
"We want to empower the students. We
want to inspire the students and we want to
connect them with their city and their
neighborhoods." explained DiNapoli
Mylet. who serves as POWAR's executive
director. "We're really looking at kids that
are underserved. kids that can't really
afford to go to the Sawtooth Center."
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Suzette Charles with her sons David (left) and Nathan.
Workshops get
parents ready
for school year
BY LAY LA HARMIR
THE CHRONIC I I
When it comes to the education of her two young sons.
Haiti native Su/ette Charles leaves nothing to chance.
Charles, the IT networking specialist at The Children's
Hume lor the last 12
years. says she works
hard to stay informed
and active.
"I like to partici
pate in every activity
they have to learn
more for my children
so I can he a good
steward for their
future," she said of her
sons David, a rising
second grader, and
Nathan. a rising
kindergartner at
Brunson Elementary.
"I'm doing my hest as
a single mom to learn
more."
Charles was among
the many parents who (
flocked to Parkland IB ,
Magnet High School
Cheryl Lilllejtihn gives parents
coaching lips.
last I hursday tor the
annual No Parent Left Behind conference. The ncark two
hour long event was sponsored by Winston-Salem/Forsyth
County Schools in conjunction with a variety of public and
private community partners, including the Forsyth County
Council of PTAs and the YMCA of Northwest NC.
The conference offered a variety of workshops for par
ents. Topics included "Parents Make the Difference," "High
School Graduation Requirements" and "New Promotion
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School s inspiration comes full circle
Photo hy I .ay la Farmer
Former Carter G. Woodson student Atiya Bey is
returning to the school as a teacher this year.
BY LAYLA FARMER
THE CHRONICLE
Fourteen years ago, Atiya Bey. then an eighth
grader, joined more than 180 local youth in the first
student body at the newly-formed Carter G.
Woodson School of Challenge.
Bey, who suffers from Attention Deficit
Disorder and dyslexia, was the impetus tor the
school's formation. Fed up with public schools,
which she felt could not appropriately meet her
daughter's unorthodox learning needs and unable
to afford a private school education. Attorney
Hazel Mack-Hilliard, Bey's mother, pursued the
only other option she had at the time.
"It was out of frustration with what was hap
pening with Atiya," she said. "I just couldn't sec a
way out, so I left my job and came home and home
schooled her."
Mack-Hilliard had been working from home
and schooling Bey for nearly two years when the
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PGA Golfer Joe Bramlett (left) and homegrown coaching legend Sam
I'uryear address youths during the Wyndham Championship Junior
Golf Clinic at Winston Lake Golf Course Monday. See full story on HI.
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