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The Chronicle
Vol.XXXVIIINo.52 WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. THURSDAY, August 23, 2012
Photo by Layla Garms
WSSU alumnus
and Mecklenburg
County District
Court Judge
Donald Cure ton
Jr. was picked
recently to grace
the cover of The
Paradigm, a
Charlotte based
magazine.
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WSSU alum is achieving
new heights, and looking
good while doing it
BYLAYLAGARMS
THE CHRONICLE
Winston-Salem State University
alumnus Donald Cureton Jr. is featured
on the latest edition of Charlotte's The
Paradigm Beauty & Barber Magazine.
The 34 year-old Mecklenburg County
District Court judge sports a fresh haircut
in the cover photo, but Paradigm writer
Rashad Phillips says it was his former
Garinger High School (Charlotte) class
mate's achievements, not his sense of
style, that made Cureton a great candidate
for the quarterly publication's feature
story.
The magazine seeks out positive sto
ries about African Americans to offset all
the negative media images, and Cureton,
a graduate of Howard University School
of Law, fit the bill, Phillips said.
"Our magazine's called Paradigm.
We're trying to be a catalyst for a para
digm shift," he remarked. "We definitely
have to shift that way of thinking so that
people can see that these (careers) are
possibilities."
Phillips, an ahimnus of Johnson C.
Smith University, remembers Cureton as
a standout athlete, and said Cureton sur
prised many when he passed up the
chance at college ball glory by opting for
an academic scholarship over an athletic
one.
"What resonated with me about his
story was he was a very good basketball
player in high school and was heavily
recruited," said Phillips, a tax accountant.
"His choice to turn down some of the
prestigious universities and then go to
Winston-Salem State University was phe
nomenal."
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Shortages put
Food Bank in
crisis mode -
BYLAYLAGARMS
THE CHRONICLE
A donation from Food Lion came right on time last week for
Second Harvest Food Bank of Northwest North Carolina.
The Salisbury-based grocery store chain donated $10,000
worth of store-brand food items and a $5,000 for the food bank's
Triad Community Kitchen program during a special presentation
at Second Harvest's
w insion-aaiem
headquarters.
The grocery
chain's generosity
could not have
come at a better
time. The 30 year
old food bank,
which serves 300
partner agencies
across an 18-county
area, is facing
unprecedented food
shortages. But even
the Food Lion gift
would only carry
the agency so far.
"We will be
totally out of food to
distribute by tomor
row." Second
Harvest Executive
Director Clyde
Fitzgerald said on
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Clyde Fitzgerald with Food Lion's
Kathy Whicker.
Aug. 16, the day of the donation. "If we don't have it, we can't
distribute it. By next week, 300,000 people in our program that
rely on our network for life sustaining food assistance will not be
able to get it."
Kathy Whicker, a Food Lion employee who has been a mem
ber of Second Harvest's Board of Directors since 2009, hopes
Food Lion's donation spurs others to action.
"This is not only a way of reaching out to our community, it's
a way of thanking our associates for the things that they do,
because the need is so great," she said "...If we can get the word
out how great the need is and that Food Lion's contributing,
maybe we can get even more businesses to reach out to commu
nities in North Carolina."
Second Harvest will be able to continue its Summer Feeding
Program until school starts back Aug. 27 because the food had
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Agency's 'Big'
day designed to
draw volunteers
BY TODD LUCK
THE CHRONICLE
TXvcnty local boys and girls briefly experienced what it's like
to be a Little Brother or Little Sister last Friday.
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Forsyth County's annual Big for
a Day program gives kids currently on the agency's waiting list
a taste of what is hopefully to come. The kids, who are called
_____ "Littles" in the BBBS pro
gram, spent much of the
day shadowing working
professionals at places like
Winston-Salem State
University, Caterpillar,
K&W Cafeterias, WXII
Channel 12 News, Wake
Forest Baptist Medical
Center and die United Way.
The men and women who
volunteered to serve as
mentors for the day don't
necessarily have previous
connections with BBBS,
but BBBS Vice President of
Development Pamela
Suber said that is part of the
Ptwto by Todd Luck
James Myers and his Little for a
day, Andre Walters, at his Wells
Fargo office.
point ot Big tor a Day.
"I think that a lot people think about being a volunteer but
they don't really know what they have to do, but once they meet
the children and the children are easy to get along with ... you can
see it's not that hard to talk to a child," said Suber, who said
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All the Right
Moves
Photo by LayU Garms
From left: Kyndall
Hancock, Madison
Massey and Tabetha
Byers show off their
dance moves during
Union Baptist
Church's Takeover
Youth Conference
gala last weekend.
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Educators have their say in local woman's film
Photo by Layla Garms
Denise Agard loves filmmaking.
BY LAYLA GARMS
I THE CHRONICLE
Americans entrust educators
with one of the most important
tasks in our society.
Yet. when it comes to diagnos
ing the problems that ail our pub
lic education system, teachers are
the last ones we ask, says
Winston-Salem resident Denise
Agard. She hopes her new docu
mentary, "I Teach: Voices of
Public School Teachers," will
change that.
"I'm hearing all of this stuff
on television. Every time 1 turn
around, teachers are being deni
grated," said the Queens, N.Y.
native who spent 30 years work
ing in public education before her
retirement in 2008. "I'm not real
ly hearing teachers being asked,
'What are the things we need to
do differently?' So basically I
decided I'm going to to do this
film"
Though the words education
reform are on the lips of seeming
ly every politician these days,
Agard, a mother of two, said edu
cators are too often excluded from
the conversation, and educators as
a group don't always feel empow
ered to speak their minds about
what the nation's public education
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